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Why India's next election will last 44 days

INDIA'S ELECTIONS ARE THE LARGEST democratic exercise in the world, with nearly 970 million registered voters expected to cast ballots, including 18 million new voters.

THE POLITICS OF TIKTOK

How the Chinese platform's popularity, and self-interest, took Trump from ban to embrace

Why We Over Spend

The rise of frictionless payments makes it easy to keep buying-whether we can afford to or not

Breaking New Ground

Sunny Choi is heading for Paris, where her sport-yes, sportwill make its olympic debut

Company Man

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is getting down to business in a country that feels shortchanged by his election

Letting Go of My Debt Shame

Getting out of debt is a group sport, not a solo mission.

The Fight to Free Evan

On March 29, 2023, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on bogus espionage charges. He remains imprisoned in Moscow-a political hostage in his parents' homeland. Inside the struggle to bring him home

No recession? Thank women

REMOTE WORK ALLOWED ALYSON VELASQUEZ TO JUGGLE her demanding roles as a Wells Fargo talent recruiter and as a mother of two young children, including a son with special needs.

The D.C. Brief

TO LIBERALS, MITCH MCCONNELL IS a master of the political dark arts, willing to do anything to serve his conservative aims. He enabled multiple GOP White Houses to play the long game.

Pakistan's generals fail to fix an election

PAKISTAN'S WORSTkept secret is that its military dominates its government. Whether to safeguard the nation against chaos or to protect their own privileged access to power and wealth, its generals have manipulated the country's politics for decades. Pakistan's voters, like voters elsewhere, want change.

Texas' scorched Panhandle

A million acres swept by fire

The pains and paintings of Frida Kahlo, reanimated

FRIDA KAHLO'S EARLY 1940s self-portraits, in which monkeys hang from her neck, may seem playful. In reality, she painted them during a suffocating period when she was tangled in a messy divorce and desperate for work.

A one-trick pony with many lives

IF YOU DIDN'T GROW UP WITH A WELL-WORN COPY OF Sounds of Silence, Bookends, or Bridge Over Troubled Water among the LPs stacked near the family hi-fi, your parents or grandparents probably did. From the mid- to late 1960s, the sounds of Simon & Garfunkel were so ubiquitous you couldn't escape them if you wanted to.

Wiigging out in 1960s Palm Beach

VIETNAM. STONEWALL. CHARLES Manson. Woodstock.

How do you solve a Problem like the human race?

NETFLIX'S 3 BODY PROBLEM MIGHT BE THE BIGGEST TV series to hit Earth this year.

THE BLACK COUNTRY LEGACY

Beyoncé becomes the spiritual heir to a lineage long ago erased by the mainstream

A NEW AGE OF NAVAL WARFARE

With the sinking of the Sergei Kotov in early March, a whopping one-third of Russia's Black Sea fleet has been disabled. The maritime theater of the war in Ukraine remains the most significant since the Falklands. But it is also part of a larger story about naval power—which has come back as a central feature of struggles from the Black Sea to the Red Sea, South China Sea, and Taiwan Strait.

Zyn triggers fears of a new teen nicotine craze

NOT SO LONG AGO, JUUL WAS SEEN AS THE NEW MARLboro.

Spring won't bring Gaza relief

THE WAR IN GAZA IS ENTERING ITS sixth month and its third season. More than 30,000 people have been killed there since the Israeli offensive answering Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre, and some 1.9 million displaced people have endured homelessness in punishing winter weather, marked by heavy rain and low temperatures.

IT'S TRUMP'S PARTY

The MAGA movement's takeover of the GOP is now complete

Intimacy and Magnitude

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan on why Oppenheimer's impact goes far beyond its 13 Oscar nominations

The D.C. Brief

WHEN ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-Cortez erupted on the national stage back in 2018, a lot of establishment Washington braced for the arrival of a Tea Party-style troublemaker from the left. Six years later, that assessment wasn't so much wrong as under-cooked. While the former bartender remains a key ally to the left, AOC's main job in 2024 may be President Joe Biden's most valuable pinch hitter.

Ramy Youssef

Ramy Youssef - The comedian on his new special More Feelings, connecting with the Palestinian cause, and finding laughter in vulnerability

A dual reckoning

ONCE I BECAME A CELEBRITY, MIAMI WAS MY BIGGEST market. Flying in from New York City, I could perform in two clubs in one night. Back then, those gigs paid $10,000, or maybe $12,000. It was good, easy money, and they treated me like the star I had become. I flew first-class, stayed in the best hotels, ate at elegant restaurants.

A stunning Shogun for the 21st century

IT TAKES HUBRIS TO MESS WITH ONE OF THE DEFINING TV events of the 20th century. The original Shogun, a miniseries based on James Clavell's best-selling 1975 doorstop, was a massive hit when it aired on NBC in 1980.

The beauty of blooming late

ON MY SECOND DAY IN L.A., BACK IN 1984, MY car caught on fire and I lost everything. I could have turned around and bought a bus ticket home to St. Louis. Instead, I chose to stay and press on. Forty years later, I'm not only still in Los Angeles, but I've found myself at the Emmys as part of the cast of a nominated TV show.

FORGING AN ASIAN EPIC

A new adaptation of Avatar: The Last Air-bender is a love letter to Asian and Indigenous cultures

DECLASSIFIED - THE SECRET SHARERS

MASS SURVEILLANCE AND SOCIAL MEDIA ARE CHANGING THE SPY GAME. INSIDE AMERICA'S SEARCH FOR A SMARTER WAY TO USE INTELLIGENCE

Women of the Year

12 extraordinary leaders building a more equal future

The New Antisemitism

HOW AN ANCIENT HATRED HAS REINVENTED ITSELF IN THE MODERN WORLD