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KING OF THE WORLD

After weathering a decade of skepticism, James Cameron revels in the success of the Avatar sequel

Gender Politics

SPAIN'S MINISTER OF EQUALITY IS PUTTING ONE OF EUROPE'S MOST FEMINIST GOVERNMENTS TO THE TEST

His mission: changing how we think about racism

NOT LONG AFTER HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST WAS PUBLISHED in August 2019, the book’s author, the historian and National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi, found his work an unexpected touch point in the conversation about the persistence of racism in American society.

How I helped Trump and Giuliani undercut Ukraine

THE OTHER DAY I WATCHED SOME STREET INTERVIEWS in Moscow. The first person said the Russian invasion of Ukraine was justified because Ukrainian government officials were Nazis.

Bolsonaro's surreal new life as a Florida man

A LITTLE MORE THAN A MONTH AGO, HE WAS LEADING the fifth largest country in the world.

PREVENTABLE DEVASTATION

In Turkey, a pair of lethal earthquakes indicts a government

THE AI ARMS RACE IS CHANGING EVERYTHING

Tech companies are betting big on AI. Are they making the same old mistakes?

The strange case of the resurgent whodunit

THE THIRD SEASON OF THE NETFLIX THRILLER You ended with a red herring.

The most mysterious Brontë, revealed and unsolved

YOU PROBABLY KNOW RIGHT OFF THE BAT WHETHER you’re a Wuthering Heights person or a Jane Eyre person. Both, of course, are great.

Rebecca Makkai goes back to high school

IF YOUR PRESENT SELF COULD RECKON WITH the past, what would you try to resolve? That's the question that haunts Bodie Kane, the protagonist of I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai's slow-burning crime novel, to be published Feb. 21.

The Elephant in the Room at Davos

The leaders at the business summit talked about climate change, but with one conspicuous absence

In Focus

THE NEWS IN PICTURES

Why does the U.S. keep shooting down UFOs?

IN THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF FEBRUARY, THE U.S. Air Force shot down four flying objects that had intruded on the skies over North America, a deployment of force unprecedented during peacetime.

Portrait of a Leader April 20, 1959

The World Is Now My Home

What's at stake in Nigeria's presidential election

NIGERIA—AFRICA’S most populous country, largest economy, and top oil producer—will hold a presidential election on Feb. 25. Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, now finishing his second four-year term, is ineligible to run for reelection. Even if he could run, he probably wouldn't win.

WHERE WES MOORE COMES FROM

The Maryland governor may be the Democrats' most talented newcomer since Barack Obama

INSIDE THE BASEMENT WHERE AN ENTIRE UKRAINIAN VILLAGE WAS HELD CAPTIVE FOR 25 HARROWING NIGHTS

SEVEN DAYS AFTER THE INVASION OF UKRAINE, Russian troops entered the village of Yahidne. They forced the residents out of their homes and into the basement of the local school, which they had turned into their headquarters.

REAL ESTATE XENOPHOBIA

THERE’S A SPECTER supposedly haunting the globe’s expensive housing markets: the absentee foreign owner.

NEW LAWS STOP COPS FROM LYING TO KIDS

Maryland and Washington state already enforce such a rule. And in 2021, Illinois and Oregon became the first two states to ban police from lying to minors during interrogations.

THE BUDGET BATTLE BOOK

That job includes authoring, debating, and passing a budget for the astounding amount of discretionary federal spending that Congress is charged with managing each year—in this case, about $1.7 trillion.

TO FIX POLICING, PUNISH BAD COPS

Jordan took a lot of abuse for his remark, which was generally interpreted as boobish and nihilistic.

The Luddites' Veto

BEWARE OF ACTIVISTS TOUTING \"RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION.\" THE SENSIBLE-SOUNDING SLOGAN MASKS A REACTIONARY AGENDA.

Sen. Pat Toomey on Cryptocurrency and FTX's Collapse

Former Sen. Pat Toomey’s time in Congress, which began in 1999 after he won a House seat in eastern Pennsylvania, officially ended on January 3 when the new Senate session began.

Is Online Illness Culture Keeping People Sick?

WHILE THE FDA KEEPS EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS OUT OF REACH, THE SPOONIE WORLD MAKES A DIAGNOSIS INTO AN IDENTITY.

Ron DeSantis Is on Deck

DOES HE WANT TO LIMIT GOVERNMENT, OR DOES HE JUST WANT TO WIN AT ALL COSTS?

THE ZONING THEORY OF EVERYTHING

LAND USE POLICIES EXPLAIN THE BATTLES OVER EVERYTHING FROM RECESSION TO ABORTION TO DONALD TRUMP.

SHODDY RESEARCH REINFORCES ANTI-VAPING NARRATIVE

Three years later, the World Journal of Oncology published a study that claimed vapers face about the same cancer risk as smokers. The authors said “prospective studies should be planned to mitigate the risk.”

Struck on One Side

Society tells me to celebrate my disability. What if I don't want to?

IS AMERICA READY FOR A NEW AGE OF NUCLEAR POWER?

THERE'S NO WAY TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT IT.

PARTY OF TROLLS

Republicans need to stop being so obnoxious.