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A Dangerous Game

China has coveted its island neighbor for decades. Is Xi Jinping ready to seize it?

Mathias Döpfner – Achtung, Baby

Axel Springer's Mathias Döpfner wants to be an old-school press baron for the digital age, part Murdoch but also part Musk. And still very German.

'You Haven't Seen Anything Yet.'

What Trump would do in asecond term, according to his current and former advisors

Tara McGowan – Ms. Info

A former Democratic millions into Meta's ad operative is sinking networks to build a digital media machine for the left. Her strategy: Target potential voters with grabby local news stories, then get them to the polls.

The Future of Black Politics is at Stake in Georgia

The legacy of the civil-rights movement may hinge on Raphael Warnock’s reelection campaign.

How to Make a Semi-fascist Party Who Knew It Could Be This Easy?

In mid-September, I attended the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, where Republican politicians, right-wing thought leaders, and various party apparatchiks had gathered to articulate their vision of the conservative movement's future.

The Convalescence Campaign

John Fetterman is trying to flip Pennsylvania's open Senate seat while fending off a celebrity doctor and recovering from a stroke that almost killed him.

Coming Home

The Uvalde tragedy set me down a path from my west Texas hometown to the hallowed halls of Washington, D.C., from political outsidercynic to inside broker on gun reform that changed me forever.

After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?

Reporting from Ukraine, veteran war correspondent Janine Di Giovanni describes an urgent campaign to collect evidence of russian war crimes that might stand up in court against Putin, his commanders, and their troops

TikTok Steers Its Charm Offensive Around Critics

The company is trying to win support in Washington but acknowledges it has a "trust deficit"

What Happens in Vegas

Catherine Cortez Masto, the only Latina in the U.S. Senate, is fighting to keep her seat in one of the most watched races of the midterms.

American Elections Are a Mess, and They Always Have Been

The long, weird history of partisan electoral shenanigans

Where Freedom of Speech Is Relative

Truth Social, Trump’s social site, faces criticism for leaving violent content up—and for filtering innocuous content

Masters and Commander

Right-wing tech giant Peter Thiel has poured millions into the Senate campaign of protégé Blake Masters. Their goal? Disrupting democracy.

A Dangerous Mind

Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee was thrown under the bus for sounding the alarm about Donald Trump. Turns out she was right.

The New Abortion Prohibition Era

Americans disagree about abortion. This is the understatement of 2022, yet it bears repeating in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the June Supreme Court decision that returned abortion policy to state and federal legislatures. Ten states have already banned abortion and another four have prohibited abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, which amounts to nearly the same thing.

Happy 80th, Senator!

Time to go. We’ve always had a minimum age to serve in Congress. How about a max?

"We Need To Take Away Children."

The secret history of the U.S. government's family-separation policy

The Greatest Talker of His Time

Felix Frankfurter was an eloquent liberal champion of judicial restraint. Is it time for a reappraisal?

Death, Incorporated

How Putin's mercenary army known as the Wagner Group does the Kremlin's dirtiest work in Ukraine and in conflict zones around the world.

Beijing's Big Bet

China's pursuit of israeli technology is key to its plan to expand its global economic and military power. The U.S. is not happy

After Uvalde, Irrelevant Gun Control Proposals

The horrifying May 24 massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two adults, happened just 10 days after a gunman murdered 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

What Will the Amazon Slayer Do Next?

Chris Smalls became the new face of labor when he spearheaded a unionization drive at a packing facility in staten island. Now he is trying to replicate that success across the country.

Crypto Plunge is Cautionary Tale for Public Pension Funds

When the Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund bought $25 million in cryptocurrencies, with the fund’s chief investment officer touting their potential, retired fire Capt. Russell Harris was concerned.

Awaiting the Adams Doctrine

Six months into a highly energetic mayoralty, how has Eric Adams changed the city-if at all?

Food for Thought: With the Grain

A simple, well-tested method for staving off world hunger

Torn Apart

I have studied child protective services for decades. It needs to be abolished.

God's Plan

Christian anti-abortion activists are gearing up to go after birth control. And they have surprising allies.

We Have No Nuclear Strategy

The U.S. can't keep ignoring the threat these weapons pose.

Back to Chagos

Half a century ago, 2,000 people were forcibly removed from a remote string of islands in the middle of the indian ocean. This year, a group of them set sail for home.