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Is America a Kleptocracy?
Here’s how life could change for the rich, poor, and everyone in between.
The Deep Roots of Oligarchy
Private contracting is in the DNA of the modern state.
Elon Musk’s First Principles
The world’s richest man wants to apply the rules of physics to politics. What could go wrong?
How Modi and Trump Treat Billionaires Differently
Both have harnessed industrialists for political ends.
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Asia & the Pacific
Trump Aid Cuts Threaten Myanmar’s Youth
China
U.S. Cybersecurity Weakness Benefits China
Middle East & Africa
Tigray Needs Justice for Peace to Hold
Europe
U.S. Delegation Visits Greenland Amid Trump Pressure Campaign
Americas
The Latino Far Right Is Living in a MAGA Fantasy
Updates: Trump’s Foreign-Policy Shifts
Reports and analysis from staff and contributors.
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A U.S. Air Force flight carrying deported migrants arrives at Ramon Villeda Morales International Airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Jan. 31. -
A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange shortly before trading was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 16, 2020.
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Martine Biron, Quebec minister of international relations, pictured during the 10th European Summit of Regions and Cities of the European Union in Mons, Belgium, on March 18, 2024. -
A bright red screen large enough to take up an entire wall shows large images of Xi Jinping. People are seen in shadowed silhouette, backlit by the screen, as they mill about a museum exhibit.
Australia’s First Art Film
“Picnic at Hanging Rock” has kept audiences guessing for 50 years.
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An undersea fiber-optic cable is attached to a rope at Arrietara beach near Sopelana in Spain on June 13, 2017.
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Is America a Kleptocracy?
Here’s how life could change for the rich, poor, and everyone in between.
Elon Musk’s First Principles
The world’s richest man wants to apply the rules of physics to politics. What could go wrong?
The Novels We’re Reading in March
From a killing in the West Bank to horror in a postapocalyptic convent.
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The book cover of Richard Overy's "Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, -
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Hope: The Autobiography, Pope Francis, trans. Richard Dixon, Random House, 320 pp., $32, January 2025.
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A grid of 12 fiction book covers out in February 2025.
In Case You Missed It
A selection of paywall-free articles
America’s Zero-Sum Economics Doesn’t Add Up
Industrial policy and subsidies are nothing new and can be useful. But shutting off from the world will have consequences.
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Chinese soldiers in Belarus for military training. -
An illustration shows Russian President Vladimir Putin on a television set with spinning lines behind him for a story about Russia's TV propaganda.
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An illustration shows half faces of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin for a story about a ChiRussia alliance. -
A photo illustration shows Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden posing on pedestals atop the bipolar world order, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Russian President Vladamir Putin standing below on a gridded floor. -
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greet each other at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 27, 2018.
Visual Stories
The Periodic Table of States
The org chart for a post-Westphalian world.
The Mood on the Front Line, Three Years On
Ukrainian troops watch with anxiety as the United States moves closer to talks with Russia over the war.
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