Politics

Jill Biden’s book is the last thing we need right now

CNN anchor Jake Tapper joined a chorus of voices accusing the former first lady of rewriting history and dodging accountability for the 2024 loss

Inside the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal that Trump withdrew from

The U.S. and Iran have yet to reach a peace deal or address Iran's nuclear ambitions, despite signals from Trump that talks are progressing.

The First 18 Months

A Cabinet meeting with my son, who is exactly as old as the current administration

America 250: Individualists and communitarians at once

Two kinds of people populated Europe back in the day, a German politician once told me. Most Europeans were dutiful citizens, rule followers, whose chief virtue was dependability. A smaller group were untamed, ambitious risk-takers, the politician said.

The Congresswoman Who Got Trump’s Name Off the Kennedy Center

Representative Joyce Beatty sued over the president’s control of the arts complex. The effort to keep it open isn’t over.

U.S. eyes Iranian assets for Gulf allies' reconstruction, source says

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has also directed a team to assess the costs of damage already inflicted on Gulf allies by Iran, Reuters reported.

The Africa exception: the slavery reparations debate was once ‘unthinkable’. Now it is unavoidable

The architect of the African Union’s reparations framework for the historic UN resolution explains why demands for historical justice are inseparable from the struggle for Black sovereignty

‘Historic’: Canadian warehouse workers sign first-ever union deal with Walmart

Union says collective agreement is just the start of a broader fight to unionize major employers across the country

The Last of the D-Day Veterans

Joe Picard is one of the few left with a personal memory of the 20th century’s greatest military operation.

GOP questions credentials of working-class Democrat candidates

As Democrats try to rebuild support among working-class voters, they’re increasingly running candidates who bill themselves as blue-collar outsiders, and Republicans are increasingly accusing them of overselling the story.

What’s Eating ‘Putin’s Brain’?

Even Russia’s leading warmonger has run out of ways to justify the Ukraine invasion.

American Democracy Wasn’t Designed for This

Can our 18th-century institutions survive 21st-century technology?