The Senate faced down Donald Trump on Thursday, demanding the withdrawal of U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen by a resounding bipartisan margin, then unanimously declaring the Saudi crown pr...
‘Toxic Masculinity Has Deformed and Destroyed Our Men’
“Even if I beat her, she was mine. There was nothing she could do about it.” That’s a man in Kitchanga, the Democratic Republic of Congo, reflecting on the way he used to treat his wife. He’s speaking ...
Trump Is Running Out of Alibis
The president is running out of alibis. On Wednesday, Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion, financial fraud, and violating ca...
Africa Is the New Front in the U.S.-China Influence War
Facing increased competition for influence from China, the Trump administration unveiled a new strategy for Africa focused on commercial ties, counterterrorism, and better-targeted U.S. foreign aid. B...
What Happens When You’re Convinced You Have Bad Genes
The first thing you should know is that the DNA-test results everyone got in this study were fake. That was on purpose. Over the course of a year, psychologists at Stanford recruited 223 participants ...
Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
The Trump administration is resuming its efforts to deport certain protected Vietnamese immigrants who have lived in the United States for decades—many of them having fled the country during the Vietn...
The Bigger Failure Exposed by Jazmine Headley’s Arrest
Earlier this week, a day-care center in New York City informed a 23-year-old mother, Jazmine Headley, that there was a problem with her account. For whatever reason, the city had stopped paying the fe...
North Carolina Veers Toward a Congressional-Election Do-Over
DURHAM, N.C.—It’s rare that there’s bipartisan agreement on anything in North Carolina politics today. It’s even stranger that a closely contested election rocked by claims of fraud would be the insti...
Maria Butina’s Defiant Plea and Yet Another Russian Ploy
The first Russian to be convicted of trying to infiltrate and influence American policy makers in the run-up to the 2016 election walked into a courtroom on Thursday with her head held high, gazing de...
How the Minority Wins
There’s no greater evidence of the passage of time than the Republican Party’s autopsy report on its failed 2012 election cycle. “By the year 2050 we’ll be a majority-minority country and in both 2008 ...