Four objectives, five days
Briefing: Washington continues fighting with no public definition of victory. Hezbollah breaks its ceasefire with Israel, while Lebanon outlaws Hezbollah. + How could an unexpected event transform a work of art?
Smoke in the streets
The weekend despatch: What’s happening inside Iran? + Why now?
Havana nocturne
Briefing: The last fuel in Cuba. The first strikes on Afghanistan since the Americans left. + Why is Los Angeles’s entertainment industry in such crisis?
A most wanted man
Briefing: The logic of Mexico’s surprise killing of the head of its most powerful cartel. The distance between the American president and the Pentagon on war with Iran. + Why are so many countries rethinking their nuclear strategies?
The check arrives
The weekend despatch: America’s highest court kills the president’s signature tariffs. Artemis II’s crew readies for the first Moon mission in half a century. + What’s free jazz doing on a major record label?
‘Misconduct in public office’
Briefing: A former prince arrested over the Epstein files. A former president sentenced to life for insurrection. + Why is Silicon Valley fighting with the EU?
Same city, same day
Briefing: Two negotiations—one led to progress, the other to a threat. North Korea builds homes for soldiers who won’t come back. + What’s online gambling doing to American society?
Signs of resistance
The weekend despatch: Courts, Congress, and the streets test their power in America. Centuries underground in the Belizean jungle. + What are cantigas?
The case closing itself
Briefing: Turkey’s new justice minister: the prosecutor who jailed the president’s main rival. Iran’s president says his government is “ashamed before the people.” + How did the open web go into such “rapid decline”?
A crackdown after the crackdown
Briefing: You don’t have to be against the regime to get arrested in Iran. The biggest electoral win in postwar Japan. + Why is betting everywhere now?
