03
Sep
Who controls the past …
A new January 6 probe in Washington. A conspiracy in Beijing. + What’s Afrobeat?
6 min read
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02
Sep
The gathering
Dictators unite for a Beijing military spectacle. A U.S. judge blocks the Trump administration’s domestic troop deployment. + Late summer’s remarkable tech-stock tank.
5 min read
01
Sep
Fault lines
Disaster and diplomatic isolation in Afghanistan. The planets are aligning. + A word on what’s ahead.
5 min read
22
Aug
Interpretation codes
Competing interests in Gaza spin competing evidence of famine into competing narratives about the war there—with vastly different stakes. … Ghislaine Maxwell’s jailhouse testimony clearing Trump raises tougher questions than whether she’s telling the truth.
16 min read
20
Aug
Death by smartphone
How are smartphones transforming modern warfare? … How much has Donald Trump made off the U.S. presidency? … & How can America adapt to an increasingly multipolar world?
10 min read
18
Aug
Obscured by clouds
Why does North Korea keep threatening South Korea and its allies without ever going to war? Michael Breen on theater and reality in one of the most enigmatic places on Earth.
12 min read
15
Aug
All the razzle-dazzle
14 min read
13
Aug
The archaeology of a story
Who shot Abu Sayed? … How important is education to reducing poverty? … & Will the U.S. trade war have predictable consequences?
11 min read
11
Aug
A ‘known unknown’
Where’s all the money coming into American think tanks from? Ben Freeman on the enormous foreign-government “donations” flowing through Washington, D.C.
10 min read
08
Aug
What breaks, what bends
Making sense of Israel’s sudden escalation in Gaza. … A new chapter in the strange, high-stakes relationship between Trump and Putin. … & France is burning like it’s 1949—and Europe isn’t ready. … The member’s despatch, Week XXXII.
13 min read