‘No more elections here’
Briefing: In Nicaragua, why an 80-year-old president is clearing the way to hand power to his wife. In Iran, the truce the regime is secretly pushing for—and still swears it doesn’t need. + Why hasn’t Ukraine collapsed into autocracy?
All in favor
Briefing: An election the U.S.-installed government in Caracas has agreed to hold—and would rather not. Russia’s grain and Ukraine’s ports, each in the other’s sights. + Why have buildings gotten so ugly?
‘So-called international law’
Briefing: A campaign to take apart the world’s war-crimes court. An Ebola outbreak with four in five new cases unlinked to any known patient. + More and more countries are banning kids from social media. Will it work?
Here we go again
Briefing: Ninety American targets over one night, and an unsettled question of who collects at the Strait of Hormuz. A president-elect’s call for Colombian soldiers to disobey the man still in office. + Why is the U.S. government going so easy on white-collar crime?
The wizard of Tehran
Briefing: Iran’s supreme leader, missing from his father’s funeral—as from everything. The first Western leader in post-dictatorship Syria, with two bombs, a block from the hotel. + Do America’s biggest media platforms really change minds?
At the neighbor’s pleasure
Briefing: The trade pact America won’t renew—or give up on. In South Africa, migrants driven out by a deadline with no force of law. + Why is Turkey’s government moving so hard to kill off its opposition?
No good options
Briefing: Two Talibans vs. Pakistan. An Ebola strain with no vaccine. + What are Pakistan’s ruling generals getting from a war they can’t win, anyway?
An order from no one
Briefing: An unofficial deadline to empty South Africa of migrants. The U.S. Supreme Court’s clearance to deport 350,000 Haitians and Syrians. + Has Iran ended America’s dominance in economic warfare?
The only suspect
Briefing: A knife-edge election in Colombia, and a defeated president who says Israel hacked it. Communist Cuba opens its economy to foreign capital, and the Americans move to scare it off. + What’s extreme heat do to you?
A treaty in Versailles
Briefing: Months of war meant to disarm Iran end with hundreds of billions pledged to rebuild it. Ukraine’s drones torch the fuel Russia is using to fight it. + How’s the green transition going?
