Briefing

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

Briefing: Mystery drones are killing civilians in Sudan’s civil war. A 60-day U.S.-Iran ceasefire isn’t addressing nuclear weapons. + What do drones do to a war?

Briefing: A summer of discontent down in the White House. A ceasefire everyone keeps shooting through. + How secure is Mexico for the World Cup? Benjamin Smith on the cartels, the state, and the warring between them.

Briefing: Chairman Xi makes a special visit. The Pentagon puts China’s biggest brands on a military blacklist. + Why do so many people hate the idea of capitalism?