Despatch

A social app for making anyone do anything. Easy money with the House of Saud. &c. | The despatch, Week XL.

Loyalty tests and legal standards. Fighter jets and calculated confusion. &c. | The member’s despatch, Week XXXIX.

Comedians, autocrats, and presidential power. How influence works when the rules break down. &c. | The member’s despatch, Week XXXVIII.

An urgent investigation vies with instant interpretations of a terrible crime in America. Military strikes and executive powers in the Caribbean and the Persian Gulf. &c. | The member’s despatch, Week XXXVII.

A dictators’ parade as personal betrayal for the U.S. president. Open corruption topples a strongman. &c. | The member’s despatch, Week XXXVI.

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.

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.

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 XXXI.

Getting the questions straight on Trump’s Epstein gamble. … A reckoning in Gaza for the post–World War II humanitarian-relief system. … & How much of a threat is violence toward Syria’s Druze minority—for the country and the Middle East as a whole? … The member’s despatch, Week XXX.