Memo

Briefing: A failed plan to install the next supreme leader in Iran. A court picks the opposition leader in Turkey. + Why have Americans lost faith in higher education?

Briefing: How to delay a massive American airstrike. The U.S. Justice Department takes care of the Trump family. + How have governments become some of the biggest investors in the global economy?

Briefing: The ships gone missing in Hormuz. The U.K. PM: not ousted yet. + Why have the world’s trade routes become war zones?

Briefing: Britain’s ruling party turns on its prime minister. The American president flies to Beijing with an entourage of Silicon Valley CEOs. + How did Washington get so corrupt?

Briefing: The U.S. president loses on tariffs in court for the second time in three months. The Iran ceasefire, holding and not holding. + Can you really switch off?

Briefing: A 46-year losing streak breaks in India. A ceasefire’s sunken boats. + How are the new authoritarians doing?

Briefing: Life sentences for 12-year-olds in El Salvador. Back at the table after four decades for Israel and Lebanon. + How is new technology reshaping the battlefield?

Briefing: A landslide and a tectonic shift in Europe. A blockade in the Strait of Hormuz—and a ceasefire with six days left. + What has the Iran war done to the global economy?

Briefing: A ceasefire no one seems to agree on. A NATO meeting someone in the room calls a “tirade of insults.” + Why is Pakistan in “open war” with the Taliban?

Briefing: The U.S. president threatened to destroy a civilization and accepted a ceasefire, all in a day. Four astronauts are heading back from the far side of the Moon. + Six degrees above normal for the time of year from Delhi to the Pakistani border. Now what?