It’s probably already too late to save American democracy. Here is the series of improbable events doing so would require.

Thomas Wilner and Andy Worthington have spent two decades trying to close the prison. Can Joe Biden finally make it happen?

Fox News’s chief wingnut has spent all week fawning over authoritarian President Jair Bolsonaro and making absurd, ignorant statements about the country.

A new piece of bipartisan legislation seeks to purge This Town of foreign influence peddling—all of it.

The president has had a lot thrown at him. The Middle East, oddly, has been comparatively quiet. That may be about to change.

Three consecutive presidents have changed the look of the country’s bills—not to address economic issues like inflation but to project their political values.

The president has been forced to go it alone thanks to a stalled Congress.

Sixty-eight congressional Republicans voted against the latest round of Ukraine funding. Sure, it was partly an anti-Biden play—but much more is going on.

The cartel clearly violates more than one U.S. law. We could help lower gas prices by going after it. So why don’t we?

The clumsy kickoff of this ill-starred competitor of the PGA has been a window into a tawdriness that infects international sports.

The president is desperate for some relief at the pump for Americans before November—even if it means shaking the hand of Jamal Khashoggi’s killer.

Opposition to U.S. adventurism is principled. But this is Putin’s adventurism, and the left must stand firmly against it.

The Twitter hubbub over uncredited scholars is a sideshow. The real people who’ve suffered from the way we’ve covered Haiti are Haitians.

The official U.S. policy is ambiguous and incoherent. Biden spoke the truth—but it’s a truth with some ominous implications.

Some 6,000 Russian elites help prop their leader up. Can they be pressured to see he’s no longer worth it?

China is trying to shut U.S. companies out of Southeast Asia. We can’t let that happen.

That CPAC held an event in Budapest is just brain-melting. And yet our media barely paid attention. This is how democracy dies.

Maybe it’s a sign that he knows his botched war has diminished his power. But he did add one caveat to his assent.

After years of the international song contest trying to stamp politics out of its broadcasts, Ukraine is the betting favorite to win.

Some of the grifters who paved the way for the Russian invasion of Ukraine want to be seen as being on the right side of the war.