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The constitutional problem with Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill

Florida Republicans are leveraging uncertainty to terrorize teachers and school administrators.

By Ian Millhiser

What happened the last time high gas prices dominated US politics

High gas prices are perilous, but not necessarily fatal, for Biden and Democrats.

By Andrew Prokop

The Stop Asian Hate movement is at a crossroads

In the year since the Atlanta shootings, the Stop Asian Hate movement dramatically changed awareness of anti-Asian racism. Where does it go from here?

By Li Zhou

A new Supreme Court case allows the justices to fix one of their worst anti-worker decisions

By Ian Millhiser

The danger of making the internet safe for kids

By Sara Morrison

The conversation about guns we’re not having

By Sean Illing

The dangerous new phase of Russia’s war in Ukraine, explained

By Jen Kirby and Jonathan Guyer

“My children love being Texans”: A father of a trans teen weighs whether his family can stay

By Nicole Narea

Russia continues its online censorship spree by blocking Instagram

By Shirin Ghaffary

What’s in Congress’s $1.5 trillion appropriations bill

By Li Zhou

“The alarmists were right all along”: A Moscow journalist on Putin and the new Russian reality

By Sean Illing

Congress wants to economically isolate Russia even more

By Li Zhou

Why even a “limited” no-fly zone is a bad idea

By Zack Beauchamp

How high can gas prices go?

By Rebecca Leber

Why some crypto fans are praising Joe Biden

By Rebecca Heilweil

The unprecedented American sanctions on Russia, explained

By Ben Walsh

How the left is reckoning with Russia’s war

By Jonathan Guyer

The needlessly complicated Supreme Court fight over whether Navy SEALs have to obey orders

By Ian Millhiser

Why some Republicans are turning against the death penalty

By Marin Cogan

Why voting rights activists aren’t giving up

By Fabiola Cineas

A grand Supreme Court showdown over gerrymandering ends in a whimper

By Ian Millhiser

You can now order more free Covid-19 rapid tests from Biden’s program

By Rebecca Heilweil

Maternity wards are shuttering across the US during the pandemic

The closures could make giving birth more dangerous in the United States.

By Dylan Scott

An expert on the dismal state of nuclear treaties

By Ellen Ioanes

How war became a crime

By Dylan Matthews

How the war in Ukraine could change history

By Sean Illing

America can’t solve its gas price problem (or its Russia problem) with drilling

By Rebecca Leber

Why it’s more difficult to flee Ukraine if you’re not from Ukraine

By Nicole Narea and Rajaa Elidrissi

The US took a key first step in welcoming Ukrainian refugees

By Nicole Narea

There’s no good way to roll back mask mandates

By Keren Landman

Tax the land

By Jerusalem Demsas

The fate of American elections is in Amy Coney Barrett’s hands

By Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court hands the CIA a victory in a horrid case about torture

By Ian Millhiser

How the US and its allies can help Ukraine without starting World War III

By Zack Beauchamp

Escaping Kyiv

By Fabiola Cineas

Where are Ukrainian refugees going?

By Nicole Narea

The Texas primaries were a case study in polarization

By Nicole Narea

How a new Supreme Court case endangers the New Deal, the Great Society, and Obamacare

By Ian Millhiser

How the era of travel nursing has changed health care

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

Is the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic behind us? We asked 8 experts.

By Keren Landman, Umair Irfan, and 1 more

Calls for a new global unity and an old domestic agenda

By Jonathan Guyer, Andrew Prokop, and 4 more

Biden threatens Big Tech over its “national experiment” on children

By Shirin Ghaffary