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What you need to know about the debt ceiling deal

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The potential fallout from drone attacks in Moscow

By Nicole Narea

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The Republican revolt over the debt limit deal, explained

By Li Zhou

Uganda’s extreme anti-LGBTQ legislation, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

How anti-LGBTQ sentiment is affecting Pride

By Ellen Ioanes

What Erdogan’s win means for the West — and the world

By Jen Kirby

Biden and McCarthy’s budget deal to lift the debt ceiling, explained

By Li Zhou and Dylan Matthews

Texas State House votes to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton

By Nicole Narea
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Why don’t more voters care about the debt ceiling?

By Christian Paz

The US’s multiple Indo-Pacific strategies, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

Henry Kissinger is 100, but his legacy is still shaping how US foreign policy works

By Jonathan Guyer

A debt ceiling breach would be bad bad bad bad bad

By Emily Stewart

Is the US really about to be unable to pay its bills?

By Li Zhou and Emily Stewart

A 10-year-old Ohio rape victim got an abortion. Now her doctor is being punished.

By Nicole Narea

Clarence Thomas’s newest opinion would literally bring back child labor

By Ian Millhiser

A new Supreme Court opinion is terrible news if you care about clean water

By Ian Millhiser

Two of January 6’s most famous faces are getting serious sentences

By Li Zhou

The high-stakes debate over how the US defines “antisemitism”

By Jonathan Guyer

Target giving in to conservative pressure on Pride is not a great sign

By Emily Stewart

Is the debt ceiling stalemate just posturing — or is this time truly different?

By Andrew Prokop

The biggest problem with Ron DeSantis’s announcement wasn’t Twitter

By Zack Beauchamp

A guide to Ron DeSantis’s most extreme policies in Florida

By Nicole Narea and Li Zhou

Ron DeSantis’s very online and very disastrous 2024 campaign announcement

By Ben Jacobs

Elon Musk tried a big presidential broadcast event and Twitter broke

By Shirin Ghaffary

Make America Florida: Ron DeSantis’s pitch to beat Trump in 2024

By Nicole Narea

Ron DeSantis is running for president. Is he Trump 2.0 — or the Never Trump savior?

By Andrew Prokop

The latest book ban target: Amanda Gorman’s poem from the Biden inauguration

By Li Zhou

Trump’s worst judge will hear a $1.8 billion attack on Planned Parenthood

By Ian Millhiser

Montana’s TikTok ban — and the legal challenge of it — explained

By Li Zhou

Why progressives want Joe Biden to consider going it alone on the debt ceiling

By Li Zhou

Did Biden screw up his debt ceiling strategy?

By Andrew Prokop

Florida is too dangerous to visit, civil rights groups warn

By Nicole Narea

Who is Tim Scott, the newest 2024 Republican presidential candidate?

By Ben Jacobs

The longest battle of the Ukraine war might finally be over

By Jen Kirby

One state just became a national leader on child care. Here’s how they did it.

By Rachel M. Cohen

How Ukraine is trying to woo the Global South — and why it’s so hard

By Ellen Ioanes

Why immigration policy is so inhumane

By Kelsey Piper

How Republican states are eroding local democracy

By Ellen Ioanes

Debt ceiling talks have stalled — but a discharge petition isn’t likely to save us

By Andrew Prokop

Democrats’ intractable Dianne Feinstein problem

By Li Zhou

The Bud Light boycott, explained as much as is possible

By Emily Stewart

DeSantis’s feud with Disney is costing Florida — and possibly his 2024 campaign

By Nicole Narea