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Biden promised a harder line on Saudi Arabia. Why can’t he deliver?

Biden hasn’t met with MBS directly, but he’s done little else to stop the crown prince’s human rights abuses.

By Jonathan Guyer

US policy is fueling Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis

Isolating the Taliban is pushing millions of Afghans into poverty and starvation.

By Ellen Ioanes

Can Russia back down in Ukraine?

By Jen Kirby

Thich Nhat Hanh’s final mindfulness lesson: How to die peacefully

By Eliza Barclay

What the Doomsday Clock is really counting down to

By Bryan Walsh

Biden’s immigration polices have left Haitians stranded in Mexico

By Nicole Narea

How to sponsor an Afghan refugee family

By Sigal Samuel

Even Tories are over Boris Johnson’s scandals after “Partygate”

By Ellen Ioanes

The pipeline at the center of geopolitical drama

By Jen Kirby

Nearly half the world’s kids are exposed to dangerous levels of lead

By Dylan Matthews

The West has a few bargaining chips to stop Russia from invading Ukraine

By Ellen Ioanes

How protests in Kazakhstan could become a geopolitical crisis

By Jen Kirby

The rehabilitation of Trump national security officials says a lot about Washington

By Jonathan Guyer

The uncertain fight for Sudan’s democracy

By Jen Kirby

The great population growth slowdown

By Bryan Walsh

Where have all the truck drivers gone?

By Jen Kirby

22 things we think will happen in 2022

By Dylan Matthews, Kelsey Piper, and 1 more

22 predictions we made in 2021, and the 13 we got right

By Dylan Matthews, Sigal Samuel, and 1 more

Can US investment really ease Central America’s migrant crisis?

By Nicole Narea

What happens when omicron hits China

By Jonathan Guyer

Omicron collides with a struggling global vaccination campaign

By Jen Kirby

Why the US is paying more for the military after the Afghanistan war is over

By Jonathan Guyer

The Senate’s last-minute confirmation push, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

A Christmas party scandal is roiling British politics

By Jen Kirby

What the US’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics does — and doesn’t — mean

By Jen Kirby

What South Africa is seeing in its omicron outbreak

By Dylan Scott

Wait, is Russia going to invade Ukraine?

By Jen Kirby

Germany’s new government has big plans. It might be a shock after Merkel.

By Jen Kirby

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The ocean’s rarest mammal has a few final lessons to teach us

A tiny porpoise called the vaquita has polarized a Mexican fishing town. The species is fighting for its life.

By Benji Jones

What Peng Shuai’s rape accusation says about China

By Ellen Ioanes

Israeli spyware was used against US diplomats in Uganda

By Ellen Ioanes

To catch variants like omicron, the world needs to sequence way more virus genes

By Umair Irfan

Want to donate to charity? Here are 10 guidelines for giving effectively.

By Dylan Matthews

What you need to know about the omicron variant

By Ellen Ioanes

How Puerto Rico became the most vaccinated place in America

By Nicole Narea

Inflation isn’t just a US thing

By Jen Kirby

Sudan’s civilian prime minister is back. Here’s why thousands are still protesting.

By Ellen Ioanes

India’s farmers confronted Modi and won. What happens now?

By Ellen Ioanes

Is therapy the best way to make the world happier?

By Dylan Matthews

Why Biden is struggling to revive the US refugee program

By Nicole Narea

The space debris problem is getting dangerous

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why Belarus is using migrants as a political weapon

By Ellen Ioanes