News & Politics

The chief economist of the U.N.’s World Food Programme on imminent famine and what’s needed to avoid it.

The longtime State Department official and Iran-Contra player on Israel’s war in Gaza and his own record in Latin America.

Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei on providing counselling services to Palestinian children: “When relatives are killed, we try somehow to calm the child and then ask questions: What are you going to do tomorrow? What are you going to do the day after tomorrow?”

The Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham on his investigations of the I.D.F.’s use of A.I.-backed targeting systems and the dire cost to Palestinian civilians.

Can a progressive campaign break the coal industry’s hold on West Virginia politics?

What explains the student movement against the war in Gaza? Sometimes the correct answer is the one right in front of you.

The lawyers at Protect Democracy have brought defamation suits against Rudy Giuliani, Kari Lake, and Project Veritas, hoping to limit the spread of disinformation. Others worry that their efforts could impinge on freedom of speech.

The staff writer Sarah Stillman was honored for reporting on a draconian legal doctrine, and the first-time contributor Medar de la Cruz was recognized for an illustrated piece about Rikers Island.

In the campus protests over the war in Gaza, language and rhetoric are—as they have always been when it comes to Israel and Palestine—weapons of mass destruction.

During Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the inscrutable former White House aide was equally inscrutable on the witness stand, despite breaking out into tears while testifying.

Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.

Among the protesters on college campuses—and among the students who oppose them, too—there is a deepening disillusionment with American institutions.