Dismantled by DOGE, a Foreign Policy Center Finds New Life
The Kennan Institute, which researches Russia and the surrounding region, has re-emerged in a form that is smaller but more impervious to government control.Read More
2025 Booker Prize Goes to David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’
The rags-to-riches tale had already made fans of Zadie Smith and Dua Lipa. Roddy Doyle, who chaired the judging panel, called the book “singular” and “extraordinary.”Read More
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Verdict in E. Jean Carroll Case
The president said the assertions behind a judgment that he sexually abused and defamed the writer were “implausible” and “unsubstantiated.”Read More
Trump Pardons the Husband of a Republican Congressional Ally
Robert Harshbarger Jr. pleaded guilty in 2013 to health care fraud and distributing a misbranded drug. His wife, Diana Harshbarger, is a member of Congress.Read More
For Trump, Nothing Was Off-Limits During the Shutdown
President Trump pressured Democrats by taking punishing actions no previous administration ever took during a shutdown.Read More
Shutdown Deal Revives Democratic Infighting
The agreement prompted a backlash within the party, not only against the Democratic defectors who supported it, but against Senator Chuck Schumer, the leader who did not.Read More
How Syria’s President Transformed His Image
Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara’s meeting with President Trump in Washington signifies a new turn for al-Shara, a former Islamist rebel leader who was once designated by the United States as a terrorist with a $10 million bounty on his head. Our reporter Christina Goldbaum describes the meeting.Read More
Marriage Ruling Relieves Gay Americans and Leaves Conservatives Pledging New Challenges
The Supreme Court chose not to revisit a case involving same-sex marriage. The number of married same-sex couples has doubled in the last 10 years.Read More
Age Is the Issue That Democrats Can’t Shut Down
A restless Democratic base is seething at older leaders in Washington.Read More
What to Know About the BBC Resignations and Turmoil Over a Trump Speech Edit
Two top executives quit after a memo by a former adviser said that the broadcaster had misleadingly edited a speech by President Trump.Read More