If Hungary Can Do It
Viktor Orbán offered a model for antidemocratic rule, one admired by Donald Trump and other world leaders. What does his stunning loss after 16 years in power mean?
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Is Anybody Actually Winning Trump’s Iran War?
Former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger on the U.S.-Iran cease-fire, Trump’s Hormuz blockade, and China’s reaction to the Iran war. Plus: A seismic election in Hungary, and Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges.
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AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills
Imagine a chatbot that actually knows how to talk to you.
If You Want a Better World, Act Like You Live in It
We’ve had Henry David Thoreau the environmentalist, the libertarian, the life coach. To understand his influence, think of him first as a dissident.
A Pillar of the Economics Establishment Admits That It Was Wrong
In a new report, the World Bank thinks better of its old free-market absolutism.
The Publishing Mystery That No One Wants to Talk About
A minimally speaking autistic man just wrote a best-selling book. Or did he?
Jared Kushner’s Mysterious Role in the Trump Administration
Is the president’s son-in-law carrying out the public’s business or pursuing his own private interests?
A New Kind of Hybrid Car Is About to Hit America’s Streets
The car industry says it has an answer for drivers wary of going electric.
The Paradox of Modern Medicine
Testing has become so advanced that doctors now miss important elements of diagnosis.
The High-Risk, Low-Reward Blockade of Hormuz
Americans may not have the stamina for the economic pain and military losses ahead.
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Testing has become so advanced that doctors now miss important elements of diagnosis.
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Her new memoir captures the cost of being an impossibly popular target.
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It’s time for tributes to leave the great-man theory of history behind.
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The military may need to cure its counterinsurgent “hangover,” but the president has the wrong solution.
