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Anthropic’s Ethical Stand Could Be Paying Off

March 7, 2026

A photo-illustration showing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei beside a green upward-facing arrow and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman beside a red downward-facing arrow

The High-Stakes Fight Between Hegseth and Anthropic

February 26, 2026

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Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap

January 3, 2026

What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador

Conor Friedersdorf

November 23, 2025

CECOT prisoners

How Crypto Could Trigger the Next Financial Crisis

November 17, 2025

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How Trump Gets His Way

September 2, 2025

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Inside the USAID Fire Sale

August 26, 2025

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No One in the White House Knows How to Stop Ebola

Beth Cameron, Jon Finer, and Stephanie Psaki

August 11, 2025

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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food

July 14, 2025

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In Retrospect, You Should Have Known That Was Not Marco Rubio

Alexandra Petri

July 9, 2025

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This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters

June 11, 2025

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‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’

April 16, 2025

A Yemeni mother sits beside her child, who is suffering from acute malnutrition, at a medical center in Sana'a, Yemen, on February 28, 2023.

Why Trump Paused the Tariffs

April 9, 2025

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Make Smuggling Great Again

April 4, 2025

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Why Silicon Valley Lost Its Patriotism

Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska

February 12, 2025

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America Can’t Just Unpause USAID

February 4, 2025

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How the U.S. Gamed the Law of the Sea

January 25, 2025

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Jack Smith Gives Up

January 14, 2025

A photo of Donald Trump saluting a crowd of Stop the Steal supporters

The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows

Stephanie McCrummen

February 2025 Issue

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Why the Gaetz Announcement Is Already Destroying the Government

November 14, 2024

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The Truth About Hurricane Geoengineering

October 12, 2024

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