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Undercover Boss

Who pulls the strings at 10 Downing Street? Hint: it may not be Boris

Great Sakharov’s Ghost

By seeking to destroy Alexei Navalny, Putin is repeating the mistakes his K.G.B. predecessors made with the dissident nuclear scientist

The Cool Cat and the Prime Minister

For a decade, the “Chief Mouser” has made 10 Downing Street his domain

Caveat Emperor

Before Trump’s final days as a delusional tyrant, there was Haile Selassie

Flight of the Bottom-Feeders

After years of running the zoo, Trump aides stampede for the exit

The View from Here

American presidents are swathed in way too much pomp and ancien régime regality

#NeverLeaving

Trump’s not the first loser to be dragged kicking and screaming from high office. A century ago, it was a New York City Hall janitor who just wouldn’t let go

The Politics of Bad Behavior

Melania, Ivanka, and the double standards of the single-minded

Joe Biden’s Not-So-Secret Weapon

American-born and raised in France by a stepfather who had survived the Holocaust, Tony Blinken will shape the next president’s global relations

The Biden Touch

He wears his heart where every Scranton native does: on his sleeve. Thank God

Melania by Night

As Rome burns and Trump tweets, his wife stays up late reading gossip about Vogue’s Anna Wintour

Tattle Tales

What I know about the Tory wives titillating London with their deliciously disloyal tell-alls

Diary Dearest

Savage memoir by the wife of a well-connected, upper-class British M.P. puts Conservatives’ knickers in a twist

R.I.P. RBG

The Morning After …

Just what might happen in America if there is no indisputable victor on Election Night?

Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers

The star athlete and pageant winner who is shaking up politics in Anguilla

Invisible Woman

Daisy Bates was one of the civil-rights era’s most formidable forces. Why is her story not better known?

Sunak the Magnificent

Is the Tory party’s newest rising star, the son of South Asian small-business owners, destined to become the conservative Tony Blair?

The View from There

What if Trump had been president during the AIDS crisis?

Putin’s Fox News

How RT America’s blend of entertainment and disinformation is warping our politics

Will Some Twentysomethings Take Down Trump?

Two roommates sue the president for violating their constitutional rights—simply so he could pose with a Bible

Multi-Player Movement

How the bobbleheaded critters of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing became enemies of the Chinese state

Red Summer

A century ago, another U.S. president and his top cop turned a blind eye to violence against black Americans

“Light My Fire, Why Don’t You?”

A trip to Beijing early in Nancy Pelosi’s career illustrates the spirit that has become her trademark