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Boris the Improv P.M. The British prime minister appears to run the country like a comedian on open-mike night

By Caitlin Moran

Holy Gotham! Two urban warriors on opposite sides of the criminal-justice debate join forces to create Vital City

By Elizabeth Glazer and Greg Berman

The View from Here At America’s Bicentennial, in 1976, the fireworks included an unlikely romance between Liz Taylor and a future senator

By David Kamp

Ashes to Optics The ghoulish politics of exhumation

By George Pendle

The Brit Who Unfriended Trump How did David Cameron’s former deputy prime minister become Facebook’s authority on muting @realDonaldTrump?

By Gaby Hinsliff

Texting with an Ex Does the British government need a deep clean? David Cameron’s problems swell, and Boris Johnson gets blasted as “foolish” and “unethical”

By Patrick Kidd

From 10 to Zero in 60 Seconds No commemorative libraries. No seven-figure book deals. Why being the ex-leader of the U.K. is hard work with few perks

By Stuart Heritage

Oops! He Did It Again The former British prime minister who triggered Brexit is back for a second act. But no one is clapping

By Stuart Heritage

Big Fish, Little Pond Why Scottish politics suddenly looks like a trashy episode of daytime television

By Stuart Heritage

The Lying Game The former French ambassador to the U.K. calls Boris Johnson a reckless leader with no concern for the truth. Sound familiar?

By Charles Bremner

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

By Stuart Heritage

February 27, 2021

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

By Ben Macintyre

February 20, 2021

The Cool Cat and the Prime Minister For a decade, the “Chief Mouser” has made 10 Downing Street his domain

By Patrick Kidd

February 13, 2021

Flight of the Bottom-Feeders After years of running the zoo, Trump aides stampede for the exit

By Shawn McCreesh

January 16, 2021

The View from Here American presidents are swathed in way too much pomp and ancien régime regality

By Todd S. Purdum

January 16, 2021

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

By Aatish Taseer

January 16, 2021

#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

By Sam Roberts

December 12, 2020

The Politics of Bad Behavior Melania, Ivanka, and the double standards of the single-minded

By Shawn McCreesh

December 5, 2020

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

By Matthew Campbell

November 14, 2020

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

By David Kamp

October 31, 2020

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

By Shawn McCreesh

October 24, 2020

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

By Rachel Johnson

September 26, 2020

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

By Stuart Heritage

September 19, 2020

R.I.P. RBG

September 19, 2020