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  1. Iran, Holding Firm to Hormuz, Pushes for Return to June MOU

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:58:22 -0000

    The Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s best leverage to get Washington to release Iran’s frozen assets, lift economic sanctions and end its naval blockade.
  2. Inside the War on Hezbollah’s Finances

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:15 -0000

    Israel and the United States aren’t just targeting the Lebanese militant group’s weapons. They’re going after its money.
  3. Iran Taps Longtime I.R.G.C. Commander Mohsen Rezaei to Top Security Post

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:18:22 -0000

    The appointment of Mohsen Rezaei as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council suggests that Iran’s old guard is consolidating power.
  4. Israel Rejects Trump’s 15-Point Plan to Disarm Hamas

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:48:53 -0000

    President Trump’s Board of Peace announced an agreement last month that aimed at Hamas’s giving up its weapons alongside an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
  5. Trump Crypto Took $100 Million From a Businessman With Red Flags

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:58:12 -0000

    The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president.
  6. The Lonely Crew at the Kennedy Center Will Miss Its…Mice

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:56:24 -0000

    Employees say the performing arts center’s quirky-looking mice have an exotic back story. Do they?
  7. Obama and Abdul El-Sayed Spoke to Discuss Unity After Michigan Senate Primary

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:38:03 -0000

    Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s call with the former president comes as he tries to win over wary Democrats in Michigan’s high-stakes Senate race.
  8. Michigan Senate Candidate, a Former Trump Critic, Shifts Toward Election Skepticism

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:23:18 -0000

    Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee, has suggested that further scrutiny of the 2020 election was warranted and that voting irregularities sank his first Senate bid two years ago.
  9. Ocasio-Cortez Says She Is Freezing Her Eggs and Still Mulling a Presidential Run

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:23:19 -0000

    In a TV interview, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez distanced herself from positions like “defund the police” and indicated she hasn’t ruled out a presidential or Senate run.
  10. A Democrat Sounds the Alarm on Christian Nationalism in Congress

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:01:46 -0000

    Representative Jared Huffman of California, the only self-declared “humanist” in Congress, writes in a new book that the separation of church and state is in grave danger.
  11. How a Drone ‘Hellscape’ Might Stop a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:55:30 -0000

    Inspired by Ukraine’s battlefield gains, Taiwan is betting on drones to deter a potential Chinese invasion.
  12. The ‘Furthur’ Bus’s Long, Strange Trip, and Why It’s Returning to San Francisco

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:58:20 -0000

    Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus, immortalized in “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” is preparing for one more run. And to its owners, America sure could use it.
  13. Anthony Scaramucci, Podcast Star, Explains U.S. Politics to the World

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:52:25 -0000

    He spent 11 days in the Trump White House nine years ago. Now he has a hit podcast, helping the British public, among others, understand what’s going on.
  14. Please Judge the Books I’m Reading

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:08:17 -0000

    Literary awards get dismissed for elitism. But more than ever, we need passionate and idiosyncratic champions for the books most worth seeking out.
  15. It Won’t Stop at the Arc de Trump. It Won’t Stop at Washington.

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:49:06 -0000

    The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the review process will allow it to take a wrecking ball to historic sites across the country.
  16. Mother and Daughter Die After Boat Overturns in New York Harbor

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:51:31 -0000

    Police divers found a 27-year-old woman and her 5-month-old baby in the water near Liberty Island. A man was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment.
  17. A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s newly elected Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, put it, “People really effing hate data centers.”
  18. The Man Who Was Kidnapped Twice

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Thousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again.
  19. The Future, Made in China

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.
  20. The American Art of Blowing Stuff Up

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Fireworks by Grucci has been in the pyrotechnics business for six generations.
  21. How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media.
  22. The Senate’s Shameful Acquiescence to Todd Blanche as Attorney General

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:15:22 -0000

    A number of Republicans resisted his confirmation, but enough ultimately accepted the notion that Trump could do even worse.
  23. Are Psychedelics Right-Wing Now?

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    How the conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, with help from Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, persuaded Trump and the G.O.P. to embrace ibogaine, a psychedelic drug derived from an African shrub.
  24. Max Miller’s Victim Mentality

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:24:23 -0000

    The Republican congressman’s bitter domestic dispute—in which he’s accused of physical abuse by his ex-wife, the daughter of an Ohio senator—is testing his party’s willingness to defend the indefensible.
  25. The Electability of Abdul El-Sayed

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:05:43 -0000

    The former public-health official won Michigan’s Democratic primary with an unapologetically progressive platform—and a total defiance of the Party establishment.
  26. What Do India’s Gen Z Protests Mean for Modi?

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:19:00 -0000

    A movement of young people frustrated with India’s education system and economy has become the most serious challenge yet to an increasingly authoritarian government.
  27. Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
  28. Will Left-Wing Democrats Reinvent the Party or Hurt Its Chances in November?

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Bernie Sanders’s erstwhile campaign manager explains why he thinks it’s the former.
  29. The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

    Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
  30. Did the Dodgers Ruin Baseball?

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Already the title favorites, Los Angeles acquired the league’s best pitcher at the trade deadline—and may have insured a lockout after the season.
  31. Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The voters who are determining the future of the Democratic Party.
  32. Kevin Warsh Is Facing More Than a Communication Problem

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Fed chair’s biggest challenge is demonstrating his independence from Donald Trump.
  33. The World Cup Is Not for Sale

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:17:46 -0000

    Gianni Infantino’s private-equity scheme backfired—but the commodification of soccer is already well under way.
  34. How Socialist Is the D.S.A.? Megan Romer Explains

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    Romer, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, defends some of the D.S.A.’s controversial positions: “I think people like us being rather bold. . . . People want a fighter.”
  35. Can Extreme Morning Sickness Be Cured?

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed for their illness. Now a scientist has found a biological cause.
  36. G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

    Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are.
  37. Michigan Primary-Election Live Results: Abdul El-Sayed Wins

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:18:48 -0000

    The former public-health official’s victory in a closely watched Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate carries major implications for the direction of the Party.
  38. Why Donald Trump Talks So Much About Foreign Election Interference

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The White House is distorting intelligence assessments instead of working to protect the midterm elections.
  39. What Does It Even Mean to Be a Moderate?

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Michigan Senate primary has turned into a referendum on a word that has never had a fixed meaning.
  40. Why Is Europe Burning?

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    “We put all these ingredients in a cocktail shaker, and the result is massive fires that far exceed the extinguishing capacity of firefighting teams,” a Spanish firefighter said.
  41. The Failures of the Fauci Hearing

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Senator Rand Paul may have approached the matter with theatrics and ill will, but Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision not to testify was a loss.