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Trump spooked a group of senators into trying to protect Mueller

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs

The real (but small) danger of a US-Russia war over Syria

By Alex Ward

Firing Mueller and Rosenstein won’t save Trump’s closest allies

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs

Reddit just shut down nearly 1,000 Russian troll accounts

By Zeeshan Aleem

Trump’s attacks on Mueller’s investigation are getting way more personal

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs

Trump’s Syria-Russia tweets reveal his incoherent foreign policy

By Zack Beauchamp

Europe’s crackdown on Facebook and data privacy, explained

By Emily Stewart

Trump just tweeted that a strike on Syria is imminent

By Alex Ward

The past 24 hours of dangerous Trump-Russia news, explained

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs

The war in Syria, explained

By Zack Beauchamp

Yulia Skripal, poisoned daughter of ex-Russian spy, released from the hospital

By Alex Ward

Trump’s company is now threatening the president of Panama

By Zeeshan Aleem

Sessions is feeding the House GOP obsession with Hillary’s emails

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs

Why America doesn’t win wars anymore

By Alex Ward

The past 48 hours of big Syria news, explained

By Zack Beauchamp

Trump threatens a “big price” after reports of deadly chemical attack in Syria

By Emily Stewart

Muenster, Germany, van crash: what we know

By Emily Stewart

Zuckerberg: Facebook has systems to stop hate speech. Myanmar groups: No, it doesn’t.

By Jen Kirby

China’s trillion-dollar plan to dominate global trade

By Sam Ellis

The recent violence at the Gaza-Israel border, explained

By Jennifer Williams

Trump’s new Russia sanctions show his rift with Putin is widening

By Zeeshan Aleem

South Korea's former president is going to prison. The scandal behind it is batshit.

By Jennifer Williams

What most Americans get wrong about Islamophobia

By Alexia Underwood

America is fawning over Saudi Arabia’s repressive dictator

By Zack Beauchamp

Trump wants to hit China with an additional $100 billion in tariffs

By Jen Kirby

Black Panther will be the first film shown in a Saudi movie theater in decades

By Alex Ward

A key Mueller witness has close ties to Russia

By Zeeshan Aleem

It looks like Paul Manafort’s “Hail Mary” case against Mueller is going down in flames

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs

Trump thinks he has nothing to lose in a trade war with China. He’s wrong.

By Zeeshan Aleem

How Russia pioneered “fake news”

By Sean Illing

Mueller is investigating Trump, whether he’s a “criminal target” or not

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs

Why nobody knows what’s going on inside the Mueller investigation

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs

Cambridge Analytica, the shady data firm that might be a key Trump-Russia link, explained

By Sean Illing

India and Pakistan are quietly making nuclear war more likely

Both countries are arming their submarines with nukes.

By Tom Hundley

Trump’s big (non)decision on US troops in Syria, explained

By Alex Ward

Trump on trade war with China: “When you’re already $500 Billion DOWN, you can’t lose!”

By Matthew Yglesias

This European comedy sketch explains how the world sees America’s gun problem

By German Lopez

Trump’s call to guard “our border with our military,” explained

By Tara Golshan

Alexander van der Zwaan is going to jail for lying to Mueller’s Russia probe

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs and Zack Beauchamp

Mueller just confirmed he was investigating Manafort for collusion with Russia

By Andrew Prokop

Sisi won Egypt’s election. That doesn’t mean he’s safe.

There are rumblings of dissent in the Arab world’s most populous country.

By Alexia Underwood

Meet the new high-tech solution to Russian election hacking: paper ballots

By Zachary Fryer-Biggs
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