Donald Trump’s Culture of Corruption
How right-wing populism fights graft at the bottom and nurtures it at the top...
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The Dynamics Behind the Current India-Pakistan Clash
How internal politics in both countries could escalate the conflict in the wake of a tourist massacre in Kashmir...
Isaac Chotiner
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“The Situation Now Is So Beyond Imagination”
A relief worker on how, exactly two months since Israel suspended all aid to Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people
Isaac Chotiner
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The Biden Official Who Doesn’t Oppose Trump’s Student Deportations
Why the Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt blames universities for “opening the door” to the Trump Administration’s professed campaign to tackle
Isaac Chotiner
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How Trump’s Tariffs Fit the Autocrat’s Playbook
The President thrives on confrontation and demands supplication. Politicizing the economy creates opportunities for both...
Isaac Chotiner
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What Putin Wants Now
Trump has suspended all military aid to Ukraine in an apparent attempt to bring the country to the negotiating table.
Isaac Chotiner
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How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration
Untangling the realities from the rhetoric on an issue that has transformed politics across the West...
Isaac Chotiner
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What Could Happen if the U.S. Abandons Europe
Donald Trump’s disdain for NATO will reshape the domestic politics—and military posture—of some of America’s closest allies...
Isaac Chotiner
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Make South Africa Great Again?
How the country’s post-apartheid politics may inform the world view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump...
Isaac Chotiner
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Q. & A. with Peter Beinart: What Did the War in Gaza Reveal About American Judaism?
Peter Beinart on the story of Israel and the moral blind spot of the Jewish diaspora...