The War Trump Can’t Control

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Following the U.S.’s war with Iran can give you whiplash. One day, it’s nearing a resolution; the…

Russia and America Are Rediscovering the Limits of Nuclear Weapons

Henry Kissinger often said that nuclear arms are “weapons in search of a doctrine.” After the Cold War, some strategists have tried to figure out what, exactly, these weapons could…

The Cicerone

Photographs by Benedetta Ristori A famous entertainer would like to have the Colosseum to herself for a small evening event—anything you can do? A visitor on a layover hopes to…

Party Machines Weren’t So Bad After All

Source: YouTube Summary This is not a sentence written often lately, but the U.S. Supreme Court has just done a great service to American democracy.On June 30, the Court struck…

The Honorable Gentleman for Ukraine

Source: YouTube Summary Ukraine had few, if any, friends in Washington more devoted than Senator Lindsey Graham, who visited Kyiv at the end of last week. His sudden death over…

What Lindsey Graham Wanted

Senator Lindsey Graham, who died unexpectedly last night, was a pivotal citizen of the Washington conversation. He loved being in the mix, slapping bipartisan backs off camera, and then, when…

Trump Loses Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Graham had just returned from a trip to Ukraine last night when he called President Trump to talk with him—about the trip, about one of the president’s key legislative…

The Quintessential Politician of This Era

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In his way, the late Lindsey Graham, who unexpectedly died Saturday evening, was…

The Scrubbed and Simple Moon

Watchless, wordless, compassless. Isn’t that when mountains open and light roars through, as when in the delivery room, slammed by a lot of meaningless brightness, you cried and were held…

It’s Not Just Annoying, It’s Inescapable

Source: YouTube Summary If Julius Caesar had debuted this year, William Shakespeare might have been accused of writing it with AI. A certain suspicious rhetorical device appears again and again…