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'Desire Is Always Evolving.' What the 'Three Women' Author Learned After a Decade Following Women's Sex Lives

By Lea Carpenter

We Analyzed How the "Great Replacement" and Far Right Ideas Spread Online. The Trends Reveal Deep Concerns

By Jacob Davey and Julia Ebner

The Quick Read About… Mexico’s Recent Political Drama

By Ian Bremmer

SCOTUS's Ruling on Gerrymandering Endangers U.S. Democracy

By Guy-Uriel E. Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
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The Absurd Fight Over Trump's July 4th Parade

In 1777, the first Fourth of July commemoration was celebrated in Philadelphia with bonfires, bells, and fireworks. The next year, 1778, General George Washington celebrated with a thirteen-gun-salute, one for each of the colonies, along...

By Elliot Ackerman

The Quick Read About… Jared Kushner’s Bahrain Workshop

What Happened This Week:White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner kicked off his much anticipated—and plenty derided—plan to bring peace to the Middle East with a two-day economic workshop in Bahrain. The Palestinians boycotted the event,...

By Ian Bremmer

No One Told Me Exactly What to Expect From Menopause. But the Messages I Did Get Were Very Wrong

I was 50 when I woke in my dark attic bedroom in Brooklyn, my heart speeding and my body incandescent with heat. I did not feel simply hot, no, I was being smothered by an...

By Darcey Steinke

The Case for Embracing Linguistic Identities

This spring, the New York Times ran a headline: “Should a White Man be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020?” My first reaction was: Along with the face, let’s think about voice. In...

By Peter Hessler

On Watch in the Arabian Gulf: What the U.S. Navy Faces Against Iran

When oil tankers were bombed in the Persian Gulf two weeks ago, my thoughts turned to the summer of 1987 when I sailed through the narrow Strait of Hormuz for the first time as the...

By James Stavridis

One Possible Solution to the Opioid Crisis in the U.S. Has Been Inexplicably Ignored

The President’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) just released a new report on how to beat back America’s opioid crisis. The CEA highlighted as potential solutions measures like curbing illicit drug trafficking, reducing over-prescribing in...

By David Hebert and Tommy Thompson

The Quick Read About… President Xi Jinping’s Trip to North Korea

What Happened This Week:As anticipation builds for the G-20 meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump next week in Japan, China’s state broadcaster announced on Monday a surprise state visit by...

By Ian Bremmer

How to Reset U.S.-Russian Relations Today

For thirty years, since the end of the Cold War, U.S. policy toward Russia has been going in circles with the relationship getting worse as different U.S. administrations came and went. Today, the U.S.-Russian relationship...

By Eugene Rumer and Richard Sokolsky

Remembering Historian Alan Brinkley

There is a chasm, we often hear, between academic and popular history: The public loves blockbuster biographies and political narratives, typically written by journalists or amateurs. The professoriate likes analytical works known for their historiographical...

By David Greenberg

The Quick Read About… Turkey’s Troubling Russian Shopping Spree

What Happened This Week:Back in 2017, Turkey agreed to purchase Russia’s advanced S-400 air defense missile system over the strong objections of both the US and NATO, of which Turkey is a member. Turkey has...

By Ian Bremmer

Our Republican Colleagues in the Senate Must Act to Break the Cycle of Gun Deaths

Another week, another community ripped apart by a mass shooting. Most recently it was Virginia Beach, where a shooter on May 31 killed 12 people in a municipal building.In early May it was a school...

By Chris Murphy and Dianne Feinstein

Peace With Honor: What Vietnam Can Teach Us About How to Leave Afghanistan

President Richard Nixon promised Americans that the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War would bring “peace with honor.” They brought neither, and it now appears that the Afghan War is headed for a similar...

By Thurston Clarke

How Architect I.M. Pei Achieved Greatness By Forever Testing and Challenging Himself

Architecture, especially in America, is an old man’s game, and no one was older than I.M. Pei, who died on May 16 at 102. Even in a profession where major commissions rarely materialize before a...

By James Gardner

Why Harper Lee Struggled to Write Again After To Kill a Mockingbird

It was easy enough to forget about Harper Lee in those days. To Kill a Mockingbird had come out eighteen years before in 1960, and in all that time Lee had published almost nothing else....

By Casey Cep

Why You Shouldn’t Stress Out About Every Tiny Parenting Decision

Economist Emily Oster wrote the modern pregnancy bible. Now she has some advice for parents of young kids

By Eliza Berman

It’s Been Over 300 Days Since a Pentagon Press Briefing. That Should Concern All Americans — Including the Military

Retired Admiral James Stavridis argues that this is a critical failure—of not just communication, but strategy

By James Stavridis
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