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Rendering by Patrick White; Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg ... Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan
What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters What Authoritarians Mean by ‘Corruption’
The president is following the template employed by other autocrats to destroy their rivals.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump’s Classic Bully Move
In the call with the Ukrainian president, he bears down on his target’s weaknesses and doesn’t relent.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Democracy Versus Kleptocracy
Ever since the earliest years of this century, Ukraine has been the contested frontier in a grand ideological struggle.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Greta Thunberg Is Right to Panic
The teenage climate-change activist has taken on anxieties far beyond her years. Adults should listen.
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Reuters The Amazon Fires Are More Dangerous Than WMDs
One person shouldn’t have the power to set policies that doom the rest of humanity’s shot at mitigating rising temperatures.
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Claude Paris / AP Cancel Qatar
The money for the next men's World Cup would be better invested in the women's game.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters Megan Rapinoe Is a Patriot
The U.S. women’s national soccer team didn’t just win a match against England—it’s making the case for a different kind of patriotism.
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SA TODAY USPW via Reuters The Infectious Idealism of the U.S. Women’s National Team
A feud with the president didn’t stop the Americans from beating France. It might even have helped.
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters Megan Rapinoe Makes Resistance Look Effortless
The star U.S. soccer player is fearlessly open, outrageously joyous, and unabashedly true to herself.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters ‘Attention Is the Beginning of Devotion’
The late poet Mary Oliver warned against looking without noticing. In an age of distraction, her work is more urgent than ever.
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Illustration by Paul Spella; Dean Mouhtaropoulos / Getty; ... Viktor Orbán’s War on Intellect
As the Hungarian prime minister systematically undermined his own country’s education system, one institution stood defiant: a university in the heart of Budapest, founded by George Soros.
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InesBazdar / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The ... Hate Invades the Quotidian
I can no longer assure my daughters that violence won’t enter our family’s spaces.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters ‘A Convenient Life and a Good Life May Not Be the Same Thing’
Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s top antitrust regulator, hasn’t been able to take down Big Tech—but she has a theory of how to tame it.
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Grigory Dukor / Reuters The Mueller Probe Was an Unmitigated Success
The scandal is how much corruption it exposed—and how much turns out to have been perfectly legal.
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Mike Blake / Reuters We’re Losing the War on Corruption
Paul Manafort and Felicity Huffman are twin avatars of an elite that still acts with impunity.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The ‘Otherwise Blameless Life’ of Paul Manafort
Trump’s former campaign chair has always acted with impunity, as if the laws never applied to him.
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Andrew Harnik / Reuters Paul Manafort’s Sentencing Isn’t a Moment of Closure
His time at the helm of the Trump campaign remains mysterious.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters An Interlude of Moral Clarity
Michael Cohen’s testimony was a reminder that this presidency isn’t normal.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Loud Silence of Mueller’s Manafort Memo
A court filing by the special counsel is filled with elegant omissions—but that doesn’t mean nothing is there.
