Graeme Wood
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Handout / Reuters How Stressed Is Iran?
The Iranian people are, for the first time in decades, worried about whether the leaders who have been their captors are not also their protectors.
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AP Two Questions to Ask Now That Qassem Soleimani Is Dead
The real questions are not of morality (did he have it coming?) but of timing.
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Simon Dawson / Reuters The Cure for Ultraviolence
The cases of Usman Khan and Lisa Marie Smith point to the problems with deradicalization.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP War Crimes Are Not Difficult to Discern
The president’s latest pardons reveal that he wants his fighters unconstrained by modern laws of armed conflict.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters Elizabeth Warren Discovers the Pitchfork
The candidate has learned to kill the professor within, by going after billionaires.
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Arinze Stanley The Movement to Make Texas Its Own Country
Daniel Miller is fighting to divorce his state from the union.
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Associated Press Baghdadi’s Final Humiliation
First the ISIS leader lost his state, then he took his life.
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Ted Thai / The LIFE Picture Collection / ... Why Readers Resented Harold Bloom
I tried to stump him—and only once succeeded.
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Reuters ISIS Is Gloating
The best one could say about America’s abandonment of the Kurds is that they should have known we would sell them out eventually.
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Yves Herman / Reuters Trump’s Sickening Betrayal
Geopolitics is a contest of bad ideas. Letting Turkey take control of Kurdish territory falls somewhere between “very bad” and “extremely bad.”
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Rodi Said / Reuters I Watched ISIS Videos, and Felt My Soul Diminished
After years of reporting on violence, one worries about numbness. All carnage, all the time. If you live like this too long, it can warp your view of the world.
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Philip Montgomery John Bolton Will Hold This Grudge
His dismissal by tweet came after an unusually long prelude of disrespect, both by President Trump and by favored allies.
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Mike Hutchings / Reuters Robert Mugabe Died Too Late
His rule began brutally and ended in pathetic squalor.
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The White House / Flickr Trump’s El Paso Photo Is Obscene
The president’s callousness has reached a new low: smiling, flashing a thumbs-up next to an orphaned infant.
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Reuters Ideology Kills. How Do You Police It?
The manifesto that appeared just before the El Paso shooting opposed racial mixing.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Life in Prison, or the Death Penalty?
What Chekhov has to tell us about capital punishment
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Jerry Lampen / Reuters The Life-Changing Magic of Tripping
Mark Kleiman, the drug-policy scholar who died last week, thought certain hallucinogens should be legalized.
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Chad Batka / The New York Times / ... Sam Shepard Saw It All Coming
The family battles he described foreshadowed our current national crisis.
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Ian Langsdon / Reuters How Long Can John Bolton Take This?
The national security adviser was conspicuously absent from North Korea during the historic concession to Kim Jong Un.
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Richard Drew / AP The National Security Adviser Has No Heart
Tucker Carlson called John Bolton a “bureaucratic tapeworm.” Is his wrath justified?
