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Can Love Be an Answer to Terrorism?

  • Nshira Turkson
October 6, 2015
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Al Gore at the Washington Ideas Forum

The former vice president announces a surprising business achievement, and both cautionary and encouraging political and environmental views.

  • James Fallows
October 1, 2015
Max Taylor

How Hillary Clinton Helped Her Employees Manage Work-Life Balance

While secretary of state, she worked from home so that moms and dads could be with their kids on a snow day.

  • Robinson Meyer
October 1, 2015
Max Taylor

Al Gore Blames the 2016 Election's Craziness on Television

“Politicians spend 75 percent of their money on 30-second TV ads.”

  • Robinson Meyer
October 1, 2015

'For Months and Months and Months They Were Just Beating Me'

  • James Bennet
October 1, 2015
Max Taylor

The Pottery Barn Rule: Syria Edition

Colin Powell on his famous “you break it, you own it” view of war, and how it’s nice to have a doctrine named after you.

  • Kathy Gilsinan
September 30, 2015
The Smithsonian

The Museum That Resurrected a Slave Ship

The Smithsonian’s African American History Museum, with the help of a worldwide network of scholars, will display pieces of the formerly sunken São José.

  • Megan Garber
September 30, 2015
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The Revolutionary Aims of Black Lives Matter

Everybody, the movement’s co-founder says, has a civic duty to “stand on the side of people who have been oppressed for generations.”

  • Megan Garber
September 30, 2015
Max Taylor

Mitt Romney Surveys the 2016 Field

The former Republican nominee on his would-be heirs, including Donald Trump

  • Molly Ball
September 30, 2015
Max Taylor

Top Obama Advisor: Syria Won’t Be Stable Until Assad Goes

Russia needs to understand the importance of a political resolution to the civil war, Ben Rhodes says.

  • Kathy Gilsinan
September 30, 2015
YouTube

When the Wedding Crasher Is a Drone

Flying robots: a fun new thing for everyone—from normals to celebrity wedding planners—to worry about when planning a ceremony

  • Megan Garber
September 30, 2015
Max Taylor

10 Hours to Save Syria

Republican Senator Bob Corker says one operation in 2013 could have made the real difference.

  • Kathy Gilsinan
September 30, 2015
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