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In his BBC show “Things Fell Apart,” the British-born journalist continues to examine our most heated public arguments with empathy.

They started out as a family enterprise but have burgeoned into a movement with tens of thousands of fighters and become a formidable geopolitical force.

Experts said that inflation couldn’t be conquered without a lot more economic pain, but it’s happening.

The prisoner exchange will almost certainly not stop an Iranian tactic that has spanned more than four decades.

One town in Denmark has converted its garbage into algae that is then used to harvest positive thoughts.

The mass shooting in Monterey Park was one of dozens already this year.

The men’s team may have crashed out in the World Cup against the Netherlands, but soccer has come a long way in America. 

Despite Saturday’s 3–1 loss, against the Netherlands, the American team has drawn an exciting blueprint for the future.

A young American squad outplayed one of the pre-tournament favorites but now needs a win in its final match to advance.

Tehran has deepened its alliance with Putin amid widespread protests at home.

Volatile U.S. financial markets are particularly vulnerable right now to foreign shocks.

In recent years, a small group of scholars has focussed on war-termination theory. They see reason to fear the possible outcomes in Ukraine.

If Ian (British) wins, he will take home the satisfaction of a job well done. Sarah (American) would use the quarter-million-dollar prize to chip away at medical debt.

The notorious fatwa has a complicated history that still plays out, decades later, in Iran’s politics and relations with the U.S.

The government is trying to rein in the competitive excesses of market capitalism.

The U.S. is leading a new coalition of “nations of good will” as the goal expands from supporting Ukraine to weakening Russia and outlasting Putin.

A summit in Israel, at a decisive moment, highlighted the tensions that have rendered the nation an outlier among democratic states.

The central flaw in the West’s strategy was fearing that preëmptively confronting Putin would give the Russian leader a justification to attack—but it’s now clear that he intended to invade, whatever the U.S. and Europe did.

Joe Biden is the latest in a long line of American leaders who have tried to persuade Russians and other rivals to back down from a military confrontation.

Potentially at stake is everything America has built since Biden was born and the United States became a superpower.