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People are trying not to panic, but preparing for conflict.

Putin pretends Russia and Ukraine are historically "one people."

Noam Shuster-Eliassi’s catchy Arabic satire, explained

And Biden says he will reappoint Jerome Powell for Fed chair.

Corruption Is What Other People Do The Biden administration has embarked on a global anti-corruption campaign. It should start with Washington. Prospect Illustration/Alex Brandon, Ilia Yefimovich/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Israel’s Iron Dome system uses Raytheon products, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin served on the weapons maker’s board before joining the administration. Through a directive issued last week, President Biden has given his national-security, intelligence, and la...

Editors note: June 01, 2021 Eugenia Vargas Peirera. Two images from the series Photographs of feminist protestors, 2019. Courtesy the artist. The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts is pleased to open The Protest and The Recuperation, a survey of artistic perspectives on, and responses to, the global phenomenon of mass protest and of recuperative strategies of resistance. This exhibition will be the Wallach’s first exhibition open to the general public s...

A Most Admired Diplomat, Gone Corporate Nicholas Burns, Biden’s likely ambassador to China, is entangled in tech and the arms business. Burns held several corporate roles while advising the Biden campaign last year. China will affect every aspect of President Biden’s approach to the world. He is expected to nominate diplomat R. Nicholas Burns as ambassador to help him navigate the administration’s biggest global challenge. Burns is respected by Democrats and Republicans alike, an...

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, joined by the Presidential Cabinet members, pose for a Cabinet portrait Thursday, April 1, 2021, in the Grand Foyer of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz). By Adam Schultz - The White House, Public Domain, Link Laurence H. Shoup is a California author and activist. He is the author of five books, including The U.S. working class, led by people of color, has, at least temporarily, defeated the criminal Trumpian regi...

His ‘Invaluable’ Perspective Was Worth $100,000 Why Silicon Valley hired Biden Mideast adviser Brett McGurk Prospect illustration/State Department photo Many Obama officials said no to serving Trump, but McGurk stayed on in the State Department. The artificial-intelligence company Primer Technologies started in San Francisco, and by 2019 had opened an office in Washington to keep apace with new business. But it needed government fixers to keep growing. In April 2020, Primer brought Br...

“Is he really in charge?” asks John Cornyn (R-Tex.)