The Dispatch

Nikole Hannah-Jones, public school, and what we owe our kids.

A high-profile disaster can make what seemed inevitable appear crazy.

A mystery at the heart of American politics.

There is a soft spot in our legal system that allows radical groups to coerce and intimidate law-abiding Americans.

What’s the point of Trump’s summit with Xi?

The dot-com boom shifted political alignments.

Two decades of EPA rulemaking have contributed little to decarbonization.

Plus: Xi Jinping comes to Washington, , Iran's president takes his case to the UN, and Sen.

The Missouri redistricting case hits SCOTUS again.

It’s fine to be angry about affordability, but grievance can’t be the response.

The legislative branch needs to act, even if Speaker Mike Johnson disagrees.

Will a post-rout GOP remain Trump’s party?

Every child deserves a parent who thinks they’re worth more than all the others.

Midwest Republicans are feeling the weight of the president’s unpopularity.

Plus: a Vance-led task force drops 760,000 ACA enrollments, citing fraud, Trump signs a Greenland deal with Denmark, and happy Fat Bear Week!

A learned disputation upon fusionism.

Why don’t we hear about occupied Tibet or Chinese apartheid?

A federal indictment alleging an assassination plot in Washington unveils Russian efforts to punish dissidents and defy the U.S.

With the Department of Education threatening to revoke its accreditation authority over law schools, the ABA has voted to pare back its diversity rules.

Not waving but drowning.

There’s—almost—no such thing as an unfit Republican.

Plus: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warns of a long war, Paramount settles to clear its Warner merger, and a robot vs. influencer boxing match.

Plus: The Pentagon may be underreporting deaths in Iran.

Hash-ing out business.

Reckoning with the nature of AI risks is testing policymakers and politicians.

In the War Room offers a glimpse into the decisions that drove Israel’s multifront war.

The ‘enrollment cliff’ is mostly an excuse not to change.

When you can’t solve real problems, solve fake ones.

It is time to put the Republican Party out of our misery.

Plus: Houthi missiles hit the Saudi capital, the Pentagon is accused of undercounting troop deaths, and Marx probably wouldn’t love Labubus.

Test Bunny 143B.

What the Lindsay Clancy trial revealed about our partisan attitudes toward mothering.

Those who fled war in their home country endure high costs and red tape to maintain legal status here.

Five decades ago, the soon-to-be president gave an interview that almost tanked his campaign.

Those who want a reformed Islam should welcome Muslims to the American way.

A Texas politician faced backlash for criticizing South Asian college students at a football game.

Photo books of America, from 1840 to now, show the value of attention.

A break from AI.

A Western tradition, in photos.

To live in such extreme country, neighbors have to help each other.

Plus: a U.N. inquiry reports war crimes in Iran, the CDC and Pennsylvania feud over measles, and a new cat just dropped.

Plus: Demolishing the Kennedy Center.

Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine says it’s not his job to answer policy questions.

Terrorists and their proponents have forfeited their right to sympathy.

On postliberal moral equivalencies.

Certificate of need laws: what they are and why they are bad.

Plus: U.S. diplomats meet Houthi representatives in Oman, a Hague court convicts Kosovo’s ex-president of war crimes, and looksmaxxing is in the dictionary.

Live from Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg Center in Washington.

Some proponents of rapid AI adoption view the backlash against the technology with suspicion.

Warnings about AI’s destructive potential have renewed calls for tech companies to slow—or even halt—development.