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How the economics of football shape American culture.

It’s less “Triumph of the Will, ” more Jackie Kennedy’s landmark TV special.

Plus, more international fiction releases in February.

Caracas is trying desperately to boost investment in its oil patch, but it may be disappointed.

The recent border crisis with Cambodia has reignited pro-military sentiment.

Ninety years ago, Nazi Germany hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics—but the latter has unjustly gone forgotten.

The Republican foreign-policy establishment is developing a robust middle way between primacy and restraint.

Why the country chose a tough-on-crime candidate for president.

In the face of U. S. bullying, European leaders are considering reaching out to Russia’s president.

The world is returning to an era of weaponized finance.

Spencer Ackerman on how the politics of counterterrorism led to ICE and CBP completing their transformation into a death squad — and why the agencies are unreformable.

The contract for the controversial weapons known for high civilian death tolls is the largest of its kind in available government records.

The U. K. ’s push to meet climate goals turned a former coal plant into a giant woodstove -- powered by forests an ocean away.

A new report indicates that Trump administration policy led to billions of dollars in canceled investment and tens of thousands of lost jobs.

Agrihoods reimagine urban living by putting garden and crops, not roads and cars, at the center of the community.

A new GAO report finds agencies unprepared to expand shared stewardship with tribes as climate pressures intensify.

The inside story of how the Green Party embraced ecosocialism.

Nearly a quarter of EU children face poverty—member states must learn from each other's policy successes.

‘Art arises, ’ Auden writes, ‘out of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not. ..

Betwixt and between is a strange place for any major writer to be more than a decade and a half after their death, and. ..