In this issue

Breakout Star
Bollywood’s Deepika Padukone has the kind of magnetic appeal that transcends East and West.
By Astha Rajvanshi

Lone Star Promise
Texas could be the global leader in alternative energy— if it took a liking to the idea
By Justin Worland

DIGITAL BLIND SPOT

The U.S. government's security-clearance process is struggling to keep up online

3 mins

France is cracking down on the influencer industry

GLOBALLY, INFLUENCING WILL BE a $70 billion industry by 2029, according to Data Bridge Market Research

1 min

She was Tucker Carlson's 'office mom.' Now she's suing

AT FIRST, ABBY GROSSBERG THOUGHT FOX NEWS WOULD be her big break

7 mins

Playing Magic: The Gathering with Senate hopeful Lucas Kunce

WHEN MISSOURI SENATE CANDIDATE LUCAS KUNCE logs on to Zoom for our game of Magic: The Gathering, he isn’t messing around

2 mins

As police forces shrink, private security takes over

ANDRE BOYER ENTERS THE GAS STATION LIKE A SOLDIER— back straight, boots shined, AR-15 pointed toward the floor

5 mins

OUR COVID-19 LESSONS

More than three years into the COVID-19 pandemic and with America's public-health emergency expiring on May 11, it is clear that this moment is an opportunity not only to reflect on successes but also to grapple with the setbacks, pitfalls, and failures that defined our response. The responsibility to improve our response to future health crises lies in correcting our failures in this one

3 mins

Erdogan may face both an election and a decision

FOR MORE THAN 20 years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has remade and dominated Turkey's politics

2 mins

The D.C. Brief

DIANNE FEINSTEIN HAD ALREADY made history back in 1978, when she became the first woman elected to lead the San Francisco board of supervisors, effectively setting the agenda for the legislative arm of the country's eighth largest economy at the time

2 mins

Teach citizenship the way the founders intended

NEW DATA RELEASED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION— known as the Nation’s Report Card and widely regarded as the best assessment of how well we are educating our future citizens—paints a stark and worrying picture

2 mins

The Triumph of King Charles

After decades of waiting, the new monarch meets his moment

9 mins

Beyond Bollywood

Deepika Padukone, India's most popular actress, has a vision for what it means to be a truly global superstar

10+ mins

TEXAS COULD BE THE WORLD'S CLEAN-ENERGY CAPITAL. DOES IT WANT TO BE?

There’s just one problem: politics. While many cities, states, and even countries are fighting for the trillions of dollars in public and private green investments that are transforming the energy industry, many Texas leaders, including a powerful segment of the state’s political leadership, are opposing the new opportunities

6 mins

Facing Ghosts

PRIME MINISTER FUMIO KISHIDA IS GIVING JAPAN A MORE ASSERTIVE ROLE ON THE GLOBAL STAGE

9 mins

RACHEL CARGLE'S RADICAL ΤΟΥ

Discovering the value of pleasure in the pursuit of a better world with the author of A Renaissance of Our Own

6 mins

A documentary not about illness, but about life

If it were up to us to choose the fates of the performers we care about, millions of people would want to wish Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's away

3 mins

Stacey Abrams: The two-time gubernatorial candidate on data leaks, electoral shenanigans, writing suspense novels, and her future in politics

I wrote my first attempt at a novel when I was 12. It was called The Diary of Angst. I was a very, very obnoxious 12-year-old who was just assailed by all the travails of the world

2 mins

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