America: Start here

IF THERE'S ONE THING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ME, it's that I'm utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don't know my passwords to anything. I have thousands and thousands of unread emails. I don't open mail because I assume it'll be bad news. I've never had a credit card. But it's also something that, as a filmmaker and a writer, deeply fascinates me-how sterile, faceless, and universally isolating it all can be.

Bolsonaro and Trump, apart yet together

A PRESIDENT FACING A TOUGH fight for re-election warns his followers that corrupt elites want to steal power from them. He loses the election and calls on his supporters to defend him. Unable to block the transfer of power, he retreats to Florida.

RAMADAN IN GAZA

Ramadan has a special place in every Muslim's heart. We wait for it all year. As a small child, I remember my excitement at hanging colorful lanterns on the house. My parents taught my siblings and me to abstain from food and drink from dawn to dusk. But the holy month of Ramadan started early for Muslims in Gaza this year. In some sense, we've been fasting since October.

How nature reacts to a total eclipse

OF ALL OF THE ANIMALS WORTH observing during a total solar eclipse, perhaps none are more intriguing than humans. They stop what they're doing; they stare skyward; they lower their voices to a hush.

The five-minute quiz that helped catch Olivia Munn's cancer

Actor Olivia Munn recently shared in an Instagram post that a free risk-assessment tool her doctor used revealed that she had a higher chance of developing breast cancer. It led to testing and eventually treatment-that likely spared her from more serious outcomes.

Fighting to free Russia's political prisoners

VLADIMIR PUTIN'S PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY THIS MARCH was more of a coronation than an election. With the political system heavily skewed in his favor and all significant opponents disqualified, jailed, or dead, the vote was almost entirely pro forma.

Happiness in the U.S.

A new low

Kate Middleton

Princess facing cancer fight

Are pigs the future of organ transplants?

ON MARCH 16, A TRANSPLANT-SURGERY TEAM AT MASSA-chusetts General Hospital successfully transplanted a modified pig kidney into a human: 62-year-old Richard Slayman.

Why India's next election will last 44 days

INDIA'S ELECTIONS ARE THE LARGEST democratic exercise in the world, with nearly 970 million registered voters expected to cast ballots, including 18 million new voters.

THE POLITICS OF TIKTOK

How the Chinese platform's popularity, and self-interest, took Trump from ban to embrace

Why We Over Spend

The rise of frictionless payments makes it easy to keep buying-whether we can afford to or not

Breaking New Ground

Sunny Choi is heading for Paris, where her sport-yes, sportwill make its olympic debut

Company Man

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is getting down to business in a country that feels shortchanged by his election

Letting Go of My Debt Shame

Getting out of debt is a group sport, not a solo mission.

The Fight to Free Evan

On March 29, 2023, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on bogus espionage charges. He remains imprisoned in Moscow-a political hostage in his parents' homeland. Inside the struggle to bring him home

No recession? Thank women

REMOTE WORK ALLOWED ALYSON VELASQUEZ TO JUGGLE her demanding roles as a Wells Fargo talent recruiter and as a mother of two young children, including a son with special needs.

The D.C. Brief

TO LIBERALS, MITCH MCCONNELL IS a master of the political dark arts, willing to do anything to serve his conservative aims. He enabled multiple GOP White Houses to play the long game.

Pakistan's generals fail to fix an election

PAKISTAN'S WORSTkept secret is that its military dominates its government. Whether to safeguard the nation against chaos or to protect their own privileged access to power and wealth, its generals have manipulated the country's politics for decades. Pakistan's voters, like voters elsewhere, want change.

Texas' scorched Panhandle

A million acres swept by fire

The pains and paintings of Frida Kahlo, reanimated

FRIDA KAHLO'S EARLY 1940s self-portraits, in which monkeys hang from her neck, may seem playful. In reality, she painted them during a suffocating period when she was tangled in a messy divorce and desperate for work.

A one-trick pony with many lives

IF YOU DIDN'T GROW UP WITH A WELL-WORN COPY OF Sounds of Silence, Bookends, or Bridge Over Troubled Water among the LPs stacked near the family hi-fi, your parents or grandparents probably did. From the mid- to late 1960s, the sounds of Simon & Garfunkel were so ubiquitous you couldn't escape them if you wanted to.

Wiigging out in 1960s Palm Beach

VIETNAM. STONEWALL. CHARLES Manson. Woodstock.

How do you solve a Problem like the human race?

NETFLIX'S 3 BODY PROBLEM MIGHT BE THE BIGGEST TV series to hit Earth this year.

THE BLACK COUNTRY LEGACY

Beyoncé becomes the spiritual heir to a lineage long ago erased by the mainstream

A NEW AGE OF NAVAL WARFARE

With the sinking of the Sergei Kotov in early March, a whopping one-third of Russia's Black Sea fleet has been disabled. The maritime theater of the war in Ukraine remains the most significant since the Falklands. But it is also part of a larger story about naval power—which has come back as a central feature of struggles from the Black Sea to the Red Sea, South China Sea, and Taiwan Strait.

Zyn triggers fears of a new teen nicotine craze

NOT SO LONG AGO, JUUL WAS SEEN AS THE NEW MARLboro.

Spring won't bring Gaza relief

THE WAR IN GAZA IS ENTERING ITS sixth month and its third season. More than 30,000 people have been killed there since the Israeli offensive answering Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre, and some 1.9 million displaced people have endured homelessness in punishing winter weather, marked by heavy rain and low temperatures.

IT'S TRUMP'S PARTY

The MAGA movement's takeover of the GOP is now complete

Intimacy and Magnitude

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan on why Oppenheimer's impact goes far beyond its 13 Oscar nominations