The Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past.

The foreign policy scholar Emma Ashford explains what President Trump is really doing in the Middle East and Ukraine.

The writer Kathryn Schulz on losing her father at the same time as finding her life partner, and how to hold radically different feelings at once.

Was there a Joe Biden cover-up? Jake Tapper examines the people and institutions that made the former president’s re-election campaign possible.

The journalists Zack Beauchamp and Andrew Marantz discuss what kind of autocratic timeline America is on right now.

Students are already using A.I. to learn and write. The education policy expert Rebecca Winthrop explores the big questions emerging for educators and parents.

The economist Kenneth Rogoff traces the dollar’s rise — and potential fall.