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New Zealand’s PM has achieved an historic landslide for the left. But such is her caution that social progress will unfold on a geological timescale

Once revered in the Middle East as a defiant force against Israel, the actions of the "Party of God" in Syria have caused many to change their minds

The rockstar epidemiologist is leading Sweden through a great Covid experiment. Six months in, is it paying off?

And all the while, the election clock ticks down

Two tribes, Trump and the State of an imperilled Union

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Pioneering Supreme Court justice championed the cause of equality

The great judge was not the one-dimensional radical of the popular imagination. Her jurisprudence was cumulative, evolutionary—and immensely persuasive