The Meaning of Kim Jong Nam's Murder
His death has punctured the myth of the Kims' holy bloodline.
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Nordisk Film A Dark Time in Denmark's History
An Oscar-nominated film explores possible war crimes in the country after World War II.
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Dondi Tawatao / Getty 'Have We Opened the Gates of Hell With Our Images?'
Reporting on the Philippines' drug war
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Ilya Naymushin / Reuters Playtime at the Reichstag and Pick-Up Football in Ukraine: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
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Safin Hamed / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: 2/18–2/24
Flooding in California, unrest at town hall meetings across the U.S., the Naked Man Festival in Japan, continued fighting in Iraq and Syria, the end of a long-term protest in North Dakota, horse racing on a frozen Swiss lake, and much more.
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Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters An Assassination by Weapon of Mass Destruction
The murder of Kim Jong Nam, the half brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, involved the use of VX nerve agent, one of the deadliest chemical substances on earth.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Foreign-Policy Contradictions of the Trump Administration: A Crib Sheet
America appears to be pursuing four Mexico strategies at once.
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Eric Gaillard / Reuters Marine Le Pen: Madame Présidente?
The far-right candidate leads in French polls, but her challenges may prove insurmountable.
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Matilde Gattoni The Monk Who Saves Manuscripts From ISIS
Why a Christian wants to rescue Islamic artifacts
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Guillermo Arias / AFP / Getty 10 Days Along the Border
Earlier this month, Agence France-Presse photographers Jim Watson and Guillermo Arias traveled the length of the U.S.–Mexico border.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters Can Mexico Block Trump’s New Deportation Rules?
The administration’s plan to force undocumented immigrants out of the U.S. largely hinges on America’s increasingly tense relationship with its southern neighbor.
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01 Distribution In Fire at Sea, Tragedy and Normalcy Live Side by Side
The Oscar-nominated documentary offers a compelling portrait of how the migration crisis affects, and doesn’t affect, a tiny island off the Italian coast.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The Foreign-Policy Establishment Defends Itself From Trump
“The question confronting us as a nation is as consequential as any we have faced since the late 1940s,” a group of Republican and Democratic experts write.
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Stephen Yang / Getty Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Burn Their Camp Ahead of Evacuation
For months, protesters have camped in the frigid North Dakota winter, opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Recently, state officials ordered them to evacuate the campground, located on federal land, due to spring flooding.
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Jack Taylor / Getty How Anti-Trumpism Is Hijacking the Anti-Brexit Movement
When one cause distracts from another
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Stefano Rellandini / Reuters The Alt-Right's Intellectual Darling Hated Christianity
The Italian philosopher Julius Evola is an unlikely hero for defenders of the “Judeo-Christian West.”
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Manu Fernandez / AP A Weekend of Protest
Over the past few days, thousands and thousands of citizens around the world marched through the streets, voicing their opposition to, or support for, dozens of issues.
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Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters The Mystery of the Ukraine Peace Plan
Who is its reported author, Andrii Artemenko, and what does he want?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters ‘Our Readiness for a Terrorist Attack Is Dangerously Low’
“I’ve never seen anything quite like” Trump’s approach to national security, says a former counterterrorism adviser to three presidents.
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Osman Orsal / Reuters There Is No American 'Deep State'
Experts on Turkish politics say the use of that term misunderstands what it means in Turkey—and the ways that such allegations can be used to enable political repression.
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Tyrone Siu / Reuters Taiwan and the Trumpian Uncertainty Principle
The high price of a phone call
