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• The Docket Is the Real Election

  Campaigns are argued in speeches and settled in filings. The cases already scheduled will shape the next decade more than the next cycle will.

  RUTH OKONKWO

• Who Actually Signs the Order

  The people with the titles get the coverage. The people two levels below them write the language that decides what the policy means.

  PETER OSEI-BONSU

• The Strait That Sets the Price of Everything

  A handful of narrow passages carry most of the world's traded goods. The politics of those passages is now the politics of everyone's grocery bill.

  NADIA BELKACEM

• Against the Politics of Permanent Emergency

  Treating every dispute as an existential crisis was supposed to raise the stakes. It has mostly exhausted the people who have to live inside the argument.

  CLAIRE VANTASSEL

• The Sanctions Machine Is Running Out of Room

  Financial pressure worked because most of the world used one system. That assumption is weakening, and the tool is getting more expensive to use.

  DANIEL MARCHETTI

• Who Actually Signs the Order

  The people with the titles get the coverage. The people two levels below them write the language that decides what the policy means.

  PETER OSEI-BONSU

• The Quiet Consolidation of the Governor's Office

  Emergency authority was supposed to be temporary. In statehouse after statehouse, it has become the ordinary way of governing.

  MIRIAM HALLOWAY

• The Strait That Sets the Price of Everything

  A handful of narrow passages carry most of the world's traded goods. The politics of those passages is now the politics of everyone's grocery bill.

  NADIA BELKACEM

• The Docket Is the Real Election

  Campaigns are argued in speeches and settled in filings. The cases already scheduled will shape the next decade more than the next cycle will.

  RUTH OKONKWO

• The Sanctions Machine Is Running Out of Room

  Financial pressure worked because most of the world used one system. That assumption is weakening, and the tool is getting more expensive to use.

  DANIEL MARCHETTI

• Europe Is Rebuilding Its Border Logic

  The argument is described as a fight about migration. It is really a fight about which level of government gets to decide.

  THOMAS RENNICK

• The Middle Powers Have Learned to Wait

  A dozen capable states have concluded that choosing a side costs more than staying useful to both. That calculation is holding.

  IRIS NAKAMURA