Honestly, I thought it would be funny. The instant I heard about the Riyadh Comedy Festival, I pleaded with the editor of this magazine to send me. Despite a series of legal reforms over the past ...

Nancy A. Youssef is a staff writer at The Atlantic covering national security and the Defense Department. She has written about U.S. national security for more than two decades, including at The Wall ...

The U.S. journalist is in prison because Vladimir Putin has made no pretense about using Americans as human bargaining chips.

As the leader of the Office of Special Counsel, Hampton Dellinger’s role was to get wrongfully fired civil servants back on the job—until he got fired himself.

The administration is cutting deals with felons, driving out federal prosecutors, and threatening to abandon its criminal case—all to avoid admitting error.

Senate Republicans have confirmed Trump’s least qualified Cabinet nominees—and given up their role as an independent check on the president.

If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.

The drama over federal-grant spending this week isn’t mere disorganization; it’s part of a broader effort to remake the government from the inside.

In her response to Trump’s address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics.

We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence.

The Trump administration is ending U.S. support for immunizations abroad because of its opposition not only to foreign aid, but to vaccination itself.

GOP House leaders still can’t find a way to make the math of Trump’s tax bill add up.