After years of corruption and democratic erosion under Viktor Orbán, Hungary must rebuild its institutions. Its new Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, faces questions about how he’ll do it.

Olivier Assayas’s adaptation of a novel about a fictionalized adviser to Vladimir Putin reduces politics to personalities and atrocities to anecdotes.

The sailor said, “Brandy, you’re a fine girl” (You’re a fine girl)What a good wife you would be (Such a fine girl)But my life, my love, and my lady is the sea—Looking Glass. He is late. Technically, the sea has made him late—again. The sea is “eternal” and…

When I first moved to Brooklyn, in 2010, a small, stapled, glossy print product became my guide to my new neighborhood of Bushwick and beyond. The L Magazine covered the hipster-ridden stretch of the L train into Williamsburg, listing happy-hour deals, chronicling…

Every year, the Mark Hotel is transformed into a chaotic celebrity holding pen.

Many refugee families thought they’d have a second chance in the U.S. Then Trump returned to office.

A post-Watergate law makes Presidential records government property. The Trump Administration has declared it unconstitutional.

The border wall in Big Bend, Texas, is opposed by environmental groups, local sheriffs, and a pro-gun YouTuber running for Congress. It’s happening anyway.

After a disastrous set of election results, the British Prime Minister’s authority is in tatters.

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The President swept off to Beijing to court Xi Jinping. Back Stateside, it was non-Presidential motorcades, video games, and a languid vibe at the White House.

The Tennessee rapper reflects on sobriety, the scrutiny he faced after his sexuality was publicized, and a new album that fittingly covers his past five years: “It’s Been Awful.”

“The balance of gerrymanders has lurched pretty abruptly toward the right.” The New York Times’ chief political analyst on whether the Democrats can match the G.O.P. in the fight over redistricting.

Months into the ceasefire, Israeli officials barred 37 international N.G.O.s from Gaza. A Doctors Without Borders clinic is carrying on without antibiotics, or even chairs for patients.

The polymath musician, formerly of Vampire Weekend, likes to push our idea of what a pop song can be.

Ukrainian officials have suggested that the slice of the country’s Donbas region that Russia is still fighting for could be named “Donnyland.” —The Times. NOT PICTURED: JorDon; Mar-a-Lagos; I Really Don’t Care, Do Uganda?; the Donube River; PennsylMelania;…

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