Laura Reston
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Cambridge, MA, United States
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Capital Offenses
Under President Rodrigo Duterte, thousands have died at the hands of police or the masked vigilantes who roam Manila's vast slums. → Read More
The Exodus
On a remote spit of land in the Bay of Bengal, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are fighting for their lives. → Read More
Armageddon Averted
Buried beneath the Great Plains lies a decommissioned Air Force control center that was once powerful enough to lay waste to the Soviet Union. → Read More
America's Deportation Flights
Before Trump’s immigration crackdown, Obama built a sprawling enforcement system. A look inside the journey undocumented immigrants take out of the country. → Read More
The Deadly Crossing
Aboard a rescue vessel for six months, photographer Mathieu Willcocks documents the refugees braving the turbulent seas from Libya to Italy. → Read More
Trump’s War on Oversight
James Comey isn't the only watchdog casualty in the president's efforts to avoid scrutiny. → Read More
Russia Has Weaponized Fake News to Sow Chaos
The Kremlin's influence campaign goes far beyond Trump's victory. Their latest unsuspecting targets: American conservatives. → Read More
Appalachia Needs Big Government
How Donald Trump betrayed the region—and how Democrats can win it back. → Read More
Where Trump Gets His Fuzzy Border Math
Meet the far-right "think tank" working to legitimize the immigration crackdown. → Read More
Trump’s Stance on Torture Is Still Dangerous
Even if the president doesn't bring back black sites, his rhetoric is a menace unto itself. → Read More
The Man Behind the Curtain
In early 1988, Ailes upset all the expectations for the first Republican debates. He could do it again tonight, engineering a victory for Trump. → Read More
The 2016 presidential race has already cost $1 billion, about the GDP of the Solomon Islands.
According to USA Today, donors have already given more than $1 billion to the presidential candidates and their allied super PACs. Four years ago, the candidates and their super PACs had only spent $403 million at this point in the race. $1 billion is a lot of money. You could book six trips to the moon and back. You could buy the Pittsburgh Pirates. You could provide the GPD for th... → Read More
Can Democratic Attack Ads Tear Down Donald Trump?
Republican groups' attacks haven't done the trick. But one big-money Democratic super PAC believes it has the formula. → Read More
Why Didn’t Marco Rubio Knock Out John Kasich?
The Florida senator had the money—and the material—to bombard his establishment rival with attack ads. Instead, he ignored Kasich altogether. → Read More
Why Merrick Garland Is the Moderate’s Choice for the Supreme Court
President Obama's nominee, a former prosecutor, has spent his career being careful, persuasive, and collegial. → Read More
With a big win in Ohio, Hillary Clinton proved she could win white working-class voters.
Her victory assuaged establishment concerns, arising from Bernie Sanders’s win in Michigan, that such voters would abandon her in the general. “A loss in Ohio,” The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman wrote Tuesday morning, “a state where she famously demanded that Barack Obama meet her for a primary showdown in the 2008 race, would propel the questions about her ability to win white workin... → Read More
With a big win in Ohio, Hillary Clinton proved she could win white working-class voters.
Her victory assuaged establishment concerns, arising from Bernie Sanders’s win in Michigan, that such voters would abandon her in the general. “A loss in Ohio,” The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman wrote Tuesday morning, “a state where she famously demanded that Barack Obama meet her for a primary showdown in the 2008 race, would propel the questions about her ability to win white workin... → Read More
John Kasich is now the heir presumptive of the establishment crown. But can he win outside Ohio?
Yes, he won big in his home state. But how far can this go? → Read More
John Kasich is now the heir presumptive of the establishment crown. But can he win outside Ohio?
Yes, he won big in his home state. But how far can this go? → Read More
The wildest Republican primary being decided today isn’t in the presidential race.
Tonight, most people will be watching the Republican presidential primary in Ohio, where Governor John Kasich is hoping to eke out a win against Donald Trump. But in southwestern Ohio there’s another, even wackier GOP contest going on—one that makes the White House race look tame.Ohio’s 8th Congressional District is home to former House Speaker John Boehner, who vacated his seat last October,… → Read More