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When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a "domestic terrorist." In the aftermath, she's been trying to recover her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality.

As Secretary of Homeland Security, Noem enabled Donald Trump's harshest immigration policies--and embodied the idea of "law enforcement as just a photo op," Jonathan Blitzer says.

From the daily newsletter: our critic Justin Chang on the movies he says were snubbed for Best Picture.

The prolific novelist--whose most famous character, the forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, is played by Nicole Kidman in a TV adaptation premièring in March--discusses a few of her perennial rereads.

Russia's President is profiting from rising oil prices, but he's also facing a hard new reality: he's no longer the lead disruptor of the postwar global order.

Despite their animosity toward Iran, America's allies in the Middle East are worried that the region is headed for wider conflict.

Memes such as "monitoring the situation" reflect a deluded belief that we can be more than just passive, confused bystanders to a spray of digital shrapnel.

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?