Zack Beauchamp

Under normal circumstances, an election in Hungary — a landlocked Central European country of less than 10 million — would not be a major world event. But for the past 16 years, Hungary has not bee...

This morning, Joe Kent — the director of the National Counterterrorism Center — resigned in protest over the war in Iran. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war,” he said in a resigna...

On Wednesday, the New York Times published the preliminary findings of a US investigation into the recent airstrike on Shajarah Tayyebeh, an elementary school for girls in the Iranian city of Minab...

The United States went to war with Iran for reasons that remain unclear.  At various points, the president and his allies have argued that this was a war of preemptive self-defense, an effort to pr...

Early Saturday, the United States launched an open-ended war on Iran. And nobody really knows why. For the past several weeks, the United States has been amassing forces in the area — with an estim...

This past week, we got a vision of what the future of world politics might look like. And it wasn’t pretty. The glimpse came during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel, in which h...

In the spring of 2015, few outlets predicted that the US would soon face a democratic crisis. Barack Obama was the president, and the conventional wisdom was that he’d be succeeded by Hillary Clint...

Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was the longest ever given. But to understand its core purpose — arguably, the core purpose of his presidency — you need only to hear one line. It came dur...

Just over a year into President Donald Trump’s first term, there had been roughly 10,000 protests nationwide during the first Trump presidency. By the same point in Trump’s second term — January 31...

BRASÍLIA, Brazil — André Borges’s aunt was pregnant when they took her. Borges, now 50, grew up under Brazil’s military dictatorship. In power from 1964–1985, the regime was violently censorial — b...

Increasingly, the Trump administration’s defense of Alex Pretti’s killing has come to center on the fact that he had a gun. “We respect that Second Amendment right, but those rights don’t count whe...

By this point, you’ve probably seen the videos — or at least heard about what’s in them. They show a man named Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who is filming ICE activity in Minneapolis, intervening when...