Boris Johnson’s Brexit-Driven Parliamentary Runaround

Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about Boris Johnson maneuver to prorogue the House of Commons, which will reduce the amount of time that the British Parliament has to plan for the Brexit deadline.

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Filling the Empty Seats at the F.E.C. Won’t Fix America’s Corrupt Elections

Sue Halpern writes about the Federal Elections Commission’s inability to instate meaningful reform to the election process, and the undermining of democracy through voter disenfranchisement.

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Another Look at Impeachment, at the End of a Long Summer

Adam Gopnik writes about renewed calls for the impeachment of President Donald Trump and argues that it is more important for the Democratic Party to compel Trump’s Republican allies to defend their support than it is to protect the incumbency of House members whose reëlection might be jeopardized if their constituents perceive impeachment inquiries to be purely for partisan gain.

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Argentina Considers a Return to Peronism

Stephania Taladrid writes on the August 11th primaries in Argentina, in which the incumbent President, Mauricio Macri, fell behind the Peronists Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and the economic consequences of the Macri administration.

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The Message of Measles

As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the U.S. in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease, Nick Paumgarten writes.

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How the Trump Administration Is Stigmatizing Abortion

Margaret Talbot writes about a new rule governing Title X, the federal program that funds reproductive-health services for low-income women, which interferes with providers’ ability to refer patients to abortion providers.

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The Firefighters Battling the Northern California Wildfires

Our 360 Video takes you inside the efforts to contain the disaster.

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