Unpacked

Anti-brexit protestors wave flags outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, October 11, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls - RC15BFFE1F30

How Brexit will remake the United Kingdom

Amanda Sloat · Monday, October 15, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media before departing the White House for a trip to New York, in Washington, U.S. May 23, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1EC248F200

Unpacked: Can a president pardon himself?

Monday, August 13, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump pauses as he talks to journalists who are members of the White house travel pool on board Air Force One during his flight to Palm Beach, Florida while over South Carolina, U.S., February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1E3D1572C0

Unpacked: Presidential pardons and obstruction of justice

Monday, August 13, 2018

U.S. servicemen rest after an opening ceremony of the NATO-led military exercises "Noble Partner 2018" at Vaziani military base outside Tbilisi, Georgia, August 1, 2018. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili - RC1425E4A550

Unpacked: What Trump gets right and wrong about defense burden sharing

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

The U.S. Department of Justice headquarters building is seen after Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced grand jury indictments of 12 Russian intelligence officers in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation in Washington, U.S., July 13, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis - RC189262E490

Unpacked: Will Trump testify in Mueller’s Russia investigation?

Monday, July 16, 2018

A worker driving a forklift stacks containers in a yard at Port Botany's container handling facility located in Sydney, Australia, March 2, 2016. Picture taken March 2, 2016. REUTERS/David Gray - GF10000371752

Unpacked: The US-China Trade War

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Supporter of Net Neutrality Ginger Gibson (L) of Valley Glen, California, protests the FCC's recent decision to repeal the program in Los Angeles, California, November 28, 2017. REUTERS/ Kyle Grillot - RC1DC22B8F50

Unpacked: Repeal of Open Internet Rule enables monopoly networks

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Women are seen walk near damaged buildings in Afrin, Syria March 22, 2018. REUTERS/ Khalil Ashawi - RC1ADFC75FE0

Syria’s civil war is far from over

Friday, March 23, 2018

The Trump administration’s trade tariffs

Friday, March 9, 2018

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner sits behind U.S. United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley before the start of a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East at the United Nations in New York, U.S., February 20, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RC1A60E82F00

Security clearances at the White House

Thursday, March 8, 2018

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (L) speaks during a news conference with African Union (AU) Commission Chairman Moussa Faki (R), of Chad, after their meeting at AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 8, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1A4C48DBB0

The Trump administration’s Africa policy

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Thursday, March 8, 2018

The building of the U.S. Supreme Court is seen after it granted parts of the Trump administration's emergency request to put his travel ban into effect immediately while the legal battle continues, in Washington

The Supreme Court and partisan gerrymandering cases

Russell Wheeler

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Demonstrators rally during oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, a case about partisan gerrymandering in electoral districts, at the Supreme Court in Washington

Gerrymandering and how to fix it

Friday, February 2, 2018

A State Department contractor adjust a Pakistan national flag before a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on the sidelines of the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism at the State Department in Washington February 19, 2015. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1EB2K0EFQ01

The future of U.S.-Pakistani Relations

Friday, January 12, 2018

Iran's national flag

To help Iran’s protestors, keep the nuclear deal intact

Suzanne Maloney

Tuesday, January 9, 2018