Features

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo Once Symbolized Democratic Hope—His Plan for a New Capital Represents a Darker Legacy
By KOH EWE | October 27, 2023
‘There Is No Hope’: Death and Desperation Take Over the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
By CHARLIE CAMPBELL | September 26, 2023
The Man Who Upended Thai Politics
By CHARLIE CAMPBELL | August 31, 2023
How Cultural Fascination With Imelda Marcos Has Obscured Her True Legacy
By CHAD DE GUZMAN | July 27, 2023
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Is on a Mission to Remake Japan as a Global Leader
By CHARLIE CAMPBELL | May 09, 2023
The U.S. Military’s Legacy in the Philippines: Thousands of Children Left Behind
By CHAD DE GUZMAN | April 30, 2023
The Military Tried to Burn Thantlang Down: How a Myanmar Township Defied the Odds to Become a Resistance Stronghold
By EMILY FISHBEIN | November 09, 2022

News Analysis

China’s Real Estate Crisis Has No Easy Fix—Just Ask Chinese Soccer Fans
By CHARLIE CAMPBELL | October 05, 2023
88rising Brought Asian Hip-Hop to the World. But Can It Find Success in China?
By CHAD DE GUZMAN AND KOH EWE | September 22, 2023
China Is Desperate to Boost Its Low Birthrates. It May Have to Accept the New Normal
By CHAD DE GUZMAN | August 17, 2023
A Wave of Scandals Is Testing the Singaporean Government’s Ability to Take Criticism
By KOH EWE | August 02, 2023
Japan Plans to Dump Fukushima Wastewater Into a Pacific With a Toxic Nuclear History
By AMY GUNIA | February 06, 2023

Explainers

Why Some Worry Singapore’s Drug Executions Aren’t Always Clear-Cut
By KOH EWE | August 04, 2023
The Messy Politics and High Costs of Indonesia’s Anti-Israel FIFA Fiasco
By CHAD DE GUZMAN | April 06, 2023
What Is Outdoor Air Conditioning? And How Bad Is It for the Environment?
By AMY GUNIA | November 29, 2022

Ideas

Bye Bye BRI? Why 3 New Initiatives Will Shape the Next 10 Years of China’s Global Outreach
By RUBY OSMAN | October 01, 2023
Both Wary of War, Taiwan’s Voters Eye China as China Eyes Taiwan’s Voters
By IAN BREMMER | September 28, 2023

Features

Who Will Care for America's Elderly?
Hundreds of thousands of workers are leaving the caregiving industry. Unless immigration policies and industry standards change, an aging U.S. is going to face a massive crisis.
By ALEXANDRA MOE | July 28, 2022
‘No Place for a Child': 1 in 3 Migrants Held in Border Patrol Facilities Is a Minor
Thousands of kids have been routinely detained in cold, overcrowded cells built for adults, while authorities have resisted improving conditions.​
By ANNA FLAGG and JULIA PRESTON | June 16, 2022
​The Plot to Out Ronald Reagan
A group of Republicans tried to stymie what they alleged was a nefarious homosexual network within the campaign of their own party’s standard-bearer. More than 40 years later, the story can finally be told.
By JAMES KIRCHICK | May 27, 2022
​Nicolás Maduro Tries a New PR Campaign: Going Woke
Venezuela’s leader is courting a growing, more socialism-friendly generation in America by co-opting the language of the millennial left.
​​By TONY FRANGIE MAWAD | May 08, 2022
​‘Putin Miscalculated': Ukrainians Are Literally Lining Up to Fight Back
A young woman who came of age amid conflict and chose not to flee Kyiv for the latest crisis says her countrymen are tired of being afraid.
By KATERYNA SHVEDENKO, AS TOLD TO ANASTASIIA CARRIER | March 05, 2022
​The Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios for the World as COP26 Ends
An environmental scientist assesses the outcomes and possibilities coming out of the climate conference in Glasgow.
By PAUL BEHRENS | November 11, 2021
​No Way Out: How the Opening of a Tunnel Blocked the Path to Peace in Jerusalem
A decision a quarter-century ago sparked an international crisis with ongoing ramifications. What lay beneath the surface of that incident?
By ANDREW LAWLER | October 01, 2021
​Desperation Meets Dysfunction on the Southern Border
The Biden administration’s response to the migrant crisis comes straight from Trump’s playbook: try to deter more from coming. It’s not working.
By JACK HERRERA | September 23, 2021
​Why the GOP Just Got Blown Out in a Congressional Race
New Mexico, a once-purple state, is turning increasingly blue. 
By BRYAN METZGER | June 08, 2021
​Biden Brings Back Family Separation—This Time in Mexico
U.S. agents no longer tear apart parents and children, but families are having to make painful decisions—just on the other side of the border.​
By JACK HERRERA | March 20, 2021
​Native Americans Finally Have a Cabinet Nominee. Will an Adopted Tlingit Take Her Down?
With the GOP digging in against Deb Haaland as Interior secretary, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski faces a choice between her party and a powerful constituency that’s come to trust her.
By JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT | February 23, 2021
​The Half-Legal Cannabis Trap
In LA, people are getting arrested for what they think are legit jobs in the pot business. Will “decriminalization” just spread the problem nationwide?
By AMANDA CHICAGO LEWIS | February 09, 2021
​What a Joe Biden Cabinet Pick Might Mean for Native Americans—and Democrats
Choosing Deb Haaland as Interior secretary would be historic. It could also bring a new community into the party fold.
​By JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT | November 30, 2020
​Trump Didn't Win the Latino Vote in Texas. He Won the Tejano Vote.
Understanding the difference will be key to Democrats moving past their faltering, one-size-fits-all approach to Hispanics.
By JACK HERRERA | November 17, 2020
​What Trump's Diehard Supporters Are Worried About This Election
11 GOP delegates discuss mail-in voting, postelection unrest and what happens if Trump loses.
By CATHERINE KIM | September 30, 2020
​I'm a Body Language Expert. Here's What I Saw During the Conventions.
What did people's faces and gestures tell us, rather than just their scripted speeches?
By JOE NAVARRO | August 29, 2020
​The Black, Millennial Mayor Who Tore Down His City's White Monuments
Under pressure from protesters in the former capital of the Confederacy, Levar Stoney bucked tradition and preempted state law to remove a street of statues, putting his reputation and reelection prospects on the line.
By ANDREW LAWLER | August 09, 2020
​The Time That Bill Barr Faced Down Protesters — Personally
Why is the attorney general so comfortable using force against protesters? In 1968, as a college freshman, he thought they were getting in his way.
By PAUL CRONIN | June 07, 2020
​‘Like Petri Dishes for the Virus': ICE Detention Centers Threaten the Rural South
While Americans are sheltering in place, the federal government is shuffling hundreds of immigrant detainees between U.S. towns, putting vulnerable communities at risk.
By GABY DEL VALLE and JACK HERRERA | May 05, 2020
​How Trump Created a New Global Capital of Exiles
It’s not just Mexicans: New U.S. immigration policies are stranding the world on America’s southern border.
By JACK HERRERA | January 05, 2020
​Climate Change Suddenly Matters in the 2020 Race. Are the Candidates Ready?
The polls say this one really could be a climate election. A top climate thinker games out what it means for the candidates.
By BILL McKIBBEN | May 07, 2019
​California Ended Cash Bail. Why Are So Many Reformers Unhappy About It?
What promised to be a progressive breakthrough is now breaking up the left.
By JEREMY B. WHITE | AUGUST 29, 2018

Roundups

​​Yes, We Just Saw the Future of Conventions
For a lot of insiders, the “virtual” conventions weren’t a second-best—they were a breath of fresh air. Here are the tricks the parties should learn from the past two weeks, according to experts.
By POLITICO MAGAZINE | August 28, 2020
​It Really Is Different This Time
Two dozen experts explain why.
By POLITICO MAGAZINE | June 04, 2020

Photo Essays

​The Past 15 Years, in Political Cartoons
For POLITICO's 15th anniversary, our Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist picks his favorite sketches of the past decade-and-a-half chronicling American politics.
By MATT WUERKER | January 23, 2022
‘I Have Never Seen the Asian American Community Galvanized Like This'
In striking black-and-white images, veteran photojournalist Yunghi Kim captures a turning point for Asian Americans.​
By POLITICO MAGAZINE | March 24, 2021

Q&As

​A Former Mueller Prosecutor Takes Merrick Garland to Task
Andrew Weissmann speaks out about the Jan. 6 committee hearings, how to prosecute a conspiracy, and the Justice Department’s investigation — or lack thereof — of Trump and his inner circle.​
By ANKUSH KHARDORI | July 12, 2022
​Andrew Yang's Loss Fits a Pattern. Why Do Asian Americans Struggle in Mayoral Races?
Former Boston mayoral candidate Sam Yoon discusses the unique challenges faced by AAPI candidates and why he's optimistic things will change, in a POLITICO Q&A.
By JOEL LAU | July 08, 2021

Op-eds

​By legal experts:

​The Trump Taxes Story Exposes a Glaring Hole in Biden's Criminal Justice Platform
It’s not too late to campaign on greater prosecution of financial crimes.
By ANKUSH KHARDORI | October 10, 2020
​The One Word Alan Dershowitz Gets Wrong in the Impeachment Clause
There’s a reason the Founders didn’t just end it at “high crimes.”
By CLARK D. CUNNINGHAM | January 24, 2020

​​By political scientists:

​Why the Impeachment Fight Is Even Scarier Than You Think
Political scientists have studied what our democracy is going through. It usually doesn’t end well.
By THOMAS PEPINSKY | October 31, 2019
​Democrats Don't Want to Nominate a Candidate Who Looks Like Bernie or Joe
In a new national survey, the party’s primary voters prefer female candidates of color in 2020. So why are two white guys in the lead?
By GABRIELE MAGNI and ANDREW REYNOLDS | May 24, 2019

​​​By current and former politicians and policymakers:

​Here's How to Cover Uninsured Americans During the Pandemic
Empowering Medicare to cover our health needs is comprehensive and cost-effective.
By SEN. BERNIE SANDERS | April 28, 2020
​Now's Not the Time for Isolationism
Countries need to work together to fight coronavirus, and the U.S. should step up to lead those efforts, not back off from them.
By MICHÈLE A. FLOURNOY and LISA O. MONACO | April 08, 2020

Newsletters

​POLITICO Nightly: The Jan. 6 committee's season finale
By ANKUSH KHARDORI, with help from JOANNE KENEN | July 21, 2021

Stories for POLITICO's “The Agenda"

​Making a Phone Call from Behind Bars Shouldn't Send Your Family into Debt
Covid-19 has forced lawmakers to take a harder look at the prison telecom industry. It's long been due for a makeover.
By SYLVIA A. HARVEY | Sept. 20, 2020
​The College Students Who Live in Homeless Shelters
Politicians love to talk about college costs. But there’s a big one that they’ve barely started to address.
By CLAIRE BRYAN | June 25, 2019
How Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review Built a Silicon Valley Empire
By ANDREW GRANATO | November 27, 2017