A SHORT-ATTENTION PLAN

Crow: It’s What You Eat

Bedminster Township, New Jersey—President-elect Donald Trump flashes a thumbs-up as

Welcoming Committee

Mosul, Iraq—Iraqi special forces crouch behind a Humvee as a

Left Alone?

Berlin—First there was Brexit, then Donald Trump. Could Germany be

Next Train to Trump Town

Amatlán de Los Reyes, Mexico— To prevent immigrants from entering

TRUMP’S NEW FAVORITE COLLEGE

The president-elect got swamped in the popular vote. Is it time for the U.S. to flunk the electoral college?

LONELIER AT THE TOP

South African President Jacob Zuma has survived numerous scandals, but he’s losing the support of a growing number of ANC members

Ballot Blocks

CAN GAMBIA’S OPPOSITION PARTIES OVERCOME THE AUTOCRATIC PRESIDENT’S ALLEGED PATTERN OF RIGGING ELECTIONS?

‘COCKROACHES IN THE WARD’

Russia is trying to rebrand itself as a resurgent superpower. But its health care system is frighteningly bad and getting worse

THE BILLIONAIRE’S SUGAR DADDY

Meet Robert Mercer, the mystery donor who spent millions—and allegedly used some shady financing—to put Donald Trump in the White House

NEW WORLD DISORDER

With Trumpism advancing from the west and Putinism from the east, can Europe’s centrists survive the hard-right onslaught?

THE NEXT BREXIT

SIX DAYS after Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential

PUTIN POWER

FALLING DOMINOES: That’s what U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower called countries

VIRAL HIT JOB

FROM NEW YORK CITY TO CAPE TOWN, THE AIDS VIRUS HAS RAVAGED THE WORLD. BUT LOUIS PICKER THINKS HE FINALLY FOUND A SOLUTION. IT INVOLVES HERPES

THE APHID WHO CAME TO DINNER

Researchers have created the first nationwide map of the many insects that live in our houses

A TIPPING POINT FOR SLAUGHTER

In South Africa, rhinos are worth more dead than alive. Can legalizing trade in their horns save them from extinction?

A DIFFERENT CHARACTER

Laura Marling, onetime ethereal voice of folk, is writing for the stage— and getting serious

BUILD YOUR OWN HOLIDAY

Two world-class architects are selling off-plan agriturismo in Portugal

Keeping It Real

What we want from the Gilmores

DOUBLED AGENTS

Robert Zemeckis’s new spy movie has an illustrious, and obvious, ancestry

To-Do List

The Met in New York City delved into its photography