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A lawsuit would be the FTC’s biggest merger challenge to date under Chair Lina Khan.

Expensive regulation and high demand across the country have made the illicit trade more profitable than going legit.

Cannabis is legal in many U.S. states… or is it?

American food prices are rising at the fastest rate in decades due to supply chain issues, labor shortages, climate challenges and the conflict in Ukraine.

History shows that free trade can’t buy world peace.

A company executive responds to claims of bias.

Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.

How an old privacy law and new security demands force Washington to rely on an industry in the crosshairs.

The Russian leader is famously sober. There’s a reason that his country isn’t.

One of the last American journalists in Moscow recounts how she — and her dog — escaped Russia as Putin’s new iron curtain fell.

There is no strategy to Trump’s Twitter feed; he is not trying to distract the media. He is being distracted—by cable news.

In a tabletop exercise days before an untested new president took power, officials briefed the incoming administration on a scenario remarkably like the one he faces now.

The inside story of how Washington navigated the run-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine — the shocking intelligence, the skepticism and the building of an international coalition — as told by the…

As policymakers debate the future of the Black Sea peninsula, more are coming around to the view that ending the Russian occupation is possible.

Putin is trying to take down the entire world order, the veteran Russia watcher said in an interview. But there are ways even ordinary Americans can fight back.

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2008 financial crisis changed how Americans perceive their country and the world. The coronavirus pandemic has quarantined people in their homes, and altered their relationships and how they view the institutions that govern them. As with earlier crises, the coronavirus crisis may change people and US society as a whole in fundamental and lasting ways. No one can predict how this will play out. Politico Magazine asked experts and thinkers for their visions of the future.

Mass shooters overwhelmingly fit a certain profile, say Jillian Peterson and James Densley, which means it’s possible to ID and treat them before they commit violence.

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Queen Elizabeth II was much beloved for her apolitical marshmallow diplomacy. Her very outspoken son will have his work cut out for him.