Katherine Mangu-ward

At press time, the U.S. is engaged in a war with Iran—or at least very warlike behavior, including taking out much of a sitting government, killing Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several top military commanders, dropping 2,000-pound bomb... See more

In 1988, Peng Peiyun was assigned to China's State Family Planning Commission. Her job was to implement the relatively new one-child policy. The Communist Party was sure that it knew how many people should be in the Chinese population to prevent famine an... See more

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If you've spent the last week watching people panic—rightly, wrongly, or just recreationally—about media consolidation, you're not alone. Everyone from President Donald Trump to the janitor at Netflix to the Kalshi gu y is waiting with bated breath to fin... See more