TNR’s Greg Sargent takes a critical look at the day’s political news and the stories leading NewRepublic.com, and speaks to leading journalists and newsmakers.

MOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Russia's FSB security service said on Friday that it had thwarted a Ukrainian plot to assassinate an unnamed top Russian government official and accused Kyiv of planning ...

Two men from North Texas have been charged over violent plans that included an armed coup on the Haitian island of Gonave, according to the Justice Department. Gavin Weisenburg, 21 years old of Allen, ...

This useful study demonstrates that microsaccade direction primarily indexes shifts rather than the maintenance of covert spatial attention, offering a focused interpretation that may help reconcile ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The plotting began months ago. In quiet corridors on the parliamentary estate, in pubs and restaurants nearby, ...

An assistant principal in Virginia and his brother were arrested at an airport while en route to Las Vegas where they allegedly wanted to meet with “like-minded individuals” and plan violence against ...

Wes Streeting has called on Sir Keir Starmer to sack those responsible for “self-defeating” rumours about a Labour leadership challenge in an extraordinary attack on Downing Street. The health ...

America’s overdose crisis isn’t the simple story we’ve been told for years. A new investigation reveals how two key graphs — one famous, one ignored — shift entirely the way we understand what ...

Since the year 1547 our parliamentarians have occupied the Palace of Westminster. That's almost half a millennium of debates and democratic challenge. Westminster, which in medieval days was a ...

Brazil’s federal police arrested former president Jair Bolsonaro early Saturday, after Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a preemptive detention over suspicion he was plotting to escape ...