The Damage Netanyahu Is Doing to Israel, How Dirty Money Gets Into Banks, Why Principals Matter, and More...

The Democratic party's aging bench, saying goodbye to NBC's "Parks and Recreation," working across the aisle to end mass incarceration, and more...

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Friday, February 27, 2015

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A Partial Accounting of the Damage Netanyahu Is Doing to Israel

The Israeli prime minister seems willing to undermine his country's relations with the U.S. in order to save his career.

JEFFREY GOLDBERG

The Gray Party

Democrats are lining up top recruits for the 2016 Senate race—and they're almost all approaching retirement age.

DAVID A. GRAHAM

How Dirty Money Gets Into Banks

An estimated $2 trillion of illicit capital from criminals, pirates, and even terrorists makes its way into financial institutions annually. What can regulators do about it?

BOURREE LAM

What Blogging Has Become

Why Medium’s new features are more important than they seem

ROBINSON MEYER

Will Parks and Recreation Be the Last Great NBC Comedy?

For 30 years the network had the most powerful brand in TV humor, but it no longer seems interested in original, intelligent programming.

DAVID SIMS

How Education Shaped Communist Cuba

And why it’s key to restoring the country's relationship with the U.S.

ANDY S. GOMEZ AND PAUL WEBSTER HARE

The Powerpuff GirlsRedefined What Little Girls Are Made Of

The hit Cartoon Network show, which is set for a reboot in 2016, appealed to kids and adults with its three subtly subversive, (super)empowered female leads.

LENIKA CRUZ

Can Bipartisanship End Mass Incarceration?

A major shift in criminal justice is coming, but will it be enough?

MATT FORD

Video: Why Principals Matter

Nadia Lopez didn't think anybody cared about her middle school. Then Humans of New York told her story to the Internet—and everything changed.

SAM PRICE-WALDMAN

Photo: Investigating the Mysteries of Antarctica

For a dozen days in January, in the middle of the chilly Antarctic summer, the Associated Press, including photographer Natacha Pisarenko, followed scientists from different fields searching signs of unstoppable melting.

Block That Sperm!

The future of birth control, from remote-controlled implants to—at long last—a pill for men

OLGA KHAZAN