Anne Jacobsen named the program that brought more than 1,600 German scientists to America. The deeper story is what made it possible: not the recruiting, but the rewriting of the record that turned war criminals into citizens.
Anne Applebaum named the network of autocrats in Autocracy, Inc. The deeper story is the infrastructure beneath it, much of it built and staffed inside the democracies they are said to threaten.
The United States and Iran sign on Friday. The one country that can break the agreement will not be in the room, never signed anything, and owes it nothing.
A handshake ends the war on paper. A risk desk decides whether the oil actually moves.
A Government Can Be Illegitimate and Its Removal Still Uncertifiable.