The Week: World

A musician hides as a riot breaks out in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. | (EPA/Jean Marc Herve Abelard)

If journalist Jamal Khashoggi was in fact murdered by agents of the Saudi government, that would certainly be awful, a crime worth lamenting and condemning. But is it reasonable for the killing to inspire greater outrage and aggrievement than Saudi Arabia's multi-year bombardment of Yemen, which has killed of tens of thousands of civilians, with American backing, weapons, and logistical support?

There is no better demonstration of the moral and political rot at the heart of the American government than its increasingly poisonous alliance with Saudi Arabia. The latest atrocity is the disappearance and alleged murder of Washington Post columnist (and United States resident) Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Mammoth hurricanes have become more destructive and more common. Does climate change play a role? Here's everything you need to know:

Our 3-year-old is not much of a meat eater. Given her choice, she would probably subsist entirely on a diet of graham crackers, yogurt, strawberries, and jellybeans. The only way we can get her to eat animal protein is to lie and say that it's actually "sausage," the only meat product in which she has ever taken interest (apart from the inevitable McDonald's chicken nuggets).

A soldier leaves a natural history museum in Pyongyang, North Korea. | (REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui)

As the world continues to devour the "we're all going to die"-inducing revelations of Bob Woodward's Fear, it's worth pausing to consider the slower-motion disaster of the Trump administration: Our nation is losing its moral authority.

The U.S. war in the ‘graveyard of empires' has lasted nearly 17 years. Will it ever end? Here's everything you need to know: