Dexter Filkins

As Secretary of State, the President’s onetime foe now offers him lavish displays of public praise—and will execute his agenda in Venezuela and around the globe.

With global conflicts increasingly shaped by drones and A.I., the American military risks losing its dominance. Dexter Filkins reports.

Dexter Filkins writes about how Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to challenge her country’s dictatorship.

Dexter Filkins on whether peace talks with the Taliban and the prospect of an American withdrawal will create a breakthrough or a collapse.

Dexter Filkins on how the Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies.

Dexter Filkins on Trump’s national-security adviser’s attempts to sell the isolationist President on military force.

Will Donald Trump let the Secretary of State do his job?

The former Marine Corps general spent four decades on the front lines. How will he lead the Department of Defense?

The Mosul Dam is failing. A breach would cause a colossal wave that could kill as many as a million and a half people.

If the Assad regime falls, can Hezbollah survive?

Along with his fellow-marines, Lu Lobello killed innocent bystanders in a chaotic Baghdad firefight. Then he sought out the family he harmed. Dexter Filkins reports.

The murder of a reporter who exposed Pakistan’s secrets.