Current affairs. Strange world.

We’ve always needed to understand our world. Now, that’s more challenging than ever: Seemingly every aspect of our lives is transforming. Every place we live is globally and intricately connected. And we’re trying to navigate it all in a digital-media environment that’s dominated by algorithmic manipulation, partisan conflict, and polarizing spin from across the political spectrum.

The Signal is for people who want something different. We’re a U.S.-based current-affairs brand; we’re nonpartisan but committed to democracy and democratic life; and we have a deep belief in humanity. But above all, we’re in the business of complexity at a time of chronic change and uncertainty.

As we see it, none of us wholly owns the truth; those who think differently from us often know something we don’t; and what any of us does know is always surrounded by mystery. Which is why everything The Signal does starts with good questions, and every answer we find leads us to more of them.

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