As Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva campaigns for a fourth term in office ahead of this October’s general election, the Brazilian right is struggling to keep up with the country’s popular left-wing leader. The right-wing political vacuum created by the conviction of former President Jai ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his reaction to President Trump’s latest round of tariffs and explains why he believes they are weakening America’s economy and its alliances.Then, David is joined by ...
Justin Sullivan / GettyAn aerial view of a kayaker paddling along the Los Angeles River during an LA River Expeditions tour in Los Angeles, California, on July 26, 2026Justin Sullivan / GettyJordani Juarez with LA River Expeditions prepares kayaks before the start of a tour along the Los Angeles Riv ...
Gianni Infantino will die Fußball-WM anteilig an Investoren verkaufen. Auch die heftige Kritik an seinen Plänen dürfte den Fifa-Boss nicht aufhalten.
Im Frankfurter Prozess um die Putschpläne von Reichsbürgern legt der Ex-Elitesoldat Peter Wörner mit Beschuldigungen ein unfreiwilliges Geständnis ab.
Abdul Ballout wurde bis kurz vor dem Anschlag auf den Christopher Street Day engmaschig beobachtet – trotzdem konnte er zuschlagen.
Der Anschlag auf den Christopher Street Day verlangt Konsequenzen – aber keine Politik der Angst oder Spaltung.
Bundespräsident entlässt zwei Minister und ernennt drei neu. In der CDU sorgt das selbstherrliche Agieren des Kanzlers weiter für Unmut
Leihmutterschaft bleibt in Deutschland verboten, gleichzeitig können Privilegierte sie nutzen
Peter Zumthor, the architect of the controversial new Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), wants to make one thing very clear: that “this building never looks down on you.” His sentiments are vaguely populist: the building “should be open to the people.” It’s a building type, he says, that “tre ...
Karoline Preisler liefert eine unschuldige Person als CSD-Attentäter dem Internetmob aus. Grelle Postings haben bei der FDP-Politikerin Methode.
Der Fifa-Präsident verramscht in seiner Geltungssucht mit den WM-Rechten auch die Integrität des Fußballs in dunklen Zirkeln der Macht. Ein Kommentar
Telegram-Gründer Pawel Durow soll international zur Fahndung ausgeschrieben werden – um ihn zum Dialog mit der russischen Regierung zu zwingen
Nina Pritszens von der Berliner Drogenhilfe über Rekordzahlen bei Drogentoten, digitale Dealer und fehlende Hilfsangebote.
Wissenschaftliche Fakten zu Umweltschäden zu nennen, gilt als ideologisch. Zahlen sind nur als Renditeprognosen erwünscht, sagt Melanie Jäger-Erben.
Kolumbiens rechter Präsident Abelardo De la Espriella will die diplomatischen Beziehungen mit Kuba abbrechen, um Trump zu gefallen. Ein Kommentar.
Wisconsinites have a high-stakes decision to make in the Democratic gubernatorial primary on August 11: whether or not to elect the first socialist governor in the state’s history, Francesca Hong.A Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member and college dropout who, before she was elected to the s ...
Radikalisierungsforscher Nader Hotait über die Hintergründe des Anschlags auf den Berliner CSD und die Frage nach Behördenversagen
Modedesigner kehrt nach Berlin zurück: »Wir möchten hier kein zweites 1933 miterleben«. Der Schritt erntet Häme von rechten Kommunalpolitikern.
A couple of years ago, Peter Galassi realized that he had a problem: His 9-year-old son was still, somehow, constantly on Roblox, despite the screen-time limits Galassi had set for him. He soon discovered that his son had used his mom’s phone to secretly open multiple accounts on the platform. Why? ...
Masonic sheep grazing on hillsidesin Virginia, appearing there like mystic popcornin the long Jeffersonian $2 bill– tinted twilightof early July, yippee-ki-yay.Sheep with human eyes. © Raymond Depardon / Magnum
In dem Kinofilm »Der perfekte Schein – Der Fall Bojarski« zeigt Jean-Paul Salomé mit viel Sympathie die Geschichte eines genialen Geldfälschers.
The nation’s crisis in maternity care and newborn health is concentrated in the countryside—and federal policy is about to make that crisis significantly worse. In the months and years ahead, unless something dramatic changes, giving birth in a rural county is going to become an even more dangerous ...
Zwei Brandsätze wurden auf eine Gemeinschaftsunterkunft für geflüchtete Menschen in der Albert-Kuntz-Straße geworfen.
Der neue CDU-Fraktionschef gewinnt mit dem Wechsel ins Parlament noch mehr Macht. Vielen Christdemokraten gilt er schon lange als der »kommende Mann«.
Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter where Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy.When Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, experts warned that oil prices could hit $150 or $200 a barrel within a few weeks. The great mystery of the Iran war is why that hasn’t happened—w ...
»Sommer im Film« Teil 4: Das Kino ist mittlerweile für unsere Autorin der Klimaschutzraum
16 Prozent der Deutschen leben unterhalb der Armutsgrenze. Was bedeutet es für den Alltag der Betroffenen, derart marginalisiert zu sein?
Pedro Almodóvar blickt in seinem neuen Film »Bitteres Fest« auf das eigene Schaffen
Nach Ecuador und Costa Rica will nun auch Kolumbien die Beziehungen zu Kuba kappen. Havanna sieht dahinter eine von den USA betriebene Politik.
Die Führungsgremien großer deutscher Unternehmen sind weitgehend in Männerhand. In den Vorständen sinkt der Anteil von Frauen sogar wieder.
US-Präsident Donald Trump hat Benjamin Netanjahu und Wolodymyr Selenskyj empfangen. Derweil meldet das US-Militär iranische Angriffe.
When I saw that the commentator Max Blumenthal was going to speak in Washington, D.C., about his recent trip to Iran, I couldn’t stay away. I have long been fascinated with Americans—especially privileged, well-connected Americans—who, out of alienation from their own country, show an admiration for ...
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.President Trump has mused about being the most powerful man in history. He has started wars and remade his nation’s economic and strategic relationships with the world. He has demanded, and largely received, tot ...
Lindsey Graham always had a deep appreciation for earpieces, motorcades, and heavily secured environments. He recognized heady Washington status symbols when he saw them—including posthumous ones, such as big memorial services held in big, important rooms containing big, important entourages.These w ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.In a court filing earlier this month, a government lawyer did something radical: He laid out the truth ...
Rarely, as a romance reporter, am I confronted with breaking news. When I am, it can come in the form of a TikTok video. And in some cases, it’s a video of two people making out.This should never have been news in the first place. But on Thursday, a TikToker posted a video of a pair kissing on a ben ...
The debate about how to regulate AI is unfolding as American tech companies race one another—and labs in other countries—to create ever more powerful models. Advocates of a laissez-faire approach to this technology believe that America should avoid overly restrictive regulations, because unlocking A ...
In the opening pages of Slow Poison, a new account of authoritarianism in postcolonial Uganda, author Mahmood Mamdani evokes a nineteenth-century world of exploration and violence in Africa, centering on a long-forgotten Conradian figure. Eduard Schnitzer, a German Jewish physician, had come under t ...
Weil das UN-Flüchtlingshilfswerk Not hat, seine Kernaufgaben noch zu erfüllen, kämpft es nicht für die Modernisierung der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention
Dr Hanne Bosselaers had already seen half a dozen patients by the time the young man came in. The patient worked both as a driver and a building worker to support his family. He’d broken his wrist on his construction job. After examining him, Bosselaers told him he would never regain full mobility a ...
Whose side are you on? You have to choose—Alex or Alix—even though you don’t know what the fight is about. Even if you don’t even know who these women are.If the words “What is up, daddy gang?” mean nothing to you, a brief primer: Alex Cooper is the host of the podcast Call Her Daddy; Alix Earle is ...
Arztmobil und Stadtambulanz versorgen täglich Wohnungslose in Berlin – doch die Finanzierung der wichtigen Arbeit steht auf wackligen Beinen.
Der neue Chef der US-Notenbank Fed, Kevin Warsh, will die Inflation bekämpfen – notfalls durch höhere Leitzinsen.
Berlins Regierender Bürgermeister fordert nach dem Attentat auf den Christopher Street Day schärfere Sicherheitsgesetze.
Im mexikanischen Chiapas treffen sich Zapatisten mit ihren Unterstützern aus aller Welt: gegen Kapitalismus, Patriarchat und Umweltzerstörung.
Der 2,13-Meter-Riese verdient mit Social Media mehr als mit seinem Sport und hat nach einer längeren Pause wieder Lust und ein großes Ziel.
Der Theaterdirektor und Schauspiellehrer Ali Abu Yassin lebt im Strand-Flüchtlingslager (Al-Shati) in Gaza-Stadt. Ein Essay über die Seelenlage.
Das LKA überwachte ihn als »Gefährder«, dennoch beging Abdul Ballout den Berliner CSD-Anschlag ungehindert. Nun werden härtere Instrumente gefordert.
Barron London is an antiques and jewelry business located in Mayfair, one of the London’s wealthiest neighborhoods. At first glance its storefront seems inconspicuous — walk past in a hurry and you are unlikely to notice anything at all. But behind this unassuming facade is a private showroom contai ...
1951 wurde das bis heute bedeutendste Vertragswerk für die Rechte Geflüchteter unterzeichnet. Auch Unterzeichnerstaaten brechen es, aktuell verstärkt
Der von Ministerin Reiche geplante Direktvermarktungsbonus deckt nicht die Kosten. Das könnte fatale Folgen für den Ausbau der Erneuerbaren haben.
»Sommer im Film« Teil 3: Der Italowestern zeigte in seinen sengenden Landschaften auch die Brutalität eines überhitzten Kapitalismus.
Remember when establishment Democrats were saying with a straight face that they had been forced to adopt the grating, alienating brand of wokeness and identity politics that made them toxic to working-class voters? You should: it wasn’t even two years ago.After handing the White House to Donald Tru ...
Der US-amerikanische Spielfilm »The Invite« erzählt von einem Dinner zweier benachbarter Paare, das alle Hüllen fallen lässt
Die neue Sicherheitsallianz von US-Konzernen verfolgt vor allem eigene Geschäftsinteressen. Ein Kommentar
Die neue Sicherheitsallianz von US-Konzernen verfolgt vor allem eigene Geschäftsinteressen. Ein Kommentar.
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.When Anthony Fauci arrives on Capitol Hill tomorrow to testify before Congress, he will be trailed by a security detail he’s paying for himself. Fauci has been testifying before the nation’s elected officials fo ...
Keiko Fujimori passt perfekt in die neue Klasse der konservativen Staatschefs Lateinamerikas. Sie scheren sich wenig um demokratische Rechte.
Over the past 40 years, the emergence of digital technology led to a surge in automation, amplifying inequality even as it increased productivity. Economic growth continued, but it enriched only some groups while punishing many others. This not only precipitated a collapse of shared prosperity; it a ...
Jürgen Klopp predigt Zusammenhalt – und erklärt die Medien zum Problem. Das ist mehr als nur ein schlechter Auftakt, meint Christoph Ruf.
Reinvention can often seem like an inevitable part of getting older. The midlife crisis is practically baked into the American life cycle, at least in popular culture—a moment that can yield a new career, a new marriage, or, at the very least, a flashy new car. The 1960s radical Jerry Rubin wrote in ...
American manhood is a fragile and precarious thing, shattered by the slightest deviation from ever-shifting norms—eating the wrong taco, tasting tofu, not eating meat, or maybe eating too much meat. Or at least, that is what right-wing commentators have suggested by their attacks on the Democratic c ...
Photographs and Videos by Ana Hop“¡Mire! ” My guide, Silvestre, pointed upward, as if I wasn’t already walking with my neck craned as far back as it could go. The sky was alive with millions of fluttering shapes, congregating into clouds at random, occasionally turning into ribbons that wound throug ...
Gericht beschränkt Verteidigung der »Ulm 5« wegen winkenden Zuschauern. Anwälte und Politiker sehen autoritäre Entwicklung. Merz wiegelt in Dublin ab.
Der umstrittene »Körperwelten«-Gründer und Leichenpräparator Gunther von Hagens ist gestorben.
Nachhilfe in Linguistik: Wie Täter unsichtbar gemacht werden – auch im Fall des islamistischen Anschlags auf den Berliner CSD
Seit 75 Jahren schützt das völkerrechtliche Instrument Verfolgte weltweit. Doch die Konvention wie auch das UN-Flüchtlingshilfswerk stehen unter Druck.
Französische UN-Vertreter hatten die USA zuvor für ihr Abstimmungsverhalten bei der Wahl des UN-Menschenrechtskommissars kritisiert.
Most self-published authors can only dream of writing something as popular as Daggermouth. Set in a surveillance state ruled by a masked elite, the novel traces the unlikely romance between the president’s son and an assassin hired to kill him. Since H. M. Wolfe uploaded Daggermouth to Amazon as a K ...
Many have long chastised the Left for its supposed naivete about human nature. To these critics, the Left thinks that human beings are by nature good. Left-wingers of all stripes of course recognize that there are many evils in the world — otherwise they wouldn’t be on the Left. But, the criticism g ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Last week, the Pentagon quietly lowered the death toll of the war with Iran from 18 to 14. This wasn’t ...
Upon walking through an entrance of a mock-up model of Donald Trump’s proposed United States Triumphal Arch, a visitor could plainly see it was already falling apart. The miniature triumphal arch at the Great America State Fair, which took place June 25 through July 10, offered a sorry attempt at gr ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsIn primary elections, politicians run to win over their party faithful, which is often a different demographic than those they need to appeal to in the general election. So strategists, consultants, and party leaders spend a ...
Maximilien Lamy / AFP / GettyBeachgoers rest on the beach of Moutchic on the shore of Lake Lacanau in Lacanau, southwestern France, on July 24, 2026, as clouds of smoke rise into the sky from the Gironde wildfire.Ana Beltran / ReutersA tree burns during the La Mierla wildfire in Albendiego, Guadalaj ...
Carl Zeiss Jena und der BFC Dynamo vergeigen den Start in die neue Saison – und der Fan-Protest gegen den DFB geht in die nächste Runde.
Viele Ukrainer verstecken sich vor der Mobilisierung, teilweise seit Jahren. Ein Betroffener berichtet, wie es ihm gelingt, sich der Front zu entziehen.
Nach dem Anschlag auf den CSD trauert die queere Community. Ben Miller, Vorstand beim Schwulen Museum, warnt im nd-Interview vor der Instrumentalisierung.
In the year since Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law, millions of Americans have already lost their health insurance as a result of that bill and other Republican policies. According to a recent report from health care advocacy group Protect Our Care, the number of enrollees ...
The US is currently experiencing its largest ever recorded outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a disease caused by infection with the cyclospora parasite. The disease is typically acquired via fecal-contaminated food or drink, and can cause explosive diarrhea and severe, lingering stomach cramps. Those who ...
Mit dem Aus von Patrick Schnieder schmälert der Kanzler weiter seinen Rückhalt in der CDU. Bald werden keine Verbündeten zum Brüskieren übrig sein.
Thyssenkrupp weitet das U-Boot-Geschäft auf Kanada und Indien aus, auch Israel erhält neue Modelle. Deshalb wird im Herbst erstmals Netanjahu verhört.
Indiens Bildungsminister ist nach wochenlangen Protesten, die durch Polizeigewalt eskalierten, zurückgetreten. Die Regierung macht Zugeständnisse.
Es ist es höchste Zeit für einen bürgerlichen Antifaschismus. Weshalb der gar nicht so richtig existiert, erklärt unser Kolumnist.
Weil Pirlo für seine vielfältigen russischen Verbindungen keine Verantwortung übernimmt, zieht der italienische Fußballverband die Konsequenz.
Mit Franziska Hoppermann als Generalsekretärin geht der Personalumbau weiter. Der Streit über den Umgang mit Patrick Schnieder belastet die CDU stark
Der Berliner boxte sich 1956 zu Olympiagold, später erfreute er die »nd«-Leser mit seinen Sportfotografien. Ein Porträt der Sport-Legende.
Die Hilfsorganisation Oxfam fordert gerechte Steuern auf Gewinne, um Kosten für die Klimaanpassung im Globalen Süden zu finanzieren.
El Mahdi Lyoubi, aka Mehdi Black Wind, the Moroccan filmmaker and rapper, is currently being held in pretrial detention in Casablanca’s Oukacha prison, charged with defaming the king. His arrest has provoked international outrage, with multiple open letters signed by artists, filmmakers, and rappers ...
Großes Kino: Zum 150. Jubiläum steht erstmals »Rienzi« auf dem Spielplan der Bayreuther Festspiele. Eindrücke von der Live-Übertragung der Premiere
“A war. A man. A trick. A trick to break the walls of Troy. And burn it—screaming—to the ground.” Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opens in the great hall of Ithaca, with a bard singing a hymn about the cunning of Odysseus, the hero of the tale, to the men who have overrun his house—courting his wife ...
Der Folterskandal in einer ukrainischen Armeeeinheit wirft ein schlechtes Licht auf den Umgang mit Mobilisierten. Dabei ist dies kein Einzelfall.
Der Massentourismus muss begrenzt werden. Diese Einsicht hat sich längst herumgesprochen. Bisher greifen die Maßnahmen zu wenig. Ein Kommentar.
Der Anschlag auf den Berliner CSD trifft eine Community, die sowieso mit Angriffen, Hetze und Sparpolitik kämpft. Ein Kommentar
Die Bielefelder SPD-Basis kritisiert in einem Brief die Parteivorsitzenden. Sie hätten ihre Mahnung genauso gut an den Weihnachtsmann richten können.
Studie weist Zusammenhang für Landtagswahlen nach. Verhilft das Berliner Attentat der Partei in Sachsen-Anhalt zur absoluten Mehrheit?
Am Freitag spielte die New Yorker Metal-Band Liturgy in Berlin: Eine Mischung aus martialischem Auf-die-Rübe-Hauen und Gitarrenklängen
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.In Europe in the 1700s, coffeehouses were sources of coffee, but also conversation. As the MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle points out in her 2016 book, Reclaiming Conversation, many people went to coffeehouses sp ...
This summer, the Texas State Board of Education approved a new required-reading list for public schools, mandating what the state’s 5.4 million students will read in every grade from kindergarten to 12th. If you were a student in the past 20 years, or raised one, you’ll recognize most of the titles: ...
In 1982, Benjamin Netanyahu was the marketing director of a Jerusalem-based furniture maker when Israel’s ambassador in Washington decided that the 32-year-old had been pitching the wrong product. Instead of selling cupboards to Israelis, he should have been selling Israel to Americans. The ambassad ...
IG Metall und Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung luden zur vierten »Gewerkschaftskonferenz für den Frieden«. Die Bewegung setzt wieder auf einen heißen Herbst.
Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket CastsBack in the ’90s, before everyone had a smartphone, were things just … better? Tech-focused nostalgia has become a potent cultural force in recent years, driving sales of “dumbphones,” iPods, CDs, and other retro technology. ...
Read more about the Democrats who might run for president in 2028 here.Updated at 6:53 a.m. ET on July 28, 2026Governor Wes Moore doesn’t care about saving the Democratic Party; if anything, he thinks it has stood in his way. When we met up in May, he quoted Jay-Z: “Industry shady, it need to be tak ...
Energieexpertin Veronica Robert über Kubas aktuelle Stromprobleme und wie diese am besten zu lösen wären
Die AfD plant in NRW den Kauf einer eigenen Halle für Parteiveranstaltungen, weil viele nicht an die AfD vermieten wollen.
Bei der Nominierung eines rechten Präsidentschaftskandidaten beschimpft der argentinische Präsident Brasiliens Staatschef unter anderem als »Dieb«.
Der nach dem Angriff auf den Berliner CSD bei einem Polizeieinsatz getötete Abdul B. war den Behörden bekannt. Nun gibt es Kritik an der Justiz.
Der Slowene ist bei der Frankreich-Rundfahrt im elitären Kreis der Fünffachsieger angekommen. Zudem kümmert er sich als Beschützer um die Nachfolger.
Am Rande des CSD in Berlin fährt ein Fahrzeug in die Menge. Eine Frau stirbt, 29 Menschen werden verletzt, nach dem mutmaßlichen Täter wird gefahndet.
The Canadian government scuttled plans to display hundreds of names on Ottawa’s controversial “victims of communism” monument, after officials concluded that individuals listed for commemoration, in the bloodless vernacular of bureaucratese, did not “align with Canadian values.”“After a thorough rev ...
In the spring of 2022, a group of Chicago Starbucks workers and organizers sat together after filing their union election paperwork, radiating pride and anxiety. When the logistical talk had wound down and everyone had fallen silent, one worker noted that “this is the first time I’ve felt purpose in ...
Toward the end of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus and Penelope finally see each other after 20 years apart. Odysseus, disguised as “an ancient old man” by the goddess Athena, tells Penelope that her husband will return to kill the suitors who have tormented her. “Not one will avoid his death and destructi ...
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Americans have two stereotypes of Britain. The first is the cozy, parochial world portrayed in my country’s biggest cultural exports—the “soggy bottoms” of The Great British Baking Show, the boarding-school back ...
The student protests in India trace their origins to a satirical social media page called the “Cockroach Janta Party” (CJP). Activist Abhijeet Dipke created the page in response to a disparaging remark from the chief justice of India, who likened youth activists to “cockroaches” for questioning the ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Travel has a way of making us curious. We wander unfamiliar streets, strike up conversations with stran ...
Photographs by Klaus GalianoIt was probably inevitable that the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, would become a battleground in the broader fight over President Trump’s mass-deportation campaign. The privately run jail reopened last year as the only sizable facility o ...
Entsetzte Reaktionen auf den Angriff gegen den Berliner CSD – und Aufrufe zum Zusammenhalt.
Hunderttausende feierten friedlich – dann nahm der CSD in Berlin ein jähes Ende. Eine Frau stirbt, es gibt viele Verletzte. Was bisher bekannt ist.
Suavity is a sorely missed ingredient in the American presidency. The effortless charm of a Roosevelt or a Reagan, a Bush or a Clinton, projected a particular brand of power. Suave means a kind of athletic ease and self-command in difficult, spotlighted circumstances, the assurance that solutions ar ...
Zweimal mussten die Fahrer zum Finale der Frankreich-Rundfahrt hoch in den Alpenort – großer Triumphator war dabei der Mann im Gelben Trikot.
Zweimal mussten die Fahrer zum Finale der Frankreich-Rundfahrt hoch nach Alpe d’Huez – großer Triumphator war natürlich der Mann im Gelben Trikot.
Zweimal mussten die Fahrer vor dem Finale der Frankreich-Rundfahrt hoch nach Alpe d’Huez – der große Triumphator war natürlich Tadej Pogačar
In a video released earlier this week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sits behind his desk and looks directly at the camera. He starts with a stark declaration: “Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people.”As he goes on, he soberly d ...
Should I lead off with how much I hate Christopher Nolan movies in general, or how much I hate Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in particular?I’m so aware of my hatred for Christopher Nolan movies in general that I tried sincerely to suspend that hatred in order to watch The Odyssey. Partly because t ...
Ein Gericht in Atlanta verhandelt den Fall von Sam Tunick, der sein Handy bei einer Kontrolle unbemerkt gelöscht hat. Eine Beweismittelvernichtung?
Am Berliner Kaiserdamm werden an zahlreichen geparkten Autos manipulierte Reifen entdeckt. An den Fahrzeugen finden sich Schreiben mit Kritik an SUVs.
Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. President Trump weighs escalation of the w ...
Der Vorsitzende der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung dazu, warum Sozialkürzungen Rechtsradikale stärken und wie Gewerkschaften und Bündnisse gegensteuern können.
Teil 2 unserer Sommer-Reihe »Sommer im Film«: Warum »American Graffiti« (1973) von George Lucas der ehrlichste Film über den Sommer ist.
On the night of July 20, thousands of young protesters from across India slept on footpaths near the Jantar Mantar protest site in New Delhi ahead of a planned march on Parliament. The march, dubbed “Chalo Sansad,” was organized by the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). The protest movement bega ...
Netanjahu und westliche Partner werden die Amtsenthebung des IStGH-Chefanklägers weiter zur Delegitimierung des Völkerrechts nutzen, weiß Julian Daum.
Während die gesamte Region wieder in einem Kreislauf der Gewalt gefangen ist, formiert sich ein neues Verteidigungsbündnis mit Pakistan im Zentrum.
Verfassungsschutz sieht Verbindungen von »Active Clubs« zu rechtsextremen Parteien. Die neue Jungmänner-Szene breitet sich offenbar bundesweit aus.
In Spanien sind in diesem Sommer schon 133 000 Hektar Land abgebrannt, fünfmal so viel wie im Vorjahr. Regional wurde der Notstand ausgerufen.
The only thing anyone can reliably tell you about middle age is that it’s in the middle of life. What’s the middle? Well, it’s after the beginning, and before the end.Okay, we can do a little better than that: Middle age comes after young adulthood, and before what we used to call “old age” but now ...
Anger stirred in Italy this past week after forty-two-year-old Abderrahim Fakir was killed while under police restraint during a routine check in Bologna. On Sunday, Fakir’s neighbors had called emergency number 118 after hearing screams, and police arrived first on the scene. Video footage shows tw ...
In Bologna starb ein Marokkaner, als zwei Polizisten ihn zu Boden drückten und fesselten. Bei der Obduktion wurde Blut in seiner Lunge festgestellt.
Die Flammen in der südwestlichen Region rund um Bordeaux treiben eine der bislang größten Evakuierungsaktionen des Landes an
Ex-Chefjurist des Bundespräsidialamts rügt geplante Amtsübernahme durch Minister, ohne dass diese vereidigt wurden. Eine Sondersitzung könne abhelfen.
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.Over the past two decades, Matt Seaton discovered something about himself: He loves building walls. S ...
In nur drei Wochen gingen bei der Linkspartei über 3000 Einzelspenden ein. Andere machten sich laut Parteichef Pantisano gegen Konzerngeld käuflich.
In 2010, the National Park Service installed an outdoor exhibit at the President’s House Site near Independence Hall in Philadelphia, which told the stories not just of George Washington but also of those he’d enslaved. One was Ona Judge, who escaped and evaded Washington’s yearslong effort to recap ...
Flüchtlingsräte protestieren gegen Kooperation mit einst als »terroristisch« eingestufter Vereinigung der Taliban. Dazu urteilte nun auch Karlsruhe.
If President Trump has one true skill, it is conjuring up alternate realities and getting his supporters to accept them. The examples are everywhere: dismissing stories he doesn’t like as “fake news” from corrupt media, casting the January 6 rioters as victims, election denial. After he baselessly i ...
Back in June, at the closing press conference for the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, Donald Trump explained why he had called a halt to hostilities with Iran. Continued bombing would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and as long as the war went on, commercial ships would stay away while emergency oil ...
Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office, more than a year ago, I’ve been trying to understand the MAHA movement from the inside. I’ve sat in on MAHA Institute roundtables, roamed the conference halls of anti-vaccine gatherings, and talked with grassroots supporters across the country. They tell me t ...
Eine Erklärung der Berliner IG-Metall zur Munitionsfabrik des Rüstungskonzerns Rheinmetall in Berlin-Wedding sorgt für Diskussionen und Kritik.
Die Integrationsbeauftrage des Berliner Bezirks Neukölln sorgt mit steilen Thesen zu Islamismus in Deutschland immer wieder für Aufsehen.
Bei einer Übung über der Mulde bei Grimma verunglückte die Crew eines Bundeswehr-Helikopters tödlich. Ein Stahlseil war die Ursache.
Die Bayreuther Festspiele feiern Jubiläum. Derweil hat Anno Mungen mit seinem Buch »Von Bayreuth nach Auschwitz« den Finger tief in die Wunde gelegt.
In Leipzig ist kürzlich Deutschlands größte Solarthermieanlage in Betrieb gegangen. Die Fläche entspricht ungefähr 20 Fußballfeldern.
Karim Khan muss nach Missbrauchsvorwürfen seinen Posten räumen. Der Druck auf die Institution dürfte dennoch nicht weniger werden.
Chefankläger Khan muss seinen Posten räumen. Der Druck auf die Institution dürfte dennoch nicht weniger werden.
Incensed by the Smithsonian but lacking immediate power to do anything about it, Donald Trump has resorted to trolling the world’s largest museum complex from the sidewalk. In an executive order posted this afternoon, the president directed the Department of the Interior to place signs outside the N ...
Faithless, chaotic, and corrupt: Donald Trump's character also shapes his foreign policy. The latest victim is Saudi Arabia—not a sympathetic victim, maybe, but a victim all the same.On July 22, United States Energy Secretary Chris Wright and his Saudi counterpart signed an agreement for a Saudi-U.S ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Everyone should be as lucky in their adversaries as Jon Ossoff. On Wednesday, President Trump held a ra ...
“No plan survives first contact with the enemy” is a military dictum usually credited to Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, and more recently to the boxer Mike Tyson in the form “Everyone has a plan until he gets punched in the mouth.” The United States, in its war with Iran, is an unusual ...
Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry.Amid tech companies’ ongoing efforts to vacuum up as much data as possible to train AI models, Meta has taken public posts from its own platforms, scraped massive amounts of content ...
This article contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.In a different time, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey would have been celebrated by the American right as a conservative film. Nolan’s interpretation of Homer’s epic poem is about the unintended consequences of breaking with tradition ...
A central piece of the twentieth-century labor-capital compromise is disappearing in Ontario, as the government moves forward with omnibus legislation that will transform the province’s workers’ compensation system.If Ontario’s Bill 105 becomes law later this year, it will herald the most significan ...
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Last week, I woke up in Washington, D.C., to a simmering, suffocating haze. The thermometer reached triple digits, and so did the air-quality index, which my phone told me meant “very unheal ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket CastsElectronics are getting more expensive—and the culprit has a lot to do with generative AI. Amid all the talk of AI taking over people’s jobs, automating people’s workflows, and doing people’s homework, we’re learning that actually scal ...
Über die zweifelhafte Aussagekraft von Meinungsumfragen zur Abgeordnetenhauswahl.
Nothing captures the decline of Tesla better than the Cybertruck. When the stainless-steel pickup hit the road in 2023, Tesla was the world’s biggest electric-car company. At the time, Elon Musk predicted that he’d eventually sell 250,000 Cybertrucks a year. In the first half of 2026, according to o ...
Wenn Politiker über ihre Aktienportfolios Auskunft erteilen müssten, könnten Debatten um Aufrüstung und »Sozialreformen« ehrlicher geführt werden. Ein Kommentar.
Berliner Geflüchteten-Aktivist*innen haben Menschen in Gemeinschaftsunterkünften in 17 Städten besucht. Ihr Ziel: Vernetzung gegen Repression
Die psychologische Versorgung in Frauenknästen endet im schlimmsten Fall in der Isolationshaft. Diese Praxis gehört endlich abgeschafft.
BPC-157 is rumored to heal almost anything: a sore shoulder, a bum knee, a pulled hamstring, ulcerative colitis. Maybe even traumatic brain injuries and multiple sclerosis, too. The drug—part of a class called peptides—has been around for decades. But it has recently experienced a surge in popularit ...
Mit seiner Wunschlösung findet der Verband den richtigen Bundestrainer, will sich aber an sportpolitischer Stelle seiner Verantwortung entziehen.
Die neuen US-Zölle gegen 60 Länder sollen die Staatseinnahmen erhöhen und mithelfen, den Dollarkurs zu drücken. Ein Kommentar.
The politics of artificial intelligence are entering a new phase. In the United States and beyond, communities are protesting data centers that are projected to triple water and electricity consumption by 2030, drive up utility costs, and harm the environment. Artists, journalists, and writers are s ...
Im Berliner Haus der Kulturen der Welt waren Édouard Louis, Didier Eribon und Eva von Redecker zu Gast, um über »Queer und Klasse« zu sprechen
Der Europaabgeordnete Thomas Geisel hat seine Partei nach zweieinhalb Jahren schon wieder verlassen.
Landeswahlausschuss lässt zwölf Landeslisten für die Abgeordnetenhauswahl am 20. September zu
Der Bundeskanzler macht die Gesundheitsministerin zur Kanzleramtschefin und den CDU-Generalsekretär zu ihrem Nachfolger. Weitere Umbesetzungen sind geplant.
Until 1991, it was impossible to be on the Left and not have an opinion about the Soviet Union. Moscow was, remarks Mark Smith in his new history of the post–Joseph Stalin Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the center of half the world. That world’s fate seemed to hang on the changing relat ...
Bei der Gleichstellung ist Zypern im Europäischen Gleichstellungsindex 2025 das Schlusslicht. Traditionelle Rollen sind ein anhaltendes Problem.
Bei Frankreichs Ordnungskräften werden »schwarze Schafe« zu selten identifiziert, weil die Strukturen bei der Vertuschung helfen. Das soll sich ändern
Stefan Rousseau / PA Images / ReutersMembers of the press photograph a dead mouse caught by Larry the cat, Chief Mouser to the U.K. Cabinet Office, during incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first cabinet meeting at Number 10 Downing Street, in London, on July 21, 2026.Stringer / ReutersA woman s ...
Die Nationalversammlung genehmigt die Wiedereinführung von Pestiziden und erleichtert den Bau von Bewässerungsanlagen.
The American right has spent much of the last week melting down about the Democratic Socialists of America’s “Workers Deserve More” platform. Many of the elements of the platform have predictably provoked the Right’s ire. The document, for example, calls for bringing the largest corporations under p ...
The air is bad this summer. Really, it’s historically disgusting. Smoke from wildfires has gusted over people’s homes, spreading haze and yellowing the sky. Last week, four midwestern cities—Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Toledo—reached the highest levels of particulate pollution they’ve recorded ...
Weil der Schlaf für Radprofis heilig ist, sieht CPA-Präsident Adam Hansen die nächtlichen Kontrollen bei der Tour kritisch – und hat kluge Vorschläge.
Eine Dokumentation mit Dunja Hayali enthüllt den Bankrott der Deutschen Bahn und liefert Einsichten in den Zustand dieses Landes.
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.A little more than 20 years ago, Esther Perel was not yet an author or a podcast host. She was definitely not a household name. She was simply a psychotherapist with an observation: Many of her clients were in l ...
Der Wirtschaftsliberale Carsten Linnemann soll Reformen in einem Kernbereich der Sozialpolitik verantworten. Ein Kommentar.
Perhaps every generation believes that it is unsuited to its own era. As an elder Millennial, I can’t help but see how perfectly primed my cohort was for feelings of inadequacy and distress. Raised on the standard American diet of promise and progress, many in my micro-generation arrived in high sch ...
Americans have been hearing about the looming demise of Social Security for decades. The number of old people receiving benefits has been increasing much more quickly than the number of working-age adults whose taxes pay for those checks. Yet politicians have let the problem fester for so long that ...
Der Berliner Bezirk Reinickendorf erinnert in der Emmentaler Straße 97 an die 1994 dort von vier Neonazis ermordete Beate Fischer
Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.The world’s most popular podcaster, Joe Rogan, reached out privately in April to the world’s most powerful man, Donald Trump, to discuss the healing power of ibogaine, a psychedelic made from the root b ...
Eine Erhebung zur Versorgung psychisch belasteter Frauen im Strafvollzug zeigt: Eine adäquate Versorgung sieht anders aus.
Drone warfare took a while to catch on in Ukraine. Like any revolution, it required a struggle. The opposition came mostly from the older generals trained to fight using artillery and tanks. Early in the war with Russia, many of them saw drones as toys, better suited to taking aerial photos of weddi ...
The governor of Baja California is a 40-year-old attorney and former big-city mayor named Marina del Pilar. Her state, which includes the megacity of Tijuana, is a magnet for American tourists, and also for narcotics cartels. As a politician of some experience, she is presumably unfazed by the sorts ...
Die CSU feiert mit dem Bayerischen Uniformtag lieber Obrigkeitshörigkeit, anstatt echte Helden des Alltags materiell zu entlasten. Ein Kommentar.
Mit der bisherigen Gesundheitsministerin Nina Warken soll erstmals eine Frau das Kanzleramt führen
Mark Ellmann über den Zusammenhang zwischen steigenden Militärausgaben und leeren Kassen. Er wird auf der Gewerkschaftskonferenz für Frieden sprechen.
Trump setzt den Iran mit neuen Angriffen und finanziellen Forderungen unter Druck. Schäden an Schiffen sollen mit iranischem Geld bezahlt werden.
Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.What kind of negotiator gives the other side everything that it wants with the hope of eventually getting something in return?It’s a question that even some of President Trump’s own allies are asking af ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.When Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina in September 2024, it left behind it a trail of death ...
The sooner we acknowledge that the United States has lost the war with Iran and stop fighting, the better. Because we now have a lot of work to do.On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was pressed to explain before the Senate what the United States had accomplished in its war with Iran. Sputter ...
Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.In the summer of 2021, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, were cruising the Mediterranean by yacht when they stopped for a swim off the Adriatic coast. They splashed over to an island and hike ...
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.One of the most gruesome murders in 19th-century America happened in a New York City office, just across the street from city hall. In 1841, Samuel Adams, a printer of no ...
The centrist meltdown continues.Various voices hostile to the Left have been having a distinctly undignified freak-out in the wake of a series of Democratic primary wins by socialists, charging that it would lead to the thing they themselves had already done twice: empower Donald Trump. The latest o ...
After fifteen years cleaning rooms at the Fairfield by Marriott in Times Square, Ramona Garcia told the crowd, she earned just $22 an hour. Every week, she paid about $100 for health insurance. She had no pension. After finishing her shift at the hotel, she cleaned private homes to make ends meet.“W ...
Christopher Nolan shouldn’t have many personal box-office records left to break. He’s had a long career involving a slew of hits, critical and commercial, including Oscar wins, a viral theatergoing campaign, and a wildly successful Batman trilogy. But leveling up is exactly what he did with The Odys ...
Konzerntochter Nitrochemie investiert Hunderte Millionen Euro in den Ausbau ihres Pulverwerks in Bayern. Davon soll auch die Ukraine profitieren
Lettland militarisiert die Grenze zu Belarus. Am Dienstag setzten Truppen dort Tränengas ein. EU-Nachbarn kommen zu Hilfe und nehmen Migranten fest
Mit einem neuen Abkommen will das US-Militär Kampfdrohnen der Ukraine daheim erproben. Geplant ist auch der tausendfache Nachbau eines Drohnenbootes
Mark Mazower has written a stunner of a book: informed, questioning, probing, thought-provoking, and highly readable. On Antisemitism tackles one of the most fraught political questions of our time, informed by Mazower’s background as a leading historian of modern Europe.Words shift and change their ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsOver the past 18 months, scholars have debated—and likely will continue to long into the future—why voters returned Donald Trump to the presidency. One intriguing theory: It’s because Americans don’t read books anymore. Fewe ...
Beneath the water, the African landmass spears north, pushing into the Eurasian plate where Sicily meets the Italian mainland.Atop the bedrock, the African plate’s undersea Pelagian platform raises islands into the central Mediterranean. Over the ages, prehistoric marine life sank into porous rock b ...
Die Absage des ZDF an Danger Dan und Igor Levit ist eine autoritäre wie reaktionäre Abgrenzung gegen selbstorganisierten Antifaschismus, meint unser Kolumnist.
Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey are two of music’s great masters of emotional excess, and it’s long seemed fitting that they’ve shared one of Billboard’s highest achievements: the longest-running Hot 100 No. 1 for a solo woman. That record was set over 14 weeks by Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” ...
If you’re looking for a reason to despair over the state of American education, there are many places you could start. You could, for example, worry about the all-consuming phones—or the gambling and TikTok addictions that come with them. You could worry about the free fall in literacy, the decline ...
Photographs by Desiree RiosThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.“I bet you’re extremely happy,” Jay Young texted me. “So you and the slimy media going to fawn over his side and forget about my dad’s family and friends now?”It was March 10, 2021, an ...
The nation’s most scrutinized museum director showed up to Congress this week acutely aware of her audience. Anthea Hartig, the head of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, referred to the institution as “your” museum. She emphatically affirmed her love of this country. She even ci ...
If you’re confused about whether you can eat the shredded lettuce on your Doritos Locos tacos again, you’re not alone. I cover food safety for a living—and I love Taco Bell—and I’m not sure when I’ll be comfortable living más.At the end of last week, the worst concerns about the ongoing cyclosporias ...
Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.For nearly five months, Donald Trump and his Cabinet have been misleading the American people about the war in Iran. When the president makes statements about the war, they are full of wishful thinking, ...
Yesterday, OpenAI made an alarming disclosure: An assortment of its most advanced AI models, including one that has not yet been released, had autonomously broken out of the company’s internal systems and hacked into the databases of another tech firm, Hugging Face, to steal some information. OpenAI ...
Who are the rulers of modern capitalism? Cecilia Rikap’s answer couldn’t be clearer or more precise: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are the rulers.In her book The Rulers, an exhaustive and highly original examination of how just three companies dominate “global knowledge production,” Rikap finds that ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts questioning whether the Trump administration has any plan at all to meet the challenge of debt and deficits.Then, David is joined by Vincent Smith, direc ...
At the beginning of the 21st century, one book mapped, with uncanny accuracy, where American literature was headed. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by an upstart writer named Dave Eggers, was powered by a voice that was at once self-deprecating and self-aggrandizing. It was ostensibly a m ...
Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.When audiences first met Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in 1986’s Top Gun, he was a lieutenant at the Navy’s elite school for fighter pilots. The movie doesn’t give his age, but that would probably have put M ...
Today The Atlantic is announcing the first speakers, film screenings, podcast tapings, and book talks for the 18th annual Atlantic Festival, taking place September 17–19 in New York City. The festival will for the second year be anchored at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in downtown Manhattan a ...
For more than a decade now, a coalition of unions, workers, and left-wing activists has, through the Fight for 15 movement, focused on winning a higher minimum wage for workers, today increasingly centered on the demand of earning $17 an hour. There’s been less attention paid to whether those worker ...
Unsere Kolumnistin beschreibt den Klassenkampf der Bosse in der Autoindustrie. Dagegen mobil zu machen sei auch branchenübergreifend wichtig.
Bernie Sanders wants to nationalize AI. In “The Case for Nationalizing Artificial Intelligence,” Dustin Guastella makes the case for Sanders’s proposal: the big AI labs should be half-nationalized, transferring 50 percent of their stock into a public fund. In a picture illustrating the article, Bern ...
Die Taberna Ramón in Santa Cruz de Tenerife überzeugt mit Tapas, Fisch, Fleisch, fairen Preisen und authentischer Atmosphäre.
In the early hours of September 8, 2025, in Ulm, Germany, five activists gained access to a branch of a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest private defense contractor. They damaged office equipment while filming themselves. According to their own statements, they wanted to protest Germany’ ...
Im Westen Irlands liegt das raue Connemara, Heimat der berühmten gleichnamigen Ponys, die zwischen Bergen, Moor und Meer ganz in ihrem Element sind.
The Republican Party and its allied media organs have been blasting out messaging highlighting the radical views of the Democratic Socialists of America, whose views conservatives wish to associate with the Democratic Party. The particular extreme DSA stance they have chosen to highlight over the pa ...
Photographs by Cassandra KlosKathie Purdy doesn’t mind the phone calls. And there have been a lot of them—producing a sustained buzzing from her iPhone throughout the nearly two weeks since Graham Platner announced that he would drop out of the Maine Senate race. At one point, Purdy’s device grew so ...
The Trump administration is back at war. It just doesn’t want to admit it.In the 11 days since the United States resumed its air strikes against Iran, neither President Trump nor any other senior administration official has publicly addressed the campaign. U.S. forces began by striking Iranian milit ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Updated 10:22 a.m. ET on July 22, 2026When J. D. Vance announced the title of his new book, some bookwo ...
Every Iraqi prime minister since the fall of Saddam Hussein has inherited the same impossible job: Convince Washington that Iraq is not slipping entirely into Iran’s orbit while convincing Tehran that it is not becoming an American outpost.Iraq’s new prime minister now faces that challenge under the ...
If the labor movement is to maintain and raise standards, then we must organize Amazon — one of the largest employers and most powerful corporations in the United States today.Already thousands of Amazon workers have engaged in organizing campaigns in dozens of delivery stations, fulfillment centers ...
Anthropic has poached such an array of high-profile professors that it has become a punch line in academia. “‘I’m joining Anthropic’ is the new meme right now,” Subbarao Kambhampati, a computer-science professor at Arizona State University (who has not joined Anthropic), told us. This month, the AI ...
The American discourse on “class” is a mess. It seems like everybody has their own private meaning of the word, and not just at the boundaries of the term but also regarding many core aspects of it. In debates about how to sort contested individuals into one class or another, the normal mode of enga ...
Despite acknowledging he thinks about Americans’ financial situations “not even a little bit,” President Donald Trump has made a show of addressing the cost of living through a variety of initiatives. These have included, among other things, establishing TrumpRx.gov to sell generic drugs, occasional ...
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) recently adopted a new platform entitled “Workers Deserve More.” Normally, the only people who notice the platforms adopted by socialist organizations are their own members and members of rival socialist organizations. But not this time.The Speaker of the H ...
The “chudosphere” has had a very busy last few days. Ever tasked by Our Lord with his heaviest burdens, one depraved event has inspired every last one of them to rise up in the heroic battle of complaining on X. The blasphemy I speak of is, of course, Academy Award nominee Elliot Page’s approximatel ...
Updated at 10:53 a.m. ET on July 22, 2026This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Three times in recent months, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has absolved military aviators caught on camera busting flight regulations. The message to pilots is clear ...
At about this time last year, the Roberts Court seemed like an arm of the Trump administration. On its so-called shadow docket—where it considers emergency applications without a full briefing or a hearing—the Supreme Court gave the White House victory after early victory. Over the past year, howeve ...
Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.The most important policy decision made by Markwayne Mullin in his short tenure atop the Department of Homeland Security stood for barely a day. ICE officers had just killed two people: a Mexican construction worker with three American sons in ...
I took the train to Genoa for the protest against the G8 summit on the evening of July 20, 2001. I had long planned to attend Saturday’s demonstration; then came the news that in Piazza Alimonda, a police officer had shot and killed a twenty-three-year-old, Carlo Giuliani. At that point, going was n ...
The American stock market is booming, thanks to artificial intelligence. Tech giants are borrowing billions to acquire AI talent, purchase chips and hardware, and construct data centers. And market watchers are starting to get worried. They see financiers bulldozing giant piles of money to private A ...
Donald Trump is the most protectionist president America has seen in more than a century. So it’s odd that a consequence of his war on Iran has been the waiving of one of the most protectionist pieces of legislation on the books: the Jones Act. Passed in 1920, the Jones Act requires that all shipmen ...
Physical credit cards should be a thing of the past. Over the past few years, touchless services such as Apple Pay have driven a boom in the digital-payment industry: Digital wallets now account for about half of global online purchases and one-third of point-of-sale payments. You would think that c ...
Even after a string of recent victories in congressional primaries by members of the Democratic Socialists of America, national Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party. The DSA’s ascent comes on the heels of a yearslong effort by ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.You could, if you were so inclined, tell a story of the Donald Trump era via memes. Pepe the Frog, “Thi ...
Jacob Riis beach is a space beloved by many in New York City. The “People’s Beach” was notably named after the famed Progressive Era journalist and photographer Jacob Riis, author of How the Other Half Lives. Born in Denmark, the eventual Queens resident spent a lifetime documenting working people’s ...
There are worse things you could do than drive to a Parisian airport and mess around with a temperature sensor on the airfield—for only a few minutes! But why do that at all?To make money, maybe. This is the scheme that some mysterious person (or persons) reportedly carried out in April to win a bet ...
NASAViking 1’s meteorology instrument stands aloft, on an extended boom, seen against the rocky and sandy surface of Mars on Sol 730. Small trenches visible in the foreground are left over from soil samples gathered by Viking 1’s surface sampler.Lowell Georgia / Corbis / GettyClarence E. Bunnell set ...
C. L. R. James wrote that, in the West Indies, test cricket players were “not a personage remote, to be read about in papers and worshiped from afar. They were all over the place, ready to play in any match, ready to talk.” This was true of even the best cricket player to ever live, Sir Garfield Sob ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsFriday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was asked at a press conference about his previous comments of “turning down the temperature.” This was a reasonable question given that two men, one in Texa ...
On The Joe Rogan Experience Wednesday, Rogan and J. D. Vance got reflective about socialism, a phenomenon that has been particularly troubling Donald Trump and his allies, especially after a string of electoral victories by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) last month.Vance agreed with Roga ...
I am no expert in US politics, but seeing flags on front lawns through the windows of a coach from Chicago to Urbana-Champaign in fall 2022 prompted my first inkling that Donald Trump winning a second term was a distinct possibility. Closer to home in England, a night out this spring in the impoveri ...
A World Cup on North American soil ended with the most thoroughly imported, overseas-style final match possible. The foreign tourists who tried to smuggle ranch dressing through TSA; the Norwegians who scarfed down Texas brisket while doing the Viking row at Dallas barbecue joints; the garish, out-o ...
Is there any subject that fiction cannot address? From its beginnings as a form, the novel has dealt with love and hate, war and peace, courage and cowardice, boredom and catastrophe. Yet there is far more in heaven and earth than any human can convey. In the view of the writer Amitav Ghosh, one sub ...
Photographs by Philip CheungRead more about the Democrats who might run for president in 2028 here.“My wife, Gabby, was shot in the head.”Obviously, I knew this. Senator Mark Kelly’s wife, the former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, was shot in the head and grievously wounded in a mass shooting outside ...
At New York’s first “Rental Ripoff” hearing this year, tenants packed a high-school gym in Brooklyn to share horror stories.“We’ve had our neighbors trapped in elevators. We’ve had people slip and fall. We’ve had windows fall on people. We’ve had the ceiling collapse on people,” Angela Landress, a r ...
Not long ago, autism was considered rare, but now it’s fairly common: Autism diagnoses in children have increased nearly fivefold across the United States in the past couple of decades, from one in every 150 8-year-olds in 2000 to one in every 31 in 2022. Adult diagnoses have also gone up rapidly in ...
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.J. D. Vance’s new book, Communion, answers a question no one had thought to ask: What would Augustine’s Confessions have looked like if the saint’s greatest literary influence had been Hillary Clinton’s immortal ...
What genre are we living in, living through, today? Epic? No chance. Farce? Sometimes. Porno-pastoral? Holistic satire? Digital picaresque? All of these, sure, but only in spasms. No, the big one, the all-encompassing super-genre of where we are right now (did you read/watch/inhale the news this mor ...
Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.Pete Hegseth wants us to watch him sweat. Videos of the secretary of defense in a T-shirt and shorts working out alongside military personnel have become a trademark of his tenure. He has been filmed running on Omaha Beach, swinging a kettlebel ...
Photographs by Carolyn Van HoutenThe summer after the country celebrated its 200th birthday, David Hearn paddled a canoe nicknamed the Queen Mary around the Reflecting Pool as part of an event intended to draw attention to a sport that would later lead him to Olympic glory. Nearly half a century lat ...
Building a new monument in Washington, D.C., is supposed to take time—a slow procedural grind of plans drafted, designs revised, studies conducted, and preservationists, historians, tribes, and architects consulted all before work crews ever break ground. The idea is to preserve the carefully choreo ...
Argan, shea butter, & castor. A thousand ways to soften, mist & moisture, but nothing to supple knees: crease immune to chemical peel & heel mask, instrument of pray & beg. I cough up aerosol in wet white clouds, bleach them into beauty slick as slobbered bone. The Greeks thought nym ...
The Kurd has nothing but the windTo dwell in him and he in itTo get addicted to himAnd he gets addicted to itTo be saved from the adjectives of the landAnd of the thingsThe wind is the testamentOf one Kurd to another Kurd in exile.— Mahmoud DarwishWhen the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote thi ...
“When one commodity replaces another, the money commodity always sticks to the hands of some third person,” wrote Karl Marx in Capital, referring to the sheer effort involved. “Circulation sweats money from every pore.” Today, in a moment of rising inflation, job losses, economic uncertainty, and an ...
As centrist Democrats sharpen their knives to counter surging democratic socialists, we should beware of what I’ve come to call the P-words, a series of concepts that, while sounding objective and reasonable, play rightward. Seemingly liberal, they normalize pushback while implying a rational, “prac ...
As the World Cup comes to an end, we’ve seen unprecedented levels of direct political interference in the organization of the tournament. FIFA president Gianni Infantino gave his friend Donald Trump a blank check to exclude anyone he liked from the United States, even referees, and Trump himself not ...
Late last year, President Trump announced that Washington would loosen controls on chip exports to China, permitting Nvidia to sell its H200 AI chip to approved Chinese firms. The president’s decision raised the alarm among lawmakers that he was sacrificing American security and the country’s edge i ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what ...
In 1876, as corruption scandals shook the Ulysses S. Grant administration, the poet, diplomat, and founding Atlantic editor James Russell Lowell wondered where the American experiment was headed. “Is ours a ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people,’” he wrote, “or a Kakistocracy rath ...
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” Robert Frost wrote in the famous opening line of his 1914 poem “Mending Wall.” That something sends the “frozen-ground-swell” of winter that “spills the upper boulders in the sun,” leaving Frost and his New Hampshire neighbor the springtime duty of pick ...
The World Cup is an occasion for joy, wonder, and discovery — of the enthusiasm of fans, of the talents of unheralded squads, of the new prowess known favorites will deploy. But also, it seems, an occasion for many to rediscover the temptations of easy demonization and flat political generalizations ...
Two more Americans have given their lives in the service of their country. They died in an Iranian attack on a Jordanian air base; several more U.S. military personnel were injured and one is missing. The American people have a right to know why they died, and how many more of their sons and daughte ...
Pundits close to the Democratic establishment have a new term to fling at the left-wing insurgents they want to disappear: “factionalism.”Matthew Yglesias now constantly attacks socialists and their leading figures on the basis that they believe in “factionalism and anti-partyism,” or have “a whole ...
In the world of money managers and big capital, anything that doesn’t belong to the ultrawealthy is a temporary inconvenience, an aberration waiting and begging to be set right. Private equity (PE) specializes in using its immense hordes of capital, leverage, and networks to buy up everything in sig ...
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.Earlier this year, my colleague Rose Horowitch reported on a new irony in higher education: Students ...
Clementine Morrigan and Jay Lesoleil, the Montreal-based cohosts of the podcast F–king Cancelled, have had a front-row seat to the secret the Left dares not name: the tendency toward deplatforming and cancellation. Through their podcast and Substack writings, Morrigan and Lesoleil have reflected on ...
Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. President Trump’s obsession with alleged e ...
Denmark’s general election on March 24 delivered the strongest result ever for the socialist left. After a campaign centered on affordability, welfare, and inequality, the combined parties of the Left won almost as many seats as the Social Democrats for the first time. Enhedslisten, the Red-Green Al ...
Lionel Messi on the soccer field takes the short, trotty steps of a dachshund in the park. Such diminutive, mincy movements are part of his mystique: He gives opponents absolutely no reason whatsoever to track his runty, 5-foot-7 figure, right up until he bolts away and suddenly tears open the grass ...
The pop star Dua Lipa is known for her dance-floor hits, for her turn as a mermaid in Barbie, for always seeming to be on vacation. Lately, though, she’s cultivated a reputation as a literary tastemaker. Through her book club, Service95, founded in 2023, the singer has made her love of books key to ...
In the interwar period, some military officers did not believe the combustion-engine vehicle would replace the horse for combat operations. Cavalry officers from around the world, including the United States and United Kingdom, argued strongly against trading their lovely mounts for new tanks. Many ...
The AI boom has showered some of the nation’s most prominent companies in market value. OpenAI and Anthropic are now the two most valuable private companies in the world. Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia have become larger than ever. But among the biggest winners has been Caterpillar, a purveyor of yel ...
The air quality this week is bad. Smoke from Canadian wildfires has turned the sky orange in Philadelphia. It has veiled the Statue of Liberty in Manhattan. In Detroit, which has dealt with some of the worst conditions in the country, the smoke has almost entirely blurred the city’s skyline. The eas ...
Produce lovers of the Midwest, rejoice! It seems that parents can stop fretting about serving their kids berries, Redditors can stop trying to do their own epidemiological investigations, and I can stop cooking my salads. The mystery of what food caused an outbreak of cyclosporiasis, the diarrhea-ca ...
January 6 looked like a coup: a violent assault on a government, an attempt to seize power by force. Coups take many forms, born of grievances real and imagined, executed by insurgents homegrown or hired, and they can fail or succeed. Amid the endless accounting of January 6, one precedent has gone ...
Cole Burston / AFP / GettyPeople walk in downtown Toronto as smoke from forest fires in northern Ontario causes poor air quality over the city, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 15, 2026.Stephen Maturen / GettyThe sun sets behind a layer of smoke on July 15, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Gary H ...
The Atlantic contributing writer Ian Bogost sat down with the senior editor Chris Suellentrop to discuss Bogost’s new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life. Bogost argues that machines, technology, and other modern conveniences have contributed to a growing sense of societal disc ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Why does the World Cup endure in an age of fractured attention? Is FreddyLA7 a real person? Charlie Warzel speaks with Men in Blazers founder Roger Bennett to chart how the World Cup has become far more than a sporting event and how this year’s tour ...
When Jay Clayton, Donald Trump’s nominee for the next director of national intelligence, appeared before the Senate on Wednesday, Jon Ossoff of Georgia had a simple question for him: Who won the 2020 election? Clayton dodged and squirmed. “I’m not gonna engage in the theater,” he insisted, at one po ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Last night, President Trump delivered a rare prime-time speech, but his address fell well short of the ...
It feels good to be a socialist right now. Last year, Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory in the 2025 New York City mayoral election shook the political world at home and abroad. This June, New York City Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA) won a near sweep in nine out of the ten New York City cong ...
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Many novelists—including some great ones—circle one subject and style for much of their career. Colson Whitehead isn’t among them. He has written a zombie novel, a fantastical escape-from-sl ...
If I were to describe an anti-Zionist Jewish socialist organization with tens of thousands of members, Yiddish schools, and arts clubs, which operated under a climate of severe state repression until it was finally disbanded by force and its leaders jailed, you might be forgiven for thinking I had a ...
An adviser to Iran’s negotiating team recently said that Tehran should ready itself for years of “neither war, nor peace.” The phrase has become popular among Iranian political analysts trying to make sense of an ostensibly ambiguous situation: The conflict is supposedly over, but Iran’s military ke ...
For the past 50 years, the American running-shoe market has been dominated by Western brands, including Nike, Adidas, Brooks, and, more recently, Hoka. But over the past year or so, running Subreddits and message boards have been buzzing about shoes made by Chinese companies. These shoes, their fans ...
The 2026 World Cup had three host countries, but it will always be remembered as an American event. And like most American things in the last decade, Donald Trump made much of it about himself. Bombing a participating nation, loudly bragging about corrupting the game, cramming himself into the final ...
Steve Russell / Toronto Star / GettyA swimmer checks out the smoke from Northern Ontario forest fires that has the Toronto skyline shrouded in haze, as viewed from Humber Park West, in Toronto, on July 15, 2026.Anthony Soufflé / Minnesota Star Tribune / GettyPlumes of smoke rise from the Camp Fire o ...
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Several months ago, during an Oscar campaign far more memorable than the movie it was promoting, the actor Timothée Chalamet offered up an observation: “I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things ...
The Spanish Civil War is often portrayed as a struggle between democracy and fascism. But such an approach clashes with the sociopolitical reality of Spain in the 1930s. Social, economic, and political polarization in Spain in the years leading up to the civil war, along with the resulting failure o ...
Pretty much everyone knows that women aren’t supposed to have alcohol while they’re pregnant. Even just a drink a day, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists warns, can cause lifelong problems with a baby’s coordination, behavior, and learning. Not all mothers-to-be follow this advi ...
Nations don’t always get to pick their heroes, especially not in a time of war. Most Ukrainians, given the choice, would probably not want a character like Denys Shtilerman to be the architect of their revenge against Russia. He studied in Russia, became wealthy in Russia, worked for a Russian milit ...
In a World Cup–fueled union win, concessions workers at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles have won the right to walk off the job, should Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pose a threat to their safety.The stadium’s two thousand cooks, bartenders, dishwashers, servers, and attendants had a major pi ...
In this crucial midterm election year, men and women who served in the military are wooing voters by presenting themselves as tougher, more effective foes of MAGA incumbents and even long-serving Democrats. In Massachusetts, a fifty-year-old former Marine captain, whose career has inspired other vet ...
With Bernie Sanders’ recent announcement of a plan in the works to convert 50 percent of the largest artificial intelligence firms into public ownership, Jacobin has run several pieces on the question of what should be done about the predatory rise and ecologically uncertain future of this new techn ...
In the second half of the nineteenth century, as Russia’s feudalism ended and its empire tottered, the great Russian novelist, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, reflected the deepening concerns and anxieties of his time in his 1863 novel, What Is to Be Done? It offered a socialist answer. Forty years later, a ...
On December 1, 1976, the Sex Pistols appeared on British channel Thames Television’s Today program as a last-minute replacement. During the interview, host Bill Grundy provoked the band’s Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones into swearing live on air. By the next morning, the press had already fixed its ve ...
In the run-up to its theatrical release, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey became embroiled in online polemics after Elon Musk attacked the movie’s supposed “woke” casting. Yet beyond this contrived spectacle lies a far more important criticism to be made of the filmmakers: their decision to shoot par ...
In 2025, employers laid off 1.2 million workers. It’s the highest number of layoffs since the start of the pandemic and nearly the same as seen during 2008. This puts the first year of Donald Trump’s second term on par with the first year of the global financial crisis in the scale of its disastrous ...
Graham Platner’s shock exit from the Maine Senate race he secured the nomination for just a month earlier has set off a scramble among the state’s Democratic officials for not just who will replace the scandal-plagued former candidate on the ticket, but who can tap into the same well of voter disenc ...
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor does through academia and as a nonfiction author what her father, Richard Pryor, did through comedy. During his heyday in the 1970s and ’80s, Pryor was a trailblazing stand-up comic, actor, and screenwriter who boldly pioneered new ways to discuss and challenge race onstage ...
Earlier this month, the New York Times published a piece from Bernie Sanders about his proposal to require AI providers to hand over 50 percent of their stock to a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) administered by the government. In the piece, Sanders gives three main rationales for this policy:AI models ...
James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) celebrates its fortieth anniversary this July. For generations, the groundbreaking action-horror masterpiece has won over fans with its effortlessly quotable band of hard-up marines and its fierce, iron-willed protagonist — Sigourney Weaver in the role of Ellen Ripley.H ...
The Democratic Party establishment is taking a beating, and Gaza is a big part of the reason why. Two years before her primary victory over fifteen-term congressional incumbent Diana DeGette, Melat Kiros was fired for criticizing her law firm’s stance on Gaza. Columbia University is set to be repres ...
What would be the likely effects of massive introduction of artificial intelligence in the economy from the Marxist point of view?At first, the implications for Karl Marx’s labor theory of value seem bad or in contradiction with the facts or our expectations. AI implies the introduction of extremely ...
The symbolism was hard to miss. Tens of millions of people on the streets in cities across Iran and Iraq trying to catch a sight of Ali Khamenei’s coffin during his weeklong funeral. Khamenei had been Iran’s supreme leader for almost four decades until his February 28 assassination by Israel on the ...
On July 14, 1789, the storming of the Bastille in Paris marked the transition of the French Revolution from an elite negotiation into a truly mass event. But what kicked off this insurgency and what does it have to do with left politics?On the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting ...
After the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, the British ambassador in Paris said it best: “The troops left the capital and the populace remained the unmolested masters of everything.”The uprising had world-historic implications, and the broader French Revolution would be an early forerunner ...
You may have heard of Angel Studios, the producer and distributor of Young Washington, a pretty dunderheaded biopic about George Washington as a self-centered but hunky young idiot who redeems himself in battle, which is currently playing in theaters. The film ends with a “special message” from acto ...
No figure in recent decades has done more to direct public attention and left-wing energy to universalistic left-wing policy proposals than Bernie Sanders. During his two runs for the presidency, he introduced “Medicare for All” into the lexicon of American politics. Now he’s made waves with a propo ...
With the artificial intelligence boom reshaping the global economy, workers are racing to defend their rights as the ground shifts beneath them. A narrowly averted strike at Samsung Electronics in Korea this spring was a major test of labor’s ability to fight back.Weeks before the planned strike, a ...
Antifascism can be served with a pot of overcooked pasta.On July 25, 1943, after twenty-one years of dictatorship, Benito Mussolini was dismissed and arrested. Amid Italy’s worsening position in World War II, the Fascist Grand Council turned against Mussolini during the night, and Marshal Pietro Bad ...
Marie Gottschalk has spent more than two decades meticulously researching the origins and documenting the consequences of American mass incarceration. Her books The Prison and the Gallows and Caught are both foundational texts for anyone seeking to understand how the United States built the world’s ...
In the week that NATO met in Ankara, calls for rearmament are reshaping political life across Europe. In the Baltic states, where the Russian threat is felt as most immediate, governments are already fast pushing defense spending up toward 5 percent of GDP. Much has already been written about the mo ...
Thea Riofrancos has an interview out in New Left Review where she discusses the concept of “green capital” and what it means for the Left’s climate organizing. In the interview, she says we should “maybe . . . endorse a paradoxical position: that a stronger fraction of green capital would create be ...
When Aleksi Toiviainen was fifteen, he led a protest against changes in his school’s curriculum that removed content on LGBTQ and indigenous communities. Aleksi rallied over five hundred students to walk out against these curriculum changes, yet follow-up actions that attempted to protect this conte ...
Elon Musk is officially the richest man on Earth. The source of his wealth is not his own cunning. Nor can it be fully explained by capitalism’s financial architecture, tax loopholes, and the value created by the workers employed in his various ventures.Tech billionaires’ companies are robbing human ...
A century ago, Britain was rocked by perhaps the most serious episode of class struggle it has ever known. Millions of workers joined the general strike of 1926, buoyed by hope that they could fend off attacks on the pay and conditions of coal miners and reverse efforts by bosses to claw back the ga ...
More than two hundred businesses were present at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, Poland, at the end of June, eighty-two of them from Ukraine. But out of Ukraine’s eighty-three sectoral trade unions, none had so much as a stall, let alone a seat on a main panel. That asymmetry is telling; ...
“Lastly, to my brother Charlie Kirk. Rest now, brother. We have the watch. See you in Valhalla.”These were the words used by FBI Director Kash Patel during a press conference following the assassination of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk. The choice of words was curious: Patel is a Hindu, and Kirk was a ...
For Palestinians, a lack of leverage has always accompanied their century-long struggle for self-determination. Without a capacity to disrupt the Israeli status quo — and operating against a highly resilient Israel that is immune to exogenous shocks while deeply integrated into American imperial heg ...
On June 28, Austria’s second largest city, Graz, elected a new council. The Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) secured 35.7 percent of the vote, once again emerging as the clear winner. Building on its historic 2021 success, the party — led by Mayor Elke Kahr — increased its vote share by nearly 7 per ...
All over the world, we can find Indian migrant workers subject to extreme forms of exploitation and abuse: dying in the Gulf states as a result of the US war on Iran, just as they died a few years earlier of heat exhaustion as they built the stadiums for the World Cup in Qatar; brought in to replace ...
Southeast Asia has a long history of being on the receiving end of global capitalism’s relentless search for profit. For centuries, the region’s trade networks supplied the global economy with precious spices, aromatic sandalwood, and rare items collected on coastal reefs and in dense rainforests.In ...
“AI Code = Dumpster Fire?” asks an advertisement wrapped around a set of pillars in New York’s Penn Station. “We can help,” it answers. The ad is for CodeRabbit, a company whose software identifies and fixes bugs in code written by artificial-intelligence software. Besides the obvious irony of such ...
Matt Kennard’s new book Irregular Army is the culmination of more than a decade of investigation into how the United States waged the war on terror both at home and abroad. Picking up where classic critiques of Vietnam-era militarism left off, Kennard traces how a hollowed-out empire kept up its occ ...
First, let’s get one thing straight. Rahm Emanuel’s much-heralded speech on US-Israel relations portends no shift at all in Democratic Party policy toward Israel.In fact, if leaked media accounts are accurate, it doesn’t contain a single proposal that wasn’t already adopted in the waning days of the ...
During Donald Trump’s second term, senior figures in his administration have regularly used the language of invasion as they talk about migration to Europe. Speaking in France on the eighty-second anniversary of D-Day, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that Europe was being “invaded” by migrants ...
Everyone at this point understands Donald Trump’s war with Iran is a debacle. The nearly two-thirds of Americans who think the United States didn’t win the war understand it. Trump himself, spinning and lashing out as he tries to get out of it, seems to understand it. And the clown car of war hawks ...
The ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon has displaced more than a million people — around one-fifth of the country’s population. Between March 2 and June 19, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported 3,980 deaths resulting from the conflict.Lebanese journalists have been in the firing line. Since Octobe ...
Silicon Valley is still riding high on what seems like an unending wave of Wall Street enthusiasm. Investments in artificial intelligence continue to eclipse expectations, with Bloomberg reporting that financiers plan to plow some $700 billion into the industry this year alone. AI stocks now account ...
There is a myth that Friedrich Engels distorted Karl Marx’s revolutionary social theory into a politically fatalistic form of technological determinism. While it is possible to pull phrases out of context to justify this claim, the truth is that Engels was a highly sophisticated thinker with an ency ...
The word dawa, Swahili for “medicine,” threads through Francis Marete Mboroki’s speech as he describes the chemicals he spent decades spraying across his small farm on the fertile slopes of Mount Kenya. They were sold as the tools of progress: modern seeds, bigger harvests, prosperity.Even as Europe ...
It’s getting harder and harder to defend the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Quite aside from the seemingly endless disclosures that management failed to act on sexual abuse allegations against some of its most high-profile presenters, the organization’s news output has long made things diff ...
Looking at popular discourse around heterosexual dating and relationships, you might be forgiven for thinking that relations between the sexes have never been worse. Online communities of incels and radical feminists alike write off the other gender as irredeemable, while dating apps seem to be bree ...
In Volume 1 of Capital, Karl Marx ventures the opinion that “classical political economy stumbles approximately onto the true state of affairs, but without consciously formulating it. It is unable to do this as long as it stays within its bourgeois skin.”Marx and the bourgeois economists confront th ...
The acid attack on Indonesian human rights activist Andrie Yunus in March 2026 was a message written in chemical burns and delivered in the language of fear: dissent will be punished. For those familiar with Indonesia’s political history, the attack feels less like a shocking rupture than another gr ...
Wisconsin has long served as a proving ground for American politics. It gave rise to Progressive Era reforms and Milwaukee’s socialist tradition, but it also became a laboratory for the Right under Governor Scott Walker, whose assault on organized labor helped reshape Republican politics nationwide. ...
Brandon Mancilla is very happy.For the United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 9A Director and a Democratic Socialists of America member, June’s New York primary elections were a massive success. Speaking with Jacobin a week later, hours before a rally supporting Columbia University postdoctoral workers, t ...
United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov, on screen, addresses the UN Security Council [File: Richard Drew/AP]
Cristiano Ronaldo of Al Nassr is presented with the Saudi Pro League Trophy [Abdullah Ahmed/Getty Images]
Mourners stand next to bodies of victims killed in the Israeli strike on the southern village of Deir Qanoun en-Nahr, on May 21, 2026 [AFP]
US President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC [Kent Nishimura/AFP]
Flotillas carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza began in 2008, two years after Israel imposed a blockade on the Strip. Two boats succeeded, despite Israeli attempts to stop them.Since then, Israeli forces have forced several flotillas to turn back, and detained hundreds of activists, sometimes violently ...
Players from Iran’s national football team are in Turkey applying for US visas for the 2026 World Cup. Some are still awaiting approval just weeks before kickoff.
Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday to meet with his Iranian counterpart Eskandar Momeni, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported.The United States and Iran have continued to exchange proposals for peace since a temporary ceasefire between them ...
Israeli Minister of National Security and leader of the far-right party Otzma Yehudit, Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks during a meeting of his party at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, 03 November 2025 [Abir Sultan/EPA]On Wednesday, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted ...
Vessels sail through the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 20, 2026 [Reuters]Eleven weeks after the start of the Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz has remained closed to naval traffic, bleeding the global economy far beyond the Gulf.Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) maintains an iron ...
Iranian football team players and members of their delegation leave the US embassy in Ankara after submitting their visa applications [Adem Altan/AFP]Iran’s football team have attended visa appointments in Turkiye ahead of the World Cup, with the whole squad applying for Canadian visas and some play ...
Mauritania's mourchidates programme is a case study on investing in conditions that make radicalisation less likely [Michelle Cattani/AFP]Nouakchott, Mauritania – Across a vast stretch of the Sahel and West Africa, armed groups are expanding their reach, military governments are replacing fragile de ...
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir has long sought a bill introducing the death penalty for 'terrorists' [File: EPA]
Activists from the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, detained by Israeli forces after their vessels were intercepted in international waters in the Mediterranean, celebrate upon arrival at Istanbul airport, in Turkiye, on May 21, 2026 [Murad Sezer/Reuters]
Israeli forces intercepting Gaza-bound flotilla [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]
This week, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, posted a video on social media of himself taunting flotilla activists held by Israeli forces.In one clip, a handcuffed activist shouts “Free Palestine” as Ben-Gvir strolls past. She is immediately seized by the hair and shoved to the g ...
This image, posted to social media by a former Moscow-backed official in Ukraine's occupied Donetsk region, shows him with representatives of Chinese companies that struck a business deal with his separatist administration [Handout/Evgeny Solntsev via Telegram]
Azmoun has scored 57 goals in his 91 appearances for his country and was part of Iran’s squad in its last two appearances at the World Cup [File: Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]
The kite was signed by children in Gaza and carried to the summit by a group of mountaineers [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]
A banner depicts US-Israeli attacks on Iran in the capital, Tehran [File: Atta Kenare/AFP]
Тankers sail in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, near the border with Oman’s Musandam governance on March 11, 2026 [Stringer/Reuters]If tomorrow Iran, the United States and Israel were to announce a peace deal and the Strait of Hormuz were to reopen, the war ...
Тankers sail in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, near the border with Oman’s Musandam governance on March 11, 2026 [Stringer/Reuters]If tomorrow Iran, the United States and Israel were to announce a peace deal and the Strait of Hormuz were to reopen, the war ...
Mohamed Salah will lead Egypt for the first time at a World Cup [File: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]
An Iranian woman holds a rifle next to cardboard cutouts depicting US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [File: Shahzaib Akber/EPA]
Aston Villa's players celebrate with the trophy after winning the UEFA Europa League final against SC Freiburg at Besiktas Park in Istanbul [Stefano Relladini/AFP]Aston Villa ended their 30-year trophy drought in style as spectacular goals from Youri Tielemans and Emiliano Buendia inspired a 3-0 win ...
This is the story of Walid Daqqa, one of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, told by his immediate family and in voice recordings he made behind bars.From a sharp-minded boy in 1948 Palestine to a clandestine PFLP organiser sentenced to life imprisonment, Daqqa turns his cell ...
According to the WHO, one in eight people lives with a mental health condition [Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images]The World Health Organization (WHO) is convening in Geneva, Switzerland this week for the 79th World Health Assembly, where mental health is among the more than 75 agenda items tha ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi in Tehran [Handout/Iranian Foreign Ministry via Anadolu]
The UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, gives a news conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark, on February 6, 2025 [Ritzau Scanpix/Ida Marie Odgaard]
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Tehran was reviewing Washington’s latest response to a proposed ceasefire framework after several rounds of message exchanges mediated by Pakistan. Global condemnation is growing after Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben ...
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says that “all paths” to a diplomatic solution “remain open from our side”, but warns that “forcing Iran to surrender through coercion is nothing but an illusion”. Global condemnation is growing after Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, ...
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks in occupied East Jerusalem [File: Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images]
Palestinian residents say Israeli settlers burned vehicles, sprayed racist graffiti, and installed caravans near Palestinian communities, in the latest example of settler violence and settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.
Iranian traders work at the Tehran Stock Exchange before the war [File: Atta Kenare/AFP]Tehran, Iran – A near-three-month closure of Iran’s stock market has ended with two days of a controlled reopening among some restrictions for investors.Although Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s sessions of the Tehran S ...
Smoke rises over the southern Lebanese village of Deir Siryan following explosions carried out by the Israeli army on May 20, 2026 [AFP]
A screenshot of an FPV drone footage released by Hezbollah [Screenshot/Social media/Al Jazeera]The footage lasts just three minutes. An Israeli flag flies over a position in the village of al-Bayada, in occupied southern Lebanon. One drone approaches the flagpole while another observes from above. T ...
A man carries items on his back as people remove possessions from their homes after Israeli air strikes in Khan Younis in southern Gaza [File: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images]The Board of Peace, which was founded by United States President Donald Trump in January to oversee the administration and reco ...
Rep. Thomas Massie gives his concession speech on May 19, 2026 in Hebron, Kentucky. Massie, who has served Kentucky's 4th Congressional District since 2012, conceded his loss after the most expensive US House Primary in US history against Trump-endorsed candidate Ed Gallrein [Jon Cherry/Getty Images ...
The vote comes at a pivotal time for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister, who has the most right-wing government in the country's history [File: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters]
A boat, left, bearing symbols of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla that was intercepted by the Israeli navy is motored towards the Israeli port of Ashdod on May 19, 2026 [AFP]The United States has imposed sanctions on four activists involved in flotilla missions seeking to break Israel’s 19-year siege on ...
Many were surprised that Ahmadinejad was considered by the Americans and Israelis to replace Khamenei considering his historical opposition to the US and Israeli policies [File: Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
Israel's Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Israeli parliament, on May 20, 2026 [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP]
Israel's Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Israeli parliament, on May 20, 2026 [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP]
Israel's Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Israeli parliament, on May 20, 2026 [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP]
Palestinian children look at a mural depicting Israel's interception of ships participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian-led humanitarian aid mission to Gaza by sea, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on May 19, 2026 [AFP]
Vessels are seen anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, off Oman's city of Khasab, on May 17, 2026 [AFP]
Vessels are seen anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, off Oman's city of Khasab, on May 17, 2026 [AFP]
A demonstrator chants slogan during a pro-government gathering at a square in downtown Tehran on Tuesday [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]Iran has warned that any renewed conflict would bring “many more surprises” after United States President Donald Trump gave Iran “two to three days” to reach a deal.Meanwhi ...
Every day, foreign fishing fleets empty Mauritanian waters legally. Its waters are one of the richest in the world. But who is benefiting from the fishing agreements between Mauritania’s government and foreign vessels? Guests: Mauritanian fisherman Sheikh Turath Ould Mbarak. Maritime crime profiler ...
A general view of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US [File: Ken Cedeno/Reuters]
Iran’s chief negotiator says the United States wants to restart the war and is carrying out “overt and clandestine movements” that signal a new attack. President Trump says the US military may have to strike Iran “even harder” but will wait and see if a peace deal is reached after earlier saying a ...
Iran has warned that the Middle East war would spread far beyond the region if the United States and Israel resumed their attacks. US President Donald Trump has given Iran “two to three days” to reach a deal, as his deputy, JD Vance, said the two sides have made a “lot of progress” in talks.
Iran has warned that the Middle East war would spread far beyond the region if the United States and Israel resumed their attacks. US President Donald Trump has given Iran “two to three days” to reach a deal, as his deputy, JD Vance, said the two sides have made a “lot of progress” in talks.
Iran has warned that the Middle East war would spread far beyond the region if the United States and Israel resumed their attacks. US President Donald Trump has given Iran “two to three days” to reach a deal, as his deputy, JD Vance, said the two sides have made a “lot of progress” in talks.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has gained military knowledge from previous hostilities and warned that “a return to war will feature many more surprises”. His comments come after US President Donald Trump gave Iran “two to three days” to reach a deal, and as his deputy, JD Vance, ...
A general view of the skyline of Iran's capital, Tehran [File: Getty Images]
Israeli President Isaac Herzog meets with Somaliland Ambassador Mohamed Hagi, who presented his diplomatic credentials to become Somaliland's first ambassador to a foreign country, at the president's residence in Jerusalem [File: Abir Sultan/EPA]
Activists protest outside the foreign ministry in Athens after flotilla aid vessels bound for Gaza were intercepted by Israeli forces in the eastern Mediterranean, May 18 [Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters]
After saying he had received an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans to forcibly displace Palestinians from a village in the occupied West Bank. Smotrich has called the ICC move a ‘declaration of war’.
US President Donald Trump speaks to the news media near the construction site of his proposed White House ballroom [Kent Nishimura/AFP]
A vehicle burns on the street following the explosion in Damascus, Syria [AFP]
An El Al passenger jet is inspected before takeoff at Ben Gurion Airport on July 9, 2003 near Tel Aviv, Israel [File: David Silverman/Getty Images]
Russian oil tanker Anatoly Kolodkin at the oil terminal in the port of Matanzas, Cuba [File: Yamil Lage/AFP]
Israeli Minister Smotrich called the ICC arrest warrants against Israeli officials "a declaration of war” [File: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP]
United States President Donald Trump says he has decided to pause an attack on Iran at the behest of Gulf leaders after Tehran sent a new peace proposal to Washington through Pakistan.On Monday, Trump said there is now a “very good chance” the US could reach an agreement with Iran to prevent Tehran ...
Margaret Connolly, a doctor and sister of Irish President Catherine Connolly, was among those 'illegally kidnapped' by Israel, organisers say [Handout/Global Sumud Flotilla via Reuters]
Margaret Connolly, an Irish doctor and sister of President Catherine Connolly, was among those 'illegally kidnapped' by Israel, organisers say [Handout/Global Sumud Flotilla via Reuters]
Iran's World Cup squad was given a public sendoff in Tehran last week [Vahid Salemi/AP]Iran’s head coach Amir Ghalenoei believes his coaching and fitness staff would have their work cut out getting the squad ready for the World Cup at their training camp in Turkiye, with most of the players havin ...
US President Donald Trump speaks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, on October 13, 2025 in Jerusalem [Jalaa Marey - Pool/Getty Images]In late April, the Hondurasgate platform and the Spanish media outlet Canal Red began leaking incriminating audios r ...
The war has destroyed and damaged many buildings in central Khartoum [Al Jazeera]Khartoum, Sudan – Night often hides imperfections, but in Sudan’s capital, the scars of war are laid bare in daylight. Neighbourhoods and homes lie in ruins, yet signs of recovery are visible along the city’s roads, wit ...
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) meeting Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in Damascus, May 9, 2026 [SANA via AFP]
Israeli security officials detain a woman during the annual Jerusalem Day march, May 14, 2026 [Ammar Awad/Reuters]
A man collects his family's belongings from the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike the previous day in the southern village of Maarakeh, Lebanon on May 17, 2026 [Mustafa Jamalddine/AP Photo]United States President Donald Trump said he postponed a planned attack on Iran after requ ...
An Iranian official says the US threat of a massive assault at any moment will be met “resolutely” and Iran is “prepared to confront any military aggression”. US President Donald Trump says he postponed a planned attack on Iran at the request of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, and ...
Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari says US-Iran negotiations “need more time”. United States President Donald Trump says he has postponed a planned attack on Iran at the request of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and added that “serious negotiations are now takin ...
United States President Donald Trump says he has postponed a planned attack on Iran at the request of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and added that “serious negotiations are now taking place”. Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said “dialogue does not mean surrender”, and that Teh ...
Iraqi security forces have launched sweeping operations in the country’s western following reports of secret Israeli military bases there. Iraqi authorities have denied the presence of unauthorised foreign bases amid growing tensions involving the US, Israel and Iran.
US President Donald Trump gestures to reporters as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House on May 15 [Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 8th General Conference of Fatah in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 14, 2026 [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters]
Borrowing costs in major economies have hit their highest levels in nearly two decades. Investors have been shunning government debt and demanding higher returns. They worry that the Iran war could keep oil prices and inflation high. The International Monetary Fund warns that global debt could appro ...
Iranian human rights activist and vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) Narges Mohammadi poses in this undated handout picture [Mohammadi family archive photos/Handout via Reuters]
Voting booths in the Expo Center for the primary election in Louisville, Kentucky, the United States, June 23, 2020 [Bryan Woolston/Reuters]
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf meets with Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, in Tehran, Iran on May 17, 2026 [Handout/Iranian Parliament Speaker Office via Reuters]
Borrowing costs in major economies have hit their highest levels in nearly two decades. Investors have been shunning government debt and demanding higher returns. They worry that the Iran war could keep oil prices and inflation high. The International Monetary Fund warns that global debt could appro ...
When United States President Donald Trump measures success by counting how many Iranian leaders the US and Israel have killed or how many Iranian boats or missile launchers have been destroyed, he’s looking at the “wrong metric”, argues a former US special envoy to Iran, Rob Malley.Malley told host ...
Emergency workers inspect the damage after an Israeli strike on an apartment building in Baalbek on May 18, 2026 [AFP]
A drone attack that caused a fire close to the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in the United Arab Emirates has raised further concerns about nuclear security and military escalation in the Gulf as discussions of peace between Iran and the United States hang in the balance.Barakah was the first nuclear ...
Image from the three-part documentary series, The Flotillas, by The Take and AJ+.What is it actually like on board a flotilla to Gaza, knowing you’ll likely be targeted and imprisoned? Until now, it’s a story that’s been told mostly in fragments, one vertical video at a time. This is the inside stor ...
Iranian men monitor the stock market at the Tehran Stock Exchange on July 1, 2019 [Atta Kenare/AFP]Tehran, Iran – The Iranian stock market is due to reopen this week after an 80-day closure due to the war with the United States and Israel.While the exchange is not the core engine of economic financi ...
A yacht sails past a plume of smoke rising from the port of Jebel Ali following a reported Iranian strike in Dubai on March 1, 2026 [AFP]One of the most dangerous ideas in today’s Middle East is the claim that Gulf states must choose between Iran and Israel. This framing is politically simple, but s ...
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei holds a weekly news conference in Tehran [File: Atta Kenare/AFP]
An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US billboard referring to President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz, installed on a building at the Valiasr Square in Tehran on May 10, 2026 [AFP]
After Sea-Watch rescued several people, the NGO said a patrol boat operated by the Libyan coastguard opened fire on its ship and attempted to seize it [Courtesy of Sea-Watch]
Army forces launch an investigative operation in the Nukhaib desert, southwest of Karbala and Najaf, Iraq, on Sunday, May 17, 2026, after reports of an unauthorised Israeli military presence in the area. [Ali Jabar/AP]
Israeli forces in international waters as they approach the Global Sumud Flotilla [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]
United States President Donald Trump has warned Iran that the “clock is ticking” to clinch a deal to end the war as reports have emerged that Washington and Israel might be planning to carry out air strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure.“For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, ...
A boy carries bags with bread, as Palestinians wait in queues at a distribution point in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 17, 2025 [Haseeb Alwazeer/Reuters]
Iran says it has submitted a response to the latest United States proposal to end the war via mediator Pakistan. It comes after US President Donald Trump warned that the “clock is ticking” for a peace deal to be reached.
United States President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, DC on May 15 [AFP]
Smoke rises from an Israeli air attack on the southern Lebanese village of Erzay, May 17, 2026. [AFP]
The latest Palestinians to be killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza City, May 17, 2026. [Reuters/Dawoud Abu Alkas]Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed at least eight Palestinians, including three in Deir el-Balah, and others in Khan Younis and Beit Lahiya.Sunday’s attack on the central city ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech to the Christian conservative group Voices United for Israel in Washington DC, January 19, 1998 [William Philpott/AFP]In March 1992, Christianity Today, a prominent evangelical Christian magazine based in the US, featured a cover story dedicat ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and son Yasser in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, May 28, 2018 [Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]
Izz al-Din al-Haddad was one of Israel’s most wanted men following the killing of Hamas’s most prominent leaders [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]The killing of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the recently appointed head of Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has dealt a symbolic blow to the Palestinian group in ...