Im Halbfinale gegen Frankreich unterlaufen den deutschen Basketballerinnen zu viele einfache Fehler – doch die Chance auf eine Medaille bleibt.

Four days after a researcher publicly quit his job at Anthropic, warning that top AI firms are not “acting responsibly” and that their products might be on track to “kill us all,” the company’s CEO, Dario Amodei, seemed to basically agree. “We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities ...

Politicians have no shortage of ideas about how to rein in AI: a 100 percent federal tax rate on data-center incentives, a pause on all development of advanced AI, new standards to block AI agents from going rogue, a halt to the construction of data centers altogether.The flurry of proposals has bee ...

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. It has been 25 years since nearly 3,000 pe ...

“We have started on a great big national fight with the union movement at stake!” Max Hayes, socialist newspaper editor and union leader, thundered to the assembled representatives of Cleveland, Ohio’s labor movement in the fall of 1909. “The American Federation of Labor will stand or fall as events ...

Die Linke diskutiert, wie linke Antworten wirkmächtig werden können und was es in Sachsen-Anhalt jetzt gegen die AfD braucht.

Seit der Waffenruhe hat sich nicht viel getan: Israel greift weiter an, die Menschen leben unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen, wollen aber bleiben.

Am zweiten Sonntag im September findet der jährliche Tag der Erinnerung und Mahnung der VVN-BdA am Franz-Mehring-Platz 1 in Berlin-Friedrichshain statt.

Der Umsatz und die Zahl der Beschäftigten im Handwerk waren zuletzt leicht rückläufig. Dieser Wirtschaftszweig war lange Zeit erfolgsverwöhnt.

Eine multipolare Weltordnung ist nötig. Das heterogene Schwellenländerbündnis Brics kann dazu einen Beitrag leisten. Ein Kommentar.

“Affordability” has now been embraced even by politicians who haven’t pushed a shopping cart since the Clinton administration. A record 89 percent of Americans say government corruption is widespread. And even mainstream liberal media is declaring that populism is dominating politics right now — so ...

Die Linke bezuschusst eine Woche lang gesundes Essen in einem Bistro in Kreuzberg. Später soll der Senat überall Kiezkantinen finanzieren.

Die wieder steigenden Ölpreise machen deutlich, wie notwendig eine Verkehrswende ist, die auch die AfD bloßstellen könnte. Ein Kommentar.

Starting from the late 1970s, neoliberalism’s outsourcing revolution changed the lives of millions of low-wage service workers like cleaners. Once formerly employed by municipalities, national governments, or other public authorities to clean schools, hospitals, or airports, they now found themselve ...

Am Tag der wohnungslosen Menschen diskutieren diese mit Politiker*innen und fordern eine zentrale Beschwerdestelle.

This week, the White House removed a Tetris-inspired game called Build the Wall from its recently launched arcade website after the Tetris Company publicly warned that it takes copyright law “very seriously.” Here are a few options the White House might consider to replace the game:Super PAC-ManPlay ...

Südkoreas Rüstungsexporte nach Europa boomen seit einiger Zeit. Doch man möchte dort künftig auch produzieren, unter anderem in Deutschland.

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.Learning how to drive is a rare instance in a teenager’s life, Liz Krieger argues in a recent article ...

Nach dem AfD-Sieg in Sachsen-Anhalt befindet sich auch die französische Linke in Alarmbereitschaft. Ein Kommentar unseres Partnermediums »L’Humanité«.

Blickt der Westen auf AfD-Erfolge im Osten, schüttelt er den Kopf. Doch die Wahlumfragen in Niedersachsen zeigen: Das Problem ist längst überall, kommentiert Christian Klemm.

If you spend a lot of time in the ocean, it is hard not to think about sharks. I visit the beach near my home in southern Maine regularly with my family, and almost every night from spring to fall, I go surf fishing after dark. For a long time, I soothed my anxiety with statistics—in America, you ar ...

To understand Cormac McCarthy’s midlife crisis, look at America’s landscape. The fierce writer of biblical prose spent most of his first four decades anchored to Tennessee, a child of Appalachia with a lilting drawl and a regional outlook. By the early 1970s, he had published three Faulknerian novel ...

Nach der 1:3-Niederlage gegen Schalke 04 warten die Köpenicker unter ihrem neuen Trainer Mauro Lustrinelli weiter auf den ersten Bundesligasieg.

Der weltweit zweitgrößte Exporteur hat nur noch die Ausweichroute über den Suezkanal. Und die ist lang und teuer.

Donald Trump’s new promise to give a $5,000 check to every adult American citizen if Republicans win the midterm elections may be an effort to answer a variant of an age-old riddle: Can Trump devise a policy so ill-conceived that even Trump’s intelligence is insulted?Candidates often make inducement ...

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.Just call it the Five-Grand Old Party. This week, at the Republican Party’s midterm faux-convention, Pr ...

If only the GOP midterm convention succeeds in its aim of electing Donald Trump president, things will get a lot better in this country. Isn’t he already president? Hush! At the Unprecedented (But Very President-ed) Republican Midterm Convention, we reject such trivial objections! “I know many of yo ...

In 1985, when I was four months old, my family moved from Kiruna to Luleå, a city in northern Sweden. My father had found a job with the Swedish State Railways, and we were given a firsthand rental contract for a four-room apartment in Hertsön, one of the city’s largest housing estates. Hertsön had ...

Last month, a team of scientists published a high-profile paper describing how they’d taught an AI model to help produce brand-new, deadly viruses. The AI—a “genome-language model” trained on DNA sequences—had designed multiple new genomes that scientists then synthesized into functional viruses. An ...

Jeremy Weine / GettyPeople watch and take pictures as a drone light show depicting the Twin Towers appears along the skyline during testing of the Tribute in Light installation in Lower Manhattan on September 9, 2026, as seen from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey.Spencer Platt / GettyJi ...

It’s hard getting normal people to care about the politics of the film industry. Our demands always have to be hitched to some other kind of politics. California Senator Adam Schiff recently tried national security: “We have a lot of our influence around the world as a result of American film and TV ...

Subscribe here:  Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube AI-infused writing is suddenly everywhere: not just in automated email responses or meeting summaries, but in books and even the pages of mainstream newspapers. When an editor at The Wall Street Journal recently defended an op-ed that was 100 perce ...

Die deutschen Basketballerinnen schreiben bei der Heim-WM Geschichte – trotz der Ungleichbehandlung durch den eigenen Verband. Ein Kommentar.

Die deutschen Basketballerinnen schreiben bei der Heim-WM Geschichte – trotz der Ungleichbehandlung durch den eigenen Verband. Ein Kommentar.

Auch die Europameisterinnen aus Belgien können das deutsche Team nicht stoppen. Die Jagd nach der lang ersehnten ersten WM-Medaille geht weiter.

Auch die Europameisterinnen aus Belgien können das deutsche Team nicht stoppen. Die Jagd nach der lang ersehnten ersten WM-Medaille geht weiter.

Nach vielen Jahren gibt es in Berlin wieder eine offen so bezeichnete Hausbesetzung. Doch wie lange kann sie eine Räumung abwehren?

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Jackie Collins, who wrote flashy, sex-filled Hollywood thrillers, isn’t often thought of as a canonical Los Angeles novelist. I didn’t regard her as one, at least—until I read Sophie Gilbert ...

It took less than an hour. No sooner had it become clear, this Sunday, that the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) was by far the strongest party in Saxony-Anhalt than Elon Musk offered his congratulations on X. The nationalist party’s lead candidate, Ulrich Siegmund, replied immediately, in English, ...

Abschlussbericht der Untersuchungskommission entlastet Jugendamt und Stadträtin, sieht aber Fehler in der Meldekette.

As recently as last week, the Iran war appeared to be turning slightly in America’s favor. The Houthis—the Yemen-based militia that is Iran’s most formidable remaining ally in the Middle East—were under pressure from their local rivals, and the Saudi air force was pounding them with air strikes. The ...

Editor’s Note: This article was adapted from the afterword to the 2003 paperback edition of William Langewiesche’s 2002 book, American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center. Langewiesche, who died in 2025, reflects here on reporting from Ground Zero as the only American journalist granted full a ...

What does it mean to “Never Forget,” as we’re often asked to do when it comes to the September 11 attacks that killed nearly three thousand people? After all, few people who witnessed the crime in real time could ever forget it or the horrors in its wake: the bodies falling, the survivors crushed be ...

Rechte Medienaktivisten bedrängen zunehmend Journalist*innen und Antifaschist*innen. Die Suche nach Gegenstrategien ist schwierig.

Ein neues EU-Unternehmensrecht ohne soziales Fundament hat fatale Folgen, meint Felix Sassmannshausen.

Bürger sehen ihre hausärztliche Versorgung gefährdet – und machen davon Wahlentscheidungen abhängig, ergab eine Umfrage.

Donald Trump hates mail-in voting. He has described it as “dangerous,” “corrupt,” “horrible,” and “a fraud.” Last year, in a Truth Social post festooned with capital letters and exclamation points, he announced that he would be signing an executive order to do away with mail-in ballots entirely. Tha ...

The September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, as the saying goes, “changed everything.” After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the global American empire, created in the 1940s to combat communism, was left without a raison d’être. While foreign policymakers spent the 1990s ...

Die rechtsradikale Gruppe Patriot Platform tritt ungewohnt diszipliniert auf und plant direkte Aktionen, auf die die Behörden nicht vorbereitet sind.

Wang He / GettyWingsuit flyer Michael Brewer of the U.S. trial jumps off a mountain to hit a target during the 12th World Wind Loading China Grand Prix on September 10, 2026, in Zhangjiajie, China.Adam Gray / GettyA person wears a giant butterfly costume during the annual West Indian Day Parade on S ...

Gesetzlich Versicherte werden zahlen müssen: mit höheren Beiträgen und schlechterer Versorgung in Medizin und Pflege. Ein Kommentar.

Die EU plant eine neue Unternehmensrechtsform. Europaabgeordnete haben dafür nun Leitplanken beschlossen, Gewerkschaften mobilisieren zu Protesten.

Genozid oder nicht? Die Linke streitet regelmäßig über den Krieg im Nahen Osten. Unser Kolumnist spricht sich gegen einen parteiinternen Lackmustest aus.

Perhaps the most famous conclusion of the 9/11 Commission Report is that America’s inability to prevent the September 11 attacks resulted from a “failure of imagination.” With respect to the 9/11 Commission, that is not quite right.Long before September 11, members of the U.S. intelligence community ...

Die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Brics-Staaten ordnen ihre politischen Streitigkeiten dem Handel miteinander unter.

Zwei aktuelle Studien zeigen Milliardärs-Boom im KI-Bereich und wachsende Dominanz von KI-Unternehmen an der Börse.

Im US-Bundesstaat Iowa kämpfen linke Städter und konservative Maisbauern gemeinsam gegen ein geplantes Rechenzentrum. Die Umweltaktivistin Erin Brockovich unterstützt.

The marketing for Hope, the new film by the South Korean horror master Na Hong-jin, presents it on an epic, otherworldly scale. It’s the most expensive Korean movie ever made, and the director’s first in more than 10 years, since his widely acclaimed hit, The Wailing; its sweeping rollout across the ...

Cybergewalt gegen Kinder nimmt zu. Auch, weil Erwachsene das Geschäftsmodel der Social-Media-Konzerne dulden, meint die Prager »Naše Pravda«.

In ihrer jüngst erschienenen Bio-Schnurre »Zwischen Sturm und Stille« erinnert sich Astrid Proll zurück an die Gründungszeit der RAF.

Jüdische Gemeinden werfen Maha El Hissy das Schüren von »Judenhass« vor und fordern ihren Rauswurf aus der Jury des Deutschen Buchpreises.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Like most Americans, I spent September 11, 2001, filled with both rage and dread. I wanted the United States to find and kill whoever had planned this attack on my country. I knew little about al-Qaeda, but whoe ...

The social-media industry is having a moment of reckoning. By agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion to 47 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories and consenting to make changes to how young people use Facebook and Instagram, Meta has implicitly admitted some responsibility in creating a ...

Im Zuge des Iran-Kriegs hat die Kontrolle über die Meerenge Bab al-Mandab noch größere Bedeutung bekommen.

Die Forschungsgruppe Wahlen sieht die AfD im Nordosten bei 37 Prozent. Der CDU von Kanzler Merz droht nach Sachsen-Anhalt ein weiteres Debakel.

Die Vorsitzenden der Linkspartei über Strategien nach der Wahl in Sachsen-Anhalt, über Bündnisarbeit, rote Leuchttürme und Friedrich Merz.

Im Prozess gegen die »Ulm 5« wird eigentlich eine Sachbeschädigung verhandelt. Die inszenierten RAF-Parallelen lassen sich mit Stuart Hall begreifen.

Donald Trump loves rallies. Everyone can see how they energize him, how the crowd’s applause encourages him to ditch the hackneyed prose of his speechwriters and go on wild riffs, how the music and cheering are like water to a parched man. Tonight, at the end of a two-day rally billed as a Republica ...

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 Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September, many of his allies on the right memorialized him as ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.The American tennis player Ben Shelton blasted a 146-mile-an-hour ace past the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz at 3:33 a.m. yesterday. It was the final shot of a U.S. Open quarte ...

The current New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has affronted one of his predecessors, Rudy Giuliani, by taking the inflammatory step of deciding to attend the city’s 9/11 commemoration. “It offends me,” Giuliani proclaimed earlier this week on Newsmax.One might suspect that the nature of Mamdani’s ...

A very old joke imagines two elderly Jewish men sitting on a park bench. The first reads the local Yiddish-language newspaper. The second reads an antisemitic, pro-fascist paper. After a few minutes, the first turns to the second and asks, “How can you read that garbage?”The second replies, “When I ...

Usually, when the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams play, it’s a relatively short commute. But this evening, the teams will kick off the NFL’s first-ever regular-season game in Australia.The two teams have taken diametrically opposite approaches to preventing the 8,000-mile journey from d ...

Secretary of State Colin Powell was having breakfast with Peru’s president in Lima’s historic center on September 11, 2001, when an aide passed him a note to inform him that a plane had struck the World Trade Center. Minutes later, he received a second note. “Oh my God,” Powell said aloud.Later that ...

The sky streaked orange and red as my mother drove us home to Albuquerque through the Tijeras Pass, which separates the Sandia Mountains to the north from the Manzanos to the south. “Look out for mushroom clouds,” my father said to her. “If you see them, turn around.”He did this every time we return ...

Prosecutors trying to finally convict Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, got some good news and some bad news last month. The good news is that a judge set a date for Mohammed’s trial in a military court. The bad news is that the trial won’t begin until June ...

Although the University of Chicago bears “Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched” as its official motto, a different slogan entirely has attained much wider fame. Thanks to long-cemented campus lore, the university is best known instead by the refrain of its student body ...

Ab 2029 wird es auf dem Weg von Berlin nach Frankfurt (Oder) noch einige Verkehrsbehinderungen mehr geben – bei der Bahnstrecke und auf der Autobahn.

Photographs by Joseph RushmoreUpdated at 3:42 p.m. ET on September 11, 2026.President Trump began his midterm-convention address last night by casting his spell on the crowd in Dallas. “This place is packed,” he announced from the stage, pointing to the back of the American Airlines Center, where ev ...

On Russian state television, the Kremlin’s propagandists have for years threatened to bomb European capitals, even while the country’s diplomats insist that no such war is imminent. Lately, the denials have gotten hard to sustain, as European intelligence agencies have ascribed hundreds of clandesti ...

Brits dislike intellectuals. But for much of the last century and the beginning of this one, John Berger proved himself a notable exception. Berger first achieved cult status during the 1970s thanks to the success of Ways of Seeing, a four-part BBC series exploring the history of Western art. The se ...

Die Polizei nahm den Mann, der bundesweit Stromleitungen sabotiert haben soll, mit vorgehaltener Pistole fest. Dabei lief eine Bodycam.

When writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho was on a press junket with his sensational genre-twisting, furiously satirical 2019 film, Bacurau, Brazilian cinema was in a state of crisis. Jair Bolsonaro’s oppressive right-wing government targeted the national cinema for destruction, aggressively slashi ...

Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical SurveyAnthony Brewer1980There is a wide range of literature theorizing imperialism, and the best place to start is an overview that is judicious, encompassing, and careful. Brewer’s book is that. It covers not only the classical theories of Vladimir Lenin ...

In 1969, Argentine filmmakers Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas published “Toward a Third Cinema,” a manifesto that rejected both Hollywood spectacle (“first cinema”) and European art house auteurism (“second cinema”) in favor of something new: films made as acts of political struggle, screened cl ...

In 1872, George Crofutt, a publisher of travel guides advertising the American West, commissioned a painting from the German-born John Gast: an idyllic depiction of westward-bound American pioneers. Floating above them is Columbia, the female personification of the United States that inspired the fo ...

In April, President Donald Trump requested a $445 billion increase to the defense budget, meaning the United States will be spending around $1.5 trillion on the military. Much of the largesse will benefit the Big Five war contractors: Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and ...

The past 15 years since the hopey, changey heyday of Barack Obama–era philanthrocapitalism have made the limitations of charitable giving abundantly clear. In 2010, Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett debuted the Giving Pledge, a charitable campaign that invited the richest people i ...

In 1983, with its eight foreign bureaus, The Baltimore Sun could brag that “The Sun Never Sets on the World.” This was the golden age of US international journalism, when even regional newspapers had numerous overseas offices: reporters from the Chicago Tribune could be found in places as far-flung ...

Before “filibuster” meant a very long Senate speech, it was a term for a military adventurer who tried to overthrow a foreign government without official state backing. In the 19th century, US-based filibusters launched many expeditions in Latin America — sometimes out of opposition to Spanish colon ...

Zachary Lockman, Spezialist für Gegenwartsgeschichte des Nahen Ostens, erklärt, was der Terroranschlag mit dem Konzept des Orientalismus zu tun hat.

Zwei Tage vor 9/11 tötete Al-Qaida den charismatischen Rebellenführer Ahmed Massoud. Starb mit ihm die Hoffnung auf ein besseres Afghanistan?

Photographs by Dina LitovskyOnce, when I was 15 years old and as awkward and skinny-legged as a baby giraffe, I was idling in a department store in central London when I saw the novelist Jackie Collins standing at the register.Can you imagine the aura emanating from her, like Hermès-scented magnetic ...

In Berlin-Spandau kandidiert ein Bündnis gegen rechts für die Bezirksverordnetenversammlung.

Trump warnt vor den »kommunistischen« Demokraten und verspricht 5000 Dollar für jeden Erwachsenen und ein Ende des Iran-Krieges – nach der Wahl.

Die DVV-Männer müssen bei der anstehenden EM auf ihren verletzten Anführer Georg Grozer verzichten. Für das Team ist das auch eine Chance.

To hear the Trump administration tell it, the war with Iran is all but over. U.S. military posture tells a different story: Naval forces are being positioned for a sustained presence at least through the end of the year, keeping open the option of escalation.The Navy is moving aircraft carriers, its ...

Singer-Songwriterin Phoebe Bridgers singt in ihrem neuen Album »Lost Weekend« über vergangene Lieben und ist damit die Indie-Variante von Taylor Swift.

Die Serie »Babylon Berlin« erlebt mit Staffel fünf ihren Schlussakkord und erzählt von der Machtergreifung der Nazis.

Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was already slipping into the past tense when we walked together through the National Museum of American History in February.Occasionally, as we stood before an exhibit, he’d discuss his role leading the largest museum system in the world a ...

Unsere Kolumnistin liebt die »Practical Magic«-Reihe von Alice Hoffman. Natürlich hat sie sich die neue Verfilmung im Kino angesehen – und war entzückt.

New Yorks Ex-Bürgermeister Rudy Giuliani liegt zum Gedenktag des 11. September 2001 im Clinch mit dem linken Amtsinhaber Zohran Mamdani.

Auf 9/11 reagierten Deutschland und die EU mit einer Serie von Antiterrorgesetzen. Damit begann ein neues Zeitalter »präemptiver« Polizeiarbeit.

Die Ertüchtigung des deutschen Militärs verschlingt Hunderte von Milliarden. Völlig unklar ist, wie das dauerhaft finanziert werden soll.

Friedrich Merz hat der AfD nahezu jede Idee geklaut. Nur eine nicht. Spätestens jetzt muss er endlich zu Kamera und Mikro greifen, meint unser Kolumnist.

Was haben KI und Faschismus gemeinsam? Wir wissen, dass sie in den Abgrund führen werden, und folgen ihnen nicht nur trotzdem, sondern deswegen.

Die AfD hat für Sachsen-Anhalt auch ein hochschulpolitisches Programm parat. Steht das wirklich im Gegensatz zum existierenden Universitätsbetrieb?

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsDonald Trump continues to insist that he is popular on the eve of an important election, even though everyone else knows he is not. “What I really want you to do is pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot. Just come and vote ...

Updated at 6:01 p.m. ET on September 10, 2026In the anxious days following President Trump’s 2020 election loss—before his supporters stormed the Capitol, before his vengeful return to the White House, before the mass pardons for cop beaters—some Republican figures sought to cast his attempt to over ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.“But is it clean?” asked Elizabeth Berger, a 41-year-old mother of two. It was five months after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and Berger was testifying at a Senate field hearing on air quality in ...

Unabhängiger Ministerpräsident sei »keine stabile Lösung«. SPD und Grüne deuteten Zustimmung an, um AfD-Regierungschef zu verhindern.

Eine Kiezinitiative protestiert gegen katastrophale Wohnverhältnisse. Der Verfall hat auch mit einem undurchsichtigen Deal der SPD von 2021 zu tun.

Psychische Erkrankungen sind eine Klassenfrage. Manche können es sich leisten, sich um sich selbst zu kümmern. Andere sterben auf der Straße.

Während die besten Basketballerinnen um den WM-Titel spielen, zeigt die Ausstellung »Freigespielt!« die Entwicklung des Basketballs in Ost und West.

Beim Parteitag der Republikaner in Texas will Präsident Trump für seine Republikaner werben. Dafür setzt er auch auf ein ungewöhnliches Mittel.

Argentiniens Präsident Javier Milei geht im Dauerstreit mit Großbritannien um eine Inselgruppe im Südatlantik in die Offensive.

Wagenknecht-Partei ist offen für eine Zusammenarbeit mit der rechten Partei bei den Themen Energieversorgung, Bildung und Friedenspolitik.

Nothing quickens the pulse of an Apple fan more than these three words: one more thing.  Steve Jobs used the catchphrase to introduce the original iPhone in 2007. In his 15 years running the company, Tim Cook deployed it only a handful of times, including before his 2014 announcement of the Apple Wa ...

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 Donald Trump looks at a map, he doesn’t see nations. He sees property. All of those pretty colors ...

Photographs by Sasha ArutyunovaLike most New Englanders of a certain generation, my parents viewed New York City with distrust. They associated their neighbor to the south with “The Bronx Is Burning,” Bernhard Goetz, blackouts, bankruptcy, and the famous New York Daily News headline Ford to City: Dr ...

Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET on September 9, 2026Where were you on 9/11? Every American old enough to remember the day has an answer to that question. President Trump has several.At a ceremony honoring first responders and victims’ families yesterday, Trump offered an elaborate account of where he was in ...

Is Donald Trump trying to help Republicans win the midterm elections? The obvious answer to this question is yes, of course, simply because all political leaders benefit from their party winning elections. Yet several of Trump’s actions throw this normally perfunctory question into at least some dou ...

© Jenny Stock / Ocean Photographer of the YearWinner, Female Fifty Fathoms Award. An American crocodile moves through the mangroves of Cuba, a habitat that provides shelter for crocodiles feeding, breeding, nesting, and raising their young.© Marc Lenfant / Ocean Photographer of the YearFinalist, Adv ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum is joined by John McConnell, the longtime senior speechwriter for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, to discuss their memories of September 11, 2001—25 years late ...

A “chicken plate,” in military parlance, is a protective shield used in a variety of combat situations. During the Vietnam War, chicken plates were inserted into vests—they are resistant against small-arms fire, but they’re also bulky and hot. So some pilots sat on them instead, which had the added ...

As we enter the late 2020s, the legacy of the Beatles — history’s biggest band, by any measure — is facing a final reckoning. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the group’s last surviving members, are now eighty-four and eighty-six, respectively. This should remind us that what might be called the “Bea ...

In 2012, South Korean rapper and singer-songwriter PSY released a K-pop track called “Gangnam Style.” A month after its release, the song was viral — it peaked at number two on the US’s Billboard Hot 100 and topped charts in 30 other countries around the world, while the accompanying music video sna ...

The 2026 World Cup was supposed to provide relief from the tournament’s bedevilment by autocratic regimes, following the outrage that greeted FIFA’s selection of Russia for 2018 host and Qatar for 2022. As it happened, hosting rights were awarded to the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 2018, dur ...

In October 1996, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il issued an order encouraging basketball in schools and government organs. The following January, he published a treatise called “We Must Put Efforts to Developing Basketball.” Over the next two years, he required every high school and military squad to ...

A few months ago, my partner and I met a liberal, fortysomething history professor who told us that for his next book he’d been reading up on late-1990s alter-globalization movements. As the millennium neared, global capitalism seemingly stood unchallenged. Social democrats and ex-communists praised ...

Finish the American RevolutionJacobin’s latest print issue is a welcome addition to the growing conversation about the need for a new and democratic constitution. The constitutional system frustrates the working class’s struggle for freedom, equality, and self-rule.Democratic Socialists of America ( ...

On August 7, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey announced a mutual defense pact called the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan compared the arrangement to NATO, specifically citing Article 5’s collective defense clause.President Donald Trump lauded the pact as a “BIG, ...

Our Line Is Left-Zinovievism With American CharacteristicsHonestly the fundamental problem with Jacobin is that it doesn’t seem willing to have an actual editorial line instead of credulously featuring everybody willing to talk about whatever beliefs they have in “left-wing” language lol. — @Ottokar ...

Debt-trap diplomacyCoined in 2017 to describe Chinese lending in the Global South. A geopolitical strategy in which a creditor nation or institution extends loans to a borrowing nation to enhance the creditor’s political influence and economic interests in the developing world. The International Mon ...

The summer of 1976 was Britain’s hottest in 350 years. The West Indies cricket team was there all season long, playing England in city after city in the oppressive heat. There was a lot riding on its performance. To the cricketers and their fans back home in the Caribbean, the team’s mission went be ...

In 1950, as conservatives are keen to point out, Cuba was among the better-off societies in Latin America. Its income per person was ahead of the Dominican Republic’s. Today, by that same measure, the Dominican Republic is more than twice as rich as Cuba. However, something happened to Cuba that did ...

For years, Europe’s rising far-right parties have wrapped themselves in the language of sovereignty. Draped in their respective national flags, each has promised to put national interests and national identity above all else. France’s Rassemblement National deploys the slogan “Les Français d’abord,” ...

It happens every time now. The United States jumps headfirst into a Middle Eastern quagmire, and, like clockwork, voices start rising, blaming it all on Israel. The two most salient cases of this exercise unfolded around the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by the George W. Bush administration, and the jo ...

The motor of an Iranian Shahed-136 drone is little more powerful or complex than that of a motorcycle. But stopping one is no simple matter, as the United States and Israel found out after they launched a war on Iran in February. To protect Israel and the Gulf states from Iran’s cheap, mass-produced ...

Ibrahim Traoré, president of Burkina Faso since October 2022, polarizes opinion, to say the least. Some hail him as the hope for a new Pan-Africanism, the long-overdue end of French imperialism in West Africa, and resource sovereignty. Others point to the authoritarian traits of the regime and the r ...

In 2022 and 2023, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) promised African nations $97 billion worth of investment in ports, energy, mining, agriculture, communications, manufacturing, real estate, and more. These commitments made the UAE the largest funder of new projects in Africa, and if it continues to i ...

It’s hard to believe that just twenty-five years ago, the global justice movement had to defend itself against the charge of parochial, narrow-minded nationalism. This was the accusation made by respectable, supposedly forward-looking outlets like The Economist and The New Republic. The protesters i ...

On September 8, 2025, a video shot in Columbia University’s bookstore went viral on X. Over the elegant sounds of Antonio Vivaldi’s “Spring,” it cut between shots of available titles, all of them presumably assigned to students: Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks; a children’s book about the lat ...

What is ecological imperialism?Matt HuberMany on the Marxist left define imperialism in terms of value transfers or unequal exchange between the Global North and South, but relations of value extraction and exploitation are also central to our theories of capitalism. I follow the work of Leo Panitch ...

Omar Ahmad Abdallah al-Jamili cannot fully open his mouth. His ear is deformed, and his face is a topography of surgical scars — skin grafted and stretched across bone in operations performed in Amsterdam, the capital of the country whose air force set him on fire.Omar was four years old on the nigh ...

Die Generaldebatte stand im Zeichen des CDU-Debakels in Sachsen-Anhalt. Zudem wurden die Etats für Auswärtiges und der für Verteidigung diskutiert.

At the edge of Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station, families cluster along the platform, their belongings packed into cloth bundles and plastic sacks. Children lie half asleep in their mothers’ laps as announcements echo overhead. Trains heading toward Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and beyond are full. Over t ...

“When I first saw it, I was like, ‘It’s a block.’” Woodlawn resident Linda Spears had been watching the construction of the Obama Foundation’s sprawling campus from her condo overlooking Jackson Park in Chicago, but it wasn’t until opening weekend, when the barriers came down, that she finally went ...

It’s just been the dancing days of the dirtbag left.1 They are a great gift to Donald Trump.2 Every Democrat and every American should recognize that the DSA represents a fundamental threat to our party and our country. This is not a story about a few idealists seeking to reduce healthcare costs. It ...

On May 12, 1962, General Douglas MacArthur strode into the West Point mess hall and delivered a stirring farewell address before an audience of more than two thousand cadets. It had been just over a year since another famed former general, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, had famously delivered his o ...

Antifa has gotten away with its evils and terrorized cities across our country for far too long.1 Antifa is a primary reason why many conservatives are afraid to go out and protest and make their voices heard.2 Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all ...

I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union. I don’t want California to end up in the same place.1 Why do Americans think we can do socialism? We have none of that in our DNA, and we’re just going to screw it up.2 The progressiv ...

Indian military bases abroad: 19Russian military bases abroad: 35UK military bases abroad: 118Turkish military bases abroad: 131US military bases abroad: 861Countries where the US maintains military bases: 95Value of foreign military sales carried out by the US government in 2021: $29BIn 2022: $43BI ...

Before Paul Berman became a liberal hawk, he was a New Left veteran who edited a book called Quotations from the Anarchists. In 1986, his long-standing anxiety about the authoritarian left may have produced a casualty: Michael Moore’s magazine career.Moore had edited Mother Jones for five months whe ...

In June, the policy world held its collective breath as the World Inequality Lab, the outfit headed by Thomas Piketty, released a report meant to serve as a capstone to years of extensive research on the elusive goal of leveling global incomes. Christened the Global Justice Report (GJR), Piketty and ...

Six weeks after the outbreak of World War I, as Europe’s great empires sent millions to their deaths, Karl Kautsky published an essay predicting something almost impossible to believe. In an article for Die Neue Zeit called “Der Imperialismus,” better known under the English title “Ultra-Imperialism ...

The central questions confronting the United Auto Workers (UAW) are no mystery: Can the union organize the nonunion auto industry, particularly across the South? Can it bargain contracts that reverse decades of concessions? Can it rebuild the kind of shop-floor power that once made the UAW the count ...

March 16–April 5Meatpackers in Greeley, CO, followed months of unsuccessful contract negotiations with three weeks on the picket line in an effort to secure wage increases and reimbursement for protective gear. They won a new contract in mid-April that includes a 70-cent raise this year and a 40-cen ...

Just a few months ago, we were celebrating the 250th birthday of the good ol’ US of A — and not long before that, Jacobin’s own anniversary. But now things are a bit grimmer. Our stars-and-stripes democratic socialism stands in horror before the second Trump administration’s imperial and unjust war ...

Die 32-Jährige zeigt nach ihrer langen Verletzungspause gegen Südkorea eine Topleistung und führt das deutsche Team ins Viertelfinale der Heim-WM.

Das selbstverwaltete Jugendzentrum »Potse« kämpft um seine Räumlichkeiten. In mündliche Zusagen hat das Kollektiv kein Vertrauen

Obwohl seit Ende April über 100 neue U-Bahn-Wagen für die Linie von Hönow zum Hauptbahnhof in Betrieb genommen worden sind, spüren Fahrgäste Mangel.

Jahrzehntelang hat Ralf Rusch die Interessen der Thüringer Kommunen vertreten. Nun arbeitet er als Schöffe und lernt eine für ihn neue Welt kennen.

Jahrzehntelang hat Ralf Rusch die Interessen der Thüringer Kommunen vertreten. Nun arbeitet er als Schöffe und lernt eine für ihn neue Welt kennen

Joe Sacco is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of comics journalism. He became famous for his Palestine (first published in 1993–95) which offered a powerful portrayal of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation. In 2009 came his Footnotes in Gaza, and, in 2024, War on Gaza, a collection of co ...

Fragwürdige Prognose: Wagenknecht-Partei kommt mit 5,5 Prozent angeblich sicher ins Abgeordnetenhaus, während die CDU auf 13,5 Prozent abstürzt.

Fragwürdige Prognose: Wagenknecht-Partei kommt mit 5,5 Prozent angeblich sicher ins Abgeordnetenhaus, während die CDU auf 13,5 Prozent abstürzt.

Die Kritiker nicht im Griff und die Verbündeten verprellt: So hat es Friedrich Merz konsequent zum Beginn seines Untergangs gebracht.

Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft kritisiert krasse Lohnungerechtigkeit im Lehrerzimmer

Der 11. September 2001 markierte eine neue globale Konstellation. Statt diese zu begreifen, erklärte man sie sich zunehmend mit Verschwörungsideologien.

Die Universitätsmedizin in Cottbus macht dieses Jahr voraussichtlich 6,9 Millionen Euro minus. Es liegt mit dieser einkalkulierten Summe voll im Plan.

Die Popkultur reagierte auf den 11. September 2001 mit Ablenkung und Patriotismus. 25 Jahre danach zeigt das Relikt 9/11 den Niedergang der US-Hegemonie.

Nach Angriffen auf Stromnetze in der Nähe von Braunkohletagebau ist ein 48-Jähriger festgenommen worden. In Aachen steht er nun vor dem Haftrichter.

Mitten im Wahlkampf steht Berlins SPD-Spitzenkandidat Steffen Krach im Mittelpunkt eines Korruptionsverfahrens. Vorwürfe lässt Krach zurückweisen.

Faschisten wollen nicht diskutieren: Der sehr aktuelle Film »Bernd – Operation Germanenkind« zeigt, wie man trotz aller Appelle Nazi wird.

Two factions of the American left that ought to be allies remain estranged. In their new report entitled The Left’s Coalition Crisis, Joan C. Williams, author of Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back, and Jared Abbott, the director of the Center for Working Class P ...

Karimah Ashadu zeigt in Hannover, wie männliche Codes an der Klassengesellschaft Nigerias brechen wie die Wellen des Meeres

Nach dem historischen Sieg gegen Südkorea trifft das deutsche Team bei der Heim-WM in der Runde der letzten Acht auf Europameister Belgien.

Rechtsextremismus-Experte sieht den von ihm mitbegründeten Verein Miteinander nach dem AfD-Erfolg in Sachsen-Anhalt akut bedroht.

Geschichten in Bildern: Unter dem Titel »Derselbe Himmel« stellt die Galerie Pankow in Berlin Modefotografie von Ute Mahler aus.

Die Rechten spalten das Land, heißt es. Aber sie einen es eben auch unter deutscher Flagge. Ein Kommentar

“We really thought we had won,” says Lee Ziesche, a cochair of the Tucson Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in Arizona, ruefully recalling August 2025. Along with other groups and thousands of community members, DSA had been battling the developer Beale Infrastructure over a massive artificial ...

Ein Abkommen soll die deutsch-ukrainische Rüstungskooperation vertiefen. Außenminister Wadephul geht es auch in einem »Drone Deal« um mehr Profite.

Der Putschversuch in Niger offenbart Risse in der Armee, markiert aber nicht das Scheitern der Militärregierung.

Die AfD siegte angeführt von einem rechtsextremen Kandidaten, der diesmal einen freundlichen und beruhigenden Ton anschlug. Ein Gastkommentar.

Die AfD siegte angeführt von einem rechtsextremen Kandidaten, der diesmal einen freundlichen und beruhigenden Ton anschlug. Ein Gastkommentar.

Weniger Drama, mehr DRAMMA! »nd«-Kolumnistin Leni Karrer hat nach Erholung gesucht, aber nur wenig davon gefunden.

China has created one of the largest working classes in the world — twice. The first time was in the framework of a socialist economic system, fashioned by Mao Zedong after the revolution of 1949. The second time was under a form of state-directed capitalism following Mao’s death, fifty years ago to ...

Der linke Europapolitiker Walter Baier zur wirtschaftlichen Lage in Kuba, zur Politik der EU und zur Haltung der Europäischen Linken

Sebastian Weiermann über die mangelnde Entschlossenheit in Sachen AfD-Verbot

»Alle Menschen sind vor dem Gesetz gleich«, fordert das Grundgesetz. Die Praxis sieht anders aus, wie eine Studie der Initiative Finanzwende zeigt.

Fachleute begrüßen Gesetzentwurf zu Suizidprävention, kritisieren ihn aber als unkonkret: Finanzierung von Maßnahmen nicht gesichert.

Americans may not realize for many years just how lucky they were that Lonnie G. Bunch III led the Smithsonian Institution from 2019 to 2026. Bunch has announced that he will step down at the end of this year. He insists that the timing is his own, and we should do him the honor of believing him—not ...

Trotz Repression genießen die Militärs in Niger breite Unterstützung. Das hat unter anderem mit ihrer Wirtschaftspolitik zu tun.

Ein Gespräch mit dem Indie-Quartett Frau Lehmann aus Leipzig über Probenroutine, Musik als Lohnarbeit und pervers grüne Limonade.

Zwei Überlegungen (mit und ohne Goethe) für und wider die strategiegeleitete Stimmvergabe

For many readers, the career of the novelist Bret Easton Ellis is the standard for mainstream literary stardom. The biopic writes itself: While still a college undergraduate, Ellis strikes it big with his debut novel, 1985’s Less Than Zero, an unsentimental stenography of disaffected, privileged you ...

Francis Fukuyama never promised us we’d be happy.To be fair to the many readers who thought otherwise, The End of History and the Last Man, his famous 1992 book, did give off a whiff of utopia, trumpeting a post–Cold War world in which liberal democracy had vanquished competing political systems and ...

Alpha-Liponsäure hat Einfluss auf den Blutzucker und trägt zum Schutz feiner Blutgefäße bei Diabetes bei.

Erinnerungen an den Kabarettisten Edgar Külow, der vor 101 Jahren geboren wurde und der nun mit dem Sammelband »Der rote Blitz« gewürdigt wird.

Until last week, a big electric-blue sculpture by Joel Shapiro sat next to the Kennedy Center. Boxy and rigid but seemingly weightless, Blue looked like a clumsy person who’d been swept by a breeze into an accidental pirouette. Shapiro called the metalwork a “celebration of possibility.” Some people ...

During a visit in May to the Maritime Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I watched a film about a 1917 cargo-ship explosion that killed more than 1,700 townspeople and injured many more. The grainy black-and-white images of the flattened city catapulted me back to the devastation of Lower Manhattan aft ...

Illustrations by Molly SneeThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.When Shoshannah Roberts talks about the four babies she’s given away, she glows. “When I think about it now, it still feels emotional,” she told me. “Those moments are so magical.”For ...

Verbände und Fachleute beklagen Milliardenlücke im Klima- und Transformationsfonds sowie Kürzungen bei Bildung und Demokratieförderung.

Als erster CDU-Ministerpräsident will Hendrik Wüst die AfD verfassungsrechtlich prüfen – Bayern und Hessen sind skeptisch.

In 2016, Gloria Steinem backed Hillary Clinton and dismissed young women who supported Bernie Sanders as doing so only because “the boys are with Bernie.” (She later said she misspoke). After her death last week, Steinem has been extravagantly praised in the mainstream media. Is it any wonder, then, ...

Not long ago, a close friend of mine, a software engineer, was discussing how his job role had changed in recent months as his company had moved to adopt an “AI-first approach.” He explained that this approach had altered his team’s dynamics. He told me how he now dreads one question more than any o ...

For as long as ChatGPT has existed, Americans have been asking it, “Could that funny little spot on my toe be cancer?” And as AI has advanced over the past few years, doctors have begun to use specialized models to ask much the same questions in clinics. In the face of these developments, profession ...

Breakfast-cereal boxes are a window into both the politics of food and American culture. As a particularly timely example, since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office last year as secretary of health and human services, he has called for the removal of artificial dyes from breakfast cereals. On Fox News ...

This past June, a Virginia mother named Karyann Parkinson took a bike ride with her 5-year-old son and stopped by a pond inside their gated community to collect goose feathers from the grass. The two of them rode back home, whereupon Parkinson’s son asked his mother if he could walk back to the pond ...

This story was updated at 6:12 p.m. ET on September 8, 2026.Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch plans to retire from the institution at the end of this year, bringing to a close a tenure marked by unprecedented pressure on the museum complex from a White House keen on controlling how to tell the nati ...

Am Monte Calamita führen Trails durch ehemalige Bergbaugebiete. Wer Elba mit dem E-Bike erkundet, hat auch Zeit für Bergdörfer und Badebuchten.

Das Lokal an der Schönhauser kocht mit regionalen Zutaten – selbst der Ingwer wächst in der Nähe.

Sepsis-Stiftung fordert nationale Strategie zum Infektionsmanagement, darunter auch mehr Aufmerksamkeit für Alarmsignale von Angehörigen.

Adam Jentleson’s Supermajority: How Democrats Can Build Lasting Power challenges us to think longer term about what it would take to halt the steady march of right-wing authoritarianism and deliver durable but long-overdue relief for working Americans. Its premise is simple: the only way to get from ...

Britain is becoming a sicker country. A country in which millions of people can expect to spend an increasing share of their lives in poor health is not just a recipe for a social crisis but a political one too.The latest figures are extraordinary. Healthy life expectancy in the United Kingdom has f ...

Vor 25 Jahren flogen zwei Flugzeuge ins World Trade Center und veränderten die Welt. Auch der Kriegs- und Krisenjournalismus ist seither ein anderer.

The human brain has a method for dealing with the intrinsic fear of death. Terror-management theory, which builds on the work of the cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, explains that the psyche handles this fear in a variety of ways. Many people either escape reality or adopt a belief system that ...

The modern world owes a lot to the Enlightenment, the 18th-century intellectual movement that emphasized the power of reason. But the Enlightenment also created a myth: that we can get to know the objective world completely, with total clarity, as if we were looking at it from the outside. This myth ...

In Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt, local Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund ran on the slogan “Anything Is Possible.” Those same words could serve as the headline for political forecasts the day after the vote. For while the election produced a clear winner, i ...

Photographs and video by Cody O’LoughlinHudson, a 10-year-old arctic fox at Massachusetts’s Stone Zoo, was not doing all that much when his caretakers came by his enclosure one sunny morning last month. But the moment he detected their approach, he scurried over. His eyes focused on the pink, kibble ...

Die Massenverteilung innerhalb von Sternenhaufen variiert deutlich, wie neue Beobachtungen zeigen.

During the early Trump era, focus groups taught me everything about the disconnect between Washington and what voters really care about. An early revelation came in July 2018; I had flown to Columbus, Ohio, to hear from a group of people who’d voted for Donald Trump in 2016, but only reluctantly.Thr ...

In 1976, as the country commemorated its bicentennial, an aging Norman Rockwell, then at the tail end of his career as America’s preeminent illustrator, painted his last magazine cover, Liberty Bell (Celebration). It was a tender—and notably low-key—tribute to national unity that doubled as a capsto ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.The latest Iranian assassination threat arrived last month as a video called “Where to Kill Barron Trump,” promising $10 million for the murder of the U.S. president’s youngest child. Less than 24 hours later, on social media, the State Departm ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Updated at 4:32 p.m. ET on September 8, 2026.In the fall of 2007, as the American housing market began to buckle, a Morgan Stanley bond trader named Howie Hubler lost $9 billion. The bellicose former linebacker ...

Photographs by Cheng-Chia HuangSign up for our newsletter about national security here.Chinese President Xi Jinping does not often look like he’s having a good time. His resting face at public events exudes a mixture of boredom and annoyance, as though he has more interesting business elsewhere. His ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsAmericans are bogged down in paperwork for reasons that are sometimes necessary, sometimes thoughtless—and, at times, nefarious. In her new book, The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time—And How to Fix It, my colleag ...

A century ago, workers in Hong Kong and Guangzhou — then generally known in English as Canton — waged one of the longest continuous general strikes in history. At the time, foreign powers such as Britain and Japan had carved China into spheres of influence. Wave after wave of students’ and workers’ ...

A strange thing happened to me in a deserted parking lot on a recent Sunday morning: My 16-year-old daughter actually asked me a question.I was telling her everything I know about reversing a car without the help of a backup camera. “First turn your whole body, shoulders rotated, right hand on the b ...

Unions have more public support than just about anything else in the United States, and yet their membership has cratered. This poses an immense challenge to left-wing politicians who won’t be able to enact lasting change without a robust labor movement beside them.On this latest episode of the Jaco ...

On Thursday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order creating the Mayor’s Office of Worker Power (MOWP), the nation’s first municipal agency built to help workers organize.Tony Perlstein will run the MOWP, reporting to Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su. A former longshoreman and unio ...

American socialists are convinced that they have a media-training problem.In the past year, members of the Democratic Socialists of America, the country’s largest leftist organization, have won electoral victories in places such as New York City and Michigan, drawing a spotlight that the group has s ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.David Huerta sat on a steel bed too small for his burly frame in a Los Angeles jail last summer and looked out a small rectangular window at Dodger Stadium, where he’d once spent evenings with his two boys. He was the kid who’d made good, altho ...

Labor Day isn’t the most exciting of holidays. It doesn’t quite have the verve or internationalism of May Day, and its meaning is overshadowed by important things like discounts on flat-screen TVs.But Labor Day was a real victory for the workers’ movement. As Tim Goulet writes in Jacobin, the holida ...

Fruit flies exposed to many dead fruit flies lose their fat stores, die more quickly than those kept naive. I who have lived long now and will die of my living, not of my grief, and more than once from a public garden stole roses— red ones and pink ones, scented and not— stammer before these trouble ...

“I swear, I can die in peace now. I can die smiling.” Coming from the renowned writer and activist Arundhati Roy, these words are startling.For more than three decades, Roy has stood alongside people fighting to protect their land, their homes, and their rights from destructive development projects, ...

There’s nothing to see here, folks. Don’t believe your lying eyes. The eldest son of the president of the United States and his investment firm, 1789 Capital, are raising money in a funding round for Polymarket, the gambling website that styles itself a “prediction market” and which Donald Trump Jr’ ...

No matter how you read it, The Power Broker is a serious undertaking. The paperback weighs as much as a brick; to avoid lugging around all 1,344 pages, people have cut it apart at the spine and chunked it into sections. Others have organized in-person Power Broker marathon readings that run continuo ...

One simple rule shapes Kansas politics: Republicans win statewide. In U.S. Senate races, the GOP has prevailed without interruption for more than 90 years. But the rule has a corollary, which accounts for the occasional Democratic governor. A Republican thought to be too extreme, too ideological, or ...

Ouano Tante worked the afternoon shift at the Tyson beef plant in Joslin, Illinois, for five years. But when she and hundreds of her coworkers arrived at work on August 13, they found the plant closed.They speculated that someone on the morning shift might have gotten injured. Then two mid-level sup ...

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.September has arrived, bringing the first hints of fall: cooler days, changing leaves, and the urge to ...

Updated at 10:42 a.m. ET on September 8, 2026This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Many people think that AI is going to gain consciousness and take over the world, but I’ve never been among them. That’s mostly because I believe the human mind conta ...

When I first visited Japan more than 30 years ago, the Cold War had ended, China had not yet risen, and the country—although it was no longer the Japan as Number One of Ezra Vogel’s best-selling 1979 book—was formidable. Japan’s GDP was not very far behind that of the United States, was larger than ...

Donald Trump has made several recent overtures to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a new summit, seven years after their meeting in Hanoi ended inconclusively. Over the summer, he abruptly reduced the scale of the annual US–South Korea joint military exercises. Four times in the space of nine day ...

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. On a special edition of Washington Week Wi ...

Wages have been bad for years, but the quality of work hasn’t fared much better. Gig work, with its insecurity and minimal protection from managerial whims, has proliferated. New technology has enabled a degree of workforce surveillance that previous generations would have regarded as unacceptable. ...

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.A strange thing happens when you see something every day: Eventually, you stop seeing it. A building ...

High above the waters of the Lac d’Aiguille in southeastern France, hundreds of drones formed the face of Maximilien Robespierre, the Jacobin deputy to the National Convention during the French Revolution. Then they shifted into a new form, as the face of Louise Michel, a key figure in the Paris Com ...

Wendell Berry was not an easy man to reach. When I wanted to interview him for this magazine in the spring of 2015, his publicist warned me that a press request would take some doing. Berry didn’t have a cellphone. He didn’t use email. He didn’t even have a computer. He wrote most of his drafts by h ...

When J. D. Vance was asked at a press conference on Thursday about his relationship with Tucker Carlson, the media personality and ultra-right-wing conspiracy theorist, he displayed a surprising side of himself: human, vulnerable, almost touchingly naive.“Tucker is a friend, despite the fact that we ...

Construction is notoriously slow-going work. But in Donald Trump’s Washington, cranes and bulldozers appear like DoorDash deliveries: fast, frictionless, and on demand.To build the president’s White House ballroom, roughly 250 workers have been pouring concrete and installing steel framework, keepin ...

Students returning to campus this semester are arriving with a great deal of anxiety about AI and what it will mean for their lives after college. They are right to be worried. New research from Stanford shows that, even though the much-hyped AI job apocalypse has yet to materialize, the technology ...

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.The crypto industry has always moved in cycles: booms and busts; bull markets and harsh, unforgiving “w ...

Gloria Steinem, the establishment’s favorite radical feminist, died on September 2.The mainstream media has gone all out in praising her, with the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times united in their adulation. The Times called her the “personification of the women’s movement” and credited her ...

When did AI companies become AI labs? That term, and the image of studious, exacting white-coated scientists that it conjures, has become curiously entrenched as a descriptor for the businesses swiftly escorting the world into an existentially unsettling future. AI companies themselves have embraced ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.When I read Thomas More’s Utopia in college, the main thing I retained was that the inhabitants of More’s imaginary island worked just six hours a day and earned what we might now call a uni ...

During the five weeks of her murder trial, Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of murdering her three young children in 2023, spoke barely a word. She has been on display for the entirety of her livestreamed trial, sitting in her wheelchair beside her lawyer at the defense table. At one ...

Late last month, OpenAI launched a rather grand mission: nothing less than defending individual political freedom in an age of all-powerful machines. The company’s “Strategic Futures” team has styled itself, in a sense, as inheriting the task of America’s Founding Fathers: “We labor in service of th ...

Jon Ronson had never really thought about the term masculinity until a strange series of events led him down a rabbit hole involving castles, cage fights, and an actor playing a horse. Host Charlie Warzel talks to Ronson about the disinhibited men who are looking for purpose in all the wrong places. ...

Onslaught, in theaters this week, should be the perfect early-September treat. The aggressive action thriller is gory, loud, and packed with interesting actors, and it has a straightforward premise: Three murderous super-soldiers, the result of some shadowy extra-governmental experiment, have escape ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube How do you find your purpose? How do you confront your own mortality? How do you repair a broken community? There are a lot of podcasts about the latest developments in politics and finance, health and wellness, entertainment and tech. The Permanent ...

In August 1982, a parcel bomb went off at the Center for African Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique. Sent by the South African government’s Special Branch, its target and victim was Ruth First, a lifelong member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), who was fifty-sev ...

From 2024 to 2025, the two hundred largest pension funds in the United States increased their investment in private credit by 57 percent. It’s now gone up around 650 percent over the past five years. Private credit is the other side of the coin to private equity (PE) — among other things, it provide ...

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama wrote a sweeping philosophical polemic in which he argued that liberal democratic capitalism was the only viable economic and political system. Countries would either converge on its model or drift into dysfunction. What prevented states and individuals from accepting this ...

Ahsan Mohammed Ahmed Ahmed / Anadolu / GettyA fencer performs during a full moon in Erbil, Iraq, on August 28, 2026.Vadim Ghirda / APFrecce Tricolori, the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian air force, perform at the Bucharest International Air Show in Romania on August 29, 2026.Vyacheslav O ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.In 2004, Willoughby Britton, then a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Arizona, began recruiting participants for a study that, she felt sure, would show meditation improves sleep.Bri ...

When residents of a block in Belgrade’s city center woke up to the news last week, they were confronted with a mural celebrating a war criminal, painted overnight. Furious, they plotted a “night action” to destroy this latest tribute to Ratko Mladić with improvised defacement tactics. While the war ...

Sign up for Ordinary Extraordinary, Ian Bogost’s newsletter on making everyday life vivid.You have, by now, probably come across the notion of maxxing—looks-maxxing, sleep-maxxing, protein-maxxing, potassium-maxxing, sun-maxxing, testosterone-maxxing. Etymologically speaking, maxxing seems to be a d ...

Five years ago, people who hang out in the stranger corners of the web started arguing that the internet was mostly fake. It had been this way since about 2016, they said, when Google introduced its artificial neural network for machine translation. Supposedly, from that point forward, online intera ...

In March, one of the most important antitrust cases in recent memory went to trial. The Department of Justice and 39 states plus the District of Columbia had sued the ticketing-and-entertainment giant Live Nation, alleging that its 2010 merger with Ticketmaster had created an effective monopoly on l ...

By the time he retired from the Marine Corps, in 1931, Major General Smedley Butler had served in Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, the Philippines, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and China. It was the golden age of American imperialism, and Butler was one of its golden boys, among the most decorat ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.During the 1984 Super Bowl, an advertisement launched a technological revolution. If you were alive, you probably know the one. Directed by Ridley Scott, the minute-long ...

Like late-summer humidity, Hasan Piker hangs heavy over the discourse.At a rally on Monday, Vice President Vance brought up the hard-left streamer in an attempt to paint the Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed as anti-American. Last week, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called Piker’s r ...

We’ll start this conference looking back on 2026 Washington Architecture by being honest: We have no idea what happened here. The snapshot of this planet that my comrades and I managed to obtain on our brief visit left us, if anything, more confused about Earth than we had been before. What follows ...

As summer turns into fall, the United States remains mired in a wildly unpopular war in Iran. On the home front, inflation is stubbornly persistent. All indications point to the president’s party suffering major losses in the November midterms — if, that is, the various Republican attempts to interf ...

A decade ago in northern England, a young woman named Gayle Newland was convicted—twice—of an unusual crime. Another woman, who was known variously as “Chloe” and “Miss X” in court documents and media reports, reported that she’d been a victim of sexual fraud. Newland, she said, had posed as a chron ...

You’ve heard of the oil lobby, the tobacco lobby, the Israel lobby, the charter school lobby. Behind all of these are billionaires who benefit from the underlying industries or sectors, and whose corporations use their resources to lobby the government for favorable policies. Now, in reaction to a C ...

What lies behind the ascendance of Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again movement? All sorts of demagogic political appeals — racism, sexism, anti-immigrant stereotyping — have played integral roles in the rise of the Right, of course. But a fundamental underlying driver is popular disillusi ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Throughout most of Gloria Steinem’s life, two versions of her existed. Publicly, Steinem was a figurehead: the glamorous co-founder of Ms. magazine, a totem for second-wave feminism and a bull’s-eye for its detr ...

To hear Ronald D. Johnson tell it, the United States and Mexico have entered an era of blissful cooperation. Johnson, a former Army and intelligence officer who took up his post as U.S. ambassador to Mexico in the spring of 2025, has chronicled on his social-media feeds joint efforts to incapacitate ...

Confronted with a seasoned, boiled, arguably delicious crayfish, some of the people of the Netherlands are not sure exactly what to do. “Do you suck the head out?” I heard from the table next to me earlier this summer, at Two Chefs, a restaurant in Amsterdam that hosts a monthly crayfish boil. Yes ...

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was a Socialist Party stronghold for much of the first half of the twentieth century. Socialists there built a strong presence in the labor movement and city council and held the mayor’s office for nearly forty years between 1910 and 1960.The Milwaukee socialists’ focus on good ...

For decades, anyone writing about Victor Serge had to begin by explaining who he was and why we should care. Despite an enormous literary legacy, he had been literally airbrushed from Soviet history, a forgotten figure even on much of the Left. History is rarely kind to the vanquished, and Serge sto ...

When the Yangtze River flooded in 1998 and inundated villages in central China, Jiang Zemin, the Communist Party’s general secretary, was on the scene, bullhorn in hand, to encourage local relief efforts. Ten years later, his successor, Hu Jintao, stood among the rubble after an earthquake rocked Si ...

The cyclosporiasis outbreak that has garnered so much attention in recent months is unquestionably bad news. People have been sickened in at least 48 states, and the number of lab-confirmed cases—about 17,000—represents only a fraction of the number of people who have been infected by the parasite.B ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsThe breakout crime drama Furious opens with a scene that’s hard to watch: Catherine, a serial killer played by Lola Petticrew, is keeping a man prisoner in a row house and taunting him as he dies: “I don’t like the sounds yo ...

When clients go to Sybil Ottenstein for therapy, they tend to arrive with answers. Many of them have seen shrinks before. They can tell her which events from their past were formative, and point to the ripple effects in their current life. They’re like detectives, she told me, with all the dots conn ...

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.The day before Donald Trump’s second State of the Union address, the former Representative George Santo ...

In the West Bank village of At-Tuwani this July 19, Ruqayya Rabe’i, three months pregnant, lay in her room beside her four sleeping daughters. At 12:30 a.m., the first stones hit her home. She rushed to check the front door. There in the living room, she found her fifteen-year-old son, Usayd, sleepi ...

On Friday evening, US President Donald Trump announced — via Truth Social post — the “biggest oil deal in world history,” which would see the United States take partial control of a shocking sixty-five billion barrels of Venezuelan oil, more than doubling the United States’ current reserves.Secretar ...

There is a lot of debate about whether artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) in particular, will make people smarter or dumber. The case for dumber is that LLMs can be used as a substitute for learning. Rather than struggling through a subject and working your brain around understand ...

The recent rise in long-term US Treasury yields has revived a familiar story about fiscal irresponsibility. Commentators point to large federal deficits, growing public debt, and the volume of Treasury securities coming onto the market. From this perspective, higher yields are the market’s response ...

On a fall evening in 2015, I accepted — with some reluctance — an invitation to a gathering at the home of Nina Witoszek, a popular émigré writer and gadfly in Oslo. I did not know Nina well, though for years I had read her columns in Aftenposten, Norway’s largest newspaper. I had also seen firsthan ...

In Michigan, where progressive Abdul El-Sayed is facing off for the must-win Senate seat against Donald Trump–backed Mike Rogers, Democrats have a problem. How to reconcile their distaste for their own party’s nominee with the imperative to care about winning?Attorney General Dana Nessel modeled a w ...

The dullest yet most enraging film of the year may very well be The Dog Stars, a draggy postapocalyptic thriller with no thrills, even of the grim dystopian kind.This latest effort by director Ridley Scott, from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith (Twisters, The Revenant) based on the 2012 novel of the sa ...

On Tuesday, August 18, an Argentine citizen named Fernando Cerimedo was arrested at the Viru Viru International Airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Cerimedo, age forty-five, was charged with the attempted homicide of his ex-partner, Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller, and ordered held for 180 day ...

During World War II, bomber pilots would tell each other, “if you’re taking flak, you’re over the target.” Don’t demur, you’ve struck a nerve. Opposition, at times, isn’t all that bad a sign — if anything, it could point to something good, or at least true. Judged by that standard, the reception of ...

In a year of record-breaking campaign spending by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and widespread popular revulsion at Donald Trump’s war on Iran, a deeply researched study of the Israel lobby couldn’t be timelier. Jacobin’s Seth Ackerman spoke with investigative journalist Eli C ...

Since the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) swept the New York primaries in June, conservative and liberal media alike have tried to make sense of DSA’s meteoric rise by tying them to ascendant New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his “kingmaking” abilities. Beyond a cursory nod to the army o ...

It’s been a precarious decade for Burning Man. The legendary counterculture gathering was canceled two years in a row due to COVID-19 and has yet to recover its record pre-pandemic attendance numbers. In 2023, the indulgent spectacle was marred by sensational headlines about attendees being trapped ...

Nancy Fraser’s work has had a significant influence on anti-capitalist politics over the past couple of decades. Some of her insights about the relationship between “redistribution” and “recognition” or the “dangerous liaison” of liberal feminism and anti-racism with neoliberal economic agendas have ...

I cannot easily remember a national treasure that has inspired a larger outpouring of eulogies, memories, and declarations than the passing of Dolly Parton. Personally, after hearing the news, I unplugged and had a day listening to the music, and — of course — watching the 1980 blockbuster 9 to 5 (w ...

One year ago, on August 3, 2025, Israel destroyed my family’s house in El-Tuffah, a neighborhood in Gaza City. Israel did not bomb the house or demolish it with artillery shells. A remote-controlled vehicle packed with explosives drove down our street before detonating.That is how Israel destroyed a ...

On July 27 this year, a black covering fell from a bronze statue in the courtyard at the headquarters of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) in central Jakarta. The sculpture revealed a woman with her mouth open in a cry, her arms wrapped around five figures whose heads bend beneath ...

In May 2026, the White House’s top economist went on Fox Business to make an argument that would probably have gotten him laughed out of any economics seminar twenty years ago. Kevin Hassett told Maria Bartiromo that “the consumer is really, really firing on all cylinders,” pointing to a fresh surge ...

The Economist recently ran a cover entitled “Prepare for an AI jobs apocalypse,” citing widespread fear among the American public of artificial-intelligence-induced job losses. Such fearmongering is far from new. Information technology breakthroughs have led to many such announcements over the last ...

On August 15, 1971, Richard Nixon appeared on American television to announce a drastic reordering of the postwar economy. He closed the so-called gold window, ending the convertibility of dollars held by foreign central banks into US gold. Other central banks were no longer allowed to exchange thei ...

No contract? No Starbucks coffee at the union hall.Seeking to pressure Starbucks to finally sign a contract with its 12,000 unionized baristas, Starbucks Workers United announced a boycott of the chain August 25. In addition to individual customers, they are asking organizations and unions to stop p ...

A loose adaptation of just a few pages from the memoir that made Anthony Bourdain famous, Tony is a triumph of warm, earthy, character-centered filmmaking on a modest scale. Writer-director Matt Johnson (BlackBerry, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie) focuses the film on one fateful summer in 1975 ...

The “civil war” currently playing out in the Democratic Party is usually thought of as a battle between socialists and progressives, on the one hand, and centrists, on the other. Which it is. But it’s also a battle between the Democratic establishment and its own voters.If you need proof, look at pa ...

For thirty years, Patrice Hureaux has fought fires in his forest-covered corner of southwestern France. Every summer, he and his team work diligently to put out fires in the woods right as they start. Landes, where he lives and works, is one of the most wooded of France’s 101 local départements, wit ...

On August 10, western Colombia was rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Images of collapsed buildings and ordinary citizens organizing to remove the rubble quickly circulated on social media and through news agencies. Cali, the region’s largest city, quickly became the week’s trending topic.This ca ...

Reverend James Lawson Jr did not attend the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Most of the movement’s boldfaced names — the “Big Six” civil rights leaders, labor leaders and religious figures, celebrities and entertainers — were there, in front of a quarter million people up on the Linco ...

Toru Hinkle was stocking shelves at Target when two customers appeared. Toru asked if they needed help. The men wanted a price check on an item that cost $20, but even after Hinkle told them the price, they kept asking. Eventually Hinkle noticed a blinking light on one customer’s glasses.Mia Sato re ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to withdraw his trade negotiating team from Washington last Friday was surprising and refreshing. Surprising because Carney clearly wanted a deal and has a record of conceding to Donald Trump again and again, to no effect, in hopes of securing one. Refr ...

Heavy rain pummeled the canopy over the covered stage in Paris’s Roland-Garros stadium on Thursday night, midway through the first debate for next spring’s French presidential election.The seven candidates present, who included Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen, Édouard Philippe, Gabriel Attal, Raph ...

It’s not a secret that Mike Rogers supports the Iran war. Since Donald Trump launched the war six months ago, the Michigan Republican candidate for Senate called Iran “an imminent threat to our country” that “must not have a nuclear weapon,” said the war was “absolutely right” and “a win-win-win for ...

Several weeks ago, Jason Kelce (football player, podcaster, Taylor Swift’s brother-in-law) starred in an ad asking Americans to pee in jars and send them to their nearest artificial intelligence data center. The spot — a collaboration between Liquid Death and Kelce’s own Garage Beer — was nominally ...

United Auto Workers (UAW) members are voting by mail ballot for their top officers, for the second time in the union’s ninety-one years. Ballots went out August 21 and are due back by October 5.The contest will decide whether President Shawn Fain, who became famous for leading 2023’s “stand-up strik ...

Democrats enter this year’s midterms with a host of political advantages: a deeply unpopular Republican president, a faltering economy, and a fired-up base. But Republicans hold a clear edge in at least one crucial area. With Election Day less than three months out, fundraising data shows the GOP wi ...

Over the last two decades, Caparezza has been one of the most original voices in Italian music. A constantly evolving rapper, he has a vast and loyal audience who have followed him through ever-changing concept albums mixing languages, musical genres, and imagery. His most recent album, Orbit Orbit, ...

It’s our miserable fate to lose Dolly Parton and Tim Curry in a one-two punch at the end of summer 2026. Both died at eighty years old, and it seems damned unfair that both didn’t live to be 120 and die mid-performance, which was Parton’s stated goal.What unites Parton and Curry is their joy. Two ha ...

On a policy level, much of the debate about childcare comes down to how best to shore up a failing system. While there is tremendous disagreement about what role government should play, everyone from democratic socialists to the US Chamber of Commerce to Republican senators acknowledges that childca ...

Daron Acemoglu, winner in 2024 of the so-called Nobel Prize in economics, has just published a new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Now The Economist — the paper, founded in 1843, that stands as the epitome of free trade and economic liberalism — has seized on the opportunity to settle a fe ...

For those in the know, cinematically, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is an event film, though a small, arty one defying the odds by getting a mainstream release. Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun had a cult-film phenomenon with their last horror film, I Saw the TV Glow (2024), and their next hor ...

Legendary singer, songwriter, and cultural icon Dolly Parton died on August 25 at age eighty. Her death immediately inspired a flood of praise from stars and public figures, as well as a flurry of chatter on social media.Few public figures right now would attract such universal accolades. The Empire ...

Gianni Infantino must be shocked. He’s spent his near-decade-long tenure as FIFA president squeezing football for every cent possible. Now he’s weathering a global revolt against his leadership just for doing what he’s always done, after he quite literally tried to sell the World Cup to the highest ...

The Democratic primary might be over, but the Michigan Senate race is somehow still the leading theater in the ongoing civil war for the Democratic Party’s future — and an instructive case study in how the party’s left-averse centrists plan to maintain a grip on the party’s future at a time when the ...

Six years after “Megxit,” Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reversing course — at least partially. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will reportedly return to Britain later this month for an extended stay, settling with their children Archie and Lilibet in a private residence outside London while the ...

A lively debate has been taking place in Jacobin over what to do about artificial intelligence. AI is clearly a technology with potential for enormous benefit and harm — and perhaps both at the same time. Financially, it could put even more income in the hands of billionaires, or it could produce a ...

Advanced capitalist countries have recently rediscovered the role of industrial policy to build out key economic sectors like semiconductors and AI. But what happens if business is the one calling all the shots?In this episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber discus ...

On September 20, Berliners will elect a new state parliament in a contest that has already become a referendum on a referendum.Five years ago, 59.1 percent of the city voted to socialize the holdings of Berlin’s largest for-profit landlords. Following a long campaign to force a vote, the referendum ...

We are in a moment of particular fascination with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) across the nation. With the victory of congressional candidates like Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Chris Rabb, and Melat Kiros, DSA has arrived on the political stage, proving that the election o ...

The surge in the political power of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is real. That much, everyone agrees on. Reactions to this reality, though, cover the full spectrum. “About time,” say veteran leftists, for whom the current moment feels like the culmination of decades of hard organizing. ...

If unions are going to grow, they will need new state and local policy.Over the summer, primary victories for pro-worker candidates running for US Congress like Abdul El-Sayed have stolen headlines. But the numerous candidates who won downballot, like Janeese Lewis George for mayor in Washington, DC ...

A series of trials in the United States involving social media giant Meta could cost the tech behemoth over $1 trillion in fines and reshape social media. The efforts are a reminder that our collective capacity to regulate harms can be slow, lumbering, and imperfect, but occasionally successful. Som ...

Ever since Karl Marx’s famous pronouncement against utopias, the Left has often been skeptical of what he called “writing recipes for the cookshops of the future.” However, the idea of a future socialist society does not start from a blank slate. For twentieth-century history offers many examples of ...

Sveriges Television (SVT), Sweden’s tax-funded public service broadcaster, has recently launched Silent Attraction, which seems to be an exceptional reality show even by global standards. In the show, left-leaning women and manosphere-influenced men are brought together in a large house to find a po ...

Before the spectacular implosion of his $45 billion AI hedge fund late last month, twenty-four-year-old Leopold Aschenbrenner had laid out a road map for a new Cold War with China.In June 2024, shortly after being fired from OpenAI, Aschenbrenner published a treatise titled “Situational Awareness,” ...

In a new report from the Equality Action Center, Joan C. Williams and Jared Abbott lay out a sensible, pragmatic approach to what has always seemed a Sisyphean task: explaining to progressives how they can turn more people on to their politics than they turn off. In so doing, Williams and Abbott off ...

The Right, as Corey Robin has famously argued, learns from the Left. Edmund Burke argued conservatives should copy the Jacobins. The slaveholders, even as they denounced the rights of man, celebrated the demotic virtues of widespread slaveholding in the antebellum South. Newt Gingrich argued that th ...

“Woke 1 was crazy.”Those four words, spoken on ABC’s This Week earlier this month by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, unexpectedly blasted open the doors of political discourse. For nearly two weeks, debate has raged in columns and on social media about the concept of “Woke 1” — whether there was inde ...

In October, a majority of Canadians will face the choice of electing new city councils across Canada. Of this majority, only a fraction will actually make the trek to the schools, churches, and legions that host polling stations. Characterized by perpetually low turnout — often hovering around 30 pe ...

Is it better to “bowl alone” than to join anything that smacks of a sect? Were the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps, which put millions to work rebuilding their country, just state-sanctioned “cults”? According to one prominent liberal: maybe!In an article ent ...

If a store where you live still carries newspapers, you can try a little experiment. Pick up the most recent issue of the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal or the New York Post or the Washington Post. Start flipping through the pages, and see how many seconds it takes you to find the word “s ...

In late July, New York magazine’s Cut published Ezra Marcus’s “Revenge of the Simps,” the story of Nikita Tyukalo, a twenty-one-year-old Andrew Tate acolyte who built a webcam sex-trafficking operation out of luxury rentals in the Seattle suburbs. Astonishingly, Tyukalo was taken down by a community ...

For those who went through the American education system, China’s National College Entrance Exam or gaokao may seem like a simple Chinese equivalent of the SAT. But the gaokao is vastly more important than any standardized test in the United States. College admissions in the United States are holist ...

With the global rise of right-wing and far-right political forces even in countries deemed democracies, civil liberties groups are under pressure as never before. This is certainly true in India, though the success of the latest spontaneous youth upsurge, under the banner of the ironically named Coc ...

In July 2002, Immanuel Wallerstein appeared on C-SPAN’s morning call-in program. He had just written an essay for Foreign Policy magazine with a provocative title: “The Eagle Has Crash Landed.” Wallerstein argued that the US position of dominance on the world stage was in decline.As he was speaking, ...

The haunting impossibility of a society that lives up to our stated ideals can feel painful when set against the actual societies that fall so far short of them. This is why the dream of utopia, or “no place,” has disturbed the sleep of many thinkers for so long it can feel instead like a nightmare. ...

According to the famous “garbage can” model of political decision-making, there isn’t much rationality in politics. Minted in the 1970s, this model resists the idea that collective choices are the outcome of political professionals intentionally looking for optimal solutions for well-defined problem ...

Les Girondins de Bordeaux is one of France’s most historic and decorated football clubs, with a record of winning six League 1 titles and nurturing star players from Zinedine Zidane to Jules Koundé and Aurélien Tchouaméni. Yet at the start of the 2025–26 season, the club found itself on the verge of ...

The polling stations had not long been open when Keiko Fujimori reached the cemetery with her younger sister and her teenage daughters. Dressed uniformly in starch white blouses and blue-wash jeans, they proceeded across the lawn, each carrying a sheaf of roses and carnations. The elder women knelt ...

In a recent speech in the city of Nashville, former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris spoke about the need to “revisit” several questions about the US political system: the Electoral College, the Supreme Court, and statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. While the US media was ke ...

The most powerful impact created by The End of Oak Street, a lame nostalgia piece evoking Amblin Entertainment from four decades back, is that this sort of thing really must cease. For a while, Stranger Things managed to pull off a rebooted 1980s Americana entertainment crossed with horror, but now ...

Federal officers had already been arresting Minneapolis activists for months, but the Trump administration’s sweeping indictments of fifteen union members and leaders in June especially turned heads. The charges are centered around 18 U.S.C. § 372: Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer, a ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva responded with justified defiance to recent confirmation that the United States government would impose a 25 percent tariff on Brazilian exports. Among the “acts, policies, and practices” that the Office of the United States Trade Representative deemed “u ...

This summer, hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans are experiencing widespread service interruptions, inconsistent flow, low-pressure, and a lack of access to clean and safe potable water. The search for water oases or cistern trucks has become a daily household task for many, as more than 150,000 ...

American Doctor is a kind of cinematic Hippocratic oath. Its subjects are three US physicians who, as genocide rages, volunteer to go above and beyond the call of duty to treat Gaza’s beleaguered residents. Having seen the carnage with their own eyes, the trio then set out to inform a callous Congre ...

The United States is in the midst of a food assistance purge. Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, has dropped by more than five million people over the latest year of available data from the Department of Agriculture (USDA).The sudden dr ...

“Their air of moral superiority is really an assumption that someone else will always cook their dinner,” wrote the historian A. J. P. Taylor in 1957 of the British establishment, a group he often referred to as “The Thing.” To no one was this term more aptly applied than the dons of Oxford and Camb ...

Republicans heralded Donald Trump’s 2024 victory as the birth of a new majority: a multiracial, working-class coalition powered by newfound support among black and Latino voters, particularly men, who had finally abandoned the Democrats over inflation, the cost of living, and immigration. While that ...

Last week, news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of nonprofit groups and two of the country’s largest unions, the Communications Workers of Americ ...

It’s a “Hot Socialist Summer,” proclaims the New York City Democratic Socialists of America Instagram. Indeed, it has been a summer of socialist victories, with more socialists winning electoral office in June than ever, including Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, who are headed to Congre ...

Kate Bronfenbrenner started by asking union organizers to walk her through their campaigns, from beginning to end.Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) after more than twenty-five years teaching and researching there, has spent ...

Next month, three state elections will test whether Germany’s postwar consensus against governing with the far right will survive. On September 6, roughly two million voters in Saxony-Anhalt go to the polls; two weeks later, on September 20, they’ll be followed by voters in Mecklenburg-Western Pomer ...

It’s a moment for both hope and hesitation: recent victories in Michigan, Colorado, Minnesota, and New York suggest gathering political momentum on the left. Yet a defeat in Wisconsin and a judge’s temporary stay of New York City’s pied-à-terre tax offer reminders that every movement for social prog ...

South Korea has strong traditions of class struggle and left-wing political organization. Unfortunately, this has generally not been reflected in the development of Korean radical theory, which has tended to be heavily derivative of work published in other countries and languages.Lim Jie-hyun’s book ...

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 ...