These are not the words you want to hear when it comes to human extinction, but I was hearing them: “Things are moving uncomfortably fast.” I was sitting in a conference room with Sam Bowman, a safety researcher at Anthropic. Worth $183 billion at the latest estimate, the AI firm has every incentive ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a new rallying cry: Eat real food. It’s an intuitive piece of advice—snack on some grapes instead of potato chips, trade that microwaveable mystery meat for a grilled chicken breast. The tagline has accompanied the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the government’s offi ...
Twenty-one-year-old Moez al Shreiti was given up by his Tunisian mother at birth but is absolutely determined to find out where he comes from. His search takes him on a roller-coaster journey to find answers to the question that’s dominated his young life. This observational film follows his sometim ...
People shop in the Tajrish Bazaar in Tehran on January 28, 2026, as the rial falls to record lows [AFP]
Jeff J Mitchell / GettyThe Guizer Jarl, Lynden Nicolson, and his Jarl Squad stands beside his Viking Galley ship as it is set on fire on January 27, 2026, in Lerwick, Scotland.Andy Buchanan / AFP / GettyMembers of the Jarl Squad gather before parading through the streets in Lerwick, Shetland Islands ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, David opens with his reflections on the recent shootings in Minneapolis. He argues that these killings, alongside ICE’s warrantless home raids and mistaken detentions, and the reports of deaths in custod ...
Israeli bulldozers demolish buildings at the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem on January 20, 2026 [Mahmoud Illean/AP Photo]
Over the weekend, the basketball star Breanna Stewart didn’t have her normal bounce during player introductions. As soon as the announcer shouted her name, Stewart walked out holding a white sign with a message: Abolish ICE.“I think that when human lives are at stake, it’s bigger than anything else, ...
Supporters of the UAE-backed separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) wave the flags of the STC and the United Arab Emirates during a rally in Aden, Yemen on January 1, 2026 [Fawaz Salman/Reuters]
»In der Nähe« von Simon Strauß ist das Porträt einer ostdeutschen Sehnsucht
Italienische Behörden und Frontex behindern die Rettung von Geflüchteten
Hessen war mal vorn: Zum Tod des Meisterdenkers Gerd Knebel
Die Waffenlieferungen gingen auch während des kurzzeitigen Genehmigungsstopps von August bis November weiter
Die Waffenlieferungen gingen auch während des kurzzeitigen Genehmigungsstopps von August bis November weiter
Eine Studie belegt massive Personaldefizite in Kitas. Doch nicht alle Länder akzeptieren die Befunde – Bayern meldet Erfolge, die Fragen aufwerfen
Christof Meueler freut sich über die Moral eines Dinosauriers, der Amazon verlässt
Gericht erklärt auf Klage der Krankenkassen Gebührensatzung des Landkreises Teltow-Fläming für unwirksam
Der Ausbau von Radschnellwegen kommt nicht in Gang
Simon Verhoeven verhebt sich an »Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke« nach dem Roman von Joachim Meyerhoff
On Saturday, the same day that federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis street, the Justice Department sent a letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The letter did not have anything to say about the violence caused by the Department of Homeland Security’s presence in the state. No ...
250 Menschen diskutieren im SO36 über die Perspektiven von Stadtpolitik im Kiez
Senat meldet 2112 Fälle für 2025 – Zunahme hauptsächlich wegen verbotenen Symbolen
If recognition alone were capable of repairing harm, then the weeks surrounding the Tulsa Race Massacre’s 100th anniversary in 2021 might have begun to make the neighborhood of Greenwood whole. Oklahoma’s Republican and Democratic elected officials clamored to release public statements praising the ...
British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced on Monday that the UK police would roll out the use of facial recognition software across the country [File: Phil Noble/Reuters]
Bausenator stellt Gesetz für schlankeren und kostenreduzierten Wohnungsneubau vor
President Donald Trump has revived a threat that the United States is ready to launch a military attack against Iran as he demands Tehran make a deal over its nuclear programme. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that the Iranian government’s “days are numbered”.
Die US-Abgeordnete Ilhan Omar trotzt auch tätlichen Attacken
Obdachlosigkeit ist Systemversagen, meint die tschechische Linkszeitung »Naše Pravda«
Nationale Tourismusstrategie soll bisheriges Arbeitszeitgesetz aushebeln
EU-Grenzagentur erhält mehr Aufgaben und Kompetenzen, die Kontrolle bleibt aber schwach
Warum CDU-Politiker den Acht-Stunden-Tag aufweichen wollen
Das »nd« unterwegs auf der Protestwanderung zum Weltwirtschaftsforum
Navigationsdaten gehen offenbar nur an Küstenwache in Libyen – nicht an zivile Rettungsflotte
Eine Studie offenbart eklatante Mängel in der frühkindlichen Bildung
Claudia Wangerin über das Vorhaben in der Union, das Recht auf Teilzeitarbeit stark einzuschränken
As the US moves to launch phase two of the Gaza ceasefire, we look at how Israel has fallen short on phase one – and why the deal is advancing anyway.
Der Zugang zur Versorgung soll anders geregelt werden, auch die Ersatzkassen sind dafür
Stadtverwaltung will vorab nicht von dem Besuch gewusst haben, Polizei widerspricht
Bei den Tarifverhandlungen mit 150 kommunalen Verkehrsunternehmen verlangt Verdi kürzere Arbeitszeiten
Selbstverwaltung: Syrische Regierungstruppen verstoßen gegen das Völkerrecht
Der Politologe Fredson Guilengue über die katastrophale Lage durch die Flut in Mosambik
CDU-Politiker vom Landtag im ersten Wahlgang zum neuen Ministerpräsidenten gewählt
Her video diary shares her two-year journey of escaping to Beirut, followed by the difficulties of trying to return home.This video diaries was produced in collaboration with the Global Reporting Centre.
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.On a chilly day before Christmas, Teresa Rivas helped a tween boy pick out a new winter coat. “Get the bigger one, the one with the waterproof layer, mijo,” she said, before helping him pull it onto his string-b ...
Buildings lie in ruins in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 8, 2025 [Reuters]While diplomatic circles welcome the recovery of the last Israeli captive’s remains in Gaza and the imminent partial reopening of the enclave’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt, a quieter, darker reality is takin ...
The glue that holds Donald Trump’s coalition together is not ideological coherence but a volatile compound of empire, spectacle, and grievance. Understanding these tensions helps explain both MAGA’s successes and its weaknesses.Divisions in the MAGA coalition may not threaten the durability of Donal ...
Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, the economy, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems.To hear some Silicon Valley insiders tell it, California is on the verge of economic suicide. This November, Californians will likely vote on a ballot initiative that would levy a ...
Stadt Essen untersagt Nutzung von Parteizentrale – Protest in Dortmund
Children who fled war-torn Sudan following the outbreak of fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), arrive at the UNHCR border transit centre in Renk, Renk County of Upper Nile State, South Sudan, on May 1, 2023 [Jok Solomun/Reuters]Sudan has moved to the f ...
Nadia Shehadeh über Söhne von prominenten Paaren, die durch eine frühe Heirat den Start in ein eigenes Leben suchen
Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland has alienated many longtime allies. But it has tantalized a cohort of tech billionaires who see the island as a potential laboratory for “freedom cities,” or privately governed zones without regulation or democracy.An artwork titled Trump by Greenlandic artis ...
Die Sixdays in Berlin locken mit mehreren Weltmeistern ins Velodrom
New York hospitals are ignoring striking nurses’ demands for patient and health care worker safety and respect and trying to weaken one of the city’s most important unions. Mayor Mamdani and his movement have a key role to play in helping nurses win.Mayor Zohran Mamdani can escalate pressure on the ...
Die letzten Stunden des Lebens des palästinensischen Mädchens Hind Rajab hat die Regisseurin Kaouther Ben Hania in einem Film nachgezeichnet
Angehörige und Solidaritätsgruppe zweifeln an Notwehr-These und kündigen Beschwerde an
Israel has killed more than 400 people in Gaza since a fragile ceasefire came into place in October, 2025 [File: Hatem Khaled/Reuters]
Democrats have a rare moment of leverage to pass legislation ending qualified immunity for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, dismantling a legal shield that has allowed them to evade accountability for murder.Democrats have an opportunity to end ICE agents' qualified immunity from wrongful ...
Neue Fraktionsführung stellt Minderheitskoalition ein indirektes Ultimatum
Auch Konkurrent Airbus will Zuschlag für milliardenschweres Kommunikationsnetzwerk
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Palestinians are “desperate” for the Rafah crossing to reopen as a prolonged closure by Israel compounds widespread suffering, the United Nations warns. Israeli forces continue with their deadly attacks in violation of the October ceasefire with Hamas with at least four Palestinians killed in the al ...
Palestinians are “desperate” for the Rafah crossing to reopen as a prolonged closure by Israel compounds widespread suffering, the United Nations warns. Israeli forces continue with their deadly attacks in violation of the October ceasefire with Hamas with at least four Palestinians killed in the al ...
Mehdi Galeb Nasr collects bottles in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, the only informal work, which doesn't meet subsistence levels for his family, he can find amid the country's alarming food shortage crisis on January 27, 2026 [Yousef Mawry/Al Jazeera]
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 10, 2025 [Handout: Syrian Presidency press office via AP]
Iran’s 86-year-old supreme leader, who believes that he represents God’s will on Earth, ordered what now appears to be one of the deadliest two-day mass slaughters in modern history. According to estimates provided by two anonymous senior officials in the country’s ministry of health, as many as 30, ...
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrives at his political bloc's campaign rally before the parliamentary elections in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 7, 2025 [Hadi Mizban/AP]
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrives at his political bloc's campaign rally before the parliamentary elections in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 7, 2025 [Hadi Mizban/AP]
The statements from congressional Republicans after Saturday’s shooting of Alex Pretti were relatively mild. Lawmakers said that they were “deeply troubled” or “disturbed” by the second killing of an American citizen by federal immigration officers this month; most called for an investigation into P ...
The killings in Minneapolis of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have been compared to the murder of George Floyd, because they all happened within a few miles of one another, and because of the outrage they inspired. There’s an important difference, though: In 2020 the United States was in turmoil, but it ...
The last Israeli captive’s body is found in Gaza – where many thousands of Palestinians lie buried under rubble.Israel – as part of its long-standing policy – has not returned the remains of many hundreds of Palestinians.Why – and what’s the impact?Presenter: James BaysGuests: Amjad Sharwa – Direct ...
An anti-US and anti-Israel banner hanging on a building in Palestine Square in Tehran [Atta Kenare/AFP]
Masoud Pezeshkian, the president of Iran, attends the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, on September 25, 2025, in New York City, the United States [Angelina Katsanis/AP]
This episode dives into the discussion prompted by Pantone, unpacking the uneasy relationship between colour and fascism. From hardline efforts to regulate colour in public life to the ways vibrancy and maximalism reassert themselves, we explore how colour becomes a quiet form of resistance across a ...
People take part in a demonstration a day after a man identified as Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal immigration agents trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the US, January 25, 2026 [Shannon Stapleton/Reuters]The escalation of state violence in the United States has been unprecede ...
Hours after Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy showed up for a movie night at the White House. Along with other business executives and several prominent Trump supporters, they attended a private screening of Melania, a n ...
Whatever you might think you’re going to get from the familiar setup of Jennette McCurdy’s Half His Age (a lonely high-school girl in Anchorage begins an extremely questionable sexual relationship with her teacher), any presumptions are dispelled from the very first page. When Waldo, the teenage nar ...
In 2006, I helped establish the NATO Special Operations Forces Command in Mons, Belgium. It included commandos from more than 19 nations. Over the course of the next two years, we trained and exercised together, drank together, and spent family time together. In doing so, we learned that our common ...
Aktionsbündnis nimmt Verdrängung der Universität vom Griebnitzsee zum Brauhausberg nicht hin
Cyrus Salimi-Asl über Kriegsverbrechen in Nordsyrien
Cyrus Salimi-Asl über Kriegsverbrechen in Nordsyrien
Nearly as old as Ahab (one more birthday and I’ll be 58: his age), I drive south from Boston on a recent Saturday morning. Through a raging drabness of Massachusetts wintertime, I drive and drive: leaky light without a source; seething, decaying snow.I’m on a mission here. A collision with immensity ...
Jana Frielinghaus zur geplanten Ausweitung der Arbeitsfelder für Verfassungsschutz und BND
Mieter in Wohnungen des Immobilienmoguls Gijora Padovicz beklagen Heizungsausfall
Polizist gab Informationen weiter
Wie ein Online-Medium aus Guatemala indigene Gemeinden sichtbar macht
The impunity with which ICE and other DHS agents are carrying out violence and murders in cities like Minneapolis is so awful that now scores of law enforcement officials themselves are speaking out against it.Some of the harshest criticisms of DHS agents’ tactics have come from former and current l ...
Selbstverwaltung: Syrische Regierungstruppen verstoßen gegen das Völkerrecht
Trend-Gründer Karl-Heinz Schubert blickt zurück
Of the many lessons to be drawn from the administration’s retreat in Minneapolis, the most important is that Donald Trump can be stopped.He spent his first year acting as though the 2024 election were the last time he would ever have to give a thought to public opinion. Now the myth that Trump is in ...
Basketball-Superstar Stewart die Abschaffung der US-Einwanderungs- und Zollbehörde ICE
Sometimes the country wants a man of faith. This happened when Jimmy Carter, a former Sunday-school teacher, was elected following Watergate, and when the born-again George W. Bush’s slim victory looked like a repudiation of Bill Clinton’s sex-scandal-marred presidency. To speak in the register of f ...
Peter Steiniger zum Haushaltsdiktat der französischen Regierung
Wolfgang Hübner über Attacken gegen Teilzeitarbeit
Dobrindt startet sicherheitspolitische Offensive gegen »Linksextremismus«
Regierender Bürgermeister Kai Wegner (CDU) kündigt mehr Befugnisse für Polizei und Verfassungsschutz an
Exchange shops offered the record-low rial-to-dollar rate in Tehran [File: John Moore/Getty Images]
Die Ignoranz des Westens und der Aufstand des Globalen Südens
Mithu Sanyal antwortet dem AfD-Bundestagsabgeordneten Pierre Lamely
Iraqi lawmakers attend a parliamentary session to vote for a new president [File: Media Office/Handout via Reuters]
Madame Nielsen hat »Porträts von Deutschen und anderen Lebewesen« geschrieben
US President Donald Trump holds a signed founding charter at the 'Board of Peace' meeting during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 22, 2026. [AFP]Since taking office a year ago, the Trump administration has been working hard to undermine the United Nations, especially ...
Etwas Distanziertes im Gesicht sehen: »Diebstahl«, der neue Roman von Abdulrazak Gurnah
American citizens have been brutalized, pepper-sprayed, and killed on the streets of Minneapolis. For many, one particular breakdown is a final, damning cause for despair: Minnesota’s apparent inability to investigate and potentially prosecute the federal agents responsible. The Department of Homela ...
Gerti Tetzners Roman »Karen W.« von 1974 birgt noch heute gültige Wahrheiten
Mehrere Rechtsradikale haben gute Verbindungen in die Regierungsebene des Landes
Last year, starting in January, the United States experienced its largest documented measles outbreak in more than three decades, when an epidemic centered on West Texas sickened at least 762 people. Now a fast-moving outbreak in South Carolina seems poised to surpass it: Local officials have logged ...
Alex Demirović kritisiert Eva Illouz’ Abrechnung mit der »französischen Theorie«
Der politische Druck auf die US-amerikanische Zentralbank nimmt zu: Sie soll die Zinsen massiv senken
Frankreich pflegt ein ambivalentes Verhältnis zu seiner ehemaligen Kolonie Französisch-Westafrika
Omega-3-Fettsäuren machen Leinöl zum Geheimtipp für die gesunde Küche
Health and civilian workers conduct a mass burial of Palestinians at a cemetery in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 10, 2025 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]To retrieve one body, the Israeli military mobilised a fleet of tanks, drones, and what locals described as “explosive robots”.They turne ...
Beschuldigte nach Aktion bei Elbit Systems seit fünf Monaten in U-Haft – Anwälte legen Haftbeschwerde ein
It was once commonly understood that fiction was in the wisdom business, that it offered not only aesthetic pleasure but also moral improvement. This function of literature was not tough to spot. One of the first English novels was Samuel Richardson’s 1740 work, Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded—a title n ...
Die deutschen Handballer gehen optimistisch in das Gruppenendspiel
Aaron David Miller, former US senior adviser on Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, says Benjamin Netanyahu’s emphasis on Hamas’s demilitarisation will be a challenge for the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire.
Sachsen-Anhalts Genossen tragen einen Ministerpräsident Schulze nicht mit, sind nach der Wahl aber womöglich gefordert
Die Koalition in Magdeburg will gut sieben Monate vor der Landtagswahl den Ministerpräsidenten austauschen
After the pandemic, many younger Americans were encouraged to buy housing in “starter cities.” But now the homes are losing value, and property taxes are soaring, pitching the housing market into crisis.Last year, home sales fell to their lowest level since the Great Recession. While the Trump admin ...
It’s hard to think of a parallel effort in US history to build a domestic agency of violence specialists at the scale of ICE.As as of October 2025, ICE has increased its weapons spending by some 600 percent in comparison to 2024. (Mostafa Bassim / Anadolu via Getty Images)What work does it do, the s ...
Nach WHO-Austritt der USA droht weitere Verwässerung des Pandemie-Abkommens
Am Deutschen Theater Berlin versucht sich Regisseur Alexander Eisenach an Jenny Erpenbecks großem Geschichtsroman »Heimsuchung« – und scheitert
Die stark steigende Stromnachfrage überkompensiert laut einer neuen Studie den Ausbau der Erneuerbaren
S15 zum Hauptbahnhof soll am 28. März eröffnen – Videofahrten zur Fahrerschulung
The Sudanese military said it had opened a route leading to Dilling town in South Kordofan [File: Ebrahim Hamid/AFP]
Then-special envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, Tony Blair, waves to the media during a visit to the West Bank city of Nablus, July 14, 2009 [Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]Over the past year, United States President Donald Trump has pursued “peace-making” all across the world. A prominent feature o ...
When it comes to The Testament of Ann Lee, you’re either someone who wants to see a long, sometimes harrowing musical about the woman who founded the Shaker religion, or you’re most definitely not. Hopefully you are.Amanda Seyfried in The Testament of Ann Lee. (Searchlight Pictures)The most common r ...
(Al Jazeera)At the World Economic Forum last week in Davos, Switzerland, Jared Kushner, a real estate developer and son-in-law of United States President Donald Trump, unveiled a “master plan” for post-war Gaza during a presentation.The plan, which was contrived without any consultation with Palesti ...
Expanding gun ownership in response to ICE’s horrific violence is not a path toward safety or liberation, argues epidemiologist Rachel Hoopsick. It is a path to more death, more political weakness, and deeper entrenchment of the very forces the Left opposes.The most effective resistance to repressio ...
Ein Hamburger Hausbesitzer zeigt, wie man die Energiewende solidarisch gestalten kann
Im Trikot des BVB feierte der Marokkaner 2019 seine erste Gala auf der ganz großen Bühne
At a hearing last week, an industry-backed Democrat absolved health insurance CEOs for America’s health care crisis. That party leaders allow themselves to be seen as defenders of the insurance industry shows just how out of touch they are.Frank Pallone Jr has raked in hundreds of thousands in campa ...
Kurdish fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) prepare to head towards the front line before the end of a four-day truce with the Syrian government in Hasakah, northeastern Syria, Saturday, January 24, 2026 [Baderkhan Ahmad/AP]
Much of modern warfare is shaped by for-profit, commercial AI tech firms. This gives them an unprecedented, non-state influence over geopolitical conflict. Al Jazeera’s Linh Nguyen explains.
President Donald Trump says in an interview the United States now has “a big armada next to Iran” but suggests Tehran’s leadership wants “to make a deal”. Iranian authorities continue to warn of serious ramifications in case of US military strikes, as more people are arrested in connection with the ...
President Donald Trump says in an interview the United States now has “a big armada next to Iran” but suggests Tehran’s leadership wants “to make a deal”. Iranian authorities continue to warn of serious ramifications in case of US military strikes, as more people are arrested in connection with the ...
Australian Federal Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke attends a news conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australian, in December 2025 [File: Dominic Giannini/EPA]
Khitam Hameed and her son Youssef, who suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/ Al Jazeera]
Parts of a vehicle destroyed in an Israeli strike lie in the Burj el-Shamali area of Tyre, Lebanon, on January 26, 2026 [Mohamad Zanaty/Anadolu Agency]
Parts of a vehicle destroyed in an Israeli strike lie in the Burj el-Shamali area of Tyre, Lebanon, on January 26, 2026 [Mohamad Zanaty/Anadolu Agency]
Photographs by Jack CalifanoUpdated at 11:01 a.m. ET on January 27, 2026It took only a few minutes before everyone in the church knew that another person had been shot. I was sitting with Trygve Olsen, a big man in a wool hat and puffy vest, who lifted his phone to show me a text with the news. It w ...
A Palestinian fighter of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, in the south of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, in October 2025 [Bashar Taleg/ AFP]
Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol “commander at large” and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change.Bovino’s sudden demotion is the clearest sign y ...
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.Perhaps the most disturbing part of the Trump administration’s immigration operation in Minnesota is no ...
A man greets a freed Palestinian prisoner released by Israel as part of a captive-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025 [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
Carrying a concealed handgun in public is now commonplace in much of the country. For many, this is not only a prudent act of personal safety, but an expression of liberty and a bulwark against government overreach. At the same time, America’s law-enforcement officers insist they must exercise vigil ...
Ob die von den USA forcierten Verhandlungen über ein Ende des Ukraine-Krieges erfolgreich sein werden, ist fraglich
Danial Bamdadi klagte gegen die Ausländerbehörde, die ihm unter Verweis auf Dossier des Verfassungsschutzes die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft verweigert
Danial Bamdadi klagte gegen Ausländerbehörde, die ihm unter Verweis auf Dossier des Verfassungsschutzes die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft verweigert
Noch steht die Öffnung des Grenzübergangs in Rafah aus
Aufklärung über den deutschen Faschismus ist eine immer währende Aufgabe
Im Zweiten Weltkrieg fehlten den Vereinen die Spieler. Der Ligabetrieb ging aber weiter – Zwangsarbeiter sprangen ein
André Barth siegt in Erzgebirgsstadt Altenberg im ersten Wahlgang
Wolfgang Pomrehn über die Energiepläne der Nordseenationen
»Frag den Staat« veröffentlicht Auszüge aus Polizeihandbuch von 2020, das laut Polizei nicht mehr aktuell ist
Weitere Angriffe und Tote im Norden Syriens trotz vereinbarter Waffenruhe
Weitere Angriffe und Tote im Norden Syriens trotz vereinbarter Waffenruhe
Widerspruch nach Ablehnung von Bürgerbegehren durch den Stadtrat
Neue Sonderausstellung in der Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand: »Dieser Feind steht rechts!«
Labour-Führung hält Keir Starmer einen starken innerparteilichen Konkurrenten vom Hals
S15 zum Hauptbahnhof soll am 28. März eröffnen – Videofahrten zur Fahrerschulung
Der Chefideologe des Russischen Freiwilligenkorps Wassilij Kirjuschtschenko soll in der EU den demokratischen Russen mimen.
Nach anfänglichen Erfolgen stagniert die Gleichstellung an Berliner Hochschulen
Ausfuhrgenehmigungen nach Ende des Stopps von Genehmigungen deutlich angestiegen
Elizabeth Short liked to wander. Sometimes this wandering was merely in her mind, watching movies and dreaming of a life far beyond her hometown of Medford, Massachusetts. Many times, it was physical; she’d land in a new city—Miami, Jacksonville, Chicago, Long Beach, San Diego, Los Angeles—and explo ...
Wolfgang Hübner über die Todesschüsse von Minneapolis und die US-Waffenlobby
In Oberspreewald-Lausitz gewinnt Alexander Erbert (CDU) die Stichwahl überraschend knapp
David Rojas Kienzle zum Mietenprogramm der Berliner SPD
Der Women’s Champions Cup 2026 als Viererturnier in London
400 statt 206 Euro für 30 Quadratmeter – Vermieter verurteilt
Indiens Premierminister Modi nutzt das geostrategische Gewicht des Landes
From agriculture to meatpacking to service work, immigration enforcement functions as labor discipline. Minnesota’s mass strike against ICE points toward a reckoning with the agency that the labor movement can’t avoid.The labor movement has no choice but to take on ICE. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii / Min ...
Anyone who thinks the contemplative life amounts to a form of quietism or a retreat from the world’s suffering should spend some time shadowing Joan Halifax, the Zen priest and anthropologist. I’d been curious about Halifax for years, ever since I heard about an annual trek that she leads through th ...
Auf einem Gipfel in Hamburg wurde zudem viel über Sicherheit und Unabhängigkeit gesprochen
Christoph Ruf über vermeintliche und echte Skandale in der Bundeshauptstadt
Umweltverbände drängen auf naturverträglichen Ausbau der Offshore-Windenergie
Brett Carlsen / GettyA statue of Bill Monroe covered in ice stands outside the Ryman Auditorium during a winter storm on January 25, 2026, in Nashville.Tanya Breen / Asbury Park Press / USA Today / ReutersA deer is blanketed in snow as the winter storm continues into the afternoon on January 25, 202 ...
EU vertieft in der neuen Weltordnung wirtschaftspolitische Partnerschaften, auch mit der kleinen Großmacht Indien
Israel has destroyed or damaged more than 80 percent of buildings in Gaza, and rights groups have called its actions there a genocide [File: Khames Alrefi/Anadolu Agency]
Israel has destroyed or damaged more than 80 percent of buildings in Gaza. Rights groups have called Israeli actions in Gaza a genocide [File: Khames Alrefi/Anadolu Agency]
Haustürwahlkampf für Bürgermeisterkandidat Knut Steinkopf in Strausberg
Mietenstopp, Gewinnbeschränkungen, Sozialquote – die Berliner SPD will den Mietenmarkt regulieren
Mit dem Sechsteiler »The Kollective« beweist sich das ZDF als Geldverbrenner von internationalem Format
A Palestinian war-wounded man attends a clinic run by MSF, amid shortages of medical supplies, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, December 31, 2025 [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
Krähen sind Nachbarn. Sie können uns unterscheiden, sie schätzen unsere Persönlichkeit ein. Mich hat neulich eine angequatscht.
Venezuelan Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, right, greets Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez Padilla on January 8, 2026, after he was presented with an award recognising the Cubans killed during the US operation to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro [File: Leonardo Fernandez Vil ...
Pity Chris Summerlin, the dean of students at the University of Florida. He’s being sued by an anti-Semite, and that’s not the worst of his predicament. So far, judges who have ruled on the case have given mixed verdicts on whether he is likely to win or lose at trial. Summerlin deserves to lose on ...
Without Trumpism, Democrats and anti–Donald Trump conservatives tell themselves, America can once again be the nation it always was. This political moment, many feel certain, is an aberration, an unfortunate detour from who we are and what we stand for. Surely, they hope, if the MAGA Republicans can ...
Neue Initiative soll Deindustrialisierung und Mitgliederverlust entgegenwirken
The US spends far less on social programs than comparable nations, and red-tape barriers ensure that millions who qualify for help never receive it. Republicans are further eviscerating the safety net when we should be repairing and expanding it.Three out of every five eligible seniors who qualify f ...
In Erinnerung an Núria Quevedo: »Eine Berlinerin in Barcelona« – ein Film von Karlheinz Mund
Tech capitalists are now marketing the ability to customize your baby’s inherited traits. The process is currently unable to deliver on its promises — but it raises serious concerns about the prospect of genetically encoding inequality.The tech elite’s latest craze is companies that purport to allow ...
On January 9, anti-regime protests gripped Iran, and President Trump declared that the northeastern city of Mashhad had “fallen” to the opposition.I happened to be in Mashhad from December 26 to January 14. What I witnessed in those weeks was far more complex—certainly more complex than the American ...
As President Trump has charged into a conflict with American allies over Greenland in recent weeks, he has also been pursuing an unlikely new friend: Communist China. Even for a politician known for erratic policy shifts, this swap—of longtime democratic partners that have sacrificed much for Americ ...
Boykott und Sanktionen gegen US-Einwanderungsbehörde und deren Helfer gefordert – einige beliefern auch Behörden in Deutschland
People flee after an Israeli air strike in Qennarite in southern Lebanon on January 21, 2026 [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]
Today’s liberal anti-Trump Resistance is stronger than it was in his first term, precisely because it has taken seriously some of the arguments of its critics.Forgetting the Left’s criticisms of the liberal Resistance during Trump’s first term risks making that movement a less effective bulwark agai ...
In der deutschen Politik haben es stets die prusseliesigen Engdenker und Traditionsottos am leichtesten, an Macht zu kommen
Right-wing influencers give Nazi salutes in limousines and peddle conspiracy theories about Jews to audiences of millions, while “moderate” Republicans dog-whistle about “authentic” American heritage. The GOP’s antisemitism problem is no longer fringe.The Trump administration smears protesters of Is ...
We spoke to a Minneapolis organizer about the community-organizing infrastructure there in response to ICE, why targeting corporations that profit from ICE is working, and how other cities could do the same in their fight against ICE terror.A campaign led by the Twin Cities Sunrise Movement has led ...
Sebastian Weiermann glaubt nicht, dass die EU ein Gegenmodell zur USA unter Trump ist
Patrick Lempges über die Chance einer europäischen Konsolidierung nach Trumps Aggression
Dem Gewerkschafter Danial Bamdadi wird die Einbürgerung verweigert
Rubio spoke with al-Sudani as Washington has deployed additional military assets to the Middle East [File: Sam Navarro/Imagn Images via Reuters]
Rubio's telephonic talk with al-Sudani comes as Washington has moved to deploy military assets in the Middle East [File: Sam Navarro/Imagn Images via Reuters]
Members of Syrian Democratic Forces arrive at the Kurdish city of Ain al-Arab, also known as Kobane, on January 23, 2026, after they withdrew from the al-Aqtan prison in the Raqqa province of Syria [AFP]Recent fighting between the Syrian military and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Kurdish-l ...
Video shows Palestinian children crying in fear as their school bus is chased by Israeli settlers in an off-road vehicle in the occupied West Bank, where settlers regularly attack Palestinian civilians and property.
(Al Jazeera)Fifteen years have passed since the Arab Spring protests erupted in Egypt.Inspired by the successful uprising in Tunisia just 11 days earlier, when demonstrators succeeded in bringing down the country’s president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the Egyptian people wanted freedom and their voic ...
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Questions abound on whether Israel will honor commitments outlined in the Gaza ceasefire following the discovery of the remains of Ran Gvili, the last captive in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians in Gaza are calling for mediators to pressure Israel to open the Rafah crossing and to allow in the amount of ...
The Israeli military says the remains of Ran Gvili, the last captive in the Gaza Strip, have been recovered, clearing the way for the next phase of a ceasefire deal. The announcement comes after Hamas’s military wing said it had given “all the details” to truce mediators on the possible location of ...
Hamas’s military wing has given “all the details” to truce mediators on the possible location of the last captive’s body to be returned to Israel under the US-brokered ceasefire. Israeli forces have ordered Palestinians to evacuate a number of buildings, including schools and kindergartens, in the t ...
Hamas’s military wing has given “all the details” to truce mediators on the possible location of the last captive’s body to be returned to Israel under the US-brokered ceasefire. The Israeli military says it launched a “targeted operation” in northern Gaza “to exhaust all of the intelligence” and r ...
Hamas’s military wing has given “all the details” to truce mediators on the possible location of the last captive’s body to be returned to Israel under the US-brokered ceasefire. The Israeli military says it launched a “targeted operation” in northern Gaza “to exhaust all of the intelligence” and r ...
Beit Hanoon in the process of being cleared, with bulldozers visible, December 18, 2025 [Planet Labs PBC]
Members of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrive at the Kurdish-held city of Ain al-Arab, also known as Kobane, on January 23, 2026 [AFP]
A yellow block demarcating the "Yellow Line," which has separated the Gaza Strip's Israeli-held and Palestinian zones since the October ceasefire, is visible in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Photographs by Jack CalifanoThis article was updated on January 27, 2026, at 10:18am ET.The six-car ICE convoy came to a stop and instantly dozens of people swarmed it, cellphones in hand, while others ran out of nearby houses—I saw a woman in gym shorts in the 20-degree weather—and began surroundin ...
Palestinians walk amid destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on January 25, 2026 [AFP]
Palestinians walk amid destroyed buildings in Khan Younis in southern Gaza [File: AFP]
The logo of Al Jazeera Media Network is seen on its headquarters in Doha, Qatar [File: Naseem Zeitoon/Reuters]
Chances are, you’ve seen Richard Tsong-Taatarii’s photo. Taken Wednesday in Minneapolis, it shows an unidentifiable protester face down on the ground; two Border Patrol agents are on top of him, holding him there, while a third unloads pepper spray into his face from just inches away. Tomorrow’s fro ...
On last night’s Saturday Night Live, we learned that time stops for nothing—not people and not language. Marcello Hernández, the cast member perhaps most likely to become SNL’s next breakout star, dropped by the “Weekend Update” desk to inform the Millennial co-anchor Colin Jost—and, by proxy, many ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsWhen Alex Pretti went out to protest ICE actions in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, he surely knew that Renee Good had been shot and killed about two weeks earlier. He surely saw at least some of the videos that have been c ...
Torwart Andreas Wolff sichert Deutschland gegen die Norweger den Sieg. Jetzt kommt es zum Duell mit Dänemark
Wer freiwillige Arbeitszeitverkürzung als »Lifestyle« diffamiert, ist kein Demokrat, meint Jana Frielinghaus
We’ve stopped talking again so the earth has no color. Everywhere the chlorophyll has paused, light burning over the day’s lessons as hunger burns the mouth I can’t make eat. A little rice? A little soup? I’d rather die reading the early texts you sent about my breasts. I wouldn’t take a picture— in ...
Nach Treffen in Abu Dhabi wollen Ukraine und Russland weiter direkt verhandeln
Übergangsregierung im Dialog mit den USA und bald auch der Oppostion
On January 23, 2016, Donald Trump notoriously declared, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” That statement was understood at the time as a metaphorical expression of the depth of Republican voters’ commitment to him. Ten years and one day ...
Ausweitung der Förderung in Venezuela könnte dem CO2-Ausstoß der gesamten EU über fast ein Jahrzehnt entsprechen
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shows his inked finger at a polling station as Iraqis go to the polls to vote in the parliamentary election, in Baghdad, Iraq, on October 10, 2021 [File: Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters]Two weeks ago, incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announc ...
An E-2D Hawkeye, a surveillance and early warning aircraft, prepares to perform a touch and go landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean [File: Handout/US Navy via Reuters]
Palestinians walk among the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes during two years of war, in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip, January 22, 2026 [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
Palestinians walk among the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes during two years of war, in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip, January 22, 2026 [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
In zahlreichen deutschen Städten forderten Menschen am Wochenende Hilfe für die von syrischen Regierungstruppen angegriffene Region Rojava
Neue Studie: Jugendliche warten länger auf den ersten Sex und verhüten
An Israeli air strike targets a building in the southern Lebanese village of al-Kfour on January 21, 2026 [File: Rabih Daher/AFP]
Die Bezahl-App »Bist du tot?« erfreut sich einer großen Nachfrage
Berivan Issa, Vorsitzende des Büros für humanitäre Angelegenheiten in Kobane, über die Lage in der belagerten Stadt
Berivan Issa, Vorsitzende des Büros für humanitäre Angelegenheiten in Kobane, über die Lage in der belagerten Stadt
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Until recently, I resisted using the F-word to describe President Trump. For one thing, there were too many elements of classical fascism that didn’t seem to fit. For another, the term has been overused to the p ...
After Nicolás Maduro was kidnapped by US forces, Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela’s president. She has a long record in the Chavista camp, but she faces an uphill battle in dealing with her country’s compromised sovereignty.Delcy and Jorge (L) Rodríguez are poised to begin a new leadership ...
Für Julian Daum ist das Erschießen von Alex Pretti kein Fehler im System
Nach einer mutmaßlichen Nötigung im Amt verliert die Justiz die Ermittlungsakte
Jedes fünfte einst volkseigene Haus im Berliner Nordostbezirk ist seit der Wende privatisiert worden
In 2023, I went to New York to see Tom Stoppard’s play Leopoldstadt, about a Jewish family in Vienna before World War II. It was the final work Stoppard produced before his death late last year, at the age of 88, and the most personal play of his career. By the time the story ends, in the 1950s, onl ...
Alexander King als Spitzenkandidat für die Abgeordnetenhauswahl nominiert
Syria’s interim government, backed by Islamist mercenaries, has launched large-scale attacks on the autonomous Rojava region. While Western states endorse Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa, domestically his government relies on violent repression.Kurdish civilians gather with their weapons in the cit ...
Nur noch bei »besonderen Gründen« sollten Beschäftigte Anspruch auf Reduzierung der Arbeitszeit haben, schläg die Mittelstandsunion vor
Nur noch bei »besonderen Gründen« sollten Beschäftigte Anspruch auf Reduzierung der Arbeitszeit haben, schläg die Mittelstandsunion vor
In the early hours of January 3, the United States armed forces executed an astounding operation. American air, land, and sea units destroyed Venezuela’s air defenses, sent in Special Forces that took out President Nicolás Maduro’s security team, and brought the dictator and his wife back to the U.S ...
Die Distel bietet eine »SchMERZtherapie« mit viel Scherz und Schmerz
Schaudepot in Gedenkstätte Großschweidnitz zeigt die Grabsteine der in der früheren psychiatrischen Klinik umgebrachten Menschen
As the Trump administration and its ICE thugs continue their violent frenzy in cities, establishment Democratic politicians still refuse to meet the moment.ICE’s actions are stoking fury in American cities. Now is the time for Democrats to challenge the Trump administration's violent overreach. (Eli ...
Israeli soldiers patrol during a weekly tour by settlers in Hebron in the occupied West Bank on January 24, 2026 [Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]
Israeli soldiers patrol during a weekly tour by settlers in Hebron in the occupied West Bank on January 24, 2026 [Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]
Released just before Christmas, Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy memo is a bizarre and frightening manifesto for MAGA’s second term. To help make sense of the document, Jacobin turned to Latin American historian Greg Grandin.Trump’s new 30-page National Security Strategy memo prompts two ba ...
Relatives of detainees set free from al-Aqtan prison in Raqqa gather outside after the Syrian government took control of the facility from the SDF [Karam al-Masri/Reuters]
US President Donald Trump takes part in a charter announcement for his Board of Peace initiative on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 22, 2026 [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]By any measure, Gaza’s devastation demands urgent and serious reconstruction. Homes, hospita ...
The Trump administration’s secret police force has again murdered someone in broad daylight and is blatantly lying about it. It’s time to abolish ICE.ICE's violent, lawless conduct in Minneapolis has no place in a democratic society. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP via Getty Images)Alex Pretti was an intensi ...
From pro-Palestine protests in Ireland and jubilant celebrations in Dakar following Senegal’s African Cup of Nations football victory to demonstrations supporting the abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and United States President Donald Trump’s signing ceremony for his Board of Peace in Da ...
Mabroka Adam, a seven-year-old Sudanese refugee from el-Fasher in North Darfur, now lives in a tent in the Tine transit camp in eastern Chad. She dreams of going to school [File: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]In the displacement camps of Ad-Damazin in southeastern Sudan’s Blue Nile State, the war is re ...
A rubbish dump near the makeshift tents of displaced Palestinians in Gaza City [Ola al-Asi/Al Jazeera]
Last night at a bar in Park City, Utah, a man approached Representative Maxwell Frost and said to him, “We are going to deport you and your kind.” The 28-year-old man then yelled a racial slur and punched Frost in the face before running away, according to court documents reported by KUTV and a soci ...
Last week, as rumors swirled about an impending ICE surge that would target the Somali population in Maine, where I live, I called my barbershop to schedule a last-minute appointment. I didn’t want a haircut, but I worried that I needed one. I am a light-skinned Black American: My hair and beard are ...
This story was updated on January 24, 2026, at 8:46pm ET.The Trump administration has once again immersed the United States in a crisis. The officers who are supposed to be protecting America’s borders have again been unleashed on an American city—this time, Minneapolis. The authorities in Minnesota ...
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, pictured last year during Iraq's parliamentary elections, has been nominated as the country's next premier [Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP]
In the second Trump administration, immigration policy is made with big round numbers. There’s a formula: First the White House sets an ambitious goal—1 million deportations a year, 3,000 immigration arrests a day. Then it presses the federal workforce to meet the target. Last year, Trump officials ...
Kurdish fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Hasakah, northeastern Syria, on January 24, 2026 [Baderkhan Ahmad/AP Photo]
Kurdish fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Hasakah, northeastern Syria, on January 24, 2026 [Baderkhan Ahmad/AP Photo]
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. Earlier this week, Canadian Prime Minister ...
People walk along a street during snowfall in Tehran, Iran, January 23, 2026 [Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters]
Palestinian children warm by the fire next to a sand sculpture by artist Yazed Abo Jarad in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza Strip [File: AFP]
The Syrian army has taken control of facilities holding ISIL (ISIS) fighters and affiliated civilians, including the al-Aqtan prison in Raqqa [Ghaith Alsayed/AP]
The Syrian army has taken control of facilities holding ISIL (ISIS) fighters and affiliated civilians, including the al-Aqtan prison in Raqqa [Ghaith Alsayed/AP]
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.Last spring, my colleague Elaine Godfrey wrote about finding joy in mundane places. She posed a quest ...
Updated on January 24 at 4:33 p.m. ETIn 2023, the Department of Justice released a blistering report on the patterns and practices of the Minneapolis Police Department. The police force responsible for George Floyd’s death three years earlier, the DOJ wrote, regularly “uses unreasonable deadly force ...
At first, we didn’t think much of it, the One Other Thing. When Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins suggested a meal of one corn tortilla, one piece of broccoli, one piece of chicken, and “one other thing”—all for a mere $3–we dwelled more on the other parts.The one corn tortilla, the unit of brocc ...
My local Target was the first place I noticed the shift. One day, a few years ago, a sign appeared: red text on white paper announcing that no one under 18 would be allowed in without an adult. Before the poster, every weekday afternoon, clots of teens would move through the arteries of the store, o ...
A new book by economist Clara Mattei explains why calls for governments to balance budgets and live within their means are often a thinly veiled justification for an assault on the poor.Job seekers wait in line to enter a career fair in Chicago, Illinois, on August 7, 2025. Recurring applications fo ...
The first year of Donald Trump’s second term has made two things clear. First, the MAGA coalition is not breaking up any time soon. Even after the especially chaotic events of the past few weeks, Trump supporters are sticking by their man. Second, faith in Trump’s leadership is not driven by his adh ...
Eyeing a possible regime change in Cuba, US corporations see an opportunity to recoup assets lost in revolutionary seizures many decades ago. The Supreme Court, at the urging of the Trump administration, might soon clear the way for them.Cuban American hard-liners and fossil fuel giants are adopting ...
As the Information Revolution accelerates around the world, upending everything from the international balance of power to the future of work, American culture and American politics are undergoing perhaps their most profound upheaval in the 250 years since the 13 colonies declared their independence ...
To reduce ICE misconduct, Democratic legislators propose that its agents be required to wear body cameras. Evidence of body camera efficacy is remarkably thin, but weapons technology companies are set to make millions from the “reform.”With the crucial support of congressional Democrats, and under t ...
This photograph taken during a tour for foreign media shows an Iranian national flag installed on the Beheshti Mosque that was damaged during recent public protests, in Tehran on January 21, 2026 [AFP]
Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is a shocking, innovative, and darkly comic film about the pressures of life under capitalism. It’s more proof that the Oldboy director is nothing less than a cinematic master.Lee Byung-hun in No Other Choice. (CJ Entertainment)I expected the intense hype surrounding ...
Iran’s rulers have managed to contain a wave of protest for now. But the nature of the unrest and the state’s lethal response make this an unprecedented moment since the 1979 revolution, with the threat of a US attack still hanging over the country.The recent protest wave in Iran constitutes one of ...
View of Air France planes on the snow-covered tarmac at the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport, in Roissy-en-France, near Paris, on January 7, 2026 [Abdul Saboor/Reuters]
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivers a speech during the Ceremony in Defence of Democracy in Brasilia, on January 8, 2026 [Evaristo Sa/AFP]
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan during a news conference in Tehran, Iran, on November 30, 2025 [Majid Asgaripour/West Asia News Agency via Reuters]
Open up the government’s national weather-alert map, and pretty much the entire eastern half of the country is painted one color or another. A thick pink band stretches from New Mexico, across Texas, then through Pennsylvania, New York, and Vermont—a winter-storm warning. To the north, a dark-blue s ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Earlier this month, Representative Blake Moore of Utah, a Republican, signed a bipartisan statement abo ...
The meeting, by the time it convened, seemed pointless. Some joked that it could have been an email.When European Union leaders agreed to gather yesterday, the plan was to ready their response to President Trump’s tariff threat, an outgrowth of his insistence that the United States take over the ter ...
Weeks after the uprising in Iran turned violent, no one has been able to count the dead. The state has yet to lift the internet shutdown it launched on January 8, making the information blackout the longest and most severe one that Iranians have ever experienced. More than 90 million citizens have n ...
Two decades ago, a California company called Tesla Motors almost single-handedly created the electric vehicle as we now know it. Elon Musk’s company has dominated the industry across the globe ever since. But last year, for the first time in a long time, the world’s biggest seller of EVs wasn’t Tesl ...
Updated with new questions at 3:30 p.m. ET on January 23, 2026.In Princeton, New Jersey, a short stroll from the university you have heard of, there lies a little campus home to the Institute for Advanced Study. It was founded in 1930 not to confer degrees nor—God forbid!—to make money, nor even to ...
As world leaders discuss Gaza's reconstruction, Palestinians continue to suffer under Israeli attacks and aid restrictions [File: AFP]
Heinrich Himmler and other Third Reich occultists in the 1930s latched onto the strange idea that the Aryan race was not the product of evolution but descended from semidivine beings who left the heavens and established a secret civilization on Earth, possibly beneath Central Asia. Himmler, the head ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of Galaxy Brain, host Charlie Warzel speaks with the reporter Ryan Broderick about how the internet’s fragmentation of attention and facts has bled into real-world political violence in Minneapolis this month. From the viral spread o ...
The Central Mediterranean is the deadliest known migration route in the world, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration [File: Chris McGrath/Getty Images]
Im Norden Syriens bricht in diesen Tagen ein demokratisch-feministisches Experiment zusammen
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.In a recent Atlantic article about Adam Morgan’s new book, A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls, Sophia Stewart poses a choice that many biographers struggle with: “what to do with the borin ...
Eine Stadt zeigt sich vereint im solidarischen Kampf gegen die Belagerung durch die Einwanderungsbehörde ICE
The San Francisco 49ers will not be playing in the Super Bowl, because they lost to the Seattle Seahawks by a disgraceful score of 41 to 6 over the weekend. But of course, “someone wins, someone loses” is never the whole story in sports.Some fans are now buying into the narrative that the team had n ...
After just a year, the fires that spread around Los Angeles are already the most studied urban wildfires in history. While the Palisades Fire lapped at the edge of UCLA, the Eaton Fire, on the east side of town, came dangerously close to Caltech. Even as the fires were spreading, these research powe ...
Initially it was a rescue, and then a romance. But then Sam seemed to undergo a personality change. He became abusive when Europa ignored his demands and even threatened violence. After 80 years, Europa had had enough. They would keep the marriage together for form’s sake, but it was effectively ove ...
EU-Staats- und Regierungschefs geben sich entschlossen gegenüber Trump. Von der Leyen kündigt mehr Investitionen in »Sicherheit« der Arktis an
Urteil im Prozess gegen nichtbinäre Antifaschist*in steht bevor
Aktivisten aus Europa wollen auf die Lage in Syrien und den kurdischen Widerstand aufmerksam machen
Prozess gegen »Sächsische Separatisten« in Dresden begonnen. Verhandlung bleibt öffentlich
Der Kölner Jochen Ott soll 2027 für die SPD gegen Hendrik Wüst antreten
Peter Steiniger zur Ausladung des kanadischen Regierungschefs vom »Friedensrat«
Ruta Dreyer über die Verschärfung der globalen Bildungsnot durch die Bundesregierung
This handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows Iran's president Masoud Pezeshkian (L) walking with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani during a welcome ceremony at the presidential palace in Tehran on February 19, 2025 [Photo by Iranian Presidency / AFP]The confrontation betw ...
Ermöglicht ausgerechnet Künstliche Intelligenz bezahlbares, klimafreundliches Wohnen?
The White House posted an AI-altered picture of an ICE protester under arrest, made to look like she was sobbing remorsefully. The episode reveals something deeply disturbing about the unrestrained sadism of MAGA and this moment in American politics.The White House posted a fake image of a protester ...
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces played a key role in defeating ISIS. Now they are again forced to fight for their survival, as former jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa’s transitional government seeks to crush Syria’s minorities.Western leaders used to consider Ahmed al-Sharaa a jihadist terrorist bu ...
Die Ukraine und die USA treffen sich mit Russland zu neuen Gesprächen über ein Kriegsende
Kliniken, die Menschen mit fehlendem Versicherungsschutz im Notfall behandeln, bleiben oft auf den Kosten sitzen und wollen sie oft nicht behandeln
Spektakulärer archäologischer Fund aus dem Havelland in Potsdam präsentiert
Brandenburgs letzter Tagebau Welzow-Süd schließt bereits 2030 und damit drei Jahre eher als geplant
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Magdalena Engel über die Probleme bei der Gesundheitsversorgung von Personen mit ungeklärtem Aufenthaltsstatus
Der US-amerikanische Historiker John Womack Jr über die Lateinamerika-Politik des US-Präsidenten
US President Donald Trump holds the signed Charter of the Board of Peace, at the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22, 2026 [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]Glittering towers lining the Mediterranean coastline, a “New Gaza” and “New Rafah” in the offing, with more than ...
Eine Denkfabrik in den USA fordert mit pseudowissenschaftlichen Argumenten eine staatliche Förderung für Hetero-Ehen mit Kindern
In late 1967, a young Nicaraguan American UCLA graduate named Patrick Arguello wrote to a friend about the death of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. The insurgent leader had been killed in Bolivia by CIA-trained Special Forces while trying to raise the rural masses against their right-wing government. Che was ...
The takeover of the prison and cessation of hostilities in Raqqa occurred in line with a four-day ceasefire agreement between the Syrian government and the SDF that came into effect on Tuesday night [File: Izz Aldien Alqasem/Anadolu]
Wie der wuchtige Rückraumspieler das Angriffsspiel der deutschen Handballer prägt
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Three days into 2026, the United States military seized a foreign leader: Nicolás Maduro. Four days after that, the U.S. health department freed a longtime prisoner of war: saturated fats.At a recent press confe ...
Elizabeth Warren became a national force by being one of the only Democrats willing to speak out against the party’s Wall Street fealty — before adopting a more establishment-friendly posture. She may now be returning to her antiestablishment roots.In an address designed to reset the Democratic Part ...
BVG nennt zu kleine Busse auf hochfrequentierten Linien »untypischen Fahrzeugeinsatz«
People stand near the building of the Central Bank of Syria as the national flag is projected on it, in Damascus, Syria on December 29, 2025 [Firas Makdesi/Reuters]
Familiennachzug durch Ägypten-Regelung weiter blockiert
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsJoan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the Trump administration canceled her lab’s funding. The administration’s attacks on medicine ...
California billionaires are terrified of a proposal to save the state’s health care system by taking 5% of their wealth. They should be: a billionaire tax to fund health care is too simple, too necessary, and too plainly popular to be easily beaten.Peter Thiel has already made his largest campaign d ...
Hier wurde linke Geschichte geschrieben: Der Club Voltaire in Frankfurt am Main kämpft nach 63 Jahren gegen seine Schließung
A new study from the Pentagon’s favorite consulting firm, RAND Corporation, found that raising taxes on corporations could reduce the federal deficit better than Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff regime.A new RAND study found that higher tax rates for corporations would be more effective than Donald ...
Unlike Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Gov. Kathy Hochul has not backed striking New York nurses, tepidly calling on “both sides” to negotiate. Her position may have to do with the hefty donations state Democrats have received from the New York hospital association.Since day one of the New York nurse strike, ...
Markus Brunner zeigt, wie komplex und voraussetzungsreich die Bestimmung des Autoritarismus eigentlich ist
Warum bewegt der blutig niedergeschlagene Aufstand der iranischen Bevölkerung die Linke so wenig?
At Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney set fire to liberal platitudes. His actual politics, however, do quite the opposite.Mark Carney’s Davos speech enumerated the failure of liberal consensus while reaffirming the market logics that produced it. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Images)Mar ...
Bekanntester Mann der Identitären Bewegung tritt mit der Brandenburger Landtagsabgeordneten Lena Kotré in Vetschau auf
Workers offload goods from a docked ship at the seaport of Berbera in Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, Thursday, February 10, 2022 [Brian Inganga/ AP Photo]In December, as it often has during the ongoing war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the British governme ...
Director Kaouther Ben Hania holds up a picture of Hind Rajab as she arrives for the premiere of The Voice of Hind Rajab, at the Venice Film Festival in September [File: Ettore Ferrari / EPA]
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.At a rally in Detroit earlier this month, Donald Trump told the crowd that his upcoming speech at the W ...
Yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump announced that he had “formed the framework of a future deal” with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, raising hopes in Europe that the Greenland crisis may have reached an end. The framework reportedly respects Denmark’s sovereignty over Greenland and focuses instea ...
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.Even before the legendary gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok was shot dead holding aces and eights at a Deadwood poker table, the practice of gambling—as a pastime and an enterp ...
Benni Schmidt Pedersen lives on a small farm in Denmark, where it’s quiet and he can hear if anyone is coming down the gravel road to his home. He’s stricken with PTSD from his time as a soldier in Afghanistan, where five members of his 130-person company died in the American-led war against the Tal ...
This morning’s Oscar nominations capped a year marked by a stunning run of critical and commercial success for one of Hollywood’s biggest—and most discussed—studios. Warner Bros. dominated proceedings with big hauls for One Battle After Another and Sinners. The latter, a vampire story set in 1930s M ...
My relationship with rejection, professionally speaking, is complicated. I’m a writer, and although I’ve been hearing “thanks, but no thanks” in response to pitches since the ’90s, that hasn’t made the no’s easy; I still smart when I think of story ideas that editors swatted away years ago.It’s norm ...
There’s a double helix in my local Sephora. It’s roughly the size and shape of a soda can, and it is accompanied by a placard referencing patents and peptides, as if in a science fair. It’s trying to sell me a hair mask.Online, the company responsible for this display describes itself as a “biology- ...
Antirassismusprojekt »Nie wieder ist jetzt« an der Evangelischen Schule in Berlin-Frohnau
The Department of Homeland Security, communicating with the public through its official account on X, sent an ominous message last week: “FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA, THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!”What ensued, as you might expect when a heavily armed security agency annou ...
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Anyone who loves George Saunders’s writing can tell you about his wicked imagination: luminous, dark, wholly original, and quite frequently supernatural. Saunders is, after all, the man who gave us Lincoln in the Bardo, about a grieving president and the chorus of ghosts he meets in the graveyard; “ ...
On a frigid Norwegian afternoon earlier this month, Dan Quintana, a psychology professor at the University of Oslo, decided to stay in and complete a tedious task that he had been putting off for weeks. An editor from a well-known journal in his field had asked him to review a paper that they were c ...
Accounts of the life of Martin Luther King Jr often present him as a singularly great individual. Yet MLK was profoundly shaped by a vibrant ecosystem of socialists and labor radicals, from Myles Horton and Rosa Parks to Bayard Rustin and Stanley Levison.Martin Luther King’s radicalism wasn’t a priv ...
In response to the killing of Renee Good and the ICE invasion, the Minneapolis labor movement has issued the nation’s first citywide general strike call in nearly 80 years, set for tomorrow. It is building on a grand American labor tradition.Striking workers march along Market Street in San Francisc ...
Updated at 4:00 p.m. ET on January 23, 2026Gavin Newsom is currently in the lead for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. Newsom’s early advantage is especially impressive for the way that it puts him well ahead of candidates with better name recognition, including Kamala Harris and Pete ...
Updated at 10:14 a.m. ET on January 22, 2026“The object of the Museum is to acquire power,” announces a crusty old archaeologist in Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1977 satire, The Golden Child. It isn’t a goal he respects. He wants the museum where he’s settled into semiretirement to genuinely devote itself ...
Companies are increasingly using personalized data to lowball pay for desperate workers and jack up prices on consumers who lack options. Mayor Zohran Mamdani can make life more affordable for ordinary New Yorkers by banning surveillance pay and pricing.Mayor Zohran Mamdani has an opportunity to pro ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsOne worker joined the FBI and made a career in counterintelligence, sniffing out Chinese spies. Another developed a strong stomach around blood and guts, inspecting slaughterhouses and processing plants to make sure that the ...
Betting money puts the odds of constitutional collapse in the United States at about one in 25. Anyone can wager three or four cents on Polymarket, Kalshi, or PredictIt that will pay out $1 if Donald Trump wins a third term in the 2028 election—an impossibility, according to the plain text of the Tw ...
Seth Harp’s reporting on nonclassified information about the US’s attack on Venezuela has led to attacks from Congress on his — and everyone’s — basic First Amendment rights.No existing law criminalizes journalist Seth Harp’s recent reporting on US military action in Venezuela. (Democracy Now!)After ...
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the latest entry in the British zombie franchise, ups the ante with a Jimmy Savile–inspired satanic cult and mesmerizing performances from Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell.Ralph Fiennes in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. (Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures)I enjoyed ...
For 40 years, social democratic parties radically improved life for workers. The labor movement and worker militancy made it possible.The golden age of social democracy brought a level of prosperity to workers unimaginable just a generation before. But as trade union militancy declined, so did socia ...
The U.S. Labor Department is embracing Nazi slogans and tropes, the Pentagon’s research office is deploying neo-Nazi graphic elements in its social-media feeds, and the Department of Homeland Security recently posted lyrics mimicking a popular song by a band with ties to an ethno-nationalist social ...
After several marathon sessions in Room 101 of the Ministry of Trump, the Republican member of Congress was beginning to see the strategic necessity of destroying NATO to add Greenland to the United States. It still came only in flashes. The Republican was strapped to a camp bed surrounded with dial ...
President Trump prosecutes his political opponents; deports immigrants, including some here legally, to foreign prisons without due process; solicits tribute payments from corporations and foreign governments; deploys soldiers to American cities that are not, in fact, in civil-war-level chaos; and p ...
A Russian proverb I heard growing up translates to something like “Those who recall the past will lose an eye.” Dwelling on bygone events, it suggests, is dangerous. My family of post-Soviet refugees seemed to believe it, and mostly passed down their history in loose, cinematic anecdotes. I’d piece ...
The notion that America would be stronger if it were bigger preoccupied several 19th-century U.S. presidents, but none more than James K. Polk. America’s 11th chief executive believed that expansion was America’s God-given right and duty. He argued that broadening America’s borders would deliver acc ...
Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, can rarely be described as looking happy. His brick wall of a face and somber voice, worn down by many years of smoking Marlboros, have earned him the nickname “Minister No.” But when the question of Greenland came up yesterday at his press conference in ...
Updated at 5:25 p.m. ET on January 21, 2026This 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.“Without us, right now you’d all be speaking German,” Donald ...
Last summer, a protester in Seattle made an anti-police sign with an unusual message. Hey SPD, it read. Crime is down 20 percent, and you had nothing to do with it. The taunt was glib, but it hinted at a profound question about the nature of public safety in American cities. After a pandemic-era ris ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum examines one of the most consequential deceptions of the Trump presidency: the insistence that grocery prices are falling when Americans know from live ...
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.A year into Donald Trump’s second term, the Department of Justice has become his private law firm, devoted less to the impartial administration of justice than to blackmailing, intimidating, and persecuting Trum ...
State governments in Australia are trying to outlaw the phrase “globalize the intifada.” It’s an act of censorship that is willfully ignorant of the slogan’s meaning and connection with the Palestinian liberation movement.The Australian political establishment and pro-Israel lobby groups want to ban ...
Darializa Avila Chevalier has spent years as a grassroots organizer fighting mass incarceration, opposing ICE detention, organizing for Palestine, and knocking doors for Zohran Mamdani. Now the democratic socialist is running for Congress.Next door to AOC’s district, in a city that just elected Zohr ...
Here’s a good rule of thumb for making a movie: Don’t allow the press tour to be the most exciting component. The Rip, from the director Joe Carnahan, is a cop drama where macho guys (and gals) tote carbine rifles and grunt law-enforcement lingo—the kind of crime-genre pablum that commonly gets thro ...
While Donald Trump fires off threats of military action against countries from Greenland to Iran, Latin America is the main focus for his strategy of imperial retrenchment. The Latin American left will have to build new alliances against US aggression.Colombian president Gustavo Petro speaks during ...
Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, has become an evangelist of a certain sort. During her tenure, her department has on multiple occasions released slick social-media recruitment videos in which scripture verses feature prominently.One video quotes from Isaiah 6:8 (“Then I heard the vo ...
Economist Clara Mattei explains how her profession has provided elites with a justification for austerity and exploitation.Since its inception, the economics profession has provided elites with a justification for austerity. But this is very often a thinly veiled defense of the interests of the rich ...
Wall Street and the crypto industry are engaged in a legislative battle over which business interests will get to fleece more of their customers’ money, with big banks hoping to close a loophole that allows cryptocurrencies to pay interest to investors.Brian Armstrong, CEO of crypto company Coinbase ...
The Trump administration says it wants Greenland for its natural resources. But that’s largely fantasy: while the island has critical minerals and fossil fuels, there’s almost no infrastructure to extract them. The real motives are likely geopolitical.In Greenland, huge capital investment would be r ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt famously illustrated with a simple metaphor the need for a healthy transatlantic alliance. Justifying his decision to lend Great Britain warships and other military supplies in the early days of World War II, Roosevelt likened it to loaning a neighbor a garden hose to put out t ...
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.Donald Trump retains the ability to shock; the day he loses that, he will, like the biblical Samson—ano ...
For two decades, the United States and Canada have struggled with a drug epidemic. From 2003 to 2022, annual overdose deaths in the United States rose from less than 26,000 to nearly 108,000—becoming the leading nonmedical cause of death, surpassing car accidents and gun violence combined. In Canada ...
For the past year, the United States has gone without its doctor. Ever since Vivek Murthy resigned as surgeon general last January, the role has remained empty despite President Trump’s attempts to fill it. He first nominated the physician Janette Nesheiwat but withdrew her nomination in May after r ...
When Shahrzad went to demonstrate in the streets of Tehran on January 2, she was buoyed by one fact: The day before, President Trump had promised that if Iran killed protesters, “the United States of America will come to their rescue.”“We were all so hopeful,” the 29-year-old woman, who left Iran a ...
An overwhelming majority of American Historical Association members voted earlier this month to condemn scholasticide in Gaza. AHA leaders overruled members to block the measure, opting for cowardice over ethical clarity.By refusing even a symbolic defense of academic freedom in Gaza, the AHA aligns ...
The past year has been an annus horribilis for American democracy. Donald Trump launched an assault on any source of authority besides himself—prosecuting his political enemies, punishing dissenters both in and out of government, and following his own impulses regardless of law or norms. As the firs ...
Bolivia’s new right-wing government was forced to abandon its neoliberal reform package, pushed by executive decree, following the largest mobilization of the nation’s labor movement in at least five years.The victory of the COB shows that while the MAS may have been crushed as an electoral force la ...
For someone who is not a professional swimmer, I spend an awful lot of time under water. I consider it an act of mobile meditation: Sensory input is muffled, so the chaos of the surface world eventually recedes. What’s left is activity—familiar, comforting, and hypnotic, almost second nature. My bra ...
New York governor Kathy Hochul is trying to dodge taxing the rich to please her wealthy donors, argue New York City Democratic Socialists of America’s cochairs Grace Mausser and Gustavo Gordillo.The majority of New Yorkers want to tax the rich, and we already have strong legislation to make that hap ...
Sparklers sizzled, boom-badoom-boom bass thumped, and Nicki Minaj emerged onstage at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest last month to deliver the latest plot twist in an exhausting year for politics and pop culture. The rapper—whose straight black hair reached the hem of her sleek minidress—sat down wi ...
A year into Donald Trump’s second presidential term, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of activity. Whether you think his administration has achieved great things or worry that it has unleashed terrible abuses, Trump sure looks to have done a lot.But if you view the year through the le ...
Donald Trump has long claimed he wants to lower credit card interest rates. His regulators are intervening in a legal battle to do the opposite.Trump regulators argued a Colorado law that would cap credit card interest rates cuts into credit card companies’ profit margins, forcing lenders to be mor ...
Updated at 3:00 p.m. ET on January 20, 2026By the time she faced her first oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pam Bondi had become a person she never really wanted to be. She had told a reporter once that in college she’d wanted to be a pediatrician, but she ended up becoming a ...
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Among the greatest tricks Donald Trump ever pulled is convincing significant portions of the population that the slow erosion of their rights is not, actually, that big of a deal.After all, do undocumented immig ...
General strikes don’t happen very often in the United States. But in the face of widespread anger at ICE abuses and the murder of Renee Good, the Twin Cities’ labor movement is moving toward organizing one at the end of this week.Under siege, Minnesotans are leaning on organizations at work and in t ...
The UN is putting refugees to work in poorly paid green jobs to generate carbon credits for billion-dollar firms. It’s one of the most cynical instances of a corporate greenwashing agenda that has done little to address climate change.The vast majority of the value generated from reforestation work ...
Updated at 4:45 p.m. ET on January 20, 2026The United States is a global superpower, and its military trains for war in every domain. During my years as a military educator, I saw American officers wrestle with any number of scenarios designed to challenge their thinking and force them to adapt to s ...
Let me begin by quoting, in full, a letter that the president of the United States of America sent yesterday to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre. The text was forwarded by the White House National Security Council to ambassadors in Washington, and was clearly intended to be widely shar ...
The massive scandal around welfare fraud in Minnesota became a big story the same way the character Mike Campbell in The Sun Also Rises describes going bankrupt: “gradually and then suddenly.” Federal prosecutors first filed criminal charges in 2022 against the fraudsters at a Minnesota nonprofit ca ...
Coretta Scott King condemned the brutality of the Vietnam War and criticized how it drained money from housing, health care, and jobs.Vice President-elect Hubert H. Humphrey (left), alongside Coretta Scott King (center), and Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (right), at a rally at Harlem's 369th Regiment Ar ...
AI is understood to be an unstoppable force, but it is still wholly dependent on human labor to function. Whether these technologies liberate or create misery will depend on who controls their development and deployment.Neo, a humanoid robot that "can be both autonomous and driven remotely" by an op ...
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s dizzying history of energy consumption argues that no energy transition has ever occurred: each generation consumes more of past fuels. Not only are his claims ahistorical but they justify an unwarranted pessimism about the future.Since the discovery of human-caused climate c ...
Global fertility decline has made reproduction a site of reactionary family policies and moralized childlessness. But a healthy society would let people choose to have children or not without turning that choice into a moral adjudication.Pronatalist and antinatalist positions are becoming magnified ...
Democratic socialists Eon Huntley and Christian Celeste Tate are running for New York State Assembly, hoping to grow the socialist bench in Albany. Jacobin spoke to them about their campaigns.Eon Tyrell Huntley’s and Christian Celeste Tate’s campaigns represent the most recent attempts to dislodge t ...
Israel routinely confiscates what it calls uncultivated Palestinian land. In the West Bank towns of Beit Furik or Beit Dajan, farmers who refuse to be driven from their territory are subject to constant attacks by armed settlers and the Israeli army.A Palestinian man stands near Israeli soldiers dur ...
From free speech fights to picket lines to defending political prisoners, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn lived a life on the front lines for the working class. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn speaks to striking mill workers in Passaic, New Jersey, on May 3, 1926. (Underwood / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images)Elizabeth ...
New York City Hall has traditionally had an antagonistic relationship with the city’s municipal workforce. Mayor Zohran Mamdani can chart a new course, working collaboratively with city workers to deliver better public services.Zohran Mamdani has the chance to turn the page on New York City’s opposi ...
In China, the number of single-person households has increased along with rates of loneliness. In this respect, China is not unique. It is simply suffering from the same social dislocation affecting all advanced capitalist states. Job seekers and recruiters at a job fair in a shopping mall in Beijin ...
Military veterans are more likely than other Americans to work union jobs. Vets in the labor movement have increasingly joined and led fights against Donald Trump’s attacks on Veterans Affairs and on federal workers’ jobs and collective bargaining rights.US military veterans in the labor movement ha ...
In Wisconsin, state assembly member and democratic socialist Francesca Hong has announced she is running for governor. We spoke to her about the campaign.Wisconsin socialist candidate for governor Francesca Hong: “It is imperative we stay hyper-disciplined on affordability.” (Andy Manis / Getty Imag ...
In the wake of protests over West Bank real estate, Toronto has ring-fenced public space around dozens of synagogues. This expansion of “bubble zones” has less to do with real danger than with political lawfare against critics of Israel.Acknowledging the rise in anti-semitic incidents does not requi ...
Norristown, Pennsylvania, is a majority-renter town with deep industrial roots. New councilmember David McMahon explains why the suburbs aren’t a monolith — and why suburbs like his are fertile ground for socialist organizing.Not all suburbs are rich suburbs. Socialist David McMahon won a council se ...
The attack on Venezuela marks the arrival of the Sopranos stage of imperialism: the transformation of US hegemony into naked extortion. As with the Mafia, loyalty may ultimately buy nothing, and deals can be broken at gunpoint.The assault on Venezuela signals a shift from hegemony and consent to Sop ...
Centrist Democratic leaders like Hakeem Jeffries have taken to calling socialists “Team Gentrification.” Strange, since those same establishment Democrats take real estate cash while socialist candidates like Zohran Mamdani fight for affordable housing.NYC-DSA’s electoral success has been attributed ...
With Atlanticism fraying, Nazi thinker Carl Schmitt is being reread in Germany as a theorist of a world divided into power blocs, a reading that Donald Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” is helping to underscore.For Carl Schmitt, the international order was not built on universal rules but on “great spaces.” ...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has only existed since 2003. There’s nothing extreme about the idea of disbanding the rogue agency.Even if a new president with better intentions inherits this sanctioned gang called ICE, it’s far from clear that it would ever be reformable. It’s really not crazy ...
When Barack Obama and Joe Biden occupied the White House, Democrats gave excuse after excuse about why they couldn’t take bold action. Donald Trump’s second-term rampage of executive power shows Democratic presidents were not as powerless as they claimed.The fact that Donald Trump could wield execut ...
There’s nothing Britain’s political class likes more than a mob of football hooligans, so long as they’re Israeli. Now the Starmer government has moved to punish police officers for declining to accommodate Maccabi Tel Aviv’s notoriously racist fans.Keir Starmer has asserted that the Israeli fans of ...
Amid an internet blackout, reports describe waves of catastrophic violence across Iran. Yet the ruling order remains firmly in control, even as an economic crisis erodes the welfare systems that once underpinned its legitimacy.In over two weeks of protests, more than 2,000 people have been killed an ...
Tackling teachers and spraying chemical agents on school property, ICE’s rampage through Minnesota is only getting more violent. Jacobin spoke with a Minneapolis parent about what she’s seen so far.Renee Good’s murder was not the first incident in which ICE and other deportation agents have aimed fi ...
Silicon Valley oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen have much to gain from Donald Trump’s seizure of Greenland, both as a source of rare earth minerals to feed the AI boom and as a site for a libertarian “crypto state.”Donald Trump wants Greenland as a gift to his tech oligarch donors, who ...
Renee Good’s murder was the deadly culmination of the past year in which ICE and other federal agents pointed their guns and even shot at US citizens in dozens of cases around the country.An ICE officer points a weapon at protesters on E Alondra Blvd. in Los Angeles, June 7, 2025. (Carlin Stiehl / L ...
After the 2008 crisis, the US set up a vast financial network offering liquidity to its allies. The ongoing clash between Jerome Powell and Donald Trump is partly about the future of this system and which vision of American empire it will promote.The clash between Donald Trump and Jerome Powell is a ...
Fifteen thousand nurses across 10 campuses in New York City’s three biggest hospital systems are on an open-ended strike. Nurses say employers are trying to undermine safe-staffing protections and demanding concessions on nurses’ own health care benefits.Nurses say hospital administrators are demand ...
Governor Gavin Newsom is siding with California’s billionaires against a proposed wealth tax to fund health care. Progressives like Ro Khanna are challenging him.Governor Gavin Newsom is raising money for a committee to defeat the billionaire tax ballot initiative Rep. Ro Khanna is supporting. (Just ...
A variety of shadowy private security and weapons firms have been tapped to provide firearms and combat training to ICE agents. They are among the many private entities lining up for their cut of the Trump administration’s deportation spending blitz.To train its sniper teams and special response gro ...
The Czech Republic’s new environment minister is leader of a pro–fossil fuel party called Motorists for Themselves. It’s part of a right-wing backlash in Europe, moving to kill off the EU’s Green Deal.Petr Macinka has described the Ministry of the Environment as the main obstacle to the Czech Republ ...
It’s time we see ICE as it already sees itself: a domestic army dispatched by the Trump administration to terrorize vulnerable people and violently intimidate political enemies into submission.The murder of Renee Good by ICE agents should be a tipping point in the series of authoritarian power grabs ...
New York taxi drivers have long been mercilessly squeezed by the city, culminating in their 2021 hunger strike joined by Zohran Mamdani. Announcing a new taxi commissioner yesterday, Mayor Mamdani promised a break with that past.Zohran Mamdani joined long-exploited New York City taxi drivers in a hu ...
The Federal Reserve has quietly delivered nearly half a trillion dollars to Wall Street with few strings attached over the past few months. These cash infusions could signal instability in the broader financial sector.The New York Federal Reserve has recently delivered a series of major cash transfe ...
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good in the head last week, Republicans declared that Americans would overwhelmingly support the killing. In reality, the vast majority find the murder unjustified.By an average margin of more than 22 points, Americans overwhelm ...
As Donald Trump threatens a military attack on Iran, shadowy conservative groups working to gut consumer protections and roll back abortion rights have also been pouring millions into influential think tanks advocating for regime change in the country.Donors Trust, a dark money group with deep ties ...
Today marks 15 years since the overthrow of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, one of the high points of the Arab Spring. The events of 2011 gave rise to an impressive wave of revolutions. Almost all were bloodily suppressed.Demonstrators in front of the prime minister's offices in Tunis on January 27, 2011 ...
Nearly 15,000 nurses are now on strike at three New York City private sector hospitals, in the largest nurses’ strike the city has ever seen. Nurses say they are striking to end understaffing that burns out nurses and endangers patients.New York City nurses say employers are refusing to address thei ...
ICE appears to be reveling in the hypocrisy and double standards that the Trump administration’s unqualified defense of their sickeningly violent and occasionally murderous behavior, against Renee Good and innumerable others, has given them license to indulge in.ICE is advertising their own violent, ...
The genocide in Gaza radicalizes Zionism’s long-standing colonial project. But Israeli leaders’ open rejection of any future possibility of a Palestinian state have undercut their own international legitimacy.Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with President Donald Tr ...
The report behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s updated dietary guidelines didn’t eliminate food and pharmaceutical industry influence over Health and Human Services decisions. It did the exact opposite.The Trump administration’s updated dietary guidelines are adulterated with corporate conflicts and quest ...
Donald Trump is making the United States’ affordability crisis worse and suffering historically low approval ratings. He is likely hoping wars abroad will divert the public’s attention from his domestic policy failures.War appears to be a one-size-fits-all solution to all of Donald Trump’s problems. ...
Like Renee Good’s murder in Minnesota, the Bloody Sunday massacre in Ireland was notable for both the blatancy of the crime, carried out in broad daylight, and the audacity of the lies pumped out from the highest levels of the state.A makeshift memorial honoring Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Min ...
The failed push to sink Zohran Mamdani’s appointment of tenant organizer Cea Weaver was an attempt to remove a highly effective advocate for renters, who landlords and the real estate industry hate because she has consistently defeated them.The absurd right-wing campaign to pressure Zohran Mamdani t ...
Emily Witt’s memoir begins with the Brooklyn and Berlin underground rave scenes and the appeal of subcultural escapism. What follows is a reckoning with the social conflicts of the present and journalists’ role in a time of rising authoritarianism.In her memoir, Emily Witt questions what it means to ...
For decades, American Jews were assumed to be uncritical supporters of Israel. But Israel’s war in Gaza transformed Jewish politics in the US and irrevocably undermined the legitimacy of institutions that sustain Zionism.Over two hundred members from Jewish Voice for Peace occupy the lobby outside t ...
The first decades following the Russian Revolution saw enormous changes in women’s social role, but early promises of liberation were soon stifled. The record of women’s struggle is among the revolution’s most precious legacies.No Western government has even come close to enacting revolutionary poli ...
Roger Toussaint, former president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, challenges the claim that New York’s last great transit strike weakened labor — and explains why its real legacy has been obscured.Twenty years after the 2005 New York City transit strike, the legacy of the walkout remains conte ...
Today liberals lead the call for abundance. But if they really want to deliver plenty for all, they’ll need to confront the entrenched power of the capitalist class.Democrats have learned to embrace economic abundance thanks to Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s best-selling book. (Elizabeth Flores / S ...
Seattle’s new socialist mayor, Katie Wilson, won with an authentic image, a strong social media presence, a dedicated and energetic volunteer base, a relentless focus on material issues over political labels, and an emphasis on cross-community solidarity.Katie Wilson won Seattle’s mayoral race by kn ...
Left-wing Colombian presidential candidate Iván Cepeda speaks to Jacobin about the accomplishments of Gustavo Petro, the US attack on Venezuela, and the Trump administration’s dangerous interventions across Latin America.Senator and presidential candidate Iván Cepeda speaks during an election night ...
A new piece of legislation will give private tenants in Britain more protection from arbitrary eviction. But without a major expansion of public housing, tenants will continue paying exorbitant rents that swallow up a huge chunk of their incomes. Britain’s housing system needs more than the modest c ...
The protests sweeping through Iran are not the first of their kind. But the threat of a continuation of the Israel-US war has led Tehran to see them as an existential threat.Iran has experienced mass protests before, but never at a time of what it describes as “total war” with Israel, the United Sta ...
In his first week as mayor, Zohran Mamdani issued 12 executive orders targeting housing, consumer protection, and democratic participation. His pace rebuts critics who have accused him of gauzy promises destined to go unfulfilled.Even if you’re skeptical of Zohran Mamdani’s ability to implement big ...
Unions and international labor federations argue that it’s the same billionaires that want to run Venezuela who keep us working longer hours for less pay, without health care, job security, or stable housing.Labor federations around the world are condemning the Trump administration’s acts of war in ...
The Food and Drug Administration has relaxed guidelines on the health effects of alcohol consumption. Much more than any new scientific findings, the move reflects a yearslong lobbying effort by the alcohol industry.Current research says that no amount of alcohol consumption is good for your health. ...