Earlier this year, one of the most popular apps in China was called Are You Dead?. This was not a game, but a handy way for the many young people who live alone across the country, mostly in cities, to keep tabs on one another. Users needed to check in with the app every 48 hours by pressing a big g ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsThis week, the State Department released a mock-up of a new limited-edition passport designed to commemorate America’s 250th birthday. Previews show it including John Trumbull’s famous image of the presentation of the Declar ...
On Saturday night, after Cole Tomas Allen’s alleged attempt to assassinate President Trump and administration officials at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a familiar ritual began on the internet: compiling a portrait of the shooter, based on the digital breadcrumbs of his online life. Over t ...
More than 90 lawsuits have been filed by creators against AI companies for copyright infringement. Authors, musicians, visual artists, and news publishers have all accused firms such as OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic of using their copyrighted works to train AI models without permission. (The Atlantic ...
Ships and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Musandam, Oman, on April 18, 2026 [Reuters]
Neonaziaufmärsche in Essen, Braunschweig und Gera – Pseudogewerkschaft und Familienfest bei der AfD
Beschäftigte des Flughafens BER erhalten mehr Lohn. Doch 313 000 Berliner und Brandenburger sind arbeitslos und die PCK-Raffinerie hat Probleme
Friedrich Merz erweitert erneut das Sagbare, denn offensichtlich soll die Rente weiter ausgehöhlt werden. Mehr Altersarmut ist damit programmiert.
Staatsanwältin Esther Katz ist Protagonistin von »The Darkest Files«, dem offiziell besten deutschen Computerspiel des Jahres
The US-Israel war on Iran is forcing governments worldwide to rethink where their energy supplies come from and how dependent they are on volatile regions.And the market is already shifting. US energy exports have hit record highs. The United Arab Emirates is leaving OPEC.So, as the world adjusts to ...
I’m meeting with Micah Lasher at a diner on the Upper West Side. The last time I saw him was also at an Upper West Side diner. That was 32 years ago. He was 12. I was 22. He was interviewing me for a job. Lasher is running for Congress in the June 23 Democratic primary for the smallest, richest, mo ...
In London geht es 100 Jahre nach den ersten Weltmeisterschaften an gleicher Stelle um zwei Titel – und den Versuch, Chinas Dominanz zu brechen.
A man who survived an Israeli air strike is rescued by a firefighter from a destroyed building in central Beirut, Lebanon, on April 8, 2026 [Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo]
Duha Abu Yousef worries about her post-caesarean recovery due to the lack of clean water, proper bedding and privacy [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/ Al Jazeera]
With more than 220 journalists killed in Gaza, the Israeli army is the biggest killer of journalists in the world. [Abdelhakim Abu Riash /Al Jazeera]
Vehicles move past a warehouse yard with shipping containers near the port area in Karachi, Pakistan, July 31, 2025 [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]
Das Ipecac Label aus Kalifornien ist eine Institution für grenzwertige Musik
People chant during a rally in Tehran, Iran [Majid Asgaripour/Reuters]United States President Donald Trump says Washington’s blockade of Iranian ports has been a success, urging Tehran to “just give up” as pressure mounts in a deepening standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.Iran has pushed back strongl ...
Eine russische Drohne beschädigte 2025 eine Schutzhülle über dem Unglücksreaktor. Die Reparatur wird teuer, die USA helfen
Iranians drive by picture of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, as the US and Iran remain in deadlocked in a ceasefire that temporarily suspended the conflict [Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA]
Deutschland rutscht im Ranking auf Platz 14 ab: Medienschaffende berichten von vermehrten Anfeindungen und wachsendem Misstrauen
Im Vergleich zum Vorjahr weisen Bund und Länder weniger Menschen aus. Die Linke fordert einen Abschiebestopp für den Iran
President of the Iranian Football Federation Mehdi Taj was leading the Iranian football delegation that travelled to Canada for the FIFA Congress [File: Atta Kenare/AFP]An Iranian football federation delegation says it turned back at Toronto’s main airport this week, citing their treatment by Canad ...
Das Verhältnis zwischen Kanzler Merz und US-Präsident Trump galt lange Zeit als gut. Jetzt schlagen die beiden andere Töne an
Oil wells at the San Ardo oilfield in San Ardo, California, in March 2026 [File: Nic Coury/AP Photo]
US President Donald Trump says Washington’s blockade of Iranian ports has been a success and urges Tehran to “just give up”. At least nine people have been killed in Israeli air strikes across southern Lebanon today, the National News Agency is reporting.
US President Donald Trump says Washington’s blockade of Iranian ports has been a success and urges Tehran to “just give up”. At least nine people have been killed in Israeli air strikes across southern Lebanon today, the National News Agency is reporting.
US President Donald Trump says Washington’s blockade of Iranian ports has been a success and urges Tehran to “just give up”. Iran’s military warns of “unprecedented action” if the US blockade continues, saying that “the restraint shown by armed forces so far has been intended to give diplomacy a cha ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.In September, FCC Chair Brendan Carr dangled a simple threat: Either ABC would “take action” against Ji ...
For the conservative editor and columnist James Jackson Kilpatrick, the Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation was an atrocity. Brown v. Board of Education, he wrote in the 1950s, was a “revolutionary act by a judicial junta which simply seized power.” He warned in 1963 that the passage ...
The United Arab Emirates is quitting OPEC – and the oil-producing bloc is losing one of its most important members.This comes during the worst global energy crisis of modern times, caused by the US-Israel war on Iran, which has hit the UAE hard.So why now – and what’s the impact?Presenter: Mohammed ...
A farmer operates a combine during the start of the wheat harvesting campaign in a field near the town of Starobilsk (Starobelsk) in the Luhansk Region, a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine [File: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]
Florida Republicans have approved a new congressional map that could hand them as many as four House seats that Democrats currently hold. Their goal is straightforward and universally understood: They want to bolster the GOP’s majority in Congress and retake the lead in a yearlong, nationwide partis ...
President Trump welcomed the British monarch King Charles III to the White House yesterday and gave a speech that, on its surface, expressed warmth between the two countries. But its true purpose was darker. Trump’s speech stamped his imprimatur on an ascendant view of American history and politics— ...
The Epaminondas ship during seizure by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the Strait of Hormuz, April 24 [File: Meysam Mirzadeh/Tasnim/WANA via Reuters]
Keystone-France / Gamma-Rapho / GettySidecar racers lean into a turn during a race in the United Kingdom on October 6, 1965.Topical Press Agency / Hulton Archive / GettyOriginal caption from June 1923: “F W Dixon, winner of the Tourist Trophy sidecar race on the Isle of Man, on his Douglas motorcycl ...
There are three major problems when it comes to understanding political violence in America. First, Americans cannot seem to agree on a definition of political violence. Second, people are too busy blaming their perceived political foes to see the larger problem for what it is. And, third, the big o ...
People walk past an installation depicting barrel of oil with the logo of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) during the COP29 United Nations climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 19, 2024 [File: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters]
Cannons fired. Fifes and drums played “Yankee Doodle.” A quartet of F-35s flew overhead, and dozens of military service members held American and British flags. It was about as much pomp as the United States can muster. This 250th anniversary of America, for the Brits, can be … a bit awkward. It’s l ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. David examines the role of the dinner in an administration that rejects the basic concepts of honesty with and res ...
An LNG tanker passes through the Singapore Strait, a vital chokepoint connecting the Middle East’s energy exports with Indo-Pacific markets. [Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images]The world is now in the middle of the most significant structural change since the end of the second world war. Amid shifts ...
The Devil Wears Prada took place amid the glorious roar of capitalism. The hit 2006 comedy took place in a world where magazines were still triumphant, with Runway, a fictional, Vogue-esque publication the film was centered on, sitting firmly atop the heap. The only concern was whether Andy Sachs, a ...
Displaced people who fled Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon sit outside shelter tents in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 24, 2026 [Bilal Hussein/AP Photo]
People ride motorcycles near a billboard featuring an image of Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, amid a ceasefire between US and Iran, in Tehran, Iran, April 20, 2026 [File: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters]
Moctar, a Malian refugee who escaped violence sits in his tent in the village of Dounkara, Mauritania [Shola Lawal/Al Jazeera]
Die Gewerkschaften gewinnen Mitglieder dort, wo sie Tarifverträge abschließen und sich in Konflikte begeben. Vor dem Tag der Arbeit spürt man das kaum
Kabinett beschließt Etatplan 2027 und Eckpunkte für die Folgejahre. Finanzierungslücken summieren sich auf 140 Milliarden
Über 150 Organisationen fordern mehr Geld für Entwicklungspolitik. Vom international vereinbarten Ziel entfernt sich Deutschland zunehmend.
Senioren-Wohnpark wehrt sich gegen Einzelzimmer-Gebot in Brandenburg. Die Hälfte der Bevölkerung fürchtet Verlust der Privatsphäre im Alter.
A fishing boat glides across the waters of Iraq’s southern marshes, sending ripples shimmering over the once-parched wetlands, now revived by long-awaited rains.Running through almost the entire Huwaizah Marshes, the returning water is dotted with patches of greenery, with buffaloes soaking in it or ...
Im Zuge der Reform der Kassenfinanzen solle es ab 2028 eine Abgabe auf Süßgetränke geben. Ob sie aber wirklich kommt, ist nicht gewiss.
Seit Jahrzehnten werden die weltweiten Ölmärkte maßgeblich von der Opec geprägt. Jetzt kehren die Emirate dem Kartell den Rücken. Ist das sein Ende?
Satellite view of Iran's Kharg Island, which hosts the country’s main crude export terminal [Planet Labs via AFP]The US naval blockade of Iranian ports and the Strait of Hormuz, in place since April 13, has raised concerns that Iran could run out of crude oil storage capacity and be forced to curb p ...
A Hezbollah fighter prepares an FPV (first-person view) drone fitted with a PG-7 warhead at an undisclosed location, in this image released via the group’s media outlets [Social media]In the skies over the Lebanese town of Taybeh, Israel’s multibillion-dollar defence systems were rendered useless by ...
Donald Trump speaks during an arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, on April 28, 2026 [Jim Watson/AFP]
This undated photograph handed out by the French military shows Russian mercenaries in northern Mali. Russia has engaged in under-the-radar military operations in at least half a dozen countries in Africa in the last five years using a shadowy force analysts say is now loyal to President Vladimir Pu ...
The Khalifa International Stadium will host the final of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup on December 13, 2026 [File: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images]Qatar will host the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in November and December, the sport’s global governing body and local organisers have announced.The tournament will t ...
Sebastian Hoeneß beweist mit seinem Team, dass attraktiver Offensivfußball auch jenseits von München erfolgreich sein kann.
Das Bundeskabinett beschließt einen umstrittenen Gesetzentwurf zur Reform der GKV-Finanzen. Jetzt muss das Papier ins Parlament.
An den Münchner Kammerspielen hat Jette Steckel »Mephisto« adaptiert – und ins Heute übersetzt. Nun ist die Arbeit beim Berliner Theatertreffen zu sehen.
Gesetze werden schärfer, doch die größten Umwelteingriffe bleiben erlaubt. Warum Naturschutz zur Symbolpolitik wird. Ein Kommentar
Iran's crypto ecosystem exceeded more than $7.78bn last year, growing at a faster pace compared with 2024, according to crypto transaction monitoring firm Chainalysis [File: Kin Cheung/AP]
Teile der Maga-Bewegung werfen Präsident Trump »Imperialismus« vor. Dabei geht es aber auch um Machtkalkül.
Die zivile Flotte im Mittelmeer kooperiert nicht mit Tunesien und Libyen – aus gutem Grund: Die Bundespolizei ermittelt in drei Fällen wegen Schüssen.
Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Football Federation Mehdi Mohammad Nabi met with FIFA chief Gianni Infantino in Turkiye last month but was not present at the AFC Congress in Canada [File: Kaan Soyturk/Reuters]Representatives from Iran’s football federation were not present at the larg ...
Abgeordnete fordern konsensbasiertes Sexualstrafrecht. Berichterstatterin Evin Incir kritisiert Deutschlands bisherige Blockadehaltung scharf.
A model of an oil pump is seen in front of the OPEC logo in this illustration taken January 9, 2026. [Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo/Reuters]For decades, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) functioned as far more than an oil cartel. For its Gulf members, the organisation ...
In Berlin erleben Sinti und Roma Diskriminierung – auch am Arbeitsplatz und bei Behörden. Das zeigt eine neue Dokumentation.
(Al Jazeera)The world’s militaries spent $2.88 trillion in 2025, an increase of 2.9 percent from the year before, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s (SIPRI) latest report.To put that number into perspective, $2.88 trillion amounts to $350 of military spending for eac ...
“Is this you inviting the pope on a ride-along?” Benny Johnson asked at a recent Turning Point USA event.“Yes,” Border Czar Tom Homan said.*Although they had removed the license plates from the popemobile, it was still pretty conspicuous, as far as modes of ICE transit went. In compliance with the s ...
Die Arbeit der Menschen ist eine entscheidende Ressource im Kampf der Länder um Macht und Einfluss. Wer es langsamer angehen lässt, fällt zurück.
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Had President Trump, we wondered, possibly been reading or at least thumbing through—just maybe—the works of … Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel?Impossible. And yet. Hegel’s theory of “world-historical individuals,” ...
Um das Wachstum zu stützen, soll die Produktivität der Beschäftigten steigen. Was sie produzieren, spielt dabei keine Rolle, solange es sich verkauft.
Maximilian Schäffers Gedichte »Geiler Kriege«
The PFA has long argued that clubs based in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank - which are illegal under international law - should not compete in leagues run by the Israel Football Association [File: Amir Cohen/Reuters]
Warum quälen sich Menschen so lustvoll durch Fitness-, Ernährungs- und Verhaltensroutinen – manchmal bis zur völligen körperlichen Verausgabung?
Antiwar activists hold signs during a march organised by the Stop the War Coalition in London on March 7, 2026. and call for an end to hostilities during the US-Israel war on Iran [Jack Taylor/Reuters]
A cargo ship sails through the Shahid Beheshti terminal in the southeastern Iranian coastal city of Chabahar, on the Gulf of Oman, during an inauguration ceremony of new equipment and infrastructure on February 25, 2019 Atta Kenare/AFP]New Delhi, India — Relations between the United States and India ...
Despite a fragile truce, daily life in Tehran's commercial districts masks an underlying anxiety over the possibility of renewed conflict. [Al Jazeera]
Der Grazer Eisenbahner und Historiker Leo Kühberger über moderne kommunistische Politik in Österreich und wirkliche Veränderung auf der Straße
Erstmals seit 1991 spricht mit König Charles III. ein britischer Monarch zum US-Kongress. In seine Rede verpackt er auch unbequeme Themen
Wegen steigender Preise verzichten viele Menschen in Deutschland auf Restaurantbesuche, Neuanschaffungen oder Autofahrten
In a new social media post, US President Donald Trump has threatened Iran to “better get smart soon” as efforts by Washington and Tehran to end hostilities appeared at a standstill. Israel has killed at least seven people, including emergency workers and soldiers, in southern Lebanon.
US President Donald Trump claims Iran is in a “state of collapse” and has asked Washington to lift its blockade on Iranian ports “as soon as possible”. Gulf leaders have met in Saudi Arabia and say Iran must take “the initiative to make serious efforts to rebuild confidence” after “treacherous” atta ...
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are two of the most influential people in Silicon Valley, if not the world. Between the two of them, Musk and Altman run technology companies worth many trillions of dollars that promise to reshape civilization. But this morning, both sat under fluorescent lights in a courth ...
Zu Gast eist Jonathan. Einer, der auszog, um Desinformation und die Unterstützung für Menschenrechtsverletzungen zu bekämpfen. Ein Gespräch über eine elitäre Medienbranche, die nach unten tritt.
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.Seven years ago, during a marginally more innocent time, the Trump administration announced plans to ho ...
Around 700,000 children in South Sudan are at risk of dying due to hunger, the NGOs warn [File: Sam Mednick/AP Photo]Nearly eight million people in South Sudan are at risk of acute hunger as conflict and displacement worsen an already dire humanitarian crisis, according to a United Nations report.Pu ...
US Capitol Police officers look on as veterans, military family members, and supporters occupy the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill calling upon the Trump administration to end the war on Iran in Washington, DC [Leigh Vogel/Getty Images via AFP]
Updated at 11:25 a.m. ET on April 29, 2026Within hours of the gunfire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night—and initial, erroneous reports that the shooter had been killed—the usual swirl of misinformation and rumor was swirling in a particular direction. The event was staged, ...
Displaced people from Darfur prepare to travel about 250km (155 miles) south to Adre on the Chad-Sudan border at a transport station in Tine in eastern Chad [File: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]
I join my voice to those of Donald J. Trump, Lindsey Graham, John Fetterman, and all the others calling for a secure White House ballroom now. Never mind that the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, held in the Washington Hilton, is not hosted by the White House, so if a White House ballroom did exi ...
The Khurais oilfield northeast of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [File: Amr Nabil/AP]
People gather in a Damascus courtroom on April 26, 2026, the first day of the trial of Atef Najib, a brigadier general and former head of the Political Security Department in Deraa during ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's rule who is accused of war crimes [Khalil Ashawi/Reuters]
On Wednesday, May 6, staff writer Megan Garber will sit down with The Atlantic’s executive editor, Adrienne LaFrance, to discuss Garber’s new book, Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency. Garber offers an eye-opening account of how today’s internet-inflected culture co ...
To describe Donald Trump as a corrupt aspiring authoritarian is not to conclude that he should be murdered.This ought to be a simple point to understand. Yet it is lost on a large swath of the American right, who insist that calling Trump what he is causes at least some of his opponents—among them, ...
Völlig überraschend kündigen die Emirate den Austritt aus der wichtigen Öl-Organisation Opec an. Deren Einfluss auf die Ölmärkte sinkt so schlagartig
Photographs by Lee FriedlanderFew people have taught us to see America quite like Lee Friedlander. The 91-year-old photographer has been making pictures since the late 1940s, focusing largely on what critics and historians describe as the urban social landscape: all of these little jigsaw scenes of ...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, receives the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, before a GCC summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia [Handout/Saudi Royal Court via Reuters]
Zum ersten Mal ist ein Mensch ein Marathonrennen in unter zwei Stunden gelaufen – natürlich muss daraus Profit geschlagen werden.
Early in his 2009 BBC documentary, Why Beauty Matters, the late conservative philosopher Roger Scruton described seeing Michelangelo’s Pietà for the first time. Gazing on the 15th-century sculpture, which depicts Mary holding Christ after the crucifixion, was a “transporting experience” for Scruton ...
Es dürfe im Irak »keine weitere Verzögerung« geben, meint Präsident Nizar Amidi zur Regierungsbildung. Die soll nun ein politischer Neuling angehen
In sieben Jahren soll in Potsdam das Kunsthaus im alten Rechenzentrum abgerissen werden, obwohl es mindestens noch 20 Jahre stehen könnte
Unter den Timmy-Rettern gibt es einige Selbstdarsteller, auch von rechts – Fachkenntnis spielt bei der Tierrettung kaum noch eine Rolle
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi [Reuters]
UN peacekeepers stand guard at the entrance to a polling station covered in separatist flags and graffiti supporting the creation of the independent state of Azawad, in Kidal, Mali on July, 27, 2013 [Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo]
Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi attends the meeting of the Coordination Framework political bloc in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 27, 2026 [Iraqi Presidency Office via AP]
Seit März häufen sich dem Iran zugeschriebene Brandanschläge auf jüdische und US-Einrichtungen in Europa – letzte Woche erstmals auch in Deutschland
Um vermeintliche Stalinisten zu stoppen, wirbt Nicholas Potter in seinem neuen Buch »Die neue autoritäre Linke« für mehr Kontrolle durch die Polizei.
Eine Diätenbegrenzung für Linke-Abgeordnete wäre sofort umsetzbar und ungemein populär. Es wäre instinktlos, die Chance vorbeiziehen zu lassen.
OpenAI does not like to be left out. The week after Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview—an AI model that has put governments around the world on edge because of its potential ability to hack into banks, energy grids, and military systems—OpenAI shared a program that is uncannily similar. And j ...
Der Schuldenreport 2026 zeigt, dass Umschuldungen erfolgreich sein können. Das bleibt die Ausnahme. 44 Staaten sind von Zahlungsunfähigkeit bedroht
Die Illustratorin und Aktivistin Patricia Vester klärt über den Kolonialismus und seine Folgen auf. Das Autonome Frauenzentrum Potsdam ehrt sie dafür
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Donald Trump [File: AP Photo]
Eine Auswertung des Ifo-Instituts belegt: Jungen gehen seltener aufs Gymnasium als Mädchen. Der Abstand zeigt sich in allen sozialen Schichten
Kandice Ardiel works with the United Nations in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military’s attacks damaged her apartment in Tyre, forcing her to move into a UN office in Naqoura. In her video, Kandice describes life under fire: forced evacuations, nearby explosions and having to leave the cat behind ...
Gesundheitswesen: Auch Mediziner rechnen mit dem größten Sparpaket seit Jahrzehnten und kritisieren Details
Twelve-nation OPEC will lose an important member, the UAE, on May 1, 2026 [File: Ramzi Boudina/Reuters]The United Arab Emirates has announced its decision to quit OPEC and OPEC+ to focus on “national interests”, dealing a heavy blow to the oil-exporting groups at a time when the US-Israel war on ...
The OPEC logo pictured at an informal meeting between members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Algiers, Algeria, September 28, 2016 [Ramzi Boudina/Reuters]The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced its decision to quit OPEC and OPEC+ to focus on “national interes ...
Vor 25 Jahren krachte es am 1. Mai gewaltig. Kreuzbergs Revolutionsritual zwischen landespolitischem Erdbeben und europäischen Großprotesten
Technologie, Gleichberechtigung und Klima: Vor dem 1. Mai scheint Deutschlands Arbeitsmarkt in veralteten Strukturen festgefahren
Mohamed, who doesn't want to be fully identified, says he was arrested and paid a bribe despite being processed as an asylum seeker [Shola Lawal/Al Jazeera]
What was heartland rock? Did anyone ever really know? No less an authority than John Mellencamp dismissed the term as the work of “lazy journalists.” But in the 1980s, the music’s heyday, the phrase denoted an array of artists and tendencies while also conjuring something more atmospheric. Everythin ...
Kritiker befürchten Erstellung von Bewegungsprofilen nach US-Vorbild und Nutzung durch Grenztruppen für sogenannte »Selbstabschiebungen«
Bahn-Verantwortliche halten trotz extrem knappen Zeitplans an Eröffnung im Jahr 2029 fest
Nach der angekündigten Sperrung der Druschba-Pipeline drohten Versorgungsengpässe in Berlin-Brandenburg. Jetzt könnte Erdöl aus Kasachstan auf dem Seeweg geliefert werden
Die Deutsche Bahn kündigt den Mietvertrag für eine beliebte Grünfläche zwischen Kreuzberg und Alt-Treptow. Gespräche mit dem Senat stocken
Rescuers stand at the site of a strike at a detention centre for African migrants in Saada, Yemen, on April 28, 2025 [Naif Rahma/ Reuters]
People walk in Tehran Bazaar, amid a ceasefire between US and Iran, in Tehran on April 21, 2026 [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]For years, sociologists and political scientists have warned that sanctions do not work. They do not topple targeted governments; instead, they hurt their citizens. And ...
Footage shared by Israeli social media accounts showing ongoing bombings in villages in southern Lebanon [Social media]
The Epaminondas ship is seen during seizure by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran, on April 24, 2026 [Meysam Mirzadeh/Tasnim/WANA via Reuters]Since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran nine weeks ago, the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s oi ...
Sachsen gehört zu den fünf Ländern mit den meisten Räumungen. Wohnungslosigkeit kann schnell drohen, wenn man mal knapp bei Kasse ist.
New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, will soon confront an ordeal that might finally knock that trademark smile off his face: balancing the budget. The city is projected to have a $5 billion deficit this year and is required by law to make up for that shortfall by raising revenue, cutting spen ...
“Please inform me of the following,” someone who signed off as “Farmhand” inquired in a letter to The Buffalo News on March 13, 1926. “Is a child born in this country of foreign parents a citizen provided said parents have not been naturalized? If you will give me this information I will be greatly ...
Earlier this month, the IRS finished collecting 2025 taxes, taking in an estimated $5.2 trillion from businesses and households. That’s a lot of cash.But Congress is spending $7 trillion a year, pumping out as much fiscal stimulus now as it did during the Great Recession. All of those excess dollars ...
Luca Zidane is Algeria's first-choice goalkeeper [Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP)Algeria goalkeeper Luca Zidane is doubtful for the World Cup after suffering a jaw and chin fracture while playing for his club Granada in Spain’s second-tier football league.The son of former France great Zinedine Zidane was taken ...
Two-year-old Mohammed Abu Hajeela wears a facial pressure mask after sustaining severe third-degree burns in an Israeli strike on a school shelter in Gaza City in July 2025 [Al Jazeera]
Bei der revolutionären Mai-Demonstration in Kreuzberg soll es auch einen antimilitaristischen Block geben. Im Interview äußern sich die Organisatoren.
Bei der revolutionären Mai-Demonstration in Kreuzberg soll es auch einen antimilitaristischen Block geben. Im Interview äußern sich die Organisatoren.
Um Zeitungen unter die Leute zu bringen, sind wir bundesweit an etwa 30 Orten präsent. Wo wir zum Tag der Arbeit anzutreffen sind – eine Übersicht.
Bei den Betriebsratswahlen in Ostdeutschland ist der befürchtete Rechtsruck ausgeblieben, obwohl der Unmut in den Betrieben groß ist
In ihrem Dokufilm »Girls don’t cry« zeigt Regisseurin Sigrid Klausmann Teenagerinnen weltweit in ihrer oft harschen Lebensrealität
Die globalen Krisen verschärfen die Gefahr, dass arme Länder zahlungsunfähig und damit noch abhängiger werden
Hunderttausende Geflüchtete sitzen in der türkischen Hafenstadt fest. Viele hoffen auf die gefährliche Überfahrt über die Ägäis in die EU
Maxie Wanders Klassiker »Guten Morgen, du Schöne« über die Rolle der Frau in der DDR wird am Puppentheater Halle mit neuem Leben erfüllt
Uranium starts as a rock in the ground, but through a series of chemical processes and high-speed centrifuges, it can become either a city’s power source or a weapon of mass destruction.Al Jazeera’s Basel Ghazoghli (@baselgazi) breaks down how uranium is processed, enriched, and what it takes to tur ...
Im Mai 1936 erobern italienische Truppen die Hauptstadt Äthiopiens und Mussolini verkündet die Wiederkehr des Imperiums.
Gewerkschaft gewinnt in Belegschaftsvertretungen 80 Prozent der Mandate. Befürchteter Rechtsruck blieb aus – trotz großen Unmuts über Bundesregierung
Mourners gather during a funeral procession in Tehran, Iran, on April 1, 2026, for Alireza Tangsiri, the head of IRGC Navy, and others killed in Israeli attacks in late March [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]Tehran, Iran – Much has changed for Iranian authorities and more than 90 million people in the country ...
Die »Nationale Dekade gegen postinfektiöse Erkrankungen« soll die Forschung für Long Covid und ME/CFS stärken. Doch die Mittel könnten verpuffen.
Zu Beginn des Verfahrens in Stuttgart-Stammheim hätte das Gericht beinahe die Anwälte der Angeklagten entpflichtet – und drehte ihnen das Mikrofon ab
Palestinian women react outside the Nasser Hospital after a relative, killed in an Israeli air strike, was brought to the morgue in the city of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 21, 2026 [AFP]
An image of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by Israel in 2024, is seen, as Hezbollah supporters gather for a solidarity rally against the United States and Israel, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, on April 25, 2026 [AFP]
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House, April 25, 2026 [Will Oliver/EPA]
Protesters hold signs to demand the lifting of the ban on Palestine Action, in London, United Kingdom, April 11, 2026 [Jack Taylor/Reuters]
Protesters hold signs to demand the lifting of the ban on Palestine Action, in London, United Kingdom, April 11, 2026 [Jack Taylor/Reuters]
A satellite image shows smoke billowing from fire, following drone attacks on a Russian oil facility in the Black Sea port of Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, April 16, 2026 [Vantor/Handout via Reuters]
A woman walks past a billboard featuring an image of the late supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on a building, amid a ceasefire between the US and Iran, [Majid Asgaripour/WANA/Reuters]United States President Donald Trump’s national security team is reviewing an Iranian peace proposal a ...
13 Professoren und Intellektuelle sollen mit Parteigründerin Sahra Wagenknecht die programmatischen Grundlagen der Partei weiterentwickeln
Vorbereitungen für Einsatz lang erwarteter Fahrzeuge von Stadler Rail auf der Zielgeraden
Russlands Justiz geht erneut gegen LGBT-Vereinigungen vor. Mit dem Extremismusvorwurf wird eine weitere Organisation in St. Petersburg verboten.
Die Hilfsorganisation wirft Israel vor, Wasser als Mittel der Kollektivbestrafung eingesetzt zu haben. Das israelische Militär widerspricht
Updated at 11:05 p.m. ET on April 27, 2026To understand the significance of someone running a marathon in less than two hours, you also need to understand that, until recently, the notion of this actually happening was truly, utterly absurd. Sure, a physiologist named Michael Joyner had floated the ...
As Gulf leaders meet in Saudi Arabia, Qatar says the Strait of Hormuz should not be used as a pressure card and warns against the possibility of a “frozen conflict”. US President Donald Trump’s national security team is reviewing an Iranian plan to halt the war and open the Strait of Hormuz, while p ...
This morning, a crowd gathered near the Supreme Court to protest the weed-killer Roundup. Inside, justices heard arguments for Monsanto v. Durnell, weighing whether to exempt the company that created Roundup from lawsuits alleging that it failed to warn users that its herbicide causes cancer. Outsid ...
A wrecked car near damaged buildings at the site of an impact of what Bahrain's Ministry of Interior (MOI) said was falling debris of an intercepted Iranian drone, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Sitra, Bahrain, April 4, 2026. [Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters]
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.Within hours after an attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, Preside ...
The best way to sneak a comedy into theaters these days, it seems, is to make it a crime drama. Over Your Dead Body is billed as the latest effort from the director Jorma Taccone—a surprising name to be attached, considering his filmography. His previous features are Popstar: Never Stop Never Stoppi ...
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has condemned Lebanon's direct talks with Israel (File: Reuters)Israel has threatened to “burn” all of Lebanon after Hezbollah reiterated its defiance and rejection of peace talks as war across the border grinds on.The Lebanon-based armed group on Monday condemned Beirut’ ...
Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.On Saturday night, a heavily armed shooter was able to easily access areas close to the ballroom where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was being held, leading to a rushed evacuation of the president and senior officials and a hectic, sca ...
The doctors’ network said Rapid Support Forces (RSF) soldiers are reportedly committing 'severe violations' inside detention centres [File: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]
Iraqi lawmakers attend a session to elect Iraq’s president in Baghdad, Iraq, April 11, 2026 [File: Iraqi Parliament Media Office/Handout via Reuters]
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.For a guy who had just been rushed out of a ballroom at the sound of gunfire, he seemed remarkably calm. For a president who regularly attacks the press, he seemed unusually gracious. For a fleeting period on Sa ...
© Jens Cullmann / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026Practice Makes Perfect. First Place, Other Animals. A young African bullfrog fails to catch its prey.© Preeti John / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026Shelter. Second Place, Mammals. An elephant calf seeks shelter from the blazing sun i ...
Former Israeli prime ministers Naftali Bennett, left, and Yair Lapid, right, hold a joint press conference in Herzliya, Israel [Abir Sultan/EPA]
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir in Islamabad, Pakistan on April 25, 2026 [Handout/Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs]
Im Tauziehen um eine diplomatische Lösung des Iran-Krieges regt sich nichts. Eine Visite fällt aber ins Auge: Was kann ein Treffen in Moskau bringen?
Verwaltungsgericht Berlin untersagt Bundesinnenministerium vorerst, den Verein als »gesichert extremistisch« einzustufen – mangels Tatsachengrundlage
Dass sich die »Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost« gegen den Stempel »extremistisch« wehren muss, findet Jana Frielinghaus skandalös
Ex-heavyweight world champion boxer Anthony Joshua has not fought since being involved in a serious car crash in December last year [File: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images via Reuters]
Das Königreich investierte Milliarden, um zu einem Machtzentrum im Sport aufzusteigen. Doch nun muss es die Ausgaben drosseln.
Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.In closed-door meetings, J. D. Vance has repeatedly questioned the Defense Department’s depiction of the war in Iran and whether the Pentagon has understated what appears to be the drastic depletion of U.S. missile stockpiles.Two senior adminis ...
The 2022 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference was held in the UN General Assembly [File: Yuki Iwamura/AP]
Partei skandalisiert Urteile gegen Medienfirma Correctiv und »Porno-Skandal« an Schule. Offenkundiges Ziel: Kappung von Fördergeldern für Initiativen
American presidents and popes have clashed before, but the battle of words and wills between Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV is unprecedented.The distinctiveness of their clash is not due mainly to the fact that Robert Francis Prevost is the first American-born pope, though that is significant. After ...
Hirn-Computer-Schnittstellen versprechen medizinischen Fortschritt. Der Zugriff auf die menschlichen Gedanken erfordert aber einen neuen Rechtsrahmen.
Verein Flussbad Berlin hält Schwimmen in der Innenstadt bis auf wenige Ausnahmen für bedenkenlos möglich
Schuld an der Kostenexplosion beim Jahn-Sportpark sind Politiker und Verbandsfunktionäre, meint nd-Gastautor Michail Nelken.
Eine neue Studie beziffert erstmals den ökonomischen Nutzen australischer Flughunde – und kommt zu einem bemerkenswerten Resultat.
Der Streit um Gesundheitsreform und Haushalt verschärft die Spannungen zwischen SPD und Union.
Die Verteidiger der Beschuldigten verließen zunächst den Gerichtssaal und nahmen dann auf der Anklagebank Platz
Verhandlungen über Kernstück von Pandemie-Abkommen in entscheidender Phase. WHO-Chef warnt vor Scheitern
Julius Caesar styled himself as a servant of the republic, claiming to speak for the people even as he disregarded laws and norms to govern by caprice. The Roman republic did not survive him.The second Trump administration has revealed American Caesarism in nearly full bloom. Despite ambitions to fu ...
Eine neue Oxfam-Studie zeigt: Ölkonzerne machen riesige Gewinne, eine Mehrheit fordert politische Maßnahmen dagegen. Ein Kommentar von Kurt Stenger
Abriss und Neubau des Jahn-Sportparks werden deutlich teurer als zunächst geplant. Der Senat will nun Abstriche beim Neubau machen
Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany is already feeling the economic effects of the Iran war [File: John Thys/AFP]
In der französischen Hauptstadt bewiesen die Münchner schon öfter ihre Leidensfähigkeit. 1975 gab es dafür sogar einen Titel
A billboard of late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the US-Israel war on Iran, appears over Valiasr Square in Tehran, Iran [File: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA]
Die Kerosin-Vorräte Spaniens gehen zur Neige. In der Tourismus- und Flugindustrie wächst die Nervosität
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador to the United States Nada Hamadeh Moawad at the State Department in Washington on April 14, 2026 [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]Lebanese leaders have gone to Washington for the first ...
Zwei Freunde gründeten vor gut zehn Jahren mit dem »Jakobsweg Silberberg« eine eigenwillige Variante zur sächsischen Hauptpilgerroute
CDU-Mann Sebastian Ehlers ist neuer Oberbürgermeister der Landeshauptstadt Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns
Riesige Bestellungen treiben das Wachstum von Rheinmetall weiter an – kommt kein Krieg, drohen laut Konzernchef Papperger Überkapazitäten
Der Wohlstand ist in Deutschland sehr ungleich verteilt und politisch umstritten, meint Stefan Otto. Ein Kommentar
Erstmals seit 20 Jahren konnten die Bewohner der Stadt Deir Al-Balah im Gazastreifen einen neuen Stadtrat wählen, doch die Wahlbeteiligung war gering
Walter Ulbricht und eine deutsch-deutsche Konföderation: Jens Mehrle hat eine denkwürdige Rede des Staatsratsvorsitzenden wiederentdeckt. Ein Vorabdruck
Nachdem der Mietvertrag nicht verlängert werden sollte, kauft Medico International die Liegenschaft des Club Voltaire in Frankfurt/Main
Bundesministerin plant Umbau bei »Demokratie leben!«. Im Freistaat arbeiten allein 24 von 200 betroffenen Projekten. Initiativen warnen vor Folgen
Bundesministerin plant Umbau bei »Demokratie leben!«. Im Freistaat arbeiten allein 24 von 200 betroffenen Projekten. Initiativen warnen vor Folgen
Von Frontex bewaffnete »Ständige Reserve« zieht fast nur Polizisten aus ärmeren Ländern an – wegen schlechter Bezahlung am Sitz der EU-Agentur in Polen
Laut einer internationalen Oxfam-Befragung fordert deutliche Mehrheit derzeit den konsequenten Ausbau der Energiewende
Laut einer internationalen Oxfam-Befragung fordert deutliche Mehrheit derzeit den konsequenten Ausbau der Energiewende
Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.Here’s what happened: On Saturday evening, a man carrying a shotgun, a handgun, and knives got close to the ballroom of the Washington Hilton, where more than 2,000 guests, including the president of the United States, were enjoying the appetiz ...
Revenge is a dish best served cold, but how cold? Can we set that dish to cool for 400 years? Satisfaction so long deferred might seem beside the point. We want to watch our enemies humbled in an instant, to see their heads bowed low before our rage burns clean.In A Treacherous Secret Agent, the pro ...
AI companies are beginning to entertain the possibility that they could cease to exist. This notion was, until recently, more theoretical: A couple of years ago, an ex-OpenAI employee named Leopold Aschenbrenner wrote a lengthy memo speculating that the U.S. government might soon take control of the ...
Die Welt gibt weiter Rekordsummen fürs Militär aus – getrieben von Kriegen und Konflikten. Ohne Russland führt Deutschland das Ranking in Europa an
In Europa gibt Deutschland das meiste Geld aus für Bomben und Panzer, Russland ausgenommen, kommentiert Cyrus Salimi-Asl
Wie kommen werden in der Politik Entscheidungen getroffen? Christoph Ruf hat einen Verdacht – und der wirft kein gutes Licht auf die Bundesregierung
Wohnen wird in Städten wie Athen für viele unerschwinglich. Einige müssen wieder bei ihren Eltern leben. Zwei Betroffene schildern ihre Situation
Sechstägige Konferenz in Santa Marta (Kolumbien) will Wege zum globalen Ausstieg aufzeigen. Nicht alle Staaten sind dort willkommen
Regisseurin Uta Briesewitz widmet sich in ihrem Film »American Sweatshop« den dunkelsten Ecken des Internets
Eine Konferenz in Kolumbien soll das Ende fossiler Energien weltweit beschleunigen. Dies könnte die festgefahrenen Klimaverhandlungen voranbringen.
Zwei weitere Urteile erklären anlasslose Kontrollen an deutschen Binnengrenzen für nicht konform mit EU-Recht – die Bundesregierung ignoriert das
Wer muss den Beitrag zahlen und wer nicht? Welche Reglungen gelten für Wohngemeinschaften und Zweitwohnungen? Alle Informationen zum Rundfunkbeitrag.
Jubiläum war gestern: Es gibt aufregende neue Punkbands aus Deutschland
Ein nun inhaftierter Informant des Verfassungsschutzes soll 300 Patronen für eine angeblich von der Hamas in Berlin geplante Tat geliefert haben
Mein schönstes Urlaubserlebnis: Teneriffa ist eine wunderschöne Insel, gäbe es nur die Touristen nicht
Mangelhafte DNA-Gutachten, zu wenig Akteneinsicht, windige Zeugenaussagen – Daniela Klettes Verteidigung spricht von Verfahrensversagen
Im entscheidenden Spiel der Playoff-Halbfinalserie gegen den Dauerrivalen aus Friedrichshafen gelingt dem Rekordmeister plötzlich alles
Vorbereitungen für Einsatz lang erwarteter Fahrzeuge von Stadler Rail auf der Zielgeraden
Mehrheit der Deutschen spricht sich auch für eine Rückkehr zur Vermögenssteuer und für eine höhere Erbschaftssteuer aus
Nach dem Schusswechsel in Washington sind viele Fragen offen. Trump versucht schon, aus dem Vorfall Kapital zu schlagen
In the chaotic swirl of events after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, doctors feared that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson had suffered a heart attack upon arrival at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. The signs were ominous: Johnson’s face was ashen, and he was clutching his chest. “Th ...
The line “I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done” could probably have been written in an email to friends by any number of the attendees at last night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. But the line was apparently written by a man who showed up with a ...
Except for what appears—thank God—to be only a minor injury to a Secret Service officer who was shot near a security checkpoint, no one was hurt at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner last night. News reports are reassembling the mosaic of the attacker’s movements; he apparently took ...
Matthias Rudolph (Freie Wähler) bleibt Rathauschef in Fürstenwalde. Dass er das nur mit Unterstützung von rechts schaffte, bestreitet seine Partei
Matthias Rudolph (Freie Wähler) bleibt Rathauschef in Fürstenwalde. Dass er das nur mit Unterstützung von rechts schaffte, bestreitet seine Partei
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.On one level, the system worked. The perimeter held. A would-be assassin was tackled in the hallway outside the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner. The one bullet that found a human target—a ...
When an assassin murdered Charlie Kirk in September 2025, the MAGA movement seized the moment to demand a campaign of repression. Vice President Vance called for an ambitious program to “go after the NGO network that foments, facilitates, and engages in violence.” He named the Ford Foundation, Open ...
Ehemalige Berliner Abgerordnete rügt den politischen Kurs und das Finanzgebaren der Wagenknecht-Partei
Trump & Co. entscheiden mit egoistischer Großzügigkeit über Einschnitte bei den Armen, meint Alex Demirović. Ein Kommentar
Alex Demirović über die Leichtfertigkeit, mit der Trump & co über Einschnitte bei den Armen entscheiden
In Kriegen wird zur Solidarität mit Staaten aufgefordert. Linke sollten sich dieser Logik verweigern
Translated by Garth Greenwell and Idra NoveyEl AmorEs que pudiera darse sin asomo ninguno ni preparaciones.Solo rumbo, horizonte tamaño a partir del corte exacto de la ventana.LoveMaybe it happens without any hint or preparation.Just a heading, a horizon the size at first of the precise cut of the w ...
When you were in elementary school, did your mind occasionally rise above the smell of pencil shavings and the sound of squeaking desk chairs to contemplate whether you ought to commit murder? Did you ponder what it would mean to covet your neighbor’s wife? Ordinarily those aren’t questions addresse ...
The relationship between the United States and Israel is in crisis. Six in 10 Americans have a negative view of Israel, and a majority of those under 50 in both major parties view Israel as well as its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, negatively. After the brutal Gaza war, a large percentage of l ...
Updated at 1:29 a.m. ET on Sunday, April 26, 2026We were under the table before we knew what was happening. One moment, a military band was parading out of the Washington Hilton’s cavernous ballroom; hundreds of government officials, diplomats, and journalists, including more than a dozen of us from ...
Am Montag beginnt in Stuttgart der Prozess gegen fünf Personen, die in die Ulmer Zentrale des israelischen Drohnenherstellers einbrachen
Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. President Trump’s approval rating on his h ...
Pakistan ist wieder Schauplatz der Versuche, den Krieg zwischen den USA, Israel und Iran zu beenden. Unklar bleibt, wer mit wem und wann spricht
Die Verurteilten betonten die politische Motivation hinter den Gerichtsurteilen, die auf der Verfolgung von Ideen statt Beweisen fußen würden
Die Linkspartei beschließt ein überlanges Wahlprogramm. So umgeht man auf dem Landesparteitag möglichen Streit um die Prioritätensetzung
Die Linkspartei beschließt ein überlanges Wahlprogramm. So umgeht man auf dem Landesparteitag möglichen Streit um die Prioritätensetzung
In der Stadt Deir Al-Balah im Gazastreifen können die Bewohner ihre Stimme abgeben, um einen Stadtrat zu wählen – zum ersten Mal seit 20 Jahren
Richtungsstreit in der Berliner Wagenknecht-Partei: Wie rechts ist das Programm und wie weit soll das gehen?
Cigarettes have always been noxious to me: As a kid, I stole my grandpa’s Marlboros and hid them deep in a trash bin. In college, Chesterfields made the kisses of a woman I loved taste carcinogenic. When I lived in Spain, smoky air in my favorite bar made my lungs burn. And no law has spared me more ...
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.A familiar dilemma: You open Netflix, determined to watch something new. Twenty minutes of scrolling ...
Photographs by Caroline GutmanRepresentative Thomas Massie, the renegade Kentucky Republican who fiercely guards his political independence, doesn’t love being on President Trump’s bad side. He would prefer not to have the president’s allies spend millions to defeat him in a primary. In fact, if Mas ...
Die Leugnung des »Existenzrechts Israels« unter Strafe zu stellen, ist ein Werkzeug für den autoritären Staatsumbau. Opposition soll zunehmend kriminalisiert werden, meint Julian Daum.
The Trump administration is running a war with a skeleton crew, a small group of insiders and officials whose official roles seem to matter less than their loyalty to Donald Trump. When the president was making his decision to go to war with Iran, he met in mid-February with Israeli Prime Minister B ...
In 1633, Galileo Galilei stood in the convent of the Santa Maria sopra Minerva church in Rome, where a tribunal of Catholic authorities forced him to “abjure, curse, and detest” his belief that the sun—not Earth—was the center of the universe.Almost four centuries later, in 2016, the Vatican invited ...
In Gaza droht eine ethnische Säuberung in mehr als der Hälfte der Fläche des Küstenstreifens und dessen uneingeschränkte Besetzung
Die Eisernen verlieren auch das zweite Spiel unter Interimstrainerin Marie-Louise Eta und warten weiter auf einen Befreiungsschlag im Abstiegskampf
Landesparteitag beschließt Programm für die Abgeordnetenhauswahl im September. Es droht eine Niederlage
Sarah Wedl-Wilson bittet nach dem Rechnungshofbericht zum CDU-Fördermittelskandal um ihre Entlassung
Angebotskürzung zum Fahrplanwechsel im Dezember 2026 absehbar
Deutschland blickt auf den gestrandeten Wal Timmy. Was uns »Moby Dick« noch heute lehrt
Die Berliner Sparkasse lenkt ein und sagt Kontoeröffnung für den Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten in Treptow zu
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.The opening moments of the 1982 film Blade Runner introduce viewers to a world of artificially intellig ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with the business writer Ed Elson about the rise of the “clip economy”—the idea that short video clips pulled from podcasts, livestreams, and other long-form content have become the dominant unit ...
Die israelische Armee hält sich routinemäßig weder im Gazastreifen noch im Libanon an vereinbarte Waffenpausen, die mehr Schein als Sein sind
Bundestag debattierte über geleaktes Arbeitspapier von Bund und Ländern zu Kürzungen bei Kinder- und Jugendhilfe sowie Menschen mit Behinderungen
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.One of my favorite works on the history of ideas is an episode of the podcast 99% Invisible, titled “Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out.” For most of the show, an artist named Ben Sisto invest ...
Wem gehört Berlin? Die Eigentumsverhältnisse von Immobilien sind undurchsichtig. Aktivisten arbeiten daran, die Bestände großer Wohnungsunternehmen sichtbar zu machen
Der Aufstieg der ultrarechten Vox führt in Spanien dazu, dass nun die rechte Volkspartei die Position der »nationalen Priorität« übernommen hat
Fachpolitiker für die Belange von Menschen mit Behinderungen wenden sich gegen geplante Kürzungen bei der Eingliederungshilfe
Das Bundesland Hessen will den entsprechenden Gesetzentwurf am 8. Mai in den Bundesrat einbringen
Cheney Orr / ReutersA reveler smokes cannabis at the Mile High 420 Festival in Denver on April 20, 2026.Alex Nicodim / Inquam Photos / ReutersYoung people take part in an initiation ritual where they are tossed into the air by others using a rug, during a spring festival in Brașov, Romania, on April ...
Der FC Bayern will dem übermächtigen FC Barcelona in der Champions League die Stirn bieten. Dafür drückt der gesamte deutsche Frauenfußball die Daumen
Wie ein enormes Impfprogramm seit der Corona-Pandemie Millionen Kinder weltweit immunisiert und warum dennoch Rückschritte drohen
Updated at 11:25 a.m. ET on April 24, 2026While some might pray for hope or peace in such dark times, others are praying for the death of Texas Democrat James Talarico, who is running for the U.S. Senate. During a recent episode of the right-wing Protestant podcast Reformation Red Pill, host Joshua ...
Während Bundestag und Bundesrat den Tankrabatt beschließen, protestieren Tausende bundesweit für mehr Klimaschutz. Ein Kommentar.
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Updated at 8:22 a.m. ET on April 25, 2026.When I was a freshman at Stanford University, I learned to shotgun a beer from a guy in a frat. Soon after, he dropped out and started an AI company. Six months later, ...
The late political scientist James C. Scott endorsed what he called “anarchist calisthenics”—the regular practice of small acts of lawbreaking and disobedience. Jaywalk at an empty intersection. Have a beer in the park. Smuggle a pudding cup past the TSA agents. The point, Scott said, was to keep th ...
Bubbles doesn’t look right. The new Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, renders the singer’s pet chimp in CGI, and the result is even creepier than the famous Jeff Koons sculpture it evokes. His eyes bulge like Gollum’s, and he moves like a deepfake. The “performance” contributes to the already overwhe ...
Unionspolitiker geißeln den angeblichen deutschen Sonderweg beim Atomausstieg. Die Zahlen zeigen aber: Einen nuklearen Aufschwung gibt es gar nicht
Auch 40 Jahre nach der Reaktorkatastrophe von Tschernobyl variieren die Angaben zu den Opferzahlen stark
Lancet-Studie sieht deutlichen Aufwärtstrend bei Hitzebelastung, Infektionskrankheiten und Ernährungsunsicherheit in Europa
Schleswig-Holstein und Niedersachsen kritisieren die von der Wirtschaftsministerin vorgelegten Energie-Gesetze als »Investitionsrisiko«
Die Tschernobyl-Katastrophe hat in der Ukraine zu keinem Umdenken geführt. Stattdessen werden neue Reaktoren gebaut. Profiteur ist ein US-Unternehmen
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.Pity poor Tucker Carlson. Watching Donald Trump’s war in Iran—which Carlson has branded “the single big ...
In 1785, Immanuel Kant introduced his famous “categorical imperative.” Put simply: Act the way you want others to behave. This dictate, a version of the Golden Rule, has been a bedrock of moral philosophy for centuries. But for the New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino, Kant’s “categorical-imperativ ...
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.The closest thing the United States has to a national monument to the end of slavery is in a park in the capital, a little more than half a mile from the National Mall. I ...
Parallel to the shaky truce between the United States and Iran, a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah has temporarily stopped the fighting in Lebanon, but without settling any of the important questions behind it. That’s a shame, because prospects for a lasting resolution in Lebanon are better t ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsIn a recent story, the Atlantic staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick writes about how FBI Director Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they describe as erratic behavior and excessive drinking. Sources told Fitzpatrick that ...
In March, I put my iPhone into a yellow cardboard box with MO stamped on top—the M looked like a riff on the Motorola logo; the O looked like a flower. Over the next several weeks, I left my phone there for roughly 23.5 hours out of every day.I did so as a participant in “Month Offline,” which start ...
Cubans for decades have been buffeted by great powers, repressed by their own government, crushed by economic crises, and paraded as the victims of a succession of sanctions imposed by the White House. Glimmers of a better life came and went, either because the regime in Havana briefly allowed a sli ...
On Monday morning, CNN reported that the United States and Iran had been on the verge of striking a deal to end the war when Donald Trump made a series of comments to reporters and on social media that undermined the talks. “The Iranians didn’t appreciate POTUS negotiating through social media and m ...
Recently the actor Denise Richards shared several photos of her bare face that triggered a wave of double takes. In some, her side profile reflects the gentle weathering expected of nearly 55 well-lived years; in others, her face rewinds to how it looked during her Bond-girl era. It was as if, as on ...
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.President Trump reportedly likes to go around asking aides about who his successor should be: J. D. Vance or Marco Rubio. If Trump were to ask his own voters the same question, he would, at least based on my rec ...
On-screen, the actor Elle Fanning has the cherubic, moon-eyed guilelessness of a storybook princess or an animated woodland creature, the kind that belies a character much more tenacious than she first appears. In the new Apple TV series Margo’s Got Money Troubles, based on the 2024 novel by Rufi Th ...
Stewart Brand changed my life. At my local library as a teenager, leafing through the massive 1980 edition of the Whole Earth Catalog—the countercultural guide to ideas and tools that Brand originally launched in the late ’60s—I felt as if I’d stumbled across the best book in the world. It introduce ...
I remember screaming, though I don’t know what words I screamed. And I remember resisting, though there was little I could do in heels against two military-trained men intent on shoving me into the back seat of their vehicle.Video surveillance captured the moment I was taken. In it, you can see two ...
Berlins Verkehrssenatorin Ute Bonde kann keinen Termin für Umprogrammierung am Verkehrsknoten nennen
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.Speaking before the Senate Banking Committee yesterday, Kevin Warsh—Wall Street veteran, centimillionai ...
Updated at 7:11 a.m. ET on April 23, 2026Earlier this month, MAHA moms went to the White House. Several key figures in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement gathered around a table in the Roosevelt Room to speak with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other top administration officials. ...
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a discussion of the likelihood that the partisan balance of power will shift from Republicans to Democrats at state-government level.Then, David is joined by the president o ...
Voters in Virginia approved a lopsided congressional map on Tuesday, reducing the expected number of Republican-leaning districts in the Democratic-controlled state from five to one. Republicans have reacted by complaining that conservative-leaning voters in the state have been disenfranchised by ge ...
VCG via GettyAbandoned oil tanks are covered by flourishing ivy plants in Huai an, Jiangsu province, China, seen on May 9, 2023.Artem Priakhin / SOPA Images / LightRocket / GettyA discarded sneaker, covered in thick layers of green moss, rests on a fallen tree branch in a public park on the outskirt ...
Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.WAR-FIGHTERS! As a step to making sure we are ready for warfare at all times, we have decided to ELIMINATE THE MANDATORY FLU SHOT! Nothing says “we are ready for war” like “we all have the flu.”Get your ...
Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.When President Trump last summer implored Republicans to launch a nationwide gerrymandering blitz to pad their narrow House majority, the fight he started did not seem fair. GOP lawmakers had both the w ...
Literary biography is a cruel genre. The authors of these books—by which I mean not just biographies about literary figures but also those that aspire to writerly excellence—have been described by the writer Janet Malcolm as “professional burglars.” After rifling through a person’s affairs, they mus ...
Tim Cook’s job was to make Apple boring—and he did. Cook, Apple’s chief executive officer, is stepping down after 15 years in the role. He had succeeded Steve Jobs after the visionary co-founder of Apple Computer Company left only months before dying of pancreatic cancer in 2011. Since then, Apple h ...
The Iran war’s effect on fuel prices is easy to see, not least in the climbing numbers on gas-station signs. Less visible is the disruption cascading through another part of the fossil fuel–based economy: plastic production. Before long, prices not just for the gasoline that goes into cars but for t ...
Pakistan is having a diplomatic moment, and India’s political elites are not enjoying it.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spent the past decade promoting the notion that India is the leader of the global South and, as such, is indispensable to world affairs. Now a conflict in the Middle East ...
Yakov Kronrod was a leading figure of the Soviet economic school of so-called marketeers (tovarniki) and a major participant in the debates about economic reform in the 1960s, as Soviet planners discussed whether to accord a greater role to market relations within the framework of the planned, natio ...
In the minds of many outsiders, Colombia remains trapped in a predicament straight from Netflix’s Narcos: suspended between cartels and guerrilla warfare, with the US’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and CIA operatives hovering as weary custodians of order, saving Colombians from themselves — ...
Labor law reform. Ending at-will employment. A federal jobs guarantee. A four-day workweek. Guaranteed paid family, medical, and sick leave and vacation. Medicare for All. This list reflects the ambitious, long-standing policy goals of the labor left — goals that many have given up on after decades ...
Years ago, I moved into a small, cold house with two women I’d never met. Quickly, we became very close, in part through living communally: divvying up the big chores and scarce hot water, waiting until everyone was home to watch the latest episode of Girls. We were the same age as the show’s charac ...
Jewish Labor Bund groups are springing up throughout the United States and Europe. Until recently, this was a phrase you could only have found in a primary historical document, perhaps a newspaper in 1905. The Jewish Labor Bund, once a collection of anti-Zionist, democratic socialist organizations l ...
Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Over the past 15 years or so, Democrats have won a lot of races because the opposing party’s primary voters decided to nominate right-wing ideologues (Christine O’Donnell, Todd Akin, Kari Lake) rather t ...
In the last months, weeks, and days of his life, “I will not go to the emergency room” became my husband’s mantra. Andrej had esophageal cancer that had spread throughout his body (but not to his ever-willful brain), and, having trained as a doctor, I had jury-rigged a hospital at home, aided by spe ...
Trump officials planned to let artificial intelligence software developed by one of Elon Musk’s deregulatory foot soldiers undertake “regulation extermination” and even write new federal statutes, according to newly released government documents reviewed exclusively by the Lever. The documents revea ...
Until this book by Keith Michael Baker appeared in late 2025, there had been only two English-language biographies of Jean-Paul Marat published in the previous ninety-nine years. As it happens, I am the author of the other two. I find Baker’s work to be an invaluable contribution to the anglophone l ...
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The mystery of the missing scientists began with a Silver Alert. In late February, a retired Air Force major general named Neil McCasland left his house in New Mexico for a walk and never returned. Rumors spread ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.When Lori Chavez-DeRemer was nominated, she had a chance to be a pathbreaking secretary of labor, suppo ...
A crucial resource is being choked off from the world amid the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran — and it’s not oil. It’s helium. The rare, nonrenewable gas is a key ingredient for more than just party balloons. It’s needed for lifesaving medical procedures, groundbreaking research ...
Though America has become a goldfish-brain society that forgets its entire world every fifteen minutes, it’s worth taking a moment to appreciate the cautionary tale implicit in the New York Times’ new blockbuster story about the Supreme Court’s shadow docket. The secret memos that the Times unearthe ...
“Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.” As thousands of believers filled St Peter’s Square in the Vatican for the rites of Palm Sunday this year, Pope Leo XIV chose to include in his homily these words that God speaks at the beginning of the Book […]
Here is the promise of a house manager. Hire one, and soon someone else could be doing your laundry, washing your dishes, prepping your meals, and completing those Amazon returns you’ve been meaning to make. They could reorganize the utensil drawer, notice if your kid is outgrowing their shoes and o ...
If Elon Musk gets his way, space will soon look very different. Through his ownership of SpaceX, the world’s richest man already operates most of the roughly 14,000 active satellites that are orbiting Earth. Now his rocket company is asking the government for permission to launch up to 1 million mor ...
Earlier this month, a staff writer for The Free Press, Olivia Reingold, asked the Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed from Michigan a question: “Does Israel have a right to exist as a Jewish state?”El-Sayed replied with his own question: “What do you mean by a ‘Jewish state’?” When Reingold w ...
Updated at 10:50 a.m. ET on April 22, 2026.Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Jason Boeshore, a grain-elevator manager on the eastern plains of Montana, fired off a rocket this month to the private Signal chat he shares with the 23 other ...
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the lovelorn Ophelia famously drowns. The prince of Denmark has cruelly spurned her, her father has died, and she’s stricken with grief. If only she had realized Taylor Swift’s vision for her: In the song “The Fate of Ophelia,” the pop star imagines that she has instead been ...
When word started to arrive earlier this month that Justin Bieber had put on a pretty weird performance for the first of his two Coachella sets, my protective instinct kicked in. Discovered on YouTube when he was young and that platform was even younger, Bieber is pop culture’s great test case for w ...
The earliest photograph Peter Hujar printed for exhibition was a 1955 portrait of his beloved English teacher Daisy Aldan. “One of my aims,” Aldan once said, “is to encourage and teach people to work with imagination through the living hand, because there is something pretty wonderful that emanates ...
Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Even in the best of times, the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner is an awkward and ethically fraught affair. Journalists spend the evening partying with the president and administration official ...
The beta-blocker propranolol has been a mainstay of American medicine since the 1960s, when it was regularly prescribed as a first-line defense against hypertension, arrhythmia, and other cardiovascular problems. Recent years, though, have seen a boom in the medication’s prescription rates—in part b ...
Illustrations by Sophia DengThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.My husband, David, hates Valentine’s Day. He once called it “New Year’s Eve with nuclear weapons.” I pretend not to care. Still, when the day passes entirely unremarked on, a woman ca ...
Ibrahim Traoré, president of Burkina Faso since October 2022, polarizes opinion, not only in Burkina Faso itself but also on the Pan-African and internationalist left. Some cheer for him as the hope for a new Pan-Africanism, the long overdue end of French imperialism in West Africa, and (resource) s ...
The second Trump administration has been labeling political leftists as “domestic terrorists” and targeting immigrants whose beliefs it disagrees with for detention and deportation. This would not have surprised Michael J. Obermeier, the president of the Hotel, Restaurant and Club Employees and Bart ...
For the past year and a half, residents of Washington, DC, have seen the federal administration attempt to take an increasing share of control of local governance. The Trump administration has deployed the National Guard in the city and established a “Safe and Beautiful Task Force,” both of which ar ...
As the White House worked to secure the sale of TikTok’s US business to President Donald Trump’s allies, Big Tech firms received personal promises from the Justice Department that they wouldn’t be prosecuted for violating a new national security law by hosting the Chinese social media platform. But ...
Critics of generative AI have for the most part been obsessed with a single question: What if the several hundred billion–dollar bet on the future of the world economy fails? This isn’t just a concern about the benefits of the technology. Bottlenecks exist at seemingly every stage. Energy supply is ...
In the early 1920s, the Latin American landscape was rocked by two political earthquakes. Though different in nature, the Mexican and Russian Revolutions shared much in common: domestically, both fought for the cause of social justice, while abroad both raised the flag of sovereignty against imperia ...
Many readers will be familiar with Victor Serge’s literary work: his novels, notably The Case of Comrade Tulayev, and his fascinating autobiography Memoirs of a Revolutionary. All his work centers around the great historical events of the first half of the twentieth century, the hopes aroused by the ...
On a late March afternoon, beneath the vaulted, medieval-revival ceiling of Immanuel Presbyterian Church, more than four hundred members of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) gathered in the lingering heat of a citywide heat wave. The air inside the sanctuary was t ...
The venue was New York’s Madison Square Garden (MSG), June 1928. This was not the Madison Square Garden you and I might know, but rather a sturdy, rectangle-shaped arena located in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. (It was the third building to bear the MSG name; the current home of the Knicks, in Midtown ...
In the fight for taxes on the rich, Kathy Hochul just blinked. Earlier this week, the Governor conceded to a tax on second homes in New York City worth over $5 million. The tax is a yearly surcharge on luxury residences in New York City — multimillion-dollar apartments that the wealthy collect and l ...
Ahead of May Day 2022, two months after Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine, Ukrainian trade unionists called for solidarity with the invaded country. Artem Tidva, a Ukrainian left-winger and labor activist, addressed international unions calling for actions to help stop the Russian war machine. I ...
Gabriel Rockhill’s polemic against Western Marxism seeks to condemn a set of postwar left-wing intellectuals such as Herbert Marcuse. Heavy on innuendo but light on evidence, the result is more like a show trial than a serious political indictment.Gabriel Rockhill draws a sharp contrast between the ...
In New York City, a tax on superexpensive second homes is a victory for Zohran Mamdani and the socialist movement and should mark the beginning of a larger project of redistribution.Gov. Kathy Hochul insisted she would never tax the rich. After months of pressure from the socialist movement and Zohr ...
Jonah Hill’s new Apple TV Hollywood satire, Outcome, wants to skewer celebrity culture. But even with the likable Keanu Reeves, its muddled script and self‑pitying subtext reveal more about the industry’s narcissism than the film ever intended.Outcome is Jonah Hill’s big statement on cancel culture. ...
Sam Altman may be the reigning king of the AI boom, but the story that matters isn’t his rise or fall. The sector will still demand scale, speed, and the right to run roughshod over the pesky public interest, no matter who wears the industry crown.There is some debate as to what extent Sam Altman an ...
In Hungary’s election, Péter Magyar rallied urban white-collar workers, business figures excluded from state patronage networks, intellectuals, and youth. It’s much less clear that his new government can satisfy all these groups’ expectations.Now entering government, it’s unclear how Péter Magyar’s ...
Geese are the most talked-about new rock band in years. But thanks to a recent Wired article, they’re now facing a backlash — accused of being privileged, reactionary, and even a “psyop.” It’s everything that’s wrong with music discourse today.Geese clearly appeal to a crowd who wants music to matte ...
A California logistics worker allegedly burned down a 1.2-million-square-foot warehouse in anger over low pay. The billionaire class may have to learn the hard way: you can only pack so much pressure into a deeply unequal system before it blows.A California logistics worker texted his coworkers befo ...
Mexico’s new national health system aims to provide universal care. At a moment when US taxpayer dollars are being harnessed to destroy health care infrastructure abroad, Mexico is attempting to make a constitutional right to care into a lived reality.Claudia Sheinbaum is making the current disparat ...
Critics see Zohran Mamdani’s inclusion of the wealthy in his new free public childcare initiative as a flaw. It’s actually an integral part of the policy’s design, rooted in the fact that universal programs are far more enduring than means-tested ones.Zohran Mamdani’s childcare policy is driven by t ...
Thirty years after the Eldorado do Carajás massacre, Brazil’s landless poor still find themselves under the heel of Latin America’s most powerful and impudent rural oligarchy.Members of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) protest on the PA-50 highway on the eve of the twenty-seventh anniversary of ...
Viktor Orbán was full of contradictions: a critic of neoliberalism who gave handouts to corporations and a moralist who ended up mired in scandal. But even after his election defeat, it’s unclear how much Hungary will really change.Despite Viktor Orbán’s outsize international profile, this was an el ...
As long as housing remains a profit-driven investment for landlords, the pace and scope of decarbonization will be shaped by their financial calculations. That’s a problem.For residential buildings, decarbonization upgrades have primarily gone to homeowners. (Michael P. Farrell / Albany Times Union ...
We can’t revive labor without reviving workers’ confidence to take action on the job. In 1936 and into 1937, during a period of union weakness, Flint’s sit-down strikers in the auto industry figured out how to do just that.Sit-down strikers occupying one of the Fisher Body plants in Flint, Michigan. ...
The defining feature of American imperialism is its combination of an enormous capacity for death and destruction with an equally enormous sense of self-entitlement. Cold War journalist Dwight Macdonald understood this outlook better than most.Dwight Macdonald’s writing was critical of a Cold War li ...
Democratic socialist Illapa Sairitupac is running to represent the New York State Assembly’s 65th District in Lower Manhattan, an area that was once a hotbed of left-wing politics. Jacobin spoke to him about his campaign.Illapa Sairitupac believes that his campaign might be DSA’s chance to win a Man ...
Japan’s conservative leader, Takaichi Sanae, won a supermajority of seats in this year’s general election. Takaichi and her allies are using this position of strength to advance a dangerous militarist agenda as part of Washington’s anti-China front.Eighty years after suffering devastating defeat in ...
While many critics view rising global chaos strictly in geopolitical terms, political philosopher Lea Ypi argues that it’s really ideological — the result of an increasingly coordinated global right. To compete, the Left must internationalize in equal measure.At the annual May Day march in London, d ...
For many migrant workers in India, the inability to cook affordably disrupts the economics of city life. As fuel becomes increasingly expensive due to market volatility and supply shocks, families are being forced to ration meals or relocate.India’s shift to market-linked LPG pricing is passing glob ...
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are staying tight-lipped about whether they will supply the decisive votes needed to pass a Trump-backed bill reauthorizing a warrantless surveillance law exploited by federal police.Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are largely staying silent about ...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has now inked a $12.2 million contract for an artificial intelligence tool that purportedly maps out immigrants’ daily routines, habits, and real-time locations and categorizes them as potential threats.Under the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Se ...
The chaos and destruction Donald Trump has wrought has been facilitated by the decades-long expansion of the president’s executive power. Far from checking that power when they hold office, Democrats have expanded it. That has to change.The chaos and rapidly growing danger of Donald Trump’s presiden ...
Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for government-run grocery stores echoes a long-running system in Mexico — one that delivers affordability, but not without trade-offs.NYC’s grocery plan isn’t a “socialist fantasy.” It’s already a reality in Mexico. (Lara Nour-Walton / Jacobin)On a bright mid-February morn ...
Women are overrepresented in low-paid work, care work, and unpaid labor. Their time, their bodies, and their emotional energy are resources for capital. Feminism cannot succeed without confronting the economic system that structures these inequalities.Feminist Marxist social reproduction theory make ...
On a very bad liberal habit that just won’t quit.Kamala Harris’s political skill consists of being an elite liberal from the citadel of elite liberalism. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)Recently, Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias debated the merits of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) progr ...
A little-known Supreme Court case that just vacated the corruption conviction of a local official raises a crucial question: Will the kind of influence peddling now ubiquitous in politics become unprosecutable simply because it has become so commonplace?The recent ruling in the Roberts Court is part ...
You Need This, a new documentary produced by Adam McKay, tracks the long march of consumer society from postwar suburbia to the sleeping mind.Still from You Need This. (Grasshopper Film / Hotel Motion Pictures)Consider the sudden appearance of a product called full-body deodorant on a store shelf ne ...
New York City’s Avenue of the Americas reflects a New Deal gesture toward hemispheric cooperation. April 14, Día de las Américas, offers a chance to revive that spirit by affirming Pan-American solidarity, self-determination, and social equality.A statue of Simón Bolívar, one of the seven such tribu ...
Throughout his prolific career as a left-wing economist, Anwar Shaikh has kept asking the right questions about the dynamics of capitalism. Shaikh has given us a powerful framework for understanding the system and its fundamental flaws.Economist Anwar Shaikh’s approach is distinctive due to its comb ...
A new bill in France would criminalize slogans said to call for the destruction of Israel. In the name of combating antisemitism, establishment political forces want to muzzle criticism of Israel’s apartheid order.A protester holds a placard reading "No to the Yadan bill" during a rally against the ...
In a speech marking his first 100 days as New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani describes his administration’s accomplishments so far and champions “pothole politics,” a 21st-century version of Milwaukee’s proud tradition of sewer socialism.Zohran Mamdani speaking on his first 100 days in office on Su ...
Instead of restoring or increasing funding to programs with a proven record of strengthening children’s long-term prospects, the Trump administration is creating investment accounts for kids that offer marginal benefit while widening income inequality.President Donald Trump arrives on stage before d ...
Instead of building a resilient economy to meet the challenges of the present economic “rupture,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are turbocharging austerity and gutting the capacity of Canada's federal public service.If the Carney government stays the course, workers and the broader ...
With President Donald Trump recently threatening to destroy Iranian civilization itself, the country’s filmmakers carry on their long tradition of defiant, deeply human cinema forged under censorship, imprisonment, and war.Iranian filmmakers have endured censorship, prison, and exile — and still cre ...
Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán combined talk of defending Hungary’s traditions with a promise of prosperity. When he stopped delivering workers good economic news, culture-war messaging wasn’t enough to save him.Hungary’s Viktor Orbán lost the election because of splits in his own base. (Balint Szent ...
When UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese visited Serbia in March, the government cast her as an interfering foreigner. Yet it was happy to back the Israeli embassy’s campaign to silence pro-Palestinian speech in Serbia.Serbia’s government is a proud Israeli ally, ramping up its weapons sales in ...
The Australian Football League is a corporation that longs for global expansion. But in its greed and desperation, the league is undermining what makes the game great.Nat Fyfe thanks fans as he leaves the field during a match between the Fremantle Dockers and Brisbane Lions on August 15, 2025, in Pe ...
Our images of the Roman Empire are dominated by the monuments and lifestyles of wealthy urban elites. An important new history shifts our attention to the 90% of Rome’s population whose brutally exploited labor made it all possible.In her book Surviving Rome, Kim Bowes gives us a magnificent, revela ...
Years of IMF and World Bank reforms have created two-tiered health care systems across Africa. In Kenya, the private sector is out of reach for most, but public health care has been wrecked by budget cuts and the introduction of fees for many services.Kenya is meant to have a public health care syst ...
The horrifying revelations of César Chávez’s widespread sexual abuse of young women and girls were in part rooted in the culture of unquestioning loyalty and top-down dictation that Chávez established in the United Farm Workers.There were two reasons that no one in the United Farm Workers sought the ...
From universities to medical research centers, Israel and the US have been systematically attacking Iran’s technical infrastructure. While claiming their only issue is with Iran’s rulers, they have targeted its entire people and their achievements.This photo, taken on April 7, 2026, shows a view of ...
Critics read Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription, as a commentary on smartphones. But with gothic style and a Victorian temperament, it meditates on a much older technology — the spectral quality of disembodied speech introduced at the dawn of telephonics.Transcription, the new novel by Ben Lerner ...
Capitalists have succeeded in arranging the future as a calculable source of extraordinary wealth, enriching a few in the present by imposing debts on the vast majority — and undermining the environmental conditions for a better tomorrow.Capitalist profitability increasingly depends on the extractio ...
Zohran Mamdani’s early wins are a testament to what a talented left-wing municipal executive can accomplish even in the face of major obstacles. But much of his ambitious agenda will remain blocked if he can’t convince the state to tax the rich.Using the mayor’s office to craft new forms of mass mob ...
The US war on Iran may have seemed like an irrational move by a president who is as reckless and impulsive as he is destructive. But there was a geopolitical logic behind the attack, based on Washington’s desire to deny China access to vital resources.The resource wars between the US and China have ...
The recent death of a student at the University of Belgrade triggered a police raid and fresh government attacks on education. Professors appear as the vanguard of a broad social movement, but their plans for change are less clear. A recent speech by the rector of Belgrade university, Vladan Đokić, ...
Los Angeles public school teachers have declared a strike deadline of April 14. The conflict forces the question of whether schools are an EdTech business opportunity or a public responsibility.UTLA is proposing an overhaul of the salary schedule that would bring starting pay to $80,000 and amount t ...
War, and now a fragile ceasefire, is not bringing collapse in Iran but reinforcing and reorganizing its existing structures of power and inequality.In Western political circles, a recurring view has been that the war in Iran could create a rupture. Experts say the country is not heading toward a rup ...
In his first one hundred days as mayor, Zohran Mamdani has realized that New Yorkers — and all Americans — need to see the government working for them.Zohran Mamdani greeting workers at the site of the Williamsburg Bridge bump. (Adam Gray / Bloomberg via Getty Images)March Madness is over, spring is ...
Funneling millions to the Trump administration through undisclosed donations, a slew of corporations and lobbyists are potentially violating disclosure laws to help bankroll the president’s ballroom and other pet projects.At least 35 corporations have helped bankroll Donald Trump’s pet projects, inc ...
The Supreme Court’s willingness to protect the Fed — in contrast to every other independent regulatory commission — reflects the strength of its loyalty to neoliberal capitalism over the Trump administration and even the vaunted “unitary executive theory.”In Trump v. Cook, the conservative justices ...
Elections on Sunday could finally remove Viktor Orbán from power. Opposition forces have rallied behind rival candidate Péter Magyar, less out of belief in his program than from desperation at the country’s authoritarian turn.Despite the favorable constellation of an opposition in the lead and a mob ...
Landlords dominate Australia’s parliament and Reserve Bank. Their policies make the housing crisis worse.In Australia, a cost-of-living surge comes in the context of a worsening housing crisis. (Lisa Maree Williams / Getty Images)In Australia, the war in Iran is having a dramatic effect on prices. F ...
Ascendant DC think tank Searchlight Institute, pushing Democrats to the center, has ties to megadonor Simone Coxe, whose Nvidia-linked money could boost AI-backed efforts to defend data center build-outs and limit AI regulation.The Searchlight Institute has pushed Democrats toward lighter regulation ...
The danger posed by Donald Trump’s authoritarianism means that unions can’t afford to remain in a defensive crouch. And history suggests that fighting to defend and revive democracy at moments of maximum peril can create a window of opportunity for labor.In the current moment, unions not only have t ...
A bill from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposes a moratorium on new AI data centers until oversight mechanisms and legal safeguards are in place. Only federal legislation stands a chance at leashing a monster of this size.Critical of the wealthy accumulating power at everyone else’s ...
Working-class voters already back Medicare for All. Framed like Social Security — as a benefit earned from work, not a handout — it can reach two-thirds support.The candidates who win on health care in the future won’t be policy wonks or those declaring it a human right. They’ll be the ones who make ...
The 1960s saw a stampede of lefty folk musicians, but none as politically engaged as Phil Ochs. A true activist-musician who thought of himself as a “singing journalist,” Ochs was as comfortable playing at a demonstration as at a concert hall.Phil Ochs died fifty years ago today. He never enjoyed th ...
Donald Trump has shown the world that even the vast power of the globe’s foremost imperial hegemon has limits. His initial genocidal bluster against Iran was downstream of this reality, as was his subsequent capitulation.In Donald Trump’s capitulation last night, we learned that all of the expensive ...
The death of the filmmaker and Marxist theorist Alexander Kluge marks the loss of a voice that insisted the horrors of the last century were not confined to the past. They live on in the continued existence of imperialist wars.The filmmaker, novelist, and Marxist theorist Alexander Kluge set out to ...
The Iran war was such a fiasco that Donald Trump had no choice but to find a way out. Whether it sticks will partly depend on Democrats resisting the urge to irresponsibly goad him back into it.Iranians react to the ceasefire announcement at Enqhelab Square in Tehran, April 8, 2026. (AFP via Getty I ...
With its vast logistics empire deploying robotics, surveillance, and AI to block worker power at every turn, Amazon now sits atop the throne of American capitalism. Organizing it will define the future of the labor movement.With the US labor movement at historically low levels of unionization, bold ...
A small group of hawks convinced George W. Bush to launch a war in the Middle East, despite his campaign-trail rhetoric and against the advice of top US military and intelligence officials. The parallels with Donald Trump’s war on Iran are striking.Despite the differences in personnel between the Bu ...
How do we solve a problem like the commodification of mass wearable surveillance? Social norms and market pressure are a start, but above all, we need a political response like regulation.Smart glasses are no longer the preserve of creepers and early adopters, with reports of law enforcement adoptio ...
Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History ranges impressively over time and space, from medieval Yemen to modern-day Cambodia. But we need a clearer political economy of capitalism to make sense of the material that he provides us with.The illustration of capitalism from all parts of the world is ...
Right-leaning caucuses now hold a majority among Democrats in the House of Representatives. The dominance of centrist economic policy in the congressional party puts it increasingly out of step with Democratic voters.As of 2025, a majority of House Democrats now belong to the party’s center-right ca ...
Staff at famed New York cocktail bar Attaboy are forming an independent union in a notoriously hard-to-organize industry.In Lower Manhattan, bartenders and other staff at New York City’s cocktail bar Attaboy gathered to announce that they are forming a union. (Courtesy of Alex N. Press)In Seward Par ...
Donald Trump says the SAVE Act is about stopping noncitizens from voting. But the real target is the millions of working-class citizens who don't have an updated passport or paper birth certificate sitting in a drawer.The Republican Party seems to have decided that the 2026 and 2028 elections will b ...
Struggles against oppression start with people critically reflecting on their experiences. What happens to such struggles when we outsource our thinking to AI and replace human interlocutors with sycophantic chatbots?With the emergence of chatbots, the outsourcing of thinking — and therefore also th ...
Panicked, Donald Trump has threatened to destroy Iran’s energy infrastructure by 8 p.m. today unless concessions are made. But Iran’s position is stronger than the president is willing to admit.Iranian analysts believe Donald Trump will follow through on his threat unless Iran issues a statement tha ...
Transcription, Ben Lerner’s slim but layered new novel, is a penetrating meditation on fraudulence, fatherhood, and the fate of authentic experience in our digital age.Ben Lerner's Transcription begins with the narrator dropping his phone in a sink full of water. The novel that follows is a richly o ...
Donald Trump is proposing to increase the defense budget by nearly half to wage war on Iran. How does he want to pay for it? Cut nearly everything that might help average Americans, from food, housing, and education programs to health care and childcare.Donald Trump wants Congress to increase the de ...
In poll after poll, Americans across the political spectrum support a federal jobs guarantee. And yet it’s never mentioned in mainstream political discourse. New survey data makes the case even harder to ignore.Across virtually every poll, the basic proposition that the government should guarantee a ...
Public school teacher and socialist Robert LeVertis Bell is running to represent Louisville’s 43rd District in the Kentucky state house. Jacobin spoke to him about his campaign and the prospect of being the lone socialist in a red-state legislature.Robert LeVertis Bell is a longtime socialist organi ...
In the 1970s and ’80s, rank-and-file workers often took great risks to attack a culture of corruption in the labor movement — including Mafia-controlled union locals.As head the Gambino crime family, John Gotti siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from Teamsters Local 282. (Yvonne Hemsey / Gett ...
Europe’s steel firms are increasingly unprofitable, and rising energy prices are making things even worse. Public ownership is vital to ensure conversion to green production while maintaining jobs.The US-Israeli war on Iran promises fresh risks to Europe’s energy-intensive steel firms. Public owners ...
Amazon has long exploited subcontracting to avoid taking responsibility for its delivery drivers. A bill introduced by socialist New York City Councilor Tiffany Cabán would force the e-commerce giant to directly employ its drivers.Amazon workers organized by the Teamsters walk a picket line in front ...
In the West Bank village of Umm al-Kheir, a football pitch is named after Awdah Hathaleen, a local man murdered last summer by an Israeli settler. Now Israel has issued an order to destroy the pitch, as part of its continual ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.Awdah Hathaleen was a Palestinian man who ...
The rich are ride-hailing their way out of public transit, draining fare revenue from the system. It’s another instance of the accelerating economic segregation of the public sphere.Toronto households now spend more than $440 million a year on Uber and Lyft. High-income riders are spurring the shift ...
In an age of algorithmically generated “kill lists,” anxieties about AI integration into military decision-making are justifiably mounting. OpenAI’s recent hiring of over a dozen former defense bureaucrats does nothing to allay these concerns.OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar expenditures significantly o ...
Local elections saw La France Insoumise make its first real gains in taking over city halls. Ahead of the 2027 presidential race, it still badly needs to expand its voter base to have a chance of winning a national election.Establishment media tried to use the local election campaign to declare La F ...