Before each episode of America First With Nicholas J. Fuentes begins, a surreal mix of images and video clips runs, like a screen saver, for an unpredictable and seemingly eternal amount of time. Gentle plains of swaying grass, trickling streams, and the show’s logo flash across the screen. EDM kick ...

ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Rihtaršič, R. TripodiDay 13 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Sea of Galaxies. The James Webb Space Telescope pointed its Near-Infrared Camera toward the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 and captured this image of hundreds of galaxies at varying distances ...

Donald Trump continues to put pressure on Ukraine to accept his administration’s peace proposal, despite how the plan favors Russia. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss what this may suggest about the administration’s shifting international priorities, and more.   If th ...

Israel says a 'key' Hamas figure has been killed in Gaza City [File: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

Fierce clashes have erupted across Kordofan as the RSF shifts its offensive to the strategic region [Hussein Malla/AP]

Residents ride a motorcycle along a war-damaged street in Palmyra, Syria [File: Ghaith Alsayed/AP]

Residents ride a motorcycle along a war-damaged street in Palmyra, Syria [File: Ghaith Alsayed/AP]

The world’s deadliest residential fire in more than four decades was still burning up a block of Hong Kong apartment buildings when pundits settled on a culprit: bamboo. Surely, the bamboo scaffolding that had surrounded the Wang Fuk Court towers explained how the flames tore through the complex so ...

Palestinian children search through waste at a dump site in the central Gaza Strip on September 10, 2025 [File: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters] Last month, I was waiting for a shared taxi at the Nuseirat roundabout when I witnessed a heartbreaking scene. As I stood by the side of the road, I felt a small h ...

More than 100 democratic socialist elected officials, staffers, and organizers from across the US met in New Orleans for the third How We Win conference last weekend. The gathering demonstrated American socialists’ growing influence and confidence.Even most socialists likely have no idea of the brea ...

Since launching a military campaign in the Caribbean earlier this year, President Donald Trump has made clear what phase one of his plan looks like: killing alleged drug smugglers and pushing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to leave office. The end goal—let’s call it phase three—is to work with ...

Google recently paid state lawmakers upward of $2,000 as “gifts” to cover their attendance at a secret all-inclusive summit with “educational” sessions discussing artificial intelligence and other issues that many of these officials will soon be voting on.Texas governor Greg Abbott and Alphabet and ...

Decades of data shows that nonworkers, including retirees and students, make up one of labor’s most consistently pro-union constituencies. The movement has more allies than it realizes, and harnessing them could reshape its strategic horizon. Retirees, disabled people, homemakers, and the unemploye ...

Billionaire Vincent Bolloré is known for his use of his media empire to promote Islamophobic pundits in France. Now the corporation he controls is buying up TV broadcasting and film across Africa.Billionaire tycoon Vincent Bolloré is a major face of Françafrique — France’s informal dominance in its ...

The Israeli military says it has killed senior Hamas leader Raed Saad in an attack on Gaza City. There was no immediate confirmation by the Palestinian group, which slammed the attack as an attempt by Israel to “undermine and sabotage” the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. The Israeli authorities continue ...

The Israeli military says it has killed senior Hamas leader Raed Saad in an attack on Gaza City. There was no immediate confirmation by the Palestinian group, which slammed the attack as an attempt by Israel to “undermine and sabotage” the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. The Israeli authorities continue ...

The Israeli military says it had targeted a “key” Hamas figure in Gaza City, without providing a name. Separately, it has warned people in the Lebanese village of Yanuh, in the southern Tyre district, of an imminent attack. The Israeli authorities continue to block the entry of basic shelter materia ...

The Israeli authorities continue to block the entry of basic shelter materials, fuel and water infrastructure, leaving people in Gaza “exposed to entirely preventable harm” after Storm Byron, says Oxfam. The storm has swept across the Gaza Strip over the past few days, killing at least 14 people and ...

Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares discusses Trump’s new national security strategy and what it means for Europe’s security, NATO and the war in Ukraine.He defends Spain’s stance on defence spending, warns about far-right “patriotic” parties, and outlines his vision for a viable two-state ...

Firefighters work at the site of a civilian vessel hit during a Russian missile strike in the town of Chornomorsk, Odesa region, Ukraine, on December 12, 2025 [Handout/Press Service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Poltava Region via Reuters]

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.The year 2025 was hard for the film industry but good for movies. “Looking back at this turbulent yea ...

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.For almost an entire year, Donald Trump has begged the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates and supe ...

A small motorboat passes across the water in front of docked container ships in Shenzhen, China [File: Cheng Xin/Getty Images]

A General Assembly meeting to vote on the Palestinian question at United Nations [File: Angela Weiss/AFP]

Supporters of Abir Moussi, the president of the Free Destourian Party, demand her release during a demonstration organised in Tunis in October 2023 [File: Fethi Belaid/AFP]

Tina Peters is supposed to spend the next eight years of her life in prison. The former Colorado county clerk was convicted last year of charges tied to tampering with voting equipment under her control in 2020. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for Peters’s release, warning of “harsh mea ...

Updated with new questions at 4:50 p.m. ET on December 12, 2025.You’ve been waiting to build that dream place of yours, there in the spot you picked out a few years back, between the pons and the frontal lobe. Maybe you want to crib some designs from your friend Steve’s place; it’s got space for the ...

In rejecting yesterday a redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump, Indiana’s Republican-controlled senate did not merely deny Republicans two new U.S. House seats in next year’s midterm elections. They also engaged in a mass revolt against the president. The stakes of their defiance reach ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a signing ceremony for a framework agreement, aiming to speed up development in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, in the occupied-West Bank settlement on September 11, 2025 [File: Menahem Kahana/AFP]

OpenAI turned 10 yesterday, and President Donald Trump incidentally gave the company a very special birthday gift: a sweeping executive order aiming to dismantle and preempt many state-level regulations of artificial intelligence. “There’s only going to be one winner here, and it’s probably going to ...

Lebanese social media pages were filled recently with heated exchanges and views, with people commenting on developments that reflect the deep sectarianism in the country. From a Christmas decoration to stand-up comedy material to the right to citizenship, people in Lebanon are not holding back.Pres ...

A displaced Palestinian man clears muddy water in a flooded tent camp on a rainy day in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, December 12, 2025 [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]

Donald Trump launched his political career by insisting that free-trade deals had sacrificed the national interest in the pursuit of corporate profits. One wonders what that version of Trump would make of his most recently announced trade policy. On Monday, he declared on Truth Social that the Unite ...

Nemo of Switzerland after winning the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on May 12, 2024 [File: Martin Meissner/AP Photo]

Streit um den zurückgetretenen Landesvorsitzenden Sebastian Walter setzt sich fort

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books.In college, I took a pair of Shakespeare survey courses that taught me two divergent but complementary ways of reading classic fiction. The professor in one class frequently asked us to put ourselves in the char ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel turns the camera on himself to ask a simple question: Why are you seeing his face?Using YouTube’s takeover of podcasts as a starting point, he explores how video has devoured audio and turned podcasts ...

Iraq's former president Barham Salih, originally from Sulaimaniyah, is on track to replace Italy’s Filippo Grandi as UN High Commissioner for Refugees [File:Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo]

During last year’s presidential campaign, Donald Trump coined a term for his pinballing speaking style—“the weave.” This was on display Tuesday in Pennsylvania, in remarks that included, but were not limited to, the topics of tariffs, U.S. Steel, fracking, wind turbines, electric-vehicle mandates, i ...

Ausstellungsprojekt »Ravensdruck« in der KZ-Gedenk­stätte Ravensbrück

PCK-Raffinerie hat aber Reserven, die wochenlang reichen

Dresdner Bahn nimmt am Sonntag mit 19 Jahren Verspätung den Betrieb auf

Narges Mohammadi is the second Iranian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, after human rights activist Shirin Ebadi [File: Behrouz Mehri/AFP]

Jana Frielinghaus zum Abschied vom Ende der Neuzulassung nur noch emissionsfreier Fahrzeuge ab 2035

NASA, ESA, STScIDay 12 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Barred Spiral. This galaxy, NGC 5335, is categorized as a flocculent spiral galaxy, displaying a striking barlike structure across its center. The bar channels gas inwards toward the galactic center, fueling star formation. NGC 53 ...

In Schleswig Holstein fand Anfang Dezember 2018 die erste Demonstration von Fridays for Future in Deutschland statt

Die Förderung von E-Mobilität und die Lockerung des sogenannten Verbrenner-Aus widersprechen sich

Jana Frielinghaus über den gescheiterten Versuch des Inlandsgeheimdienstes, einem Linke-Politiker einen Maulkorb zu verpassen

Nach 17 Jahren im Amt ist Ulrich Mäurer als Bremer Innensenator zurückgetreten

Here are some data points that Republicans ought to bear in mind as they contemplate their health-care strategy.Donald Trump is unpopular for many reasons, not least of which is the public perception that he has failed to bring down costs, as promised. Next month, more than 20 million Americans may ...

Ministerpräsident Anutin Charnvirakul löst Parlament auf

Volksmusik aus Düsseldorf, Germany: Kraftwerk haben sich mal wieder neu erfunden

Perhaps you’ve seen the poster for Ella McCay and marveled at its title character, a woman who’s clearly trying to Have It All—by which I mean she’s futzing with a high heel while wearing a sensible overcoat and dress. James L. Brooks’s new film, his first in 15 years, feels like a throwback to the ...

The US claims to uphold a rules-based global order while letting Israel commit brutal crimes with impunity. Into that breach has stepped a coalition of states, the Hague Group, willing to act on the basic principles of morality abandoned by the old system.A new terrain has been opened by the Hague G ...

Das Übereinkommen von Paris hat zum Ziel, die Erderwärmung zu bremsen. Am Freitag jährte es sich zum zehnten Mal.

EU übt weiter massiv Druck auf Belgien wegen der russischen Staatsgelder aus

The therapists are being gaslit by gaslighting—they’re being told that it’s happening, but it’s not.Jonathan Alpert, a therapist in New York and Washington, D.C., told me he saw a couple recently who used the term gaslighting to describe nearly every disagreement they have had. “Let’s say one person ...

Editor’s Note: Find all of  The Atlantic’s “Best of 2025” coverage here. So this is the future?Judging by mainstream music in 2025, humankind is not in a particularly creative place. The year’s main storylines included the rise of AI slop and cartoon K-pop. A number of once-lively hitmakers churned ...

In Japan greifen immer mehr Bären Menschen an, die nun Polizei und Militär zu Hilfe rufen

Als erstes Flächenland will NRW mit einem eigenen Antidiskriminierungsgesetz Maßstäbe für andere Bundesländer setzen

Richtige Musik im Falschen: Die Nerven haben ein sehr gutes Livealbum eingespielt

Die US-Demokraten feiern Wahlerfolge, die eigentlich keine sind

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.It goes like this: When six and seven appear together in print, or in speech, or on television, or in a YouTube video, or even just when you write them down on loose-leaf paper, that’s “six-seven.” “Six-seven!” ...

Pascal Pochard-Casabianca / AFP / GettyBruno Menager, head of the pediatric department, plays citole for a newborn baby during a music-therapy session at the Notre-Dame de la Miséricorde hospital in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on May 6, 2025.Esa Alexander / ReutersJoycely ...

When Barry Bonds shakes my hand, he squeezes my metacarpals like he’s gripping one of his old maple-wood bats. Then he looks directly at me and past me at once, like I’m some journeyman pitcher whose changeup he’s about to take deep. He’s no longer the 228-pound slugger you remember—a decade of cycl ...

Confusing marginality with insight leaves movements vulnerable to reactionary mimicry. A renewed engagement with Karl Marx’s structural account of exploitation can give feminism a path out of standpoint theory’s dead end.White nationalist leader Nick Fuentes has described himself as a “proud incel.” ...

Eine Reise durch quasi-autonome Teilstaaten 30 Jahre nach dem Friedensabkommen von Paris

Christian Klemm über Boykotte gegen den Eurovision Song Contest im kommenden Jahr

Chef der US-Anti­doping­agentur hält System für zu bürokratisch und zu wenig treff­sicher und fordert mehr Trans­parenz sowie wirk­samere Kontrollen

Displaced Palestinians walk amid the devastation in Rafah, southern Gaza in January [File: Bashar Taleb/AFP]

Regierung will das Ausmaß der Fahnenflucht ab sofort verschweigen

Democratic socialists Jake Ephros and Joel Brooks triumphed in their runoff elections for the Jersey City Council in New Jersey last week. Jacobin followed them at the tail end of their victorious campaigns.Joel Brooks’s and Jake Ephros’s victories in Jersey City represent the confrontation of an as ...

Bundesregierung bestellt Russlands Botschafter ein

Crystal Wilsey, a cashier at a Cinnabon franchise in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, said some unforgivable things to a Somali couple who had the temerity to request more caramel on a pecan cinnamon roll. But I don’t think she should have been summarily fired.Wilsey’s is just the latest high-profile tale of ...

Die Pandemieverharmlosung reiht sich in eine Tradition bürgerlicher Wirklichkeitsverweigerung ein – und ist Klassenkampf von oben

Israeli air strike carried out in Lebanon on Friday, December 12, 2025 [Al Jazeera Screengrab]

Elisabeth Kaiser, erklärt welche Bedeutung sie der Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt im nächsten Jahr beimisst.

Liverpool manager Arne Slot and Mohamed Salah after the Premier League match at Leeds United [Andrew Boyers/Reuters]

Liverpool manager Arne Slot and Mohamed Salah after the Premier League match at Leeds United [Andrew Boyers/Reuters]

Corona war vor allem eine soziale Katastrophe – und ist es immer noch. Über den Pandemierevisionismus liegt nun ein Sammelband vor

Ein Sammelband beleuchtet das goldene Zeitalter der Geisteswissenschaften und zeigt, wie Buchkultur einst Motor linker Theorie und Emanzipation war

Grenzen prägen unsere Welt – doch Mauern offenbaren weniger Stärke als politische Ohnmacht

Die Doku-Soap »Hundertzehn« inszeniert Authentizität, liefert aber vor allem Polizei-PR – ohne kritische Einordnung oder journalistische Distanz

Analytics firm Agri Stats has quietly enabled major meat processors to coordinate price hikes and suppress wages for decades. Despite outcry over algorithmic price-setting, the companies are settling lawsuits over it without paying substantial penalties.A Justice Department lawsuit alleges that Agri ...

For years, Big Tech’s growing dominance over Hollywood has meant lower-quality movies and TV shows. Now, with Netflix and Paramount Skydance fighting over Warner Bros. Discovery, audiences are left with little say in the matter.Netflix turned “new media” into the future of film that hewed to the sam ...

Jonathan Crickx, chief of communication at UNICEF Palestine, talks about how the intense storms battering Gaza are deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis for Palestinians.

Am Landgericht Berlin startet ein Berufungsprozess für propalästinensischen Protest an der Humboldt-Universität

European authorities promote Greece as a postcrisis success story. Yet Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s right-wing government relies on spyware and the opaque use of EU subsidies — and is now overseeing a brutal cost-of-living crisis.Greece’s conservative government under Kyriakos Mitsotakis has taken disturbi ...

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A number of houses, walls and tents have collapsed in the Gaza Strip since Storm Byron descended upon the enclave destroyed by Israel’s genocidal war, killing at least 14 people in past 24 hours. Three children who died from hypothermia are among the dead.

A number of houses, walls and tents have collapsed in the Gaza Strip since Storm Byron descended upon the enclave destroyed by Israel’s genocidal war, killing at least 12 people in past 24 hours. Three children who died from hypothermia are among the dead, say our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

A number of houses, walls and tents have collapsed in the Gaza Strip since Storm Byron descended upon the enclave destroyed by Israel’s genocidal war, killing more than 10 people in past 24 hours. Three children who died from hypothermia are among the dead, say our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

The report documents systematic sexual violence against women in Sudan [File: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]

Storm Byron has pummelled Gaza’s makeshift tent camps, drenching tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians and highlighting how two months of ceasefire have failed to address the worsening humanitarian crisis.Families discovered their possessions and food supplies soaked inside tents. Children wad ...

A woman fixes her tent as children shelter inside it at a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians after heavy rains in Gaza City [AFP]

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.A force is pulling on Donald Trump that is even more inexorable than the march of time: political morta ...

When Michael and Susan Dell announced last week that they would be donating $6.25 billion to put $250 per account into government-run savings accounts for millions of American children, it brought new attention to an initiative that was otherwise buried in the tax bill Republicans passed earlier thi ...

Marco Rubio here, with an important announcement: No more Calibri in official State Department communications! Get out of here with your ungarnished lines and provocatively naked terminals! The Biden administration may have shot the serif, switching from Times New Roman on the grounds that serif-les ...

It’s rude to boast, but here in 2025, you’ve got to take the wins where you can get them. This morning, Time magazine announced its Person of the Year, and it’s me. It’s you too.If you want to get all technical about it, Time’s Person of the Year is actually not a person at all but a collection of p ...

Saudi Arabia's Mohamed Kanno celebrates scoring their second goal against Palestine [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

When Gaza militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab was killed last week, few Palestinians mourned his death. After Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza began in 2023, Abu Shabab and his Israel-backed Popular Forces group attempted to present themselves as an alternative to Hamas, but Palestinians instead viewed h ...

India is hedging between energy security and strategic partnerships.Despite pressure from the United States, it has continued buying cheap Russian oil and has recently strengthened economic ties with Russia — from trade to weapons and critical minerals.But this is a delicate balancing act for Prime ...

Senator Chris Van Hollen, flanked by US lawmakers and advocates, speaks outside the US Capitol, demanding justice for journalists attacked by Israel, December 11, 2025 [Ali Harb/Al Jazeera]

Wolfgang Koeppen und die Krise des modernen Romans

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out.If you are a regular reader of this column or have studied the science of happiness elsewhere, you’ll know that getting happier requires three kinds of effort: using your intellect to understand you ...

Zweieinhalb Jahre hat die Weltöffentlichkeit die Vorbereitung eines Massenmords beobachtet, kritisiert ein Experte

Letzte Kabinettssitzung des Jahres soll Bürgergeldreform beschließen

ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo, and the FEAST JWST teamDay 11 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Looking for Signs of a Black Hole. Spiral galaxy M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel, lies about 15 million light-years away from Earth. Recent observations by the James Webb Space T ...

In Rojava stehen die Fortschritte der kurdischen Frauenbewegung auf dem Spiel

Nach einer historischen Saison bei den Frauen wirft die 21-Jährige wieder bei der Weltmeisterschaft in London

Cyrus Salimi-Asl zum Amnesty-Bericht über die Hamas-Verbrechen

Der Politologe Stefan Schmalz über den Stand der geopolitischen Industriekonkurrenz

Der Politologe Stefan Schmalz über den Stand der geopolitischen Industriekonkurrenz

Wie China seine Führung bei grünen Industrien organisiert und zementiert – und woran es scheitert

Prognosen über die Bevölkerungsentwicklung sind mit großer Unsicherheit behaftet

Donald Trumps Nationale Sicherheitsstrategie hat die Schwächung der Europäischen Union zum Ziel

Andreas Fritsche zur Verzichtsforderung des BSW in Brandenburg

Neuer Index kritisiert Umsetzung von Kinderrechten in Deutschland

Broccoli stems don’t tend to rouse strong emotions. Most home cooks toss them in the trash or compost without a second thought. But when I threw out some broccoli stalks—tough and woody ones, let it be known—while cooking dinner recently, guilt overcame me. I could have pickled those stalks; I could ...

Laut einem neuen UN-Bericht könnten Klima- und Natur­schutz auch das Wirtschafts­wachstum sicherstellen

Partei in Brandenburg auf sieben Prozent abgerutscht

Der Berliner Mieterverein stellt die besten Taktiken gegen Eigenbedarfskündigungen vor

Der Berliner Senat will Schülerleistungen durch mehr Vergleichsarbeiten verbessern

US-Regierung knüpft mit Monroe-Doktrin an Zeit des Kalten Krieges an

Recently, I’m ashamed to admit, I received an email that initially made me feel warm, human, even grateful: a rejection for a job I’d applied to. But my thankful feelings quickly curdled into self-loathing—the nausea one gets when looking back over pathetic, paragraphs-long texts to an ex, whose mon ...

The way to help Zohran Mamdani overcome establishment and billionaire opposition to his agenda has to involve organizing bigger and deeper, rather than simply criticizing him harder.There’s far more to effective socialist strategy than boldly championing our ideas and loudly voicing criticisms of el ...

Im Treibhaus: Wolfgang Koeppen und die Krise des modernen Romans

When Israel and the United States launched a 12-day war on Iran, Donald Trump hailed it as “one of the greatest moments in history”. More than 1,000 people were killed in Israeli strikes that ripped through homes, hospitals and even a prison during visiting hours.Fault Lines travels to Iran to uncov ...

Schlichtung bei Oettinger scheiterte aufgrund möglicher Verlängerung der Wochenarbeitszeit

Black-Sabbath-Frontmann Ozzy Osbourne legt postum seine Generalbeichte ab

Die staatliche Förderung des eigenen Liebespartners ist doch kein Skandal, meint nd-Kolumnist Andreas Koristka. Ein Promipaar gehört gefeiert

Kaum einer konnte Prekariat, Witz und Klassenfrage so gut in einem Foto montieren wie Martin Parr. Nun ist er gestorben

Tobias Lambert über die US-Kaperung eines Öltankers

Netflix und Paramount liefern sich einen Bieterstreit um den Warner-Konzern

Nach knapp einem Jahr Politikpause hat Kevin Kühnert einen neuen Job bei der Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende

Beim Gründungsakt des Ligaverbandes der Frauen wird der Dachverband zum Störfaktor

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Not long ago, a book party like this would have been unthinkable: a Washington celebration of one of the most notorious French novels ever written. But on a frigid December night, some 50 people crammed into But ...

Wake Up Dead Man is another crowd-pleasing entry in writer-director Rian Johnson’s Knives Out murder mystery franchise. It’s the kind of movie that should be crushing it with audiences on the big screen. But Netflix would rather you see it on their streamer.Josh O’Connor and Daniel Craig in Wake Up ...

Updated on December 11 at 6:20 p.m. ET The Indiana legislature does not keep its constituents at a great distance. As lawmakers convened in Indianapolis on Monday to consider a bill backed by President Donald Trump to redraw the state’s congressional map, all that separated them from protesters who ...

On Monday, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he would soon sign an executive order prohibiting states from regulating AI. “You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something,” the president wrote. “THAT WILL NEVER WORK!” This followed an ultimately unsucces ...

Somalia, where two terror groups are locked in a long-standing battle, should have been an ideal place for President Donald Trump to showcase his “America First” commitment to international disengagement. The country is 8,000 miles away, and its conflicts pose no obvious near-term threat to national ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsThere are an estimated 14 million people living in the U.S. illegally, and only so many ways to find them. Even with ICE’s roughly $28 billion annual budget, even with a massive recruitment campaign and the rapid deployment ...

Claudia Schneider kämpft um ihre Anerkennung als Impfopfer – BSW-Gesundheitsministerin Müller hilft

Two years before hosting a meeting with Elon Musk in Dubai, Emirati logistics CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem asked Jeffrey Epstein to connect him with the Tesla head, newly released emails show. It’s not the only time Musk has come up in the Epstein files.In 2014, Elon Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeff ...

Das Kapital ist heute gieriger denn je, meint die französische »L’Humanité«

The country’s largest electrical grid operator, PJM Interconnection, plans to power new data centers that it knows it doesn’t have the capacity for — prompting an energy watchdog to warn of heightened blackout risks.PJM Interconnection has seen windfall profits from shouldering energy-draining data ...

Stormy weather in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 11, 2025 [Abir Sultan/EPA] Israel is bracing itself for heavy downpours and flash floods that Storm Byron is forecast to produce, especially in the coastal areas.The Israel Meteorological Service said on Thursday that rain is likely to cover cities fro ...

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal speaks to Al Jazeera Arabic about peace talks with Israel [Screengrab: Al Jazeera Arabic]

Chris McIntosh, a humanitarian response adviser with OXFAM, explains how severe storms sweeping across Gaza are making an already desperate situation even worse for Palestinians.

Claudia Smolka über ihre Ziegenkäserei und die Folgen des Höfesterbens

India is hedging between energy security and strategic partnerships.Despite pressure from the United States, it has continued buying cheap Russian oil and has recently strengthened economic ties with Russia — from trade to weapons and critical minerals.But this is a delicate balancing act for Prime ...

In Boden und Grundwasser leben jede Menge bislang unbeschriebene Arten. Eine Forschungsinitiative will sie katalogisieren

The stock market is touching near all-time highs, while Americans’ credit scores are hitting an all-time low. Indicators of a dynamic business environment couldn’t be further from a realistic picture of ordinary citizens’ economic position.Nvidia is not just the chip supplier of the technology secto ...

Western states would like to move on as if the Gaza genocide never happened, even though Israel is still terrorizing the Palestinian people. But the legal cases holding Israel and its leaders accountable are going ahead despite their best efforts.Israel is on trial for genocide at the International ...

Heglig is Sudan’s largest oilfield and also the main processing facility for neighbouring South Sudan [File: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters]

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A baby girl whose family was displaced by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has died overnight in a flooded tent as fierce weather conditions persist. “It kept raining, and the cold was getting worse. Suddenly, I found my little baby motionless, dead,” the infant’s mother told Al Jazeera.

A baby girl whose family is displaced by the genocide has died overnight in a flooded tent as fierce weather conditions persist. “It kept raining, and the cold was getting worse. Suddenly, I found my little baby motionless, dead,” the infant’s mother told Al Jazeera.

Palestinian Civil Defence says families forcibly displaced by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza now trapped in flooded tents as heavy rains hit the southern part of the Strip. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says Palestinians have been left to freeze and starve in Gaza as Storm Byron hits and ...

The head of an anti-Hamas faction, Hussam al-Astal, fires a weapon in the air as he is surrounded by masked gunmen, in an Israeli-held area in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, in this screenshot taken from a video released November 21, 2025 [Reuters]

A Palestinian family battles floods after a storm hits Gaza [Maram Humaid/Al Jazeera]

Women in Homs, Syria, walk past a wall with a graffiti reading in Arabic 'We will remain here until al-Assad is gone' on November 21 [Omar Sanadiki/AP Photo]

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 president isn’t picking sides in the battle to own Warner Bros. Discovery—at least not yet. On Frid ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the absurd Peace Prize awarded to Donald Trump by FIFA. David discusses how the invented prize reflects what FIFA understands about our president—that ...

Around the 1920s, a certain class of parents—those with enough money to indulge their kids from time to time—started to panic. Toy companies and trinket manufacturers were buffeting kids with ads, and children were pestering their parents for gifts. Many parents wanted their kids to have these new l ...

Syrian army soldiers march during a parade marking the first anniversary of the ousting of the Bashar Al-Assad regime in Damascus, Syria, December 8, 2025. [File: Ahmad Fallaha/EPA]

A company that most people have never heard of is among the year’s best-performing technology firms—and a symbol of the complex, interconnected, and potentially catastrophic ways in which AI companies do business these days.CoreWeave’s IPO in March was the largest of any tech start-up since 2021, an ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference [File: Yamam Al Shaar/Reuters]

After finishing on top of their group in the opening round of the 2025 FIFA Arab Cup, Palestine will look to continue their historic run when they face Saudi Arabia at Lusail Stadium on Thursday.The Palestinian side also defied the odds to reach the knockout stages of the AFC Asian Cup for the first ...

For months, Hollywood has fretted about the possible acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, home to one of the industry’s most storied studios. The likeliest buyer seemed to be one of its chief rivals, Paramount, a legacy movie company suddenly flush with cash and power under its new owner, David El ...

Al-Fascher ist »Schauplatz eines massiven Verbrechens«, sagt ein Forscher der Universität Yale

Vorsteher eines Dorfes im Norden Kameruns erhält den Nansen-Flüchtlingspreis des UNHCR

Einzelne Betriebe geben schon auf, weil es an Meistern, Gesellen und Lehrlingen fehlt

Kampagnen der Regierung in Jerusalem zielen auch auf linke Politiker in Deutschland

On a warm night in August 2023, Oleksandr Kubrakov, then a senior minister in Ukraine’s wartime government, had just settled into a sleeper car on the eastbound train from Lviv to Kyiv when he got a call from the country’s main intelligence agency, the SBU. Its agents had deployed a set of naval dro ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScIDay 10 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Cosmic Tornado. The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of Herbig-Haro 49/50, about 630 light-years from Earth. Energetic jets from a nearby newly-forming star are plowing into a region of dense gas and dust, heati ...

Anton Benz über den Kabinettsbeschluss für ein Gesetz gegen Einschüchterungsklagen

In dem Städtchen auf der Halbinsel Peloponnes ist die Erinnerung an ein Massaker der deutschen Wehrmacht präsent

Maria Neuhauss über die europäische Klimapolitik

Zum Rücktritt des Brandenburger Landesvorsitzenden Walter

Updated at 11:13 a.m. ET on December 11, 2025After campaigning on promises to end American entanglements overseas, Donald Trump announced a mere month after winning the 2024 presidential election that the United States’ “ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity” for “National Secu ...

Beschäftigte von freien Trägern protestieren gegen die Kürzungspläne des Senats

Radiohead spielten das erste von vier Berlin-Konzerten: Eine triumphale Best-of-Show der letzten 30 Jahre

Dem 35-Jährigen werden unangemessenes Verhalten und ausstehende Zahlungen vorgeworfen

Etwa 60 Menschen demons­trierten in Leipzig gegen eine kontro­verse Kündigung

Bezirk hat Asog-Unterkunft in Schöneberg aufgelöst

Die ukrainische Abgeordnete steht im Visier von Korruptionsermitttlungen

Heinrich XIII. Prinz Reuß, Hauptangeklagter im Frankfurter »Reichsbürger«-Prozess, bestreitet Gewaltpläne

The remarkable story of Deportivo Palestino, the Chilean football club founded more than a century ago by Palestinian migrants and still driven by identity, memory and resistance.Opening with Palestino’s appearance in the Copa Libertadores, it blends history, community and high-stakes football throu ...

Das Berliner Musiktheaterkollektiv Nico and the Navigators hat sich Heiner Müllers »Quartett« vorgenommen

Wolfgang Becker zeigt in seinem letzten Film »Der Held vom Bahnhof Friedrichstraße«, dass das Ostklischee nicht totzukriegen ist

Partei geht von politischen Gründen aus

Vorweihnachtszeit in der sonst so quirligen Lagunenstadt: »Stille Nacht« und lange Schatten in den Gassen

Nobody our reporter spoke to in Damascus wants Bashar al-Assad back [AFP]

Bezirksamt ersetzt gestohlene Bronzeplatten an der Gedenkstätte der Sozialisten

Sebastian Weiermann über die neue US-Sicherheitsstrategie

Nach dem Feuer im U9-Bahnhof Schloßstraße leidet der Handel und es stellen sich Sicherheitsfragen

Die Lebkuchen-Spezialität hat Kriege, Knappheit und neue Ideen erfolgreich überstanden

A drone picture shows the destruction after an explosion at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, August 5, 2020 [Hussein Malla/AP]

American democracy seems to be falling into an ever greater crisis. A lottocratic system, in which citizens are randomly selected to serve as legislators, could empower ordinary people and stem political dysfunction.A “lottocracy,” a lottery-based political system, could better serve the values of d ...

Gespräch mit Vesna Madariaga und Karina Nohales vom feministischen Dachverband »Coordinadora Feminista 8 de Marzo« aus Chile

Bei der Stichwahl in Chile ist der rechte Kandidat José Antonio Kast Favorit. Er orientiert sich an ökonomischen Positionen aus der Zeit der Diktatur

Die neue Nationale Sicherheitsstrategie der USA setzt auf europäische »Patrioten«

Der Weihnachtsmarktbesuch ist für viele unbezahlbar geworden. Negin Behkam ärgert sich über Berlins Verwandlung öffentlicher Räume in exklusive Zonen.

Gewerkschaften rufen zu Generalstreik gegen neoliberale Arbeitsmarktreform

Wie klingt Dekolonialisierung? Das Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin widmet sich der Afrodiaspora

Publicity material for Googoosh: A Sinful Voice, a new memoir by the Iranian singer in exile, calls her a predecessor to Beyoncé and Madonna—a comparison that might seem over-the-top to American readers but in fact sells her short. Googoosh, born Faegheh Atashin, is indeed the greatest pop star in I ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.In 1982, when the Voting Rights Act was up for reauthorization, the Reagan Justice Department had a goal: preserve the VRA in name only, while rendering it unenforceable in practice. A young John Roberts was the ...

Christian Klemm über ein Social-Media-Verbot in Australien

Noah Baumbach and George Clooney’s Jay Kelly is a Netflix dramedy about the death of Hollywood stardom and the theatrical experience. Ironically, with Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros., the call is definitely coming from inside the house. If Netflix has its way, the communal theatrical experienc ...

Israeli soldiers walk during a military operation in the town of Qalqiya, in the occupied West Bank, on December 4, 2025 [File: AFP]

My relationship with carbon-steel knives began with a lie. When I was in graduate school a few years ago, I walked into a schmancy New York City knife shop, determined to buy a lithe 210-millimeter Suisin Gyuto. But the clerk didn’t want to sell it to me. The poor man had quite evidently been trauma ...

In 2011, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair openly opposed Palestine’s bid for full UN membership [File: Toby Melville/Getty Images] Many actors involved in negotiations to end Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and begin its reconstruction breathed a collective sigh of relief when it was announced ...

Donald Trump hates the neocons. He’ll tell you so himself.In a speech in Saudi Arabia in May, Trump criticized past American presidents for being “afflicted with the notion that it’s our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice for their sins,” mocking “s ...

Backed by Silicon Valley–aligned venture capital and legal loopholes, prediction markets are creeping into every corner of life. They turn everything from measles outbreaks to government resignations to famine into opportunities for predatory speculation.Kalshi enjoys the protection of a legal looph ...

Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service / GettyCurtis Evans, of Evanston, carries an American flag through gas that was deployed by federal officers as they cleared protesters from the entrance of the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, on September 19, 2025. Evans said he was a Mar ...

Eintracht Frankfurt schlägt sich wacker bei Niederlage

Supporters of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in the coastal port city of Aden. [AFP]

As strange as it may sound, Zohran Mamdani’s new policy on halal cart licenses would lay the groundwork to democratize ownership through cooperatives — an approach that could finally help make New York City affordable again.One way Zohran Mamdani wants to improve the well-being of New Yorkers is to ...

Arzneimittelausgaben der gesetzlichen Kassen auf Rekordhoch – neue Regulierung nötig

As Amazon rolls out its millionth robot on the warehouse floor, it is important to recognize that the company is not any closer to ridding itself of the burden of human labor. Amazon can still be unionized.There is no employment apocalypse coming at Amazon. The near future of “efficiency gains” will ...

Senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal speaks to Al Jazeera Arabic about peace efforts with Israel [Screengrab: Al Jazeera Arabic]

Emergency personnel carry the body of a victim after two buildings collapsed in Fes, Morocco [AFP]

A strong labor movement demanded unified elites. Organized business in turn kept the GOP’s madness contained to ensure a favorable business climate. Today the Republican Party’s descent into chaos is a product of capitalist fragmentation.Donald Trump’s chaotic reign is the culmination of a decades-l ...

Palestinians struggle with flooding after heavy rain hits the Abu Marhil camp in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City, Gaza, on December 10, 2025 [Hamza ZH Qraiqea/Anadolu] As Storm Byron approaches, flash floods, strong winds and hail are forecast throughout Palestine, including in war-torn G ...

Palestinians struggle with flooding after heavy rain hits the Abu Marhil camp in the Zeitoun neighburhood in Gaza City, Gaza on December 10, 2025. [Hamza ZH Qraiqea/Anadolu] As Storm Byron approaches, flash floods, strong winds and hail are forecast throughout Palestine, including the war-torn G ...

The war in Sudan has displaced millions and triggered a serious humanitarian crisis [File: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]

(Al Jazeera) The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026.Income is not much different, where the top 50 percent of earners take home more than 90 percent, while the poorest half of th ...

Hermannus Pfeiffer über den neuen Bericht zur weltweiten Ungleichheit

Internally displaced Palestinians walk among the ruins of destroyed buildings in the Al Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza Strip, 08 December 2025 [Mohammed Saber/.EPA] The catastrophic violence in Gaza has unfolded within an international system that was never designed to restrain the ...

Buildings lie in ruins amid the rubble in Rafah, in southern Gaza, December 8, 2025 [Nir Elias/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.The president of the United States can expect to face tough questions, but one that ABC’s Rachel Scott ...

For nearly three years, Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, was a ChatGPT devotee. Then, late last month, he abruptly converted to Google’s chatbot, Gemini. “Holy shit,” he wrote on X. “I’ve used ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I’m not going back. The leap is insane.” ...

The Atlantic and Prologue Entertainment—the independent production studio founded by Lloyd Braun, Sarah Bremner, and Noah Oppenheim, and backed by RedBird Capital Partners—have entered into an exclusive first-look agreement to develop films and series based on The Atlantic’s journalism. As part of t ...

If the U.S. Agency for International Development is a front for the CIA, we’re about to find out all about it. A new official inside the agency is prepared to blow the lid off the whole conspiracy.That official is Mike Benz, a right-wing influencer who popularized the notion that Taylor Swift is a s ...

Soldiers from Sudan's Rapid Support Forces patrol in Garawee, north of Sudan, on June 15, 2019 [File: AP Photo]

Former British prime minister Tony Blair speaks at a session during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 22, 2025 [File: AFP]

Yesterday, Alina Habba turned—where else?—to X, the Trump administration’s second-favorite social-media app, to announce her resignation from a job she did not legally hold. She had “decided to step down” as the top prosecutor in New Jersey, she wrote, after an appeals court ruled last week that she ...

Nein! Karlen Vesper bedauert den Ausgang des Arena-Auftritts von Friedrich Merz in der ARD

Damascus, Syria – By the time the red sun slipped beyond the horizon, the playground was empty except for one little girl, nine-year-old Fouziah Alalawi, who stood staring at the bend where her father always appeared to pick her up from school.It was February 20, 2013, and war had become the backgro ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScIDay 9 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Cosmic Cat’s Paw. Emission nebula NGC 6334, otherwise known as the Cat’s Paw Nebula, lies about 4,000 light-years away. Instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope recently took a detailed look at one of its “toe beans,” a s ...

Geplante »Rückkehrzentren« für abgelehnte Asylbewerber kosten extrem viel Geld und verletzen Menschenrechte

In Australien steht Asyl wieder im politischen Fokus, auch durch einen Aufschwung der Rechtspopulisten

EU-Innenminister einigen sich auf verschärfte Regeln im Asylsystem

Jobcenter sollen höhere Mieten nur im Einzelfall übernehmen, Ausnahmen gibt es viele

The first time I visited Japan, I couldn’t help noticing all of the things that it does better than the United States. I rode bullet trains that top out at 200 miles an hour and spotted vending machines that serve fresh fruits and vegetables. But the worst part was the car envy: Why are America’s ci ...

Mohamed Salah was left out of the Liverpool squad for their latest UEFA Champions League game [Phil Noble/Reuters]

Menschen mit geringerem Einkommen rutschen durch Mieten leichter unter Armutsgrenze

Trotz wachsender Zahl von Professorinnen bleiben Hochschulen ein Ort der Ungleichheit

Positioned between major power blocs, Brazil sits at the center of debates on geopolitics, development, and the green transition. In an interview, left-wing finance minister Fernando Haddad assesses domestic political trends and Brazil’s place in the global economy.Finance Minister Fernando Haddad m ...

Potsdamer Kino Thalia setzte Film und Gespräch zu Kriegsverbrechen in Gaza ab

Die Weltausstellung 2035 soll laut einem Verein in Berlin stattfinden

Frauen beschuldigen Polizisten in Nürnberg, sie gezielt gewürgt zu haben. Eine Videoreihe soll aufklären

Für den Bürokomplex in der Kirchstraße hatte der Staat bislang fünf Millionen Euro Miete im Jahr gezahlt

Reporter ohne Grenzen: 67 Journalisten in einem Jahr getötet

Weil der BVB zwar erfolgreich, aber nicht schön spielt, herrscht im Team und im Verein Uneinigkeit

Ruta Dreyer über Agenten der Abschottung, die sich in Brüssel trafen

Lage zwischen Thailand und Kambodscha spitzt sich zu

Richtige Lagerung – kühl, trocken und lichtgeschützt – sorgt für gute Haltbarkeit

Laura Laabs erzählt in »Adlergestell« von Umbruchzeiten aus Kindersicht

Zwei historische Romane, die in den 1930er Jahren in Hamburg spielen und sehr aktuell wirken

Lanna Idriss über die Verletzung der Grundrechte von Minderjährigen und Möglichkeiten zu ihrem Schutz

Editor’s Note: Find all of  The Atlantic’s “Best of 2025” coverage here. Great cinema has never died, but there’s something particularly heartening about the fact that it survived 2025. Looking back at this turbulent year, rife with the usual industry concerns over the viability of the theatrical ex ...

Yemenis supporters of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in the coastal port city of Aden on December 8, 2025 [AFP]

In Berlin bestreikt die Gewerkschaft GEW elf Kreuzberger Schulen

Buildings lie in ruins amidst the rubble in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 8, 2025 [Nir Elias/Reuters] This live page is closed.

Nicole Mayer-Ahuja über das Rentenpaket der schwarz-roten Koalition

Dem Betreiber gelangen erstmals Filmaufnahmen von den strahlenden Abfällen im Ex-Bergwerk Asse

Gelassen und aufgeschlossen: Der eigensinnige Expressionist Otto Mueller in der Berliner Galerie Nierendorf

It’s been 70 years since Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American was published. Greene’s scathing picture of US foreign policy and the men who carry it out enraged American critics, but the history of the last seven decades has vindicated his perspective.As the American war intensified, the antiwar ...

Nichole Ayers / NASAOn July 3, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an amazing image of a sprite, a rarely photographed weather phenomenon, as the International Space Station passed above a storm over Mexico. Ayers wrote: “Sprites are TLEs, or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the ...

Die Zukunftsforscherin Florence Gaub will den Deutschen die Geheimdienste näherbringen und schlägt dafür Agententhriller vor.

Zwischen Japan und China nehmen die Spannungen zu. Eine Lösung des Konflikts ist nicht in Sicht

In college football, one rule seems to always hold: When a player leverages his power, it’s a scandal. When a coach does the same thing, it’s just business as usual.That dynamic is now playing out in the response to the decision of the longtime University of Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin to leave th ...

What comes after Donald Trump? What compelling social vision can replace MAGA’s offerings and reverse the tide of global populism? In considering these questions, I find myself returning to an unlikely group of 20th-century thinkers: the neoconservatives.These days, when people hear the word neocons ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.“Jolly morning!” is a weird way to be greeted, no matter the context. But it rang out, like birdsong, from behind the counter of a fast-food joint I visited in the Los Angeles suburbs in May. Although the restau ...

This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks LikeIn the September issue, Anne Applebaum documented the anarchy and greed of Sudan’s devastating civil war.I have studied Sudan all of my adult life. I lived there in 1980 and wrote my doctoral dissertation on Sudanese foreign policy. It’s a co ...

Co-filed by then-senator J. D. Vance, a GOP-backed lawsuit aims to erode some of the last remaining limits on unfettered election spending.Even amid unprecedented levels of billionaire and corporate spending, the GOP and their corporate backers claim that big donors still aren’t being heard. (Kent N ...

With the rise of AI slop and overall “enshittification,” it is increasingly the case that the internet is failing to address the public’s needs. What we need is sewer socialism for the digital realm — and it can start at the municipal level.Community-owned ISPs generally provide cheaper entry-level ...

Die Volksbühne am Berliner Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz hat mit »Proprietà privata« zum Krippenspiel geladen

Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders spoke to a gathering of over a hundred democratic socialist elected officials. Here’s what he said.“You gotta do your job. And if you do your job well, people will give you the latitude to talk about many, many other issues.” — Bernie Sanders’s advice to his fellow e ...

Balancing the smooth running of local government with a bold reform agenda, as Zohran Mamdani will have to do in New York, isn’t easy. Spain’s recent experiments with left local governance offer some lessons on how (and how not) to do it.(Alberto Paredes / Europa Press via Getty Images)Zohran Mamdan ...

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.Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI, took an awkward victory lap last week. The bureau notched ...

“In life there are two tragedies,” Oscar Wilde once said. “One is not getting what one wants. The other is getting it.” The second tragedy was what I saw last night at the Kennedy Center Honors.For as long as I can remember, I have been obsessed with the Kennedy Center Honors, a strange, D.C.-based ...

Every once in a while, a state or city discovers a new and better way to educate poor children. Inevitably, a group of skeptics arises to insist that this new way doesn’t work, that even attempting to shrink the gap between rich and poor students is a fool’s errand.Strangely enough, these skeptics t ...

Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy reveals an administration that is preparing for the wrong dangers and in denial about genuine threats. What the White House presented on Friday as a hardheaded, realistic assessment of the geopolitical landscape more closely resembles France’s Maginot Li ...

Maria Neuhauss über längere Lebensarbeitszeit für Akademiker

Wolfgang Hübner zur Reue von Markus Söder und Klaus Ernst über Asyl- und Migrationsbeschlüsse

Bundeskanzler belässt es bei zahnlosen Appellen für Verhandlungen um Zweistaatenlösung

ESA / Hubble & NASA, A. Nota, P. Massey, E. Sabbi, C. Murray, M. ZamaniDay 8 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Sculpted by Stellar Winds. NGC 346 is a young star cluster about 200,000 light-years away, in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This image combines Hubble observations made at infr ...

Cyrus Salimi-Asl zur unsicheren Waffenruhe im Gazastreifen

Wer in Deutschland wohnt, wohnt nicht gleich. Das ist das Fazit des ersten umfassenden Berichts zu Rassismus und Wohnverhältnissen im Land

Der Streit um eine geplante Stadtbahn prägte den Oberbürgermeister-Wahlkampf in Kiel

Initiative Sichere Orte Südbrandenburg reiht jüngstes Vorkommnis in eine Reihe rechter Übergriffe ein

Im Programm »African Girls Can Code« lernen Mädchen in Uganda den Umgang mit dem Computer und entdecken neue Möglichkeiten

Brandenburgs Rechnungshof rügt Verschwendung an der Europa-Universität Viadrina

Andreas Fritsche zur Verschwendung von Steuermitteln

Der rastlose Schreiberkunder Klaus Bellin wird 90 und veröffentlicht mit »Was bleibet aber« ein neues Buch über widersprüchliche DDR-Literaten

Clare M. Mehta, an Emmanuel College psychology professor, was livid. She was on a committee for hearing graduate students defend their dissertations, and she had planned meticulously to accommodate their next Zoom. She had a two-month-old daughter, no child care, a working husband, and just enough t ...

Illustrations by Adam MaidaI. THE GAMEIn December 2011, the CIA lost control of a stealth drone near the Iranian city of Kashmar, about 140 miles from the Afghanistan border, and it wound up in the regime’s possession. On state television, the Iranian military displayed the boomerang-shaped craft li ...

After a Southwest Airlines software meltdown stranded two million customers over Christmas three years ago, the Department of Transportation imposed a $140 million fine. The Trump administration just let the airline off the hook for its remaining payments.The Biden administration imposed a record-se ...

Fourteen years after Occupy Wall Street, Zohran Mamdani’s campaign radiated the spirit of the 99 percent: The mayor-elect promised to pay for free buses and universal child care by raising corporate taxes and increasing the city income tax by 50 percent for New Yorkers earning $1 million a year—roug ...

If you had to sum up Frank Gehry’s career in a single word, the obvious choice would be Bilbao. The architect’s design for an outpost of the Guggenheim Museum in the northern Spanish city didn’t simply open in 1997—it detonated. Practically overnight, its billowing, titanium-sheathed forms helped tr ...

On the Friday after Thanksgiving, Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, made a claim that shocked the public-health establishment. “For the first time,” he wrote in a leaked email to his staff, “the US FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children.” The agency ha ...

Updated at 11:35 a.m. ET on December 8, 2025For a decade after its discovery, CRISPR gene editing was stuck on the cusp of transforming medicine. Then, in 2023, scientists started using it on sickle-cell disease, and Victoria Gray, a  patient who lived with constant pain—like lightning inside her bo ...

We have a housing crisis, as you probably, painfully, know. Wouldn’t you like to have someone to blame for it?The United States is short 4 million housing units, with a particular dearth of starter homes, moderately priced apartments in low-rises, and family-friendly dwellings. Interest rates are hi ...

This summer, after hearing about an interview I’d done on artificial intelligence, a relative sent me an email. It started, “I hope you’re doing well,” and went on, “I’m truly impressed by how you thoughtfully balanced the benefits of AI—like enhancing creativity, aiding multilingual communication, ...

After 40 years of struggle, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement is now at nearly two million members and taking center stage in the fight for democracy and equality. It’s done that by flying the most unlikely militant banner of all: organic food.Flying the unlikely banner of organic food, the MST su ...

Loic Venance / AFP / GettyA woman takes photographs in front of the Maraya (or “Mirror”), the world’s largest mirrored building, designed by Florian Boje, in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, on January 27, 2025.Alcides Antunes / ReutersFlames rise from a Tesla Cybertruck following an explosion outside of the Tr ...

Reporting from Fallujah, Jacobin documents how US-made weapons laced with toxic metals and depleted uranium have turned cities razed by war into biohazards. Soil, bodies, and whole generations are being poisoned in their wake.Lubna Thaer, an artist who was born with deformities, pictured outside her ...

Love requires attention, affection, and reciprocal flow — a natural cycle of giving and receiving. Capitalism can easily commodify the first two, but the third resists the market. That’s precisely why our economic system is so determined to destroy it.While attention and affection can be bought and ...

There is a widespread feeling that the living standard of the average American has declined since the mid-20th century. This is false — but it reflects the reality that it is now much harder for single-earner families to afford a mainstream lifestyle.In 1963, a family surviving solely off a median m ...

Khalid Bakdash became the first communist MP in any Arab country when he was elected to the Syrian parliament in the 1950s. Bakdash’s party was once a major political force, but it faded into irrelevance after forming a coalition with the ruling Baʿathists.Khalid Bakdash became the most significant ...

In a sketch from last night’s Saturday Night Live, the cast member Andrew Dismukes played a suburban husband who threw a successful dinner party. As he basked in the company of his friends, he proposed a sweet, well-intentioned idea.“Guys,” he said. “Am I crazy? We should do this, like, every Sunday ...

ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler Day 7 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Warped View Through an Einstein Ring. You are seeing two galaxies here, one in front of the other. The more distant spiral galaxy appears warped and distorted due to the gravitational lensing occurring around ...

Maybe a pay-phone in France would still reach you; in the South; in the third or second life. Still then as a teenager, bloodless and senseless, skidding another riven diagram into the dust. Now even staggered into fake quietude I can’t believe there is no causeway to the dead. Why should there not ...

Chris Hani, the South African Communist who led the ANC’s military wing, was assassinated in April 1993 before seeing the liberation he had fought for. The loss of Hani and his socialist perspective was a major blow to the new South Africa.Chris Hani remained loyal to socialist ideals when many of h ...

A few days ago I called Oleksandr Abakumov, a senior detective at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. I wanted to ask him about his investigation into a kickback scheme in his country’s energy industry. While we were talking, I got interested in Abakumov himself. As he was explaining his ...

Donald Trump recaptured the White House in part by relentlessly exploiting Joe Biden’s failure to heed widespread concerns about the rising cost of living. Now, bizarrely, President Trump is walking himself—and his party—into the same perilous trap by denying the economic reality that working famili ...

A former CIA station chief revered by Miami’s anti-Castro circles now faces prison as an unregistered foreign agent. His path from Cold War covert ops to selling secrets says a lot about the political machinery he came from.A man waves a Cuban flag and a poster as Cuban Americans gather at the Orang ...

A “flaming abolitionist” of lesser fame, William Goodell was praised by Frederick Douglass for being among the most important opponents of slavery in his time. He articulated a radical moral vision: a political theology of hope grounded in justice and reason.Abolitionist William Goodell saw slavery ...

From its origins in 1955 as a US-sponsored bulwark against the Left, the conservative Liberal Democratic Party has dominated Japanese politics for seven decades. It now faces a new electoral challenge from parties of the populist, xenophobic right.Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party is easily the most ...

Few economists have had a greater impact on the way we talk about global trade and China’s role in the world economy than Michael Pettis. He spoke to Jacobin about Donald Trump’s tariffs and why inequality is at the heart of the trade war.Liberals often dismiss Donald Trump’s trade war as irrational ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NASA-JPL, Caltech, UCLADay 6 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Shell of a Dying Star. About 1,500 light-years from Earth, a dying star at the heart of planetary nebula NGC 1514 is performing a spectacular final act. One of a pair of binary stars has been sheddin ...

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.“Talking about politics at our family gatherings can be like smoking a cigarette at a gas station—the ...

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. This week, the acting inspector general of ...

When Mad Men arrived on HBO Max earlier this week, after years languishing on the less-subscribed-to AMC+ service, the streamer’s parent company, Warner Bros., heralded it as a triumph. Finally, the much-acclaimed Emmy magnet would be available to watch in glorious 4K resolution; viewers would now h ...

Photographs and videos by Owen HarveyThe week before the biggest bullfight of her career, in Cádiz, Spain, this past July, 24-year-old Miriam Cabas posted a carefully produced video on Instagram. Cabas appears not in a traditional matador costume but in a cream pantsuit, watching a little girl—4, ma ...

The lexicographers at the Oxford University Press seem to be punking us. In 2015, their “word” of the year was “😂.” In 2023, rizz. In 2024, brain rot. And now the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary have chosen rage bait. As I write this, the spell-check bot has underlined many of these wor ...

At a time when theater is prohibitively expensive for the vast majority, the theater company Working Theater partners with labor unions to recreate a working-class theater for the 21st century.Cedric Lamar, Sara Ornelas, C. K. Edwards, Xiaoqing Zhang, and Jessica Ranville (L-R) in Songs About Trains ...

Donald Trump still doesn’t seem to have learned a thing about the Russian dictator he calls a friend. He’s tried all kinds of contradictory gambits in pursuit of peace in Ukraine: welcoming Vladimir Putin in Alaska, helping Kyiv blow up Russian oil refineries, offering Russia land it hasn’t been abl ...

On Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s trip to Asia last month, Air Force leadership issued an unusual directive: Keep him from seeing a service member with a beard. The instruction was surreal, the kind of stage management usually reserved for celebrities with eccentric phobias. Yet for Hegseth, fa ...

A century ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, changing the course of the 20th century and forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.“Living conditions among the poor during depression & pullman strike, Chicago” (Library ...

Nuclear energy is still regarded with skepticism. But nuclear power’s critics wildly overstate its dangers, and preserving and expanding this energy source is essential to a just green transition.The transition away from fossil fuels cannot be accomplished by renewable energy alone. We need nuclear ...

Because capitalism orients people toward profit rather than allowing us to pursue our interests freely, it inevitably separates humans from the creative act. AI art is just the slop frothing up from that gap.Humanoid "artist" robot Ai-Da looks on in front of paintings of Britain's King Charles III a ...

Europe’s conservative politicians are increasingly obsessed with online culture wars rather than broad projects for society. It reflects a postmodern shift in which once deep-rooted party organizations are replaced by skirmishes on social media.Flowers and candles are seen at a makeshift memorial fo ...

To get Atlantic Trivia in your inbox every day, sign up for The Atlantic Daily — and don’t forget to check Instagram Stories tomorrow for more questions.Monday, December 8, 2025 The moviemaking industry known as Nollywood is based in what country that is the most populous of its continent? The ven ...

The suspected drug traffickers, the lone survivors of a U.S. airstrike, were sprawled on a table-size piece of floating wreckage in the Caribbean for more than 40 minutes. They were unarmed, incommunicado, and adrift as they repeatedly attempted to right what remained of their boat. At one point, th ...

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.President Donald Trump has promised not only that America will be “great again” but also that it will b ...

Catalina Jaramillo is beginning to envision what her life in South Florida will look like without the financial help that allows her to afford health insurance, medication, and treatment for a series of ailments. Jaramillo has been insured through the Affordable Care Act since being diagnosed with a ...

Updated with new questions at 4:50 p.m. ET on December 5, 2025.I have much extolled here the value of new knowledge. Let us now hear a counterargument: Some months after Yale gave Mark Twain an honorary degree in 1888, the writer’s schedule cleared up enough for him to pull together a speech advisin ...

The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy has landed, with not so much a thud as a kind of greasy flutter. Most of the document consists of bombast, sycophancy, lies, inconsistencies, and grotesque self-contradictions. But it also—and this is something missed by the deservedly conte ...

Updated at 4:33 p.m. ET on December 5, 2025In case there was any doubt before, it’s now undeniable that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allies are in charge of the country’s vaccine policy. The latest evidence: His handpicked vaccine advisory committee voted today to scrap the decades-old guidance that all ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books.This year’s Atlantic 10—our list of the best books of 2025—is an attempt to celebrate writing that “distinguishes itself as worth reading and remembering for years to come.” I think we’ve accomplished that. But ...

Steve Cropper, who died Wednesday at 84, is not a household name, but the music he made is some of the most familiar in American pop. The twanging guitar line that opens Sam & Dave’s “Soul Man”—that’s him. Same for the chugging riff on Wilson Pickett’s “In the Midnight Hour” and the chopping rhy ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel explores the strange, unsettling relationships some people are having with AI chatbots, as well as what happens when those relationships go off the rails. His guest is Kashmir Hill, a technology report ...

ESA / Hubble & NASA, A. FilippenkoDay 5 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Colorful Stars of All Ages. About 100 million light-years away, spiral galaxy NGC 6000 is home to countless stars across its disc, which is approximately 66,600 light-years wide. The stars toward the center tend ...

FIFA’s newly announced peace prize for Donald Trump is a craven act of stroking his ego. The 2026 World Cup is shaping up to be among the worst cases yet of sports bending to politics.Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw 2026 World Cup matches from cities with hostile Democratic mayors. Rather th ...

This summer, President Donald Trump told my colleague Michael Scherer that “America First” means whatever he decides it means. Now—as he blows up boats near Venezuela, amasses military assets near its coast, calls for the closure of its airspace, and tries to oust its leader—he is testing the limits ...

President Gustavo Petro’s efforts to halt the genocide in Gaza have brought Colombia into conflict with the neoliberal order. To hold Israel accountable, nations will have to challenge their free-trade agreements and reclaim their economic sovereignty.Gustavo Petro has severed diplomatic ties with I ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Like many other components of our constitutional system meant to restrain an overreaching executive, the Senate power of “advice and consent” on the president’s nominees is in a state of disrepair. Earl ...

Critics of crime fiction dismiss the genre as hopelessly reactionary, but its history tells a different story. From hard-boiled American detective novels to the explosion of Scandi-noir, crime fiction has been deeply influenced by socialist writers.Humphrey Bogart stars as private detective Sam Spad ...

There was no good reason to be thinking about NFL history when the Dallas Cowboys took on the Las Vegas Raiders a couple of weeks ago. Neither team had a winning record at the time, and the score was never close after halftime. But as the game stretched on that Monday night, the sportswriter and vid ...

Illustrations by Nicolás OrtegaThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The historian Rob Boddice sat cross-legged on his couch in Montreal on a frigid day last winter and conjured for me the image of a medieval carpenter, hammering away in his worksho ...

The Trump administration is working to privatize a legal defense program for tens of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children, opening the door for a for-profit ICE technology contractor to take over in partnership with Angelina Jolie’s NGO.After a failed attempt earlier this year to eliminate ...

Tyrone Siu / ReutersWong, a 71-year-old retiree, reacts after saying that his wife was trapped inside Wang Fuk Court during a major fire, in Tai Po, Hong Kong, on November 26, 2025. Wong had stepped out to pick up his granddaughter from school, returning to discover the apartment complex on fire. Hi ...

Time and again, New York City’s dependence on the rich and private corporations has led it into fiscal crisis. As mayor, Zohran Mamdani has the opportunity to start building an economic base that better serves the needs of the city’s working class.Zohran Mamdani can reveal the true costs of New York ...

Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.Under the Trump administration, an assortment of conservative and far-right organizations are currently in the process of mapp ...

The launch of a new party was meant to reenergize the British left. But Your Party’s founding conference showed a Left that had forgotten the outward-facing mass politics of the Corbyn-era Labour Party.Jeremy Corbyn, Ayoub Khan, and Zarah Sultana on stage at the end of the Your Party conference at t ...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Sometime in the next 15 days, the Justice Department is set to release a huge cache of files related to ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.The report from the Pentagon’s inspector general’s investigation into Signalgate, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s transmission of the details of a U.S. military option in Yemen to a group on Signal— ...

Before Sam Kirchner vanished, before the San Francisco Police Department began to warn that he could be armed and dangerous, before OpenAI locked down its offices over the potential threat, those who encountered him saw him as an ordinary, if ardent, activist.Phoebe Thomas Sorgen met Kirchner a few ...

Today The Atlantic is announcing that Michael Leibel will join as senior editor for community. Michael begins on Monday, and will lead efforts to engage with our readers more closely, including building a larger forum for conversation on the website and app. Michael spent the past eight years at Blo ...

In the months leading up to last year’s presidential election, more than 2,000 Americans, roughly split across partisan lines, were recruited for an experiment: Could an AI model influence their political inclinations? The premise was straightforward—let people spend a few minutes talking with a cha ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.Was there ever a time when Americans believed that kids were actually being educated well? A look back through The Atlantic’s archives shows that bouts of optimism are ve ...

All Her Fault contains two dramas. One—melodramatic, Hitchcockian at its best, Lifetime-hacky at its worst—follows all the most generic beats of the airport thriller, starting when Marissa (played by Succession’s Sarah Snook) arrives to pick up her son, Milo, from a playdate at a house where, someho ...

A recent grocery run in Brooklyn left me properly confused. When I approached the registers, little coconut waters in hand, two options presented themselves: I could get in the self-checkout line, in which dozens of headphone-wearing customers thumbed through their phones. Or I could go through the ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out.“When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting,” wrote Winston Churchill in 1922. We have no idea how that project is going for the late British s ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.During a White House meeting on Tuesday, surrounded by his Cabinet, President Donald Trump referred to Somali immigrants as “garbage” and said, “We don’t want them in our country.” No one in Trump’s Cabinet stoo ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Pagan, STScIDay 4 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Star Birth in the Lobster Nebula. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged a region where the radiation and winds from a group of superhot infant stars are blasting and sculpting dense clouds of surroun ...

Chatbots are marketed as great companions, able to answer any question at any time. They’re not just tools, but confidants; they do your homework, write love notes, and, as one recent lawsuit against OpenAI details, might readily answer 1,460 messages from the same manic user in a 48-hour period.Jac ...

Janet Mills, the governor of Maine, is Democratic Party leaders’ choice for the state’s key 2026 Senate race. She has spent her time in office vetoing protections for workers and tenants and taxes on the wealthy.Maine’s two-term governor, Janet Mills, entered the 2026 Democratic primary race last mo ...

Janet Mills, the governor of Maine, is Democratic Party leaders’ choice for the state’s key 2026 Senate race. She has spent her time in office vetoing protections for workers and tenants and taxes on the wealthy.Maine’s two-term governor, Janet Mills, entered the 2026 Democratic primary race last mo ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsAustralia is actually doing this. As of December 10, no one under 16 will be allowed to have an account on TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram, or basically any other platform an average teen might care about. Other countri ...

Deliberating over the Atlantic 10 list is, in some ways, a test of memory. Does a novel we read in January still thrill us? Does the reportage that impressed us midyear still feel surprising when we turn back to it in the fall? We’re asking ourselves, in short, which books have kept our attention, s ...

Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global History.Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the archipelago of capital metastasized as ...

As private health insurers jack up premiums for tens of millions, a majority of Americans now want Medicare for All — even if it entails eliminating private health insurers and raising taxes.A new poll shows a huge majority of Americans now want Medicare for All. (Ronen Tivony / NurPhoto via Getty I ...

Authoritarian leaders like to rally their populations against external threats, and Donald Trump has decided that Venezuela is a perfect candidate. So far, though, the public isn’t buying it.Donlad Trump’s brand of faux-populist authoritarianism requires an external enemy to complement his war again ...

For America’s VC-dominated tech industry, AI hype isn’t just a crazy by-product — it’s a structural part of the US economy in which capital tries to write our destinies. We shouldn’t let it.Hype is nowhere more ubiquitous than in the world of artificial intelligence. (Hector Retamal / AFP via Getty ...

The Trump administration’s proposals for peace in Ukraine sound like a real estate deal, where the United States gets a payoff for handing over Ukrainian land. But with Kyiv’s leverage shrinking, the country may be forced to swallow a grim deal.Russia has made it clear that it remains ready to achie ...

In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District by 22 points. Last night, in a special election to represent the district, the Republican Matt Van Epps won by only nine points, defeating State Representative Aftyn Behn, a Democrat. Trump celebrated ...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Updated at 11:48 a.m. on December 5, 2025Think of the cattle auctioneer’s chant as a prayer. To the unt ...

On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the shocking alleged corruption that has informed President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine and the scandal of the recently proposed “peace plan” by the United States. He goes on to discuss how ...

The lore has by now been recounted many a time: In 2004, Scott and Andrea Swift moved from central Pennsylvania to Nashville so that their 14-year-old daughter, Taylor, could pursue a career in country music. They bought a house on a lake, and Taylor started heading to Music Row after school to work ...

Presidential pardons are in fashion in the United States, even for people who haven’t yet been found guilty of a crime. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a well-known Americanophile. Now he, too, wants a preconviction pardon, a never-go-to-jail card.On Sunday, his lawyers submitted his re ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.For nearly nine months, Trump-administration officials have defended top national-security leaders who shared information in a Signal chat about U.S. strikes in Yemen, first reported by The Atlantic’s editor in ...

ESA / Hubble & NASA, M. Postman, P. KellyDay 3 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Galactic Cluster. More than 100 galaxies can be seen in Galaxy Cluster Abell 209, situated about 2.8 billion light-years away. Though they look close to one another, these galaxies are still separated b ...

Electricity prices are becoming an outsize issue in American politics because they themselves are legitimately outsize. Compared with the cost of consumer goods, which have been rising rapidly over the past few years, electricity prices are climbing even faster, an estimated 13 percent nationwide si ...

Most of us are lucky enough to avoid any direct encounter with the true nature of Donald Trump’s presidency. But over time, abstract nouns such as authoritarianism and xenophobia lose their hard edges with too much use. It can take some personal experience to bring home what the Trump administration ...

On the morning of November 28, Ukrainian law enforcement did something it had never before done in its history: It showed up at the apartment of the head of the president’s office to investigate him for graft.Commentators around the world have noted the strain that an unfolding scandal has put on th ...

The shah of Iran faced a secular opposition that wanted to restore constitutional government. Washington continued to back his dictatorship as it faced mass protests, paving the way for Ruhollah Khomeini to establish a theocratic system after its fall.The pivotal years of 1977 and 1978 coincided wit ...

Julien Delaval / The 12th International Landscape Photographer of the YearThe Golden Valley. Top 101. Vallée de la Clarée, French Alps.Dennis Hualong Zhang / The 12th International Landscape Photographer of the YearSupercell. Winner, Stormy Sky Award. New Mexico.Henrique Murta / The 12th Internation ...

Despite the inherent contradiction between liberalism and extreme ethnic nationalism, many people still refer to themselves as “liberal Zionists.” But when liberal principles come under attack by Israel, they’re nowhere to be found.Israeli soldiers walk behind a tank at the Jenin camp for Palestinia ...

In the simplest terms, an It Girl is a young woman with good looks and beautiful clothes who becomes a fixture of the public sphere by virtue of being herself. It Girls are not socialites, who agitate for relevance and power. It Girls, known to those in the know, just are. Consider the actor Edie Se ...

Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, A House of Dynamite, captures the horror and insanity of nuclear war. But by portraying the US atomic arsenal as an inheritance from the past rather than a product of our own time, it lets our political leaders off the hook.Rebecca Ferguson in A House of Dynamite. (Netfli ...

The Heritage Foundation has had a tough month. President Kevin Roberts’s decision to vigorously defend Tucker Carlson’s platforming of the noted anti-Semite and white nationalist Nick Fuentes has pushed the conservative think tank into a tailspin. One board member, the Princeton professor Robert Geo ...

It is a rare thing to see Josh Shapiro sweat. For all the grief the Pennsylvania governor gets for imitating Barack Obama—the staggered cadence, the side-of-the-mouth delivery for effect—their essential shared trait is self-possession. If Pennsylvania’s governor has a superpower, it is an unflappabi ...

In 1975, Wall Street declared war on New York, sending the city into a fiscal crisis. A forgotten public banking proposal in the state assembly could have stopped it — and put both the city and the country on the path to socialized finance.In 1975, the Speaker of the New York State Assembly, Stanley ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed a $30 million contract last week that moves to convert vacant warehouses into mega detention centers, increasing capacity in the Trump administration’s push to supercharge deportations.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents gather outside an ICE process ...

Emmanuel Macron has been a president for the rich, but his faltering support has also left big business unsure if it can rely on his party. For many French capitalists, the answer is to build up ties with Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National.Key corporate leaders in France are coming to ...

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.Even today, nearly five years later, listening to Donald Trump’s call is shocking.“So look. All I want ...

A recent panel of three US journalists aboard the Gaza aid flotillas say they faced assault and threats from Israeli soldiers — and that the US government did little to help them.Three American journalists captured and detained by Israel while covering the Gaza flotilla detailed how Israeli soldiers ...

Behind South Korea’s economic growth, there’s a system that grinds workers to the bone at every stage of the life cycle, from high school students to retirees. The film Next Sohee dramatizes the impact of that system to devastating effect.Still from Next Sohee. (Zurty Studios, Echelon Studios, Solai ...

The first round of voting in Chile’s general election in November saw the shocking rise of the far right and the collapse of the country’s new left. It’s a crushing but not total defeat for the movement helmed by President Gabriel Boric.Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast on November 16, 2025, ...

Hans-Adam II is Europe’s richest monarch despite ruling one of its tiniest states. The prince of Liechtenstein flaunts his contempt for democracy, blending feudalism and financial capitalism to supply a model for the Right in much bigger countries.By combining Liechtenstein’s feudal heritage with hi ...

The extrajudicial murders carried out by the Trump administration in the Caribbean build on a dangerous power grab forged by Dick Cheney and expanded under Barack Obama.Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are on an extrajudicial killing spree emboldened by powers handed to them by Dick Cheney and Barack O ...

The UK’s Labour government wants to copy Danish measures to make refugees’ status more temporary and even confiscate their valuables. It’s a dangerous policy that will only fuel a race to the right, as it’s already doing in Denmark.Keir Starmer’s new immigration plan includes stopping family reunifi ...

Tech giant RealPage filed a federal lawsuit asserting that AI companies have a free speech right to help landlords collude to raise rents, part of a broader trend of corporations advancing new interpretations of the First Amendment to protect their power.The New York lawsuit from RealPage, which is ...

Socialists’ path to supporting Mayor Zohran Mamdani will build on the strategy that socialists there have developed over the past decade, writes NYC Democratic Socialists of America cochair Grace Mausser.Everyday New Yorkers have the ability and power to run a political operation. (Stephanie Keith / ...

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is touting a trade deal with the UAE. Behind the talk of investment and partnership lies a trade agenda that weakens rights protections, boosts natural gas, and reinforces one of the world’s most repressive states.Mark Carney’s Liberal government is selling its ne ...

If the late Dick Cheney’s Never-Trump rehabilitation is any indication, Larry Summers’s public-facing career is far from over — despite not just his Jeffrey Epstein ties but his principal role in laying waste to America’s working class.Larry Summers was able to lay waste to America’s working class a ...

France Insoumise legislator Emma Fourreau was recently scheduled to speak about the Gaza aid flotillas at Die Linke’s Berlin headquarters, but her talk was canceled. She writes in Jacobin about why speaking up for Palestine is a duty for the Left.Emma Fourreau is a member of the European Parliament ...

In the early years of the AIDS crisis, the US government left people with HIV to fend for themselves. Desperate, they turned to a new and little-understood financial instrument: selling their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash.The political lesson that AIDS activists fought to teach ...

A growing number of states are willing to sell citizenship and the privileges it brings — if you can afford to pay. The lucrative trade in “golden passports” exposes the dark side of capitalist globalization and its unequal valuation of human life.Illustration by Benny Douet.In October 2017, the tin ...

While the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policies may hurt businesses reliant on undocumented labor, the fractured capitalist class won’t stand up to the president.Illustration by Benny Douet.In Donald Trump’s Republican Party, immigration is one of the few issues on which there remain ...

The breakup of Yugoslavia ended one of basketball’s greatest dynasties. A cross-border team could revive that legacy — and model internationalism in a divided world.(Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images)In the storied tradition of global sport, few regions have given us a legacy as rich and influential ...

To prevent economic collapse amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the government unleashed the power it always had. New programs caused hunger, evictions, and child poverty to plummet. Why not just continue them? Because employers thrive on desperation.By 2021, thanks to pandemic-era government policy, the p ...

The Trump administration is taking steps to further deregulate dangerous “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, increasingly ubiquitous chemicals that don’t easily break down and are linked to a wide range of health risks, including cancer and birth defects.While the Department of Health and Human Services’ ...

Giant corporations like ExxonMobil are calling on the Supreme Court to block a California law that would require them to release their emissions and climate records. The argument? It would violate businesses’ free speech.Dan Ammann, president at ExxonMobil Corp., at the ADIPEC conference in Abu Dhab ...

France, like many other European countries, has seen a historic decline of the old workers’ parties. Yet the rise of France Insoumise has ensured the renewal of a dynamic left rooted in popular mobilization.France Insoumise's Jean-Luc Mélenchon was by far the most popular left-wing candidate in the ...

Right-wing nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland only made a selective break with neoliberal economics after the 2008 crash. Their goal was to strengthen domestic capital against foreign competitors without doing anything to empower workers.After the global financial crisis of 2008, Hungary’ ...

Once mocked as unsophisticated, Donald Trump in his second term has put forward an ambitious vision to reshape America. Surrounding the president is a loose network of intellectuals who provide his policies with a philosophy.A new book offers a sweeping tour of the Trump administration’s court philo ...

The rise of Nick Fuentes and the GOP’s radicalization reflects decades of intellectual groundwork and the material decline that pushed a generation toward conspiracy-laden populism.Nick Fuentes is simply a signpost of a shift that began decades earlier, as right-wing dissidents built a vision of far ...

Far too many US public schools suffer from a lack of adequate funding. Solving the problem will require ending public education’s dependence on local property taxes, a funding mechanism that heavily reproduces inequality.Many well-off suburban voters are unwilling to adequately fund public schools o ...

Caught off guard by new proposals to halt the war in Ukraine, European leaders have rejected the idea of Kyiv giving up territory. What’s less clear is how they imagine making their red lines into a reality.The end of US primacy represents a far more dramatic loss of status for Europeans than it doe ...

Peter Thiel recently generated headlines with his rambling diatribes about the Antichrist. Thiel’s lurid, apocalyptic view of world politics may be ludicrous or even deranged, but his wealth and power mean that we can’t afford to ignore it.Tech billionaire Peter Thiel has spent the last two years tr ...

By some measures, the food influencer and wellness economy is worth over $7 trillion. In All Consuming, Ruby Tandoh traces the rise of this industry and asks how food became both a status symbol and a source of fantasy.Food, much like clothing, is a way of signaling who you are and who you want to b ...

The demand for Medicare for All went from the center of the discourse to political exile in record time. But the policy's popularity never faded. A new poll finds strong majority support for the neglected idea among Americans across the political spectrum.In a survey of 1,207 likely voters conducted ...

The US didn’t send a delegation to the COP30 conference in Brazil, reflecting the Trump administration’s nihilistic attitude to the climate crisis. In its absence, the other big industrial powers once again postponed making hard but essential choices.Indigenous movement protesters managed to interru ...

In recent decades, the American economy has been characterized by rising inequality, shrinking free time, and the growing concentration of economic and political power, increasingly undermining the democratic ideals to which the US is ostensibly committed.For much of the post–Cold War era, it was th ...

Errol Schweizer, a former national vice president of grocery at Whole Foods, argues in Jacobin that the private sector is responsible for ever-rising grocery prices and can’t be relied on to fix the problem. Our food system needs a public option.To solve the food affordability crisis, we need to tak ...

Leading French automaker Renault is reportedly converting some production sites to make military drones. It’s stirred discontent among car workers in France, who say they didn’t sign up for Europe’s rearmament push.As France’s war mobilization ramps up, more companies and their workers are being dra ...

Govan Mbeki spent more than two decades in prison for his role in the struggle against apartheid. As a leader of South Africa’s Communist movement, he was also an important theorist who creatively applied Marxist ideas to South African society.Govan Mbeki insisted that both African nationalism and t ...

The cordial meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani wasn’t as strange as it looked; both reject the myth of a self-regulating market. The difference is that Trump uses the state to shore up wealth, Mamdani to expand rights and public provision.The Donald Trump–Zohran Mamdani contrast isn’t s ...

Mexico City’s “Gen Z” anti-government protest against President Claudia Sheinbaum bears all the hallmarks of an astroturf campaign.Contradictions surrounding the “Gen Z” march in Mexico demonstrates the willing obtuseness of the international corporate press in falling for the ostensible story inste ...

OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will soon allow erotic features for adult users. The move points toward new and intimate forms of advertising in which Big Tech shapes human desire and manipulates it for profit.With the new tactic intimate advertising, personal AI companionship becomes inseparable ...

Young people looking to fight climate change should consider jobs in strategic industries to organize new unions or revitalize old ones and advocate for green, pro-labor policies. The fight for a livable future can’t be won without organized labor.At the core of the climate fight must be the recogni ...

Evangelical Christian Zionism used to be one of the most coherent voting blocs in the US. But cracks are starting to appear in this coalition as its members grow disillusioned with Israel and enamored by Christian nationalism.Participants in the "United for Israel" march led by the Pursuit NW Christ ...

Around Europe, old labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with center-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with the same dismal results.Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats saw significant losses in ...

After Benjamin Netanyahu bizarrely tweeted a Jacobin story about Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak last week, Israeli politicos are denouncing us as antisemitic conspiracy theorists — without engaging with what’s in the story.Mainstream news has all but ignored Drop ...

Health insurance giant Anthem is introducing a new policy that will penalize hospitals for using physicians outside of its coverage network, forcing medical facilities to police physicians’ network status and decrease care options for patients.Anthem’s new policy may leave hospitals and patients scr ...

Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI wield tremendous influence over our politics, but does this mean we are entering an era of technofeudalism? In a wide-ranging discussion, Evgeny Morozov and Cedric Durand ask how we ought to understand contemporary capitalism.CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Amaz ...

Critics allege that Zohran Mamdani only won New York City’s mayoral election because of slick social media content and easily wooed voters. On the contrary, an analysis finds that his messaging contained vastly more policy detail than Andrew Cuomo’s.Far from lacking in substance, Zohran Mamdani's ca ...

At the behest of the pharmaceutical lobby — and after millions in political donations — Republican lawmakers have defanged rules that would lower the prices of life-saving medicines, amounting to a more than $8 billion windfall for Big Pharma.This year, the GOP-dominated Congress handed the pharmace ...

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty will be a fight for what’s winnable right now. Our job is to let that fight expand, not narrow, our horizon — and to keep alive the goal of socialism in our time.Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announcing the members of his transition team in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queen ...

Last week, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib proposed three pieces of legislation under the umbrella of her “Economic Dignity for All Agenda.” These bills would create a comprehensive system of economic security reaching nearly every American.The combined impact of the bills contained in Rashida Tlaib’s p ...

A recent article in the establishment security journal Foreign Affairs makes the case for nuclear proliferation among America’s allies. Not only are its arguments unsound, but they also understate the willingness of the US’s rivals to respond in kind. Establishment security journals like Foreign Aff ...

Organized labor has been more effective at defending the welfare state in Belgium than in most European countries. After recent actions resisting austerity plans, a three-day strike this week seeks to finally defeat the right-wing government.Governments cutting welfare across Europe have often faced ...

Donald Trump loves to pick “winners” and “losers.” And right now, in the eyes of the American people, Trump can sense that he is a loser and Zohran Mamdani is a winner.The shrewd political instincts that were key to Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral win were on display in Donald Trump’s White House ...

A student-led protest movement has kept Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić under pressure for a full year. By refusing to bow in the face of intimidation, the protesters have exposed the corrupt authoritarianism of Vučić’s government.More than 100,000 people gathered in the Serbian city of Novi Sad ...

Between President Trump heaping praise on Zohran Mamdani and the GOP-led Congress denouncing socialism, yesterday revealed a capitalist opposition throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.On the same day Congress denounced socialism, Trump emerged from meeting Zohran Mamdani gushing about ...

New revelations show that Jeffrey Epstein’s interests extended far beyond money and sex with underage girls. Epstein used his influence to push aggressive solutions to geopolitical problems, particularly against America’s and Israel’s traditional adversaries.Newly released documents show billionaire ...

Reforms instituted by the US–Mexico–Canada Agreement have been critical to enforcing labor rights and supporting independent unions in Mexico. Protecting and expanding these measures can help to improve pay and working conditions across the continent.Hector de la Cueva, advisor to SINTTIA, at a rall ...

In the deal to end the government shutdown, lawmakers added clauses that would temporarily bar states from regulating which foods manufacturers can label “healthy” and suspend new listeria regulations.Cereal companies have opposed a Biden-era food labeling rule, claiming that it would “disqualify ma ...

Exhausted by over three years of Russian attacks, Ukrainians are increasingly ready to accept unfair political compromises and harsh territorial concessions to end the war. Yet it’s far from clear that this hard choice will actually bring lasting peace.Western promises of helping Ukraine fight until ...

Edgar Wright’s dystopian satire, The Running Man, tries to play it safe and ends up pleasing no one.Still from The Running Man. (Paramount Pictures)Everything is wrong with Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, and I say that as someone who’s long been rooting for him. I’m a big fan of his early films Sha ...

In the interwar decades, many observers of rising fascism failed to understand what was new about this threat. Clinging to the word fascism to define today’s growing reactionary forces risks falling into the same trap.Fascism relied on violence and terror, but also on indoctrination, to impose a new ...

Seizing control of Chinese semiconductor maker Nexperia was a bold move for the Dutch government. It did so under US pressure, only to instantly backtrack as soon as the Trump administration changed its position.Dutch economy minister Vincent Karremans negotiated with Wingtech about how Nexperia cou ...

Backed by Wall Street, the company Black Bear Sports Group is tightening its grip on youth sports. In a scheme only private equity could dream up, parents now can’t record their kids’ games — but they can pay a steep price to watch corporate recordings.Private equity firms are deploying the same pla ...