Brasiliens unterlegener Präsidentschaftskandidat hat eine Frist zur Abgabe seiner Pässe verstreichen lassen und das Land verlassen.

Die Beteiligung war hoch, das Ergebnis ist nicht eindeutig: Nach der Parlamentswahl in Israel zeichnet sich eine schwierige Regierungsbildung ab.

Last year, the conservative evangelical blogger Samuel Sey published an article on his blog, Slow to Write, defending the Trump administration’s plan for mass deportations from a Christian perspective. “Christian ethics do not denounce deportations,” he wrote. “They demand it.” Born in Ghana and a r ...

Photographs and videos by Dana GolanSince the beginning of the Gaza war, a record number of Israelis have left the country. More than 10 percent of the electorate now lives abroad, and the country generally does not allow absentee ballots: Those who want to vote in today’s election, the first since ...

Late last year, Marissa Mayer was struggling with what felt like an impossible task. Her daughter Marielle was turning 10, and Marielle’s teacher wanted three bullet points summarizing what made her special. Mayer—the former chief executive of Yahoo and a pioneer at Google, where she was the first f ...

For the first time in modern American history, a sitting president is seeking to wield the force of the state to secure an electoral victory for his party. The Trump administration has attempted to undermine the widespread use of mail-in voting; demanded that states hand over voter rolls; threatened ...

It’s the beginning of the new Ric Burns documentary on New York City, and Adam Gopnik is choking up.He’s talking about the diversity and tolerance that New York, at its best, embodies. He’s talking about the challenges the city has faced over the past fifty years. Above all, he’s talking about how i ...

One of the curiosities of Donald Trump’s enduring (if perhaps weakening) grip on his supporters is how they praise him as someone who “tells it like it is.” Trump’s gatekeepers have similarly declared this to be “the most transparent administration in history,” pointing to, among other things, Trump ...

Over the past five years, the price of consumer goods has dominated American political discourse. From Donald Trump to Zohran Mamdani, winning candidates have used “affordability politics” to articulate popular dissatisfaction with economic conditions. From the price of eggs to gas to burritos, the ...

Bei der Parlamentswahl in Israel werfen sich Regierungschef Benjamin Netanjahu und die arabische Raam-Partei gegenseitig Manipulation vor.

Thomas K. Gugler, Islamexperte und Südasienkenner, war Autor der »Jungle World« – und flog nun durch die geleakten E-Mails als AfD-Mitglied auf.

Alberta is one of the unhappiest provinces in Canada, a reminder of the old adage that money can’t buy happiness. The province fails to responsibly manage the riches from its oil and gas sector, leaving little of the spoils to Alberta workers, while billions in profits flow to foreign shareholders, ...

As the Bernie Sanders road show traveled south through Maine earlier this month, the crowds grew bigger and louder with each stop. About 650 people showed up at a convention center in Bangor, then 700 packed a former church in Lewiston, and finally more than 1,000 filled a high-school gymnasium in B ...

The Republican Party, with one notable exception, has settled on a populist closing message: Barack Obama’s weekend joke that the president has “got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory” represents a grave insult to middle-class Americans. Alas, the sole Republican ...

© Audun Rikardsen / European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026A Seal’s Worst Nightmare. Highly Commended, Mammals. “For many years, I had been planning to photograph the most common hunting technique of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from a seal’s perspective. In the dense pack ice at 83° N, I d ...

“I’d be lying to you if I told you that yesterday I didn’t double-lock the door, just in case they come to take us down in the middle of the night.”Those were the words of Jahiren Noriega, a member of Ecuador’s National Assembly, the day after the detention of Luisa González, the Movimiento Revoluci ...

Earlier this month the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Willy Rice, called on pastors to “step up” their political activism as the midterm elections draw near. His argument is that many political issues are, at their heart, moral and theological issues that “strike at the very center of ...

Weltweit arbeiten Millionen Hausangestellte ohne jeglichen Schutz. Europa muss von Vorreitern wie Uruguay lernen. Ein Kommentar

Airbus in Bremen preist Drohnenflüge für Frontex als Erfolg. Dokumente belegen aber Streit wegen kaputter Geräte. Auch die Konkurrenz scheiterte.

Die Berliner Linke hat seit der Abgeord­neten­hauswahl die Zahl ihrer Mit­glieder noch gesteigert. Allerdings gibt es auch eine Reihe von Austritten.

Der Zweitligist FCM fordert in der zweiten Pokal-Runde die Alphatiere vom Rekordmeister aus München heraus. Die gemeinsamen Erlebnisse helfen dabei.

Barmer-Krankenhausreport zeigt Mängel der Reform. Die Belastung der Notaufnahmen kommt demnach auch von schlechter Patientensteuerung.

Bundesgesellschaft reduziert die potenziell geeigneten Gebiete für Atommüllverwahrung weiter – auf knapp fünf Prozent der Fläche Deutschlands.

Wenn Hannover 96 und Eintracht Braunschweig aufeinandertreffen, eskaliert die Rivalität. Selbst Niedersachsens Innenministerin wirkt hilflos.

Flughafenexpress der Bahn billiger und schneller als jedes Auto. Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald kündigt Vereinbarung mit dem Land Berlin.

Fatherland, the new Paweł Pawlikowski film about Thomas Mann’s 1949 trip to Germany, may be the most powerful film about the current moment — really, the last ten years — that I’ve seen. It’s not about the current moment at all, in fact. It’s about Mann’s olympian, and doomed, effort to remain a man ...

Brüssel will die Agentur Frontex mit mehr Personal und neuen Befugnissen ausrüsten. NGOs üben an dieser neuen EU-Grenzpolizeitruppe heftige Kritik.

Vor der Abstimmung in der UN-Generalversammlung über die Blockade Kubas durch die USA setzt Washington Länder unter Druck. Kuba wehrt sich.

Warnungen vor französischen Verhältnissen prägen die Debatte über die geplanten Demonstrationen. Neue Polizeibewertungen zeichnen entspannteres Bild

The French government was almost desperate for something to happen.Over the weekend, the social movement that started with a series of high school blockades in mid-September continued with a well-attended, orderly march around the outskirts of Paris.The protest route, initially scheduled and approve ...

Any traveler knows that a hotel gym can be the saddest place on earth. The low ceiling; the mere inches between weights and treadmills; the tiny, disintegration-ready water cups—everything conveys that you’re there to briefly repent for a salty travel diet and then get out as quickly as you can.But ...

Das Virus erforschen: Am Ballhaus Prinzenallee macht man die unwürdigen Spektakel im Bundestag mit Mitteln von Brechts epischem Theater begreifbar.

Haushalt für 2027/28 soll bis Dezember stehen. BSW von Gesprächen ausgeladen. Sozialisten erwarten noch »wesentliche Zugeständnisse«.

For a long time now, Democrats have mostly avoided the language of moral judgment. The average American wasn’t alive when Jimmy Carter inveighed against the “self-indulgence and consumption” of his fellow citizens, and even that seemed to be an aberration. Until this election cycle, that is. Now Sen ...

Imagine reaching into a closet for a shirt, or maybe a sheet, and instead making contact with what feels like a dead ferret. It’s furry, but instead of soft and fluffy, it’s hard and grimy, like it hasn’t been cleaned in 18 years. Because it hasn’t. Because it is my husband Ian’s college Halloween c ...

Die Serie »Droneland« erzählt von einem europäischem Über­wachungs­staat, der Kriege führt und jeden Winkel der Gesellschaft ausleuchtet.

Kurt Stenger über Maßnahmen gegen die Waldbrände in Indonesien

Der Immobilienkonzern Heimstaden will kein weiteres Geld in Deutschland investieren – wegen der Vorbereitungen eines Vergesellschaftungsgesetzes.

The wellness industry loves a secret cure. I encountered dozens of them at Dave Asprey’s Beyond Biohacking Conference, held in May on several floors of a hotel in downtown Austin. There were supplements galore, of course: algae tablets for detoxification, ketones for concentration, nitric oxide for ...

Die NSU-Terroristin Beate Zschäpe wollte vor­zeitig aus der Haft ent­lassen werden. Das Gericht sagt Nein. Doch die Entscheidung ist noch nicht rechtskräftig

Die Zahl der Menschen, die ihre Pflegekosten nicht stemmen können, wächst. Die Linke spricht sich für eine Begrenzung der Eigenanteile aus.

Weil Schulen marode sind und Lehrkräfte fehlen, gehen französische Schüler seit Wochen auf die Straße. Nun macht die Regierung ihnen Zugeständnisse

Nach der verlorenen Präsidentenwahl muss Flávio Bolsonaro wegen eines Geldwäscheverfahrens seine Pässe abgeben und darf das Land nicht verlassen.

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsIn the weeks heading into next week’s midterm election, President Trump has been crisscrossing the country trying to gin up enthusiasm among his base at rallies—where he’s gone on Islamophobic rants and inexplicably praised ...

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.They say that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, but President Trump and his allies have fou ...

Maybe you’ve seen the ad: A man and a woman are loading a shopping cart. The woman tells the man he must return a carton of eggs. “We have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians.”The woman explains that grocery prices are rising because the United States gives so much aid to Israel. “It’s cos ...

Luiz Inácio ​Lula da Silva’s election victory last night in Brazil is being widely celebrated as one of the great political comebacks of our time: the first time any Brazilian presidential candidate has come back from a first-round loss, achieved on the back of a reenergized Brazilian left and a new ...

On Wednesday, July 18, 2001, a freight train derailed in Baltimore’s Howard Street Tunnel. Flammable liquid ignited, causing a fire that raised the temperature in the tunnel to somewhere between 1,000 to 1,500 degrees. “We’re told some of the boxcars are actually glowing,” a fire-department spokespe ...

What’s on the mind of the ruling class these days? If the pages of The Economist are a reliable indicator, it’s the specter of “Gen Z socialism”: the rising support among young people for taxing billionaires, socializing the economy, and stopping the genocide in Gaza, as evidenced by the popularity ...

In Israel wird am Dienstag ein neues Parlament gewählt. Wird Premier Netanjahu nach mehr als 19 Jahren an der Regierungsspitze von der Macht verdrängt?

In Reinickendorf und Marzahn-Hellersdorf könnten CDU und AfD bald kooperieren. Kritiker warnen vor einem »Feldversuch« mit bundesweiter Ausstrahlung.

No country treats referendums as less definitive than Canada. Two sovereignty referendums in Quebec have not totally put to bed the independence question in la belle province, and in spite of declining referendum support, the new Parti Québécois government is promising a third when Donald Trump leav ...

Die CDU beharrt auf einem eigenen Vorschlags­recht, während die CSU für Ilse Aigner wirbt. Auch SPD und Grüne drängen auf eine Frau an der Staatsspitze

Die 281 Lampen am Wahrzeichen Berlins werden durch moderne und stromsparende LED-Leuchten ersetzt. Bis Anfang Dezember wird das dauern.

Updated at 2:27 p.m. ET on October 26, 2026Nothing makes me more nauseated than a row of multiple-choice questions and empty bubbles. After I turned 18, I thought I’d never encounter that feeling again, outside of stress dreams about forgetting my No. 2 pencils. And yet there I was, hiding in a cubi ...

Israels Armee setzt ihre Offensive im Westjordanland fort. Am Tag der Parlamentswahlen wird es Zugangssperren für Palästinenser geben.

At 2 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, I found myself in a corner booth at the Cheesecake Factory, emerging from the fog of war.Before me were a dozen half-empty plates, a cluster of dirty napkins, and several depleted beverages. The food had come in waves, unrelenting, like Normandy. There had been egg ...

Following a stunning, inspiring turnaround driven by mass mobilization of the Brazilian people, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won his fourth presidential election. This achievement marks an unprecedented shift in Brazilian political history: never before has a candidate who trailed in the first roun ...

In Kremmen will die Firma K9 Robotics eine Drohnenfabrik errichten. Dass es dabei wirklich nur um zivile Nutzanwendungen geht, wird bezweifelt.

Oxfam-Studie zeigt soziale Ungleichheit beim Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen auf

To fully grasp what has been going on since October 7, 2023, in the territories newly reoccupied by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, it is necessary to examine the pattern of these occupations against previous ones conducted by the Zionist state. As is well known, the very birth of Israel was inseparable ...

Milo Rau hat sich an der Deutschen Oper Berlin Wagners »Der fliegende Holländer« vorgenommen – und ein plumpes Modell zur deutschen »Staatsräson« inszeniert.

Galeria-Betriebsrätin Andrea Grisail über die Lage in der Kaufhauskette und ihre Erwartungen an das Insolvenzverfahren

When the going gets tough, the tough don’t get subtle. Yesterday, with polls casting doubt on his continuing as Israel’s prime minister after Tuesday’s election, Benjamin Netanyahu posted a closing argument on Instagram: an AI-generated image of Tel Aviv destroyed by a nuclear blast, with accompanyi ...

Nach ihrem Wahlsieg muss die Studierendenliste Mut beweisen, will sie Serbien wirklich nachhaltig verändern. Ein Kommentar.

Ein Nachruf auf den Schriftsteller Joachim Lottmann, wie er ihn geschrieben hätte

Die Bundesregierung plant, Vergesellschaftung durch ein sogenanntes Investitionsschutzgesetz zu verhindern. Das hilft nur privaten Wohnungskonzernen.

Guli Dolev-Hashiloni fliegt in seine Heimat Israel, um zu wählen. Rosige Zeiten stehen nicht an, aber vielleicht sind etwas weniger schreckliche möglich.

Guli Dolev-Hashiloni fliegt in seine Heimat Israel, um zu wählen. Rosige Zeiten stehen nicht an, aber vielleicht sind etwas weniger schreckliche möglich.

Der Innenminister legt Eckpunkte für ein Investitionsschutzgesetz vor. Die Linke hält dies für verfassungswidrig, auch in der SPD gibt es Bedenken

In June 1956, a delegation of renowned British left-wing economists, including Joan Robinson and Maurice Dobb, traveled to Poland to learn about its socialist transformation. The newly installed socialist government had driven through a program of economic modernization, as the country industrialize ...

Stevie Wonder’s outfit seemed, at first, to be a strange choice. It was September 1976, and the 26-year-old Grammy winner, better known at that point for appearing on his album covers with a short afro or in cornrows and a tunic, was wearing a cowboy outfit: a collared, cream-colored shirt and match ...

Photographs by Moises SamanThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.A priest led me up battered stairs to a tiny room at the top of a church. From the window, we gazed down at the decayed colonial villas and scattered trash fires of eastern Havana. He ...

Lulas Charisma wirkt über die Anhängerschaft seiner Partei PT und die Linke insgesamt hinaus. Nur so kann er Wahlen gewinnen. Ein Kommentar

Der Auftritt von Audi-Chef Gernot Döllner im US-Wahlkampf kommt nicht überraschend

Schwere Vorwürfe gegen Gericht und Sicherheitsbehörden. Rote Hilfe sieht »zerstörerischen Effekt« jahrelanger Verfolgung.

Toddler parenting is an exercise in picking battles, and one I almost never pick is the battle over sugar. Quite often, my 2-and-a-half-year-old eats just a few bites of his meal before proclaiming himself “done, done, done,” yet mysteriously also desirous of dessert. Generally, at this point, I’ll ...

Erstmals hat in Brasilien ein Kandidat die Stichwahl gewonnen, der als Zweiter einzog. Elf Millionen Stimmenzuwachs machten das möglich.

Zwei Beamte haben in Bergheim einen Wehrlosen geschlagen, getreten und eine Reizgasdose auf seinem Kopf zerschlagen. Dann erfanden sie einen Angriff.

Wie verhält man sich in einem Kino? In Zeiten von Tiktok, Instagram, ADHS und kultureller Regression hat die Jugend verlernt, sich Filme anzusehen.

Im Osten steigt das Aufstiegsgerangel in vollen Stadien – bis es blaugelbweiße Rosen regnet. Kolumnistisches Lob erfährt auch die Zivilgesellschaft.

Serbiens oppositionelle Studentenliste hat unerwartet die Parlamentswahl gewonnen. Auf Belgrads Straßen wird bis tief in die Nacht gefeiert.

Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter where Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy.Voters have consistently cited the cost of groceries as their top economic concern—and it isn’t hard to understand why. From 2015 to 2019, the average worker’s wages grew about 30 times fa ...

When Eloise, a veteran who lives in Michigan, first heard about Trump Accounts last year, her mind immediately turned to other projects that had borne the name of the businessman turned president: a university, an airline, steaks, casinos. All had gone bust, and several had left creditors or investo ...

Photographs by Brian FinkeUpdated at 5:30 p.m. ET on October 26, 2026Along the highways and farm roads of the southern tip of Texas, the bright-red campaign signs for Eric Flores are impossible to miss. Flores, the Republican candidate for the state’s Thirty-Fourth Congressional District, has Ken-do ...

Ein Audi-Werk in den USA – verkündet bei Trumps Wahlkampf. Für die VW-Betriebsratschefin hat sich der VW-Konzernvorstand zur Marionette machen lassen.

14 Jahre lang bestimmte Aleksandar Vučić die Politik seines Landes im Alleingang. Doch eine Protestbewegung von Studierenden wuchs ihm über den Kopf.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva bejubelt ein historisches Comeback, sein rechter Rivale Flávio Bolsonaro will das Ergebnis der Präsidentenwahl anfechten.

The earth is red like an apple bobbing in a river, floating on a lake. Twilight cannot make up its mind if day or night is blue. From a hilltop the drilling and the trilling are one.By moonlight a neighbor is on her roof brandishing a cane. Who shall arrange the stars to set us straight? Songbirds o ...

With the 2026 midterm elections approaching and Donald Trump’s approval ratings at record lows, it’s easy to hope that we might someday soon find the politics of Trumpism behind us. But it’s far from clear that the Democratic Party can effectively capitalize on anti-Trump sentiment, and Democrats ce ...

Subscribe here:  Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeCarlos Eire arrived in Miami at age 11 in 1962, a refugee from Castro’s Cuba. Three years passed before his mother could join him, and he never saw his father again. This experience of dislocation profoundly shaped Eire’s work as a religious histori ...

Israel’s parliamentary elections are fast approaching on October 27, with Benjamin Netanyahu facing a challenge from the opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot. Netanyahu is backed by a coalition of religious ultranationalist parties, while Eisenkot advocates a more liberal or secular form of Zionism, pled ...

“We can do this to any country we want. We can do it here too.” According to a Wall Street Journal investigation published on September 25, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece, conveyed this message during a March dinner in Athens while discussing the expected fall of the Romania ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.It’s 4:26 a.m., and I’m walking around the house while my wife sleeps upstairs. I’m feeling disoriented and discombobulated, just as I have for months, since May, when AI came for math.The leaves are ablaze here ...

Lefkés, a mountain village on the Greek island of Paros, is named after white poplars that once surrounded it. Beyond a cluster of houses, a Byzantine footpath meanders toward the Aegean. According to village lore, the path is not visible from Paros’s shoreline to protect Lefkés from pirates.In the ...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.A great movie soundtrack can be just as memorable as the film itself. A few notes might bring an entire ...

Recently, an Instagram carousel by a long-lost acquaintance who was beach- and boat-hopping with a glittery squad of people I didn’t recognize crossed my feed. I figured they were moneyed Millennials with regular jobs—until I discovered that several of them had followings in the high five figures, a ...

Next Tuesday, Israel will hold its first general election since the October 7 attacks and the destruction of Gaza. The election campaign has again illustrated the radicalization of Israeli politics, even beyond Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, and the breadth of political forces who staunchly resist ...

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.Conversation, Charlie Tyson wrote in 2023, is by nature fleeting. He quotes Virginia Woolf: “It flies ...

70.000 Sicherheitskräfte im Einsatz, Demonstrationsverbote in mehreren Städten und Protest gegen den Parteitag der Rechtsradikalen in Orléans

Die Idee einer gemeinsamen Strategie von Klubs, Kommunen und Polizei ist gut – doch eine Seite scheint an einer Deeskalation kaum Interesse zu haben.

Mit einem Aktionstag demonstrieren antirassistische Gruppen an sieben Flughäfen gegen Abschiebehaft und Grenzverfahren. Die Polizei ist stark präsent.

Attempts to make generalizations from what happens in the United States and Europe to the rest of the planet do not, as a rule, meet with much surprise; these are, after all, generally assumed to be the most advanced edges of world history, where processes that will eventually spread to other region ...

Gut, dass Jesus bereits für unsere Sünden gestorben ist, denn die jüngste Wahlkampfpropaganda Trumps hätte ihm sicherlich nicht gefallen

Neuerdings gibt es Ölkonzessionen mit einer Laufzeit von bis zu 30 Jahren. Private kubanische Unternehmen dürfen erstmals an der Förderung teilnehmen.

Ein neues Theaterstück in München zeigt Aufstieg und Abgründe von Firmen wie Rheinmetall und Helsing und kritisiert die neue Goldgräberstimmung.

Erbprinz Alois verweigert Frauen in Liechtenstein das Recht auf Abtreibung. Ein Viertel aller Wahlberechtigten hatte dieses per Petition gefordert.

Nach Durchsuchungen im queeren Zentrum gehen Hunderte in Kreuzberg auf die Straße. Was die Demonstrierenden für trans Menschen fordern.

Die australische »Ghost Shark« ist deutlich größer als vergleichbare Unterwasserdrohnen. Nun soll sie Minen legen und Kamikazedrohnen abfeuern.

Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. President Trump’s dismissal of Russian agg ...

Thirty years after Hyman Minsky’s death, his name is more familiar than his political economy. Whenever asset prices collapse, leverage suddenly matters, or a financial boom turns into panic, someone announces a new “Minsky moment.”The phrase has become shorthand for the point at which a speculative ...

Mit Küsschen begrüßt der Bundeskanzler Ilse Aigner, woraufhin der CSU-Parteitag in Jubel ausbricht. Zur Präsidentinnen-Frage kommt dann aber nichts.

IT-Konzerne werden für die moderne Kriegsführung immer wichtiger und mächtiger. Das eröffnet auch neue Ansatzpunkte für antimilitaristischen Protest.

I t is not a novel point that Israel acts like a rogue state, or that its behavior toward the United States often more closely resembles the behavior of an adversary than that of an ally. But it’s still worth periodically noting just how extreme its misbehavior on the world stage is, given that it i ...

Mit dem Abschuss einer weiteren aus dem Jemen abgefeuerten Rakete über Riad ist der Konflikt endgültig zu einem umfassenden Krieg eskaliert

Nach einer schwierigen Woche wollen die Freiburger ausgerechnet im Bundesliga-Topspiel gegen den Rekordmeister aus München zurück in die Erfolgsspur.

The War on Terror coincided with the rise of the internet, when freshly concerning digital attacks became known as cyberterrorism. Now a new threat has appeared: AI terrorism.Over the past few years, reports from governments, intergovernmental organizations, and think tanks have warned that AI is li ...

Am Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde wird eine Plakette angebracht, an die Arbeiterbewegung erinnert und die DDR geschmäht

Im Prignitzer Kreistag treten AfD und Dritter Weg als Konkurrenten auf. Alternativen zur rechten Landnahme hängen von Zuzug und Abwanderung ab.

Die Politilogin Sabrina Fernandes über die Anhänger des ultrarechten Flávio Bolsonaro, Entpolitisierung und Desinformation vor der Stichwahl.

Nach dem beispiellosen Leak von Hunderttausenden E-Mails will sich die AfD immer noch nicht dazu äußern. Ein IT-Fachportal warnt vor Torrent-Nutzung.

Jedes zweite Geldinstitut in Deutschland will Personal reduzieren. Die Tätigkeiten von Bankangestellten sind durch KI besonders leicht automatisierbar.

Blumen können sprechen und wir hören zu. Wie schon Friedrich Schiller empfahl: »Suchst du das Höchste, das Grösste? Die Pflanze kann es dich lehren«.

Am 31. Oktober wird bundesweit zu Schülerprotesten mobilisiert. Wie reagiert die Polizei?

Nach einem Brandanschlag auf MAN-Lastwagen hält die sächsische Staatsanwaltschaft ein politisches Motiv für möglich. Der Sachschaden ist beträchtlich.

Bremens SPD-Bürgermeister kritisiert CSU-Gedröhne zu »extremistischer« linker Landesregierung in Berlin. Aber auch Dobrindt mäßigt sich nicht.

Die Löscharbeiten an der früheren NS-Gaststätte am Obersalzberg dauerten am Morgen an, die Polizei hat einen verdächtigen Motorradfahrer festgenommen.

Die Löscharbeiten an der früheren NS-Gaststätte am Obersalzberg dauern an, die Polizei hat angeblich einen verdächtigen Motorradfahrer festgenommen.

Bei der Stichwahl am Sonntag will der linke Amtsinhaber Lula seinen Rückstand aus der ersten Runde gegen den ultrarechten Flávio Bolsonaro wettmachen.

Eine Randbebauung des alten Flughafens inmitten Berlins schließen Linke, Grüne und SPD aus. Die Feldkoordination erhielt derweil den Hans-Sauer-Preis.

Not too long ago, the Department of Justice could generally be trusted to prosecute cases in which lawyers believed that real wrongdoing had occurred. Now DOJ frequently unveils lawsuits that seem designed mostly for securing likes and reposts on right-wing social media—the actual facts be damned. A ...

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.American politics is saturated with cash, and each election cycle seems to set new spending records—and ...

Yet again, the world is failing to give Yemen the attention it deserves. Well over a month into the renewal of the war between Ansar Allah, known as the Huthis, and the internationally recognized government (IRG), there have already been thousands of military and civilian casualties on both sides.Fi ...

This week could go down as the worst in the history of cybersecurity. On Wednesday, news emerged about two major vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language used by 70 percent of websites, which prompted governments, hospitals, and companies around the world to take digital services offline as a ...

Organizers like to say that all politics boils down to a battle between organized money and organized people. Candidates with the largest war chests tend to win, but contenders who refuse to take donations from corporate interests can prevail if their supporters are well-organized, inspired, and str ...

Last week, Senator Edward Markey published a social-media post seeking interns for his Boston office. He wrote that “BIPOC, LGBTQ+, working class, veterans, and other underrepresented candidates with Massachusetts ties are encouraged to apply.” Outrage quickly followed: Critics treated the post not ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube It can feel like an existential moment right now—one where many tech leaders are both warning against and accelerating the destructive forces of AI. But Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor argue that this could also be a turning point toward building somet ...

Umstrittener neuer Hauptaktionär tritt bei größtem Wohnungsvermieter in Nordrhein-Westfalen auf den Plan.

Vancouver’s contrasts are visible on its streets. Luxury cars cruise past some of North America’s worst homeless encampments. Last Saturday, October 17, the city produced a political contrast to match: after four years of a center-right city hall, its municipal council has transformed into one of th ...

Bei einem Angriff in einer Vorstadt hat ein Mann eine Person erschossen und fünf weitere verletzt. Die Antiterror-Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt.

Nach Tod zweier Soldaten bei Schusswaffenangriff von Palästinensern kündigt Israels Regierungschef die Abriegelung des gesamten Gebiets an.

Im Sudan tobt ein Stellvertreterkrieg zwischen den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten und Saudi-Arabien. Deutschland pflegt zu beiden beste Kontakte.

Das Gorki-Theater bleibt mit Marco Fusinatos installativer Auseinandersetzung mit Kleists »Prinz von Homburg« weiter auf Abstand zur Schauspielkunst.

Der Krieg dauert seit mehr als dreieinhalb Jahren an. Gold gegen Waffen ist ein schlechter Deal für die Menschen. Ein Kommentar.

Es ist völlig unerheblich, welchen Senat die Bundesbürger ablehnen, die gar nicht in der Hauptstadt leben. Ein Kommentar.

As Brazil heads to the polls on Sunday, the latest polls show Flávio Bolsonaro’s lead over incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowing. One pollster, Qeast, had the eldest of Jair’s brood on 45 percent, just 1 point ahead of Lula.Flávio’s rejection rates have been steadily climbing since ...

Das NS-Konzentrationslager bei Weimar hatte rund 140 Außenstandorte. Längst nicht an alle wird noch erinnert. Ein Verein will das ändern.

Frank Schumann ist ein Chronist der DDR- und Zeitgeschichte, der die Attacken gegen seine Person aushält. Nun wird der umtriebige Publizist 75.

In Belgrad gehen erneut Tausende für einen Machtwechsel auf die Straße. Sie glauben Aleksandar Vučić am Sonntag schlagen zu können.

Drei Topathleten pushen sich gegenseitig zu neuen Bestzeiten. In Frankfurt will Europameister Amanal Petros einen neuen Rekord aufstellen.

Jörg Kronauer ist sich sicher, dass die französische Bourgeoisie von vielen in die Mangel genommen wird, nicht nur von den eigenen politischen Rändern.

The new film Wicker is, first and foremost, a love story. And I need to acknowledge this promptly: It is a love story about a woman who falls for a person-shaped basket. Olivia Colman’s character, who is known to the audience only as Fisherwoman, is a classic spinster. She sells her smelly haul in t ...

Die Datenlücke ist eine Chance, Erkenntnisse über die Partei zu vertiefen. Doch vor einem leichtfertigen Umgang mit den Daten ist zu warnen. Ein Kommentar.

For an industry that we’re told is central to our collective future, the artificial intelligence (AI) industry increasingly seems to be built on a combination of artificially inflated hopes and bad accounting.The industry’s critics have been raising concerns about its finances for a while: the fact ...

Der Bundestagsabgeordnete Pascal Meiser fordert ein Direktanstellungsgebot für Essenlieferdienste, da die Fahrer über Subunternehmerketten oft ausgebeutet werden.

Über zehn Jahre interne Kommunikation der AfD liegen nun offen. Sie liefern vertiefte Einblicke in die Partei

Länder wollen Subunternehmerketten unterbinden. Eine EU-Richtlinie zur Plattformarbeit soll umgesetzt werden. Die Fleischindustrie gilt als Vorbild.

Kiran Ridley / AFP / GettyA protester wearing a period costume stands during a demonstration against the high cost of living in Paris, on October 17, 2026, as part of a nationwide call for mobilization, bringing together various groups expressing their anger: former gilets jaunes protesters, seconda ...

Diesen Samstag wird bundesweit gegen den Ausbau von Terminals zur »Rückführung« Geflüchteter wie am Flughafen München protestiert.

With the passing of Chris Wickham earlier this month, we have lost the greatest medieval historian since Marc Bloch, and one of the most original Marxist historians ever. In his career, which spanned half a century, Wickham wrote more than twenty books and two hundred articles. In these works, he sh ...

Auch die Bundesregierung hält weiter an fossilen Energien fest. Die Folgen zeigen sich in jedem Hitzesommer deutlicher. Ein Kommentar.

Brandenburgs Polizei bekommt moderne Fahrzeuge und rüstet sich für Schülerproteste. Die Linke nimmt die Schüler in Schutz.

Die Jazztage Leipzig finden zum 50. Mal statt. Ausgiebig feiert man sich selbst – und die Freiheit der Musik. Ein Zwischenbericht.

Das tut gut: Die Band Nichtseattle um Frontfrau Katharina Kollmann legt mit »Große Liebe« ein neues Album vor.

Colson Whitehead schließt mit »Cool Machine« seine Harlem-Trilogie ab und erweckt das New York der 80er zum Leben.

Bereits in der kommenden Woche werden mehrere Bezirks­ämter gewählt. In einigen zeichnen sich bereits politische Bündnisse ab.

Bereits in der kommenden Woche werden mehrere Bezirks­ämter gewählt. In einigen zeichnen sich bereits politische Bündnisse ab.

Trotz allgemeiner Aufregung: Noch ist nicht absehbar, wie viel die privaten Haushalte in Zukunft für das Heizen mit Gas zahlen müssen.

On April 7, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson gave a speech at Johns Hopkins University in which he effectively offered to build the equivalent of the Tennessee Valley Authority for North Vietnam on the condition that Hanoi cease supporting the insurgency in South Vietnam. On the helicopter ride bac ...

For most of the past two decades, Ohio Democrats have hobbled home in defeat on Election Day, beaten and battered in a state that used to be a national bellwether. In 2024, Donald Trump ran up an 11-point margin, while Sherrod Brown lost his seat in the Senate. But earlier this month, I found Brown ...

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky have never enjoyed a warm relationship, or even a stable one. But last week, it hit a new low. Trump called on the Ukrainian people to elect a new president, describing Zelensky as “more difficult to deal with” than Vladimir Putin. He accused Zelensky of prolongin ...

18 Jahre nach dem letzten Pflichtspiel wird in Gelsenkirchen wieder Eishockey gespielt

Wegen eines Gleisschadens musste die BVG die Zwei-Wagen-Züge von der M4 abziehen. Der Fahrgastverband kritisiert die mal wieder mangelnde Information.

On Tuesday, the world found out about two massive security vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language that is used by roughly 70 percent of websites. The flaw was discovered by cybersecurity researchers using a frontier model from OpenAI. If they exploited it, attackers could gain full control o ...

President Trump has been hearing lately from two trusted confidants, each promising a quick path to ending the war in Iran. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has argued that Iran is on the brink of economic collapse and that a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, combined with sanctions, will force ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.For William E. Smythe, the future of the West was clear. At the turn of the 20th century, long before low snowpacks and the climate crisis, before tens of millions of peo ...

Three months prior to the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI published what would prove to be a prescient blog outlining the firm’s approach to ensuring that its AI models would be safe and beneficent. This goal, known as “alignment”—as in, aligning AI with human values—is nebulous, grand, and perhaps the AI ...

Ask many successful Indian CEOs, entrepreneurs, or scientists how they rose to prominence in America, and they will tell you that, grit and talent aside, the key factor was the country itself: an economy and a culture that rewarded merit and drew ambitious, talented people from around the world.Indi ...

John Quillin thought America’s Middle Eastern wars were safely in the past. He spent two decades in the Navy, enlisting not long before the September 11 attacks and retiring as a chief petty officer about 18 months after the United States withdrew from Afghanistan. “Now we’re right back in it,” he t ...

When the government first filed major antitrust lawsuits targeting Big Tech back in 2020, many people were optimistic that the long-standing practice of public legal action against monopolistic companies could rein in these economy-dominating corporations.But as these pages have covered, this “techl ...

Sign up for Video Village, a new weekly newsletter in which David Sims unearths cinematic gems and brings readers into his movie obsession.When James Gunn was named a co-head of DC Studios in 2022, along with his producing partner Peter Safran, he was essentially being tasked with building a plane i ...

Last week, I looked at what Rick Warren’s 1995 classic The Purpose Driven Church can teach the Left about recruitment in our atomized era. But getting people through the door is only half the battle. Seeker-sensitive evangelicalism didn’t buck America’s decades-long decline in membership organizatio ...

Der Pfleger Eric Omoregie wurde 2023 auf dem Weg von der Arbeit von Polizisten grundlos überwältigt. Zum Jahrestag hat er ein Video veröffentlicht.

In einer Schlachterei in Kellinghusen werden jährlich bis zu eine Million Schweine getötet. Animal Rights Watch wirft dem Betrieb Tierquälerei vor.

The faiths and hopes of the postwar middle-class society have mostly evaporated today. Our parents’ beliefs in consensus and the goodness of American civilization have joined mainline Protestantism and the benevolent corporation on some nostalgia channel of discarded ideas. One signature ideal of th ...

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s fascinating documentary You Can See Everything is now the object of obsession for moviegoers everywhere. It’s a pretty exciting moment, groups of friends racing off to the theater, talking avidly in the parking lot afterward, going home to think about it some mor ...

Deutschlands Arbeitsmarkt ist auf Fachkräfte aus dem Ausland angewiesen. Bürokratie, Gehälter und Wohnkosten stehen der Einwanderung im Weg.

Die Fantasien des Brandenburger AfD-Fraktionschefs Hans-Christoph Berndt. Ein Kommentar

Dass Politiker Sanktionen gegen »extremistische« Regierungen fordern, offenbart Unkenntnis der Verfassung und demokratischer Grundsätze. Ein Kommentar

Updated at 4:15 p.m. ET on October 23, 2026.This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Thirty years ago this summer, the sociologist William Julius Wilson published When Work Disappears, in which he attributed high unemployment in urban, largely Black ne ...

In the past decade, much ink has been spilled over the question of whether we are witnessing a resurgence of fascism. Those debates have calmed since last November, when Donald Trump casually identified himself as a fascist amid a disorientingly effusive meeting with New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohr ...

Die Neue Bühne Senftenberg, vormals Theater der Bergarbeiter, feiert 80. Geburtstag.

Nach ihrem Wahlsieg könnte die Linke erstmals das Rote Rathaus übernehmen. Wie verhindert sie, dass aus dem Aufbruch Koalitionsroutine wird?

Die IHK Berlin warnt in schrillen Tönen vor der Vergesellschaftung. Das steht ihr nicht zu. Die nd.Genossenschaft geht nun gerichtlich dagegen vor.

It is difficult to write in memory of Peter Thomas. Not for lack of memories, but because there are too many. So many discussions come to mind, shared projects, collective volumes to which we both contributed. One obvious one is In Marx’s Laboratory: Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse (2013) ...

Ein Volksbegehren in Kalifornien will Milliardäre besteuern, um das Gesundheitssystem zu retten. Die Reichen machen dagegen mobil.

Das Leben in Europa wird rasant teurer – dagegen gehen die Menschen auf die Straße

Die Gespräche über ein Ende des Ukraine-Kriegs werden von heftigen Angriffen begleitet. Ein Kommentar

As China’s manufacturers flood the global market with cars, chips, and just about everything else, the country’s economic juggernaut seems unstoppable. Policy makers in the United States and elsewhere fret that this onslaught will overrun their own industries, destroy jobs, and leave them reliant on ...

Politische Gegner machen die Bewegung um Jean-Luc Mélenchon für dieRandale verantwortlich – manche bringen sogar ein Verbot ins Spiel.

In 1967, Marshall Lee was living in Philadelphia and becoming a Black revolutionary. “We were crazy, involved in a whole lot of stupid stuff,” Lee told me. “If it had not been for The Crisis”—Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, published that same year—“I do not know what would have ...

At this moment, an untold number of TikTok videos are being sent without commentary to an untold number of group chats. The videos might remind the senders of their mom, their spouse, their high-school best friends. They might strike the recipients as charming—or as smartphone pollution. The meme-sh ...

Updated at 3:28 p.m. ET on October 22, 2026If you were wondering whether AI could make the midterms even more confusing, here’s one data point: Several people who thought they were donating to James Talarico unwittingly gave their money to someone else. Talarico, a Texas Democrat, is running for Sen ...

Italiens Regierung sucht nach Schuldigen für die Proteste – und wird fündig

Die linke Gruppe »Hände weg vom Wedding« geht im »Bund der Kommunist*innen« auf. Ein Gespräch über Stadtteilarbeit, Repression und die Linkspartei.

Photographs and videos by Sasha MaslovUkraine’s newest battlefield lies inside a network of steel pipes deep below the ground, some barely wide enough for a person to crawl through. Before the war, these pipes carried natural gas from Russia to Ukraine. Now soldiers zip through them on electric bugg ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsThe comedian Maria Bamford has always been alarmingly frank about her obsessive, intrusive thoughts—imagined scenarios where she murders someone or commits wholesale genocide, for instance. In Paralyzed by Hope, the new docu ...

Photographs by Lynsey AddarioI.We drifted past abandoned drilling platforms, ghostly remnants of better days. Cormorants perched on the metal bars of broken oil rigs, drying their wings in the sun. When we reached a swirling, brown-green oil slick, Carlos slowed his motor. Raw oil could damage the e ...

Wie die Bedürfnisse der Investoren dem Wunsch nach Bezahlbarkeit zuwiderlaufen – und was die Politik daraus macht

Wasser wird knapp, die wirtschaftliche Not wächst. Zugleich verlieren Frauen immer mehr Rechte – bis hin zum Recht, auf der Straße laut zu sprechen.

Am Wochenende tagt die »Hayek Gesellschaft«. Hier vernetzen sich Rechte aller Couleur – CDU, AfD, FDP – mit Unternehmerverbänden.

Die heutige Nahost-Debatte könnte von einem Blick in die 1990er Jahre profitieren

Ein Bundesgesetz soll Enteignungen in Berlin verhindern, bevor sie beschlossen sind. Über 200 Unterzeichner halten das für verfassungswidrig

Beim Weltverband Fis hinterlässt der alte Präsident Johan Eliasch finanziell und strukturell ein Chaos, Schnee-Depots müssen derweil den Sport sichern.

Der bayerische Ministerpräsident will Sachsen-Anhalt und Berlin vom Länderfinanzausgleich ausschließen. Dafür sucht er Verbündete.

Vertrauter des gestürzten Regierungschefs unter Verdacht: Unter Aufsicht von Ex-Notenbankchef György Matolcsy sollen Millionen verschwunden sein.

Die rechte Szene rekrutiert neue Mitglieder auch über Kampfsportnetzwerke. Die Bundesregierung attestiert ihnen eine hohe Gewaltkompetenz.

“You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again.” — Steve Witkoff, U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, addressing Russian President Vladimir Putin Mark Wednesday, October 21, 20 ...

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.If you don’t live in Ohio, you’ve probably been blissfully free from thinking about Vivek Ramaswamy sin ...

W hen the credits began to roll at the screening I attended of You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s buzzy new documentary, it was like waking up from a dream. I walked away from those three hours — which felt like quite a bit less, despite the long sequences free of dialogue  ...

The internet could be on the verge of a total meltdown. Yesterday, someone posted to a public forum that two major security flaws had been found in a programming language that undergirds the web. The language, called PHP, is used by as much as 70 percent of websites.In order to protect themselves fr ...

Hush! I must hear! It’s an election year, I am a voter, and I need to know the president’s answers to the most pressing questions facing America today: How upholstered are the chairs in the Rose Garden? Is the helipad at the White House any good? How are things progressing with the ballroom? And is ...

Am Sonntag wird in Serbien gewählt. Die Studierendenliste ist für die Fortschrittspartei von Aleksandar Vučić zur ernsthaften Konkurrenz geworden.

On Roda Island in the Nile stands a stone column nineteen cubits (thirty-four feet) tall and nearly 1,200 years old. It is called the Nilometer. Before the construction of the Aswan Dam, an official would measure how high the river rose and from that reading determine the fate of the country’s annua ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the growing calls for Medicare for All. David discusses how Medicare for All might actually work, why it’s impractical, and why it is fundamentally a promise ...

Mike Wallace once handed me a matchbook, the kind of paper trinket that served like ticker-tape as a currency of the twentieth-century city: given out at corner stores and newsstands, boxing matches and cafeterias, free-flowing from cigarette and candy booths on subway platforms.These flammable pape ...

A crucial midterm contest is happening right now in Texas, one that could determine the future of the state and its influence on federal policy and national politics.No, not the U.S. Senate race—though everyone is watching that one, and with good reason. The Republican, Ken Paxton—who has served as ...

Die 50. Jubiläumsausgabe der »Emma« wird die letzte sein. Die Zeitschrift ist Symbol feministischer Debatten, Machtstrukturen und simpler Dichotomien.

Outside periods of recession, the public mood has rarely been as downbeat about the economy as it is today, with consumer confidence at a historic low and polls recording a deep pessimism about where things are headed. Against this backdrop, political and business leaders are touting an economic “go ...

Nach den Gewaltausbrüchen wird der linken Partei La France Insoumise (LFI) von den rechten Parteien die Verantwortung zugeschoben. Belege bleiben aus.

Brandenburg soll vorbereitet sein für die Drohnenabwehr oder Proteste wie in Frankreich. Innenminister Jan Redmann eröffnet seinen »Situation Room«.

Mit großem Unverständnis haben Unterstützer und Teile der NRW-Politik auf die Behandlung der Familie aus Leverkusen reagiert

Up until a few years ago, you could be forgiven for never having heard much about data centers. When we connected to the many digital services we’ve come to depend on, and executives took to the stage to show off the latest improvements to their products, there wasn’t much talk of the physical infra ...

Linke, Grüne und SPD wollen in Berlin das Wahlrecht öffnen. Grundgesetz, Verfassungsgericht und Mehrheitsverhältnisse stehen im Weg.

Ten years ago, I found myself in Lusaka, Zambia, sitting at a table with a group of extraordinary writers. We had been invited to participate in a 12-day writing retreat by the Caine Prize for African Writing, considered by many to be the most important literary award for authors on the continent. A ...

Autor*innen schlagen Alarm: Sie können vom Schreiben nicht leben! Ja, warum sollten sie denn?

Was lehrt uns die Regierungsbildung für den Frieden in Israel und Palästina, fragt sich unser Kolumnist.

Vor der Peloponnes und vor Kreta soll die Suche nach Erdgas beginnen: eine Bedrohung für seltene Meeressäuger.

Beim CSU-Parteitag am Wochenende könnte die Vorentscheidung für Ilse Aigner als erste Bundespräsidentin fallen

Daniel Knop, Oberzent-Airlenbach, Hessen, GermanyImage of Distinction: A close view of the leg of a weevilEric Epstein, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.Sixth Place: Hemitrichia slime-mold spore structures (fruiting bodies)Dr. Marcel Clemens, Verona, Veneto, ItalyEighth Place: Pencil lead during exposure to ...

Der Präsident der Deutschen Triathlon-Union strebt nach dem höchsten Amt im deutschen Sport und will sich nicht nur um die Olympiabewerbung kümmern.

Zwei Vertraute von Israels Premier sollen Hessens CDU bei deren »Existenzrecht«-Gesetzesvorstoß geholfen haben. Kein Einzelfall, belegen Recherchen.

UN-Bericht: Die Durchschnittstemperatur erhöht sich bis Ende des Jahrhunderts voraussichtlich um 2,8 Grad gegenüber dem vorindustriellen Zeitalter.

Derzeit erscheint eine Neuausgabe von Georges Batailles Aufsatz »Die psychologische Struktur des Faschismus«. Vorabdruck aus dem Nachwort.

Today The Atlantic launches “50 Unforgettable Love Stories,” a new editorial project that highlights stories of romantic love. The list includes works published across more than four centuries—from its earliest selection, Astrophil and Stella by Philip Sidney, published in 1591, to its most recent, ...

The economist Isabella Weber is best known for her work on what is often called “seller’s inflation,” the ability of firms with market power to hike prices and boost profits during an emergency. During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Weber was one of the loudest voices criticizing those who treated ...

Marisa G. Franco is familiar with the art of secure attachment. She’s spent years studying it: that coveted quality that makes some people so trusting, so quick to accept that they are, in fact, loved. She wrote the 2022 best seller Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—And Keep— ...

Die Liga hat sich mit einem Hilfsprogramm gut entwickelt, drei Ostklubs tragen zur Stabilität bei. Doch auch in der neuen Saison ist das Gefälle groß.

Die Vereinten Nationen schlagen Alarm, weil sich die Erde dramatisch erwärmt. Aber hierzulande spielt der Klimaschutz nur eine Nebenrolle. Ein Kommentar

Der chilenische Autor, Journalist, Chefredakteur und Hochschullehrer Juan Pablo Cárdenas ist tot.

On October 8, the Green Party fell short in a parliamentary by-election for the London constituency of Holborn and St Pancras that had been triggered by the resignation of Keir Starmer. The by-election was always going to be a long shot for the Green leader Zack Polanski, who stood as the party’s ca ...

Die Mittelmeerinsel gehörte lange zu den EU-Staaten mit den niedrigsten Kraftstoffpreisen. Doch auch dort steigen die Kosten an der Zapfsäule.

Gehören Arzttermine dem Arzt oder den Krankenkassen? Oder wider Erwarten doch den Patienten? Ein Kommentar

In mehreren deutschen Städten organisieren Schüler Proteste gegen Bildungsnotstand und Militarisierung. Am 31. Oktober folgt ein Aktionstag.

Centuries before bookstores had shelves labeled ROMANCE and fictional hockey players locked eyes across the ice, the love story, with all of its attendant joys and sorrows, was an organizing principle of life—and of literature. The sentiment that another person might “complete” us enchanted both Pla ...

Um dem Rechtstrend etwas entgegenzusetzen, fordert die Ökonomin Isabella Weber eine »antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik«. Aber ist die umsetzbar?

Donald Trump has spent nearly two years investigating, suing, or prosecuting anybody in politics, media, or government who ever defied him. Now, with Democrats poised to win control of one or both chambers of Congress, the administration and its allies are prepared to slip back into their familiar p ...

Wer ist verantwortlich, wenn ein KI-System Übergriffe begeht oder Schaden anrichtet?

In den letzten Jahren werden Antisemitismusvorwürfe vermehrt von rechts für autoritäre Politik genutzt. Beispiele aus Großbritannien, USA und der BRD.

The clouds, piled in a dark heap over the Blueberry Ridge mobile-home park in Wells, Maine, looked like they would open up any minute. Residents sat in neatly arranged folding chairs behind a double-wide trailer, waiting for Troy Jackson, the state’s Democratic Senate candidate, to appear. Meanwhile ...

The shortest flight path from Russia to the United States would take an enemy bomber over the North Pole and across Canadian airspace. During the Cold War, that simple fact was the impetus for the creation of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, which forged an integrated radar ne ...

Spanien wählt im November ein neues Parlament. Sollten die Sozialdemokraten und ihre linken Partner scheitern, wäre dies dramatisch für Europa.

Der autoritäre Präsident schert sich weder um die Verfassung noch um Menschenrechte oder eine transparente Justiz.

Das mexikanische Drama »Moscas« ist ein Film über die stillen Verlierer des Lebens, die man leicht übersieht

Der Parteienforscher Franz Walter hat ein dickes Buch über den 2006 verstorbenen FAZ-Herausgeber Joachim Fest geschrieben

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.“BALANCED BUDGET!!! DJT” Donald Trump posted that promise on February 7, 2025, the 18th day of his current presidential term. During the 2024 campaign, he had promised even more: the elimination of the entire na ...

Die Anwältin Ingrid Escobar über die Folgen des jahrelangen Ausnahmezustands unter dem autoritären Präsidenten Nayib Bukele.

Das ukrainische Militär beklagt, das Satelliteninternet des US-Anbieters Starlink funktioniere nicht wie gewohnt. Ist Elon Musk dafür verantwortlich?

Die FFH-Richtlinie schützt Natur und Tiere in Europa. Reformpläne der EU könnten aber die Regelung empfindlich schwächen. Es formiert sich Protest.

Eine Browser-Erweiterung machte 2021 sichtbar, welche Wahlwerbung Nutzer zu sehen bekamen. Die daraus entstandenen Beschwerden führten zu Rügen für vier Parteien.

Over the next eight weeks, as winter envelops Ukraine, Russia plans to use the frigid weather as a weapon. Its arms factories have already made enough missiles and drones to take down Ukraine’s electrical grid, as well as the heating systems that millions of people rely on to stay warm. Homes far fr ...

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.Many people are understandably focused on the question of how AI will transform our civilization. Will ...

It was fitting that, just hours after the first public screenings of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary began last Thursday, Elon Musk put on a show of his own.That night, in Texas, Musk unveiled the company’s new Roadster prototype, a car that would defy gravity. Tesla built what was roughly one-half ...

At 8 p.m. on Sunday night, President Emmanuel Macron delivered a national address to condemn the rioting and looting that convulsed France this weekend, from Brittany to Perpignan. His suit and tie were black, instead of his customary navy blue, and he denounced the “seditionists from far-left fring ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Donald Trump is treating the championship golf course he wants to build in Washington, D.C., with the gravity of an actual emergency. He has posted on Truth Social about the course at least 15 times in ...

On October 14, the publisher Faber & Faber announced that it would stop selling books by the Irish novelist Sally Rooney in the United Kingdom. Rooney has declared her intention to donate her earnings to a group called Palestine Action, which was banned last year by the British government. Her p ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Donald Trump Jr. had a simple vision for his father’s foreign policy during the 2024 presidential campaign: If elected, Donald Trump was going to keep America out of another war in the Middle East.“Reme ...

In our hyperpolitical age, when mass protests come and go without much clear sense of what was won or lost, the strategies of social movements can seem quixotic, their benchmarks of success fuzzy. In the union world, however, success or failure can be measured in more cut-and-dried terms: by the rat ...

Updated at 9:30 a.m. ET on October 21, 2026This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.“There are some reasons to be president,” Donald Trump mused at a rally in Georgia earlier this month. Take a wild guess what these might be. The cool armored car? Cust ...

Always glad to see Elon Musk pummeled, of course, as he is in Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk, now playing in theaters. The film sounds the alarm over this right-wing trillionaire tech bastard, which can’t be done too early or too often. But there’s a problem when even I, a fervent, long-term Musk ha ...

Seit 30. Mai sind die Menschen in Albanien auf der Straße und fordern den Rücktritt von Ministerpräsident Edi Rama. Der setzt auf Repression.

In 1872, the German socialist newspaper Der Volksstaat ran a series of articles on housing. The breakneck growth of industrial cities had brought overcrowding, squalor, and soaring rents for workers. Their author, Arthur Mülberger, drawing on the ideas of the French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, ...

Im Berliner Umland mangelt es an bezahlbarem Wohnraum. Doch weiter weg von der Hauptstadt führt am Abriss kaum ein Weg vorbei.

Die umstrittene Abgeordnete Vanessa Emde könnte aus der Berliner Linksfraktion ausgeschlossen werden – aber nicht sofort. Sie hat sich krankgemeldet. Dass die Fraktion zögert, hat aber auch taktische Gründe.

Auf dem Investitionsgipfel in Berlin mobilisiert die Bundesregierung privates Kapital. Das hat Folgen für die öffentliche Grundversorgung.

Mit einem Berliner Senat unter Linke-Führung sehen Unionspolitiker den Faschismus heraufziehen, mindestens aber eine »Gefahr für den Standort«.

© Aytek Çetin / The 17th Epson International Pano AwardsSilent Citadel. 34th place (tie), Open—Nature / Landscapes. Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.© Xuecheng Liu / The 17th Epson International Pano AwardsCenter of the Cosmos. Winner, Open-Built Environment. Times Square, New York City. Liu: “Times Square is on ...

Die Bundesregierung will mehr private Investoren ins Land holen. Das ging nicht erst einmal schief. Ein Kommentar.

Die Sondierungsvereinbarung macht Hoffnung. Aber der Anhang zur Antisemitismusbekämpfung bleibt für viele Wähler ein Schlag ins Gesicht.

On Tuesday, September 22, the Spanish Council of Ministers refused to block a US extradition request for James “Fergie” Chambers, a prominent and wealthy leftist activist and donor. The council did not determine whether the US citizen and activist will be sent to the United States, but only whether ...

Die Serie parodiert seit 1989 die US-Politik. Dass »Apu« jetzt eine neue Stimme bekommt, ist überfällig und ein gutes Zeichen.

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsIn the past few weeks, President Trump has seemingly done an about-face in his support for Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky. The two leaders have long had a fraught relationship, to say the least, which reached a zen ...

In Kiew gibt es eine konzertierte Aktion gegen Vitali Klitschko. Dabei kann nur ein Souverän den Bürgermeister absetzen: das Volk. Ein Kommentar.

Susan Collins has been the senator from Maine for twenty-nine years, during which time she’s received scrutiny for her coziness with corporate donors, her record on war with Iran, and her votes against lowering prescription drug prices, among other things. But one of the most impactful measures on M ...

Die bürgerliche Öffentlichkeit verliert sich im rassistischen Kulturkampf, statt die sozialen Auslöser der Unruhen in Frankreich anzuerkennen. Ein Kommentar

In Marzahn-Hellersdorf gibt es Streit um ein Wohnungsbauprojekt in Biesdorf. Für Donnerstag ist eine Sondersitzung des Bezirksparlaments angesetzt.

Der Streit zwischen Vitali Klitschko und Wolodymyr Selenskyj geht in die nächste Runde. Dieses Mal dient der bevorstehende Winter als Vorwand.

Das Windrad fest im Blick: In der dritten Episode von »InsideBundestag« widmet man sich am Ballhaus Prinzenallee ein weiteres Mal der rechten Hegemonie.

In der Hauptstadt beschließen die Ökopartei und die SPD Koalitionsverhandlungen mit der Linken. Deren Parteitag ist erst am 31. Oktober.

It isn’t uncommon for states to retaliate against the filmmakers who insult them. Sergei Parajanov was imprisoned for daring to make poetic cinema in the era of Soviet Realism. Jafar Panahi’s twenty-year ban from filmmaking and six-year prison sentence have become the central theme of the very films ...

Unbekannte stellen eine Übersicht von 421.000 Mails ins Netz, sie sollen von der AfD stammen. Die spricht von einem Angriff auf einen Dienstleister

Rot-grün-rot sei »nicht zulässig«, meint Merz. Offenbar hat Berlin gewählt, ohne vorher beim Kanzler um Erlaubnis zu fragen, bemerkt unser Kolumnist.

Die ukrainische Armee vermeldet die erste besatzungslose Luftrettung eines Soldaten von der Front. Auch die Bundeswehr testet ein solches Gerät.

Next month, just in time for the holidays, Lego will launch its largest set yet: a miniature version of the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia. (“Perfect for anyone who loves visionary design, architecture or travel,” the website proclaims.) The price tag, at $799.99, is a bargain if you assess it on a ...

President Trump has previously called climate change a “hoax” and a “scam.” But last month, when the Environmental Protection Agency proposed rescinding the conclusion that greenhouse-gas emissions from the power sector “may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare,” it did not ...

When I first set out to report and write about what we now call the food system, I ran into a brick wall with editors in New York. This was in the late 1990s and early aughts. I was chasing stories about the new genetically modified crops, the fight over the federal definition of organic, and the ri ...

Eine Studie findet bei sechs Sprachmodellen Hinweise auf Datenflüsse an die Werbeindustrie. Einstellungen in Chatbots stoppen die Indiskretion kaum.

Das Wiedersehen der Königlichen mit den Rasenballsportlern aus der Messestadt ist ein besonderes: Nach dem letzten Aufeinandertreffen gelang Großes.

Speisen mit Safran erfüllen eine Sehnsucht nach Farbe, das Gewürz wird intensiv als Pflanzenarznei erforscht.

Wer Ulf Poschardt verstehen will, sollte einen Blick in die Vergangenheit werfen, ins Jahr 1994, als er noch »Die beste aller Welten« suchte.

One might think that the meaning of a word as common as strategy is clear, but it is not. The invaluable Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus inadvertently captures the confusion: “master plan, grand design, game plan, action plan, policy, program, tactics.” But a master plan is something more specifi ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsIn this new season of Autocracy in America, host Anne Applebaum sits down with leaders in politics, technology, and culture to discuss what can be done now to reverse the slide toward autocracy.The following is a transcript: ...

In »Die Briefe, die nicht ankamen« verbindet Mauricio Rosencof seine Haft in Uruguay mit fiktiven Briefen an seine im Holocaust ermordete Familie

Das dramatische Jahr 1956: Chruschtschows »Geheimrede«, der blutige Herbst in Ungarn und die Suez-Krise.

Eine Recherche zu israelischen Firmen zeigt, wie über Werbung Spionagesoftware auf Smartphones geschleust wird – ohne dass die Opfer klicken müssen.

Die kanadische Provinz Alberta stimmt über den Weg in die Unabhängigkeit ab. Erste Prognosen zeigen: Die Mehrheit will nicht, dass weitere Schritte in diese Richtung gegangen werden.

Die Verkehrsminister der Länder wollen ein neues Angebot für gelegentliche Fahrten mit Bus und Bahn auf den Weg bringen. Es soll bundesweit gelten.

Sozialdemokraten und Grüne machen den Weg frei für Koalitionsverhandlungen mit der Linken. Die Parteigremien stimmen für das Bündnis.

Unionsabgeordnete kommen der SPD bei der Rente nach 45 Versicherungsjahren entgegen. Doch im Detail gibt es noch Gesprächsbedarf.

For the first time since the dawn of the automobile, the majority of new cars are not powered exclusively by gasoline: So far in 2026, electric vehicles and hybrids are outselling traditional gas-powered cars. As oil prices have gone up and up since the start of the war in Iran, drivers from Hanoi 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.You might imagine that, given the imminent midterm elections, a spluttering war in Iran, and his sinkin ...

This year, the Trump administration gave federal firefighters a mandate: no more letting fires burn. Conventional wisdom among firefighters and public-land managers has held that allowing fires in remote areas to run their course can be beneficial. But now the administration’s new U.S. Wildland Fire ...

After protests and riots swept France this weekend following the escalating social movement sparked by high schooler blockades, right-wingers internationally responded with a straightforwardly racist narrative. They’re portraying the protests as the work of Muslim invaders, in a treasonous alliance ...

Nach vier Wochen haben sich Linke, Grüne und SPD auf Koalitionsgespräche geeinigt. Sie wollen ein Landeswahlrecht für Ausländer, die Expo und noch viel mehr.

Diskussionen mit Rassismus- oder Antisemitismusvorwürfen pauschal zu sanktionieren, ist der falsche Weg in der Nahost-Debatte. Ein Kommentar.

In the Acts of the Apostles, the followers of Jesus Christ are repeatedly described as belonging to “the Way.” In the modern Christian lexicon, this phrase is often understood as a spiritual path rather than a physical one. One travels the Way from a life without Christ to one with him. Returning to ...

In 1996, during the early years of the web, I could see that those of us who were participating online were creating an extraordinary new record of human activity—and allowing it to disappear almost as quickly as we made it.The web was becoming the place where government officials made promises, jou ...

Bei der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung wurde am Wochenende erörtert, wie Solidarität mit Kuba in Zeiten der verschärften US-Blockade aussehen kann.

Noch unter dem Eindruck von Polizei­gewalt und Verein­nahmung nach dem CSD-Anschlag drangen Berliner Polizist*innen in queer organisierte Räume ein

In Berlin-Kreuzberg verschwindet der Name eines preußischen Offiziers aus dem Straßenbild. Dafür gibt es jetzt den Eva-Mamlok-Platz.

Der ehemalige Bundestagsabgeordnete der Linken gilt als Vermittler zwischen dem BSW und der AfD – und ließ sich zu einer verbotenen Parole hinreißen.

Frankreichs Präsident Emmanuel Macron hat die landesweiten Ausschreitungen kritisiert und eine unnachgiebige Antwort angekündigt.

Kommission und Mitgliedstaaten wollen pauschale Zurückweisungen Schutzsuchender im Rahmen eines »Notfallmechanismus« ermöglichen.

Auf einer internationalen Konferenz in Berlin-Kreuzberg berichteten Frauen aus linken Bewegungen, wie sie gegen sexistische Polizeigewalt kämpfen.

Linke, Grüne und SPD wollen in Berlin Wohnungsbestände von mehr als 10.000 enteignen. Das stößt auf Ablehnung von allen Seiten.

Die Kriegsmüdigkeit auf die Bühne gebracht: Für das Staatstheater Cottbus hat Christina Friedrich »Der Frieden« von Peter Hacks inszeniert.

Der Aufstand hat eine historische Intensität und geht auch quantitativ über die Proteste der Gelbwesten vor Jahren hinaus.

Der Aufstand auf den Straßen Frankreichs hatte eine historische Intensität und auch quantitativ ging es über die Gelbwestenproteste hinaus.

Im Januar wird eine neue Parteispitze gewählt. Ob sich dann der Flügel durchsetzt, der den aktuellen Kurs kritisiert, bleibt offen. Ein Kommentar

Silkwood, a 1983 dramatization of the life of worker-activist Karen Silkwood, starring Cher, Kurt Russell and Meryl Streep, is the best and probably the only Hollywood movie about occupational safety and health. It tells the story of the transformation of Silkwood from a carefree worker in a Kerr-Mc ...

Nvidia-Chips ermöglichten den Boom Künstlicher Intelligenz, jetzt folgt mit KI-Agenten auf dem Laptop die nächste Revolution von Konzernchef Jensen Huang.

Nvidia-Chips ermöglichten den Boom Künstlicher Intelligenz, jetzt folgt mit Laptop-Rechenzentren die nächste Revolution von Konzernchef Jensen Huang.

Mehr Licht? Am Deutschen Theater Berlin ist der buchpreisprämierte Roman »Die Holländerinnen« zu sehen. Texttreu, klug – und ein bisschen langweilig.

Die USA könnten in Deutschland bald auch sensible Daten zu Migranten oder Antifaschisten abfragen. Dieser neue Polizeivertrag wird geheim verhandelt.

Wenn man jung ist, will man kein Rennpferd im Kapitalismus sein. Wird man älter, ist es gut, wenn man sich mit 60 noch selbst die Schuhe binden kann.

“Isn’t that illegal?”That’s a question I get asked a lot as a former federal prosecutor. Donald Trump, his family, and members of his administration are most often the inspiration. Last year, the Qataris gave the U.S. Defense Department a $400 million luxury jumbo jet for the president’s use, which ...

In 1989, the year the West won the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama published an essay announcing “the end of history.” He wasn’t claiming that historic events would stop taking place; what was over, rather, was the debate about the meaning of those events. Since the Enlightenment, Western thinkers had be ...

Die spanische Linke tritt bei den Wahlen getrennt an. Das macht eine rechts-ultrarechte Regierung noch wahrscheinlicher. Ein Kommentar.

Der Bau der Dangote-Ölraffinerie in Kenia kann weitergehen. So hat ein Gericht diese Woche entschieden. Anwohner fühlen sich übergangen.

Die 20-Jährige bleibt nach ihrem tollen Turnier das größte Versprechen im deutschen Tischtennis, das auch insgesamt eine erfolgreiche EM erlebte.

How’s this for a job offer? In the span of no more than 10 years, you’re to have seven babies for C-suite women at a major tech firm. You’ll be on a strict diet and exercise regime, your vitals constantly monitored. You can’t have sex. Or a C-section (lest you forgo the “natural birth bonus”). Nor c ...

Ever since Zohran Mamdani exhilarated the left with his out-of-nowhere mayoral campaign, mainstream Democrats have been dejectedly searching for an inspirational figure of their own. Where is the Democratic executive who has the media savvy to inspire his own cultlike following while making pragmati ...

Suddenly, Canada is in the middle of a defense boom. Like other NATO countries that have skimped on their armed forces for decades, Canada is trying to quickly build up its military in the face of both rising international-security threats and a White House that regularly treats friends like foes. I ...

Migrantenorganisationen berichten von einer wachsenden Ablehnung. Was sie vor einer möglichen AfD-Regierung in Sachsen-Anhalt verlangen.

Seit einem Jahr ist Sanae Takaichi Japans erste Premierministerin. Viele Versprechen und Hoffnungen konnte sie bisher nicht erfüllen.

Senator Susan Collins desperately needed to change the subject. As she stepped around cow manure at the annual Fryeburg Fair, a reporter was asking her about President Trump’s musing that he might campaign in Maine during the closing weeks of the election—an invitation that Collins, trying once agai ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.A new boogeyman arrived in Democratic campaign ads this year with such force that it was possible to forget it had ever been absent. Slotted between clichés about “rising costs,” the “rigged economy,” a ...

Hubertus Heil schließt eine Kandidatur für den SPD-Parteivorsitz nicht aus. Entscheidend seien für ihn die Richtung und das Team an der Spitze.

Die kanadische Provinz Alberta ist ölreich und konservativ. Eine Unabhängigkeitsbewegung gibt es dort schon länger. Jetzt findet ein Referendum statt.

Ein Datenträger führt die Ermittler zu 398 Verdachtsfällen in Deutschland. Nun müssen die Finanzämter prüfen, ob Steuern hinterzogen wurden.

President Trump’s inexplicable decision to waive some sanctions on Russia, announced late Friday, essentially gives a pass to the forces of evil in the Kremlin. The move effectively nullifies legislation that was named after the late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, passed by huge bipartisan major ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.In the past week, the president of the United States has conclusively turned America into an ally of the Russian Federation.Donald Trump has now abandoned pretense and is openly aiding the Kremlin in it ...

Nach einem emotionalen Abschied droht Franz Wagner in der NBA ein komplizierter Saisonstart

Jacobin began in the United States, but our emancipatory project has always been internationalist. The questions we’re focused on — about who holds power in our societies, about how capitalism shapes our lives, and how working people can abolish class society — extend across borders.Alongside our En ...

Montreal has been touted as a major creative hub for the video game industry for over twenty years, leading the province of Quebec’s efforts to develop its digital creative sector. The industry reportedly generates CAD$1.4 billion in annual revenues within the province, yet game workers feel the lac ...

Anwar Shaikh, one of the most important Marxist economists of his generation, died on October 6 at the age of eighty in New York City.Two years ago, a conference was held to mark his retirement from the Department of Economics at the New School for Social Research, where he had taught for fifty year ...

Here’s a question progressives get asked constantly: Fine, you want universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy — but how are you going to pay for it? As part of the Game Changers project, economists Gerald Epstein and Aaron Medlin just answered it with a full accounting. They price o ...

English food does not have a good reputation. In 1806, Grimod de La Reynière, a pioneering French food critic, wrote that “[England’s] cooking is limited to boiled chickens.” More than two hundred years later, stereotypes about the country’s food have hardly improved.Looking at the staple icons of E ...

Linke, Grüne und SPD haben ihre Sondierungen erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Jetzt müssen die Parteigremien über Koalitionsverhandlungen entscheiden.

Die Magdeburgerin holt erstes Regenbogentrikot für German Cycling – und mit Partner Maximilian Dörnbach die komplette Medaillensammlung in Shanghai.

According to data from a sweeping new study of working-class legislators by political scientists Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu, only about 2 percent of legislators across the world’s democracies held a working-class job — which the authors define as manual, service, or clerical work — before getting ...

In the ten weeks since multimillionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella was inaugurated as Colombia’s president, the country has undergone a significant political shift with respect to asserting its national sovereignty, with Colombia returning to — and potentially deepening — its subordinate positi ...

Nach 15 Jahren Abstinenz will die Linke wieder in den Düsseldorfer Landtag einziehen. Dabei will sie von den Berliner Erfahrungen lernen

China’s internet is known for a vast system of censorship and surveillance that has evolved alongside its booming digital economy. Yet the story of the Chinese internet is not simply one of authoritarian control or unrestricted growth. In her book, The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connect ...

Bei der Stichwahl ums Präsidentenamt in Brasilien geht es auch um die Erfolge beim Regenwaldschutz. Ein Kommentar.

UN-Organisation fordert, Nutzung und Schutz der Artenvielfalt stärker in den Fokus der weltweiten Handelspolitik zu rücken

UN-Naturkonferenz in Jerewan berät über die mangelhafte Umsetzung der globalen Biodiversitätsziele. NGOs fordern endlich konkrete Maßnahmen.

Between the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the calamitous stalemate of Donald Trump’s war in Iran, the American foreign policy consensus has been coming apart. Popular support for the United States’ violent foreign policy has reached an unprecedented nadir, as Americans increasingly recognize the down ...

Die Staatsführung kündigt einen beschleunigten ökologischen Umbau bis 2030 an. Die Pläne reichen von CO2-neutralen Fabriken bis zum sparsameren Konsum.

Britain’s latest prime minister, Andy Burnham, raised hackles on his first trip to the North of Ireland when he declared a referendum on Irish unity to be “off the table.” Burnham may simply have intended to say that it wasn’t on the short-term agenda, since there is no sign as yet that a majority o ...

Julia Klöckner wünscht sich mehr Toleranz gegenüber Andersdenkenden. Außer natürlich sie sind links und kritisieren einen Völkermord. Ein Kommentar.

Zwischen Trash und Rechtsruck: »Horrotica«, eine neue Reihe aus dem Bastei-Verlag, wirkt so, als hätte es den Feminismus nie gegeben.

Was ist »La Graciosa«? Karin Kaper und Dirk Szuszies würdigen die kleinste kanarische Insel mit all ihren Tourismusproblemen in einem Dokumentarfilm.

Bauarbeiten für Straßenbahn-Betriebshof in Berlin-Adlershof starten. Das Verfahren für eine wichtige Strecke in Richtung Köpenick stockt.

Abholzung im Amazonasgebiet des lateinamerikanischen Landes sinkt auf niedrigsten Stand seit fast 40 Jahren

Afghanistan, Somalia, Niger: Besonders gefährdete Länder erhalten zu wenig Geld, um sich an die Klimakrise anzupassen.

Die Eskalation des Bürgerkriegs sorgt für eine Ausbreitung von Cholera und Masern. Auch die medizinische Erstversorgung ist nicht gewährleistet.

Die Versorgungswege in die drittgrößte jemenitischen Stadt Taizz wurden von den Huthi-Rebellen abgeschnitten. Den Bewohnern droht eine humanitäre Katastrophe.

Eric Nissen über den Zusammenhang zwischen Darstellungen von Kriminalität in Zeitungen und Online-Plattformen und dem Sicherheitsgefühl der Menschen.

On the west side of Manhattan, near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, there is a nearly seventy-foot-tall concrete building containing five thousand tons of road salt. The walls of the Spring Street Salt Shed slope inward and outward in enormous pale planes; the whole thing is meant to resemble a ...

On October 10, India’s capital city, New Delhi, was turned into a fortress as protesters tried to oppose a countrywide exercise to revise the electoral rolls. The protests were called by the Gen Z movement known as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), working with left-wing student groups, which forced ...

Die KvU, ein aus der linken DDR-Opposition entstandener Klub, hat ihr neues Domizil wieder in einer Kirche aufgeschlagen.

Zur Liebknecht-Luxemburg-Demonstration im Januar soll die Dauerbaustelle in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde endlich Geschichte sein.

Die Zapatistische Armee zur nationalen Befreiung trifft sich in Mexiko-Stadt mit den Mütter-Initiativen, die nach ihren verschwundenen Kindern suchen.

Eine Familie mit Kindern und ein kranker Mann aus Algerien müssen nicht länger im Transitbereich des Airports BER ausharren. Das entschied die Justiz.

Landesarbeitsgericht bestätigt Urteil aus der ersten Instanz. Uni-Leitung dämpft Erwartungen über baldige Auszahlungen.

Reporting on how badly Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook drama The Social Reckoning is flopping, I won’t bother to do any better than USA Today’s mild zinger, “Moviegoers are unfriending The Social Reckoning.”Meanwhile, the critically panned horror film Other Mommy is crushing it at the box office. But that’s ...

Die Linke-Abgeordnete Vanessa Emde hält an Aussagen zu Israel und dem Nahost-Konflikt fest. Fraktionsspitze sieht keine »Arbeitsgrundlage mehr«.

Die Bundesregierung legt die Finanzbildung in die Hände der Finanzindustrie. Das soll zu mehr Chancengleichheit führen. Ein wasserdichter Plan.

If progressives and radicals had all read Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Church when it came out in 1995, we’d be far stronger today. It’s the most important book on organizing that most leftists haven’t read. Luckily, it’s not too late to discover it.Warren founded Saddleback Church in suburban O ...

»Jeder Acker, jede Fabrik« ist ein anregender Lehrfilm gegen den Terror der Ökonomie. Anarchistisch und kommunistisch inspiriert, ohne zu nerven.

Solidarität mit den Protesten französischer Schüler ist legitim, gibt die Berliner Gewerkschaft der Polizei zu – und schimpft über die Linksjugend

After four years of a right-wing government that the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) heavily influenced, the parties that refuse to cooperate with the SD secured a narrow victory in the general election on September 13. However, the winning side consists of four parties that are politically very far ...

Berliner Diesterweg-Gymnasium darf sichtbare Gebete weiterhin verbieten. Verwaltungsgericht wies Klage der Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte ab.

Im Verfahren um eine Sabotageaktion gegen den israelischen Rüstungskonzern Elbit lehnten Richterin und Anklage die Befragung eines Ökonomen ab.

Im Verfahren um eine Sabotageaktion gegen den israelischen Rüstungskonzern Elbit lehnten Richterin und Anklage die Befragung eines Ökonomen ab.

Emily Atefs Film »Call Me Queen« erzählt vom Kampf für den Zugang zu HIV-Medikamenten im Kenia der Neunzigerjahre.

Das Vorhaben einer bundeseigenen Wohnungsbaugesellschaft zeugt von der Hilflosigkeit der Bundesregierung. Ein Kommentar.

In Aserbaidschan werden Schülerinnen wegen des Hidschabs vom Unterricht ausgeschlossen. Die Regierung beruft sich auf Säkularismus und nationale Identität.

Since the outbreak of high school blockades and students protests in French Guiana and Mayotte this September, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party, La France Insoumise, has continued to rise in the polls. After a rally in Clermont-Ferrand last Sunday, filling the city’s biggest arena — the third-largest in F ...

In ihrer Ausstellung »Schicht zur Sonne« lotet Luise Marchand zwischen Fritteuse, Spieltheorie und Werbeästhetik die Ökonomie des Begehrens aus.

Mieter- und Gewerkschaftsbund fordern schärfere Regulierungen am Mietmarkt. Die Überführung von Wohnungen in Gemeineigentum polarisiert weiterhin.

Die großen US-Gewerkschaften unterstützen die No-Kings-Proteste, die am Wochenende in eine neue Runde gehen. Aber es gibt Ausnahmen.

Die Hormus-Blockade legt die Abhängigkeiten der fossilen Landwirtschaft offen. Steigende Energie- und Düngerpreise treiben die Lebensmittelpreise.

Der Welthunger-Index 2026 zeigt: Die Lage hat sich weltweit erstmals in der bis 2000 zurückreichenden Datenreihe wieder verschlechtert

Der deutsch-französische Deal beim Verbrenner-Aus wird der Mobilitätswende und der hiesigen Autoindustrie schaden. Ein Kommentar.

Millionen Menschen rauchen in Deutschland, das beschert dem Bund Milliarden über die Tabaksteuer. Künftig sollen es noch mehr Einnahmen werden.

Eine Menschenkette hinderte den AfD-Politiker Tillschneider an der Teilnahme an einer Gedenkfeier in Halle. Das hat Folgen für die Studierenden.

Mit der geplanten Pflegereform sollen sich die Regeln für die Eingruppierung verschärfen. Dem sollten Betroffene zuvorkommen.

There are few places outside Turkey that occupy such a mournful place in the country’s popular memory as Yemen.For generations, Turks who knew little about the politics of the Arabian Peninsula nevertheless knew Yemen through folk songs. They were ballads about young men sent from Anatolia to fight ...

Up until now, the Donald Trump-J. D. Vance administration has been busy weaponizing the US immigration system against fairly low-level political opponents: college students protesting US support for Israel’s genocide, independent journalists applying scrutiny to government policies, or random touris ...

Der Antifaschist Rexinho »Gino« Abazaj macht den Weg für seine Anklage in Deutschland frei. Ein Leben auf der Flucht komme für ihn nicht infrage.

In Mönchengladbach soll eine Haftanstalt für Personen gebaut werden, die abgeschoben werden sollen. Dagegen gingen erneut Menschen auf die Straße.

As the US midterm elections approach, one word keeps coming up in campaign promises and headlines: “affordability.” That working people in the United States are struggling to afford basic necessities is a problem that many are willing to acknowledge, but there is very little agreement on what should ...

Wenn die Linkspartei Berlin regieren will, darf die Landesspitze bei innerparteilichem Gegenwind nicht zusammenknicken.

Die Neuregelung stößt auf Zustimmung. Doch es gibt Zweifel, ob das neue System die bestehenden Engpässe auffangen kann.

Eric Hobsbawm’s life began just as the “long nineteenth century” was drawing to a close. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, and formed as a youth in Red Vienna and Weimar-era Berlin, he came to intellectual maturity in interwar Cambridge and postwar London. His Ages tetralogy firmly established him on cours ...

Deutsche Journalisten und Politiker offenbaren bei ihren Äußerungen zum Anschlag auf die russisch-deutschen Pipelines ihre Doppelmoral.

Ten years ago, while socialist Bernie Sanders was making his historic run for the Democratic presidential nomination that drew millions of supporters and promised a “political revolution” to live long past his campaign, I was part of a small revolutionary organization that pooh-poohed him as a faux ...

Linke-Sondierer Tobias Schulze im Interview zu Rot-Grün-Rot, Vergesellschaftung und Antisemitismus

Linke-Sondierer Tobias Schulze im Interview zu Rot-Grün-Rot, Vergesellschaftung und Antisemitismus

Lettland hat den russischen Journalisten Leonid Ragozin zur Persona non grata erklärt. Er vermutet seine Kritik an rechten Politikern als Grund.

Zwei Fliegen, eine Klappe: Die Zuckersteuer soll Gesundheit fördern und zugleich den Haushalt aufbessern. Ob das so funktioniert? Ein Kommentar

In 7 von 15 Proben der halbgefrorenen Süßigkeit entdeckte das Landeslabor Berlin-Brandenburg gefährliche Konzentrationen des Zusatzstoffs.

War fever has gripped the European political establishment. War in Ukraine and rumors of continent-wide conflict with Russia are now the staple justification for rearmament, ballooning arms budgets, and the reintroduction of conscription across Europe.Popular consent for this lurch to militarization ...

Trumps neue Pressesprecherin Katie Zacharia ist womöglich eine Aufschneiderin. Sie gibt sich als Anwältin aus, aber es gibt Zweifel, ob sie das ist.

Mit einer neuen Koalition dürfte auch das Projekt einer Stelzenbahn für Spandau in der Schublade verschwinden. Ganz sinnlos sind Monorails aber nicht.

An der Berliner Charité kämpft Verdi für den Erhalt des Entlastungstarifvertrags. Der Ausgang dürfte erneut wegweisend sein. Ein Kommentar.

Weniger Präsenz, weniger Konfliktpotenzial: Diese gute Idee scheitert nicht nur an gewaltsuchenden Fans, denn die Politik fühlt sich überrumpelt.

Im Bundestag wiesen Unionspolitiker Forde­rungen nach Anerkennung der Kolonial­verbrechen in Namibia als Genozid sowie Reparations­forde­rungen zurück.

Die Welt wird menschenfeindlicher, zugleich werden immer mehr Drogen produziert, gehandelt, konsumiert. Einleitendes zum Schwerpunkt »Drogenpolitik«

Auf Ersuchen aus Washington gibt Amsterdams Polizei Technik von Autistici/Inventati heraus. Wird Material für einen Workshop in Deutschland gesucht?

Junge Menschen berauschen sich nicht weniger, sondern anders

Der deutsche Völkermord in Namibia ist für Nachfahren der Opfer keine Vergangenheit – ohne Gerechtigkeit gibt es keine Heilung für das Trauma.

Sieben Tische, kaum Publikum: Zum Start in Ljubljana wirkte die EM wie eine Schulveranstaltung. Dort kämpfen Europas Tischtennisstars um die Titel.

Einem Bericht zufolge könnten US-Amerikaner und Europäer gemeinsam an einem Friedensplan für die Ukraine arbeiten.

Angesichts der männerdominierten Szene besteht Bedarf für Frauenschutzräume in der offenen Drogenhilfe. Wie sehen die Nutzerinnen deren Gestaltung?

Zölle, Quoten, Aufrüstung – wie die EU gegenüber China versucht, ihre industrielle und militärische Macht zu retten.

Allerorts werden Substanzen konsumiert, aber die Straßenszene stört. Ein Gespräch mit Rebekka Streck über Nutzen und Grenzen von »Drogenkonsumräumen«

Gut konsumierbar: Die Performance-Ikone Marina Abramovič hat ihre Inszenierung »Balkan Erotic Epic« ins Haus der Berliner Festspiele geschickt.

Die Grippesaison könnte früh beginnen. Dr. Schmidt erklärt, wann die Impfung schützt und was die Impfstoff-Produktion beeinflusst.

A few days from now, my adopted hometown of Vancouver in British Columbia is going to elect a new mayor and council. The low turnout in municipal elections here skews toward affluent owners of detached houses who pay the most property tax and grumble about it. Mayor Ken Sim and his ABC (“A Better Ci ...

Sitting in the trashy garden of a café frequented by students near an iconic Belgrade market, we are, naturally, discussing the elections. A somewhat hippieish father of a friend complains that the situation is terrible, that he’s never seen such polarization, and that decades-old colleagues are bar ...

The person most responsible for the recognition of Charles Manson as a quasi-icon of the twenty-first-century radical right is James Mason. Born in 1952, Mason is a lifelong white supremacist activist who joined George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party as a teen, then Joseph Tommasi’s more radi ...

Durch die US-Blockade und Privatisierungen nehmen auch in Kuba Armut und soziale Ungleichheit zu. Ein Gespräch mit der Soziologin Geydis Fundora.

After three years of slaughter in Gaza, some leading officials of the Biden administration are trying to justify their record. Figures like Antony Blinken and Brett McGurk have been on media tours recently giving their version of the story. Meanwhile, Akbar Shahid Ahmed has been working to provide a ...

Wollen Medienhäuser überleben, müssen sie ihr Denken radikal ändern: Die doppelseitige Literaturkritik wird den Journalismus retten.

Die Kombination aus Banalem und Brutalem: Ein Gespräch mit dem Schriftsteller Jannis Poptrandov, zum Beispiel über das Dichten im Bus.

For just over five years, Bryan Johnson has been spending more than $2 million a year trying not to die. The American technology millionaire has turned his body into an elaborate — or, depending on your perspective, recklessly extravagant — experiment in human longevity, subjecting himself to extens ...

Politicians are often accused of playing toy soldiers. Rarely, however, do they actually do it. The Wargame is an exception. Sky TV’s new four-part docudrama, which features a cast of prominent former ministers and securocrats, follows the British government as it responds to an imminent attack from ...

Nach Havanna kommen kaum noch Touristen. Auf sie warten Taxifahrer bis zu 24 Stunden. Die wichtigste Frage: Gibt es Strom und wenn ja, wie lange?

Ende Juli kamen Tausende Menschen nach Ceuta. Die Schlagzeilen sind verschwunden, die Gewalt nicht. Eine Aktivistin von No Name Kitchen berichtet.

Amid resounding recent victories for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), on September 20 Germany’s socialist party Die Linke bucked the trend with a spectacular victory in Berlin. It dominated the campaign with its program of ending cuts, capping rents, and socializing housing companies, leaving ...

You can tell the capitalist system is in trouble when Americans start talking about Eugene Debs. Although the popular image of the great labor and socialist leader has ebbed and flowed since his death a century ago this month, our New Gilded Age has placed him back in the spotlight. Progressive poli ...

Between September 18 and 20, Russians voted for a new State Duma, along with several regional parliaments and governors. According to the Central Election Commission, turnout reached 59.8 percent, up eight points since 2021. The result was the one everyone expected.Vladimir Putin’s United Russia too ...

The specially chartered locomotive pulled out of Chicago on a late August day in 1908, heading west, a sleeper car, dining car, and baggage car loaded with socialist pamphlets in tow. Red flags poked out, bunting and streamers festooning the sides.The passengers were in high spirits. Socialist Party ...

Am Ende war die DDR hoch verschuldet. Das gilt heute als Binsenweisheit. Doch war die Deutsche Demokratische Republik wirklich pleite?

Das Weiße Haus hat mehrere rassistische Videospiele veröffentlicht. Sie sind ein Paradebeispiel für Trumps Propaganda

Speaking with members of the newly formed AutoZone Workers Union, you would never guess that one of them had just been fired — and that another would be the next morning. That’s what happened to Nathan DuCongé and then David Valencia after they won their union election. On a Zoom call with Jacobin, ...

When Robert Kramer’s 1968 film The Edge reached Los Angeles, its ad in the Free Press posed a provocative question: “Should we kill the President?” And while Lyndon Johnson survived that film’s alienated would-be assassin, Kramer’s next film left little question as to where he stood. Ice, shot in ea ...

It seems every week a new piece about the decline and fall of the American reading habit goes viral. The idea that we’re entering a literary apocalypse that threatens to destabilize our democracy is perhaps overstated, but nobody is denying the book-reading trend is grim. In the most recent internat ...

For nearly three-quarters of a century, central banks and policymakers have relied on the Phillips curve: the idea that inflation can be kept in check by disciplining worker power and putting restraints on employment levels. In 2026, does that theory, and the depoliticization of monetary policy that ...

On TikTok, there are dozens and dozens of videos of men and women, many of them young, staring into the camera to talk earnestly about an eight-hundred-page novel that was published forty-one years ago. “I didn’t see the western phase of my life coming, but I’m glad we’re here,” one woman says. “I w ...

In the political culture of the United States, individual liberty is frequently thought of as possessing intrinsic and overriding importance. The political right and the political left in the United States have long competed to be seen as the true champions of individual freedom, and each has tried ...

In the video, a lanky, crisply-dressed Muslim man of Malian descent walks through a cathedral to the heady sounds of organ music. Several seconds later, he is pictured shaking hands with the most important figure in the Catholic Church: Pope Leo XIV. Off camera, the two exchange gifts and a few word ...

War is in the air in Europe. Over the four years and counting that it’s raged, the Ukraine war has often been compared to the two world wars, being the largest land war the continent’s seen since the second of those and having surpassed the length of the first this past June. But unlike those disast ...

Four thousand two hundred and twenty-nine dollars. That was the cost of joining the University of Alabama’s Delta Delta Delta Panhellenic sorority, affectionately known as “Tridelt” to its members, for the 2025 fall semester. The spring semester will run you another $4,005, and if you’d like to live ...

J. D. Vance is the vice president of the United States of America, and in that position, he is president of the United States Senate. He is the highest-ranking Roman Catholic member of the executive branch. He has a law degree from one of the best law schools in the country. He’s a Marine Corps vete ...

A hundred years since the opening of Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany, there may be no centenary. This December 4, the winner of the election in the surrounding state of Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), does not intend to throw a big party for the B ...

Online pornography is often seen as a corner of the web that doesn’t bear much analysis. And yet it can hardly be ignored. Firstly, that’s because of the sheer size of the adult-content industry — a sector that in itself is worth around $97 billion annually worldwide and that, at peak times, command ...

Shawn Fain and the United UAW slate are headed toward a sweeping victory in the union’s internal elections for its International Executive Board. The results will not be finalized for some time, but the unofficial results are unequivocal: United Auto Workers members are overwhelmingly backing Fain a ...

Five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the communist historian Eric Hobsbawm published his best-selling history of the twentieth century, The Age of Extremes. The book presented a man coming to terms with the fate of the political project to which he had committed his adult life while trying ...

The discourse around Abdul El-Sayed’s position on Medicare for All is mostly confused. Reading most of the reporting on the matter would lead one to believe that El-Sayed initially supported Medicare for All but now merely supports a “public option.” This is not really true under conventional meanin ...

Most economists assume that when workers with similar skills earn very different pay, something must be blocking normal competition. But for Howard Botwinick, capitalist competition itself creates those gaps. His book Persistent Inequalities: Wage Disparity under Capitalist Competition, first publis ...

Less than two weeks after a wave of housing protests broke out across Spain, on Monday center-left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called an early general election. Upending the country’s political agenda in just days, the protests created an opportunity for an embattled Sánchez to go to the polls on m ...

Given all the headlines about the US government trying to deport one or another migrant over their foreign policy views, you’d be forgiven for thinking this is a uniquely Trumpian innovation. Sadly, as the recent developments out of Latvia show, it’s far from it.Yesterday news broke that Leonid Rago ...

The history of the American left is marked by imposing peaks and valleys. Over the last century and a half, organizations have sprung up and, often within a decade of their founding, become major institutions of US politics. They have typically declined nearly as quickly, with few sustaining their p ...

Early last week, the Trump administration’s State Department announced visa restrictions on a group of Latin American officials it accused of corruption and of “undermining democratically-selected governments.” Of the twenty-one people it targeted in Bolivia, Washington chose to name only one: Boliv ...

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov, on screen, addresses the UN Security Council [File: Richard Drew/AP]

Cristiano Ronaldo of Al Nassr is presented with the Saudi Pro League Trophy [Abdullah Ahmed/Getty Images]

Mourners stand next to bodies of victims killed in the Israeli strike on the southern village of Deir Qanoun en-Nahr, on May 21, 2026 [AFP]

US President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC [Kent Nishimura/AFP]

Flotillas carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza began in 2008, two years after Israel imposed a blockade on the Strip. Two boats succeeded, despite Israeli attempts to stop them.Since then, Israeli forces have forced several flotillas to turn back, and detained hundreds of activists, sometimes violently ...

Players from Iran’s national football team are in Turkey applying for US visas for the 2026 World Cup. Some are still awaiting approval just weeks before kickoff.

Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday to meet with his Iranian counterpart Eskandar Momeni, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported.The United States and Iran have continued to exchange proposals for peace since a temporary ceasefire between them ...

Israeli Minister of National Security and leader of the far-right party Otzma Yehudit, Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks during a meeting of his party at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, 03 November 2025 [Abir Sultan/EPA]On Wednesday, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted ...

Vessels sail through the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 20, 2026 [Reuters]Eleven weeks after the start of the Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz has remained closed to naval traffic, bleeding the global economy far beyond the Gulf.Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) maintains an iron ...

Iranian football team players and members of their delegation leave the US embassy in Ankara after submitting their visa applications [Adem Altan/AFP]Iran’s football team have attended visa appointments in Turkiye ahead of the World Cup, with the whole squad applying for Canadian visas and some play ...

Mauritania's mourchidates programme is a case study on investing in conditions that make radicalisation less likely [Michelle Cattani/AFP]Nouakchott, Mauritania – Across a vast stretch of the Sahel and West Africa, armed groups are expanding their reach, military governments are replacing fragile de ...

Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir has long sought a bill introducing the death penalty for 'terrorists' [File: EPA]

Activists from the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, detained by Israeli forces after their vessels were intercepted in international waters in the Mediterranean, celebrate upon arrival at Istanbul airport, in Turkiye, on May 21, 2026 [Murad Sezer/Reuters]

Israeli forces intercepting Gaza-bound flotilla [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]

This week, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, posted a video on social media of himself taunting flotilla activists held by Israeli forces.In one clip, a handcuffed activist shouts “Free Palestine” as Ben-Gvir strolls past. She is immediately seized by the hair and shoved to the g ...

This image, posted to social media by a former Moscow-backed official in Ukraine's occupied Donetsk region, shows him with representatives of Chinese companies that struck a business deal with his separatist administration [Handout/Evgeny Solntsev via Telegram]

Azmoun has scored 57 goals in his 91 appearances for his country and was part of Iran’s squad in its last two appearances at the World Cup [File: Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

The kite was signed by children in Gaza and carried to the summit by a group of mountaineers [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]

A banner depicts US-Israeli attacks on Iran in the capital, Tehran [File: Atta Kenare/AFP]

Тankers sail in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, near the border with Oman’s Musandam governance on March 11, 2026 [Stringer/Reuters]If tomorrow Iran, the United States and Israel were to announce a peace deal and the Strait of Hormuz were to reopen, the war ...

Тankers sail in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, near the border with Oman’s Musandam governance on March 11, 2026 [Stringer/Reuters]If tomorrow Iran, the United States and Israel were to announce a peace deal and the Strait of Hormuz were to reopen, the war ...

Mohamed Salah will lead Egypt for the first time at a World Cup [File: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]

An Iranian woman holds a rifle next to cardboard cutouts depicting US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [File: Shahzaib Akber/EPA]

Aston Villa's players celebrate with the trophy after winning the UEFA Europa League final against SC Freiburg at Besiktas Park in Istanbul [Stefano Relladini/AFP]Aston Villa ended their 30-year trophy drought in style as spectacular goals from Youri Tielemans and Emiliano Buendia inspired a 3-0 win ...

This is the story of Walid Daqqa, one of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, told by his immediate family and in voice recordings he made behind bars.From a sharp-minded boy in 1948 Palestine to a clandestine PFLP organiser sentenced to life imprisonment, Daqqa turns his cell ...

According to the WHO, one in eight people lives with a mental health condition [Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images]The World Health Organization (WHO) is convening in Geneva, Switzerland this week for the 79th World Health Assembly, where mental health is among the more than 75 agenda items tha ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi in Tehran [Handout/Iranian Foreign Ministry via Anadolu]

The UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, gives a news conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark, on February 6, 2025 [Ritzau Scanpix/Ida Marie Odgaard]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Tehran was reviewing Washington’s latest response to a proposed ceasefire framework after several rounds of message exchanges mediated by Pakistan. Global condemnation is growing after Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben ...

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says that “all paths” to a diplomatic solution “remain open from our side”, but warns that “forcing Iran to surrender through coercion is nothing but an illusion”. Global condemnation is growing after Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, ...

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks in occupied East Jerusalem [File: Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images]

Palestinian residents say Israeli settlers burned vehicles, sprayed racist graffiti, and installed caravans near Palestinian communities, in the latest example of settler violence and settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.

Iranian traders work at the Tehran Stock Exchange before the war [File: Atta Kenare/AFP]Tehran, Iran – A near-three-month closure of Iran’s stock market has ended with two days of a controlled reopening among some restrictions for investors.Although Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s sessions of the Tehran S ...

Smoke rises over the southern Lebanese village of Deir Siryan following explosions carried out by the Israeli army on May 20, 2026 [AFP]

A screenshot of an FPV drone footage released by Hezbollah [Screenshot/Social media/Al Jazeera]The footage lasts just three minutes. An Israeli flag flies over a position in the village of al-Bayada, in occupied southern Lebanon. One drone approaches the flagpole while another observes from above. T ...

A man carries items on his back as people remove possessions from their homes after Israeli air strikes in Khan Younis in southern Gaza [File: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images]The Board of Peace, which was founded by United States President Donald Trump in January to oversee the administration and reco ...

Rep. Thomas Massie gives his concession speech on May 19, 2026 in Hebron, Kentucky. Massie, who has served Kentucky's 4th Congressional District since 2012, conceded his loss after the most expensive US House Primary in US history against Trump-endorsed candidate Ed Gallrein [Jon Cherry/Getty Images ...

The vote comes at a pivotal time for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister, who has the most right-wing government in the country's history [File: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters]

A boat, left, bearing symbols of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla that was intercepted by the Israeli navy is motored towards the Israeli port of Ashdod on May 19, 2026 [AFP]The United States has imposed sanctions on four activists involved in flotilla missions seeking to break Israel’s 19-year siege on ...

Many were surprised that Ahmadinejad was considered by the Americans and Israelis to replace Khamenei considering his historical opposition to the US and Israeli policies [File: Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]

Israel's Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Israeli parliament, on May 20, 2026 [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP]

Israel's Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Israeli parliament, on May 20, 2026 [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP]

Israel's Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Israeli parliament, on May 20, 2026 [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP]

Palestinian children look at a mural depicting Israel's interception of ships participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian-led humanitarian aid mission to Gaza by sea, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on May 19, 2026 [AFP]

Vessels are seen anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, off Oman's city of Khasab, on May 17, 2026 [AFP]

Vessels are seen anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, off Oman's city of Khasab, on May 17, 2026 [AFP]

A demonstrator chants slogan during a pro-government gathering at a square in downtown Tehran on Tuesday [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]Iran has warned that any renewed conflict would bring “many more surprises” after United States President Donald Trump gave Iran “two to three days” to reach a deal.Meanwhi ...

Every day, foreign fishing fleets empty Mauritanian waters legally. Its waters are one of the richest in the world. But who is benefiting from the fishing agreements between Mauritania’s government and foreign vessels? Guests: Mauritanian fisherman Sheikh Turath Ould Mbarak. Maritime crime profiler ...

A general view of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US [File: Ken Cedeno/Reuters]

Iran’s chief negotiator says the United States wants to restart the war and is carrying out “overt and clandestine movements” that signal a new attack. President Trump ⁠says the US military may have to strike Iran “even harder” but ⁠will wait and see if a peace deal is reached after earlier saying a ...

Iran has warned that the Middle East war would spread far beyond the region if the United States and Israel resumed their attacks. US President Donald Trump has given Iran “two to three days” to reach a deal, as his deputy, JD Vance, said the two sides have made a “lot of progress” in talks.

Iran has warned that the Middle East war would spread far beyond the region if the United States and Israel resumed their attacks. US President Donald Trump has given Iran “two to three days” to reach a deal, as his deputy, JD Vance, said the two sides have made a “lot of progress” in talks.

Iran has warned that the Middle East war would spread far beyond the region if the United States and Israel resumed their attacks. US President Donald Trump has given Iran “two to three days” to reach a deal, as his deputy, JD Vance, said the two sides have made a “lot of progress” in talks.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has gained military knowledge from previous hostilities and warned that “a return to war will feature many more surprises”. His comments come after US President Donald Trump gave Iran “two to three days” to reach a deal, and as his deputy, JD Vance, ...