New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks with his wife, Rama Duwaji, during a Ramadan iftar meal at the Museum of the City of New York in New York, the United States [Andres Kudacki/The Associated Press]

15 Jahre nach dem Beginn des verheerenden Kriegs sucht Syrien seinen Weg

Maxim Thoré / Bildbyrån / ReutersEbba Årsjö of Sweden poses for a portrait with her Paralympic gold and bronze medals after competing in the women’s para Alpine downhill, super-G, combined, and giant-slalom events on Day 9 of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games on March 15, 2026.Previously:March 14: Go ...

Der Bundesregierung fehlen Konzepte zur CO₂-Reduzierung

Wie ein Handwerksunternehmer auf die kaum nachkommenden Fachkräfte blickt

In Brandenburg beschließen ein SPD-Parteitag und der CDU-Landesvorstand die Koalition

Am internationalen Tag gegen Polizeigewalt demonstrieren in Berlin Hunderte und fordern ein Gegengewicht zur Polizei

In Neuruppin-Wulkow nimmt der erste humanistische Gefängnisseelsorger seine Arbeit auf

Jamal Rayyan was a television news presenter at Al Jazeera for nearly three decades [Al Jazeera Mubasher]

Israel verschärft das Besatzungsregime gegen Palästinenser

From JOANI spent all my loneliness with you here speaking in turn to the isle of grass the velvet-eared cattle & the sawgrass spines as the coin of sun declined each day I closed the gates to the field & tomatoes grew in the dark like the blushing minds of yawning children guttered candles s ...

Zum Tod des Philosophen Jürgen Habermas

EVP-Chef Weber: Kontrolliere nicht Chatgruppen von Mitarbeitern

Sportlich rutscht das deutsche Team ab, politisch heißt der Sieger Russland

Auf dem Papier bewahrt das jüngste Abkommen zwischen syrischer Übergangsregierung und der Selbstverwaltung Nordsyriens den Kurden zahlreiche Rechte

A foreign tanker carrying Iraqi fuel oil is damaged after catching fire in Iraq's territorial waters, following unidentified attacks that targeted two foreign tankers, according to Iraqi port officials, near Basra, Iraq, March 12, 2026 [Mohammed Aty/Reuters]Hundreds of tankers sit idle on both sides ...

Iranian attacks have essentially closed the Strait of Hormuz, which is 21 nautical miles (39km) wide at its narrowest point [Illustration/Dado Ruvic/Reuters]United States President Donald Trump has called for a naval coalition to deploy warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fift ...

Zurückweisungen und Abschiebungen: Christian Klemm über gesunkene Flüchtlingszahlen in Deutschland

Lusail Stadium, which hosted the FIFA World Cup final in 2022, was supposed to be the venue for the Spain vs Argentina match [File: Faras Ghani/Al Jazeera]The “Finalissima” match between Spain ‌and Argentina that was scheduled to be held in Qatar this month has ⁠been cancelled due ⁠to the war in the ...

Yossi Bartal über die Fetischisierung der Gewalt in Befreiungskämpfen

Iranian women’s national team captain Zahra Ghanbari has become the latest player to withdraw her asylum request in Australia [File: Dave Hunt/AAPvia Reuters]The captain of the Iranian women’s football team has withdrawn her bid for asylum in Australia, Iran’s state media says, making her the fifth ...

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air strike on a building in the southern Lebanese village of Abbasiyeh on March 13, 2026 [AFP]The first two weeks of the Israeli-American assault on Iran have generated enormous amounts of news, propaganda and speculation. Politicians and pundits on all sides ...

The death of Jürgen Habermas has left philosophy and the Left poorer. Central to his work was a profound critique of irrationality in all its forms. Taken seriously, his philosophy provides an indispensable guide in the struggle against oppression.The philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who died on Friday, ...

Treibhausgasbilanz zeigt: Sondereffekte, die in den vergangenen Jahren beim Klimaschutz halfen, sind passé

Smoke from a building in Beirut, Lebanon, hit by Israeli forces after a forced evacuation order on March 12, 2026 [Adri Salido/Getty Images]

Opposition und Gewerkschaften werfen in Hessen der Landesregierung vor, ausgerechnet an Schulen mit großen sozialen Herausforderungen zu sparen

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly ignored domestic and international political norms [File: Brendan Smialowski/AFP]

Eva von Angern erneut Spitzenkandidatin: Partei wappnet sich für Landtagswahl am 6. September

Mourners react as they carry the bodies of a Palestinian family, the parents and their two children, who were killed by Israeli forces, during their funeral in Tammun town near Tubas, occupied West Bank, March 15, 2026 [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters]

The investment portfolio of the interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York shows financial stakes in Epstein-associated financial institutions and Venezuelan oil interests. The Trump appointee stands to win big from his own investigations.What do the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and t ...

Government spokesperson, Fatemeh Mohajerani, says US-Israeli strikes have damaged more than 42,000 civilian sites across Iran, including homes, schools and hospitals, leaving hundreds dead and thousands wounded.

Bei Elektroneufahrzeugen ist die Himalaya-Republik Spitzenreiterin in Südasien

Felix Sassmannshausen über den erneut drohenden Inflationsschub

Trotz des verfehlten Landtagseinzugs sieht sich Die Linke nach den jüngsten Wahlen in Baden-Württemberg und Bayern gestärkt

Rescue workers inspect an apartment damaged in an Israeli air raid in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon [Mohammad Zaatari/AP]

Rescue workers inspect an apartment damaged in an Israeli air raid as thick smoke fills the building in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, March 14, 2026 [Mohammad Zaatari/AP Photo]

On Friday morning, an explosion shook the Dubai International Financial Centre, the United Arab Emirates’ equivalent of Wall Street. According to Dubai authorities, air defenses shot an Iranian drone, which struck a building on the way down. The blast was about 1,200 yards from the Burj Khalifa, the ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.For the past few months, in pursuit of better sleep, I have been setting aside 15 minutes a day to lick my phone. This is as undignified as it sounds. But then, nothing about snoring, or the bewildering range of ...

Photographs by Jagoda LasotaDr. Menno Oosterhoff leaned forward in his living-room chair, took a sip from his coffee mug, and told me about the first time he ended a patient’s life.She was 18 years old and had been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, an eating disorder, and autism. Despite ...

As democratic socialism returns to the US public eye, socialists need to make clear how their vision differs from the liberalism most Americans are familiar with. Here are five crucial distinctive elements of a socialist policy agenda.The popularity of Zohran Mamdani’s baby steps in the directions o ...

President Donald Trump previously said the US is targeting only military sites on Iran's Kharg Island [File: Levin Lamarque/Reuters]

Ireland’s taoiseach, Micheál Martin, will be paying homage to Donald Trump on St Patrick’s Day. Irish public opinion is strongly opposed to the US war on Iran and the Gaza genocide, but Martin and his allies are anxious to stay on Trump’s good side.Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin presents Donald Trum ...

An Iranian man goes into his house in Tehran, which was destroyed by an US-Israeli strike on Saturday, March 14, 2026 [Alaa Al Marjani/Reuters]

The death of French far-right activist Quentin Deranque one month ago has cast a shadow over elections typically focused on local concerns.A half-torn sticker featuring the portrait of far right activist Quentin Deranque is pasted on a map of the Lyon metropolitan area. (Matthieu Delaty / Hans Lucas ...

The Qatar MotoGP being held at the Lusail International Circuit outside Doha [File: Hussein Sayed/AP Photo]The Qatar Grand ⁠Prix scheduled for next month has ⁠been postponed due to the ongoing conflict ⁠in the Middle East, the sport’s governing body has announced.“MotoGP confirms that the Qatar Gran ...

Activists gathered outside the White House to protest the war with Iran, reenacting the Minab school strike, a deadly missile attack on a girl’s school in southern Iran that killed more than 170 people during early US-Israeli operations.

Fragments of a missile displayed on a table [Courtesy of Ali Bahreini]It is often said that the worst evils are committed not by monsters or sadists, but by people who are terrifyingly ordinary.United States “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth recently remarked with disarming composure in a media interv ...

A boy waves a Syrian flag as people celebrate a year since the ousting of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on December 8, 2025 [AFP]

The US and Israel continue their attacks on Iran, with missiles striking multiple sites across the central Isfahan province. Dozens have been reported killed. Iran launches multiple barrages of missiles at Israel and claims attacks on US bases in Iraq and Kuwait.

The US and Israel continue their attacks on Iran, with missiles striking multiple sites across the central Isfahan province. At least 15 people have been killed. US President Donald Trump says allies who rely on Gulf oil must help keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

The Bahrain International Circuit is situated in Sakhir, but Bahrain will not hold a 2026 Formula One Grand Prix due to the conflict in the Middle East [Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo/Reuters]

Debris litters the UNESCO-listed Chehel Sotoon Palace in Isfahan after nearby US-Israeli strikes [File: Social Media/Reuters]

Thirteen months was all it took to break the Kennedy Center. The news of Ric Grenell’s exit—or, his “plans to transition out of his role,” as Axios put it when breaking the story yesterday—suggests the end of a high period in which the Kennedy Center has continually pissed people off, and the beginn ...

Marco Mantovani / GettyGold medalists Joshua Sweeney, Oksana Masters, Sydney Peterson, Jake Adicoff, and Adicoff’s guide Reid Goble of Team USA pose for a photo on the podium during the medal ceremony for the para cross-country skiing mixed 4x2.5-kilometer relay on Day 8 of the 2026 Winter Paralympi ...

Palestinians pick olives near Israeli outposts near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank [File: Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Getty Images]

The already catastrophic situation in Gaza is getting worse as the United States and Israel’s war in Iran rages on.Until late last month, the US said its ambitious plans to rebuild Gaza were on track.After two years of Israel’s genocidal war on the strip, the Rafah border crossing had partially reop ...

Handout photo released by the Royal Thai Navy shows smoke rising from the Thai bulk carrier Mayuree Naree near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack, March 11, 2026 [AFP]

The aftermath of an Israeli air strike in Dahiyeh, in Beirut's southern suburbs, in Lebanon, on March 14, 2026 [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]

A billboard depicting Iran's supreme leaders since 1979 is displayed above a highway in Tehran on March 10, 2026 [AFP]Since the 1920s, Iran has lived through two defining political moments that have reflected two distinct civilisational identities. They have shaped not only the country’s internal ch ...

A member of Iranian paramilitary Basij forces stands in front of a poster of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei [File: EPA]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, played host this past week to another young married couple, who came to Gracie Mansion to break their Ramadan fast. A photograph taken of the dinner was softly lit and sweet, smiles all around.The mayor posted the photo on social media th ...

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.How does a person take smart risks? To start, mind the difference between recklessness and bravery, A ...

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. The conflict in Iran has begun to impact t ...

A nutrition specialist attends to a six-month-old baby at a malnutrition treatment centre in Sanaa, Yemen on August 26, 2024 [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]While international attention is focused on the conflict in Iran and its regional spillover, a devastating crisis in Yemen is drawing almost no notice ...

Besides the music, the main appeal of raving is the feeling: of heads jolting to the sound of the beat, and sticky bodies rubbing up against one another as night turns into day. Lost in the groove, dancers escape from modern life—and decades after raving’s emergence in the 1980s, people are still lo ...

Montserrat Roig’s classic novel, The Time of Cherries, captures a sort of still point in the history of Barcelona— a moment that came before great change. When the novel ends, no one has any idea that within 18 months, Francisco Franco, the old dictator, will be gone. The Time of Cherries was origin ...

The move comes as the war in Iran prompts a critical shortage of cooking gas in India [Firdous Nazir/NurPhoto via Getty Images]

In Minneapolis, a new generation of activists is challenging Donald Trump, reviving labor militancy, and scoring victories. Next stop: May Day 2026.Working-class resistance in Minneapolis was integral to the battle that pushed back against Trump’s immigration crackdown. The labor movement is redisco ...

A displaced Palestinian boy pulls a cart with the help of two girls in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip [File: AFP]

“It’s a subject I’m anxious to change,” the author Salman Rushdie told the Atlantic staff writer George Packer at the New Orleans Book Festival on Friday. If you know anything about Rushdie, and you probably do, the subject he’s referring to is obvious. In 2022, Rushdie was publicly attacked onstage ...

Forty-five percent of American adults identify as a political independent. I am among them. There are now more of us independents than there are adults who identify as Republican or Democrat: Just 27 percent each choose one of those affiliations. The share of independents has grown steadily for the ...

Our male protagonists — or perhaps men more broadly — are searching for meaning, solace, or glory anywhere but in the workplace. The trend represents a collective ambiguity about the point of work.The leading men of this year's Oscar films aren't climbing ladders or running boardrooms. They're quitt ...

Video shows rescue teams rescuing families from under the rubble after US-Israeli strikes hit residential areas in Tehran.

As the war on Iran enters its third week, the upper hand that the United States and Israel hold militarily is being countered asymmetrically by Iran which has been targeting various economic pressure points outside of its borders.With censorship and propaganda shaping coverage on all sides, news aud ...

We’re living in the imperial end times, argues Hasan Piker. With Trump entering a quagmire in Iran after having cast off America’s allies, a new era of belligerence, cruelty, and MAGA fascism looms over the home front.Hasan Piker is photographed during an election night event for Zohran Mamdani at t ...

Barnes & Noble was once the avatar for sinister big-box stores on the march against independent businesses. In 1998’s You’ve Got Mail, Tom Hanks plays an executive at Foxbooks, a thinly disguised bookstore chain, who puts out of business (and also, weirdly, seduces) an independent bookseller pla ...

From the comfort of my desk, I can see it all. A series of webcam feeds show me the sun setting over Tel Aviv and southern Lebanon. A map of the world, flecked with red dots, indicates that most of Europe and the Middle East are on “high alert.” I toggle a button on the map’s control panel, and the ...

Washington’s hottest commodity is a 10-digit number that can swing financial markets, drive the news, and shift policy—but only if the timing is right.The White House has received reports in recent weeks that President Trump’s personal phone number has been offered for sale to deep-pocketed interest ...

A plume of smoke rises over buildings in Doha, Qatar on March 5, 2026 [Mahmud Hams/AFP]

As US power declines, it is destroying the norms and institutions that once organized its international projection of authority. While the US is losing its leadership role, no single power is replacing it as a global hegemon.If the international order has now come to an end, it is because consent fo ...

Smoke plumes rise from Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, Iran, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran [File: Social media/via Reuters]

Smoke rises from the direction of an energy installation in the Gulf emirate of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, on March 14, 2026 [AFP]

A view of the damaged part of the Dubai Creek Harbour tower after it was hit by an Iranian drone attack in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on March 12, 2026 [EPA]

Nicholas Noe says Israel’s strategy in Lebanon appears to be aimed at targeting civilian infrastructure while fuelling sectarian divisions.

Europe’s far-right parties have long boasted about putting their own countries’ interests first but now slavishly support the latest US-Israeli war. While they opt for vassalage, antiwar forces have turned out to be the real defenders of sovereignty.Most Europeans oppose the latest US-Israeli war, w ...

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air strike on a building in the southern Lebanese village of Abbasiyeh on March 13, 2026 [AFP]

This handout image taken by the European Space Agency, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, shows a view of Iran's Kharg island, which hosts the country’s main crude export terminal and is responsible for the overwhelming majority of its oil shipments to the world, about 30km (19 miles) ...

Boats anchored near Mukalla, Yemen [File: Jon Gambrell/AP Photo]

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth salutes during the transfer of US soldiers' remains on March 9 [Kylie Cooper/Reuters]

President Donald Trump said US forces “obliterated” Iranian military targets on Kharg Island, located off the southwest coast of Iran, and warned oil infrastructure there could be attacked next. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has informed the United Arab Emirates that US “hideouts” ...

President Donald Trump said US forces “obliterated” Iranian military targets on Kharg Island, located off the southwest coast of Iran, and warned oil infrastructure there could be attacked next. Iraqi officials say a helipad at the US Embassy in Baghdad was struck in missile attack, the Associated P ...

The run-up to the Academy Awards is a fun, ridiculous, and loopy monthslong stretch. It also encourages something vital to Hollywood’s artistic ecosystem: Movie studios, in the hopes of achieving Oscar glory, put money toward more stylistically challenging projects, rather than consistently aiming f ...

During the 14 months of Kristi Noem’s tenure at the Department of Homeland Security, I regularly heard from staffers—career law-enforcement officers and political appointees alike—who were desperate for a return to institutional normalcy. Their concerns weren’t ideological. They felt, instead, that ...

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.Let’s get this out of the way: Rumors of a major MAGA schism have been greatly exaggerated. For all the ...

Sudanese refugees fleeing the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary [File: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images]

Look at a list of the highest-grossing actors of all time, and you’ll see a lot of familiar names. The group includes franchise-hopping performers such as Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, and Zoe Saldaña; legacy A-listers such as Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks; and one 74-year-old Swede who has buil ...

The name Stanley McChrystal might bring a few things to mind: the U.S. Army general who led NATO forces in Afghanistan; a legendary Special Forces operator; a decorated military career cut short by reported tactless remarks about a vice president; a daily food intake of just one meal—a “reward” dinn ...

Today’s questions are hard, both in difficulty level and subject matter—each touches on authoritarianism—but don’t let that dissuade you.To play, type your response into the field below the question and click “Submit.” You’ll see the answer, a tie-in to the corresponding article, and the button to p ...

In a TikTok video posted earlier this week, a Chihuahua claps its paws and dances to disco in front of a Tesla. “EV owners seeing gas prices go up, and not having to pay it,” the caption reads. In another, a clip of the comedian Zach Galifianakis laughing hysterically is superimposed over a gas-pric ...

Dario Belingheri / GettyPatrick Halgren of Team USA competes during the para-Alpine skiing men’s giant-slalom standing on Day 7 of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games, at Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre on March 13, 2026.Previously:March 12: Hard CrashMarch 11: Curling GoldMarch 10: Guided SpeedMarch 9: Sl ...

However well or poorly you think the excursion in Iran, as President Trump calls it, is going, you might want to lower your assessment after Pete Hegseth’s press conference today.The defense secretary, who calls himself the “secretary of war” but might need to change his title to “excursion secretar ...

A view of buildings along the corniche in Doha, Qatar, on March 8, 2026 [Karim Jaafar/AFP]

It took just two days for Lebanon to be dragged into the US-Israeli war against Iran.After a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect in Lebanon in November 2024, cross-border violence did not really end.Now, nearly one million people have been forced from their homes.The UN chief sai ...

McLaren's Oscar Piastri passes fireworks after winning the 2025 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix [Jakub Porzycki/Reuters]

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.A few years ago, I wrote in The Atlantic about my complete failure to run a book club. This group should have been a slam dunk: I’d recruited my best friends; we were all stuck inside becaus ...

NRW will bei der Aufrüstung mitmischen und eine Plattform für militärische Entwicklung schaffen

A woman speaks on the phone, as she checks a damaged building that was hit by Israeli attacks in central Beirut, Lebanon, on March 13, 2026 [Hussein Malla/AP]

Vor einem Jahr wurde der gebürtige Tunesier in Dortmund vor seiner Haustür erschossen

Iran fordert Papst zur Verurteilung von Khamenei-Tötung auf

Astonishingly, President Trump and his aides were caught unprepared when Iran, under air assault from the United States and Israel, retaliated by targeting shipping in the Persian Gulf region and specifically through the Strait of Hormuz. Military planners have pointed out for decades that the water ...

Hypocrisy is not an altogether bad thing. So long as our society has hypocrites, we have not totally lost our moral bearings. The hypocrite pretends to be good because the hypocrite believes that society admires good and condemns wrong. It’s time to worry when the hypocrite disappears—because that i ...

Israeli rescue and security personnel work beside damaged buildings, following projectile barrages towards Israel from Hezbollah in Lebanon, in northern Israel, on March 13, 2026 [Avi Ohayon/Reuters]

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsHow are we still getting caught in the rain? This week’s Galaxy Brain explores the world of weather forecasting—specifically the apps on our phones that we have come to rely on. As climate change intensifies storms and smart ...

Die Linke nominiert René Pérez Domínguez für Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg

Berlin ist das erste deutsche Bundesland, das den 15. März zum offiziellen Aktionstag gegen Islamfeindlichkeit erklärteht

Programm für die Abgeordnetenhauswahl soll am 25. April beschlossen werden

Der Libanon kämpft um seine Existenz

Der Libanon kämpft um seine Existenz

Havanna bestätigt erstmals Gespräche mit Trumps Regierung

The war in the Middle East is exposing how dependent the world is on a handful of strategic chokepoints.The Strait of Hormuz – a narrow waterway in the Gulf – is closed.The longer this goes on, the faster the global energy map could be reshaped.From Europe to Asia, countries are facing mounting supp ...

At the end of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, an aging Newland Archer, who as a young man broke his own heart by choosing propriety over love, tells himself that the mark of the modern era is that everyone is too busy to care about their neighbors’ standing. Archer, shaped by the hierarchies o ...

Teilerfolg für Gewerkschafter und Linke: Laut Verfassungsgericht sind Vorgaben des Freistaats unzulässiger Eingriff in Wissenschaftsfreiheit

Tens of thousands of people have gathered around the world for al-Quds Day, an annual event on the final Friday of Ramadan demonstrating solidarity with Palestine and opposition to Israeli occupation.Rallies took place across numerous countries, including Iran, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kashmir and Yemen ...

Iranian state TV video shows the Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i speaking to a reporter when a blast, described by officials as an Israeli strike, hit near the al-Quds Day rally in Tehran. Despite the explosion, he continued marching with crowds taking part in the annual pro-Palestinian d ...

Bundesregierung will Notfall-Lager freigeben. Experten sind skeptisch

The Atlantic is announcing several journalists joining this spring as a part of our continued newsroom growth: Sophia Nguyen and Kevin Sieff as staff writers; along with Theo Balcomb and Jonathan L. Fischer as senior editors.Sophia joins us from The Washington Post, where she covered news and wrote ...

Auch in Deutschland ist der Umgang der Mehrheit mit Muslimen von Vorurteilen aller Art geprägt

Bundesweite Hausdurchsuchungen wegen des Vorwurfs des Landfriedensbruchs

Demonstrators hold posters of Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei during the annual al-Quds Day rally in Tehran, Iran, on March 13, 2026 [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]

Back in the early 1970s, psychologists at Northwestern University performed an experiment that, on the surface, looked like a child’s fantasy. The researchers gathered 45 college women and asked some of them to drink a milkshake—or two. Then they placed three pints of ice cream in front of each woma ...

Martin Ling über steigende Nahrungsmittelpreise und fehlende Weichenstellungen

Ein neuer Jahresbericht dokumentiert, wie Staaten Schutzsuchende systematisch und gewaltsam abweisen

»Humanity 1« hatte laut Gericht kein Recht auf Verbleib im Hafen von Catania

Eine Studie deckt auf, dass es deutlich mehr Täter und Opfer gab als bisher bekannt

Alexey Pavlishak / ReutersA cat walks among tiny cars at a zoo in the park of miniatures in Bakhchisaray, Crimea, on March 8, 2026.Ina Fassbender / AFP / GettyVisitors walk through the installation “Infinity Mirrored Room—The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Univers ...

President Trump prides himself on being a rule breaker, but he is discovering a rule he can’t break: Good statecraft demands clear objectives. Trump has billed the war with Iran as a one-time opportunity for Iranians to take back their country. This implies regime change, yet the administration’s am ...

Auszubildende sanierten in Ravensbrück Natursteinmauern und erneuerten eine Löschwasser-Entnahmestelle

Fraktionen von CDU und SPD ringen um Änderungen am Gesetzentwurf

Donald Trump’s efforts to blockade Cuba’s fuel supply aim to create chaos. Now more than ever, Cuba needs practical international solidarity to resist US imperialist bullying.For years, the US establishment has blamed the Cuba’s economic problems on socialism, incompetence, and mismanagement. (Yamil ...

Kritiker fürchten starke Machtkonzentration um Präsident Kassym-Schomart Tokajew

The starter home isn’t what it used to be.For the better part of the past century, most Americans became homeowners by purchasing a detached single-family house. But soaring prices are making that paragon of U.S. real estate less attainable, and many people have turned to condominiums as the only af ...

Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania holds a picture of Hind Rajab on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab at the Venice Film Festival, on September 3, 2025 [Yara Nardi/Reuters]

Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike on a building in Beirut's Bashoura neighbourhood, Lebanon, March 12, 2026 [Wael Hamzeh/EPA]Israel has killed almost 600 people in Lebanon and displaced more than 750,000 in less than two weeks. This is the opening act of Israel’s Gaza doctrine applied to a ...

A dhow sails in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz off Khasab in Oman's northern Musandam peninsula on June 25, 2025 [File: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP]The International Energy Agency (IEA), a global energy watchdog, with several of the wealthiest countries as member nations, has announced the largest relea ...

A mystery looms over the first 90 minutes of The Secret Agent, the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s masterful fifth feature: Why is Armando Solimões on the run?The sad-eyed research scientist might be, as the title suggests, some kind of spy, perhaps working to undermine the U.S.-backed mi ...

Palestinians displaced during the Gaza war live in tents exposed to rain, heat, cold and wind in Khan Younis in southern Gaza [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]

Neue Zahlen von Frontex: Warum das Ertrinken im Mittelmeer kein tragischer Unfall ist

Norbert Himmler bleibt ZDF-Intendant

Photographs by Landon SpeersAs we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then an active power plant to our left, equipped with enormous natural-gas tur ...

Bewegungsförderung steht in Deutschland zu oft nur auf dem Papier

Debris from a NATO air defence system missile interception is seen in Dortyol, in southern Hatay province, Turkiye, on March 4, 2026 [Ihlas News Agency (IHA) via Reuters]

China hat sich seit 1995 systematisch zur stärksten Nation im Behindertensport hochgearbeitet

United States President Donald Trump has warned the Iran football team about their safety at the 2026 World Cup [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]

The Iran war has already created the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market,” according to the International Energy Agency, and the situation could still get much worse. Iran has vowed to sink any ship trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway responsible ...

Kasachstan will Russen ausliefern. Ein Schock für die Exil-Community

As the US attacks Iran, Donald Trump is following a blueprint laid out by a long-standing force in US foreign policy: the neocons who backed the Iraq War more than 20 years ago.The US war on Iran follows a road map drafted by a revived neocon network of Iraq War defense hawks, Israel lobby allies, a ...

Out of the 30 states where measles has been detected in 2026, Florida currently ranks third in case counts. Since the start of the year, at least 132 confirmed or probable cases of measles have been reported across the state, where vaccination rates have consistently fallen below the threshold requi ...

Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines in 2016 on the promise that he would kill. He framed his war in moral terms: Drug users transgressed the laws of society, but the justice system was so broken and so corrupt that they evaded punishment. Due process stood in the way of keeping ...

On February 27, an AI-generated image appeared on Instagram purporting to show heavy military equipment stationed inside Karimian Elementary School in Isfahan, Iran. The post, shared by accounts including the Free Union of Iranian Workers, an independent labor union operating inside Iran whose leade ...

Donald Trump fired Kristi Noem for embarrassing him on TV, not for the civil rights catastrophe she oversaw at Homeland Security. Her replacement, Markwayne Mullin, is a loyal Trump ally who promises more of the same egregious overreach and abuse.There’s only one rule of the second Trump administrat ...

Centrist Democrats claim to be the bearers of hard facts, dismissing leftist dissent as emotional and naive. But their “facts” are often a mishmash of consultant data, selectively interpreted focus groups, and big donor priorities.Former Barack Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz recently complained ab ...

Mourners hold posters depicting Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, right in the posters, the successor to his late father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left in the posters, as supreme leader, during the funeral procession for senior Iranian military officials and civilians killed during the US-Israel campaign in ...

Zahl rechtsextremer Vorfälle an Sachsens Schulen steigt deutlich / GEW fordert Maßnahmen

Sri Lanka Navy sailors rescue Iranian sailors from IRIS Dena warship after their ship sank outside Sri Lanka's territorial waters, near Galle, Sri Lanka, March 4, 2026 [Sri Lankan Presidential Media Division via AP]

AI-assisted warfare extends a logic with roots in the industrial warfare of the 20th century: a cold distance that turns humans into points in a dataset.Surveillance via a drone equipped with artificial intelligence. (Niharika Kulkarni / AFP via Getty Images)The United States is using artificial int ...

Wo der Sport versagt, entscheiden demnächst wohl Gerichte

Vor 520 Jahren gründete Papst Julius II. die Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder

The US bombing campaign in Iran relies heavily on British military bases. For a moment, it seemed Keir Starmer might refuse Washington access, but he has proved too cowardly to make even this basic stand for human rights against imperial war.Under Keir Starmer, the Labour Party appears incapable of ...

A plume of smoke rises from oil storage facilities at the Port of Salalah in Raysut, Oman in this screengrab from video obtained from social media and released on March 11, 2026 [Social Media/Handout via Reuters]

A firefighter checks the damage at the site of Israeli air strikes on a building in central Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 13, 2026 [Hussein Malla/AP]

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air attack on Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, on March 13 [AFP]

In »Good Luck, Have Fun, Donʼt Die« versucht ein Zeitreisender mit einer schrägen Diner-Truppe, die Welt vor einer bösen KI zu retten

Wie schon in »Yellowstone« schickt Taylor Sheridans Serie »The Madison« die USA ins letzte Gefecht mit der Stadt

Since the beginning of the war, Iran has warned that any vessel attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz will be attacked [Handout/Royal Thai Navy/AFP Photo]Gulf countries, including Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait, have declared force majeure on gas exports following the United States-Israel war o ...

A satellite image shows efforts to control a fire in the Ras Tanura oil refinery in Saudi Arabia after a drone attack [FILE: Reuters]

A worker carries filled Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders at a gas distribution center in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on March 7, 2026 as India invokes emergency powers to prevent a shortage of the cooking fuel after supply disruptions caused by the Middle East crisis [Firdous Nazir/NurPhoto ...

French President Emmanuel Macron chairs a video conference of G7 leaders at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on March 11, 2026 [Gonzalo Fuentes/AFP]

Palestinians are forced to demolish their own homes to avoid exorbitant fees charged by Israel if their own forces do it [Ahmad Jalajel/Al Jazeera]

An oil tanker is seen anchored off the coast of Muscat, Oman, on March 7, 2026 [Benoit Tessier/Reuters]

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.Early in 1948, Raymond Chandler had two main gripes. One was with the Oscars; the other was with The Atlantic’s editorial department. The famous detective novelist and sc ...

Israel’s military announced start of new “extensive wave” of strikes on Iran’s capital Tehran as Israel issued forced evacuation orders amid new attacks on Lebanon’s capital Beirut. Two people have been killed in Oman after the downing of a drone in Sohar province, Oman’s state news agency is report ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei issues first statement since replacing assassinated father, Ali Khamenei, calling for bases hosting US forces in region to close or attacks will continue. Israel’s military announced start of new “extensive wave” of strikes on Iran’s capital Tehran as Israel is ...

Qatar Energy announced a complete shutdown of liquefied natural gas (LNG) production following Iranian attacks targeting energy installations [File: Getty Images]

One of Pete Hegseth’s first actions after taking charge at the Pentagon was to fire top lawyers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force—senior officers who the defense secretary said functioned as “roadblocks” to the president’s orders. The former National Guardsman has a history of hostility toward milita ...

US servicemen watch a cargo plane land at RAF Fairford, England, on March 10 [Alastair Grant/AP Photo]

US servicemen watch a cargo plane land at RAF Fairford, England, on March 10 [Alastair Grant/AP Photo]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as seen in a video address released on February 28, 2026 [Screenshot via AFP]

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Smoke billows after United States air strikes on oil depots in Tehran, Iran on March 8 [Majid Saeedi/Getty Images]

Marco Mantovani / GettyAudrey Pascual Seco of Team Spain crashes during run one of the para Alpine-skiing-women’s giant-slalom sitting on Day 6 of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games at Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre, on March 12, 2026. Pascual Seco, who has already won two gold medals and one silver earl ...

The death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the Iran war generated hope that the regime change the Trump administration and Israel yearned for would come to pass, perhaps with a more moderate new leader stepping up. That, after all, is what happened two months ago in Venez ...

Today’s questions all come from McKay Coppins’s April cover story on sports betting, for which The Atlantic spotted him $10,000 so he could become a degenerate gambler. Parlay all three questions for an extra payout of satisfaction.To play, type your response into the field below the question and cl ...

Residents wave Somali flags at a Mogadishu rally on December 30, 2025, denouncing Israel’s recognition of Somaliland and calling for Somalia’s unity. [File: AFP]

People watch smoke rising from an Israeli attack in the central Beirut neighbourhood of Bashoura on March 12, 2026 [AFP]

Youth sports should be about fun and fair play — not turning kids into anxious investments for parents and private equity.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Years and years before gangster rap, satanic lyrics, glam rock, and Led Zeppelin’s groupie antics, good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll — the chosen music of the postwar youth — roused nothing less than a full-blown moral panic across America. Here are the songs most responsible.Standing atop a piano, r ...

“Gen Z” protesters in Mexico rallied under the Straw Hat Pirates’ Jolly Roger from One Piece. (Isaac Ortega / ObturadorMX / Getty Images)Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Dystopian teen films will remain popular as long as they keep reflecting truths about young people’s prospects under capitalism. The pessimistic Lord of the Flies, which has been adapted many times for the stage and screen, was criticized after the emergence of a story about six actual shipwrecked t ...

We surveyed 1,789 socialist teens. Here’s what they’re reading before prom.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

By treating young adult fiction as a laboratory for professional-class moralizing, the publishing industry has effectively abandoned actual teens. The Harry Potter books — which have sold hundreds of millions of copies since 1997, making author J. K. Rowling a billionaire — proved to publishers ju ...

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Public spaces are replete with laws and design choices that limit teens’ access to them. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

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Right‑wing protesters waved Israeli flags outside the Sde Teiman detention facility near Beersheba as Israeli military police investigated suspected abuse of a Palestinian detainee. [Jill Gralow/Reuters]

Gute Politik, die auch Angebote macht, kann Menschen davon abhalten, die AfD zu wählen

Auf Malaysias Palmölplantagen riskieren Arbeiter*innen täglich ihre Gesundheit für den Weltmarkt

Längst hat die »Zeitenwende« das Gesundheitssystem erfasst. Ein Krieg würde die Versorgung von Zivilist*innen gefährden

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Jacobin contributor and former teenager Sofia Baker answers your most burning questions. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Kneecap talks to Jacobin about attempts to punish the hip-hop trio for its vocal stance on Palestine and its hopes for a unified Ireland.Glastonbury Festival attendees hold aloft Welsh and Irish flags at a Kneecap performance. Presumably some are supporters of a unified Ireland, like Kneecap’s own m ...

Leftists have celebrated the growing favorability of socialism among young people, but youth politics are more heterodox than they appear.Illustration by Michael DeForgeSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

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As SNL’s resident body-horror comic, Sarah Sherman brings Bernie-era politics — and stubborn optimism — into a moment defined by ICE raids, massive inequality, and creeping authoritarianism. (Todd Owyoung / NBC / Getty Images)Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscr ...

Hasan Piker talks to Jacobin about radicalization, the Right, and his own place in socialist politics.Photography by Max PitegoffSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Therapeutic culture risks raising a generation taught to look inward while the sources of their distress lie outside themselves.Illustration by Benny Douet.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.Illustration by Benny Douet.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

When revolutionary Cuba asked its youth to eliminate illiteracy, 100,000 answered the call, reshaping their country and themselves in the process.(STF / AFP / Getty Images)Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Growing up after the monarchy’s fall, Nepal’s youth are confronting a republic that transformed political institutions while leaving the underlying social order intact.(Narayan Maharjan / NurPhoto / Getty Images)Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Mexico City’s “Gen Z” anti-government protest against President Claudia Sheinbaum bears all the hallmarks of an astroturf campaign.A simultaneous “Gen Z” protest in Guadalajara, Jalisco, also turned out mostly affluent, middle-aged demonstrators. (Ulises Ruiz / AFP / Getty Images) Sorry, this artic ...

What Donald Trump wants from Venezuela’s oil fields is not money but power.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

A recent turnaround in South Korea’s marriage rate shows that its fertility crisis is also an affordability crisis. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Austria’s experience with 16-year-old voters shows that expanding the franchise does little to restore trust when elections amount to a choice between managed decline and the far right. Rhineland-Palatinate is one of only five German states where the local voting age remains 18. Some politicians, ...

In the West Bank, at-risk youth are recast as pioneers — funded by Israeli ministries and US tax-deductible charities — and deployed to harass, dispossess, and drive Palestinians from their land.A local Palestinian resident argues with soldiers about the illegal plowing and grazing taking place on p ...

Israel is arresting more Palestinian children than ever before — and it’s not even bothering to charge many of them with crimes. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Théo Nencini von der Universität Grenoble über die Aussichten für den Iran nach dem Krieg gegen Israel und die USA

In May 1970, four million students went on strike across the country, shutting down classes at hundreds of colleges, universities, and high schools and demanding an end to the Vietnam War. Armed Ohio National Guardsmen advance through the Kent State University campus, forcing back student participan ...

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A little over two years ago, the student movement for Palestine transformed American college campuses seemingly overnight. But the passion and energy that built those encampments wasn’t enough to sustain the fight.Student demonstrators at Columbia University lock arms to prevent law enforcement from ...

To me, the best first sentence of any piece of journalism is the one in Joan Didion’s 1987 book, Miami, which begins like this: “Havana vanities come to dust in Miami.”I love that sentence and that propulsive first chapter so much that I once sat down to try to figure out how she did it. I looked at ...

Der neue Fünfjahresplan Pekings setzt auf Technologie, Unabhängigkeit – und auf Aufrüstung

Hudhaifa Al-Mashhadani soll einen Angriff auf sich selbst erfunden haben – die Story verfängt, weil sie in Narrative über Neukölln passt

»Versuchslabor Kinderheim« erzählt von Menschen­versuchen in den 60er Jahren der BRD

»Versuchslabor Kinderheim« erzählt von Menschen­versuchen in den 60er Jahren der BRD

Jana Frielinghaus über die Erkenntnisse zum US-Angriff auf eine Mädchenschule im südiranischen Minab

Betriebsratsgründungen in der Berliner Tech-Branche – Beobachtungen des Arbeitsrechtsanwalts Daniel Weidmann

If nutrition is a sport, it has no casual fans. Supporters of Team Protein, the 2025 champions, are numerous and passionate, backed up by a sprawling industry of protein-supplemented products such as popcorn, soda, and cereal. Also popular is Team MAHA, captained by Health Secretary Robert F. Kenned ...

Die renommierte Moskauer Hoch­schule für die Sozial­wissen­schaften, genannt »Schaninka«, wird abgewickelt

Europa hat das Bombardement des Iran nicht gewollt, außen vor will es aber auch nicht bleiben

Europa hat das Bombardement des Iran nicht gewollt, außen vor will es aber auch nicht bleiben

Israels Linke ist geschwächt. Vor der Parlamentswahl im Oktober entstehen nun neue Bündnisse

We surveyed over a thousand young people across the anglophone world to get a sense of their views on politics and culture.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Donald Trump lässt den Iran bombardieren. Aber zu welchem Zweck?

Donald Trump lässt den Iran bombardieren. Aber zu welchem Zweck?

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Across the country, Democrats have tried and failed to emulate Mamdani’s successful mayoral campaign. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

A new crop of young Democratic Party challengers is running on generational politics alone, hoping to capitalize on voters’ hunger for change without running afoul of the centrist establishment.Illustration by Richard ChanceSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe ...

A recent string of revelations about abuses by the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps presents an opportunity to rein in the military’s presence and power in public schools. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

The 20th century saw an explosion in teen media. Now many of those magazines have folded.(SGranitz / WireImage)Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

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Twenty-five years ago, someone like Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson would have had little to offer the world. His rise to global phenomenon suggests that virality is emptier than even pessimists thought possible.Illustration by Richard ChanceSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here ...

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Youth sports are transforming from neighborhood fun to big business.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

When the military wants to recruit students, it targets schools in big cities and the South, as well as schools that are poorer and less white than the national average.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

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In a culture without a middle, Teen Vogue became a lodestar for aging millennials.Illustration by Richard ChanceSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

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The teenager we know today came of age in the postwar era — but she owes her existence to the New Deal.Illustration by David Milan.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Stiftung brandenburgische Gedenkstätten kooperiert mit dem ukrainischen Inlandsgeheimdienst SBU

Differenz in der Wiederholung: »Immer unbekannt«, das neue Album von Die Regierung

Gegen die Coolness: Ein Gespräch mit Tilman Rossmy und Ralf Schlüter von Die Regierung

Christopher Beha’s path to atheism began in college. Close encounters with death—a brother’s car accident, his own cancer diagnosis—led to a period of disenchantment. He picked up Bertrand Russell’s anti-religious diatribes and started skipping Mass, which he’d attended since childhood. In the years ...

Emily Haber ist mehr als die Namensgeberin einer zweifelhaften behördlichen Überprüfung

Gegenwärtig schwindet die Artenvielfalt – und die verbliebenen müssen sich weiter an den Menschen anpassen

The tech billionaire Hemant Taneja admits that AI is a bubble. In fact, he welcomes it: “Bubbles are good,” Taneja, the CEO of General Catalyst, a venture-capital firm, told me in an email. If AI comes crashing down, it will lead to “some spectacular failures,” he said—companies will go under and pe ...

Autoritäre Marktwirtschaft oder Sozialismus? Über die Volksrepublik China wird auch im Umfeld der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung debattiert. Ein Gastbeitrag

Die Golfmonarchien wollten sich mit Fußball, Formel 1 und Mega-Events neu erfinden. Nun wird ausgerechnet diese Branche zum Krisenfall

Hans-Georg Backhaus entwickelte eine Lesart des »Kapital«, die den klassischen Marxismus ebenso wie die bürgerliche Ökonomie kritisierte. Ein Nachruf

Seit seiner Eröffnung im Jahr 2006 gilt der Pfad in der Sächsischen Schweiz als einer der schönsten Wanderwege Deutschlandsutschlands

Jannis Auffenberg wünscht sich mehr politische Mitbestimmungsrechte für junge Menschen

Sarah Yolanda Koss über die therapeutische Versorgung Geflüchteter

Bisherige Berechnungen haben den Meeres­spiegel an Küsten teils um bis zu 1,50 Meter unter­schätzt. Wie ist das möglich?

Die Tarifverhandlungen bei der Lufthansa kommen bisher nicht voran

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsFrom Plato to Charles Barkley, great minds have warned about the destructive power of gambling. The way societies have usually managed the vice is to cordon it off. It’s legal, but contained to disreputable places, such as r ...

Christian Klemm findet die neue Flüchtlingsdebatte in Deutschland verlogen

Eine neu entdeckte Galaxie enthält nur wenige sichtbare Sterne

Die Obdachlosenzeitung »fiftyfifty« in Düsseldorf steckt in einer Existenzkrise. Sie steuert mit digitalen Lösungen dagegen

When it comes to reversing labor’s decline, union elections through the National Labor Relations Board have proven woefully insufficient. We need strategies for building workplace power that aren’t dependent on the NLRB.Demonstrators during an Alphabet Workers Union rally in New York. (Victor J. Blu ...

Großbritanniens Premier Starmer schwenkt auf den US-israelischen Kriegskurs ein – und wiederholt damit Tony Blairs Fehler, meint der »Morning Star«

For The Atlantic’s April cover story, “Sucker,” staff writer McKay Coppins reports from inside the country’s sports-betting epidemic, examining how gambling has come to consume American sports and culture. Prior to writing the cover story, Coppins had never bet on anything before––he is religiously ...

What were once considered the ravings of tinfoil-hat conspiracy junkies are now par for the course for the Trumpian right and its analysis of the state of public education.The cultural Marxist conspiracy theory that has bounced around the far right for decades is clearly now comfortably embraced by ...

Christian Lelek über rechte Erfolge bei den Betriebsratswahlen

Was zieht einen ausgerechnet in diese Weltgegend?

Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter where Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy.California knows it needs more housing. The state is the birthplace of the YIMBY movement—“Yes in My Backyard”—and its legislature has been passing laws designed to make housing easier to ...

Eine Müdigkeit liegt über Ostdeutschland, schreibt Jana Hensel – doch die Probleme sind gesamtdeutsch

Under capitalism, technological “progress” like AI systematically deskills workers, deepens managerial control, and turns the labor process into a site of conflict rather than liberation. This is by design.Every change in technology also brings about and requires a change in workplace relations. (Fl ...

This article contains spoilers for the films Sirāt, Hamnet, Train Dreams, The Voice of Hind Rajab, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Frankenstein, and One Battle After Another.For months, I could not stop talking about the film Sirāt—or rather, the experience of watching it. I peppered my praise with vagu ...

In a sea of congressional bloviators, Kevin Kiley has always stood out. The two-term California lawmaker, unlike most of his colleagues, does not reflexively defend the president and, at least recently, has been a frequent critic of his own party’s leadership. So it shouldn’t have been particularly ...

Police body camera and weapons juggernaut Axon is reporting blockbuster earnings amid the Trump administration’s explosive spending on immigration policing. The company is resisting efforts to make it disclose its political spending strategy.This year, Axon is expected to receive $220 million in tax ...

Donald Trump justified his war on Iran under the pretext of preventing nuclear proliferation. But as the US’s allies consider developing nuclear arsenals, he’s set a dangerous precedent for their enemies.The latest step toward further normalizing and embedding nuclear weapons as a basis for global p ...

Illustrations by Tyler ComrieThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.On a Thursday evening in September, I excused myself from the family dinner table and slipped into my bedroom. I didn’t want my kids to see what I was about to do.With the door locke ...

Last year’s elections saw a resurgence for Germany’s socialist party Die Linke. In an interview, coleader Ines Schwerdtner explains how the party is seeking to expand beyond current left-wing voters to reach broader parts of the working class.Jacobin spoke to Ines Schwerdtner, coleader of Germany’s ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.A year ago yesterday, President Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom to try to boost the slumping sales of his then-pal Elon Musk’s electric-car company. A few months ago, Trump declared from behind the Resolute Desk that he ...

Three days after President Trump announced his “Complete and Total Endorsement” of the Louisiana congressional candidate Blake Miguez, the Republican contender posted a video from outside the West Wing boasting of his close relationship with Trump and his team. “I just got done having some great mee ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.As Iranian missiles and drones exploded above Dubai in the first days of the Iran war, the city’s legions of social-media influencers started posting. “Your boy is currently in the middle of World War III right now,” the day trader Mike Babayan ...

The Islamic Center of Columbia, Tennessee—a small city about 45 miles south of Nashville—had been around for only a few years when white supremacists burned it down. On a Saturday in early 2008, three young men went to the mosque armed with spray paint and Molotov cocktails. According to a federal i ...

More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious AI future. Its title, “Machines of Loving Grace,” is borrowed from a Richard Brautigan poem, but as Amodei acknowledged, with some em ...

Oranienburger Hochschule erhält ein 43 Millionen Euro teueres Apartmenthaus

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.No one could accuse Representative Andy Ogles of using dog whistles. The Tennessee Republican prefers a ...

Like a strictly limited quantity of Marvel-branded Oreos, today’s Atlantic Trivia questions have dropped. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. Well, until more arrive tomorrow.To play, type your response into the field below the question. If you need a hint, click to reveal. Next, click “Submit” to have ...

Mattia Ozbot / GettyJinqiao Yang and Meng Wang of Team People’s Republic of China celebrate victory in the wheelchair-curling mixed-doubles gold-medal match against Team Republic of Korea on day five of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games, at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium on March 11, 2026.Previously ...

Benjamin Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades perfecting the art of the political escape. Just when his career appears to be buried under the weight of indictments, or his coalition fatally fractured, he reappears, seemingly unscathed, with a new lease on power. Today, as Israel finds ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on Kristi Noem’s removal as head of the Department of Homeland Security. David warns that the chaos at the department, combined ...

Interaktive Webseite macht die jüdische Geschichte des Viertels in der Spandauer Vorstadt sichtbar

Jana Frielinghaus über explodierenden Reichtum der Milliardäre und die Folgen

Im Vielvölkerstaat Iran versuchen unterschiedliche Mächte, sich der ethnischen Minderheiten zu bedienen

Justiz winkt G20-Protestierenden mit Verfahrenseinstellung

Kunst und Politik liegen bei Juan Maíz eng beieinander – seine Kunst ist ein Statement gegen schreiende Ungerechtigkeiten in Mexiko

Die iranische Künstlerin Arghavan Khosravi über Frauen als Figuren in der Kunst, politische Intentionen, gewollt oder nicht, und kreative Prozesse

Die iranische Künstlerin Arghavan Khosravi über Frauen als Figuren in der Kunst, politische Intentionen, gewollt oder nicht, und kreative Prozesse

Zahl der erfassten Delikte in polizeilicher Kriminalitätsstatistik 2025 auf neuem Niedrigstand

Weniger Messerdelikte in Verbotszonen sprechen nicht für die Zonen, meint Jule Meier

Fariba Mohamadi, Vize-Generalsekretärin der Komala-Arbeiterpartei Kurdistan, spricht über die aktuelle Entwicklung im Iran

Hurra, ein Skandal um den Buchhandelspreis! Endlich können sich mal wieder alle kostenlos solidarisch erklären.

Bundesregierung und EU zeigen sich machtlos gegen US-Sanktionsdruck auf deutsche Banken

Bundesregierung will Spritpreiserhöhungen dämpfen

Nächste Verschiebung im Rechtsstreit um künftigen Betreiber von zwei Dritteln des Netzes

Die Soziologin Marcela Perelman über Argentiniens Diskussion vor dem Jahrestag des Militärputsches

Auswege aus der Spritpreis-Spirale gibt es nur mit Verbrenner-Aus und Ölausstieg

Deutsche Bahn nennt verzögerten Fertigstellungstermin für Generalsanierung der Bahnstrecke

Deutsche Bahn nennt verzögerten Fertigstellungstermin für Generalsanierung der Bahnstrecke

Schweriner Gericht: Auch polemische Slogans bei Plakataktion gegen Veteranentag 2025 durch Recht auf Meinungsfreiheit gedeckt

Sächsische Initiative erinnert an frühes Konzen­trations­lager. Sanierung der Anlage dauert noch Jahre

Sächsische Initiative erinnert an frühes Konzen­trations­lager. Sanierung der Anlage dauert noch Jahre

Frank Augsten tritt als Chef der Thüringer BSW-Fraktion zurück

Christian Klemm über Rüstungskonzerne, die sich durch die aktuellen Kriege dumm und dämlich verdienen

Der Panzerbauer Rheinmetall trieb sein Geschäft lange mit der Autoindustrie voran. Nun will er Toplieferant der globalen Rüstungsindustrie werden

Korbinian Strohhuber ist begeisterter nd.Digital-Leser. Hier teilt er seine Erfahrungen mit der App

Wolfram Weimer ist nicht mehr haltbar, denkt Sebastian Weiermann

Unter den gesetzlich Versicherten wächst die Zahl der Rentner, auch die Arbeit in Teilzeit nimmt zu

Over 6,000 public school educators in San Francisco went on strike last month for the first time in nearly 50 years. We spoke to three of them about what they won, including coverage of skyrocketing health care costs and easing special education workloads.On February 9, over 6,000 K-12 teachers and ...

In the least charitable—and probably accurate—view, President Trump went to war with Iran out of a delusional faith in himself. He believed that the worst-case scenarios that have deterred past presidents from attacking Iran wouldn’t come true for him, because he is Donald Trump.In the most charitab ...

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Beim Kurt-Weill-Fest wurde Cláudio Santoros Oper »Alma« am Anhalti­schen Theater Dessau erst­mals in Europa zum Klingen gebracht

Socialist Rio de Janeiro city councilor Marielle Franco’s killers were recently convicted, exposing deep ties between Brazil’s right and violent militias. The case shows democratic institutions can still hold perpetrators of far-right violence to account.The 2018 assassination of socialist councilor ...

Warum der paralympische Sport von anderen Themen überlagert wird

About 130 years ago, the job of pianist was automated when Edwin Votey created the first player piano. The machine worked by reading music that was encoded by holes punched into rolls of paper, which in turn directed airflows to levers that depressed piano keys. The human’s task was relegated to pum ...

In response to what they describe as foot-dragging by the administration in contract negotiations, student workers at Columbia University have authorized a strike. We spoke to some of them about their demands.Student Workers of Columbia–United Auto Workers Local 2710 has just voted to authorize a st ...

Richard Linklater verfilmt in »Nouvelle Vague« die Dreharbeiten zu Godards »Außer Atem«

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.These days, everyone seems to be watching The Pitt—but not me. I hear it’s really good. I have to believe it’s good, in fact, because people in my social circle—and Emmy Award voters—won’t stop saying it’s reall ...

A new report finds wealth inequality in Canada is reaching new heights, with a tiny elite enjoying lavish lifestyles while the many are left in the cold. The problem is not just moral obscenity but that democracy is perverted by vast wealth concentration.Jim Pattison (left) is one of the richest peo ...

Once upon the ’90s, a teenage girl named Robin Miriam Carlsson was crowned a pop princess. Her crystalline voice and secretive smile caught the attention of the Swedish record industry, whose producers and songwriters helped her create the swooning global hits “Show Me Love” and “Do You Know (What I ...

Vilma Saloj wuchs in der Region Sololá in Guatemala auf. Sie spricht drei Sprachen und leitet eine Schule für indigene Mädchen

David Rivera, a longtime close friend of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is facing federal charges for allegedly acting as a foreign agent for Venezuela. The trial and its revelations about foreign influence are poised to bedevil the Trump administration.In a case that has ensnared multiple figures ...

New survey data show that many of Donald Trump’s 2024 working-class voters are already wavering. But most aren’t turning to Democrats — they’re dropping out of politics altogether.The “multiracial working-class realignment” behind Donald Trump’s victory is already unraveling — especially among the l ...

Estlands Geheimdienst sperrt 1300 russische Ex-Soldaten aus, die Bundespolizei 3500 ukrainische Staatsangehörige

On March 10, Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and executive editor Adrienne LaFrance discussed the political fallout after publishing Goldberg’s Signalgate story last year. You can watch the full conversation here: © Drew Campbell / The Atlantic

Less than two weeks into the American and Israeli bombardment of Iran, the war is both a success and a failure. Militarily, the campaign has effectively degraded the Islamic Republic’s warmaking capacities. But politically, thus far, it has only strengthened the regime’s cohesion.President Trump may ...

Updated on March 10 at 9:21 p.m. ET.In mid-February, as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was fighting to keep her job, she held an election-security event at a Homeland Security Investigations field office in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the past, she said, the state had been an “abs ...

Almost immediately after Donald Trump took office for the second time, the White House and the Department of Education launched a shock-and-awe assault against its perceived foes in higher education, announcing a new investigation or seizure of funding seemingly every week. Their targets appeared ov ...

On Saturday, a far-right group organized a sparsely attended anti-Muslim demonstration outside of Gracie Mansion, the home of New York City’s first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani. A “Stand Against Hate” counterprotest attracted far more people, but perhaps the only reason Americans know about these ev ...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.The Trump administration can’t say why the United States went to war with Iran, and it can’t say what t ...

Dario Belingheri / GettyTeam France’s Hyacinthe Deleplace, a visually impaired athlete, competes with the guide Perrine Clair during the super-G leg of the Para Alpine Skiing Men’s Alpine Combined Vision Impaired event on day four of the Winter Paralympic Games at Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre, in Ita ...

Debut week for interactive Atlantic Trivia continues. I’ll keep the below instructions here until Friday:To play, type your response into the field below the question. If you need a hint, click to reveal. Next, click “Submit” to have your response checked. You’ll see the answer, a bit about the corr ...

Go looking for wind farms in Spain, and you might quickly end up in Castilla–La Mancha, a region southeast of Madrid. This is the place where Don Quixote, Miquel de Cervantes’s delusional Man of La Mancha, attacked small wooden windmills he perceived as fierce giants and where today giant wind turbi ...

Berliner Senat beschließt Strategie zur Sicherung von Fachkräften bis 2035

Das Stahlwerk von Krupp-Mannesmann in Duisburg bleibt – doch Tausende Jobs stehen vor dem Aus

Was soll das denn? Der eigentlich großartige Wolfram Lotz hat »Träume in Europa« im Internet gesammelt

Max ist elf und hat ADHS. Es war ein langer Weg, zu verstehen, warum er anders tickt

Jana Frielinghaus über den Hauptgrund erlebter Diskriminierung in Deutschland

Kinderboxen in Westberlin: »Das Ende vom Lied« von Michael Wildenhain

Gericht weist Moorschutz-Klage der Umweltverbände gegen das Land Berlin ab

Gut 13 Prozent der Menschen in Deutschland betroffen

Rameza Monir über den Krieg gegen den Iran und die Bedeutung des Völkerrechts

Ferienwohnungen, Leerstand, Abriss – Die Zweckentfremdung von Wohnraum ist in Berlin untersagt. Aber Bußgelder werden oft nicht eingetrieben

Ein Jahrelanger Streit um Zuständigkeiten blockiert die Sanierung des historischen Bauwerks

Alles spricht gegen das propagierte Revival der Atomkraft

Warum Wolodymyr Selenskyj unbedingt die USA im Iran-Krieg unterstützen will

Die Soziologin Pierina Ferretti über den Amtsantritt des ultrarechten Präsidenten José Antonio Kast

Patrick Lempges über den Reflex der SPD in der Krise nach links zu blinken

Scarcity is humanity’s great motivator. This has been true forever, since back when we were basically apes: The most important resources—food, shelter, mates—were the ones that were most in demand. Shortage meant value, and being attuned to value meant staying alive. We learned to focus on the rare ...

We have another report that Israel used the military power the US underwrites to pressure Donald Trump into a disastrous war in Iran. US military aid to Israel makes Americans — to say nothing of the rest of the world — less safe.Israel does not have the capacity to do what it’s doing in Iran withou ...

15 Jahre nach der AKW-Katastrophe kämpft die Region um Fukushima für Erneuerung

Grünen-Politikerin Zoe Mayer setzt sich gegen Sexismus ein

In Fukushima ereignete sich nicht der erste und nicht der letzte Unfall in einer Atomanlage

On the first day of the Iran war, the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei overshadowed news of a strike near the home of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president from 2005 to 2013. Many who remembered his term in office—marked by Holocaust denial, atom-bomb fetishism, and shoving Islamic revol ...

Womit die italienischen Gastgeber punkten und was auch bei diesen Paralympics fehlt

Donald Trump has begun suggesting that his war on Iran may be over “very soon” as oil prices soar. Trump will proclaim victory no matter what happens, but he won’t be able to say what “victory” means, let alone persuade anyone else that he succeeded.No matter how it ends, the end result is not going ...

Politiker von Linke und Grünen kritisieren den Kulturstaatsminister nach Bespitzelungsaffäre scharf

Sächsisches Netzwerk warnt vor Einflussnahme der extremen Rechten. Abschreckendes Beispiel Bitterfeld-Wolfen

Sächsisches Netzwerk warnt vor Einflussnahme der extremen Rechten. Abschreckendes Beispiel Bitterfeld-Wolfen

Wie Black war Sabbath? Wie Ozzy Osbourne und seine Freunde den Heavy Metal erfanden (Teil 3): Das Fundament eines neuen Genres

Häfen und Schiffsbau sollen weiter ausgebaut werden – auch für das Militär

38,5 Stunden pro Woche ab 2027

»Fröhlich sein!«: Die Ausstellung des 88-jährigen Thomas Bayrle in der Kunst­halle Schirn in Frankfurt am Main

Demokratieverein registriert Höchststand bei Neonazi-Konzerten

When the first photo of 5-year-old Liam Ramos went viral in January, it became an instant symbol of the Trump administration’s mass-deportation campaign: his blue bunny hat, his Spider-Man backpack, his hunched shoulders, his scared eyes as ICE detained him and his father outside their home in a Min ...

The Trump administration’s Shield of the Americas summit in Miami convened leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean’s emboldened reactionary bloc. True to form, the president ensured the summit was a ritual of humiliation and debasement.At the “Shield of Americas” summit, Donald Trump made omino ...

Die Konfrontation zwischen Washington und Peking erstreckt sich auch auf Microchips und künstliche Intelligenz

Automobilclub meldet wachsendes Interesse an seinen Gelben Engeln

Abstimmung über Strausbergs Bürgermeister wäre hinterher zu prüfen gewesen

Die mentale Gesundheit ist Thema einer Sonderschau im Deutschen Hygiene-Museum in Dresden

© Mark Parker / British Wildlife Photography AwardsNemesis. Winner, Animal Behavior. Parker: “Because the sparrowhawk had never gone to ground before on previous visits to the garden, and not knowing how long it would stay, I just wanted to get an image to record the event before then concentrating ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The novelist Henry Miller once observed that “a book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you.” If you’re sitting in a café, someone might strike up a conversation by asking about what you’re reading; a ki ...

What’s happening in Iran right now? The Trump administration and Republican lawmakers have been twisting themselves into semantic pretzels to avoid answering this very easy question with the word war, although it is very clearly a war. Even the writers at Saturday Night Live couldn’t help but notice ...

Late last month, at an event in Washington, D.C., Andrew Yang delivered a bleak message. “I have bad news, America,” he told the crowd. “The Fuckening is here.”The Fuckening is the name that Yang, a former presidential candidate, has given to AI’s disembowelment of the workforce. As he sees it, mill ...

The guy pouring my beer in Anchorage told me that he knew there was no truth to decades-old rumors about a research facility 200 miles to the northeast. Nobody was up there talking to aliens or controlling people’s minds. “They just do the aurora,” he said, cheerfully, while tearing up pieces of min ...

Wie ich erfahren musste, dass Periodenschmerzen mit patriarchalen Entscheidungen, kapitalistischer Logik und sogar mit der Kirche zusammenhängen

Patientenakten von 15 Millionen Franzosen aus Gesundheitszentren und Arztpraxen gestohlen

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! swings for a radical, genre-bending reinvention of Bride of Frankenstein. But the result is a messy, overstuffed film that makes an awkward attempt at feminist relevance.Jessie Buckley stars in The Bride!. (Warner Bros. Pictures)Jessie Buckley achieves such a fine and ...

In der norwegischen Arktis fallen Favoriten

The horrors of Donald Trump’s second term didn’t come from nowhere, Cornel West argues. They’re the inevitable result of decades of neoliberal policies that built the oligarchy, which, at long last, got behind him in 2024.(Ramsey Cardy / Web Summit via Sportsfile via Getty Images)With Donald Trump’s ...

Sicher reisen mit Kindern: Bei guter Vor­be­reitung sind auch viele Ziele außer­halb Europas geeignet

As the US-Israeli war machine embarks on a new adventure in Iran, it’s worth examining one of the key states facilitating this aggression. The United Arab Emirates has pioneered a militarized corporation-state at the center of our international disorder.As explosions light up Middle Eastern skies, t ...

From Trump to Orbán, Meloni to Modi, leaders around the world have turned fear, grievance, and national pride into political instruments. Their appeal does not rest on charisma alone but also on the deep insecurity produced by neoliberalism’s long crisis.National pride, resentment, and fear undergir ...

The weekslong conflict between Anthropic and the Department of Defense is entering a new phase. After being designated a supply-chain risk by DOD last week, which effectively forbids Pentagon contractors from using its products, the AI company filed a lawsuit against DOD this morning alleging that 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.For more than a week after the United States and Israel’s initial attack on Iran, oil prices stayed rel ...

Fittingly for Iran, the news that Mojtaba Khamenei, the ultimate theocratic nepo baby, will be the new supreme leader can be described as both expected and bizarre. The 56-year-old has long been touted as a possible successor to his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. I first heard the rumor mo ...

Atlantic Trivia is going interactive! Starting today, you’ll be able to enter your own answer—and thus show off even more.To play, type your response into the field below the question. If you need a hint, click to reveal. Next, click “Submit” to have your response checked. You’ll see the answer, a b ...

Darrian Traynor / GettyNoah Grove of Team USA skates with the puck during the para ice-hockey preliminary-round match between Team Germany and Team USA on Day 3 of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.Previously:March 8: Para BiathlonMarch 7: Flying DownhillMarch 6 ...

Last week, a New York Times report on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s pointed criticism of Israel included this curious clarification: “Izzy Gardon, a spokesman for Mr. Newsom, said that the governor ‘believes in Israel’s right to exist—and its right to defend itself.’”Given this statement, I fee ...

This article contains mild spoilers through Season 1, Episode 6 of Love Story.If every love story is a ghost story, as David Foster Wallace wrote, those who tell the tales might consider how many of love’s ghosts are still alive. Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, FX’s semi-fictio ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Timothy Valentin found his dates the way so many people find each other nowadays: Hinge. Plenty of Fish. Bumble. Match.com. He had a profile you might swipe right on some dull Tuesday night—well groomed, fit, an ...

Der Kurs der Grünen in Baden-Württemberg ist immer schwerer auszumachen

Ali Khameneis Sohn Modschtaba wird Irans neuer Oberster Führer

Der Kurs der Grünen in Baden-Württemberg ist immer schwerer auszumachen

nd-Serie »Linke sucht Zukunft«: Vor welchem globalen Hintergrund orientiert sich die Linkspartei neu?

Einen Tag nach dem feministischen Kampftag streiken Hunderte in der Hauptstadt

David Rojas Kienzle zur KI-Überwachung durch die Polizei

Baden-Württemberg hat gewählt – und die Linke verloren

Adrienne Goehler hat den Frauen*Generalstreik 2026 mitinitiiert. Feministische Kritik übt sie schon lange.

In Avignon erhalten minderjährige Geflüchtete Unterstützung von einem Projekt – während der Staat oft hinterherhinkt

Bundesrepublik überholt China – USA, Ägypten und Israel wichtigste Abnehmer für deutsche Waffen

Even before President Trump returned to office, his advisers sought to remove what they saw as unnecessary constraints on the way the American military fights. The man Trump had tapped to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, had long complained about “weak” and “woke” policies that he believed were hamp ...

Ekkehard Spiegel ist Busfahrer bei der BVG und fordert bessere Arbeitsbedingungen

Last September, during a memorably bizarre press conference, President Trump told pregnant women—repeatedly and emphatically—not to take Tylenol. His health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., pointed to studies that “suggest a potential association” between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and neur ...

In der Hausband der Revolte: Zum Tod von Country Joe McDonald

Ein Besuch beim Denk-Artisten Bazon Brock

Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg unterstützte Automatisierungsprojekt der Sensmore GmbH

Patrick Lempges über die Auswirkungen des Iran-Krieges

Christoph Ruf über den Ausgang der Landtagswahl im Südwesten

CDU-Landratskandidat Heusler geht in Spree-Neiße mit 11,9 Prozentpunkten Rückstand in die Stichwahl

Vom Rudern zum Skilanglauf: Die 35-Jährige will auf zwei Brettern eine Medaille

Berliner Hertie-Studentenvertretung stellt sich hinter Boykottkampagne BDS. Der private Stiftungsrat droht mit Konsequenzen

The American-Israeli war with Iran has primarily taken the form of an air campaign, a very different mode of war than ground operations—one with its own goals, strengths, and limitations. After the previous independent air campaign of this kind, in the 1991 Gulf War, I led the U.S. Air Force’s asses ...

Eine Veranstaltung mit Alice Schwarzer sollte erst durch eine Protestnote, dann durch Störungen verhindert werden

Kommunalwahlen in Bayern führen in vielen Städten zu Stichwahlen

In 1932, a group of religious leaders gathered in Indianapolis to advance their long-standing project, a plan to fundamentally “Christianize” American society. The meeting had been convened by the Federal Council of Churches, then the dominant voice of American Protestantism. The organization ratifi ...

If unions are serious about reversing their decline, then shorter, smaller, faster first contracts might be what is needed to scale.First contracts are one of the largest challenges accelerating labor’s descent into oblivion. Growing union density might require narrowing initial agreements to issues ...

In Young Man in a Hurry, Gavin Newsom tries to get in front of the critiques he knows are coming. But reading the book, you can’t escape what he himself establishes: Newsom is a product of one of the most gilded patronage networks in modern US politics.If Gavin Newsom’s new memoir’s purpose is to pr ...

Andrew Tate does not read books.In a clip that resurfaced recently, the polarizing influencer explained why. Books, he argued, are too slow. His brain is “far too advanced” to enjoy such a low-velocity medium: “I need action. I need constant chaos in my life to feel content.”But what if the slowness ...

We don’t have an effective, mass antiwar movement to push back against Donald Trump’s war on Iran. We need one immediately.The US war on Iran is the most unpopular a US war in history. (Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu via Getty Images)Donald Trump’s war on Iran is very unpopular. As pollster G. Elliot Mor ...

Sibel Schick über einen Staatsminister, der rechts mit links gleichsetzt – und damit der Demokratie großen Schaden zufügt

Updated at 4:55 p.m. ET on March 9, 2026Many Americans believe that vaccines are unsafe, but will jab themselves full of performance enhancers. They think seed oils cause chronic disease, but beef tallow is healthy. They’ll say you can’t trust federally insured banks, but you can trust the millionai ...

On February 28, the day that bombs started falling on the Islamic Republic, a man’s voice began broadcasting in Farsi on a shortwave-radio frequency. He announced himself—“Tavajjoh! Tavajjoh!” (Attention! Attention!)—and then read a string of seemingly random numbers. Anyone with a shortwave radio c ...

Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor of New York City as a relentless champion of tenants, promising to freeze rents and attack bad landlords. For his fellow members of the Democratic Socialists of America, advocating for tenants means something more radical: maligning homeownership as capitalistic and inhe ...

The Uniform Code of Military Justice serves as the criminal-justice framework for America’s armed forces. It covers offenses recognized by civilian law as well as crimes and infractions unique to the military, from insubordination to cowardly conduct. The code contains 158 articles; the Manual for C ...

Emails from the Jeffrey Epstein files show the late pedophile trying to connect far-right tech mogul Peter Thiel and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak on at least six separate occasions.The germ of the involvement of Peter Thiel’s Palantir in the Middle East may well have had its origins with ...

Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern.Fire breaks out at the Shahran oil depot in Tehran, Iran, after US and Israeli attacks on March 8, 2026. (Hassan Gha ...

A new study from the Center for Working-Class Politics, Arizona State University’s Center for Work and Democracy, and Jacobin reveals that politicians with union backgrounds campaign more aggressively for workers and vote further left — but unions rarely recruit them.Workers hold "Rise Up" signs as ...

The United Workers Union is one of Australia’s largest unions, and an upcoming ballot will see members choose between militancy and the status quo.An election in one of Australia’s largest unions will shape its future as either an administrative support agency or a fighter prepared to take on employ ...

Implementation of the White House’s return-to-office directive will be aided by the tech firm Palantir. It remains unclear why a spy-tech company should be tasked with things like “employee seat assignments.”The dark wizard Saruman consults a palantír in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The survei ...

The CIO unionized General Motors in 1937 and saved the labor movement. Today's unions need to do the same to Amazon if there is any hope of stopping the slow death of American labor.Every era has its defining labor struggle. Ours is Amazon. (David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images)There’s onl ...

As Donald Trump launches a dangerous war on Iran, understanding what really drives US imperial aggression is more urgent than ever. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, which many critics wrongly claim was about oil, offers an illuminating case study.Over two decades later, it’s clear the US war on Iraq was m ...

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has revived plans to draw on frozen Russian assets to make loans to Ukraine. Yanis Varoufakis writes for Jacobin that the idea is unworkable and incompatible with efforts to move toward a ceasefire. During the euro crisis, the EU repeatedly announced bailout loans ...

At their 2026 organizing conference, Young Democratic Socialists of America focused on organizing student workers, building campus movements against ICE, and preparing mass action for May Day 2028 to confront Trump’s authoritarianism.Protesters take part in anti-ICE rally outside Columbia University ...

Kristi Noem, just fired from her job as secretary of DHS amid allegations of self-dealing, staffed the department’s AI division with leadership taken directly from a tech company under contract with DHS to develop its biometric surveillance system.The Department of Homeland Security is building a ma ...

Just one year ago, the idea that New Yorkers could get universal childcare was dismissed as utopian nonsense. An organized democratic socialist movement made it a reality, with the first phase launching this year.What distinguishes democratic socialism from other brands and shades of progressivism? ...

For roughly half a century, a certain strain of American evangelical theology has taught millions of believers to read conflicts like Trump’s war with Iran not simply as geopolitics in action but as prophecy unfolding in real time. I was one of them.After the Cold War ended and the Satanic Panic die ...

Across Germany, tens of thousands of high school students went on strike on Thursday to protest the likely reintroduction of military service. Germany’s political leaders want a new generation of soldiers, but young people are against it. German ministers today routinely talk about making society re ...

In recent years, top defense contractors — backed by trillions in taxpayer dollars — have prioritized enriching shareholders over expanding production. As war spending surges, America’s biggest weapons manufacturers could funnel even more to investors.On the Monday following strikes on Iran, Pentago ...

The war on Iran is a joint effort by segments of the US, Israeli, European, and Arab ruling classes that are committed to global and regional domination — not just the result of Israeli pressure on Donald Trump.While it is clear that Benjamin Netanyahu’s lobbying for an attack influenced Donald Trum ...

Taxing the rich in New York, as Zohran Mamdani has proposed, isn’t just right and necessary. New polling shows a strong majority support making the wealthy pay, suggesting that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s refusal to do so is political malpractice.Zohran Mamdani needs Governor Kathy Hochul’s cooperation to i ...

For a century, American wars were planned by think tankers drawn from the boards of Goldman Sachs and Chevron. It gave rise to horrors like Vietnam and Iraq. That era is over. What comes next is very likely worse.Trump’s war party has formed a profound break with the American foreign policy establis ...

Chuck Schumer is not only failing to meet the moment by not opposing the war on Iran. He has long been a hawk on Iran among Democrats and Americans who are yearning for peace.Chuck Schumer’s foreign policy stance reflects his close relationship with Israel, which has long been pushing for war with I ...

Donald Trump is angry because Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, hasn’t backed the war on Iran. Sánchez’s stand is hardly radical, but it seems like it now that almost all of Europe has fallen in behind Trump.The response of Pedro Sánchez’s Spanish government to the US and Israeli attack on Iran ...

The largest and longest nurse strike in New York City history concluded last month. A rank-and-file nurse leader writes in Jacobin about how the 15,000 striking nurses beat giant hospitals to win major victories on safe-staffing and other issues.Some of the richest hospitals in New York City worked ...

After weeks of nurses picketing in the freezing cold, New York City nurses concluded their biggest-ever strike last month. Jacobin spoke to a striking nurse leader about their fight against intransigent employers and a hostile governor.The historic nurses' strike in New York City was a brutal confro ...

For the looksmaxxer, women are irrelevant except as currency to buy rank over other men. Undoing these market logics with real love is the only way to liberate the looksmaxxer from lonely self-optimization.Looksmaxxing encourages one segment of the population to regard the attention of prospective p ...