In the small oblong that was our living/dining room, the carpet was maroon (the color of dried blood) and the walls were light yellow. Did my mother think this combination was cheerful? She did value cheer. It was somehow inconceivable to ask what she was thinking. The couch and two rockers were cov ...

May Day, 2024, was a day of celebration for over 3,500 graduate student research and teaching assistants at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn): we had just won our National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election in a landslide and formed the largest new private sector union in Philadelphia in over ...

The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, has again gained attention for provocative statements about China. In remarks last month, she compared the EU’s economic relationship with China to a “cancer,” arguing that Europe must endure the painful “chemotherapy” of export controls, investment sc ...

Graham Platner’s victory this week in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary would have been a stunning achievement for a political newcomer under any circumstances. What makes it truly remarkable is that Platner pulled this off despite a decades-long trail of questionable behavior: a Nazi tattoo; contem ...

The 2022 Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, supposedly gave states the authority to decide for themselves whether to permit abortion. What should have been apparent then, and is obvious now, is that anti-abortion activists and their allies on the high court were never going to be satisfie ...

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Der Berliner gewann 1956 in Melbourne als erster DDR-Sportler Olympiagold. Später erfreute er die nd-Leser 26 Jahre lang mit seinen Sportfotografien.

Eine Installation in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde erinnert 100 Jahre nach der Einweihung einen Monat lang an Mies van der Rohes 1935 zerstörtes Werk.

In einer neuen Vereinbarung mit dem israelischen Staatskonzern IAI radikalisiert sich die CDU Berlin – und trampelt auf Gräbern Unschuldiger in Gaza.

Kiew streicht den Schutzstatus des Russischen in der Ukraine. Das ist ein Angriff auf europäische Werte und die eigene Bevölkerung. Ein Kommentar.

Nach zähen Verhandlungen steht das historische Übereinkommen für Plattformarbeiter*innen. Doch viele Fragen bleiben offen.

Steigende Gewalt gegen Obdachlose ist Ausdruck einer aufgeheizten Stimmung. Gegenmaßnahmen wären nötig, wird es aber wohl nicht geben. Ein Kommentar.

“We know of nothing,” Henry James observed in 1875, “that is a better proof of the essential impotence of criticism, in the last resort, than Mr. Church’s pictures.” James wasn’t (in this instance) being spiteful. He was trying to sort out a real problem: What did the work of America’s preeminent pa ...

IAI vereinbart mit Berlin die Gründung eines »Innovationszentrums« in Adlershof. Geplant sind Forschung, Start-up-Förderung und »lokale Produktion«.

Two thousand years ago, Roman emperors celebrated their birthdays with gladiator shows. The tradition lives on in President Donald Trump, who for his eightieth birthday will host mixed martial arts (MMA) fights at the White House. On Sunday, June 14, in an event promoted by the Ultimate Fighting Cha ...

China’s remarkable economic development is the most important event of the last half-century. The People’s Republic has gone from a peasant economy sustaining itself on subsistence agriculture to a global powerhouse that dominates high-tech manufacturing and builds shining megacities.But behind the ...

This coming Sunday, we will take to the streets of Brussels. Not for a minor issue but for a fundamental choice: “Welfare, not warfare.” For today Europe seems determined to massively rearm, making it increasingly resemble Donald Trump’s militarized United States.Europe’s ruling class loves nothing ...

Der US-Überwachungskonzern Palantir verliert gegen die Schweizer »Republik«. In einer geforderten Gegendarstellung ging es auch um Trumps ICE-Miliz.

Die Bundesregierung verhindert Zuwanderung nach Deutschland. Dadurch schafft sie wirtschaftliche Probleme, die sie zu lösen vorgibt. Ein Kommentar.

Schon heute sucht die Wirtschaft händeringend nach Fachpersonal. Wegen der schwachen Einwanderung wird sich das Problem noch verschärfen.

Bei der Wahl zum Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus im September sind nun auch 16- und 17-Jährige stimmberechtigt.

When David Hockney in the 1960s turned his attention to a photograph of a splash-splattered swimming pool, he did what most of us today, immersed in an endless stream of digital images, do not. He kept looking.For two weeks, the artist worked tirelessly from the photo to perfect his rendition in his ...

Given President Trump’s disregard for long-standing political norms and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, many Americans fear that he is hostile to democracy. According to this view, the 49.8 percent of voters who supported him in 2024 must simply be unaware of the existential threat he pos ...

It was a simple plan, but somehow, as he and his men followed the shackled man through the hills, Khawar wondered if it should have been simpler still. If they had been able to shoot him close to the police station earlier in the day, a story about a thwarted escape might have played out quite nicel ...

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.There are times you meet friends for a long-planned dinner. And then there are times you invite them ...

Frankreichs Präsident Emmanuel Macron möchte einen G7-Wachstumsgipfel ausrichten und sucht das Gespräch mit dem Hoffnungsträger China.

In Berlin haben viele queere Flüchtlinge Zuflucht gefunden. Doch auch hier sind sie vor Diskriminierung und Gewalt nicht sicher.

Im Wahlkampf in Sachsen-Anhalt und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern liegt die AfD laut Umfragen vorn. Führende Unionspolitiker pochen nun auf klare Abgrenzung.

Hohe Umfragewerte im Bundesland lassen die AfD auf das Amt des Ministerpräsidenten hoffen. Das BSW will nach Einzug Zünglein an der Waage sein.

In Reutlingen und Regensburg wurde kritische Infrastruktur sabotiert. Mögliche Gründe erläutert ein linksradikaler Blog. Der Verfassungsschutz liest mit.

In Reutlingen und Regensburg wurde kritische Infrastruktur sabotiert. Mögliche Gründe erläutert ein linksradikaler Blog. Der Verfassungsschutz liest mit.

The arena has been built. Its skeletal steel dome, erected on the spot where an Easter egg roll was held in the days of the republic, rises as high as the topmost arcade of the Colosseum, towering over the White House. UFC Freedom 250, to be streamed by Paramount, will feature seven bouts fought ins ...

Der Klimawandel hat sich seit dem letzten Sachstandsbericht des Weltklimarats deutlich beschleunigt, wie eine aktuelle Untersuchung zeigt.

Die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft in Nordamerika wird laut einer britischen Studie für CO2-Emissionen in neuer Rekordhöhe sorgen.

Linke-Politikerin geht von erheblicher Dunkelziffer gegenüber den offiziellen Zahlen des Bundesinnenministeriums aus.

Die erneute Ehrung von Nazi-Kollaborateuren durch Kiew hat in Polen für Empörung gesorgt. Im Streit geht es um Geschichte und zukünftige Ressourcen.

Space-X-Aktien stiegen am Ende des ersten Handelstags um gut 19 Prozent und machten Elon Musk zum ersten Billionär.

If it feels as though Washington and Tehran have been on the verge of a deal before, it’s because they have. At least 38 times during the months of negotiations to end the war in Iran, President Trump has suggested that an agreement was within reach, only for new disputes, military escalations, or c ...

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.Photos of air travel in decades past can cause almost visceral pain for a modern flier. Faded or sepia ...

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, a number of members of the American New Left that had incubated on college campuses in the prior decade set out to take rank-and-file jobs as blue-collar workers. The social and political ferment of the ’60s — including the women’s movement, the antiwar movement, th ...

At times, the defining mood of the 2020s seems to be disassociation. The culture of these years will be remembered for lots of things that dulled and distracted the senses: easygoing country music, friendly AI chatbots, ketamine nasal sprays, conspiracy theories that were preferable to the truth, an ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Among my friends and family, I am notorious for being a skeptic. I don’t believe in ghosts; I find all cryptozoological sightings unconvincing; I dismiss astrology out of hand. But (and this ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Baseball has never been synonymous with change. But in recent years, Major League Baseball has transformed radically, and this season it has embraced technology via the ABS pitch-tracking system (also known as “robot umpires”). Has the experiment wo ...

Catherine Liu is a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. She’s the author of several books, most recently Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class and the forthcoming Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering. In the last few ...

Laut Medienbericht wollte Parteichef Chrupalla der früheren Linke-Bundestagsabgeordneten Nastić eine Stelle im Parlament verschaffen – und scheiterte

Veranstalter beklagen Druck von außen und sagen zu, vier von 90 Veranstaltungen außerhalb der Uni abzuhalten. AfD-naher Anwalt hatte Verbot gefordert

Mit Konferenz und Großdemo starten am Wochenende in Brüssel Aktionsmonate gegen die »Kriegsertüchtigung« der EU

He’s frustrated, but he’s keeping in his anger. Abdoulaye — the pseudonym of a famous Senegalese journalist who spoke to Jacobin — just doesn’t know if he’ll be able to cover his country’s match against Iraq, scheduled to take place Toronto on June 26 as part of the upcoming football World Cup. Know ...

When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of planets that revolve around them, the idea that humans are alone in the universe strikes me as unlike ...

Bundesinnenminister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) eröffnet am Hauptstadtflughafen BER eine Außengrenzeinrichtung zur Abwehr von Flüchtlingen

Am Flughafen der Hansestadt ging das Bundeswehr-Manöver »Dispersed Operations – Panther Shield« zu Ende. 100 Soldaten und sechs Tornados beteiligt.

Papst Leo XIV. hat das Thema Migration zum Abschluss seiner einwöchigen Spanien-Reise als gesamtgesellschaftliche Aufgabe bezeichnet.

Ha-Joon Chang is one of the world’s most influential heterodox economists. A professor at SOAS University of London and the author of Kicking Away the Ladder, Bad Samaritans, and Economics: The User’s Guide, among other works, he has spent decades challenging the development orthodoxy imposed on the ...

As the rocket company SpaceX has the largest-ever initial public offering (IPO) today — a blockbuster event that stands to make Elon Musk a trillionaire — stock market regulators quietly handed Wall Street trading giants an extraordinary exemption from consumer protection regulations.Possibly for th ...

Die IG Metall fordert politische Unterstützung des Umbaus zu grünem Stahl. Letztlich steht und fällt hier die Zukunft der gesamten Branche.

Die WM in den USA, Mexiko und Kanada ist für den Iran kein reines Sportereignis, sondern ein erbitterter Kampf um die Frage: Wer spricht für das Land?

Die WM in den USA, Mexiko und Kanada ist für den Iran kein reines Sportereignis, sondern ein erbitterter Kampf um die Frage: Wer spricht für das Land?

Kann der Trainer die Selecão wieder zu einer titelreifen Einheit formen? Die Erwartungen sind gewohnt hoch. Zum Auftakt wartet Afrikameister Marokko.

Köln: Bis heute fehlt ein würdiger Ort des Erinnerns an den Nagelbombenanschlag 2004. 22 Menschen wurden damals verletzt, vier von ihnen schwer.

You can spot the packages at most any UPS Store in any city. Sometimes they’re left in their own designated corner, dark gray amid a sea of brown cardboard. They have sprouted up in mail rooms, sorority houses, and even my own four-girl apartment. On their side reads a word that meant nothing 10 yea ...

Ryan Murphy / APNew York Knicks fans cheer at a watch party during Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, on June 8, 2026, in New York City.Lindsay Dedario / ReutersNiagara Falls is illuminated as part of the lighting-up of 11 state landmarks announced by New York Gov ...

Mit Dan Jarvis hat Premier Keir Starmer kurz nach dem Rücktritt von Amtsinhaber John Healey einen Nachfolger für das Verteidigungsressort gefunden.

Labor recruitment in postwar West Germany drew in millions of “guest workers” from Turkey, Italy, Greece, and elsewhere — and they also brought their culinary traditions with them. From Turkey, the döner, adapted to German tastes and marketed as an affordable street food, became a favorite in the 19 ...

Hasen, die sich im Kreis jagen: In ihrem Debütroman erkundet Yael van der Wouden die Aufarbeitung der Shoa in den Niederlanden.

Das Haus an der Mecklenburgischen Straße 89 ist stark sanierungsbedürftig. Jetzt hoffen die Mieter, dass der Bezirk die marode Immobilie aufkauft.

Nature is always performing chemistry experiments, and in the dark and sticky corners of its forests and jungles, it creates compounds that have hyper-specific effects on the human mind. In China’s Yunnan province, a yellow mushroom with a droopy cap sprouts up in the mountains, usually in the shade ...

Photographs By Max HighsteinThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.We have limited time on this Earth to get a good look at one another’s belongings. We need to move on this—fast—because the years we spend alive could well be our only opportunity for ...

Wenn am Sonntag MMA-Kämpfer vor dem Weißen Haus in den Käfig steigen, dann ist das nicht bloß ein Event für US-Präsident Trump. Es ist eine Drohung für die Welt.

Fiscal hawks like to drum up interest in the national debt by making the astronomical numbers more tangible. The United States owes $31.6 trillion to public creditors, more than $290,000 for each household. You could spend $1 million every day for almost 86,000 years before having to borrow more. Bu ...

Data centers are allegedly an unmitigated disaster: They guzzle water, strain electric grids, and raise prices, all while offering almost nothing in return. Little wonder that according to a recent Gallup poll, 71 percent of Americans oppose the construction of new AI data centers in their area. Pol ...

I. The BoneyardThrough the heat haze, airplane tails rose from the desert. As I steered off the interstate toward Pinal Airpark, in Marana, Arizona, I got my first view of a corpse in full: a stark-white Boeing 747, its wings sheared off, its passenger doors open to the dust and wind, a rickety set ...

Zwischen den Jubelarien über vergangene Fußballweltmeisterschaften blickt die ARD in »Elf Freunde, ein Albtraum« aufs deutsche Desaster 1994 zurück.

Finanzinvestoren treffen sich auf der Messe SuperReturn International in Berlin. Ein Bündnis protestiert gegen den »Ausverkauf der Daseinsvorsorge«.

»Die Aula« ist der berühmteste Roman von Hermann Kant, der dieser Tage 100 Jahre alt wird. Die Uckermärkischen Bühnen Schwedt adaptieren ihn für das Theater.

Updated at 9:48 a.m. ET on June 13, 2026. A crowd amassed, anticipating a cathartic moment and chanting, “Take it down! Take it down!” Livestreams were up and running. The group in front of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts swelled to more than 200 people—American flags, bo ...

Ein von der US-Firma Flock geführtes System zur Kennzeichenerfassung wird dutzendfach von Polizisten missbraucht, um Frauen nachzustellen.

»Tatort«-Kommissarin, Fußball-Kapitänin und Zehntausende andere: Die Kampagne der »WOZ« gegen die Abschottung der Schweiz hat breite Unterstützung erfahren.

»Tatort«-Kommissarin, Fußball-Kapitänin und Zehntausende andere: Die Kampagne der »WOZ« gegen die Abschottung der Schweiz hat breite Unterstützung erfahren.

Laut UNHCR-Bericht zwingt die Abschottung Geflüchtete dazu, in Kriegs- und Konfliktgebiete zurückzukehren. Auch in Europa schwindet der Schutz.

Bei der Abstimmung zur Einschränkung der Migration in die Schweiz am Sonntag geht es um weit mehr als ein Signal der Unzufriedenheit mit der Politik.

Dieser Tage wäre der Schriftsteller Hermann Kant 100 Jahre alt geworden. Seinen literarischen Weg, heutzutage kaum noch bekannt, begann der Autor von »Die Aula« beim »ND«.

Donald Trump is old. The president turns 80 on Sunday, becoming the second man to mark that milestone birthday in office. The other, of course, was his predecessor, Joe Biden. Neither particularly likes to be reminded of his age, and both have had White House aides furiously try to stymie any attemp ...

Eigentlich sollten die Bundestags-Abgeordneten monatlich fast 500 Euro mehr Geld bekommen. Doch die übliche Anhebung wird es diesmal wohl nicht geben.

Kaum kündigt der US-Präsident neue Angriffe auf den Iran an, folgt die Kehrtwende. Angeblich stehen beide Seiten vor einem Deal. Teheran dementiert.

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 event at the Kennedy Center in recent months has drawn as much anticipation in Washington as the rem ...

After Scott Pelley was fired from 60 Minutes, the longtime CBS News correspondent uttered a single sentence that captured both the greatest fears of the program’s fans and the core grievance of its detractors. Criticizing his new bosses—especially CBS editor in chief Bari Weiss—he said, “There’s a s ...

Everybody’s been talking and writing about the enormous box-office success and staying power of Backrooms andObsession, two low-budget horror films made by young directors who came to fame for their works on YouTube. Their startling feature film hits are being compared with the tanking of the new He ...

Twice a year, every January and June, certain corners of the internet populate with photographs of extravagantly dressed men on the streets of Florence. These are the peacocks of Pitti Uomo, a Tuscan menswear trade show, flashing their plumage: fabrics in textures found nowhere in nature, jacket lap ...

If you scan social media, the conversation about American families seems like a cesspool: arguments abound over whether podcaster Alex Cooper’s pregnancy is hypocritical, whether “girlbosses” are to blame for America’s declining birth rate, and whether environmental toxins are sending teenagers’ spe ...

Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter where Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy.In 2016, the AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton declared that “people should stop training radiologists now” because “it’s just completely obvious that within five years, deep learning is going to ...

Today The Atlantic is opening the first set of tickets for its three-day flagship event, The Atlantic Festival, which will be back in New York City after moving to the city last year. The festival will take place from September 17 to 19: The first two days will be hosted across three stages at the P ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.The defense of the United States is a serious business. Every day, men and women, civilian and military, attend to the smallest details—the caloric content of a soldier’s meal, the fabric in a uniform—w ...

Never before in American history has a president abused his authority so blatantly to prosecute his enemies. For defendants pursued by Donald Trump’s Justice Department, this paucity of historical precedents initially presented a problem: Not much law on the books can help someone fight back against ...

Amust-pass congressional funding package for the nation’s roads, bridges, and public infrastructure includes an industry-friendly carveout that would give ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft legal immunity from car crashes and injuries, according to a review of the bill text by the Lever.Drivers wo ...

Earlier this year, I watched a video that caught me entirely by surprise: A clip from the CCTV Spring Festival in China, in which more than a dozen humanoid robots performed an intricate martial-arts routine. They backflipped. They high-kicked. They wielded swords and dropped into potentially pant-s ...

Die Weltmeisterschaft in den USA, Kanada und Mexiko wird auch für ihre absurden Eintrittspreise in die Geschichte eingehen.

The success of the climatologist Daniel Swain rests on a simple foundation: His specialty has long been how global climate change messes with local weather. Many climatologists focus on subjects that seem arcane: mean global temperatures registered in Celsius, radiative forcing, the reflectivity of ...

A new form of cryptocurrency called “stablecoins” has exploded onto the global financial scene. Created just over ten years ago, the industry’s expected growth sets it on a path to rival some of the largest players in finance. Analysts expect it to grow to $1.6 trillion by 2030, which would make it ...

Die EU plant »Rückführungszentren« außerhalb ihrer Grenzen. Eines könnte in Tunesien entstehen, wo Migranten bereits Hass und Gewalt ausgesetzt sind.

Die AfD verlangt von der TU Berlin die Absage eines antifaschistischen Kongresses. Statt Rückgrat zu zeigen, knickt die Uni ein, meint Marten Brehmer.

Should we euthanize the Democratic Party?It’s a question Les Leopold is pondering as he looks out upon the American political landscape. He doesn’t quite advocate a swift and complete death for the party of the ass. But he is convinced that the party is no longer capable of advancing a working-class ...

Der streitbare Schweizer Soziologe, Politiker und Bestsellerautor Jean Ziegler ist gestorben. Sein humanistisches Vermächtnis bleibt.

Immer mehr Fahrten fallen wegen kaputter Infrastruktur aus. Wann neue Züge kommen, steht in den Sternen. Wäre das Land der bessere Eigentümer?

In Libyen hat sich rund um die Migranten eine Ökonomie des Schreckens gebildet. Geflüchtete dienen als Geldquelle – und als Sündenböcke.

Photographs by Diane ArbusWhen I was 17, I worked at Fantasyland’s magic shop as a magician demonstrating Svengali decks, cups and balls, and the Incredible (their word) Shrinking Die. I loved working to exhaustion, and I was proud to become the shop’s youngest night manager. When Disneyland’s summe ...

Die ausländerfeindlichen Krawalle von Belfast haben ihren Ursprung im Nordirland-Konflikt, der einst Tausenden das Leben kostete. Ein Kommentar.

Erste Lesung des Gebäudemodernisierungsgesetzes im Bundestag: Kritik an Klimaschutzfolgen und verfassungsrechtlichen Risiken.

É douard Louis was only twenty-one years old when his debut novel, The End of Eddy, became an overnight sensation. Taking its cue from fellow French writers such as Annie Ernaux and Didier Eribon, the memoir described the author’s upbringing in a small working-class community in northern France. Fro ...

Thüringens Ministerpräsident Mario Voigt ließ offenbar Reden maßgeblich von KI generieren.

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.How much grace should we extend to people who screw up—like, really screw up? After many years as an addict and a general failson, Hunter Biden’s history includes felony gun convictions, tax evasion, sm ...

Das neue Asylsystem der EU tritt in Kraft. Es ist das Ergebnis einer verrohten Debatte. Seine Ziele wird es nicht erreichen.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Years before Poison’s Bret Michaels, Young MC, and the Commodores dropped out of this summer’s concert series on the National Mall celebrating America’s 250th birthday, planners envisioned a Smithsonian-led bloc ...

WM-Kolumne Teil 1: Berti Vogts, Curaçao und die alte Frage nach den Außenseitern der WM

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135 Agrarbetriebe laden ein zur Brandenburger Landpartie. Die Bauern haben momentan wieder viele Sorgen.

If it is possible, in this fascinating age, to be a celebrity fruit, the Sumo Citrus is definitely a celebrity fruit. The mandarin-satsuma-orange hybrid, originally developed in Japan and brought to American grocery stores in 2011, is by far the most popular new member of the citrus family, accounti ...

Die Gastgeber starten gegen Paraguay zur amerikanischen Primetime im teuersten Stadion der Welt ins Turnier – die Experten jubeln, der Trainer bremst.

Solange man nicht über Reformen, sondern nur über die Existenz von Problemen diskutiert, ist die Stimmung in der Bundesregierung super. Ein Kommentar.

Bautzen streicht zugunsten einer Geburtsklinik bei Bus und Bahn. ÖPNV steht auch in Chemnitz und Dresden vor Einschnitten. Fahrgastverband alarmiert.

Die Hoffnungen der Spekulanten ruhen auf Künstlicher Intelligenz und der Errichtung riesiger solar­kraft­betriebener Rechen­zentren im Weltall.

Elon Musks SpaceX geht an die Börse. Weitere KI-Firmen werden folgen. Es ist eine Wette mit gigantischen Einsätzen.

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.When Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared before Congress last Tuesday, senior administration officials hoped that his testimony would be enough to quell the uproar over a $1.776 billion payout ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsA couple of weeks ago, Democrats posted a photo of James Talarico, the U.S. Senate candidate in Texas, captioned “November, here we come.” Talarico, strangely alone at a picnic table, is wearing a lone-star flag button-down, ...

The sentry box at the royal governor’s residence in Boston was a too-inviting target for young Americans with an urge to kick, throw, or swing at something British. The regiments who occupied the city to enforce the Crown’s taxation were accustomed to dodging snowballs, oyster shells, and burning co ...

Die Buchautorin Penny Prinz spricht über ihre Erfahrungen mit Überwachung und Repression in Hongkong sowie Parallelen in Deutschland, Europa und USA.

In Lissabon steigen die Mieten, während Wohnraum ungenutzt bleibt. Hinter dem Widerspruch steht eine Logik des Immobilienmarktes.

Die angeblich unpolitische Ersatzreligion Fußball schafft immer mehr Anlässe für politische Deals und Sportswashing

Ohne Pleiten, Pech und Pannen: Mitten in der Polykrise feiert das »nd« seinen 80. Geburtstag mit einer Sonderausgabe.

By the time Donald Trump was in his senior year at New York Military Academy, he had quit playing football and decided to join the varsity soccer team. Most of his teammates were from South or Central America, the children of diplomats and military officers: four Colombians, two Peruvians, and playe ...

Alexander Ludewig über das groteske Turnier in den USA, Mexiko und Kanada, gebrochene Versprechen der Fifa und Funktionärskrankheiten. Ein Kommentar

Mit 66 Jahren will die Japanerin Junko Sakai den Beauty Contest Miss Universe gewinnen. Was sagt das übers Altern und wie wir darauf blicken?

Mit 66 Jahren will die Japanerin Junko Sakai den Beauty Contest Miss Universe gewinnen. Was sagt das übers Altern und wie wir darauf blicken?

UN-Flüchtlingshilfswerk warnt vor drastischen Kürzungen bei Hilfsgeldern. Nur noch ein Drittel des weltweiten Bedarfs für Geflüchtete ist gedeckt.

Der WHO-Regionaldirektor stellt Maßnahmen zum Schutz vor Hitze vor. Besonders ältere und kranke Menschen sind zunehmend betroffen.

Die EU-Behörde Echa stuft die Chemikalie TFA als Gefahr für Fruchtbarkeit und ungeborene Kinder ein. Die Bundesregierung ist gegen ein Verbot.

Die Verjährungsfrist für Vergewaltigungen beträgt bislang häufig fünf Jahre. Justizministerin Hubig will sie auf 20 Jahre anheben.

Der Konflikt zwischen den USA und dem Iran verschärft sich: Nach US-Angriffen lässt Teheran keine Schiffe die Meerenge von Hormus passieren.

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.Eight years ago, when FIFA selected the United States, Mexico, and Canada to host the 2026 World Cup, t ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.When it comes to counting votes, there’s no rushing California. America’s most populous state is also home to the nation’s most frustrating political tradition—a lengthy wait to find out the winners of ...

Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), the organization dedicated to rank-and-file organizing within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is one of the most important labor reform organizations in the United States. The group has played a key role within one of the most powerful unions in th ...

On the morning of October 3, 2012, a trio of unarmed 16- and 17-year-old boys in Elkhart, Indiana, banded together to commit a burglary in their neighborhood. To avoid a confrontation, they planned to hit a vacant home. After some dogs scared them off their first target, the teens called two more fr ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the Brexit vote, which was cast 10 years ago this month. David explains why Brexit has not only been a failure but has led to years of political instability ...

Mike Korostelev / GettyWaves crash over a Pacific walrus on a beach in Chukotka, Russia.Byron M. O'Neal / GettyA humpback whale raises its tail before a deep-feeding dive, with the Port of Tacoma and Mount Rainier in the background.Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket / GettyA spirit bear (Ursus americanu ...

The Democratic Party’s foreign-policy experts assembled what they dubbed a shadow cabinet during President Trump’s first term to counter the new leader’s disruptive approach to global affairs. As Trump harangued allies and threatened to abandon NATO, the group condemned his deference to Russian Pres ...

On June 14, the White House will be hosting an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event called “Freedom 250.” The date of the event happens to coincide with Donald Trump’s eightieth birthday. Zac Brown will perform the national anthem for Freedom 250, which can boast generous sponsorship from the ...

Amnesty International wirft dem israe­li­schen Staat in einem Bericht eine gezielte Politik ethni­scher Säube­rung im West­jordan­land vor.

In vielen Streiks über Jahre erkämpfte Verbesserungen an den Krankenhäusern werden gerade zurückgedreht, warnt unsere Kolumnistin.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Donald Trump, as a creator of insults, is not a poet. But he is prolific—no critic can doubt his commitment to his craft—and his body of work, whatever it may lack in artistry, is notable for its volume alone. E ...

SPD, Grüne, Linke und Omas gegen Rechts rufen auf zu einer Kund­gebung für Demo­kratie und Vielfalt

As over 1.3 million Palestinians live in tents and makeshift shelters due to Israel’s mass bombings, destroying at least 92 percent of Gaza’s residential infrastructure, New York Democrats who voted to supply those same bombs smiled and waved down Fifth Avenue, with blue-and-white sashes around thei ...

Im Berliner Schloss Schönhausen erzählt eine neue Dauerausstellung das Schicksal von Werken der Moderne in der Nazizeit

In Mexiko-Stadt beginnt die Fußball-WM mit Fifa-Pathos am Zócalo. Vor der abgesperrten Fanzone protestieren Lehrer gegen niedrige Löhne.

Every time the United States hosts a major international soccer tournament, the world’s finest players unite to complain about our god-awful fields. At the 2024 Copa América, the Argentine goalkeeper Emi Martínez—widely regarded as one of the best in the world—described the field in Atlanta’s Merced ...

In der CDU gibt es Vorbehalte gegen die Förderung von Demo­kratie­projekten. Im Ilm-Kreis verhalf die Partei der AfD zum Stopp der Mittel.

As the supposed ceasefire in the US-Israeli war against Iran turns into fresh episodes of military aggression, both in the Gulf and in Lebanon, it is increasingly likely that the Bab al-Mandab, the other major strait in the region, will be involved in any renewed expansion of the war.Prior to the de ...

Ein GSG 9-Beamter erschoss am 11. Mai auf einem Truppenübungsplatz einen Kollegen. Seitdem bleiben grundlegende Fragen zu dem Vorfall unbeantwortet.

According to Shopify, the best e-commerce platform is Shopify. On its blog, the company has published at least 60 different ranked listicles, including “10 Best Ecommerce Platforms for Small Business in 2026,” “11 Best Ecommerce Platforms for Your Business in 2026,” “The 11 Best Cheap Ecommerce Plat ...

Im Abschiebegefängnis Glückstadt haben am Montag 15 Inhaftierte einen Hungerstreik begonnen

Die politisch brisante WM in Mexiko, Kanada und den USA sprengt alle Dimensionen. Das große Geschäft machen aber nur wenige – allen voran die Fifa.

Alexander Ludewig über das groteske Turnier in den USA, Mexiko und Kanada, gebrochene Versprechen der Fifa und Funktionärskrankheiten. Ein Kommentar

Donald Trump launched his latest war with Iran from Air Force One in the middle of ongoing nuclear negotiations. He did so without any widespread public appetite for war and without congressional authorization.It was the latest and most extreme act of unilateral executive action by the Trump adminis ...

Thea von Holdt hält das nd-Büro von innen zusammen. Dabei wollte sie eigentlich nie wieder als Assistenz arbeiten. Doch die politischen Inhalte der Zeitung haben sie überzeugt.

Der Untersuchungsausschuss zum Neukölln-Komplex hat seinen Bericht vorgelegt. Über die Konsequenzen können sich die Fraktionen nicht einigen.

Papst Leo XIV. trifft sich mit Flüchtlingen auf den Kanaren. An ihm sollten sich EU-Verantwortliche ein Beispiel nehmen, kommentiert Christian Klemm.

Der Drei-Länder-Block USA-Mexiko-Kanada will mehr als nur Fußball spielen

Keine Abrechnung, aber auch keine Lobhudelei: In Lutz Pehnerts Film »Kommunist« blickt Egon Krenz auf sein Leben zurück

Das Netzwerk »Sicherheit ohne Überwachung« antwortet mit einer bundesweiten Demonstration auf ein neues Gesetzespaket aus dem Bundesinnenministerium

Der Zorn auf die Ungerechtigkeit in der Welt hat Jean Ziegler bis ins Alter befeuert. Der Schweizer war ein Schreck der Reichen und Gierigen

Die Pflege muss sich ändern, doch wie? Drei Ansätze aus der Praxis und viel Kritik am aktuellen Reformentwurf.

“Ladies and gentlemen, comrades, I give you your candidate for the 2027 presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon!”This past Sunday, tens of thousands of people filled the streets of Saint-Denis in Paris’s northern suburbs. Despite the sun beating down, they’d come to watch left-winger Mélenchon lau ...

Über den BSW-Politiker Thomas Geisel ist ein Film erschienen. Das Besondere: Die Filmemacherin ist seine Tochter. Sie zeigt eine gespaltene Familie.

Einigung auf neuen Tarifvertrag für die rund 2000 Gastronomie-Beschäftigten des SoFi-Stadions in Los Angeles.

In der Bundestagsfraktionssitzung der Union dämpft der Kanzler die Erwartungen an den Reformgipfel und wirft dem Koalitionspartner SPD Blockaden vor.

Die Berliner Grünen wollen die Sowjet-Ehrenmale mit Bezug auf den Hitler-Stalin-Pakt kontextualisieren. Die VVN-BdA lehnt eine solche Umgestaltung ab.

Mit »Der Tag, an dem die Hölle siegte« ist Band 2500 der Heftromanserie »Geisterjäger John Sinclair« erschienen. Ein Jubiläum, das seinesgleichen sucht.

Im Dunkel der Buzzwords: Heute lässt sich zwar jede Problemlage auf einen schmissigen Begriff bringen, aber Hoffnung macht das nicht gerade.

In seinem neuen Buch geht Arbeitssoziologe Florian Butollo der Frage nach, warum wir trotz Digitalisierung und KI immer noch so viel arbeiten müssen.

Shooters shoot. Builders build. And DOGE alumni make splashy announcements about entering complex industries with scant qualifications while promising to “root out waste.”This, at least, is the premise of Special, a newly announced start-up co-founded by Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh, two former Dep ...

The war between Iran and Israel and the United States has been an economic catastrophe for Iranians. Their country has lost at least 1 million jobs—possibly 2 million—since the war began. In the same period, almost 300,000 eligible Iranians have signed up for unemployment insurance, and job-seeking ...

Like Ernest Hemingway’s description of bankruptcy, Off Campus’s takeover of my phone happened gradually, then all at once. First came a single—extremely abashed—recommendation from a friend for Amazon’s eight-episode college romance about a star athlete and a music student, followed by what felt lik ...

ROBERT JEFFRESS, the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, has long been one of Donald Trump’s most fawning supporters. By his own account, one reason for his loyalty is that Trump embodies an ethic—cruel, vengeful, and mendacious—that Jeffress and many millions of evangelicals and fundament ...

Illustrations by Joan WongWho broke Britain? Someone—or something—must have. The past 18 years, enough time for a whole lost generation to be born and brought up, have yielded nothing but stagnation and mass disillusionment. In 2007, before the global financial crisis, Britain was at its postimperia ...

Das Auftaktspiel der WM zwischen Mexiko und Südafrika wird an einem Ort angepfiffen, der viele Probleme der mexikanischen Gesellschaft symbolisiert.

Der Regierende Bürgermeister Kai Wegner will einen »Deftech-Campus« auf dem Flughafen. Abseits davon präsentierte er wenig Neues beim CDU-Landesparteitag.

Einigung von CDU, SPD und BSW könnte vor Monatsende im Landtag besiegelt werden. Verfassungsgericht hatte Anfang 2024 eine Frist bis Juni 2026 gesetzt.

Unautorisierte Drohnenflüge haben letztes Jahr Schäden von 60 Millionen Euro verursacht. Der Verfassungsschutz warnt auch andere Unternehmen.

Die ohnehin schon angespannte Atmosphäre in Großbritannien wird durch eine Bluttat in der nordirischen Hauptstadt Belfast weiter angeheizt.

Der Iran schießt nach US-Angaben einen Militärhubschrauber ab. Es folgen Luftangriffe auf Ziele im Iran. Teheran wiederum greift Golfstaaten an.

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 first thing you should know about the New World screwworm is that it isn’t actually a worm; it’s a ...

If the conservative manosphere is associated with protein powder, pomade, and ancient Rome, then the conservative womanosphere is its aesthetic opposite: a frilly wonderland of gingham tablecloths and Bible verses, as soft as goose down and as cotton-candy pink as Polly Pocket’s Country Cottage. Whi ...

Vor 50 Jahren wurde der Begriff »Westlicher Marxismus« populär. Ein kleines Jubiläumsseminar. Teil 3: Marxismus-Leninismus schlägt zurück (und fehl).

Vor dem Linke-Parteitag antwortet Ko-Vorsitzende Ines Schwerdtner auf Kritiken Benjamin Hoffs und Katalin Gennburgs.

One of President Donald Trump’s top-tier fixations is to heap ridicule on both climate science and all projects committed to combating the global climate crisis. In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last September, Trump declared that climate change is “the greatest con job ever perpet ...

Driving after dark used to be a haven. Late at night, there’s no rush-hour traffic, just the meditative hum of the passing miles. But these days, my eyes can’t take it anymore. Even on a lonely road in the middle of the night, I can’t seem to escape the glare of obnoxiously bright headlights. A pick ...

The American Revolution was revolutionary. That’s the deceptively simple claim to which Gordon Wood, the historian who was tragically killed at the age of 92 on Sunday, devoted his career. The Revolution, of course, overthrew a monarchy—but the freedoms it advanced were unequally enjoyed, and the Fo ...

Uber, the popular ride-hailing app, has amassed billions of dollars in an alleged dark money slush fund that the company could use not only to fund its robotaxi programs but also to sidestep taxes, according to a new report shared with the Lever.This comes as Uber has launched a nationwide lobbying ...

On a recent morning at Chicago’s new Obama Presidential Center, the institution’s leadership discussed presidential papers the way a decluttering convert might talk about some old sweaters they tossed because they did not spark joy.The campus contains many features sure to delight the misty-eyed vis ...

Offener Brief israelischer Prominenter kritisiert den hessischen Gesetzentwurf, der die Leugnung des Existenzrechts Israels unter Strafe stellen will.

Steven Spielberg is sometimes unfairly tagged as the ultimate Boomer, repeatedly harkening back to the entertainment that spellbound him in his youth. And there was a time, far earlier in his career, when that label stuck better—when Indiana Jones, friendly aliens, mean dinosaurs, and Peter Pan hims ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Updated at 2:56 p.m. ET on June 9, 2026Zvezdelina Stankova has taught mathematics at UC Berkeley for nearly three decades. But in 2023, while teaching introductory calculus for the first time since the beginning ...

Los Angeles is a city of ten million people, each of us rubbing our eyes, filtering our water, paying our parking tickets. Doing our daily back-and-forths on the freeways, trying to outrun whatever reaper we see in the rearview mirror. The real and the imaginary lock together here, like the jaws of ...

Zwei Jahre schon schwelt die Affäre um Missbrauchsvorwürfe gegen Karim Khan. Sie belastet den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof und beschädigt den Ruf.

Am vierten Tag seiner Spanien-Reise war der PapstLeo XIV. in Barcelona dem Sprachenstreit ausgesetzt. Er gab dem Druck nach und sprach auch Katalanisch.

Puerto Rico’s recent tourism boom is often presented as a story of recovery from a two-decade-long economic and fiscal crisis. Accordingly, after years marked by austerity, hurricanes, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the archipelago has reemerged as a desirable destination.Luxury hotels, gated communitie ...

Manipulation zu bekämpfen und aufzuklären, bleibt die Essenz des Journalismus, auch wenn irgendwann die letzte Druckerpresse verschrottet sein wird.

Jirka Grahl über den Fall Omar Abdulkadir Artan: Der Weltfußball predigt Offenheit, doch an der Grenze zählt der Verdacht.

Der Juniorpartner der unbeliebtesten Regierung Deutschlands kritisiert plötzlich die Union. Alles nur taktisches Geplänkel oder steckt mehr dahinter?

Die Führung in Teheran schaltete das Internet 88 Tage lang ab. Die Sperre von Februar bis Mai ist eine unterschätzte Form struktureller Gewalt.

The casual air traveler has never had so much information at his fingertips. He sits before a battleship-worthy console of maps, prices, dates, and times; orders up grids that plot one variable against another. He is monitoring the situation. He is in conversation with his wallet, but also with his ...

Hello! You’ve probably been seeing all our wafer-thin shadow-docket rulings with long dissents attached and saying, Well, after reading this, I know why these rulings are wrong, but why are they right? That’s fair. As a little treat, because we are feeling generous, we will explain our thinking on t ...

For the first time in twenty-seven years, the New York Knicks are in the NBA Finals, and the vibes are immaculate. They have one of the most likable rosters in the league. Knicks supporters — some of the most passionate in all of sports — have electrified the NBA’s content economy with on-the-street ...

Vom Aus für den französisch-deutschen Kampfjet FCAS dürften vor allem die USA und ihre Rüstungsindustrie profitieren.

Die Zeitung »Volkskrant« erhält den Europäischen Pressepreis für einen Bericht zu getöteten Kindern im Gaza-Krieg. Israel weitet indes die Zensur aus.

Das Land Berlin reduzierte sein rechnerisches Defizit an Schulplätzen von 26 100 auf 24 100.

Betroffener berichtet von Willkür, Gewalt und fehlender Hygiene. Ende Juni soll Lina E. im Dresdner Prozess als Zeugin vernommen werden.

NRW, RWE, Kommunen und Umweltverbände unterzeichnen Erklärung zur lang­fristigen Erhal­tung des Ham­bacher Forstes.

Deutsche Umwelthilfe fordert anlässlich des Hitzeaktionstags, mehr für den Erhalt und den Ausbau von Stadtgrün zu tun.

Nach dem Scheitern des milliardenschweren Rüstungsprojekts für einen deutsch-französischen Kampfjet soll nun eine Alternative entwickelt werden.

The Cannes Film Festival might sound a world away from socialist politics. Yet it has a far more radical past than the glitz and glamor of today’s red carpet might suggest.Tangui Perron is a historian specializing in the connections between the labor movement, trade unionism, and film. In his latest ...

In Rheinsberg wird der 300. Geburtstag von Prinz Heinrich gefeiert. Der Bruder Friedrichs des Großen war hier viel mehr als eine Randfigur.

When the news broke last week that Marjane Satrapi, the French Iranian artist best known for the groundbreaking graphic memoir Persepolis, had died at age 56, I had what turned out to be a common reaction: That’s impossible. A friend wrote to me that Satrapi seemed invincible, which feels correct—no ...

Kurz vor den Beratungen über Reformen tritt die SPD selbstbewusster auf und grenzt sich in mehreren Politikfeldern von ihrem Koalitionspartner ab.

Der Italiener Andrea Anastasi soll Berlins Volleyballer aus ihrer Stagnation herausführen.

Laut der Amsterdamer Justiz griff der deutsche Sammy Baker die Polizei mit einem Messer an – und starb deshalb. Die Eltern kämpfen gegen diese Lüge.

The headlining fight in the most-watched mixed martial arts event in history ended in just 17 seconds. Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano—both legends in the MMA universe—had been retired from mixed martial arts for years. So when they faced off in Los Angeles last month, viewers were eager to watch these ...

Im Juni 1986 starteten Grüne und Anti-AKW-Bewegung ein Volksbegehren zur Sozialisierung und Stilllegung der Atomanlagen in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Photographs by Nate Langston PalmerSign up for our newsletter about national security here.Daniel “Chappie” James Jr. became commander of the Wheelus Air Base, near Tripoli, just after rebels under Muammar Qaddafi took control of Libya in a coup in 1969. In the midst of the insurgency, Qaddafi led a ...

The first thing you notice upon entering the College of Arms, in London, is a small and incongruously blue statue of a kiwi, clutching a gold axe in its right claw. Sorry, let me try that again: In the odd historic language of heraldry, this is “a kiwi Azure grasping in the dexter foot an ice axe be ...

Die Parteien links der CDU haben ein großes Problem: Ihre Bundestagsabgeordneten sprechen nicht mehr die Sprache der Menschen in ihren Wahlkreisen.

Von Dublin über Lüneburg bis Wellington: Die weltweiten »Ulysses«-Freunde rüsten zum »Bloomsday«, der auch schon vorab gefeiert wird.

Der Menschenrechtsanwalt Héctor Reyes erwartet in Guatemala von dem neuen Generalstaatsanwalt Gabriel García Luna einen Neuaufbau von unten.

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 some time, the Biden family standings were clear. Hunter, the ne’er-do-well son, resided in the bas ...

The most important outcome of the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral primary may be that the Republican Party no longer accepts the legitimacy of election defeats. This reflex has spread up and down the party, to everyone including the trailing candidate, Spencer Pratt, and the president of the United States, ...

If late May’s “Conference of the Left” was any indication of what progressive forces have to offer, the Democratic Alliance (or DA, South Africa’s main center-right opposition party) should rest easy. The scare quotes are needed because the biggest parties at the gathering cannot in any sensible way ...

Can you remember the first time you heard about “tradwives”? I can’t, and yet I have the vague feeling that at some point a handful of years ago, all at once, the term became inescapable. On phone screens across the United States, beautiful women with glossy hair seemed to materialize en masse, flip ...

The Trump administration is withholding pay from legal aid groups while demanding they share confidential case data about unaccompanied migrant children fighting to remain in the country, according to records reviewed by the Lever.For months, the records show, the primary legal services provider for ...

In Südkorea positioniert sich eine deutliche Mehrheit auf der Seite der Palästinenser. Wehrpflicht und Ersatzdienst sind bei jungen Männern unbeliebt

Sycophants, grifters, and ego-massaging billionaires so strongly define Donald Trump’s second term, we might easily forget that openly associating with him used to be controversial. Still, looking back to his inauguration reminds us what was already eyebrow-raising back then, and what was still to c ...

Victorian Trades Hall is the oldest continuously operating trades hall in the world. And even before it was constructed, in 1856, the stonemasons and building workers of Melbourne downed their tools and marched for the eight-hour day — eight hours of labor, eight hours of recreation, and eight hours ...

I’m on a long-planned vacation. My brain is (mostly) offline and slowly healing from daily internet poisoning. Away from all the noise, my mind keeps returning to one thought: on many controversies, different sides present their arguments as the only truths, but quite often multiple things are true ...

On Albania’s Adriatic coastline, demonstrators clashing with police and private security forces are waving cutout pink flamingos. The bird has become the emblem of protests against the planned tarmacking of a protected nature reserve in the Vjosa-Narta Delta in a multibillion-dollar luxury developme ...

For its July issue, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States, The Atlantic considers how to tell the American story, with contributions from its staff writers and editors, including Yoni Appelbaum, Ian Bogost, Sally Jenkins, Idrees Kahloon, Adrienne LaFrance, Helen Lewis, Jake L ...

“What is white identity?”In February, the Democratic Senator Chris Murphy posed that question to Jeremy Carl, the Trump administration’s nominee for a top State Department job. It should have been a softball.Carl has built his career on the claim that white identity is under threat. In his 2024 book ...

Americans have never settled the question of how best to love this country. Does patriotism mean prioritizing unconditional loyalty—the Pledge of Allegiance I remember repeating every morning of elementary school, right hand over my heart—or does it first demand skepticism and vigilance, a setting a ...

We tend to think we have one national anthem, but to me, we have always seemed to have two. The first is the official one, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The second is “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The two are different on every level. Only one of them provokes us to ponder our identity as a nation.Wh ...

It is quite interesting, and somewhat chastening, to realize that the most important piece of journalism published across the 169-year history of this magazine was not journalism at all, but a poem, and that it was published so early in the life of The Atlantic. And it is particularly humbling to kn ...

Illustrations by Tyler ComrieThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.On a July afternoon in 2019, I found myself in a large, sun-dappled room within one of America’s great estates. An assemblage of distinguished jurists, Ivy League professors, nonprof ...

It’s hard to imagine a more fraught combination for what was supposed to be a fun Friday night: Seattle’s Pride celebration will feature a World Cup match on June 26 between Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, and Egypt, where homosexual activity is punishable by up to three years in p ...

I dreamed of the mountains again and felt the rising joy as the road wound upwardthrough the dark woods then villages rank with silage and spattered with cow manureall the needs of the body I didn’t know any better geraniums a vibrationagainst the ancient chalets no one else around the clattering of ...

Is China abolishing the hukou? Since the State Council of the People’s Republic of China announced a new guideline on public services on May 18, this question has led to an outpouring of commentary. For decades, analysts from a wide range of political orientations have called for ending the hukou. H ...

As Democrats debate how and whether to use power if they regain control of Congress and the White House, former President Barack Obama has lambasted his party for failing to more aggressively challenge or circumvent obstructions to enacting their campaign promises.“There’s been some unwillingness on ...

When OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022, it quickly broke records as the fastest growing technology product in history. AI model providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google initially used artificially low flat-rate pricing to drive adoption and capture market share, trusting that they could bu ...

As Democratic heretics go, Representative Dan Goldman isn’t guilty of many crimes against his party. He initially won election to the House after prosecuting the first impeachment of President Trump (whom he now calls a “fascist”), and during two terms, he has voted overwhelmingly with Democratic le ...

In a typical year, the process of bringing a new seasonal flu shot to market is one of the United States’ most predictable vaccine routines. This, however, is not a typical year.Vaccine manufacturers have prepared updated versions of the annual flu shot, as they normally do. The FDA has green-lighte ...

In a field outside of Kyiv last weekend, a van was parked discreetly behind some trees. Inside the van there were no passenger seats, just a long desk, two office chairs, two laptops, extra screens. Outside appearances to the contrary, this was a mobile drone-interceptor base, one of hundreds of sim ...

The Maine Senate race is far from the first time that an American political party has had to choose between character and power.In 2017, Alabama Republicans nominated a state supreme court judge named Roy Moore for U.S. Senate. A month before election day, The Washington Post published a report that ...

As tensions between the US government and Cuba’s leadership continue to escalate in tandem with continued talk of back-channel discussions between the two, we are receiving a confusing picture of the actual state of those relations. There is also even more confusion over possible developments in the ...

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

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.For some people, an out-of-office message is a simple one-line email. For others, it’s an opportunity ...

In his concise yet comprehensive history of petroleum, politics, and the modern world, Don Gillmor argues that oil’s geopolitical dominance is entering its twilight years:The Oil Wars will always be with us. For more than a century, the wars were among the companies and nations trying to acquire and ...

The premise was something out of a B-grade thriller. At 2 a.m. on Sunday, April 19, a car plunged into a ravine in Chihuahua, the sprawling Mexico state that borders Texas and New Mexico, killing four. According to the initial information, two of the deceased belonged to the State Investigation Agen ...

In the early twentieth century, Jewish immigrant women on New York’s Lower East Side were at the forefront of some of the most militant labor actions in American history. Most had fled poverty and persecution in the Russian Empire, arriving in a country that offered them grueling work in sweatshops ...

As President Trump prepares to host UFC cage fights on the White House lawn to celebrate 250 years of American democracy and his own 80th birthday, viewers who dig displays of domination will be exhilarated. But why stop at blood sport?The ratings could be higher if Trump added even more provocative ...

Sir! I love you! Thank you for including me in this meeting to talk about all the wonderful things you’ve accomplished since January 2025. What a big, beautiful man you are. The greatest fellow in the whole world! You’re so alert. And you can walk! Wow!When grown men see you, they weep, and they are ...

Updated at 3:54 p.m. on June 6, 2026Three months ago, a 75-year-old lawmaker filed a complaint as part of an ongoing lawsuit in federal court, claiming that she had been unlawfully excluded from an upcoming board meeting that would determine the fate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ...

No Russian thinker has worked harder than Aleksandr Dugin to rationalize the invasion of Ukraine. Long before it started, Dugin came up with a whole philosophical system, known as “neo-Eurasianism,” to explain why Russia, the country with the largest landmass in the world, would need to steal land f ...

Updated at 8:35 a.m. ET on June 8, 2026I n 1787, after the Founders signed the Constitution in Philadelphia, Alexander Hamilton wrote in “Federalist No. 1” that there was more at stake than the future of a single country. The American experiment would “decide the important question, whether societie ...

Joe Picard perched atop a precarious mound of 300-plus-pound high-explosive shells as his ship churned toward Normandy’s beaches. The teenager had been at sea only once before, to cross the Atlantic, and now he was sailing across the English Channel to pile into the breach that Allied forces had ope ...

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.On January 6, 2021, 19-year-old Elias Irizarry was among the members of a violent mob that broke into t ...

The following contains spoilers for the film Obsession.The premise of the hit horror movie Obsession may sound relatable: What if you had a totally debilitating crush on someone but were too afraid to confess your feelings to them? In the early scenes of the director Curry Barker’s feature debut, a ...

This week, the Roberts Court made clear that when it comes to drawing congressional districts, Black voters have no rights that anyone is bound to respect.For years, Alabama, where a quarter of the population is Black, had defied federal court orders, including one reaffirmed by the Supreme Court it ...

Philosophical debates don’t often make the news. But the problem of personhood regularly finds its way into the headlines. The first few weeks of this year alone saw a surge of interest in the topic.In January, the Guardian theatrically warned policy makers not to entertain Silicon Valley hype about ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube How do you build a winning campaign for the era of AI? In the aftermath of the 2024 race, Democrats have been struggling to adapt to the new logic of the attention economy. On this episode of Galaxy Brain, Rob Flaherty, the deputy campaign manager f ...

In the ongoing swirl of global calamities — climate breakdown, the collapse of democratic norms, spiraling inequality, the normalization of state terror at home and abroad — almost every news report these days seems like another demoralizing atrocity.However, the arrest of Rodrigo Duterte, former pr ...

Throughout the twentieth century, Canada built a world-leading telecommunications system through a productive balance of private and public carriers. But within a generation, conservative governments at all levels across the country privatized almost all of the public side of that balance. Today, th ...

Updated at 4:20 p.m. ET on June 5, 2026Elon Musk is about to set in motion a chain of events that will reshape the global financial order. For starters, when SpaceX formally goes public next week, he is all but guaranteed to become the world’s first trillionaire. His rocket company is targeting a va ...

The comedian Nate Bargatze is an indisputably titanic name in his field. He’s been the top-grossing stand-up in America for two years in a row, he hosted last year’s Emmys (albeit to mixed reviews), and he’s even planning on opening a theme park called Nateland in his hometown of Nashville. Conseque ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Humans used to spend a lot of time thinking about what separated us from animals. René Descartes, who wrote, “I think, therefore I am,” practiced vivisection on rabbits and dogs because he t ...

In 1895, Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary that the penniless population of Palestine must be “spirited across the border,” discreetly and circumspectly. In 1948, that vision became policy. With the Nakba, approximately 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced, their land absorbed by the newly de ...

In 2025, the young American Orthodox convert and podcast host Conrad Franz visited Donbas in occupied Ukraine on a media tour sponsored by the Russian Orthodox Church. On social media, Franz posted photos with Russian soldiers holding a flag with an icon of Christ and boasted of receiving a badge fr ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The attacks on James Talarico have not been subtle. In the weeks since the 37-year-old state representative won the Democratic U.S. Senate primary in Texas, Republicans have been describing him as “Low-T Talaric ...

Jeff Chiu / APElena Ostergren shows her voting sticker to her dog Olaf at Club Fugazi during the California primary election on June 2, 2026, in San Francisco.Yang Bo / China News Service / VCG / GettyWorkers repair a peacock-shaped topiary at Gulou Square on June 4, 2026, in Nanjing, Jiangsu provin ...

“Sectarianism” is a strange term to use when seeking to understand contemporary British politics. However, in recent months, the term has become ubiquitous.In February this year, the Green Party won a parliamentary by-election in Manchester’s Gorton and Denton constituency. Disgruntled members of Re ...

Starting May 26, a tsunami of posts flooded social media from Iranians, who had largely not been heard from since the war began on February 28. Video calls reunited diaspora families who had spent three months staring at a single checkmark on WhatsApp—the app’s signal that a message has been sent bu ...

Most people in the Senate chamber noticed the sound before anything else—the sharp, sickening crack of a metal-tipped cane landing on an unprotected skull.On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks, a young representative from South Carolina, confronted Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts during a visit to ...

Hi! By now, we’re sure you’ve heard the latest about Graham Platner, and we’re sure you’re wondering: Will more shoes drop? No! Absolutely not. Graham is far too masculine to have a large collection of shoes. Unless by shoes you mean something metaphorical, like an allegation. In that case, maybe.Lo ...

People can change. I have seen it, and I have lived it. Just when change happens can generally be grasped only in retrospect. In the case of Senate hopeful Graham Platner of Maine, many Democrats are understandably eager to see evidence that he is no longer the man implicated by the drumbeat of damn ...

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 U.S. Navy was born to fight piracy. After the Revolutionary War, the United States maintained no st ...

Updated at 4:10 p.m. ET on June 5, 2026The World Cup is nearly here! But so far, at least, no one seems all that excited.It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The biggest sporting event in the world is on the verge of returning to the United States for the first time in more than 30 years. Starting nex ...

As with pretty much everything involving California governance, discerning the state’s election results can devolve into a big, unruly mess. To wit, Tuesday’s primary—particularly the free-for-all campaign for governor to succeed Gavin Newsom—remains too muddled to call, with millions of outstanding ...

On Monday, British police released body camera footage of their arrest of eighteen-year-old Henry Nowak. Video of Nowak’s last moments after he was stabbed by Vickrum Digwa in Southampton, England, on December 3 show the university student lying on the floor telling officers that he has been stabbed ...

When a board packed with Donald Trump’s allies voted in December to add the president’s name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the transformation happened almost immediately. By the following morning, crews had worked quickly to fasten 18 letters to the institution’s marble faca ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.Not long after the original gerrymander took its monstrous shape in 1812, The United States Gazette issued a harsh prophecy. Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry might o ...

On April 18, more than three hundred tenants from across Toronto packed in for the founding convention of the Toronto Tenant Union (TTU). A joint project of the York South-Weston Tenant Union (YSW) and Climate Justice Toronto (CJTO), the Toronto Tenant Union aims to unite all tenants in Toronto alon ...

Christian Smalls’s memoir When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class, comes out at an odd time in the career of the former Amazon Labor Union president.The book, ghostwritten by author Carvell Wallace, was sold to Pantheon in 2022 shortly after the historic National Labor ...

For the first time since the start of the Iran war, Congress has attempted to circumvent President Donald Trump and end the conflict without his approval. In the process, lawmakers took a step toward creating conditions for a first-of-its-kind legal showdown clarifying the legislative branch’s const ...

A U.S. official told Axios that on Monday that Donald Trump read Benjamin Netanyahu the riot act for wanting to launch strikes on Beirut, which could collapse American negotiations with Iran. The message, the official said, was “You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m savi ...

The folk wisdom in Rome is that “a fat pope follows a thin pope” — that each pope tends to be the opposite of his predecessor. In the initial days of Leo XIV’s pontificate, it seemed as if this adage might hold true. Leo chose to wear the traditional red garments of the papacy, whereas Francis insis ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.We don’t know what Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, wrote in his sexually explicit texts with women other than his wife—six, according to his campaign; a dozen, according to an ex ...

Since the early 1990s, I have visited scores of prisons and jails throughout the United States, as well as the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. The immigrant-detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz, deep in the Florida Everglades, stands out as a uniquely cruel publicity stunt with an absurdly ...

A Bay Area city is joining at least nineteen other municipalities from multiple states in suing private equity firms for allegedly cornering the fire truck manufacturing industry and using their market control to shut down factories, create artificial scarcity, and dramatically hike prices for vital ...

A few months ago, one of my best friends told me that she and her boyfriend had gotten engaged. Engaged? I thought. What for? She has two young kids and has never been married; he’s older; they each have their own apartment; she seemed happy with the way things were. “Congratulations!” I said, becau ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsA couple of weeks ago, several Republican senators not only criticized President Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” in a private meeting but “screamed” at Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, according ...

Although I teach and edit fiction, I still didn’t think it would ever happen—that an AI-generated or AI-assisted short story would win a major contest. Then came Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the Grove,” a regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, published on Granta magazine’s website. ...

Last February, I saw a concert that brought fresh meaning to the cliché “my soul left my body.” In a packed room at Radio City Music Hall, I sang the Swedish pop star Robyn’s hit “Dancing on My Own” along with her and the Talking Heads front man David Byrne, and genuinely felt as though I was floati ...

You could be forgiven for ignoring the recent political goings-on in Iowa. The state, which was once a violet-hued hub of unpredictability, has lately elected and reelected Republicans.In last night’s primaries, though, Iowa Democrats nominated the kind of candidates the national party has struggled ...

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.What’s a party without a little music? This year, the National Mall was meant to host a free summer con ...

The Atlantic is announcing six early-career journalists who have been selected for a yearlong editorial fellowship program: Laney Crawley, Catherine Goodman, Nora Lowe, Jack Rodriquez-Vars, Jacob Smollen, and Katherine Weyback. This is The Atlantic’s first class of fellows since 2020; the six joinin ...

There is, for me, an out-of-time quality to the recent string of crazy, wonderful Knicks playoff games. I find myself lying awake night after night reviewing jump shots made, fouls committed, and shots blocked, always anxious for what lies ahead. Half a century ago, this routine had a certain age-ap ...

Updated at 9:34 a.m. ET on June 4, 2026Philosophy has long suffered an unfortunate reputation as pedantic and abstruse. In one of the most prominent debates of the 20th century, philosophers spent a great deal of energy arguing over what the means. Paul Graham, the legendary tech investor, studied p ...

A middle-aged Bill Ayers once asked his then-teenage son, Zayd Ayers Dohrn, to accompany him on a trip to Mississippi for his eighteenth birthday. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, two prominent, charismatic members of the militant group the Weather Underground that emerged out of the ferment of ...

The top investment officer of the nation’s largest teachers’ pension fund actively dissuaded state workers from divesting from underperforming and ecologically devastating fossil fuel investments — then went on to buy and sell more than $1 million in oil and gas stocks, state records obtained by the ...

Until recently, cocktails were a rarity at baseball stadiums. Beer was far easier to grab on the go, and getting rowdy fans liquored up was in no one’s best interest. Liquor was limited, sometimes exclusively to air-conditioned suites where cosmopolitans could be sipped far from the masses. And yet, ...

John Moore / GettySamantha Suazo, 23, stands to be recognized for magna cum laude honors as her father, Marvin Suazo, and mother, Maribel Vasquez, cheer during a graduation ceremony at Yale University on May 18, 2026, in New Haven, Connecticut. Samantha, originally from Honduras, was naturalized as ...

New York City is increasingly known as a stronghold of democratic socialism, thanks in no small part to high-profile elected officials like Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as a sizable bloc of state legislators. But socialists are making inroads in other parts of the ...

I wish that Spider-Noir was better. Nobody could be more invested in film noir than I am, so I always see the latest effort to revive or rework the genre with naive hopes, thinking maybe, just maybe they’ll pull it off this time. They almost never do.One of the worst ways to do neo-noir is to stick ...

From the moment he took office, Donald Trump embarked on a unique strategy of overwhelming the information space with an ever-flowing deluge of executive actions, controversies, wild public statements, and more, to the point that it was impossible to fully keep track of it all. It’s as if music prod ...

No longer just a problem of the industrialized North, birth rates are declining for everyone, everywhere, all at once. In its panic about the implications of below-replacement fertility and its search for a culprit, the global commentariat has cast a wide net.In an April 2025 article in the conserva ...

Millions of dollars in outside spending from groups affiliated with Democratic leadership and a dark money network have flowed into the Democratic Senate primary race in Iowa to support State Rep. Josh Turek over a progressive challenger ahead of the election on Tuesday.The interlinked entities supp ...

It’s October 2013, and here in Minnesota it’s already chilly, the leaves changing in dramatic colors that belong on a postcard. Ileia and I are at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis with Cat and Nick from Occupy Homes, one of the many organizations that has emerged from the magic and the rubble of ...

On CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was asked whether all the controversies surrounding US Senate candidate Graham Platner mean he doesn’t “pass the character test.” Murphy offered a subtly radical answer: “Character involves standing up to people who are bankrupting and corr ...

Trümmer auf Trümmer is a German-language collection gathering critical perspectives on so-called Staatsräson, which has served to justify the German state’s continued support for Israel as well as its repression of the pro-Palestinian movement.Among other topics, it deals with the racist weaponizati ...

The far right versus a transformative left. It’s the contest that Colombia will face in the presidential runoff on June 21, and a showdown which, with various twists, we’ve already seen in countries like Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. In the first round, it was far-right Abelardo de la Espriella — an ...

Saikat Chakrabarti would, on the surface, appear to be a slam-dunk progressive choice to succeed retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi as San Francisco’s representative in Congress.In just more than a decade, the forty-year-old Chakrabarti has built a redoubtable record in left-wing politics: he worked on Bern ...

When I arrive at the new headquarters for Eon Huntley’s socialist campaign for state assembly, a small crew is hard at work painting the space, a storefront on a lively block of Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Tompkins Avenue. The window is festooned with the candidate’s commitments: signs promoting universal ...

“In this country, laws don’t apply to the rich.”These words are the reason why Mehmet Türkmen, president of the United Textile, Weaving and Leather Workers’ Union (BİRTEK-SEN), spent two months behind bars. The charge was “publicly disseminating misleading information.” Speaking at a labor protest i ...

I was a small child while the Eastern Bloc was collapsing. During this time, my parents and I would vacation in Upstate New York at a retreat called Arrow Park. The austere resort was known for being owned by a Communist Party–affiliated fraternal organization, with an ostensible bust of Walt Whitma ...

Donald Trump and his family, according to the careful reporting of David Kirkpatrick at the New Yorker, are reported to have amassed $4 billion since the start of his presidency through a dizzying panoply of schemes, most of which appear to be designed to pump up the value of his assets (crypto hold ...

The French economy is underperforming. Over the last twenty years, its level of growth has been consistently below the EU average. In cumulative terms, the EU grew by 27 percent between 2005 and 2024, whereas France stood at 23 percent. Only Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Finland fared worse.These fig ...

As the Trump administration has slashed benefits programs like Medicaid and raided Minneapolis daycare centers in the name of a new, politicized “war on fraud,” the innocuous-sounding State Financial Officers Foundation has been cheering it on.The organization, composed of state auditors and treasur ...

On a Sunday afternoon in April, Atlanta residents gathered at St Paul’s Episcopal Church to discuss their alarm about the American health care system and what they could do about it. Attendants ranged widely in age, but they were united in their concern over the ballooning costs of medical treatment ...

“I’m sure I’m not the first to tell you this. But something is definitely happening in Russia. You can feel it in the air. You walk down the street, get on the metro, sit in a café, and everywhere people are talking about the same thing.”That message was sent to me yesterday by a comrade still livin ...

Socialists have long predicted capitalism’s overthrow and replacement by a better system. But do we have any reason to believe capitalism must come to an end?On the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Melissa Naschek and Vivek Chibber discuss the role of economic and ...

Britain’s local elections in May offered the Left much reason for anxiety. Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK swept up over 1,400 new council seats and won outright control of fourteen councils, leapfrogging Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, which is now in free fall. It’s a wearily familiar story across ...

In 1992, West Virginia was one of the country’s “bluest” states, while Democratic victory in Connecticut — today very much one of the bluest — was hardly assured. This was not a product of the unusual three-way contest that year between Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, and Ross Perot. Nor was it due ...

On a patch of sidewalk on a busy industrial corridor in Newark, federal agents with rifles, metal batons, flak vests, and balaclavas faced off against unarmed activists with cardboard signs and a bullhorn. Detained workers could be heard on the soccer field behind the prison walls, shouting in Spani ...

On July 24, 2025, the Malta-flagged bulk carrier Fortune left Puerto Drummond on Colombia’s Caribbean coast with 93,297 tonnes of thermal coal in its holds, bound for Hadera. Later that day, Gustavo Petro declared that not another ton of Colombian coal would reach Israel, denouncing the loophole tha ...

I am not from Maine. I am “from away,” as locals describe outsiders. But if you asked me to imagine this far-flung swing state, I would conjure a haunted scene from its most famous resident, Stephen King: gray skies, cold rain, damp air, a barn in the woods next to an ancient cemetery — which is whe ...

Britain held local and regional elections earlier this month that proved to be catastrophic for the Labour government of Keir Starmer. Labour fell behind the right-wing party Reform UK that is led by Nigel Farage.Ten years after the Brexit referendum of 2016, could Farage be on track to become Brita ...

When Jews conceive of questions of guilt and forgiveness, they are often framed around the biblical concept of “Teshuvah.” While Teshuvah is often translated as “repentance,” that terminology has a particularly harsh Christian connotation that loses the process that the Hebrew word connotes. Teshuva ...

Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP) is both the country’s founding party and its main opposition force. The trouble is, after nearly a quarter century of Justice and Development Party (AKP) dominance, the CHP still does not know who it represents or how to effectively challenge for power.On May ...

Why has the US right since the 1970s been more effective than the Left at grassroots community organizing? Part of the answer is that our side has no events with bouncy castles.We have a lot to learn from the Waldoboro Republicans’ recent “Great American Picnic” in Maine:For children, there will be ...

The release of Gad Saad’s Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind is a great day for the Left. A year into Donald Trump’s second administration, many have hypothesized that intellectual conservatism may now be on life support. Saad’s book constitutes the moment the plug was pulled and the patient can off ...

Anyone who’s recently bought concert tickets knows what a miserable and expensive process it’s become.Paying anything close to a reasonable price often requires scouting social media and news sites for tour announcements. As the sale date approaches, fans have taken to opening new credit cards or de ...

The Scottish Parliament election on May 7 returned the Scottish National Party (SNP) to Holyrood for a historic fifth term in office. Bucking the anti-incumbency trend sweeping Europe, John Swinney’s SNP won fifty-eight seats to begin its third consecutive decade in power.The result, coupled with th ...

In January, the Los Angeles–born reality television star Spencer Pratt published a memoir titled The Guy You Loved to Hate: Confessions from a Reality TV Villain. Reviewing the book for CalMatters, Jim Newton wrote that Pratt, who rose to fame as a villainous character on MTV’s “The Hills,” presents ...

During the pandemic, Tony Blair made a public appearance having clearly not been to the barber for some time. As many people noted, his lockdown hairstyle meant that he now bore an uncanny resemblance to Vigo the Carpathian, the supernatural villain in Ghostbusters II.Born in 1505 but still terroriz ...

Eric Aarons lived through the great defeats of the twentieth-century socialist movement but refused to let those defeats have the last word. He joined the Communist Party of Australia as a young man. He believed, as millions did across the world, that he was on the right side of history. He watched, ...

I always find it interesting when American doctors opine on health care policy. I find it even more interesting when doctors opine on health care and fail to mention Medicare for All (M4A): a single-payer universal system that would cover everyone at no cost at the point of service and would cost le ...

The New York State budget negotiations drew to an anti-climactic close this week. This was not only the longest budget negotiation in the last sixteen years but also one of the most nonsensical. The enacted budget does almost nothing to protect the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers about to lose ...

Central banks are under siege in many countries but nowhere more prominently than in the United States, where MAGA partisans see control over the Federal Reserve as being critical to the future of their movement. The confirmation of Kevin Warsh as the new Fed chair is a significant step in that dire ...

A planned strike at Samsung this month would have been the biggest industrial action in a South Korean workplace since the heyday of labor militancy in the 1980s, involving more than 47,000 workers.It would almost certainly have been the biggest work stoppage in the history of the global semiconduct ...

Usually, a report might become major news because of some kind of damning or inconvenient revelation that’s contained inside it. But the Democratic Party is currently in such disarray, it’s managed to turn even the act of simply releasing a report to the public into an embarrassing debacle.The Democ ...

For twenty-nine years, Angela Spohn has worked at the same hospital in Grand Blanc, Michigan, a suburb south of Flint along the long stretch of exurban highway connecting Flint to metro Detroit. She started there in 1997, back when it was still just Genesys Hospital, before mergers and acquisitions ...

Since Zohran Mamdani took office in New York City at the start of the year, an important question has hung over his administration: Will the new mayor be able to use the power of city government to uphold and advance workers’ rights? Mamdani was elected after taking strongly pro-labor stances, vowin ...

In 2000, the historian Mike Davis published a book that made what was to some a controversial claim: the horrors of the twentieth century had precedents in the era of colonial plunder. In Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World, Davis explained the scale of what ...

On April 21, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi officially announced that Japan had lifted a decades-old ban on exporting lethal weapons. The new offer concerns at least seventeen countries as potential buyers for Japanese fighter jets, missiles, and warships.The move came in a period of strongl ...

On October 25, 2025, El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur, became the site of one of the most intense episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide. A genocidal militia blocked off neighborhoods and went house to house executing people. The United Nations Human Rights Office document ...

Jacobin readers hardly need to be told that the new Boots Riley movie I Love Boosters is a must-see. It’s been eight years since the sleeper hit Sorry to Bother You, during which time Riley was busy with his Amazon Prime series, I’m a Virgo. In that time, he seems to have taken a great leap forward ...

Amid widespread public disapproval of Israel’s mounting destruction across the Middle East, pro-Israel donors aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) appear to be resorting to new, innocuous-sounding fundraising vehicles to covertly channel money to favored candidates in hi ...

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, ...

A general view of the skyline of Iran's capital, Tehran [File: Getty Images]

Israeli President Isaac Herzog meets with Somaliland Ambassador Mohamed Hagi, who presented his diplomatic credentials to become Somaliland's first ambassador to a foreign country, at the president's residence in Jerusalem [File: Abir Sultan/EPA]

Activists protest outside the foreign ministry in Athens after flotilla aid vessels bound for Gaza were intercepted by Israeli forces in the eastern Mediterranean, May 18 [Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters]

After saying he had received an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans to forcibly displace Palestinians from a village in the occupied West Bank. Smotrich has called the ICC move a ‘declaration of war’.

US President Donald Trump speaks to the news media near the construction site of his proposed White House ballroom [Kent Nishimura/AFP]

A vehicle burns on the street following the explosion in Damascus, Syria [AFP]

An El Al passenger jet is inspected before takeoff at Ben Gurion Airport on July 9, 2003 near Tel Aviv, Israel [File: David Silverman/Getty Images]

Russian oil tanker Anatoly Kolodkin at the oil terminal in the port of Matanzas, Cuba [File: Yamil Lage/AFP]

Israeli Minister Smotrich called the ICC arrest warrants against Israeli officials "a declaration ⁠of war” [File: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP]

United States President Donald Trump says he has decided to pause an attack on Iran at the behest of Gulf leaders after Tehran sent a new peace proposal to Washington through Pakistan.On Monday, Trump said there is now a “very good chance” the US could reach an agreement with Iran to prevent Tehran ...

Margaret Connolly, a doctor and sister of Irish President Catherine Connolly, was among those 'illegally kidnapped' by Israel, organisers say [Handout/Global Sumud Flotilla via Reuters]

Margaret Connolly, an Irish doctor and sister of President Catherine Connolly, was among those 'illegally kidnapped' by Israel, organisers say [Handout/Global Sumud Flotilla via Reuters]

Iran's World Cup squad was given a public sendoff in Tehran last week [Vahid Salemi/AP]Iran’s head coach Amir Ghalenoei ‌believes his coaching and fitness staff would have their work cut out getting the ⁠squad ready for ⁠the World Cup at their training camp in Turkiye, with most of the players havin ...

US President Donald Trump speaks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, on October 13, 2025 in Jerusalem [Jalaa Marey - Pool/Getty Images]In late April, the Hondurasgate platform and the Spanish media outlet Canal Red began leaking incriminating audios r ...

The war has destroyed and damaged many buildings in central Khartoum [Al Jazeera]Khartoum, Sudan – Night often hides imperfections, but in Sudan’s capital, the scars of war are laid bare in daylight. Neighbourhoods and homes lie in ruins, yet signs of recovery are visible along the city’s roads, wit ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) meeting Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in Damascus, May 9, 2026 [SANA via AFP]

Israeli security officials detain a woman during the annual Jerusalem Day march, May 14, 2026 [Ammar Awad/Reuters]

A man collects his family's belongings from the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike the previous day in the southern village of Maarakeh, Lebanon on May 17, 2026 [Mustafa Jamalddine/AP Photo]United States President Donald Trump said he postponed a planned attack on Iran after requ ...

An Iranian official says the US threat of a massive assault at any moment will be met “resolutely” and Iran is “prepared to confront any military aggression”. US President Donald Trump says he postponed a planned attack on Iran at the request of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, and ...

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari says US-Iran negotiations “need more time”. United States President Donald Trump says he has postponed a planned attack on Iran at the request of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and added that “serious negotiations are now takin ...

United States President Donald Trump says he has postponed a planned attack on Iran at the request of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and added that “serious negotiations are now taking place”. Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said “dialogue does not mean surrender”, and that Teh ...

Iraqi security forces have launched sweeping operations in the country’s western following reports of secret Israeli military bases there. Iraqi authorities have denied the presence of unauthorised foreign bases amid growing tensions involving the US, Israel and Iran.

US President Donald Trump gestures to reporters as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House on May 15 [Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 8th General Conference of Fatah in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 14, 2026 [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters]

Borrowing costs in major economies have hit their highest levels in nearly two decades. Investors have been shunning government debt and demanding higher returns. They worry that the Iran war could keep oil prices and inflation high. The International Monetary Fund warns that global debt could appro ...

Iranian human rights activist and vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) Narges Mohammadi poses in this undated handout picture [Mohammadi family archive photos/Handout via Reuters]

Voting booths in the Expo Center for the primary election in Louisville, Kentucky, the United States, June 23, 2020 [Bryan Woolston/Reuters]

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf meets with Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, in Tehran, Iran on May 17, 2026 [Handout/Iranian Parliament Speaker Office via Reuters]

Borrowing costs in major economies have hit their highest levels in nearly two decades. Investors have been shunning government debt and demanding higher returns. They worry that the Iran war could keep oil prices and inflation high. The International Monetary Fund warns that global debt could appro ...

When United States President Donald Trump measures success by counting how many Iranian leaders the US and Israel have killed or how many Iranian boats or missile launchers have been destroyed, he’s looking at the “wrong metric”, argues a former US special envoy to Iran, Rob Malley.Malley told host ...

Emergency workers inspect the damage after an Israeli strike on an apartment building in Baalbek on May 18, 2026 [AFP]

A drone attack that caused a fire close to the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in the United Arab Emirates has raised further concerns about nuclear security and military escalation in the Gulf as discussions of peace between Iran and the United States hang in the balance.Barakah was the first nuclear ...

Image from the three-part documentary series, The Flotillas, by The Take and AJ+.What is it actually like on board a flotilla to Gaza, knowing you’ll likely be targeted and imprisoned? Until now, it’s a story that’s been told mostly in fragments, one vertical video at a time. This is the inside stor ...

Iranian men monitor the stock market at the Tehran Stock Exchange on July 1, 2019 [Atta Kenare/AFP]Tehran, Iran – The Iranian stock market is due to reopen this week after an 80-day closure due to the war with the United States and Israel.While the exchange is not the core engine of economic financi ...

A yacht sails past a plume of smoke rising from the port of Jebel Ali following a reported Iranian strike in Dubai on March 1, 2026 [AFP]One of the most dangerous ideas in today’s Middle East is the claim that Gulf states must choose between Iran and Israel. This framing is politically simple, but s ...

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei holds a weekly news conference in Tehran [File: Atta Kenare/AFP]

An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US billboard referring to President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz, installed on a building at the Valiasr Square in Tehran on May 10, 2026 [AFP]

After Sea-Watch rescued several people, the NGO said a patrol boat operated by the Libyan coastguard opened fire on its ship and attempted to seize it [Courtesy of Sea-Watch]

Army forces launch an investigative operation in the Nukhaib desert, southwest of Karbala and Najaf, Iraq, on Sunday, May 17, 2026, after reports of an unauthorised Israeli military presence in the area. [Ali Jabar/AP]

Israeli forces in international waters as they approach the Global Sumud Flotilla [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]

United States President Donald Trump has warned Iran that the “clock is ticking” to clinch a deal to end the war as reports have emerged that Washington and Israel might be planning to carry out air strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure.“For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, ...

A boy carries bags with bread, as Palestinians wait in queues at a distribution point in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 17, 2025 [Haseeb Alwazeer/Reuters]

Iran says it has submitted a response to the latest United States proposal to end the war via mediator Pakistan. It comes after US President Donald Trump warned that the “clock is ticking” for a peace deal to be reached.

United States President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, DC on May 15 [AFP]

Smoke rises from an Israeli air attack on the southern Lebanese village of Erzay, May 17, 2026. [AFP]

The latest Palestinians to be killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza City, May 17, 2026. [Reuters/Dawoud Abu Alkas]Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed at least eight Palestinians, including three in Deir el-Balah, and others in Khan Younis and Beit Lahiya.Sunday’s attack on the central city ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech to the Christian conservative group Voices United for Israel in Washington DC, January 19, 1998 [William Philpott/AFP]In March 1992, Christianity Today, a prominent evangelical Christian magazine based in the US, featured a cover story dedicat ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and son Yasser in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, May 28, 2018 [Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]

Izz al-Din al-Haddad was one of Israel’s most wanted men following the killing of Hamas’s most prominent leaders [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]The killing of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the recently appointed head of Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has dealt a symbolic blow to the Palestinian group in ...