Updated with new questions at 4:20 p.m. ET on January 16, 2026.Welcome back to Atlantic Trivia! Are you hungry for more?I hope that while I’ve been away, you have been enjoying plenty of food for thought—literally. Research shows that berries help improve memory and that a walnut-heavy diet is assoc ...

When historians eventually study whom Donald Trump treated worse—his enemies or his friends and loyal servants—the sad case of Jerome Powell will weigh heavily on the scales.Not only did Trump discharge the usual fusillade of schoolyard insults and infantile tantrums at the man he appointed chair of ...

The fate of a 2,500-year-old nation and its 93 million inhabitants rests, for now, in the hands of Donald Trump.On at least eight occasions over the past three weeks, Trump encouraged Iranian protesters to go into the streets, assuring them that the United States had their back and that “help is on ...

People walk past a banner depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and late leader Ruhollah Khomeini in Enghelab Square in Tehran on January 14, 2026, as Iran promised to fast-track trials for people arrested during a massive wave of protests [Atta Kenare/AFP]Tehran, Iran – Most of Ira ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel confronts the growing crisis around AI-generated sexual abuse and the culture of impunity enabling it. He examines how Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok is being used to create and circulate nonconsensual sexua ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Novelists committed to depicting contemporary life face an unprecedented challenge in this moment: How can they do so in a way that keeps readers interested when so much of the average perso ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Every time I’ve found myself lost for words over something in the news this past year—which has happened disconcertingly often—I’ve returned to the same book for guidance, the philosopher Kate Manne’s Down Girl: ...

Sebastian Weiermann zum juristischen Erfolg der Roten Hilfe

Sebastian Weiermann über den juristischen Erfolg der Roten Hilfe

In den arabischen Nachbarstaaten blickt man mit gemischten Gefühlen auf die Geschehnisse im Iran

Venezuelas Regierung und die Opposition suchen Trumps Unterstützung

Auch die iranische Diaspora in Deutschland leidet unter den Ereignissen im Iran

A general view of the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir, where 14-year-old Mohammed Naasan was shot and killed by Israeli troops on January 16, 2026 [File: Ammar Awad/Reuters]

Eilfverfahren: Landgericht sieht keinen Grund für Maßnahme der Sparkasse Göttingen

In der Bundesrepublik und in anderen Ländern wurde auf zahlreichen Kundgebungen Freiheit für Maja T. und andere Antifaschisten gefordert

Die 21-jährige Asya Şenyüz tritt bei der Berliner Abgeordnetenhauswahl für Die Linke an

Geplante Koalition aus SPD und CDU trifft auf wenig Zuspruch

Whenever I hear the plaintive lyrics of “Baraye,” the song that became an anthem for the 2022 Iranian protests, I still tear up—and I find it hard to imagine anyone having a different reaction. Shervin Hajipour, then 25, wrote it by stringing together a list of young Iranians’ reasons for going to t ...

Fahrdienste treten in eine Art Warnstreik gegen die AOK

Ein Fall für die Berliner Landes­schieds­kommission

UN-Abkommen zum Schutz der Hochsee tritt in Kraft

Im Verfahren gegen deutsche nichtbinäre Person verzögert sich das Prozessende weiter

One Tuesday morning last month, a 15-year-old Russian boy got ready for school by packing a paramilitary vest, a helmet, and a knife. Before leaving his house, he sent a manifesto to his classmates denouncing gay people and Jews, and quoting a mass murderer along with a white-supremacist conspiracy ...

Israel launched multiple air strikes targeting Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on Thursday, including the village of Sohmor [AFP]

Wolodymyr Selenskyj und Vitali Klitschko streiten um die Verantwortung für die Folgen der Angriffe

Yuan Hongyan / VCG / GettyPeople wearing protective gear, or "lobster suits," experience ice floating in winter at Yuehai National Wetland Park on January 11, 2026, in Yinchuan, in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China.Wang Jianwei / Xinhua / GettyA child rides sled pulled by a wheeled robot on ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has only existed since 2003. There’s nothing extreme about the idea of disbanding the rogue agency.Even if a new president with better intentions inherits this sanctioned gang called ICE, it’s far from clear that it would ever be reformable. It’s really not crazy ...

Das Inkrafttreten des ersten UN-Hochseeabkommens ist ein wichtiges Zeichen

Transgender participation in women’s athletics is the single most difficult issue I’ve seen in 40 years of covering sports. It makes gambling, performance-enhancing drugs, and regulation of collegiate athletics look like tidy challenges. Two groups—trans women and cisgender women—both argue that the ...

Wie der Einparteienstaat Kryptowährungen in Milliardenhöhe ergattert haben soll

This combination of pictures shows US President Donald Trump (L) and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei [AFP]Illiberal systems often look most permanent just before they change. But moments of upheaval can also produce a different illusion: That the system is one dramatic external blow awa ...

Sudanese families reach out as aid workers distribute food supplies at a camp in al-Dabbah, in Sudan's Northern State [File: Marwan Ali/AP]

When Barack Obama and Joe Biden occupied the White House, Democrats gave excuse after excuse about why they couldn’t take bold action. Donald Trump’s second-term rampage of executive power shows Democratic presidents were not as powerless as they claimed.The fact that Donald Trump could wield execut ...

Erik Zielke fordert endlich besseren statt weniger Unterricht zur Geschichte der DDR

Mit Sorge blickt der Lateinamerika-Experte Leo Gabriel auf die Situation in Venezuela nach dem Überfall der USA

Ein ARD-Feature erzählt von der Ausbeutung der indischen Bringdienst-Radler in Deutschland

Egypt's captain Mohamed Salah and coach Hossam Hassan will lead the side again at the FIFA 2026 World Cup [Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]

Based on how members of the Trump administration rushed to describe Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman who was shot and killed in her minivan while protesting ICE, as a “domestic terrorist,” a “professional agitator,” and an “anti-ICE rioter” behind the wheel of a “four-thousand-pound missile, ...

Many Americans enthusiastically partake in Dry January, but it is rarely pitched as fun. After the holiday stretch of office parties and family gatherings, Americans have come to use the start of every year to abstain from alcohol in the name of health and auspicious beginnings. It’s a time of disci ...

There’s nothing Britain’s political class likes more than a mob of football hooligans, so long as they’re Israeli. Now the Starmer government has moved to punish police officers for declining to accommodate Maccabi Tel Aviv’s notoriously racist fans.Keir Starmer has asserted that the Israeli fans of ...

The wreckage of a burned bus in Tehran's Sadeghieh Square on January 15, 2026. A protest movement across Iran, initially prompted by economic grievances, turned into one of the biggest challenges yet to the clerical leadership since it took power in 1979 [Atta Kenare/AFP]Four weeks after shopkeepers ...

Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, right, poses with Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar at the presidential palace in Hargeisa, Somaliland [File: Somaliland presidency/AFP]

Residents wave Somali flags as they attend a rally denouncing Israel’s recent announcement recognizing the breakaway Somaliland region, during a gathering calling for Somalia’s territorial unity at Mogadishu Stadium in Mogadishu on December 30, 2025 [AFP]Israel’s recognition of Somaliland on Decembe ...

Die deutschen Handballer starten mit einem 30:27 in die EM

Egypt's Mohamed Salah looks dejected after his side's AFCON elimination at the hands of Senegal [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsBrandon LaRoque kept his life savings in a cryptocurrency account. One morning, as he went to check his balance, he discovered that it was all missing. LaRoque is one of many victims of the unregulated crypto industry, and s ...

Amid an internet blackout, reports describe waves of catastrophic violence across Iran. Yet the ruling order remains firmly in control, even as an economic crisis erodes the welfare systems that once underpinned its legitimacy.In over two weeks of protests, more than 2,000 people have been killed an ...

Tackling teachers and spraying chemical agents on school property, ICE’s rampage through Minnesota is only getting more violent. Jacobin spoke with a Minneapolis parent about what she’s seen so far.Renee Good’s murder was not the first incident in which ICE and other deportation agents have aimed fi ...

Police troopers patrol a street after Aidarous al-Zubaidi, the leader of Yemen's Southern Transitional Council (STC), fled the country, in Aden, Yemen January 7, 2026 [File: Fawaz Salman/Reuters]

Frontex regis­triert nied­rigsten Wert seit 2021

Silicon Valley oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen have much to gain from Donald Trump’s seizure of Greenland, both as a source of rare earth minerals to feed the AI boom and as a site for a libertarian “crypto state.”Donald Trump wants Greenland as a gift to his tech oligarch donors, who ...

(Al Jazeera)The US has announced the Gaza ceasefire is moving to phase two, where “demilitarisation, technocratic governance, and reconstruction” will be the focus.Hamas leaders and representatives of other Palestinian factions in Gaza are in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for talks, but deep uncertai ...

Hamas has refused to give up its arms while Israel occupies Gaza [File: Jehad Alshrafi/AP]

Saudi Arabia has reportedly lobbied the United States administration to refrain from striking Iran, with Qatar and Oman also working to calm tension between Iranian and US officials [File: Saudi Press Agency/AFP]

Palestinians carry plastic jerrycans filled with water amid stormy weather at a displacement camp in Gaza City, Tuesday, January 13, 2026 [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

Yemeni Foreign Minister Shaya Mohsin Zindani, pictured, becomes prime minister after Salem bin Breik resigns [File: Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool/Reuters]

At least three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including a 10-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy and an elderly woman. Israeli forces have continued deadly attacks across Gaza despite a United States announcement about the launch of the second phase of the Gaza ...

Palestinians in Gaza have expressed scepticism about Donald Trump’s announcement that the second phase of the ceasefire agreement has begun, amid a continuing humanitarian crisis and ongoing Israeli attacks. Israeli forces have continued deadly attacks across Gaza despite a United States announcemen ...

Syrian competitive swimmer and activist Sarah Mardini, centre, as she leaves the court in Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece, on Thursday [Manolis Lagoutaris/AFP]

The JF-17 Thunder is a Pakistan-China joint production fighter plane which was also part of the May 2025 conflict with India [Stringer/Reuters]

It was sunny in southern Afghanistan on June 1, 2010, and the temperature quickly reached 104 degrees. Sophia Bruun was the gunner on a Piranha combat vehicle, guarding two platoons conducting a patrol near the town of Gereshk. They were looking for information from locals about the Taliban.One of t ...

In 2025, new data show, the volume of child pornography online was likely larger than at any other point in history. A record 312,030 reports of confirmed child pornography were investigated last year by the Internet Watch Foundation, a U.K.-based organization that works around the globe to identify ...

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.Today, Donald Trump announced that he is considering using the Insurrection Act to send the U.S. milita ...

The Save gas station on the west side of Gary, Indiana, wants customers to know that they can pay for their groceries with food stamps. When I pulled into the parking lot last week, the first thing I saw was a blinking neon sign that read EBT for electronic benefits transfer, the prepaid cards used ...

Could the Trump administration really cancel an election? President Trump once again mused about the possibility, telling Reuters recently that he’s accomplished so much that “we shouldn’t even have an election.” This isn’t the first time the president has flirted with the idea of forgoing the midte ...

Mourners hold anti-US and anti-Israeli placards during a funeral ceremony for security personnel killed during anti-government protests, in Tehran, Iran, on January 14, 2026 [Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA]

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.Thomas Paine may have exaggerated when he said his pamphlet Common Sense was the most successful publication “since the invention of printing,” but only by a little. Publ ...

It’s the oldest, creakiest trope in the zombie-movie storybook: You know who’s scarier than decaying, flesh-eating monsters? The people they’re chasing! Every legendary entry in the genre, be it Night of the Living Dead or the never-ending Walking Dead franchise, has dug into this concept at some po ...

Ali Larijani, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, has accused US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being the top killers of Iranians [File: Al Jazeera]

Der Mangel an bezahlbaren Wohnungen führt zum Ausschluss von Menschen mit Behinderungen

Die Afrikameisterschaft unterwirft sich immer mehr den Geschäftslogiken des Fußball-Weltverbands

Der Bundestag debattierte in erster Lesung über die geplante Umgestaltung des bisherigen Bürgergelds

Rechtsanwalt Sven Richwin zum bevorstehenden Urteil im Budapester Verfahren gegen Antifaschist*in Maja T.

Cyrus Salimi-Asl zu den Protesten im Iran

Sind die US-Amerikaner wirklich tierlieb?

Evan Smith, who co-founded The Texas Tribune and its renowned festival and has advised dozens of local newsrooms on their live-journalism businesses, is joining The Atlantic’s staff as a managing director overseeing events. In an announcement, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and CEO Nicholas Thomps ...

Wurde Ignacio Rosaslanda bei der »Berliner Zeitung« wegen seiner propalästinensischen Haltung gekündigt?

Sandro Mezzadra und Brett Neilson skizzieren ein globales Empire des Kapitals – im Krieg mit sich selbst

Renee Good’s murder was the deadly culmination of the past year in which ICE and other federal agents pointed their guns and even shot at US citizens in dozens of cases around the country.An ICE officer points a weapon at protesters on E Alondra Blvd. in Los Angeles, June 7, 2025. (Carlin Stiehl / L ...

Aufruf palästinasolidarischer Gruppen trifft auf breite Gegenmobilisierung

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, on January 3, 2025, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on [Alex Brandon/AP Photo]

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.In early 2019, Marco Rubio pressed his way through a dense crowd near Colombia’s border with Venezuela, his aides holding back refugees clamoring for a handshake or a photo with the man heralding the imminent ar ...

Im Lauf eines Jahrhunderts wandelte sich die besucherstärkste Berliner Agrarausstellung von einer lokalen Warenbörse zur internationalen Leitmesse

Im ersten Jahr seiner Amtszeit hat der Donald Trump sein Privatvermögen gewaltig vergrößert

Women cross a street in Tehran under a banner showing hands firmly holding Iranian flags as a sign of patriotism on January 14, 2026 [Vahid Salemi/AP]

Die gesetzlich vorgesehene Resozialisierung scheitert an der unzureichenden Ausstattung brandenburgischer Justizvollzugsanstalten

Daniel Säwert über die neue Ukraine-Hilfe der EU

Gespräche gescheitert – Dänemark bittet Verbündete um Hilfe

Rain falls on the Bekaa Valley as seen from a school housing people displaced from the city of Baalbek on November 2, 2024, in Deir al-Ahmar, Lebanon [File: Ed Ram/Getty Images]

Rain falls on the Bekaa Valley as seen from a school housing people displaced from the city of Baalbek on November 2, 2024, in Deir al-Ahmar, Lebanon [File: Ed Ram/Getty Images]

Hartmut Rosas »Situation und Konstellation« spürt dem Verlust des Lebens in der Gegenwart nach. Ein Lehrstück der Probleme von Entfremdungskritik

Andreas Koristka rät den Europäern, schnell noch Dänemark anzugreifen

Nicht Exporte und internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit stützen die Konjunktur, sondern der heimische Konsum

In den USA schwindet die Beliebtheit des Präsidenten. Schuld ist die Inflation

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsAs often happens, Stephen Miller gave the locker-room talk, which was, more or less: No one can stop us. Back in October, when Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker objected to having more federal immigration officers in his stat ...

A woman gestures during a mass funeral held outside the University of Tehran for at least 100 members of the security forces whom Iranian authorities said were killed during the recent nationwide protests [Getty Images]Protests in Iran, which began in late December 2025 over the country’s worsening ...

Das progressive Lager auf den Philippinen feiert die Freilassung der politischen Gefangenen Amanda Echanis

In kalten Nächten werden die Notunterkünfte der Stadtmission besonders gebraucht

Many editors languish in the margins of history, their contributions largely invisible despite how much they shape whom and how we read. But in recent years, amid a wave of books unearthing overlooked figures, biographers have turned their sights to pioneering book and magazine editors—including Mal ...

Trump wünscht sich ein »Traum-Militär«. Zur Finanzierung werden die Zolleinnahmen nicht reichen. Das bedeutet: massenhaft neue Schulden

Amazons erfüllt gerne die Europa-Wünsche der Politik

Am 17. Juni 1953 wurde auch in den Ost-Berliner Betrieben gestreikt, demonstriert und diskutiert. Was taten die Gewerkschaften?

Millionen Klicks können ihn nicht stoppen: Der sehr lustige Instagram-Star Fabi Rommel hört auf. Weil Social Media seine Kreativität zerstört.

The caucus gyms of first-in-the-nation Iowa transformed Barack Obama from curiosity to contender in 2008. Black-church networks in South Carolina handed Joe Biden the Democratic nomination in 2020. If not for the restaurants and bowling lanes of New Hampshire, Bill Clinton’s campaign and career woul ...

Bei Casablanca wurde der letzte gemeinsame Vorfahr der Menschenarten gefunden

After the 2008 crisis, the US set up a vast financial network offering liquidity to its allies. The ongoing clash between Jerome Powell and Donald Trump is partly about the future of this system and which vision of American empire it will promote.The clash between Donald Trump and Jerome Powell is a ...

The Trump administration has launched the second phase of the US-brokered deal to end Israel’s war on Gaza. The transition moves from a ceasefire to demilitarisation and reconstruction. Here’s a compilation of what Trump envisions for the future of the Gaza Strip, in his own words.

Residents of the Nur Shams Palestinian refugee camp watch their homes being demolished on New Year's Eve 2025 by an Israeli military excavator in the Nur Shams camp, east of the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem [File: Zain Jaafar/AFP]

The Democratic Party has two competing plans to “pick up the broken pieces from the 2024 election,” claimed Elizabeth Warren, in a widely touted speech she delivered Monday at the National Press Club. “One vision says that we should shape our agenda and temper our rhetoric to flatter any fabulously ...

Anti-Zionist historian Ilan Pappe explains Israel’s wider ambitions with its deal to recognise a breakaway region of Somalia.

Wie sollen Linke mit der Kritik an »Wokeness« umgehen? Über queere Identitätspolitik und linke Klassenpolitik

Marcel Friederich lebt mit Möbius-Syndrom. Heute macht er aus seinem Anderssein ein Projekt – mit Fußballklubs und Prominenten als Verstärker

Fifteen thousand nurses across 10 campuses in New York City’s three biggest hospital systems are on an open-ended strike. Nurses say employers are trying to undermine safe-staffing protections and demanding concessions on nurses’ own health care benefits.Nurses say hospital administrators are demand ...

Eine Reise von Vevey nach Montreux führt durch Film-, Musik- und Architekturgeschichte – von der Chaplin-Villa bis zum Casino-Mythos

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Nickolay Mladenov in Jerusalem, January 8, 2026 [Handout: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO]The search for a figure to lead post-war Gaza, which lies in ruins from Israel’s genocidal war, has moved from diplomatic backrooms to the negotiating tables in Cairo.Followi ...

At a Turning Point USA conference in December, the podcaster Ben Shapiro delivered a speech that was hailed as the sort of moral stand one rarely encounters in the age of polarization. Confronting the right’s surging anti-Semitism, he denounced two of its most popular peddlers—Tucker Carlson and Can ...

Lebanese soldiers stand on a military vehicle during an army media tour to review the army's operations in the southern Litani sector, in Alma ash-Shaab, near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon, November 28, 2025 [File: Aziz Taher/Reuters]

Über die Rolle des Sports in der iranischen Protestbewegung

Governor Gavin Newsom is siding with California’s billionaires against a proposed wealth tax to fund health care. Progressives like Ro Khanna are challenging him.Governor Gavin Newsom is raising money for a committee to defeat the billionaire tax ballot initiative Rep. Ro Khanna is supporting. (Just ...

A variety of shadowy private security and weapons firms have been tapped to provide firearms and combat training to ICE agents. They are among the many private entities lining up for their cut of the Trump administration’s deportation spending blitz.To train its sniper teams and special response gro ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian pictured at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, January 17, 2025 [Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik/Pool via Reuters]The Kremlin is confident that mass protests in Iran have peaked, and Tehran’s leadership has managed to squash domestic ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian pictured at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, January 17, 2025 [Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik/Pool via Reuters]The Kremlin is confident that mass protests in Iran have peaked, and Tehran’s leadership has managed to squash domestic ...

The Czech Republic’s new environment minister is leader of a pro–fossil fuel party called Motorists for Themselves. It’s part of a right-wing backlash in Europe, moving to kill off the EU’s Green Deal.Petr Macinka has described the Ministry of the Environment as the main obstacle to the Czech Republ ...

Christine Tschuschner-Cucu kämpft gegen strukturelle Gewalt gegenüber T*tauben und für mehr Unterstützung für Gebärdensprachgemeinschaften

Nach der Niederschlagung der Proteste herrscht angespannte Ruhe im Iran

A view of the Great Omari Mosque, which was damaged by Israeli shelling during the Israel-Palestine war, where Palestinians perform Friday prayers, in Gaza City, November 21, 2025 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

Jubilant crowds filled the streets across Morocco and Senegal as both nations celebrated advancing to the AFCON football final, with Morocco defeating Nigeria and Senegal triumphing over Egypt.In the first semifinal, Youssef El-Nesyri scored the winning penalty while goalkeeper Yassine “Bono” Bounou ...

The second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal will include talks on the disarmament of Palestinian armed groups, including Hamas [File: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]Hamas leaders and representatives of other Palestinian factions in Gaza are in the Egyptian capital Cairo for talks on the second phase o ...

Syrian government soldiers pray on a highway as they head to Deir Hafer village in eastern Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday, January 14, 2026 [Ghaith Alsayed/AP]

Australian Palestinian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah is the author of 11 novels [Flavio Brancaleone/EPA]

An Airbus A320 aircraft of Iranian airline Qeshm Air in 2025 [Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP]

Even with a nearly $1 trillion budget, the U.S. military can only do so much. Pentagon officials are privately warning that the United States may not be able to threaten Venezuela’s regime, support protesters seeking to topple Iran’s government, and protect its interests in the Asia-Pacific without ...

Morocco's Youssef En-Nesyri and teammates celebrate after winning the match in the penalty shootout [Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]

Morocco's Youssef En-Nesyri and teammates celebrate after winning the match in the penalty shootout [Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.The most notable, and perhaps most effective, ad of the 2024 presidential campaign featured footage of ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a seminar in Beirut, Lebanon, on January 9, 2026 [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]

US President Donald Trump looks on before signing a bill in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 14, 2026 [Brendan Smialowski/AFP]

US President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US on January 14, 2026 [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]

If the story of journalism’s 21st-century decline were purely a tale of technological disruption—of print dinosaurs failing to adapt to the internet—that would be painful enough for those of us who believe in the importance of a robust free press. The truth hurts even more. Big Tech platforms didn’t ...

When the government stomps on some once-inviolable right, it may be carrying out the next step in a concerted plan, or it may just be stumbling clumsily. The proper response in these moments is not to wax hysterical, but instead to draw clear moral lines. That is especially true for powerful people ...

The Atlantic is introducing Premium Plus, a subscription that includes family- and friend-sharing, among other exclusive benefits. This is the first new tier The Atlantic has introduced since it launched a digital subscription in late 2019, and after many years of dramatic subscription growth, The A ...

Over the holidays, Alex Lieberman had an idea: What if he could create Spotify “Wrapped” for his text messages? Without writing a single line of code, Lieberman, a co-founder of the media outlet Morning Brew, created “iMessage Wrapped”—a web app that analyzed statistical trends across nearly 1 milli ...

Donald Trump has a lot of odd fixations, both as a person and as a president. He tends to focus his tunnel vision on things he wants: the demolishing of the White House’s East Wing, the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. Many of Trump’s quirks are harmless, if unpleasant. (He seems to hate dogs, for ex ...

SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks via videolink at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain [File: Nacho Doce/Reuters]

Senegal's Sadio Mane scores the only goal of the game [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses the menacing crises the Trump presidency is inflicting on the United States and its own movement to start 2026. David speculates that the rec ...

Scott Olson / GettyFederal immigration agents face angry residents following a house raid on January 13, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Scott Olson / GettyTear gas tossed by federal immigration agents fills the air as agents clash with residents trying to retreat following a house raid on January 1 ...

Greenland is 836,000 square miles, more than five times the size of California, and it’s mostly ice. President Trump has been threatening to commandeer the island, complaining that Denmark has neglected the Arctic territory. On Wednesday, I met with Peter Boysen, the chief of the Danish army, and as ...

Rouzbeh Taheri ist für Platz eins der Bezirksliste Neukölln vorgesehen

Die Migrationspolitik der Bundesregierung bemüht sich um indische Arbeitskräfte, möchte aber gleichzeitig Tausende Asylbewerber abschieben

A displaced Palestinian woman sits near damaged tents in Gaza City on January 13, 2026 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

A displaced Palestinian woman sits near damaged tents in Gaza City on January 13, 2026 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

Nach der Niederschlagung der Proteste herrscht angespannte Ruhe im Iran

Die Zahl der getöteten Demonstrierenden geht in die Tausende

Ein Gespräch mit Stefan Wellgraf, der rechte Subkulturen in Ostdeutschland seit den 70ern untersucht

On Friday, Russia attacked Lviv, a major Ukrainian city near the Polish border, using Oreshnik: an intermediate-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile. Security-camera footage captured brief flashes in the sky, the missile’s multiple warheads entering the atmosphere at 10 times the speed of sound, ...

It’s time we see ICE as it already sees itself: a domestic army dispatched by the Trump administration to terrorize vulnerable people and violently intimidate political enemies into submission.The murder of Renee Good by ICE agents should be a tipping point in the series of authoritarian power grabs ...

Nach Übergriffen auf das linke Hausprojekt Zelle 79 und andere: Antifaschistische Demonstration am Freitag in Cottbus

Das Agrarbusiness profitiert von Luxusprodukten und treibt die Preise für Lebensmittel hoch

Soll »der Westen« die Proteste im Iran unterstützen? Und wenn ja: Auf welche Weise? Das fragt die italienische Zeitung »Il Manifesto«

Negin Behkam über die Inszenierung der westlichen Akteure als Retter Irans

Viel toller als man glaubt: Das Akkordeon ist das Instrument des Jahres

Brandenburg will Long-Covid-Patienten und Impfgeschädigten helfen

Gericht urteilt zu jahrelanger Repression in Freiburg

Berlins Justizsenatorin will noch mehr Daten ohne Anlass speichern

Zehn Geflüchtete starben 1996 nach einem Brandanschlag auf ihre Unterkunft in der Lübecker Hafenstraße. Der Fall ist bis heute nicht aufgeklärt

Updated at 9:54 a.m. ET on January 15, 2026The protests in Iran are real. The country’s economic desperation runs deep, and millions of citizens want to see a corrupt and repressive regime gone. The violent crackdown on the protests is also real and appears to have cost thousands of lives. Yet the a ...

Trainings sind in Ägypten und Jordanien sowie in Jericho geplant, die Länder müssen aber noch zustimmen

Most Americans now accept the basic physics of climate change—that manmade greenhouse-gas emissions are raising global temperatures. Yet the public discussion of climate change is still remarkably broken in the United States. Leaders of one political party frame climate change as an existential emer ...

Blockadehaltung im öffentlichen Dienst: Gewerkschaften sehen falsche finanzielle Prioritäten der Länder

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Host-nation Morocco beat Nigeria 4-2 on penalties in the 2025 CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semifinals. The football match was played at Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, Morocco, and ended 0-0 after extra-time.

Nigeria take on host-nation Morocco in the 2025 CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semifinals. The football match is being played at Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, Morocco.

Nigeria take on host-nation Morocco in the 2025 CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semifinals. The football match is being played at Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, Morocco.

Nigeria take on host-nation Morocco in the 2025 CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semifinals. The football match at Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, Morocco, kicks off at 9pm (20:00 GMT).

Die frühere ukrainische Minister­präsi­dentin soll im Parla­ment Stimmen gekauft haben

Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales spricht sich gegen Fluss­bad im Spree­kanal aus

Houthi supporters gather in Sanaa, Yemen [File: Osamah Abdulrahman/AP Photo]

Auch ohne Superlativ sind die Temperaturdaten für 2025 besorgniserregend

Ricardo Bolaños González erklärt, wie Solidarität mit den Menschen in Venezuela aussehen sollte

Beiderseits der Neiße wird an ein berühmtes Werk Olivier Messiaens erinnert – und damit auch an 120 000 Insassen eines NS-Lagers

Wenn rechte Strukturen versuchen, die Automobilbranche zu unterwandern, wird das ernst genommen – und gegengesteuert

Bundeswehr will durch Entlassungen in Zweibrücken Kontrolle und Vertrauen wiederherstellen

Christian Klemm hält das Völkerrecht für eine zivilisatorische Errungenschaft, die Linke verteidigen sollten

Eine neue Studie untersucht extrem rechte Betriebsarbeit am Beispiel der »alternativen Gewerkschaft« Zentrum

Johanna Moder erzählt in »Mother’s Baby« von einer Frau, der es schwerfällt, Gefühle zu ihrem Kind aufzubauen

In early December, as U.S. forces prepared for a possible attack on Venezuela, a Chinese navy ship sailed near the American armada gathered in the Caribbean. The CNS Silk Road Ark, a massive vessel in China’s South Sea Fleet, didn’t pose much of a threat to the U.S. warships. But its appearance in t ...

Die deutschen Handballer zählen sich bei der Europameisterschaft selbst zu den Favoriten

By any objective measure, the decision taken by Somalia’s Cabinet on January 12 to annul all agreements with the United Arab Emirates was neither abrupt nor reckless. It came after prolonged restraint, repeated diplomatic engagement, and a sober assessment of what any responsible government is ultim ...

The bodies of Palestinians killed during Israel's war on Gaza are buried in a mass grave on March 7, 2024 [Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images]There is a crisis of belief in Western media, one that has little to do with evidence and everything to do with whose deaths align with the interests of empire.For ...

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Senegal take on Egypt in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations semifinals, with the winner facing either Nigeria or hosts Morocco in the final. The match at Ibn Batouta Stadium in Tangier, Morocco kicks off at 6pm (17:00 GMT).

Senegal take on Egypt in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations semifinals, with the winner facing either Nigeria or hosts Morocco in the final. The match at Ibn Batouta Stadium in Tangier, Morocco kicks off at 6pm (17:00 GMT).

Im essayistischen Drama »Silent Friend« zeigt die ungarische Regisseurin Ildikó Enyedi, wie ein Ginkgo drei Zeitepochen als stiller Zeuge begleitet

An der Berliner Staatsoper Unter den Linden wurde Matthias Pintschers Oper »Das kalte Herz« uraufgeführt

Laut Copernicus dürfte die 1,5-Grad-Grenze bereits Ende dieses Jahrzehnts fallen

New York taxi drivers have long been mercilessly squeezed by the city, culminating in their 2021 hunger strike joined by Zohran Mamdani. Announcing a new taxi commissioner yesterday, Mayor Mamdani promised a break with that past.Zohran Mamdani joined long-exploited New York City taxi drivers in a hu ...

Before Adam Sharples became a molecular physiologist studying muscle memory, he played professional rugby. Over his years as an athlete, he noticed that he and his teammates seemed to return to form after the offseason, or even from an injury, faster than expected. Rebuilding muscle mass and strengt ...

US President Donald Trump has promised Iranians 'help is on its way' and told them to 'keep protesting' [File: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images]On Saturday, just under two weeks into the protests that are now sweeping Iran, United States President Donald Trump took to his social media platform of choice ...

This video grab taken on January 14, 2026 from UGC images posted on social media on January 9, 2026 shows cars set on fire during a protest on Saadat Abad square in Tehran [AFP]

The Palestinian Ministry of Education criticised Israel’s move to limit teacher permits to enter East Jerusalem as a serious violation of the right to education [File: Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images]

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.In the early 1990s, when Stefan Merrill Block was in fourth grade, he began complaining to his mom about his new school, with its pointless rules and mean teachers. He, his parents, and his brother had recently ...

The Al Udeid airbase southwest of Doha is the Middle East's largest United States military base [File: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP]The United States is withdrawing some personnel from its bases in the Middle East, a US official told the Reuters news agency, after a senior Iranian official said Tehran had wa ...

The Al Udeid airbase southwest of Doha is the Middle East's largest United States military base [File: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP]The United States is withdrawing some personnel from its bases in the Middle East, a US official told the Reuters news agency, after a senior Iranian official said Tehran had wa ...

The Al Udeid Air Base southwest of Doha is the Middle East's largest US base [File: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP]Some personnel have been advised to leave the United States military’s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar by Wednesday evening, the Reuters news agency reported, quoting three unnamed diplomats.The report ...

OVG weist Berufung der Polizei zurück – Einsatz bei Sitzblockade war unverhältnismäßig

The Federal Reserve has quietly delivered nearly half a trillion dollars to Wall Street with few strings attached over the past few months. These cash infusions could signal instability in the broader financial sector.The New York Federal Reserve has recently delivered a series of major cash transfe ...

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good in the head last week, Republicans declared that Americans would overwhelmingly support the killing. In reality, the vast majority find the murder unjustified.By an average margin of more than 22 points, Americans overwhelm ...

As Donald Trump threatens a military attack on Iran, shadowy conservative groups working to gut consumer protections and roll back abortion rights have also been pouring millions into influential think tanks advocating for regime change in the country.Donors Trust, a dark money group with deep ties ...

Palestinians struggle as heavy rains and strong winds damage and destroy their tents in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on January 13, 2026 [Moiz Salhi/Anadolu]Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on Palestine, has accused Israel of treating Palestinian lives as “expenda ...

Today marks 15 years since the overthrow of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, one of the high points of the Arab Spring. The events of 2011 gave rise to an impressive wave of revolutions. Almost all were bloodily suppressed.Demonstrators in front of the prime minister's offices in Tunis on January 27, 2011 ...

Iranian demonstrators gather in a street during a protest against the collapse of the currency's value, in Tehran, Iran [Stringer/WANA (West Asia News Agency)]

At least four people have been killed as winter winds sent walls collapsing onto flimsy tents sheltering Palestinians displaced by the genocidal war in Gaza.Dangerous living conditions persist in Gaza more than two years after the start of the devastating Israeli bombardment and amid continuing aid ...

Iranians attend a pro-government rally in Tehran, Iran [Stringer/WANA via Reuters]

Rahaf, 13, walks by her tent near Gaza City [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

A member of the Iranian police attends a pro-government rally in Tehran, Iran, January 12, 2026 [Stringer/WANA/Reuters]

Iran’s UN ambassador accuses US President Donald Trump of encouraging political destabilisation in his country and inciting violence in a letter to the UN Security Council. Iranian state television has acknowledged reports of a high death toll during nationwide protests, quoting head of the Martyrs ...

Iran’s UN ambassador accuses US President Donald Trump of encouraging political destabilisation in his country and inciting violence in a letter to the UN Security Council. Iranian state television has acknowledged reports of a high death toll during nationwide protests, quoting head of the Martyrs ...

Iran’s UN ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani, has ‍accused US President Donald Trump of encouraging political destabilisation in his country and inciting violence, in a letter to the UN Security Council. The letter came as Trump told US media that “the endgame is to win” Iran, after earlier telling Iran ...

In the days after American commandos raided Nicolás Maduro’s compound and whisked him out of Venezuela, Mike Lindell wasn’t ruminating about the dramatic military operation or oil prices—he was reviving a long-dead conspiracy theory.Lindell, better known as the “MyPillow guy,” was celebrating becaus ...

Will Elon Musk face any consequences for his despicable sexual-harassment bot?For more than a week, beginning late last month, anyone could go online and use a tool owned and promoted by the world’s richest man to modify a picture of basically any person, even a child, and undress them. This was not ...

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.After an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, forensic examinations of videos ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City [File: Angela Weiss/AP]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City [File: Angela Weiss/AP]

Thomas Jefferson loathed Plato. In 1814, he wrote to John Adams that he had been reading the Republic and came away unimpressed: “Bringing Plato to the test of reason, take from him his sophisms, futilities, & incomprehensibilities, and what remains?” The only reason the Greek philosopher is so ...

Under the cover of a total internet shutdown that has now lasted more than 100 hours, Iran’s security forces have unleashed bone-chilling brutality on protesters, killing at least 2,000 people, according to Iranian officials. Rather than hiding its crimes, the regime has broadcast footage from a mor ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.To judge by recent accounts, Donald Trump’s intervention in Venezuela has imperiled his standing among his own supporters. Traditional-media outlets have warned of a MAGA schism, as have some high-profile right- ...

Umweltverbände verklagen Berliner Verwaltung wegen Untätigkeit im Naturschutz

Bundesgerichtshof hebt mildes Urteil auf und fordert, auch Mordvorwurf zu prüfen

Annah Ashabah kritisiert vor der Wahl in Uganda die Chancenlosigkeit der Opposition. Trotzdem hofft sie auf einen baldigen Machtwechsel

US President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media aboard Air Force One en route from Florida to Washington, DC, the United States, January 11, 2026 [Nathan Howard/Reuters]

Wolfgang Hübner über den Wechsel im Amt des Ministerpräsidenten von Sachsen-Anhalt

Spezialkräfte lösen Protest gegen Auto­bahn im Lüner Holz auf, doch Stadt soll Ver­samm­lung erst kürz­lich geduldet haben

Was ist dran am Hype um den Roman »Lázár« von Nelio Biedermann?

In T.C. Boyles neuem Roman »No Way Home« kämpfen zwei eifersüchtige Männer um eine Frau, aber eigentlich geht es um etwas ganz anderes

Neues vom schlechten Gefühl: Howard Carpendale zum 80.

DRK-Kliniken gehen gerichtlich gegen Warnstreik vor

140 Menschen unterstützen Angeklagte Antifas in Düsseldorf

Die Auswahl für das Berliner Theatertreffen steht fest – und überrascht nur durch das, was fehlt

An den Berliner Theaterbühnen wird gestreikt

Angesichts der Nachfrage nach Biolebensmitteln lohnt sich für Bauern die Umstellung auf den Ökolandbau

Nearly 15,000 nurses are now on strike at three New York City private sector hospitals, in the largest nurses’ strike the city has ever seen. Nurses say they are striking to end understaffing that burns out nurses and endangers patients.New York City nurses say employers are refusing to address thei ...

Amtsgericht Tiergarten verurteilt Antifaschisten zu Bewährungsstrafen

The family at the center of Madeline Cash’s first novel, Lost Lambs, is falling apart. Bud and Catherine Flynn have begun a “nonconsensual nonmonogamous spell.” They are too busy scorching each other’s insecurities to cook dinner, more concerned about their own sleeping arrangements than about the e ...

Der Arktis-Experte Marc Jacobsen über die US-Ansprüche auf Grönland

Der Arktis-Experte Marc Jacobsen über die US-Ansprüche auf Grönland

Die autonome Region Dänemarks bekommt verbale Unterstützung gegen die Übernahmepläne der USA

Brandenburgs BSW-Fraktion will gegen eine Kriegs­kasse stimmen – gegebenen­falls gemein­sam mit der AfD

Erfan Soltani soll hingerichtet werden – ohne Anwalt, ohne Prozess. Sein »Verbrechen«: Er protestierte im Iran.

Guatemalas linker Präsident wird von rechtem Apparat ausgebremst

Somalia confirmed that it was cancelling all deals with the United Arab Emirates on Monday [File: Feisal Omar/Reuters]

Iranian flag with stock graph and an oil pump jack miniature model are seen in this illustration taken October 9, 2023. [File: Dado Ruvic/Illustration//Reuters]

US President Donald Trump had directed his administration to blacklist three Muslim Brotherhood branches in November [File: Handout/White House via AP]

A banner denouncing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is put up at the entrance of Tehran University on January 13, 1979, a month before the monarchy fell [Bernhard Frye/AP]Iran is living through one of the most dangerous moments in its post-revolutionary history. Nationwide protests have become sustained ...

ICE appears to be reveling in the hypocrisy and double standards that the Trump administration’s unqualified defense of their sickeningly violent and occasionally murderous behavior, against Renee Good and innumerable others, has given them license to indulge in.ICE is advertising their own violent, ...

New Yorks linker Bürgermeister Mamdani muss große Herausforderungen bewältigen – auch gegen den Widerstand seiner Demokraten

Beim Weltcup im Chiemgau entscheidet sich, wer Teil des deutschen Teams für Olympia wird

Das Schulden-Verständnis der Jury ist grundfalsch

Die deutsche Regierung kürzt die Gelder für ein Berliner Leucht­turm­projekt zusammen

Senegal fan looks on during the quarterfinal match between Senegal and Mali at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament at Tangier Stadium, Tangier, Morocco on January 9, 2026 [Ulrik Pedersen/NurPhoto via Getty Images]

Rekordkürzungen prägen den Reformplan der Entwicklungsministerin – dieser soll Deutschlands Rolle in der Welt stärken

Niemand sollte sich unvorbereitet in den Wintersport stürzen: Skigymnastik kann helfen

Unser Kolumnist scheitert im Urlaub beim Versuch, bezahlbare Tickets für Zweitligist UD Las Palmas zu bekommen

When I first heard of Heated Rivalry, I didn’t think much about it. The words Canadian ice-hockey TV series slid into my brain and slipped right back out. But a week later, approximately everyone I’d ever met wanted to talk about it. People kept telling me that it was fun, sweet, and addicting. Most ...

Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute explains why he believes diplomacy between Iran and the US will fail if it focuses solely on the nuclear issue, as Iran signals readiness for nuclear talks and Trump threatens military action over Tehran’s protest clampdown.

A large Lion and Sun pre-Iranian revolution national flag is displayed on a building along Westwood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, US, January 12, 2026 [Arafat Barbakh/Reuters]As demonstrators flood Iranian streets in ongoing protests which started late last month, United States President Don ...

Sheila Mysorekar über die drohende US-Invasion in Grönland

The genocide in Gaza radicalizes Zionism’s long-standing colonial project. But Israeli leaders’ open rejection of any future possibility of a Palestinian state have undercut their own international legitimacy.Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with President Donald Tr ...

“Yes—oh, dear, yes—the novel tells a story,” E. M. Forster wrote. “I wish that it was not so.” Julian Barnes has confessed that as a young man reading Aspects of the Novel, he found this sentiment “feeble” and responded impatiently, “If you aren’t up to telling a story, why write a novel?” Barnes, w ...

In 1928, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance published a memoir that caused a sensation in the literary world. It opened with his earliest memory: Barely a year old, he was riding in a moss baby carrier on his mother’s back, surrounded by women and horses. His mother’s hand was bleeding, and she was cryi ...

How Originalism Killed the ConstitutionIn the October issue, Jill Lepore explained how a radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.Jill Lepore’s stellar cover story rightly described the Constitution’s amendment provision as a “sleeping giant.” The process is in ...

The report behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s updated dietary guidelines didn’t eliminate food and pharmaceutical industry influence over Health and Human Services decisions. It did the exact opposite.The Trump administration’s updated dietary guidelines are adulterated with corporate conflicts and quest ...

Two dynamics are fundamentally reshaping the structure and functioning of the American government. The first, which is quite well known, is Congress’s decline. The second, perhaps somewhat less appreciated but no less significant, is the Supreme Court’s ascent—its expansion of its power into areas p ...

Im Prozess um die Entwendung der Kappe eines Burschenschafters stehen Gutachten und forensische Analysen aus

A displaced Palestinian man fixes a tent shelter set up along the shore in Gaza City as strong winter winds sweep the Palestinian enclave [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]

Palestinians struggle as heavy rain and strong winds damage tents in Gaza. [Moiz Salhi/Anadolu]

V-Person des Verfassungsschutzes soll seit 2017 lokal gut vernetzt und überregional aktiv gewesen sein

An Israeli Mk 84 Bomb Spice 2000 by Rafael on display at the Tel Nof airbase, south of Tel Aviv [File: Jack Guez/AFP]Israel signed a record number of multibillion-dollar gas, technology and military deals in 2025.One of its most prominent deals came in December when Prime Minister Netanyahu approved ...

Security forces at a pro-government rally in Tehran, Iran where tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered on Monday, January 12, 2026 [Stringer/Getty Images]

Donald Trump is making the United States’ affordability crisis worse and suffering historically low approval ratings. He is likely hoping wars abroad will divert the public’s attention from his domestic policy failures.War appears to be a one-size-fits-all solution to all of Donald Trump’s problems. ...

The author's brother Khalid before he was forcibly disappeared in Gaza [Courtesy of Yusuf El-Mbayed]It has been three months since the “ceasefire” took hold in Gaza. In this time, Israel has predictably refused to comply with its obligations under the deal. It continues to block the negotiated amoun ...

Israeli soldiers stand beside a truck in Gaza transporting Palestinian detainees, including one who appears to be a woman, December 8, 2023 [File: Yossi Zeliger/Reuters]For thousands of Palestinian families in Gaza, the ongoing Israeli genocidal war is not just about the huge loss of life, utter des ...

Iranian state TV shows vehicles burning during a night of mass protests in Tehran on January 8, 2026 [Screengrab/Iranian state TV via AP]

Like Renee Good’s murder in Minnesota, the Bloody Sunday massacre in Ireland was notable for both the blatancy of the crime, carried out in broad daylight, and the audacity of the lies pumped out from the highest levels of the state.A makeshift memorial honoring Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Min ...

The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces reportedly launched the drone attack as a warning to government forces returning to Khartoum [File: Ashraf Shazly/AFP]

Ouafa Zein al-Dein, the head teacher of the Qassem Amin school in Aleppo, said that SDF fighters had taken over a portion of her school's building before fighting with the Syrian government began [Bernard Smith/Al Jazeera]

Iranian protesters demonstrate against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Tehran, Iran, October 9, 1978 [AP Photo]

US President Donald Trump has urged Iranians to “keep protesting” and “take over” institutions in the country, saying he has cancelled “all meetings” with Iranian officials. UN human rights chief Volker Turk says he is “horrified” by violence in Iran amid reports that hundreds of people have been ki ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk says he is “horrified” by violence in Iran amid reports that hundreds of people have been killed during the protests. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tells Al Jazeera: “If Washington wants to test the military option it has tested before, we are ready for it. ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk says “hundreds” have been killed in weeks of demonstrations and he’s “horrified” by the ⁠violence. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tells Al Jazeera: “If Washington wants to test the military option it has tested before, we are ready for it.”

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tells Al Jazeera: “If Washington wants to test the military option it has tested before, we are ready for it.” Tens of thousands of pro-government demonstrators take to the streets in a show of force after weeks of deadly protests as Iran continues to be cut of ...

Members of Syrian general security forces stand guard in the Ashrafieh neighbourhood, after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters left the city of Aleppo, on Sunday, January 11, 2026 [Khalil Ashawi/Reuters]

Members of Syrian general security forces stand guard in the Ashrafieh neighbourhood, after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters left the city of Aleppo on Sunday January 11, 2026 [Khalil Ashawi/Reuters]

Members of the general security forces stand guard in the Ashrafieh neighbourhood, after Kurdish-led SDF fighters left the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, in Aleppo, Syria, January 11, 2026 [Khalil Ashawi/Reuters]

Scarcely a week ago, U.S. warplanes and drones were streaking across the Caracas night sky to deliver a swift end to the reign of the Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro. The extraordinary display of kinetic violence delivered a stunning reminder about the reach of the world’s most powerful military ...

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.Jerome Powell isn’t known for his expressiveness. The chair of the Federal Reserve has kept quiet over ...

President Trump keeps talking about buying Greenland. Perhaps via a lump sum to Denmark, perhaps through individual payments to each Greenlander? We have reached the stage of the imperial presidency where we just start pointing at the map and demanding the things we see there. Formerly, when somethi ...

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran has 'large and extensive military preparedness' [Ahmed Hasan/AFP]

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud addresses an emergency joint parliamentary session in Mogadishu, Somalia [Handout: Somali presidency]

Updated at 9.07 a.m. ET on January 14, 2026In the summer of 1968, three years into the Grateful Dead’s existence, the band fired singer and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir. Jerry Garcia, the band’s other guitarist and its reluctant leader, and bassist Phil Lesh had decided that Weir and keyboardist Ron “P ...

Die Internetsperre macht es schwer, an verlässliche Informationen über die Lage im Iran zu gelangen

Die Internetsperre macht es schwer, an verlässliche Informationen über die Lage im Iran zu gelangen

Aus seinem Exil in den USA beansprucht der Schah-Sohn Reza Pahlavi eine Führungsrolle in der Opposition

Aus seinem Exil in den USA beansprucht der Schah-Sohn Reza Pahlavi eine Führungsrolle in der Opposition

Updated at 6:00 PM ET on January 12, 2026Antiviral drugs for influenza, the best known of which is Tamiflu, are—let’s be honest—not exactly miracle cures. They marginally shorten the course of illness, especially if taken within the first 48 hours. But amid possibly the worst flu season in 25 years, ...

Wie Deutschlandfunk Kultur die Deutung der Ermordung von Rosa Luxemburg und Karl Liebknecht verschiebt

Vor dem Ende des Verfahrens in Budapest ist ein Aktionstag für die Freilassung von Maja T. geplant

Eine englische Woche direkt nach der Winterpause ist die einzige Lösung für den vollen Terminkalender

More than Donald Trump, more than Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, more than anyone in ICE’s leadership, J. D. Vance has made himself the lead defender of the killing in Minnesota. Why?The day after the shooting, Vance announced a new administration effort to prosecute welfare ...

Erich von Däniken, Vater der Verschwörungserzählung, ist auf Erden gestorben

Vor dem Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf beginnt ein Prozess gegen vier junge Frauen und zwei Männer wegen Angriffen auf Neonazis

Azad Hawrami droht der Verlust seines Ladens in Köln – doch die Nachbarschaft stellt sich hinter ihn

Das Land Brandenburg präsentiert sich in Halle 21a auf der Grünen Woche in Berlin

Parteien streiten über Konsequenzen aus Strom-Anschlag

Studentische Hilfskräfte rufen zum Streik im Rahmen der TV-L-Verhandlungen auf

Zu den Wahlchancen der Wagenknecht-Partei in Berlin

Christian Klemm über Pläne der Sozialdemokraten, die Erbschaftssteuer zu reformieren

For 30 years, law-enforcement officers have been empowered to be “clever”—and that cleverness has today become the cover for abusive actions by ICE.In 1996, the Supreme Court decided Whren v. United States, which came about when plainclothes vice officers patrolling in the District of Columbia passe ...

Großbritanniens Premier Keir Starmer wegen Nähe zu Trump in Erklärungsnot

Christoph Ruf will die rechte Plattform »Nius« nicht verbieten

Im Fretterode-Prozess ist ein angegriffener Journalist Unterstellungen ausgesetzt

Nach der Freude über den Tod eines Nazis wenden sich Oppositionelle gegen den Politiker

Martin Ling über Trumps Anti-Kuba-Politik

Alle politische Praxis bei AfD und FPÖ dient der Entfernung des sichtbar Fremden aus der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung

HBO Max startet am 13. Januar auch in Deutschland. Sie zeigen direkt die beste Krankenhausserie aller Zeiten: »The Pitt«

Die Österreicherin Eva Gretzmacher (74) ist seit einem Jahr in Geiselhaft des IS im Sahel

Egypt's Mohamed Salah is gunning for a first AFCON title in Morocco [File: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]

The failed push to sink Zohran Mamdani’s appointment of tenant organizer Cea Weaver was an attempt to remove a highly effective advocate for renters, who landlords and the real estate industry hate because she has consistently defeated them.The absurd right-wing campaign to pressure Zohran Mamdani t ...

Abgeordneter King und Vizebundeschef Lüders sollen Liste zur Berliner Abgeordnetenhauswahl anführen

Medico International kritisiert westliche Annäherung an Syrien

The Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on grounds so flimsy and transparently hypocritical that it is difficult to know whether anybody is supposed to take the charges at face value. When a respected public servant is being accused of wa ...

USA: Staatliche Agenturen sollen Hypothekenanleihen kaufen, damit Immobilienkredite günstiger werden

Mourners carry a coffin during a funeral procession for members of security forces and civilians said to be killed in protests on Sunday [IRIB/Handout via Reuters]

Darren Aronofsky’s 2010 film, Black Swan, fit into a lot of boxes. It was a psychological thriller, a body-horror flick, a character study, a coming-of-age saga. It was a cautionary tale about ballet culture, helicopter parenting, and perfectionism. Rewatching it roughly 15 years after its release, ...

She can hold up four fingers: she understands that next month she’ll be 4. Already she remembers scenes, so many— her mother walking in through the front door with her wrapped-up baby brother; that time the big dog gobbled up her toast before she could take a single bite; that day a bad man pushed h ...

An armed Syrian security officer stands outside the Khaled Fajr Hospital in the Kurdish-majority Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood of Aleppo on January 11, 2026 [Bakr Alkasem/AFP]

This photo taken on January 3, 2026 shows Saudi-backed forces that took control of the Second Military Region Command on the outskirts of Mukalla, the capital of Hadramout [AFP]

Bosnians march in support of the Palestinian people in Sarajevo on October 22, 2023 [Amel Emric/Reuters]Last week, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite presidency approved the participation of Bosnian troops in the international stabilisation mission in Gaza. The decision was a rare instance of inter ...

Emily Witt’s memoir begins with the Brooklyn and Berlin underground rave scenes and the appeal of subcultural escapism. What follows is a reckoning with the social conflicts of the present and journalists’ role in a time of rising authoritarianism.In her memoir, Emily Witt questions what it means to ...

A protester during a demonstration outside the UK's Ministry of Justice in London on November 20, 2025 [AFP]

People carry a body during the funeral of Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli strike on Sunday, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis [Haseeb Alwazeer/Reuters]

Tulsi Gabbard, a combat veteran who detests military intervention, joined the MAGA coalition full of hope that Donald Trump shared her beliefs. Gabbard especially despises—or at least despised—the notion of meddling in Venezuela, a once far-fetched idea that she had denounced many, many times.But it ...

Aktivist*innen setzen auf Boykotte gegen Firmen, die mit Trumps brutaler Abschiebemiliz kooperieren

Bundesgerichtshof entscheidet über Zulassung eines Revisionsverfahrens nach Tötung eines Tunesiers

Trumps Einsatz für Irans Bürger ist heuchlerisch. Das zeigt sein Umgang mit Demonstranten daheim

Nigeria's Raphael Onyedika, Algeria's goalkeeper Luca Zidane and other players argue at the end of their AFCON 2025 quarterfinal at the Grand Stadium in Marrakesh, Morocco on January 10 [Paul Ellis/AFP]

People participate in a demonstration on January 11, 2026, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, in support of the nationwide protests in Iran against the government [Ebrahim Noroozi/AP]

For decades, American Jews were assumed to be uncritical supporters of Israel. But Israel’s war in Gaza transformed Jewish politics in the US and irrevocably undermined the legitimacy of institutions that sustain Zionism.Over two hundred members from Jewish Voice for Peace occupy the lobby outside t ...

Protesters post a placard with the colours of the Palestinian flag and Arabic text that reads 'Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Palestine' at barbed wire surrounding the Israeli separation wall and the illegal Israeli settlement of Modiin Illit during a protest in the occupied West Bank village o ...

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The first decades following the Russian Revolution saw enormous changes in women’s social role, but early promises of liberation were soon stifled. The record of women’s struggle is among the revolution’s most precious legacies.No Western government has even come close to enacting revolutionary poli ...

Roger Toussaint, former president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, challenges the claim that New York’s last great transit strike weakened labor — and explains why its real legacy has been obscured.Twenty years after the 2005 New York City transit strike, the legacy of the walkout remains conte ...

Today liberals lead the call for abundance. But if they really want to deliver plenty for all, they’ll need to confront the entrenched power of the capitalist class.Democrats have learned to embrace economic abundance thanks to Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s best-selling book. (Elizabeth Flores / S ...

During Sunday night’s Golden Globes, the host Nikki Glaser expertly ribbed the nominees in her opening monologue. Beaming presenters read their lines off teleprompters. Some winners cried as they thanked their loved ones. The ceremony ran long.This was business as usual, in other words. Though the G ...

Timothée Chalamet’s promotional campaign for his new film Marty Supreme has been a little unconventional thus far. Staged Zoom sessions. Promotional blimp work. A lot of chatter about a jacket nobody can buy. When Chalamet did The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, he was flanked by an entourage of peo ...

Photographs by Dina LitovskyThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The purge began late Friday night, four days after Donald Trump returned to the White House. Seventeen inspectors general—internal watchdogs embedded throughout the federal government ...

A few years ago, I visited my childhood home and heard a surprising sound: the bright and bouncy music of the Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny. My parents are white Baby Boomers who speak no Spanish and have never shown a taste for hip-hop, but they’d somehow gotten into Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, ...

Seattle’s new socialist mayor, Katie Wilson, won with an authentic image, a strong social media presence, a dedicated and energetic volunteer base, a relentless focus on material issues over political labels, and an emphasis on cross-community solidarity.Katie Wilson won Seattle’s mayoral race by kn ...

In November 1999, Havana’s Latinoamericano stadium sold out for a baseball game that was billed as a friendly rivalry between Latin America’s oldest and newest revolutionary leaders. Hugo Chávez had been Venezuela’s president for fewer than nine months when he took the field opposite Cuba’s Fidel Ca ...

Scott Wiener has an unusual distinction in American politics: He upsets almost everybody. In the months before I met the California state senator—who is now running for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat—he had been harangued at one public meeting after another. In October, pro-Palestinian protesters ...

Four men searched my mouth for implanted tracking devices. I had told them I didn’t have any—that, as far as I knew, such things existed only in movies. They asked if I had fillings, and I confessed that I did. They looked again. “No, you don’t,” one of them corrected me, having failed to find any g ...

Left-wing Colombian presidential candidate Iván Cepeda speaks to Jacobin about the accomplishments of Gustavo Petro, the US attack on Venezuela, and the Trump administration’s dangerous interventions across Latin America.Senator and presidential candidate Iván Cepeda speaks during an election night ...

A new piece of legislation will give private tenants in Britain more protection from arbitrary eviction. But without a major expansion of public housing, tenants will continue paying exorbitant rents that swallow up a huge chunk of their incomes. Britain’s housing system needs more than the modest c ...

The protests sweeping through Iran are not the first of their kind. But the threat of a continuation of the Israel-US war has led Tehran to see them as an existential threat.Iran has experienced mass protests before, but never at a time of what it describes as “total war” with Israel, the United Sta ...

In his first week as mayor, Zohran Mamdani issued 12 executive orders targeting housing, consumer protection, and democratic participation. His pace rebuts critics who have accused him of gauzy promises destined to go unfulfilled.Even if you’re skeptical of Zohran Mamdani’s ability to implement big ...

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. Following the Trump administration’s inter ...

Forty-seven years ago, Iran had a revolution that replaced a U.S.-allied monarchy with an anti-American theocracy. Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran may be on the verge of a counterrevolution.History suggests that regimes collapse not from single failures but from a fatal confluence of stressors. ...

So, about all that Venezuelan oil. Although President Trump has declared that America’s oil companies will soon “go in” to Venezuela and “spend billions of dollars” to rebuild that country’s petroleum industry, the administration is making two huge assumptions. First, that unleashing Venezuelan oil ...

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.At one point or another, we’ve all probably been that friend—the one who calls, texts, or sends a fiv ...

The flu situation in the United States right now is, in a word, bad. Infections have skyrocketed in recent weeks, filling hospitals nearly to capacity; viral levels are “high” or “very high” in most of the country. In late December, New York reported the most flu cases the state had ever recorded in ...

In November 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration to give jobs to the unemployed, and put his adviser Harry Hopkins in charge. The following week, Hopkins met with governors and mayors to ask for proposals. A few days later, he approved 122 projects, then anoth ...

Unions and international labor federations argue that it’s the same billionaires that want to run Venezuela who keep us working longer hours for less pay, without health care, job security, or stable housing.Labor federations around the world are condemning the Trump administration’s acts of war in ...

On a recent Tuesday morning, I was blessed with a miracle in a mini-mart. I had set out to find the protein bar I kept hearing about, only to find a row of empty boxes. But then I spotted the shimmer. Pushed to the back of one carton, gleaming in its gold wrapper, was a single Salted Peanut Butter D ...

The Pitt, HBO Max’s hospital-set drama, back for a second season, is a throwback in every sense of the word: formulaic, propulsive, topical. Each episode represents a single hour of one shift in a Pittsburgh emergency department presided over by Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (played by Noah Wyle) ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.If you want to know a political leader’s governing philosophy, you could cut through a lot of bluster by just asking them who their guy is: John Locke or Thomas Hobbes? Anyone who’s taken Poli Sci 101 will under ...

Venezuelans are celebrating—cautiously inside the country, wildly in safer places such as Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Miami, where hundreds of thousands made their homes as a brutal dictatorship impoverished their country, once the second-richest in the Western Hemisphere.The Venezuelan dictator Nicol ...

The Food and Drug Administration has relaxed guidelines on the health effects of alcohol consumption. Much more than any new scientific findings, the move reflects a yearslong lobbying effort by the alcohol industry.Current research says that no amount of alcohol consumption is good for your health. ...

On an unseasonably warm Wednesday in Minneapolis, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot a woman in the face. The many eyes of our everyday panopticon recorded the event from multiple angles. Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mom of three, had stopped her maroon SUV on a snowy street crawl ...

For years, US leaders struggled with botched efforts to bring the opposition to power in Venezuela. Talk of the War on Drugs provided a justification for a more direct US assault, imposing regime change without the trappings of democratic transition. The Venezuelan government’s long refusal to bow ...

We’re less than two weeks into Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty, and he has already notched an impressive victory on one of his key campaign promises: universal childcare.In his short time in office, Zohran Mamdani has carried out the strongest pro-worker opening salvo of any American elected official in ...

The seizure of two tankers carrying Venezuelan oil is a further escalation of Donald Trump’s war policy. While British prime minister Keir Starmer denied involvement in the earlier attack on Caracas, this time Britain actively joined the operation.Donald Trump openly advertises his intention of seiz ...

Donald Trump has sent waves of federal agents to Democratic-run “sanctuary cities” over the past eight months, depicting the operations like episodes in a roving MAGA reality show. The places targeted by the president tend to become temporary sites of protest—and produce fodder for his meme-driven a ...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.On Wednesday, an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three and a U.S. citizen, i ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry.On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular large language models—OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Go ...

For someone best known as an actor, Bradley Cooper’s core interest as a filmmaker is perhaps unsurprising. Thus far, he has been entirely consumed by examinations of performance—first digging into a pop musician’s stratospheric career climb in A Star Is Born, then wrestling with Leonard Bernstein’s ...

Marching alongside a column of protesters through the city of Borujerd in western Iran, a middle-aged woman appeared unperturbed by the blood streaming down her chin. “I am not afraid,” she called out in a video clip posted by Iran International. “I have been dead for 47 years.”She spoke for many in ...

If the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was still functioning as it did before Donald Trump returned to the presidency, Julie Plavsic and her former colleagues would have spent yesterday opening an investigation into the shooting death of Renee Nicole Goo ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Someone once said something like “Literature is the lie that tells the truth”—although, appropriately enough, the origin of the phrase is uncertain. Straightforwardly, this means that a nove ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel discusses the nightmare playing out on Elon Musk’s X: Grok, the platform’s embedded AI chatbot, is being used to generate and spread nonconsensual sexualized images—often through “undressing” prompts t ...

In the aftermath of the Bondi Massacre, Australian politicians are pushing to restrict freedom of speech and the right to protest. Their target is the Palestine solidarity movement.Zionist politicians in Australia like Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism, Jillian Segal, argue that criticism of Isr ...

In the 1970s, an ideological struggle within the Republican Party pitted the views of Henry Kissinger, the secretary of state under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, against those of Ronald Reagan.Kissinger, a brilliant, German-born statesman, embraced realpolitik—a pragmatic, power-based approach to f ...

When Donald Trump first started talking about turning Greenland into US property, he pretended to care about what its people would like to see happen. Trump and his associates are now dropping the pretense and threatening to use brute force.A poll last January showed 85 percent of Greenlanders are a ...

Cherien Dabis’s film All That’s Left of You follows one Palestinian family from the Nakba to 2022. More than the story of a single family, it’s the story of a common humanity persisting through the nightmare of displacement and occupation.“One thing I really want to leave audiences with is that our ...

Joseph Prezioso / AFP / GettyA reveler dressed as Frankenstein’s monster plunges into the ocean during a snow storm on January 1, 2026, in Boston. The polar plunge on New Year’s Day dates back more than 100 years in the city, but many people, mainly members of the L Street Brownies, take daily swims ...

Every night before bedtime, my daughter tilts back her head so that a pair of metal plates inside her mouth can be cranked apart another quarter of a millimeter. We turn a jackscrew with a wire tip; it spreads the bones within her upper jaw. At times she groans or even cries: she says that she can f ...

A former X executive behind Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot, now serving as US Patent Office chief AI officer, has received a “highly unusual” carveout that allows him to retain company shares while influencing AI policy.While Robert Hayes's ongoing financial stake in Grok would normally violate federal et ...

President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet have made a case for acquiring Greenland that’s so simple, even self-evident, it seems hard to refute: U.S. national-security interests in the Arctic are just too important to ignore. Not taking over the autonomous territory of Denmark would “give up ...

Updated at 5:14 p.m. ET on January 9, 2026The deer were out there. The crisp tracks in the snow made that clear. Three hours into our hunt through the frigid New Hampshire woods, Ryan Calsbeek, a rangy 51-year-old biology professor at Dartmouth, guessed that 200 animals were hiding in the trees arou ...

In an interview, investigative journalist and oil policy analyst Antonia Juhasz weighs in on what the fossil fuel industry really wants in Venezuela and how the current situation compares to past wars fought over oil.Donald Trump says that with his attack on Venezuela, he wanted to “take back the oi ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsThe transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us. This s ...

Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York has inspired the Left far beyond the city. But in Canada, as elsewhere, trying to replicate his style without rebuilding the institutions and political cadre that made it possible is a dead end.Until Canadian socialists commit to building something of our own, no mom ...

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.Until recently, Donald Trump was consistent about this: The time for the United States to police the wo ...

Donald Trump is acknowledging that corporate greed is a primary driver of America’s housing crisis and has claimed he’ll move toward banning large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes. His track record says otherwise.Blackstone has had an alleged role in the student housing c ...

Venezuela’s heavy crude is expensive to extract, it will take years of sustained investment to meaningfully lift output, and it may not even be profitable at current prices. The current aggression is more about power than economics.Donald Trump has contradictory goals of solving “affordability” prob ...

European leaders’ muted response to the illegal attack on Venezuela showed how afraid they are of antagonizing Washington. Now they fear Donald Trump’s plans to seize Greenland, but they have no clear plan to stop him.One year into Donald Trump’s second term, Europe’s utter dependence on American he ...

Following the Trump administration’s unprovoked attack on Venezuela, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has done his best to cement the UK’s status as a vassal of the United States.Keir Starmer is doing his best to cement the UK’s status as a vassal of the United States. (Emily Macinnes / Bloomberg via Get ...

Renee Good’s death wasn’t an accident or self-defense. It was the predictable result of a militarized deportation force operating with impunity on American streets.People gather at a makeshift memorial for 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed at point-blank range on January 7 by an ...

Socialist state assembly member and former UAW organizer Claire Valdez is running for Congress in New York’s 7th district. We spoke to her about the race, the right and wrong ways to fight Donald Trump, and how the labor movement changed her life.Claire Valdez is running for New York’s 7th Congress ...

We spoke to Zohran Mamdani’s campaign communications director, Andrew Epstein, about how a disciplined and creative message, mass canvassing, viral videos, and an end run around mainstream media helped the campaign break through.Andrew Epstein takes a video of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani duri ...

Critical historians like William Appleman Williams played a key role in highlighting the US’s imperial record in Latin America. Now Donald Trump has cut out the middleman, bluntly stating the US’s imperialist agenda.President Donald Trump’s statements about the attack on Venezuela fall short of the ...

Progressives celebrating the Supreme Court’s anticipated ruling against Donald Trump’s tariffs risk encouraging the consolidation of a dangerous legal doctrine that will be used to defeat their own agenda for decades to come.That the major questions doctrine may now be used to rein in the Trump admi ...

Over the past year, corporate actors who stand to benefit from US-backed regime change in Venezuela spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying the Trump administration, including over their economic access to the resource-rich nation.Oil and gas giants Shell, Phillips 66, and Chevron noted in d ...

Donald Trump is leaning heavily on drug-trafficking accusations to justify his recent kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro. But a new congressional report has found that the vast majority of illegal drugs come to the US via Mexico and China, not Venezuela.Donald Trump has accused the Venezuelan government a ...

After years of organizing outside electoral politics, a new left formation in Amsterdam is running for city council. Its leaders argue that movements don’t need protest alone — they also need power.Chris Kaspar de Ploeg at Indigenous Liberation Day at the 1492 People’s Tribunal in Amsterdam on Octob ...

One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often leads to a dismissal of addiction’s social causes, rooted in alienation and purposelessness.Addiction results from desperation and alienation, not brain disease. (Picture Allianc ...

If you take a closer look at the data, the generational differences within Jewish New York voters’ embrace of Zohran Mamdani looks a lot like the generational differences within black voters’ embrace of Bernie Sanders in 2016.If we start connecting the threads from Bernie Sanders in 2016 to Zohran M ...

In The Long Heat, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton take aim at what they call rationalist-optimists — people who naively believe that market solutions can fix the climate crisis. But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.At a time when fossil fuel consumption is still ...

Despite rising inequality, poor job numbers, and Donald Trump’s mass deportations, the economy grew by a remarkable 4.3% last year, mostly thanks to the AI industry. This success masks an economy highly dependent on debt and state subsidies.Much of the recent growth in the US economy has been driven ...

Donald Trump speaks of an expanded Monroe Doctrine that asserts US domination across the Americas. Chilean ex-diplomat Jorge Heine told Jacobin about the need for a new nonaligned movement that can resist imperialist claims.According to Jorge Heine, Chile is not alone in charting a path between Chin ...

In 2021, the January 6 Capitol attack exposed deep connections between the US state and far-right groups. When something similar happened in Brazil in 2023, it prompted a national attempt to reform the government. The US has failed to do the same.With Donald Trump’s return to office, the machinery o ...

The Right had a spectacular meltdown about Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration speech rejecting “rugged individualism” in favor of what he called the “warmth of collectivism.” But Mamdani is right that community is a value worth extolling.Zohran Mamdani became the mayor of New York City with his inaugurat ...

Aijaz Ahmad belonged to a generation of South Asian left intellectuals who came of age in the heyday of anti-colonial revolution. He was an uncompromising opponent of the Hindutva right that betrayed the heritage of India’s struggle against colonialism.Aijaz Ahmad’s brilliant analysis of India’s Hin ...

In Brazil, the jailing of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva served a far-right takeover. The Turkish government is following the same playbook as it stifles the opposition.The Turkish government is making parallel use of repression and legal tactics to entrench its control. (Ozan Kose / AFP ...

Bryan Johnson’s sexless brand of “wellness vampirism” is the perfect metaphor for Silicon Valley. It’s a utopian promise of a limitless future disguising a brutal, extractive reality that leaves us all drained.Bryan Johnson has spent millions trying to become immortal and transform his body into a t ...

Financial fraud has exploded in the past few years, with consumers reporting more than $12.5 billion in losses in 2024. President Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda isn’t helping.ACH fraud is becoming ever more common due to an increase in digital payments and phishing scams. (Spencer Platt / Getty ...

Before Donald Trump’s capture of Nicolás Maduro, corporations filed lawsuits against Venezuela seeking damages tied to state nationalization, international sanctions, and political instability. A Trump-installed government could tilt the courts in their favor.Companies with pending claims could be a ...

Jessica Mitford was born the child of aristocrats and the sister of fascists who celebrated the rise of Adolf Hitler. But she betrayed her class to become a communist, embedding herself in the life of the working class and railing against the powerful.Jessica Mitford was born into Britain’s ruling c ...

Nothing about Donald Trump’s brazenly illegal actions against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro suggests that the American ruling class has learned any lessons from US imperial overreach and failure in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Venezuela itself.The problem for US empire is not operational capability t ...

Donald Trump is once again threatening war with Iran just six months after bombing the Islamic Republic in June. Part of the reason for his hawkishness is his closeness to Israel, whose increasingly reckless actions threaten the whole Middle East. After the end of the Cold War, it was possible that ...

The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is a crude act of Trumpian aggression. Yet it also illustrates the US leadership’s weakness, as it moves to lock down control of the Western Hemisphere.Donald Trump used to pose as an antiwar president. Yet as the United States asserts its contro ...

A former Venezuelan diplomat speaks to Jacobin about how the state, military, and popular forces are responding to US military aggression — and what comes next.Supporters of Nicolás Maduro and the late Hugo Chávez hold posters with their images after explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard on ...

The attack on Venezuela signals a new phase of US power in Latin America — one defined by coercion, intimidation, and open-ended intervention.The move against Venezuela signals a decisive turn in US foreign policy in the Americas. Force and coercion are becoming Washington’s preferred tools once aga ...

Venezuela is only the opening salvo in a blatantly imperial project aimed at crushing the Latin American left.The Trump administration didn’t even bother to manufacture consent for regime change in Venezuela. They're just pursuing it — and openly admitting it is about oil. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images ...

Fear of killer robots has obscured a deeper shift in warfare: The fetish of automation masks the commodification of combat judgment. Corporate software reshapes war while preserving just enough procedural “human control” to deflect responsibility. The problem with military AI isn’t simply machines r ...

Jailed Palestine Action activists in Britain have been on hunger strike for eight weeks already. They are being treated as terrorists, even though they have committed no violent crime.Britain’s government is refusing negotiations with Palestine Action prisoners, eight weeks into their hunger strike. ...

Zohran Mamdani is now mayor of New York City, and the Left’s old ways of relating to elected officials won’t cut it. We need a “mass governance” approach.With a socialist in New York City's mayoral office, the Left needs to think differently about how it relates to elected officials. Socialists have ...

Ahead of her swearing in today, Seattle mayor Katie Wilson talks to Jacobin about the everyday pressures squeezing working-class people and why she’s a democratic socialist.Katie Wilson, a self-described democratic socialist and longtime community organizer, narrowly defeated incumbent Mayor Bruce H ...

Reflecting on Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration speech yesterday, Corey Robin argues that the Left must now embrace excellence rather than ceding it to the Right, fighting for the flourishing of all people as the aspiration of a truly democratic society.New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Du ...

In his inauguration speech yesterday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani assured the people of New York City that the era of small expectations from city government is over. We reprint his address here in full.Senator Bernie Sanders shakes hands with Mayor Zohran Mamdani after Mamdani's ceremonial inauguration at ...

Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa’s unsuccessful run for mayor of New York was a stark reminder of how much has changed in NYC since the dark days of the fiscal crisis — and how much remains the same.Illustration by Sam TaylorSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subs ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes office in New York City today. The Left now has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a socialist movement that could stretch across not only the city and the country but the world.Today Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes office in New York City. What’s at stake is a once-in-a ...

Beyond his marquee campaign promises on affordability, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the movement behind him have the opportunity to expand popular participation in politics and push for reforms that democratize economic life.For Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty to succeed, delivering on affordability won’t be ...

Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as an obnoxious, nerdy young 1950s ping-pong hustler who somehow cons everyone around him. It’s flashy, fast, and made with so much talent it’s a shame they forgot to make much of a case for Marty’s appeal.You’d never guess from watching the end of ...

A democratic socialist will be inaugurated mayor tomorrow because he told New Yorkers they deserve it all — love, leisure, pleasure, sport.Photography by Jack CalifanoSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Avatar: Fire and Ash is not a good movie. But with its massive box office success, Big Jim Cameron is undeniably giving the people what they want. And what they want is skimpily dressed giant blue aliens.Oona Chaplin as Varang in Avatar: Fire and Ash. (Image courtesy 20th Century Studios)If you chec ...

This year was a depressing one for politics, but it produced books that were ambitious and serious attempts to understand the present. From novels about millennial ennui to sweeping histories of the West, 2025 had a lot to offer to readers.From massive tomes on the French Revolution to investigative ...

An essential part of ringing in the New Year will be preparing for the major political struggles of 2026. Here’s a month-by-month roundup of the key union fights, elections, and other events of note for the Left.Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers, speaks at the Democratic National Conv ...

Construction unions are making clear that offshore wind is a win for workers and the environment. Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to block it are just another front in his war on workers.While the Trump administration has gone on the attack against offshore wind, building trades unions have been ra ...

Worries about an exodus of millionaires from New York City are not supported by economics.New York City Democratic Socialists of America hold a rally in Union Square marking the start of a campaign to tax the rich and win universal childcare, November 16, 2025. (Selcuk Acar / Anadolu via Getty Image ...

France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy has called on his allies to stop demonizing Marine Le Pen. It’s part of a broader shift in establishment conservatism toward open collaboration with her far-right party.French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy walks the streets of Menton, France, ahead of a book- ...

A new study shows that socialist plans to take over the privately owned power utility in New York’s Hudson Valley would lower rates for users and improve its long-term health. Public ownership of power companies is better for everyone but the rich.Average New Yorkers are hurting as utility bills kee ...

Health care spending now represents about 18% of the US economy, meaning that roughly one out of every five dollars spent goes toward health care costs — more than what Americans spend on groceries or housing. The spending is driving massive medical debt.An ever larger share of US consumer spending ...

Mitt Romney recently published a New York Times op-ed arguing for higher taxes on the rich. When he was in a position to actually sculpt the GOP platform and the tax policy of the US, Romney was an ardent supporter of cutting taxes for the wealthy.When Mitt Romney had real power, he fortified the ri ...

Donald Trump’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration wants to exclude “inherently risky professions,” including those in sports and entertainment, from basic workplace safety protections. The rollback could affect hundreds of thousands of workers.A paddock entertainer during practice ahead o ...

Critics of the American sewer socialists often point to racist statements made by their leading light, Wisconsin’s Victor Berger. A close examination of his writings shows that those views changed dramatically over time.Wisconsin sewer socialist Victor Berger held some abominable views on racial hie ...

With nothing but a new cut of Kill Bill to offer, Quentin Tarantino has gone into semiretirement right as American cinema is fighting for its very life. And to make matters worse, he won’t stop talking smack.The American movie is in a fight for its life. Quentin Tarantino’s peers have all taken up a ...

Good books offer new arguments, while excellent books pose new questions. Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts, on the unfinished commodification of nature and care, is an excellent book.In a world of ever more polluted land, water, and air, fertile land, fresh water, and clean air become scarce and thus ...

Why was the revolutionary road out of capitalism abandoned for an evolutionary one? Vivek Chibber explores how socialist parties moved from revolution to reform, but why real progress will always mean a conflict with capital.German social democratic theorist and politician, Karl Kautsky, gives a spe ...

The challenges Chicago’s progressive mayor, Brandon Johnson, has faced demonstrate that Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York will have to out-organize what’s soon to be a mighty opposition to his every move from finance, insurance, and real estate interests.To make New York safe and affordable, Mamdani ...

As Donald Trump’s GOP grows more and more fanatically xenophobic and rabidly anti-socialist, it’s worth examining how the American right has long fused its hatred of both immigrants and radicals to carry out a larger reactionary program.Today’s right won’t concede that left-wing politics command gen ...

Italy’s Francesco Rosi produced an unforgettable series of political movies. They feature mob bosses and oil tycoons, corrupt politicians and conspiring spooks, showing how Italian elites used every dirty trick available to exclude the Left from power.The Italian director Francesco Rosi shot some of ...

Recent survey data show that Americans have lost their faith in the future. Socialism can restore it.Relocating to the past is impossible. The real and urgent question is whether we can grab the wheel and steer our society in a direction more to our collective liking. (Yu Fangping / VCG via Getty Im ...

Fifty years ago, Sweden attempted the most ambitious democratic transition to socialism ever. Its architect, a Jewish economist who witnessed the rise of Nazi Germany firsthand, was motivated by the imperative to never repeat the horrors of fascism.German anti-fascists (Rotfront) give the clenched f ...

The new edition is essential reading to understand the current moment, how we got here, and how the Left should strategize in these difficult times.This latest edition of Catalyst tackles different dimensions of what could be called the crisis of liberalism.The new double issue of Catalyst, a schola ...

Bari Weiss blocked a devastating 60 Minutes exposé on CECOT — showing how Trump administration authoritarianism flows through corporate media, not jackboot censorship.CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss, photographed on December 10, 2025, while filming a town hall with Erika Kirk. (Michele Crowe / C ...

Thanks to decades of failing to seriously address the economic struggles of ordinary Americans, the Democratic Party brand has cratered in the Rust Belt and is increasingly flagging with working-class voters of all races.Donald Trump supporters hold signs in support of him at a rally in Hershey, Pen ...

Chile’s left-wing alliance took power with huge optimism in 2022, but hopes of changing the constitution, or even securing reelection, soon faded. Former minister Giorgio Jackson tells Jacobin what went wrong.Chile has made a sharp turn to the right with the election of Augusto Pinochet admirer José ...

The assassination of Sharif Osman Hadi, the youth leader who rose from Dhaka’s 2024 uprisings, has reignited mass revolt and exposed the limits of Bangladesh’s elite-managed democracy.Mourners attend the funeral of the murdered youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi in Dhaka on December 20, 2025. (Abdul Gon ...

After an attempted jailbreak, Brazilian ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has endorsed his son Flávio for president in 2026. Few electoral campaigns have been launched under less auspicious circumstances.Desperate to avoid his prison sentence, far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has backed his son Flávi ...

After learning her mother took out $200,000 of debt in her name, Kristen Collier felt betrayed. Her new book traces how it pushed her to expose unscrupulous lenders who upend the lives of millions across the US.Debt — from student loans and medical bills to credit cards — shapes American life. (Greg ...

Just one in ten American voters supports greater spending on the military. That didn’t stop the US Senate from joining the House of Representatives last week in voting to pass a record-breaking $901 billion defense budget for next year.The US military will, for the first time, enjoy more than $1 tri ...

Neoliberalism didn’t win an intellectual argument — it won power. Vivek Chibber unpacks how employers and political elites in the 1970s and ’80s turned economic turmoil into an opportunity to reshape society on their terms.“Ideas become influential when they’re latched to the correct constellation o ...

Ken Livingstone’s legacy in London reminds us just how much democratic socialist leadership can do for a single city.(Roger George Clark / Getty Images)Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

A new history traces how elite-driven development made New York richer on paper and poorer in practice. (Bettmann / Contributor)Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.