For four and a half hours, the sky above the United States emptied out.Normally, throughout the day and the night, thousands of planes are taking off, crisscrossing the country, and landing. When the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all U.S. flights around 4:00 p.m. today, because of “extrao ...

On Friday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a rare ground stop at all U.S. airports, citing “extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.” Across the country, departing flights were held for hours before the stop—attributed to a telecommunications outage—was lifted, dis ...

Call me Dumb Nostradamus.Two days ago, I was on my friend Pablo Torre’s podcast to discuss some of my recent reporting on artificial intelligence. A lot of accomplished cybersecurity people I’ve spoken with are convinced that the combination of rapidly advancing AI systems, the diffusion of those sy ...

For many hours, the Federal Aviation Administration did not explain why it issued a national ground stop in the United States this afternoon. The agency described the cause only as a “telecommunications outage” and cited “extraordinary circumstances,” but failed to say more. So speculation abounded: ...

Every civilian airplane in the United States has been told not to fly, owing to a nationwide FAA ground stop. As I write this, very little is known about the nature of the safety risk or the issue underlying it.According to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, “a communication issue impacting all Ai ...

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.Without Donald Trump’s backing, J. D. Vance was a wealthy man and a best-selling author, but he wanted ...

“All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.” The loud rebuke of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his entourage by an Army sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day was the latest embarrassment of the defense chief’s tenure. For nearly two years, ...

In October, the radical left lost Guglielmo Carchedi — “Mino” to his friends and comrades — who died in his sleep at the age of eighty-five. He was one of the great Marxist thinkers of our times.I first met him in London a few years after the economic meltdown of 2007–9, at a conference I organized ...

The 2026 midterms saw historic gains for socialists and progressives. So, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Democratic Party’s corporate wing is hurriedly spinning the result as a victory for centrists and “moderates.”Largely lost in this is the way that the Left has transformed what it actually means to ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.When it comes to reading, I’m not a glutton for punishment—I didn’t get very far into Finnegans Wake—but I am drawn to interesting challenges. Among the most memorably difficult reads I’ve t ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube As the Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has fallen this week—shaking the American economy, which AI helps hold together—Anthropic prepares for an IPO at an expected valuation of up to $1.4 trillion. In this episode, Galaxy Brain host Charlie Warzel talks abo ...

Possible Love is yet another masterpiece that South Korean director Lee Chang-dong has brought to us, after an eight-year hiatus since his last film Burning (2018). Unlike his younger Korean peers, such as Bong Joon-ho (Parasite) or Park Chan-wook (Old Boy and No Other Choice), Lee, now seventy-two, ...

Der Bundestag hat Gesetzesänderungen beschlossen, die BND und Verfassungsschutz weitreichende Befugnisse geben und ihre Kontrolle weiter einschränken.

Kürzungen bei der UN-Arbeitsorganisation ILO: Vor der Führungswahl ringen Amtsinhaber Gilbert Houngbo und Linkssozialistin Yolanda Díaz um den Kurs.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Joe Biden has a favorite saying that he has attributed to various family members over the years, most often to his mother: Joey, she’d tell him, never bow; never bend; never kneel; never yield. That sentiment ru ...

Linke-Politikerin Bünger erläuterte vor der Bundestagsabstimmung Hintergründe des Umbaus von BND und Verfassungsschutz. Sie warnt vor den Folgen.

Klar, zugunsten der Aufrüstung kürzt die Regierung den Sozialetat. So manche Maßnahmen gegen Umverteilung fallen aber erst auf den zweiten Blick auf.

For several years, I lived in Norway and enjoyed the privileges associated with membership in Folketrygden, or the National Insurance Scheme. One privilege that I still think about often is the relative frictionlessness of interacting with the Norwegian government.Seeing a doctor, for example, was e ...

Um Stimmen unter Arbeitern zu sammeln, muss sich die AfD nicht für Umverteilung einsetzen. Es reicht, wenn diese keine glaubhafte Alternative sehen.

Israel könnte Kampfroboter eines US-Startups in angeblich verbliebene Hamas-Tunnel schicken, so einer der Firmengründer. Ein Trump-Sohn ist Investor.

Shawn Gude’s splendid new biography of Gilded Age Socialist Eugene V. Debs could hardly have arrived at a more propitious moment. Perhaps as many as half of all young people tell pollsters they prefer socialism to capitalism. Gude, a member of the 130,000-strong Democratic Socialists of America (DSA ...

Waffen sind keine Allerweltsware – das haben die Fans von Borussia Dortmund richtigerweise klargemacht. Der Verein beendet den Deal mit Rheinmetall.

Die deutsche Linke könnte einiges aus den jüngsten Erfolgen der US-Demokraten lernen, meint unser Kolumnist. Ob sie will, ist eine ganz andere Frage.

In September, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced that his government was going to impose sanctions on British trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Miliband also referred to “ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in areas of the West Bank, perpetrated by settler terrorists.”The Is ...

Zack Mullock spent the past nine months campaigning for a U.S. House seat, but never actually pictured himself in Washington as a newly elected member of Congress. Yes, the mayor of Cape May, on the southern tip of New Jersey, believed in his long-shot congressional campaign. But the Democrat never ...

Vor 50 Jahren gab Wolf Biermann sein berühmtes Konzert in Köln. Am Sonntag feiert er seinen 90. Geburtstag.

Der Ebola-Ausbruch im Kongo ist auch nach sechs Monaten nicht unter Kontrolle – die humanitäre Krise breitet sich aus.

Many video games have reached middle age. Pong did in 2012, Space Invaders in 2018, Pac-Man in 2020. Depending on how nerdy you want to get about provenance, Mario turned 40 in 2021 or 2023 or 2025, and Oregon Trail hit the milestone in 2011 or 2025. Video games, a medium for children that has tried ...

Before M. F. K. Fisher picked up her pen, most American food writing had a whiff of Victorian fustiness about it—the pinch of the corset. After Fisher, the genre was set free. With an unerring ear for pitch and tone and a mastery of the short-form essay, Fisher inspired multiple generations of write ...

Im größten Land Südostasiens kommt der Vizepräsident durch Rücktritt seiner Amtsenthebung zuvor. Die Unzufriedenheit mit Staatschef Prabowo nimmt zu.

Die Jugendproteste haben die Schweiz erreicht. Der Autor unserer Züricher Partnerzeitung »Woz« hat bei einigen Aktionen aber gemischte Gefühle.

Ernesto Benavides / AFP / GettyA woman takes a picture of the 14-meter-tall sculpture of Pope Leo XIV, created by the sculptor Rafael Gutierrez, a graduate of Peru’s School of Fine Arts, as it is transported in two sections from the workshop where it was made to its installation site overlooking the ...

Zuletzt 2022 war die S-Bahn pünktlicher als im laufenden Jahr. Große Schritte für einen stabileren Betrieb sind jedoch vorerst nicht zu erwarten

Next to all of the take-Americans-for-nitwits scams perpetrated by the Trump administration, the news that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been using taxpayer-funded military jets to fly to college-football games doesn’t amount to that much. Still, as evidence of degraded ethics and an emperor-li ...

Die WHO lässt in der DR Kongo drei Impfstoffe auf ihre Wirksamkeit gegen das Bundibugyo-Virus testen. Nicht alle sind glücklich über das Verfahren.

Vorbehalte gegen Aufrüstung auch »unter Freunden«: Frankreichs Regierung sieht Atomkriegsrisiko durch »Deep Precision Strikes«. Zu Recht, sagt IPPNW

Der Koalitionsvertrag für die neue Regierung in Schwerin ist ausgehandelt. Die Linke bekommt zwei Ministerposten.

Das Parlament hat die Beteiligung an der EU-Militärmission Eunavfor Med Irini verlängert. Scharfe Kritik kommt von Seenotrettungsorganisationen.

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.Last week, Democrats dominated elections as Donald Trump, a lame-duck Republican, waged an unpopular wa ...

Jensen Huang’s abrupt departure from Nvidia, following revelations of an affair with a woman, Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence officials believe to be a Chinese-intelligence asset, should force a fundamental rethinking of America’s AI strategy.Jensen Huang was not just the CEO of the world’s most ...

Sign up for Video Village, a new weekly newsletter in which David Sims unearths cinematic gems and brings readers into his movie obsession.This week marks the limited-theater release of Paper Tiger, a muted, tragic crime thriller that’s the latest film in the director James Gray’s heady oeuvre. The ...

An assault on free speech is unfolding in France. On Tuesday, a judge placed Michel Houellebecq, one of the country’s most significant living writers, under investigation for his alleged “complicity in incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence,” an accusation that stems from comments he made ...

“Behold the land, the rich and resourceful land, from which for a hundred years its best elements have been running away, its youth and hope, black and white, scurrying North because they are of each other, and dare not face a future of equal, independent, upstanding human beings, in a real and not ...

In December 2021, the term “cultural Marxism” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. It was, according to the OED, a phrase with a sinister and controversial past. Its etymology could allegedly be traced to 1930s Nazi propaganda; its first recorded English-language use was in a 1938 issue of a ...

Ein Polizeischüler beleidigt einen Mann rassistisch, schlägt und tritt ihn bewusstlos. Das Gericht sieht eine Jugendverfehlung.

One of Abdul El-Sayed’s greatest skills is his ability to deploy the language of sports to make his case. His fluency in sports allows him to find common ground with interlocutors and audiences, complicating the stereotype that progressives are anti-sports.What makes him convincing and harder for hi ...

Laut einem Urteil des Sportgerichtshofs soll Russland im kommenden Jahr bei der Eishockey-WM teilnehmen dürfen. Dafür gibt es gute Gründe. Eine Antwort auf den Kommentar von Alexander Ludewig.

The parliamentary elections held in Israel on October 27 failed to produce a bloc with the sixty-one seats required to govern on its own. Although it remains in the lead, Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp has fallen from sixty-eight to fifty-three seats, while the opposition, led by Gadi Eisenkot, has made ...

Early in 2024, Donald Trump took the stage at the Black Conservative Federation gala in South Carolina. “We love you!” one audience member yelled. “We love you,” Trump responded, adding, “We’ve energized the Republican Party, and we’ve expanded the Republican Party.” At the time, he was right: The s ...

Einer der größten israelischen Rüstungskonzerne will nun doch nicht in Sachsen-Anhalt produzieren. Sein Geschäft floriert dank Abgeordneten trotzdem.

Spaniens Generalstreik wird zur Kampfansage an eine mögliche rechte Regierung. In Barcelona gingen Hunderttausende auf die Straße.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.One fall afternoon in Liberty, Mississippi, in 1961, a white Democratic former congressman and state legislator named E. H. Hurst shot Herbert Lee in the head. Hurst was angry that Lee, who was Black, had been t ...

Die Koalitionsverhandlungen finden unter dem Druck fehlender Haushaltsmittel statt. Doch womöglich werden die Spielräume unterschätzt.

This September, some rather technical issues regarding artificial intelligence, or rather their upshot, made headlines. The reason lay in two resignations from companies leading the development of frontier AI models, namely David Robinson, OpenAI’s Safety Officer, and Jacob Coxon, a developer at Ant ...

Wer Mandanten vertritt, teilt nicht ihre Haltung: BRAK und RAV wehren sich gegen die Stigmatisierung der anwaltlichen Tätigkeit eines Neuköllner Linke-Politikers.

At 7 o’clock on a Saturday in October, the light is dimming in Cole Valley and a group of the AI industry’s young stars is gathered on the second story of a century-old Edwardian. At first glance, it looks like any other San Francisco house party: bottles of cheap liquor on the table and awkward con ...

Whenever AI companies release new models, die-hard users tend to greet the updates with a wave of grumbling about changes to how a model responds to prompts, how it integrates into their workflow, or, simply, the way it speaks. Most people soon get used to the latest release, ready to gripe again wh ...

A decade ago, the Kurds briefly figured in Western public consciousness as the feted heroes of the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In Britain as worldwide, audiences were fascinated by fetishized, orientalized images of “badass” Kurdish female fighters battling the Islamist t ...

Updated at 3:07 p.m. ET on November 13, 2026Most of the major executives in the AI boom have weathered vicious attacks and major controversies in recent years, but one has stood out as bulletproof: Jensen Huang, the CEO of the global microprocessor giant Nvidia. That changed yesterday when, followin ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsUpdated at 9:05 a.m. ET on November 12, 2026Reports of a second compromising affair may be the undoing of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, even though the first affair was with an alleged Chinese spy. Earlier this week, tech titans ...

Das schrankenlose Anhäufen von Privateigentum wird seit der Antike kritisiert. Die Argumente überzeugen bis heute.

Auf der Konferenz der Berliner Mieterräte danken Politik und Wohnungsunternehmen für das Ehrenamt. Die Mieter*innen vermissen Wirkung.

Millionengehälter für Konzernchefs, wachsende Milliardenvermögen: Wo Obergrenzen für Einkommen und Vermögen liegen könnten.

Millionengehälter für Konzernchefs, wachsende Milliardenvermögen: Es fehlt eine Obergrenzen für Einkommen und Vermögen.

One evening last fall, a middle-aged couple, heads bent in conversation, approached the table where I sat signing books. “Go ahead,” the woman urged. Speaking softly, her husband explained that he had Parkinson’s disease. Although he hadn’t read my novel The Weight of Ink, it was his understanding t ...

Das dem Erbauer des weltweit ersten Computers gewidmete Konrad-Zuse-Museum in Hoyerswerda ist schon geschlossen, aber noch nicht demontiert.

Mit einem Generalstreik wehren sich die Menschen in Spanien gegen Immobilienfonds und explodierende Mieten.

Seit 2002 hat Deutschland die US-Blockade gegen Kuba in der Uno verurteilt. Die Begründung für die Enthaltung ist ein außenpolitischer Kniefall.

Um Frieden in der Ukraine zu erlangen, muss man viele kleine Schritte wagen – und gleichzeitig realistisch bleiben. Ein Kommentar.

Jürgen Klopp begeistert die Nationalmannschaft. Doch vor dem Spiel gegen Serbien in der Nations League zählt mehr als Motivation: Es geht um Punkte.

Die Regisseurin Randa Chahoud hat Mithu Sanyals Bestseller »Identitti« verfilmt. Ein Gespräch.

Although the full Nvidia story is still emerging, the most alarming revelation may not be that Jensen Huang, America’s most influential AI executive, was involved with a suspected Chinese spy. It may be that senior administration officials were warned about the danger and nevertheless continued rely ...

No one can mistake me for a supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or an apologist on his behalf. Over the years, I’ve published hundreds of articles criticizing him and warning of the great damage he has caused to Israel. My criticism only grew stronger after October 7, 2023, when ...

Does Donald Trump mean anything? The question could be asked about the president’s promises, which he usually fails to keep, and his podium remarks, which are devoted to free association. But for conservative politicians, policy makers, and intellectuals, the question has a wider bearing. Since 2016 ...

Die Polizei hat acht weitere Wohnungen durchsucht und ermittelt nun gegen 20 Beschuldigte wegen Bildung einer kommunistischen kriminellen Vereinigung.

Nach dem Umsturz in Serbien ist offen, wie es weitergeht. Ein Interview mit dem linken Ökonomen Dmitry Pozhidaev.

Die Bürger von Mississippi wählten erstmals seit 1874 einen Schwarzen zu ihrem US-Senator.

Mit dem US-Amerikaner wurde der letzte Gefangene der Black-Lives-Matter-Proteste von 2014 freigelassen.

»Frag nach Susan« von Souvankham Thammavongsa erzählt einen Tag im Leben einer Nagelstudiobesitzerin. Dabei geht es auch um Klassismus und Rassismus.

Erstmals seit 145 Jahren zieht ein Schwarzer Senator aus Mississippi in den US-Senat ein. Colom konnte viele Nichtwähler mobilisieren.

Die Koalition einigt sich bei den Etatverhandlungen auf Änderungen beim Wohngeld und Kindersofortzuschlag. Die geplante Plastiksteuer wird ausgesetzt.

Der Generalstreik in Spanien endete mit großen Demonstrationen in Madrid und Barcelona. Hunderttausende gingen landesweit auf die Straße.

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.Sometimes a news story is important because it reveals information for the first time. Other times, it’ ...

This story was updated on November 12, 2026 at 8:06pm ET.On Election Night, Representative Robert Garcia, the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee, described one agenda that congressional Democrats could pursue over the next two years: investigating the “Trump Crime Family,” as his office ...

Explosionen von Gefühlen: In einer Ausstellung im Münchner Lenbach­haus kann man Maria Jarema, die »Revolutionäre Kommissarin der Abstraktion«, entdecken.

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on how President Trump will behave after suffering a humiliating defeat in the 2026 midterms. David warns that the final two years of Trump’s term could be fill ...

Nach der Länderspielpause geht es zwischen Berlin und Kiel sowie Magdeburg und Flensburg schon um Entscheidendes – unter veränderten Voraussetzungen.

As part of its continued newsroom growth, The Atlantic is announcing the return of Amanda Mull as a staff writer; the hires of Annalisa Quinn and Erik Slavin as staff writers; and the hire of Bill Tipper as a senior editor overseeing the creation and launch of The Atlantic Book Club, coming in 2027. ...

Berlins glückloser CDU-Bürgermeisterkandidat Stefan Evers hat in letzter Minute seine Rolle als Kultursenator entdeckt. Denn Scherben kann es nicht genug geben.

Die Publizistin Soledad Vallejos über Lateinamerikas Machiavelli, die internationalen Netzwerke hinter dem Rechtsruck, deren Ideologie und Finanzierung.

Der Comic »Gib nicht auf!« erinnert an den Völkermord an den Jeziden im Nordirak 2014, über den hierzulande viel zu wenig gewusst wird.

Manchmal kommt es einem so vor, als sei das Leben auf der Karibikinsel wie ein Theaterstück. Es gibt eins von der Regierung und eins von der Bevölkerung.

72 Prozent der Soldatinnen beklagen verbale Belästigung, 10 Prozent sexualisierte Gewalt. Auch nicht-heterosexuelle Männer sind häufig betroffen.

Ist das noch Hollywood? Jetzt macht die KI auch noch »Making-of«-Dokumentationen und weicht die Unterscheidung in »echt« und »unecht« weiter auf.

Mit ihrer Kultfarbe schädigten die Maya unwissentlich ihre eigene Gesundheit.

For more than a decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has relied on fear to throttle dissent in India. It has jailed protesters, deployed a pliant media to vilify critics, and fanned the flames of communal violence. This year, that playbook appears to have lost its efficacy. Discontent h ...

Brandenburger Ausländerbehörden können ab dem 10. November anerkannte Geflüchtete für drei Jahre an einen Ort binden. Der Flüchtlingsrat übt Kritik.

Das durch eine neue Studie offenbarte Ausmaß von Belästigung und Übergriffen in der Truppe ist wenig überraschend. Ein Kommentar

Nach dem vergangenen Chaoswinter wollte der Senat den Winter­dienst umfassend evaluieren. Doch es läuft weitgehend weiter wie bisher.

Der Jurist Orlando López über das hohe Risiko von Korruptionskritikern. Sein Freund und Kollege Francisco Solórzano Foppa wurde kürzlich ermordet.

Verbände warnen vor Härten für Beschäftigte und Angehörige, aber auch vor einem Chaos in der ambulanten Versorgung.

The blue tidal wave that swept congressional and local elections around the country is leaving a new political landscape in its wake. The generational scope of Democratic wins and unprecedented success of democratic socialist candidates notwithstanding, the president’s party almost always loses midt ...

Zwei Forscher belegen eine jahrelange Werbeoffensive gegen Muslime und Migranten. Auch Deutschland ist betroffen. Der Verfassungsschutz schweigt.

Immobilienkonzerne vertreiben Mieter*innen, Regionalregierungen missachten Vorschriften. Die Mietbewegung hat sogar einen Generalstreik erkämpft.

Kulturwissenschaftler Jordi Mir über Mietstreiks, das Kaufverbot von Wohnraum zu spekulativen Zwecken und die Frage, wie man Wähler überzeugen kann.

Two years ago, then Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani launched his campaign for mayor with a series of on-the-street interviews of Donald Trump voters on Fordham Road in the Bronx. In the course of the following year, the cost-of-living crisis solidified as the uniting theme of his mayoral campaign, anc ...

Scientists have identified the three leading killers of mom-friend plans: the never-ending day-care virus, the sitter who bailed, and the mysterious vortex that is “out of town.” The first two are unavoidable, but the third is a choice that society, collectively, seems to be making more and more. Ou ...

Die Serie »Eldorado« erzählt von einer der absurdesten Betrügereien des 20. Jahrhunderts und der Panik um Energiesicherheit.

Für Guatemalas Präsidenten Bernardo Arévalo ist der Mord an dem Anwalt Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa ein großer Rückschlag im Kampf gegen Korruption.

“Capitalism is a legal regime, not just an economic system as conventional wisdom has it.” With this opening sentence, Katharina Pistor takes the argument of her previous book, The Code of Capital, a step further. There she showed how lawyers turn assets into capital through property, contract, coll ...

Beide Parteien wollen Russland zur WM 2027 in Deutschland zulassen. Verschiedene Gründe machen Menschenverachtendes aber nicht besser. Ein Kommentar

If any Donald Trump appointees lose their posts as part of a midterm cabinet reshuffling, Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Doug Collins is not likely to be among them. Unlike controversial former colleagues already sacked as the heads of the homeland security, justice, and labor departments — or D ...

In 1968, Yambo Ouologuem was the toast of Paris. His first novel, Le devoir de violence, which traces the rise and fall of an African dynasty across centuries, was a best seller and won the Prix Renaudot, France’s second-most-prestigious literary prize. Ouologuem was the first African writer to rece ...

The victories last week of the Presbyterian seminarian James Talarico and the United Methodist pastor Adam Hamilton in the Texas and Kansas Senate races prompted renewed attention to America’s elusive religious left. For years, Republicans have been the presumptive party for those with serious Chris ...

Die neueste Autoritarismus-Studie liefert alarmierende Belege für einen Rechtsruck – und einige Gegenrezepte, die dringend ernst zu nehmen sind.

Wer die Macht ergreift, wird von ihr ergriffen: Über Marcello Tarì und den Kommunismus der Destitution.

Reconstructing the past is, depending on whom you ask, a fool’s errand, a great hobby, or a vital source of knowledge and meaning. Many families have a de facto genealogist: a cousin or an uncle who loves Ancestry.com, spends hours digging for long-lost relatives, or organizes trips to their forebea ...

Editor’s Note: David Hume Kennerly, who served as the chief White House photographer for President Gerald Ford, has spent decades working as a photojournalist, covering everyday life, politics, wars, and other pivotal world events; he won a Pulitzer Prize by age 25. Below are excerpts from his forth ...

Der Sturm der jüngsten Proteste zieht wie immer an den Deutschen vorbei. Eine Beobachtung auf der Durchreise.

Zwischen rechter Bedrohung und Jugendprotesten beginnt am 16. November die zweite Aktionswoche »Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus«. Was sind die Perspektiven?

Bernie Sanders and his acolytes have spent the past decade insisting that Democrats would command national majorities if only they embraced his left-wing policies. After last week’s election, the movement claimed vindication. The results proved that “we can win over millions of Republicans and indep ...

Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter where Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy.If 2026 was the year of gas prices, 2027 will be the year of health-insurance premiums. The cost of employer-provided health coverage—the kind that 160 million Americans get—is expected to ...

If you’re a Democrat looking for razzle-dazzle in your politicians, Representative Jake Auchincloss might disappoint you. During an October swing through South Carolina, Auchincloss told a group of military veterans, “I think we have to make politics boring again,” drawing more nods and chuckles tha ...

Die neue Ausgabe der Leipziger Befragung offenbart hohe Zustimmung zu rassistischen, sozialdarwinistischen und antisemitischen Aussagen.

Religiöser Wahn: Der Fußballer Felix Nmecha ist weder katholisch noch evangelisch, er ist evangelikal. Doch den DFB interessiert das nicht.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Joel Webbon has a six-year plan to usher in the first Christian-nationalist president, and he’s sticking to it. Although some on the far right were shaken by last week’s rout of Republicans at the polls, seeing ...

Im November beginnt wieder die Trekking- und Biwaksaison im Schweizer Hölloch, dem zweitgrößten Höhlensystem Europas.

Faschisierung nimmt die Katastrophe vorweg, die angesichts globaler Krisen droht. Dies ist das Muster einer gesellschaftlichen Depression. Ein Essay.

In den USA standen die Universitäten unter enormem Druck der Trump-Administration. Nach den Midterms könnte die Lage tatsächlich anders aussehen.

In Lichtenberg erinnern Hunderte an Lisa T. und prangern patriarchale Gewalt an. Die 13-Jährige war am Sonntag tot auf­ge­funden worden.

Pawel Bechtold kam über seinen Klimaaktivismus zur Windbranche. Als Gewerkschafter kämpft er mittlerweile für Klimaschutz und gute Arbeitsbedingungen.

Bis Ende Oktober gingen in diesem Jahr bereits knapp 17.000 Anträge auf Kriegsdienstverweigerung ein.

Heizungstausch für Hausbesitzer mit wenig Geld: Komplettangebote sollen die Wärmewende sozialer machen, so ein Vorschlag der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.

Ein Republikaner wollte US-Verteidigungsminister Hegseth des Amtes entheben lassen. Sein Vorhaben wird allerdings bereits im Anfangsstadium gestoppt.

Die EU-Grenzagentur legt ein Programm auf Eis, das Migranten nach einer »Rückführung« bei der Reintegration helfen sollte – das Geld ist alle.

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 morning, Americans awoke to the news that the Democrats had retaken both the House and the ...

Since late last year, a small but growing chorus of cybersecurity experts has been warning that AI models were pushing the internet toward a sort of cataclysm. Hospitals, banks, utilities, basically anything and everything connected to the web could be hacked.Over the past month or so, those scenari ...

Susie Wiles should have been untouchable. She’d been with President Trump since his first bid for the White House. She was one of the few people who’d stuck around after the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, when just about everyone else thought his political career was over. And as his chief o ...

Look, I just want to say that if Nvidia CEO and reported spy-plot target Jensen Huang did get help from AI to write an apology email to his family and company about his affair (he’s said he uses AI to help write all of his first drafts), this might be the one use of AI that makes sense to me.People ...

The midterm elections saw progressive, pro-Palestine candidates sweep into office across the country on the back of public outrage at Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. These victories should help reshape the conversation around Israel in Washington, reflecting the shifts in American public opinion ...

Thomas Massie is pushing the House to impeach Pete Hegseth, the Cabinet member most closely associated with the Iran war. The representative from Kentucky’s argument is that if Republicans like him don’t hold the secretary of defense accountable now for his various abuses of power, Democrats will in ...

Linke-Fraktionsspitze in Berlin will Ausschlussantrag gegen propalästinensische Abgeordnete Vanessa Emde stellen.

“Let’s talk about death.”That’s what the 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat said to President Trump near the end of their interview that aired Sunday.Douthat asked Trump what he thought would happen to him when he dies. “I’m a religious person, so in theory I go to heaven,” the president said. Wh ...

Donald Trump may have foreseen another reversal of his political fortunes when he chose J. D. Vance as his running mate. For who would want to remove Trump if the result were Vance at the helm of US executive? After all, Trump is the ultimate opportunist, a man who can smile and shake hands with Zoh ...

Eight years ago, Democrats harnessed popular anger at Donald Trump to take control of the House. Promising to curb the administration’s excesses, they issued a pile of subpoenas and held Cabinet members in contempt. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan famously vowed to “impeach the motherfucker.” They tried t ...

Mixed Martial Arts will olympisch werden. Bei den Asienspielen präsentierte man strengere Regeln. Bisher wurde kein Verband vom IOC anerkannt.

In Berlin hat ein Untreue-Prozess gegen die Ex-Intendantin des RBB und weitere ehemalige Mitglieder der Leitung des Senders begonnen.

Updated at 12:15 p.m. ET on Nov. 10, 2026 For one weekend in October, the AMC theater off of New York City’s Union Square wasn’t playing any recognizable new releases. Instead, it was closed to the general public, with the sidewalk outside taken over by a small red carpet covered by a white tent, wh ...

The climactic speech of Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy Wild Horse Nine is the “Kill ’em” monologue, delivered by an old Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative named Chris Carlisle (John Malkovich), who’s dying of cancer and whose mind is also starting to go. But after decades of habitual lying f ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsDonald Trump’s first official response to the midterm results was elevating Stephen Miller, the architect of his most radical immigration policies, to the role of chief of staff. This decision showed that the president has n ...

Die Niederlage in Kalifornien zeigt, wie groß die Widerstände gegen eine progressive Steuerpolitik sind. Daraus lernen lässt sich dennoch. Ein Kommentar

UN-Experten attestieren Israels Auslandsdienst Kriegsverbrechen. Ein Lobbyverein und ein grüner Kontrolleur laden den früheren Chef nun zum Frühstück.

Im Rahmen von Therapien kann es unbeabsichtigt zum Fehlen von Nährstoffen kommen – sowohl in der Klinik als auch ambulant.

Der 33-jährige Stürmer soll seine positive Attitüde bei den Spielen gegen Serbien und die Niederlande nun wieder in die Nationalmannschaft tragen.

Unterkunft für Geflüchtete Bad Sachsa: Behörde zieht Konsequenzen aus Beschwerde über Defizite bei der Versorgung, spricht aber von einem Einzelfall.

The easiest way to get attention online is to post the most outrageous, controversial take possible. That encourages other people to do the same, until you’re trying to outbid one another with the most extreme take. It’s called “take inflation.” Social media encourages take inflation, and take infla ...

As recently as five years ago, the argument against the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the Left from centrists and libs in the Democratic Party was this: Run left or socialist or progressive candidates, and you’ll lose; because the Trumpists are so terrible, you can’t afford to run that ...

Over the past week, following MAGA’s significant losses in the midterms, I have been asked the same questions again and again: How could Silicon Valley have gotten it so wrong? Why did tech leaders not anticipate the consequences of joining themselves at the hip to MAGA straight after Donald Trump w ...

»Gen Z regelt Studis« blockiert in Berlin ein Institut der Humboldt-Universität. Die Aktion soll Auftakt für einen uniweiten Streik sein

Die globalen Emissionen aus fossilen Brennstoffen sind leicht rückläufig. Bei der UN-Klimakonferenz soll ein Elektrifizierungsziel mehr Tempo bringen.

Eine Bewegung in Spanien kämpft für würdigen Wohnraum. Das provoziert einen Generalstreik, Neuwahlen und Debatten über die Sozialdemokratie.

Bei der Weltklimakonferenz in Antalya zeichnen sich keine Beschlüsse ab, die dem Ernst der Lage gerecht würden. Ein Kommentar

Wahl des Ministerpräsidenten in Sachsen-Anhalt am 15. Dezember: Linke-Fraktionschefin als Gegenkandidatin zu AfD-Politiker nominiert.

Die baskische Gewerkschafterin Garbiñe Aranburu Irazusta über einen Generalstreik in Spanien, der aus der Wohnungskrise entstand.

Besuche an Schulen und Stände auf Videospielmessen reichen nicht mehr aus. Jetzt will die Bundeswehr auch Merchandise verkaufen. Ein Kommentar.

Spain’s streets and town squares have been flooded with protesters this fall, since the brutal eviction and subsequent death of eighty-seven-year-old María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen. This September, she was removed from her Madrid apartment of some seventy years, after an investment fu ...

Religiöser Wahn: Der Fußballer Felix Nmecha ist weder katholisch noch evangelisch, er ist evangelikal. Doch den DFB interessiert das nicht.

Wo die Wirklichkeit versagt, beginnt das Schreiben: »Kontern« war das Motto von Ilse Aichinger, die vor zehn Jahren in Wien starb.

Schutzgebiete, die auf große und bekannte Tierarten ausgerichtet sind, helfen nicht automatisch allen anderen Arten.

Das »Le Guess Who?«-Festival feiert 20-jähriges Jubiläum und bietet abermals ein kaum zu schaffendes Line-up internationaler Indie-Künstler.

Illustrations by Owen PomeryImagine a planet that’s home not only to the seven continents you know but also to an immense feature you’ve never heard of, continental in scale. Extending along the world’s coastal shelves from the tropics almost to the poles, this place is roughly equivalent in size to ...

Photographs by Sophie GreenThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.On a Hallmark movie set, it is always Christmas but rarely winter. When you produce dozens of original holiday movies a year, there is only so much year for filming, and so you often f ...

The Age of Reading Is OverIn the August issue, Rose Horowitch considered whether civilization can survive our postliterate era.Rose Horowitch’s “The Age of Reading Is Over” is devastating. The comparison between our present moment and the long, undramatic decline of the Library of Alexandria is apt: ...

Der Profivolleyballer Rui Takahashi hat sich in Japan als homosexuell geoutet – und könnte damit für einen Wandel im Land sorgen.

Der Tradwife-Hype ist angeblich vorbei. Das vermeintlich entspannte Leben zwischen Sauerteig und Selbstversorgung bleibt aber ein Unterhaltungsdauerbrenner.

Der Tradwife-Hype ist angeblich vorbei. Das entspannte Leben zwischen Sauerteig und Selbstversorgung bleibt aber ein Unterhaltungsdauerbrenner.

Die Berliner Polizei sucht Verdächtige in Demovideos mit Gesichtserkennung. Ein Anwalt hält das für rechtswidrig. In Ulm traf dies sogar Unbeteiligte.

Unser Gastro-Kolumnist ist begeistert vom »La Escollera« in Estepona. Es besticht mit schlichter Frische und simplen Rezepten.

Superreiche kämpften gegen die Abgabe an – mit Hilfe riesiger Vermögen. Am Ende stimmten die meisten Wähler tatsächlich gegen das Vorhaben.

Nach dem Wahldebakel der Republikaner sehen Gegner von US-Verteidigungsminister Pete Hegseth eine neue Gelegenheit, ihn loszuwerden.

Given the obsession over the AI race between the United States and China, you might imagine that news of the man leading the most important company in AI being caught in an extramarital relationship with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy would spark outrage and excoriation without parallel. You c ...

Stephen Miller spent his first weekend as White House chief of staff on the patio at Mar-a-Lago, huddling with President Trump and Natalie Harp, his executive assistant, about how to approach the next two years with the House and Senate under Democratic control. Katie Miller—the podcaster, political ...

Have liberals learned anything from the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to office two years ago? Many have not, if a recent report from the American Civil Liberties Union is any indication. The group claims to offer a “way forward” for the country’s asylum system, which has become a ba ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsBack in February, when the United States and Israel first attacked Iran, President Trump said that it would be a “short-term excursion.” Now, eight months later, as the war with Iran remains without a conclusion, the preside ...

Last week’s election returns embodied a broad, national, and bipartisan reaction against data centers. In forty-six of the forty-seven local referenda held across some thirteen states, voters rejected new data center construction. Public opposition reflects local concerns about water usage, grid sus ...

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.When President Trump posted on Saturday that he’d asked Dana White, the head of the Ultimate Fighting C ...

Thein Zaw / APA devotee lights candles during Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, at a temple in Yangon, Myanmar, on November 8, 2026.Indranil Mukherjee / AFP / GettyVisitors are immersed in the projections at an installation celebrating Diwali at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center, in Mumbai, ...

Pete Hegseth was in my neighborhood today. I live just up the road from the Naval War College, where I taught for 25 years, and where Hegseth gave a speech this morning about the future of military education.But “speech” may be too generous. What he delivered was more like an early Festivus “Airing ...

Sit down with your child in a quiet place. He or she may have many questions, such as, “Those big silver trucks that looked like a kid drew them, they are not making them anymore?” and “But if there are no Cybertrucks anymore, how will I know whom not to date when I grow up?”Be warm and calm. Explai ...

Last summer, Mississippi began an effort to “continue to build on the accuracy of Mississippi’s voter rolls and strengthen the integrity of elections,” as Republican Secretary of State Michael Watson put it. Using data from the credit-reporting agency Experian, the state scrutinized its list of regi ...

Ask someone to name a few Russian novels, and they might rattle off the greatest hits: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov. Maybe they’ve read these classics and love them; maybe they just know they’re supposed to know them. Now ask the same person to name some Ukrainian novels: pro ...

Every other Monday, I arrive at work bleary-eyed, still finishing my coffee, and settle into the workweek by reviewing my latest pay stub. I’m looking for miscounted hours, abnormal deductions — the sorts of mistakes that never happen but could.This morning was different. I spent the weekend fixatin ...

The nation’s transit systems have an unlikely side hustle. The Los Angeles Metro is selling T-shirts that label its riders a Bus Baddie and a Metro Mamí and encourage locals to Ride the D (a suggestive reference to a recent line extension). The NYC Ferry offers hats and shirts that read The People’s ...

Die Initiative las in Bad Hersfeld in Grundschulen vor. Damit ist Schluss. Die Grünen kritisieren die Auslegung des Neutralitätsgebots.

Es ist ein Fortschritt, dass mit der CSU-Politikerin erstmals eine Frau Bundespräsidentin wird. Politische Akzente wird sie jedoch kaum setzen.

Nach wochenlangen Massenprotesten lenkt die Regierung ein, doch den Gewerkschaften reicht das nicht. Derweil verkündet Mélenchon sein Wahlprogramm.

Preiskontrollen für Rheinmetall und Co. funktionieren nicht. Die Linkspartei will eine neue Steuer an die Umsatzrendite koppeln.

Der Staat und die Eliten versuchen, den indigenen Widerstand gegen die umstrittene Autobahn »Route der Maya-Kulturen« zu brechen.

In a union that has been headed by one family with no competitive elections since 1984, a group of grocery workers is organizing for change. But last week, they say, union staff who back the incumbent administration went to outrageous lengths in an attempt to make sure there’s no election this year ...

Deutsche Start-ups sammeln Millionenbeträge von US-Investoren ein. Drohnen, Künstliche Intelligenz und Hyperschallraketen sind aktuell der heiße Scheiß.

Die CSU-Politikerin will gesellschaftliche Gräben überwinden. Merz beendet monatelange Hängepartie. Die Linke will eigenen Kandidaten aufstellen.

In der Donaustraße in Neukölln stehen Sozialwohnungen leer. Die Strafen sind verhängt, doch der Eigentümer ist in vorläufiger Insolvenz.

Mit ihrem Film »Helene Weigel – Revolutionärin im Rampenlicht« zeichnet Maria Wischnewski ein berührendes Porträt der Grande Dame des Welttheaters.

In den traditionellen CDU-Hochburgen Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf und Tempelhof-Schöneberg werden künftig Linksbündnisse regieren.

Amedspors Aufstieg macht antikurdischen Rassismus im türkischen Fußball sichtbar. Der ist auch in Deutschland verbreitet – eine Kolumne

Amedspors Aufstieg macht antikurdischen Rassismus im türkischen Fußball sichtbar. Der ist auch in Deutschland verbreitet – eine Kolumne

Ein Zeitungsfund in Riga zeigt, wie detailliert international unmittelbar danach über das Ausmaß der Verbrechen an Juden berichtet wurde.

Der US-Präsident macht Stephen Miller zu seinem Stabschef und beendet damit wohl alle Chancen auf eine Zusammenarbeit mit der Oppositionsmehrheit.

Nur ein Bruchteil der Mittel für die Schulen aus dem Sondervermögen kommt dort an. Und keiner fühlt sich zuständig, das zu ändern.

Rüstungskonzerne und Militär wollen bewaffnete Verbände mit Künstlicher Intelligenz koordinieren. Ein deutsches Forschungsprojekt hat erste Ergebnisse.

To more and more people, the promises of sex-positive liberal feminism feel empty. The sexual ideas that have dominated feminism in the last two decades — including that sexual liberation always serves women’s interests, that consent is the only relevant sexual ethic, and that consuming porn and buy ...

To more and more people, the promises of sex-positive liberal feminism feel empty. The sexual ideas that have dominated feminism in the last two decades — including that sexual liberation always serves women’s interests, that consent is the only relevant sexual ethic, and that consuming porn and buy ...

Dieter Klein war vor und nach 1989 Sozialwissenschaftler und berichtet in seinen Erinnerungen über »Merkwürdige Begebenheiten in drei Systemen«.

Updated at 4:42 p.m. ET on November 9, 2026Like all batteries, the giant lithium-ion ones in electric cars eventually fade. Once they can muster just 70 to 80 percent of their original charge, they’re not very useful as car batteries anymore: They simply can’t get a vehicle far. But even a fraction ...

Stadtrat ebnet Weg für Amtsenthebung des seit Wochen abgetauchten Oberbürgermeisters Philipp Preißler. Die Hürde ist allerdings extrem hoch.

The Department of Justice’s birthday was not in 1776, when America first declared independence as a nation, or 1788, when the U.S. Constitu­tion was ratified. It was in 1870, when the law creating the department was signed. The De­partment of Justice is not a creature of the U.S. Constitution; it is ...

Bei den Kommunalwahlen in Südafrika hat der Afrikanische Nationalkongress (ANC) eine desaströse Niederlage eingefahren. Ein Kommentar.

In The Atlantic’s December cover story, “The Geo-Located Generation,” staff writer Sarah Zhang explores how constant surveillance is stunting children and making parents paranoid. Parents today can functionally track their children 24/7 from the moment they’re born through adulthood, starting with p ...

Martin McDonagh kritisiert in seinem neuen Film »Wild Horse Nine« die rücksichtslose US-amerikanische Interventionspolitik.

Luisa Neubauer, die Interventionistische Linke und die Junge Union zeigen Verständnis für »Gen-Z-regelt«. Wer ist Unterstützer, wer Ausbeuter?

The war in Iran and the disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have renewed an old debate about the foundations of American global power. Oil has been central to the geopolitical order dominated by the United States since World War II. The dollar is the principal international currency, ...

Die Abmahnung ist gelöscht und ein Urteil bleibt aus. Der Stendaler Lehrer vermisst eine Klärung, wie weit politische Kritik im Unterricht gehen darf.

Bob Woodward has published a book roughly every two years since the Watergate scandal, 24 in all. Taken together, they comprise a running narrative of almost every administration from Richard Nixon’s to Donald Trump’s. The genre of the Washington book—a sequence of scenes inside rooms where importan ...

Illustrations by Miguel PorlanThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.No one warned me, when I became a parent, about all the apps that would colonize my phone: the app for the baby monitor where I could gaze at my daughter, even when my husband and I ...

Pünktlich zu den Jugendprotesten in Europa hat Enzo Traverso ein neues Buch veröffentlicht – ein Gespräch mit dem linken Historiker.

Den Gedanken, Bayern abzuschaffen, formuliert unser Kolumnist über den Fußball hinaus – mit einem Herz für die Kleinen und im Sinne der Gerechtigkeit.

Schrubben, reiben, abspülen: Sich zu waschen, ist langweilig. Doch davon, was sich auf ihrer ungewaschenen Haut abspielt, ahnen viele nichts.

UN-Meteorologen warnen wegen Meereserwärmung vor heftigen Tropenstürmen und einem beschleunigten Anstieg des Meeresspiegels in diesem Jahr.

Die Serie »Anatomie eines Augenblicks« erzählt vom rechten Putschversuch in Spanien Anfang der 80er Jahre.

Eight days after the 2024 election, I honored a presidential tradition by hosting a visit from the president-elect. Jill and I met President Trump and his entourage in the Diplomatic Reception Room, and then I escorted him into the Oval Office for our formal meeting, accompanied only by our chiefs o ...

Bei mehreren Einsätzen konnten mehr als 100 Menschen aus Seenot gerettet werden. Die Suche nach Vermissten dauert an.

Eine Kontrolle wegen fehlender Corona-Maske endete für einen Musikproduzenten mit Schlägen und Tränengas. Eine Kamera hielt das Geschehen fest

Der mutmaßliche Täter der Attacke ist nach Angaben der Polizei am Montagmorgen im Krankenhaus seinen Verletzungen erlegen.

Die Verschärfung des Strafrechts bei Beleidigungen von Politikern hat eine Klagewelle ausgelöst, kritisiert der Rechtsanwalt Niema Movassat.

Bags of frozen blueberries and Swedish meatballs, packets of waffles and pizzas, and tub after tub of ice cream: all melted, floppy, spoiled, and stinking. This has been the scene at grocery stores across Europe after their fridges and freezers have been hacked.Last month, employees at hundreds of s ...

This season of Saturday Night Live has gotten a lot of mileage from inaction. Week after week, sketch after sketch—as James Austin Johnson’s version of Donald Trump interrupts whatever comedy might be at play—the show’s performers have done more than merely step aside as the president storms the sta ...

Let’s say wehave nothing andstart from there. Then that burns andfrom its ash we make ink.Let’s say we can write buthave no words.Let’s say we can sing.What if we had songs but noink, brush, voice.What if we swept the floor witha swan’s wing and the wholeday lifted and we could begin again.What if a ...

During a swing through Detroit in the final days of the midterm campaign, former President Obama invoked the kind of gauzy pluralism that Democrats were so proud of during his presidency. He pointed out that Michigan had the opportunity to pull off an improbable feat: By electing Abdul El-Sayed to j ...

The mittens were almost 80 years old when Ethel Dougan painted this watercolor, one of more than 18,000 works by some 1,000 financially strapped artists commissioned by the Index of American Design. Part of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project, the Index aimed to document historic ...

Over the last two years, the Portland, Oregon, chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has developed a reputation for punching far above its city’s weight.The chapter sits just behind the New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, chapters in terms of size, and roughly one in two hundr ...

Subscribe here:  Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeWhat is beauty? Is it really “in the eye of the beholder,” or is it an objective quality that exists in the world? Is it a mere decorative feature of life, or does it have something important to tell us? These are enduring human questions, but ones ...

My Aunt Louise and my grandmother both smoked Virginia Slims. At social events, even barbecues, Louise’s cigarette was in a theater-length holder. She was married to a loud man we called Uncle Benny, who held his Marlboro in the same hand as his highball. Louise’s kitchen, with its Talavera tile and ...

Since 1978, China has undergone a series of seismic changes in its economic order that have radically altered its citizens’ relationship to both labor and land. They have unmade the socialist working class and are in the process of expropriating the peasantry, transforming both into a propertyless p ...

Imperialism is again at the forefront of world politics. Large-scale war has become a permanent feature of the present era, from Ukraine to Gaza. Donald Trump’s second term has added a tariff war, threats to annex Greenland, the abduction of Venezuela’s president, and, together with Israel, an unpro ...

In 1967, two former State Department employees, William and Paul Paddock, argued that the U.S. government should reject a popular new idea about how a great nation ought to exercise power. Earth, the brothers predicted in their best-selling book, Famine—1975!, would soon be suffering through unrelen ...

On October 9, European Union Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič announced an agreement on hybrid vehicles, following two days of talks with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao in Beijing. According to Šefčovič, over the next four years or so, Chinese exports of full and plug-in hybrids to the EU ar ...

On Thursday, the Atlantic staff writer George Packer delivered the Newark Public Library’s annual Philip Roth Lecture. This article is adapted from his remarks.Philip Roth’s chosen vocation was the novel, and he practiced it almost nonstop for six decades with a monkish devotion. In his hands it bec ...

Das Landgericht Oldenburg hat die Termine für den Prozess gegen den Todesschützen von Lorenz A. festgelegt. Der Marathon beginnt am 18. Januar 2027.

Reza Pahlavi bringt sich als Anführer der iranischen Opposition in Stellung, doch niemand hat ihn für die Rolle autorisiert. Ein Kommentar.

Der Volt-Politiker Sahak Ibrahimkhil fordert den Rücktritt von Hessens Europaministers Manfred Pentz. Er wirft der Union Verschiebung nach rechts vor.

Die Parteiführung fordert ihre Abgeordnete Vanessa Emde auf, ihr Mandat zurückzugeben. Sollte sie das nicht tun, droht ihr der Fraktionsausschluss.

Als Gastgeberin der diesjährigen UN-Klimakonferenz putzt sich die Türkei heraus. Über die Menschenrechtsverletzungen deckt sie den Mantel des Schweigens.

The difference between a vampire and a bad health care policy idea is that vampires jump out of their coffins and drink blood at sunset. Undead health care proposals emerge from think tank closets and suck the life out of useful ideas when the sun rises on a national health care debate. As public fu ...

Einschlägige Medien fahren eine Kampagne gegen Die Linke in Berlin. Die kann dem Druck aber nicht entkommen, indem sie eigene Mitglieder opfert.

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. What will Donald Trump do with the remaini ...

Leftists have an unusual relationship to the language of good and evil. On the one hand, we have a reputation for being righteous. . . . at times even self-righteous. Our publications are saturated with enough morally strident language to make a preacher blush. Even the most “scientific” of scientif ...

Have you ever made a joke that offended someone? Maybe they took it personally or stopped speaking to you. A joke can put strain on a relationship or leave someone feeling isolated. But what if the consequences for a joke go far beyond social fallout? What if a comedy performance lands you in a high ...

Nach dem Sieg der Studierendenliste bei den Parlamentswahlen wird mit dem alten Regime abgerechnet. Im Fokus steht auch das korrupte Bankensystem.

Hunderte dringen in Amsterdam auf eine Baustelle vor – bis zu 200 Festnahmen. Am Freitag und Samstag fanden weitere Aktionen in Europa statt.

Illustrations by Katherine LamThe train’s seats: blue with a white strip down the middle. The windows: wide, tinted green. The sun: halfway below the horizon. He was playing with the top his mother had bought from the cart lady. With each spin came flashes of rainbow light: zzz zzz zoom. The train’s ...

Finland’s next general election has been set for next April 18, hopefully bringing an end to the National Coalition Party’s current slash-and-burn coalition, in which the far-right Finns Party plays a key role. Recent polls have, however, seen the latter worryingly rise to second position, becoming ...

IG BAU kritisiert das Verhalten der Arbeitgeberseite bei den Tarifverhandlungen für die rund 700.000 Gebäudereiniger. Warnstreiks gibt es vorerst nicht.

Die bayerische Landtagspräsidentin soll erste Bundespräsidentin werden. Der Kanzler will sich erst Montag äußern. Verwunderung gibt es auch zum BSW.

“Heaven forbid, if we lose this majority or whatever, I don’t know what my next chapter of life is, I’m just open to it. And if God moves on our hearts and says we should, you know, go back to my hometown of Shreveport and start a lawn business, I’ll do that with equal fervor. I mean, I just want to ...

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.What does your ideal night look like? Maybe it’s dinner with friends or a quiet evening at home with ...

Zu viel Strom, zu viel Wasser, zu wenig Mitsprache: Am Rand eines Rechenzentrums im Ortsteil Marienfelde forderten Protestierende ein Moratorium.

Für die vielen Ausbrüche in den USA gibt es viele Gründe. Das Hauptproblem ist allerdings die ultrarechte politische Führung. Ein Kommentar.

Nach Protest gegen einen Senatsbeschluss zur Zivilklausel ließ die Universität Kassel einen besetzten Hörsaal räumen. Solche Einsätze haben Tradition.

For airlines in the United States, going bankrupt is practically a rite of passage. Since the airline industry was deregulated almost 50 years ago, dozens of airlines have filed for Chapter 11, including each of the so-called Big Three carriers—United, American, and Delta. A notable exception has be ...

“Deportations will continue,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin wrote in a post on X the day after voters punished his party in the midterm election. The three-word statement appeared to be aimed at quieting an incipient debate among Republicans over whether President Trump ...

In beeindruckender Manier gewinnen die Wölfinnen das Verfolgerduell in Frankfurt – und freuen sich nun auf das Gipfeltreffen mit den Bayern.

Verzögerungen beim Bau des neuen Wendegleises in Karlshorst lassen Termin wackeln. Kein Fortschritt bei Genehmigung der Neubaustrecke zum Ostkreuz.

Der Verteidigungsminister sieht die Bundeswehr auf Kurs einer Freiwilligenarmee. Marineeinsätze in der Straße von Hormus nennt er unwahrscheinlich.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.In the days before MAGA’s midterm disaster, President Trump began complaining about his presidency. He felt stuck. The war in Iran wouldn’t end. Inflation wouldn’t subside. Little was going his way. But in the p ...

The most important Cybertruck ever built is probably still parked somewhere on the grounds of Mar-a-Lago. In August 2024, Donald Trump stood on the driveway of his Palm Beach club and circled a custom version of Tesla’s notorious, angular electric truck. Wrapped in a giant photo of his bloodied face ...

Harmeet Dhillon is not the most notable administration official to depart after Democrats’ enormous midterm victory—that title goes to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, who President Trump announced today would be replaced by Stephen Miller. But Dhillon’s short tenure shows the immense influen ...

The criminal trial of Russell Brand took less than four weeks, at the end of which the comedian turned spiritual influencer was found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. (The jury in London declared him not guilty of three other charges, two of rape and one of attempted i ...

Introspection has never been one of Donald Trump’s more notable attributes. He never accepts blame or course-corrects; he only becomes a more distilled version of himself.And so, faced with rejection at the ballot box on an overwhelming scale, the president responded by replacing his chief of staff, ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.In 2014, I graduated from college with a dubious degree: I majored in English, a discipline that, in a time of growing STEM mania, was widely considered a relic of questionable value. At the ...

In July 1950, speaking at the annual Zionist Organization of America convention, US Vice President Alben W. Barkley asserted that Israel was “an oasis of liberty in the desert of despotism,” articulating a precursor to the oft-repeated adage “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.” While t ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Data centers, megadonors, and corruption had a bad Election Night. Prediction markets did just fine, but were a bit overhyped. So will the midterm results change how tech leaders move forward? What will a Democratic Congress mean for their businesse ...

On October 4, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, finished the first round of Brazil’s presidential election nearly two points ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Three weeks later, Lula turned the result around and won a fourth term in the October 25 runo ...

Noch keine Lösung im Tarifkonflikt der Metall- und Elektroindustrie. In Berlin und Brandenburg ist die IG Metall offen für phasenweisen Lohnverzicht.

There is a complex debate about the extent to which socialists prioritize equality above the full flowering of each person’s individuality. But you’d have to be quite the contrarian to deny that socialists take equality very seriously; perhaps more seriously than any other major political ideology. ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.In the final weeks before the midterms, the name Epstein was everywhere—in political ads, in stump speeches, on T-shirts at campaign rallies, and even in a scandal on The Real Housewives of New York City. Two ye ...

Washington erlässt neue Sanktionen gegen den Inselstaat. Der Verlust von Menschenleben ist dabei einkalkuliert. Ein Kommentar.

In January, a logger from Maine’s North Woods will take a seat in the US Senate. Troy Jackson spent his adult life cutting timber before he ran for office, and he will be the only Senate Democrat whose working life before politics was spent mostly in a working-class job. But he won’t be alone on Cap ...

Up and down the West Coast, ichthyologists—professional fish nerds—can barely contain themselves. Whale sharks normally in the Sea of Cortez have been seen as far north as Malibu. Spotter planes have photographed giant manta rays flapping their way north. Sport fishermen who normally have to travel ...

Ärzte in Deutschland müssen sich zunehmend mit medizinischen Fake-News auseinandersetzen – nicht zuletzt zum Schutz ihrer Patienten

When LeBron James chose the Philadelphia 76ers as his new team this summer, he might have imagined a lengthy honeymoon phase befitting the arrival of a king, but his new fans didn’t even wait until halftime of the Sixers’ home opener, on October 22, to give him a dose of Philly reality. The boos beg ...

You didn’t even have to look at the numbers on Wednesday to know the election was a rout. You could have just guessed it by the fact that Donald Trump didn’t deny the results, call the whole thing “rigged,” or vow to fight the cheaters to the bitter end. Instead he meekly congratulated the Democrats ...

Austin Johnson / AFP / GettyA voter dressed as the Lorax, the character from Dr. Seuss’s 1971 children’s book, fills out her ballot on October 31, 2026, at the Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center in Overland Park, Kansas.Saul Martinez / GettySeveral 27-foot-tall flamingos made by the artist Ma ...

Pity the Canadian book reviewer in the autumn of 1980. An American publisher has announced, with some fanfare, a forthcoming title about the national pastime—the Canadian national pastime. Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League promises to tell the ...

For decades, labor unions and residents of the southern Italian city of Taranto have been mobilizing around the toxic emissions churned out by the local steel mill. A dedicated group fought for their right to good health through a yearslong legal battle that reached all the way to Italy’s top court. ...

On a patch of ground in the City of London, the exact site of the former East India Company’s headquarters, stands a puzzling structure with the nickname the “Inside-Out Building.” Unlike the glittering, knifelike high-rises that surround it, the edifice is covered in a shell of equipment: all of th ...

With the exception of my husband, no one contacts me as often as my children’s school does. There’s the old-school stuff: a folder that comes home in each of their backpacks weekly, filled with flyers and graded work and tests to sign; a binder with a nightly behavior and reading log, also for me to ...

Less than a month after losing part of a lung, Pope Leo XIV set out this morning on one of the longest and most ambitious trips of his pontificate. Over the course of 11 days and 12 flights, Leo will travel from South America’s Southern Cone to the high Andes and the Amazon Rainforest. Much of the C ...

Truncheon-wielding, balaclava-wearing ICE agents did not swarm the polling stations. The Insurrection Act was not invoked, nor did the president order the 82nd Airborne to lock up Democratic officials. The men in leather trench coats did not slip out of black limousines at midnight to seize the edit ...

Im türkischen Antalya beginnt am Montag die COP 31. Es geht um Elektrifizierung, den Ausstieg aus Öl und Gas sowie Finanzhilfen für den globalen Süden.

This is an edition of Over/Under, a newsletter on the latest in prediction markets, gambling, and the evolution of everyday risk. Sign up here.Democrats aren’t the only ones celebrating this week. Prediction markets—high-speed betting arenas where users can wager on the future of the republic—have b ...

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.Outgoing Speaker of the House Mike Johnson made a statement earlier this year that captured his approac ...

Among the many gifts that Donald Trump bequeathed to Democrats ahead of the midterms was allowing them the exclusive political use of the AI backlash. Now that Democrats have decisively won control of Congress, voters will expect them to follow through on their rhetoric. The problem is that Democrat ...

At first, the image appears to be some kind of intergalactic photo op, something out of Star Wars. A figure hooded in black, his craggy face partly in shadow, greets a serene-looking man in a white robe. Think Emperor Palpatine shaking hands with Obi-Wan Kenobi, perhaps brokering a cease-fire in the ...

Three Rivers, Michigan, is a factory town in a county where Donald Trump won 66.2 percent of the vote in 2024. Its biggest employer is American Axle, whose workers belong to United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2093. In 2008, the company demanded major concessions, arguing that it needed lower labor cost ...

James Talarico talked a lot during his campaign about the so-called wilderness—as in, the electoral wasteland and morale morass that Democrats had been languishing in since President Trump’s reelection, in 2024. In Texas, this felt like something of a permanent condition. Talarico preferred a more s ...

Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he will commute the sentences of every prisoner on the state’s death row—548 people in all. With this action, Newsom could effect the largest-ever reduction of America’s death-row population, dropping the national total by about 27 percent. (Cal ...

Democrats won a massive victory in the 2026 midterms, performing so well that Republicans’ best-laid gerrymandering plans actually backfired in a number of states, most notably Texas and North Carolina. There, Democrats held most of the seats Republicans had targeted and even flipped some districts ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.When Donald Trump gathered news crews and administration officials at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool earlier this week, it was obvious that he wanted to offer a strong closing pitch ahead of Elect ...

At the beginning of November, Washington State announced that one of its residents had died from bird flu. The announcement had an air of déjà vu to it: Around this time last year, another person in Washington State died of a related form of the virus—the third bird-flu death in the U.S. and the las ...

Sign up for Video Village, a new weekly newsletter in which David Sims unearths cinematic gems and brings readers into his movie obsession.Sometimes simply stating a fact helps to underline just how unusual it sounds. Last weekend, the biggest movie in America was a nearly three-hour documentary. Ye ...

The recent Israeli elections are a grotesque spectacle. They are grotesque because Israel is a state perpetrating genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, cheered on by most of its Jewish citizens. They are grotesque because they peddle the lie of democracy in a state subjecting millions of ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.It was the morning after the midterm elections, and Jeff Flake couldn’t stop laughing. Not necessarily a mean laugh—Flake, who is preternaturally good-humored, tends to chuckle amiably through most conv ...

This week’s midterm results were a historic victory for working people and a devastating blow to Trumpism. After so much cruelty and darkness, millions of people have gotten to experience the joy of defeating the far right.We’re entering an unusually fluid political moment, with enormous opportuniti ...

Over the past decade, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has moved from an obscure Cold War holdover to one of the most influential organizations in US politics. But even with continued electoral success, is it at risk of stalling out?On this latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confr ...

“The proportionate use of force should never be an obstacle to the job of restoring order,” French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez wrote in a September 30 message to police chiefs. High schoolers across the country had only just launched a wave of campus blockages over poor learning conditions, in d ...

26.000 Dopingkunden, 90 illegale Labore, 100 Tonnen Substanzen – die Weltantidopingagentur feiert die Erfolge ihres Investigativnetzwerks.

The Left has been so conditioned in the Trump era to look aghast and horrified at election results that it is still hard to fully believe the outcome today. Yet the historic events of last night really did happen: Donald Trump and Republicans suffered a historic rebuke from voters, handing Democrats ...

On October 23, 1956, tens of thousands of Hungarians took to the streets of Budapest. What began as a demonstration led largely by students rapidly became a popular uprising against the country’s Stalinist government.Within days, the authority of the Hungarian Communist Party had crumbled, Soviet tr ...

With last night’s election results, it’s official: after new members are sworn in this coming January, socialists will hold more seats in Congress than they ever have in US history.Six freshmen congress members backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila ...

Perhaps a more competent would-be despot than Donald Trump could have pulled it off. He could have consolidated his power gradually, choosing his battles against immigrants and the Left and imagined foreign adversaries wisely and making sure he didn’t alienate his existing base of support by keeping ...

If there’s one person who saw yesterday’s repudiation of the right coming long before everyone else did, it’s Zohran Mamdani. In one way or another, he and the movement that created him are the architects of the Democrats’ victory.Two years ago, the day after the 2024 election, the mood was grim; th ...

The American people delivered an absolute rout against Donald Trump and the GOP last night. Here are five takeaways from the midterm results:1. Trump Owns This DefeatEverything about this defeat points to a different way Donald Trump has weakened the Republican Party.In Texas and South Carolina, he ...

I have no special insight into what the exact outcome of this yearʼs midterm elections is going to be. It would be absolutely astonishing if Democrats failed to take the House, and the latest NY/Sienna poll has the Democrats leading in all seven of the races that will determine control of the Senate ...

As Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva celebrated his historic victory over far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro on Sunday, he embraced trans congresswoman Erika Hilton and kissed her on the cheek in celebration. The video circulated on social media, with many users pointing to it as evide ...

In 2018, the election of two democratic socialists to the House of Representatives marked the beginning of a new political era. The socialist freshmen, both endorsed by the recently reinvigorated Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), were Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York City and Rashida Tla ...

Bulbul Kaie remembers when summer in Hassanabad revolved around a stream.The village lies in the mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan, a disputed territory in northern Pakistan bordering China, Afghanistan, and Indian-administered Kashmir. Kaie’s family would carry chairs down to the stream fed by meltwate ...

In Amazon’s vast logistics empire, warehouse workers and delivery drivers incur frequent injuries amid stringent performance monitoring and evaluation. The best data we have indicates that many workers are interested in organizing to improve their conditions, yet the same infrastructure used to rele ...

Andreas Malm’s work has been among the most important of any scholar in any academic field over the past decade. His theoretical and strategic contributions have led developments in our understanding of the climate crisis’s basis in capitalism and fed debates about how to respond.Yet last week, Brit ...

State workers went on a one-day unfair labor practice strike across California on October 21, with picket lines in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities. They’re demanding better pay, affordable health care coverage, and flexibility to work from home.This was the first strike in t ...

Six theses on the midterm elections:Early voting tallies are through the roof. If the patterns continue, turnout is expected to match that of the midterm elections in 2018, which saw the highest turnout rate in a midterm election since 1914. This comes in the wake of turnout for the 2020 election, w ...

For those of us who grew up watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, Patrick Stewart’s death last week was an enormous loss. Stewart was an actor of extraordinary talent, commanding every scene he appeared in while bringing emotional depth to even the most imposing characters. Equally comfortable wi ...

The Left looks poised to pick up some big electoral wins in the midterm elections. But with virtually all of the Left’s victories since the first Bernie Sanders presidential primary coming through elections, are we at risk of devolving into electoralism?On the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio pod ...

To the joy of French and German leaders, the European Union has reached an agreement with Beijing to help alleviate the bloc’s €360 billion trade deficit in goods with China. French President Emmanuel Macron celebrated the deal reached in October, which aims to reduce Chinese hybrid car imports and ...

A plaza just outside 780 Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, brimming with well-tended flowers in warm weather and furnished with elegant stone benches, looks like an inviting place to sit down and enjoy a slice of pizza. Or at least Wade Phillips certainly thought so.Phillips, a hospitality and secu ...

Donald Trump’s political vocabulary is not especially original. When he calls Democrats “radical left,” “Marxists,” or “hardcore godless communists,” he recycles one of the oldest weapons in American political life: the charge that political opponents are not merely wrong but fundamentally un-Americ ...

Democratic voters overwhelmingly support the public ownership and operation of several key industries. At least one of the Democratic politicians who want to win the party’s next presidential primary should take note.A poll I recently commissioned from the Center for Strategic Politics found that a ...

Harold Wright Cruse (1916–2005), my colleague at the University of Michigan for decades, may have been the most flamboyantly paradoxical radical intellectual ever to roam our institution’s halls. An astonishing autodidact with a wealth of knowledge about cultural and political history, Cruse authore ...

It was heralded by many as “the most consequential election in Israeli history,” and by rights it should have been. Under Benjamin Netanyahu’s outgoing far-right government, Israel plunged into a severe constitutional crisis, suffered the worst military setback in its history, carried out a genocide ...

Between all the action around next week’s midterms and Donald Trump’s meddling in Brazilian politics, it’s easy to forget there’s a war going on. But sure enough, Trump’s war on Iran is still humming in the background, and every indication is that it could flare up in a terrible new way very soon.Ac ...

Imagine this: Election Day comes and goes. Democrats turn out big and flip a few seats, some by close margins. Forces opposing the increasingly authoritarian drift of the United States breathe a sigh of relief.Before the results are even called, however, Donald Trump declares in a wave of Truth Soci ...

When I came back from a solidarity work brigade in Cuba in the 1970s, I landed in New York City with no place to sleep. I called Lori Huerta, a friend from California, and daughter of Dolores Huerta (1930–2026), cofounder of the United Farm Workers (UFW). Not only did I get space on the floor of the ...

All signs point toward a resounding rebuke of Donald Trump in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Democrats have opened up a commanding lead in national polls, Trump’s popularity has sunk to historic lows, and even many of his former supporters are turning against him.There are plenty of reasons for this c ...

It is common for mainstream news outlets and political commentators in the United States to describe socialists as “very liberal” or simply “progressive,” or to puzzle over how to draw ideological lines between democratic socialists and others on the broad Left. There are, in fact, serious differenc ...

Born in Nablus in 1963, Khalida Jarrar is one of the foremost voices of the Palestinian left — feminist, secular, socialist — and one of the towering figures of the political prisoners’ movement. For more than a decade she led Addameer, the main Palestinian prisoner support organization. In 2006, vo ...

Observers across the spectrum expect Democrats to make significant gains in the upcoming midterms, in House and Senate races and beyond. There are good reasons to trust in their predictions. Nonpresidential elections in the US are increasingly “nationalized,” meaning that evaluations of presidential ...

There’s a story doing the rounds. A woman is sitting in a bar in tourist-filled Turin; you can imagine the glass panes looking out onto the square, the little tables for spritzes and olives. Kids and chitchat. Then, out of nowhere, everyone starts coughing and wheezing; she feels a burning sensation ...

Livorno, Italy — “Sunaid X, Sunaid X, Sunaid X, this is Sumud, do you copy?”“You’re calling Sunaid X.”“Sunaid X, you are carrying supplies to a military base that is deeply involved in Zionists’ warfare and the genocide of the Palestinian people. The port is blocked for you. You’re not welcome here. ...

The series of recent elections across the globe have been read as a stinging defeat for right-wing authoritarians, which they are. But maybe more notable is another element: that denial of and efforts to simply reverse unfavorable election results now seem to have become de rigueur for the transnati ...

On September 25, CBS News announced that it had obtained “exclusive new information” regarding potential US military action against Cuba. According to an Army Reserve memo reviewed by the network, the Pentagon was looking at the possibility of mobilizing police forces, medical personnel, and other u ...

The artificial intelligence boom is fueled by an elite wager that software can supplant expensive human expertise. The tech industry and its investors are pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into the technology — Goldman Sachs forecasts that global AI-related investment will soon exceed $1 trill ...

On Sunday, the largest and most sustained student movement in Europe reached its culmination. After two years of protesting and organizing, this fall Serbia’s students mounted an electoral challenge to former President Aleksandar Vučić, who was this time running to become prime minister. His plans w ...

Two things in life are certain: everybody eats, and nothing explains capitalism better than food. A new report from the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) presents a comprehensive analysis of the exploitation inherent in the global food system, and what needs to b ...

China Miéville’s The Rouse is a book that should not exist, and yet here it is. It should be read cover to cover, and then immediately read a second time. For twenty-one years, Miéville wrote and rewrote it while publishing shorter works at an impressive pace: four novels; two novellas; a history of ...

In 1984, while the global struggle against apartheid burned hot, union dockworkers in San Francisco refused to unload South African cargo to demonstrate their hostility to a white supremacist, fascist regime. In so doing they reaffirmed what Harry Bridges, the first president of the International Lo ...

Jewish and Arab voters with Israeli citizenship massively flocked to voting stations on Tuesday, October 27, for the elections to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. These were the first elections since the formation, in 2022, of the most reactionary government in the Zionist state’s history. For t ...

The social unrest currently gripping France is in many ways a national phenomenon. Frustration with a stretched education system boiled over in the form of campus blockages and marches beginning late last month. By mid-October, students were joined by broader swaths of the population fed up with hig ...

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is entering a new phase. After decades on the political margins, DSA has helped elect a socialist mayor of New York City, won a string of congressional primaries, and grown to over 130,000 members. Now, as chapters across the country call for Alexandria Oca ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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