This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Many novelists—including some great ones—circle one subject and style for much of their career. Colson Whitehead isn’t among them. He has written a zombie novel, a fantastical escape-from-sl ...

If I were to describe an anti-Zionist Jewish socialist organization with tens of thousands of members, Yiddish schools, and arts clubs, which operated under a climate of severe state repression until it was finally disbanded by force and its leaders jailed, you might be forgiven for thinking I had a ...

Die EU-Kommission reformiert den Emissionshandel. Während die Industrie Finanzspritzen erhält, klaffen Lücken bei Klimaschutz und sozialen Vorgaben.

Partei nach dem Verzicht des Regierenden Bürgermeisters Kai Wegner im Aufwind. Die Linke liegt mit 22 Prozent dennoch vorn.

An adviser to Iran’s negotiating team recently said that Tehran should ready itself for years of “neither war, nor peace.” The phrase has become popular among Iranian political analysts trying to make sense of an ostensibly ambiguous situation: The conflict is supposedly over, but Iran’s military ke ...

For the past 50 years, the American running-shoe market has been dominated by Western brands, including Nike, Adidas, Brooks, and, more recently, Hoka. But over the past year or so, running Subreddits and message boards have been buzzing about shoes made by Chinese companies. These shoes, their fans ...

Die Entlassung des Verteidigungsministers zeigt: Wolodymyr Selenskyj verliert zunehmend das Gefühl für die Stimmung im Land, kommentiert Daniel Säwert

Rekordtempo bei der Tour de France: David Brailsford und Mauro Gianetti erklären, wie Technik, Training, Teamgeist und mentale Stärke Tempo machen.

Homonationalismus instrumentalisiert LGBTQ-Rechte zum Nachteil anderer benachteiligter Gruppen. Der Berliner CDU-Kandidat Evers macht genau das.

The 2026 World Cup had three host countries, but it will always be remembered as an American event. And like most American things in the last decade, Donald Trump made much of it about himself. Bombing a participating nation, loudly bragging about corrupting the game, cramming himself into the final ...

Dass der CDU-Fraktionschef und sein Partner einen Sohn über eine Leihmutter erworben haben, sagt viel über das Weltbild des Ex-Gesundheitsministers.

An dem Vorhaben, die Sprachförderung aus den Kitas zu lösen und dem Festhalten an sogenannten Kernzeiten in der Kitabetreuung gibt es massive Kritik

Der Emissionshandel in der EU dürfte mit der jetzigen Reform nur weiter verwässert werden. Ein Kommentar.

Steve Russell / Toronto Star / GettyA swimmer checks out the smoke from Northern Ontario forest fires that has the Toronto skyline shrouded in haze, as viewed from Humber Park West, in Toronto, on July 15, 2026.Anthony Soufflé / Minnesota Star Tribune / GettyPlumes of smoke rise from the Camp Fire o ...

Several months ago, during an Oscar campaign far more memorable than the movie it was promoting, the actor Timothée Chalamet offered up an observation: “I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, Hey, keep this thing alive, even though, like, no one cares about this a ...

Vor 50 Jahren wurde der Grundstein für das Braunkohlekraftwerk Jänschwalde gelegt. In zwei Jahren soll es ganz abgeschaltet werden.

Die tunesische Regierung Präsident Kais Saieds geht gezielt gegen Kritiker vor und stutzt die Meinungsfreiheit im Musterland des Arabischen Frühlings.

The Spanish Civil War is often portrayed as a struggle between democracy and fascism. But such an approach clashes with the sociopolitical reality of Spain in the 1930s. Social, economic, and political polarization in Spain in the years leading up to the civil war, along with the resulting failure o ...

Pretty much everyone knows that women aren’t supposed to have alcohol while they’re pregnant. Even just a drink a day, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists warns, can cause lifelong problems with a baby’s coordination, behavior, and learning. Not all mothers-to-be follow this advi ...

Nations don’t always get to pick their heroes, especially not in a time of war. Most Ukrainians, given the choice, would probably not want a character like Denys Shtilerman to be the architect of their revenge against Russia. He studied in Russia, became wealthy in Russia, worked for a Russian milit ...

If you lived in the Bronze Age and were sailing the wine-dark sea, you’d soon understand the need for gods. You don’t know about low-pressure systems or atmospheric circulation, about ocean currents or the contours of the seafloor. You know only that the sky has darkened, the wind has shifted, and t ...

Serhij Korezkyi soll neuer Ministerpräsident der Ukraine werden. Für weitaus mehr Wirbel sorgt aber die Absetzung des Verteidigungsministers

Here we are again: Iran is shooting at traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump is ordering retaliatory strikes, and both sides have declared the latest cease-fire agreement “over” or “dead.” That Iran reportedly plotted to kill Trump—possibly in the new 747 given to him by the Qatari royal fam ...

Just about every effort to solve America’s housing shortage runs into the iron law of NIMBY: “not in my backyard.” Whenever a development is proposed in a place where people already live, existing residents erupt in opposition, claiming the new homes will alter “neighborhood character,” increase tra ...

On May 26, the New York Mets were doing terrible (generally) and really terrible (acutely). They were at the bottom of their division and down six runs to zero against the Cincinnati Reds, a team whose payroll and—if I may—swag levels were dwarfed by the Mets’. The pitcher for the Mets had recently ...

Senioren aufgepasst: Olivia Rodrigo erreicht mit ihrem neuen Album auch die Robert Smiths dieser Welt.

In der Volksrepublik China wächst die Wirtschaft langsamer als geplant. Zu den Ursachen gehört auch die weiter niedrige Binnennachfrage.

US-Präsident Trump hatte dem Iran mit Angriffen auf Brücken gedroht – nun gibt es iranischen Medien zufolge erste Attacken auf Verbindungen im Süden.

Gut drei Monate vor den US-Kongresswahlen hat Präsident Donald Trump in seiner Ansprache an die Nation auf Änderungen im Wahlsystem gedrängt.

Since President Trump returned to office a year and a half ago, he has dispatched investigators and analysts from across the U.S. intelligence community to search for evidence of foreign interference in an election that he lost but claims he won. In an address from the White House tonight, the presi ...

President Trump addressed the American people tonight and told them that their elections are at the mercy of foreign actors—especially China. He called the current situation a “crisis” and vowed to prevent any future elections from being “stolen.” He directed the public to a website where people can ...

In early 2021, Republicans were poised to win a majority in the U.S. Senate. Had they won, they could have stalled President Biden’s agenda and forced him to govern on Republican terms. All they had to do was win the two Senate seats in Georgia headed to a runoff in January.Then Donald Trump opened ...

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.An IMAX-film-camera system looks like the kind of device that could give you an X-ray. Weighing hundred ...

Last week, the president of the American Anthropological Association weighed in on one of the most polarizing subjects in her field: biological sex. Some anthropologists believe that biological sex is binary, and that it is a necessary and useful category; others believe that this position is at odd ...

When the boreal forests of Canada catch on fire, no one can do anything about it in many cases. The forests are part of Earth’s largest land biome, a greenbelt of wilderness that encircles the globe, and they’ve been suffering from the planet’s thermostat being jacked up. Wood-boring pests that flou ...

Well, thank you very much, J. D. Vance. Because of the vice president’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast this week, I found myself googling photos of Joe Biden licking an ice-cream cone to pass judgment on whether, as Vance claimed, they look “suggestive.” I will save my final ruling for the end of ...

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now the third-largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. It will likely pass the second largest, an outbreak in the same region of Congo from 2018 to 2020. Already, the current outbreak has grown past 2,000 cases and to 754 deaths; according t ...

Updated at 3:41 p.m. ET on July 16, 2026There are two competing schools of thought over just how water-intensive AI is. In one, the technology is horribly thirsty. Data centers will exacerbate droughts throughout the country and “drain the great lakes,” as one popular Reddit thread puts it. The form ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.Late one night in 1925, a classics professor named Carol Wight came across “one of the most interesting men” he’d ever met. In an Atlantic essay, Wight recalled finding a ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The most stunning exchange of Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing to serve as attorney general came in response to an amiable question. Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, a Republican who appears favorably inc ...

In a World Cup–fueled union win, concessions workers at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles have won the right to walk off the job, should Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pose a threat to their safety.The stadium’s two thousand cooks, bartenders, dishwashers, servers, and attendants had a major pi ...

In this crucial midterm election year, men and women who served in the military are wooing voters by presenting themselves as tougher, more effective foes of MAGA incumbents and even long-serving Democrats. In Massachusetts, a fifty-year-old former Marine captain, whose career has inspired other vet ...

With Bernie Sanders’ recent announcement of a plan in the works to convert 50 percent of the largest artificial intelligence firms into public ownership, Jacobin has run several pieces on the question of what should be done about the predatory rise and ecologically uncertain future of this new techn ...

Last week, Rahm Emanuel traveled to Tel Aviv University to deliver an unusually blunt warning: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is jeopardizing Israel’s long-term alliance with the United States. Emanuel, the former Obama White House chief of staff, urged Israel to pursue what he called a “23-state ...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, as Russia’s feudalism ended and its empire tottered, the great Russian novelist, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, reflected the deepening concerns and anxieties of his time in his 1863 novel, What Is to Be Done? It offered a socialist answer. Forty years later, a ...

Toom-Baumärkte starten in ihrer Filiale in Luckenwalde eine Informationskampagne zu Gefahren beim Einsatz von Mährobotern.

Nach der dramatischen Niederlage gegen Argentinien steht Englands Trainer Thomas Tuchel in der Kritik – doch der penible Deutsche bleibt wohl im Amt.

Spaniens Amnestiegesetz ist einem Urteil des Europäischen Gerichtshofs (EuGH) zufolge mit EU-Recht vereinbar. Die Rechte schäumt.

Sturdy, steady, and as reliable as a well-tooled construction, Ray Carney, the “cool machine” that powers the third volume of Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy, is a time-worn but still fully functional version of the man in the first two books. Carney, a furniture salesman who fenced stolen goods a ...

On December 1, 1976, the Sex Pistols appeared on British channel Thames Television’s Today program as a last-minute replacement. During the interview, host Bill Grundy provoked the band’s Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones into swearing live on air. By the next morning, the press had already fixed its ve ...

Die deutschen Rüstungskonzerne profitieren mehr denn je von Tod und Leid in den Kriegen in der Ukraine und Gaza

In einem galizischen Küstenort lebt trotz Trauer um Opfer eines Schiffsuntergangs das traditionelle Musikensemble der Kleinstadt wieder auf.

Über 30 Jahre nach dem Verbot von Asbest erzeugt der Faserstoff weiterhin Berufserkrankungen am Bau. Die Fallzahlen steigen weiter an.

Hitzige Kämpfe in den Großstädten: Schattige Plätzchen sind angesichts steigender Höchsttemperaturen so begehrt wie nie.

Vittorio Agnoletto, 2001 Sprecher des Genoa Social Forum, über Protest, Gewalt und was von der Anti-Globalisierungs-Bewegung übrig geblieben ist.

Das GKV-Spargesetz steht im Widerspruch zu früheren Gesetzen und Versorgungsprinzipien. Damit stellt die Bundesregierung Grundsätzliches infrage.

Photographs by Caroline GutmanThe Trump administration wants to control the Smithsonian, but it won’t be so easy. When experts talk about the institution’s relationship to the federal government, the world’s largest museum complex can start to sound like a bureaucratic outcast. The Office of Legal C ...

Statt im März steigt das Duell zwischen dem Europameister und dem Weltmeister nun im Finale der Fußball-WM. Ein Spektakel mit Seltenheitswert.

Der Kriminologe Roland Hefendehl erklärt im Interview, warum der Görlitzer Park kein »kriminalitätsbelasteter Ort« ist

Mit Hormonen will US-Kriegsminister Hegseth die Kampfkraft von Soldaten steigern: Ein trauriger Ausdruck des rechten Männerbildes. Ein Kommentar

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsTonight, President Trump is expected to give a speech about what he claims is recently declassified intelligence about election interference. He is also expected to talk about potential vulnerabilities with voting machines, ...

In Book 12 of Homer’s Odyssey, a band of war-weary sailors is navigating home when a narrow strait appears on the horizon. The ship, captained by their king, Odysseus, is blocked on one side by a high cliff where a six-headed monster named Scylla is waiting to devour those who pass beneath. On the o ...

Die USA und der Iran blockieren wechselseitig die Straße von Hormus und verlangen Durchfahrtgebühren. Die Suche nach neuen Transportrouten läuft.

Andy Burnham wird neuer britischer Premierminister. Ob es zum angekündigten Politikwechsel kommt, ist fraglich.

Die »deutsche Industrie« möchte gern länger kostenlos Kohlendioxid emittieren dürfen. Die IGBCE findet's gut.

Der Achtjährige hat Leukämie. Wegen seiner ostafrikanischen Wurzeln ist eine passende Stammzellspende nur schwer zu finden.

Naturschützer und eine Bürgerinitiative machen mobil gegen eine Schnellstraße mitten durch ein Berliner Waldgebiet.

The Art of the Deal: Washington organisiert die gewaltsame Neuordnung des Weltmarktes zu Lasten Chinas

Updated at 1:38 p.m. ET on July 16, 2026Pete Hegseth wants a manly military. And he really, really wants you to know how badly he wants a manly military. In his 2024 book, The War on Warriors, Hegseth worried that the military risked becoming “effeminate, and apologetic”; he insisted that what liber ...

President Trump woke up this morning with an urgent message for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers deployed on U.S. streets: They were to pay no mind to the internal memo, issued barely a day earlier, telling them to suspend vehicle stops amid a public outcry over two fatal shootings by IC ...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.You know that conspiracy theories have gotten out of hand when even Donald Trump thinks so. Yesterday i ...

In an impressive challenge to the idea that no publicity is bad publicity, Anthropic is now promoting itself with images of disaster, death, and human suffering. The AI company’s latest ad, which debuted during a World Cup match last week, is a perplexing 90-second artifact. The commercial opens wit ...

In the run-up to its theatrical release, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey became embroiled in online polemics after Elon Musk attacked the movie’s supposed “woke” casting. Yet beyond this contrived spectacle lies a far more important criticism to be made of the filmmakers: their decision to shoot par ...

Frühestens im Frühjahr 2028 sollen die Bautrupps von BVG und Wasserbetrieben abziehen. Ursprünglich war von Herbst 2027 die Rede.

In 2025, employers laid off 1.2 million workers. It’s the highest number of layoffs since the start of the pandemic and nearly the same as seen during 2008. This puts the first year of Donald Trump’s second term on par with the first year of the global financial crisis in the scale of its disastrous ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his reaction to the recent ICE shooting in Maine.Then, David is joined by Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, to discuss the ...

Graham Platner’s shock exit from the Maine Senate race he secured the nomination for just a month earlier has set off a scramble among the state’s Democratic officials for not just who will replace the scandal-plagued former candidate on the ticket, but who can tap into the same well of voter disenc ...

Olivier Morin / AFP / GettyA male orca chases a bait ball of herring near Spildra Island, in northern Norway, on November 3, 2025. Dozens of killer whales and their clans follow schools of herring gathering in the fjords of northern Norway from October to January, on the hunt.Trevor Wilkinson / MI N ...

Ohne die Hisbollah in den Verhandlungsprozess zu involvieren, bleibt das Rahmenabkommen totes Papier. Ein Kommentar.

Brandenburgs Landesvertretung in Berlin zeigt die Freiluftausstellung »Kein schöner Land« zu Todesopfern rechter Gewalt.

Emily Wilson’s celebrated translation of Homer’s The Odyssey sets aside the classic description of the epic poem’s hero, Odysseus, as a “man of twists and turns.” Instead, she goes for something more introspective: “Tell me about a complicated man,” it begins. That tweak perfectly reflects Christoph ...

Eine Bürgerinitiative kämpft seit 16 Jahren für Radwege entlang der Berliner Allee und hofft auf einen neuen Senat.

Eine neue Platte der Rolling Stones? Die Musik ist völlig unerheblich, es geht nur noch um das Alter.

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor does through academia and as a nonfiction author what her father, Richard Pryor, did through comedy. During his heyday in the 1970s and ’80s, Pryor was a trailblazing stand-up comic, actor, and screenwriter who boldly pioneered new ways to discuss and challenge race onstage ...

Der linken britischen Online-Zeitung wurden die Konten gekündigt – politische Motive liegen nahe

Tausende Häuser sind im südlichen Libanon ganz oder teilweise zerstört, für viele Menschen ist an eine Rückkehr nicht zu denken

The Atlantic is announcing four new roles and promotions in the newsroom: Marc Novicoff and Nancy Walecki as staff writers, both moving from editor roles at The Atlantic; Michael Zelenko as a senior editor, joining from Rest of World; and James Kirchick as a contributing writer, who has written for ...

Erst nach der Sommerpause will die Energieministerin weiter über die Erneuerbaren und das Netzpaket verhandeln. 2027 droht ein Förderstopp.

Giorgia Meloni regiert in Rom bald so lange am Stück wie kein anderer Regierungschef. Jetzt muss sie im Parlament eine Niederlage hinnehmen

Vor zehn Jahren putschten Teile des türkischen Militärs gegen Präsident Erdoğan – der Aufstand scheiterte. Die Folgen prägen die Türkei bis heute.

Patienten, die an einer unheilbaren Krankheit im Endstadium leiden, können künftig um »Hilfe zum Sterben« bitten. Gegner konnten das Gesetz entschärfen.

Der Bedarf an humanitärer Hilfe in einer Zeit multipler Krisen wächst, die Bundesregierung kürzt zum Nachteil Deutschlands und der Welt. Ein Kommentar

Lukas Krieger wird Generalsekretär der Berliner CDU. Ein folgenschwerer Skandal aus seiner Jugend hängt ihm bis heute nach.

Hilfswerk beklagt »Todeszonen« in Kriegsgebieten: Humanitäre Helfer sind oft in Lebensgefahr, zugleich wird die Arbeit durch Budgetkürzungen erschwert

Die Wohnkosten von Studierenden verschlingen inzwischen über die Hälfte ihres Einkommens. Steht die Alma Mater der Zukunft im Osten – oder in Bochum?

Das ist zu viel für »Spiegel« und »Zeit«: Die Grünen fordern die Männer schriftlich auf, »kein Arschloch« zu sein.

Kurz vor der Sommerpause behandelte der Bundestag die Zukunft der medizinischen Akuthilfe. Vor allem die Patientensteuerung soll besser werden.

Ein Berliner soll Dutzende Frauen mit K.-o.-Mitteln betäubt und vergewaltigt haben. Der Fall wirft Fragen zur Sicherheit von Online-Dating auf.

Das Satire-Revival »Braunschlag 86« nimmt Österreichs Rechtsruck während der 80er Jahre ins Visier.

Mit Protesten in ganz Europa wollten deutsche Linksradikale 2001 an Seattle und Prag anknüpfen. In Genua eskalierte das in beispielloser Polizeigewalt

Not long before the sun rose on a Saturday in May, five men in their mid-20s were standing alongside an unassuming wetland in New Jersey, searching for birds. Ryan Zucker, a 23-year-old who could do an impressive impersonation of an eastern screech owl, had just taken a small branch to the eye, but ...

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde Westberlin als touristisches Ziel systematisch gefördert – eine neue Ausstellung zeigt, wie.

Mit neuen Digitalisierungs- und Deregulierungsmaßnahmen verspricht die Bundesregierung Bürger*innen und Unternehmen zu entlasten

Unter den Reformplänen der Bundesregierung ist auch ein neues Arbeitsgesetz. Kommt bald eine neue Work-Life-Balance im Zeichen des variablen Kapitals?

Die Klassengesellschaft reduziert aufs Wesentliche

Arequipa, die spektakuläre Hochlandstraße PE-34A und die schwimmenden Inseln der Uros: unterwegs im Süden Perus.

Vor 2000 Jahren hat der Ausbruch des Vesuv die Herculaneum-Schriftrollen zerstört. Jetzt konnte die erste wieder gelesen werden.

Die Grünen haben mit der männlichen Pumperszene eine neue Zielgruppe entdeckt. Unser Kolumnist ist irritiert.

Earlier this month, the New York Times published a piece from Bernie Sanders about his proposal to require AI providers to hand over 50 percent of their stock to a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) administered by the government. In the piece, Sanders gives three main rationales for this policy:AI models ...

Drei Aktivistinnen blicken auf die Gipfelproteste in Göteborg und Genua 2001 und darauf, was von diesem »Summer of Resistance« geblieben ist.

Die nächste Erweiterung der WM auf 64 Teams soll dazu führen, dass auch die bevölkerungsreichsten Länder der Erde mitspielen – und konsumieren.

The U.S.-Iran war was supposed to be over when President Trump signed a memorandum of understanding last month at a dinner table in the Lower Gallery of Versailles. But Trump has a famously flexible definition of what constitutes a binding contract, Iran feels that it has little to lose from further ...

Sechs wegen Angriffen auf Nazis ange­klagte Antifas äußern sich zur Sache – aber auch politisch. Das könnte andere Beschuldigte unter Druck setzen.

Der Film »23 000 Leben« erzählt grob die Geschichte der realen NGO »Jugend rettet«.

The Trump administration is implementing the most sweeping rollback of social spending in American history. Millions of Americans are being thrown off Medicaid. The president and his Republican allies in Congress refused to extend enhanced subsidies for people buying individual health insurance on A ...

Die Politologin Valeska Chiriboga Escobar über den Ausnahmezustand und die Rolle des Militärs in dem Andenland. Ein Interview.

Gerhard Hanloser hat ein Buch über den besonders bei Rechten beliebten Kampfbegriff »Linker Antisemitismus« geschrieben.

Der Politologe James C. Scott »wilderte« durch die Disziplinen – mit dem Fokus auf alltäglichen Widerstand und die Koexistenz von Mensch und Natur

Was haben die digitale »Mannosphäre«, die US-Regierung und Abtreibungsgegner in der Frauenrechtskommission der Vereinten Nationen gemeinsam? Sie wollen Frauen die reproduktive Selbstbestimmung verbieten und mehr weiße Kinder geboren sehen. Zudem ist um den Themenkomplex eine Industrie entstanden, di ...

Fünf Jahre nach der Flutkatastrophe präsentiert sich die Weinregion wieder als reizvolles Urlaubsziel – obwohl der Wiederaufbau noch andauert.

Die Ideologie und Praxis der Expansion israelischer Macht im Libanon und in Syrien hat klare Konturen. Der Begriff »Gazafizierung« fällt.

Beim bemerkenswerten 2:0 im Halbfinale gegen zuvor überragende Franzosen zeigt der Europameister einen ziemlich perfekt austarierten Spielstil.

Das »Gesetz für die soziale Transparenz« soll in Ecuador Geldwäsche über Nichtregierungsorganisationen verhindern. Ein Druckmittel gegen Kritiker.

Hunderte Polizisten, ein Fahrzeugkonvoi und geheime Routen: Mitten in der Nacht rollt wieder ein Castor-Transport durch NRW.

Die USA kehren wieder zu ihrer Blockade von iranischen Häfen zurück. US-Präsident Trump droht zudem mit Angriffen auf die zivile Infrastruktur.

Im WM-Halbfinale treffen England und Argentinien aufeinander. Falklandkrieg, Maradonas Hand Gottes und alte Wunden prägen das Duell.

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.Yesterday, President Trump wrote on Truth Social that the United States would become the “GUARDIAN OF T ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Secretary of State Marco Rubio, like most federal officials, is legally required to retain records that he creates as part of his job. So it was no surprise that his office ended up in court last year a ...

James Story, America’s last chargé d’affaires in Venezuela before the embassy closed in 2019, left after the foreign minister passed along a message. The warning was stark, Story told me: If he stayed, he might be murdered.When American diplomats raised the flag at the embassy in March, for the firs ...

James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) celebrates its fortieth anniversary this July. For generations, the groundbreaking action-horror masterpiece has won over fans with its effortlessly quotable band of hard-up marines and its fierce, iron-willed protagonist — Sigourney Weaver in the role of Ellen Ripley.H ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Late last night, at the end of a day that started with the killing of a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine, the second fatal shooting involving a vehicle stop in a week, the Immigration and Customs Enfo ...

Der Konflikt zwischen den USA und dem Iran um die Straße von Hormus eskaliert abermals. Trump kündigt eine neue Seeblockade an.

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry.As they scramble to keep their systems online, AI companies are making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude are so resource-hungry th ...

Der militärische Schlagabtausch mit den USA, dessen Ausgang völlig offen ist, nützt den leidenden Menschen im Iran wenig.

Im WM-Halbfinale könnten Englands Jordan Pickford und Argentiniens Emiliano Martínez im Elfmeterschießen zu Helden werden.

The Democratic Party establishment is taking a beating, and Gaza is a big part of the reason why. Two years before her primary victory over fifteen-term congressional incumbent Diana DeGette, Melat Kiros was fired for criticizing her law firm’s stance on Gaza. Columbia University is set to be repres ...

Journalisten, Verbände und Bürger können vom Staat umfassende Auskunft verlangen. Die Koalition plant Beschränkungen, die Proteste ausgelöst haben

Berliner Bezirksämter sind oft nicht in der Lage, gesetzliche Schutzmaßnahmen für die Bestandsmieter*innen durchzusetzen.

Segregation statt Integration: Sogenannte Willkommensschulen für Flüchtlinge stehen in der Kritik. Trotzdem will der Senat nun eine neue einrichten.

Der Senat investiert Millionen in KI-Überwachung, obwohl nach acht Jahren Pilotbetrieb in Mannheim kein Nutzen nachgewiesen ist.

Has there ever been a less villainous villain than Edward R. Rooney? The dean of students at Shermer High School, and the principal antagonist of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, could have been up there with Hans Gruber and Keyser Söze in the pantheon of movie baddies. Facing off against Ferris Bueller, p ...

What would be the likely effects of massive introduction of artificial intelligence in the economy from the Marxist point of view?At first, the implications for Karl Marx’s labor theory of value seem bad or in contradiction with the facts or our expectations. AI implies the introduction of extremely ...

Lebe glücklich, lebe heiter, wie der Spatz am Blitzableiter, sogar in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg: das neue Heft von »Abwärts!«

Die EU-Polizeiagentur meldet für 2025 weiteren Rückgang terroristischer Taten. Ein Lagebericht beschreibt ein unübersichtliches ideologisches Spektrum.

Ein Blick über die Landesgrenzen zeigt, dass fairer Handel in Deutschland ausbaufähig ist. Das liegt auch an der Macht der Lebensmittelketten.

The symbolism was hard to miss. Tens of millions of people on the streets in cities across Iran and Iraq trying to catch a sight of Ali Khamenei’s coffin during his weeklong funeral. Khamenei had been Iran’s supreme leader for almost four decades until his February 28 assassination by Israel on the ...

Adesso SE baut Verhaltensscanner für die Polizei – die Firma ist für ein Datenleck bekannt.

Eine Gedenkstätte für die Opfer der RAF wird ihrer Aufgabe nur dann gerecht, wenn sie auch die Geschichte erzählt, aus der die Guerilla hervorging.

Dass die Zahl derer wächst, die ausdrücklich nicht bewaffnet für den deutschen Staat kämpfen wollen, ist ein Hoffnungszeichen. Ein Kommentar

Eine einzelne Lieferung von Öl aus Südamerika löst nicht die grundsätzlichen Schwierigkeiten der ostdeutschen PCK-Raffinerie.

Tour-Dominator Tadej Pogačar will wegen extremer Hitze keine Rennen mehr in heißen Regionen im Juli und August.

Ärzte ohne Grenzen wirft in einem Bericht Russland eine gezielte Strategie vor, um das Gesundheitssystem in der Ukraine zu zerstören.

Die Strafmaßnahmen richten sich gegen russische Geheimdienstmitarbeiter, Hacker und Unternehmen – Botschafter wurden gegenseitig einbestellt

Die Anti-AfD-Bewegung ist laut, die Kritik an Sozialabbau und Meinungsfreiheit erstaunlich leise. Eine Kolumne über schiefe Prioritäten.

Die Umweltorganisation BUND fordert die Rückverlegung von Deichen und die Wiederherstellung von Auenlandschaften.

On July 14, 1789, the storming of the Bastille in Paris marked the transition of the French Revolution from an elite negotiation into a truly mass event. But what kicked off this insurgency and what does it have to do with left politics?On the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting ...

Fachkräfte warnen: Viele geflüchtete Kinder in Deutschland haben keinen Zugang zu adäquater Versorgung in der Gesundheit und der Bildung.

Ein Teeaufguss kann helfen, einem erhöhten Harnsäurespiegel vorzubeugen. Das Kraut enthält zudem antivirale und blutstillende Wirkstoffe.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The Roberts Court accelerated its assault on the freedoms guaranteed by the Reconstruction amendments this term, leaving only the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship intact—and that by onl ...

In der Programmdiskussion der Linken verweist die Politikwissenschaftlerin Margit Mayer auf »Vorbereitungsetappen« des Faschismus.

Länder und Kommunen sind weiter unzureichend auf Extremwetterereignisse vorbereitet. Geld wird für Deiche und Polder ausgegeben, die aber wenig bringen

I was a novice editor, he was an experienced writer, and the first article he turned in revealed a virtuosic command of comma placement. He opened with long, slow clauses; picked up speed with shorter ones; withheld all commas for a gloriously terse thesis statement; and then, crash! A mass-casualty ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.In June 1897, Great Britain, at the apex of empire, organized an elaborate pageant celebrating Queen Victoria’s 60 years on the throne. The industrial revolution had turned a small island nation into an ...

Wie wirkten und schrieben Marx und Engels als Journalisten? Ein Gespräch mit François Melis über die drei »Revolutionsbände« der MEGA zu 1848/49.

Ist es das Alter, Faulheit – oder warum klingen neue Songs oft so, als hätte man sie schon mal gehört? Dr. Steffen Schmidt über die Grenzen neuer Musik.

Im ersten Halbjahr 2026 sind schon 5862 Anträge beim Bundesamt für Familie und zivilgesellschaftliche Aufgaben eingegangen.

Nur wenige Tage nachdem die US-Migrationsbehörde in Texas einen Mann getötet hatte, ereignete sich in Maine ein ähnlicher Vorfall

Mögliche Einfuhrverbote für Waren aus israeli­schen Sied­lungen im West­jordan­land spalten die EU. Kommt es zu einem Streit um juris­tische Fragen?

Der Konflikt um die Straße von Hormus eskaliert abermals. Trump kündigt eine neue Seeblockade an und will Entschädigung für US-Geleit in der Meerenge.

After the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, the British ambassador in Paris said it best: “The troops left the capital and the populace remained the unmolested masters of everything.”The uprising had world-historic implications, and the broader French Revolution would be an early forerunner ...

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.Updated at 10:27 a.m. on July 14, 2026On Wednesday, Todd Blanche will head to Capitol Hill for hearings ...

You may have heard of Angel Studios, the producer and distributor of Young Washington, a pretty dunderheaded biopic about George Washington as a self-centered but hunky young idiot who redeems himself in battle, which is currently playing in theaters. The film ends with a “special message” from acto ...

No figure in recent decades has done more to direct public attention and left-wing energy to universalistic left-wing policy proposals than Bernie Sanders. During his two runs for the presidency, he introduced “Medicare for All” into the lexicon of American politics. Now he’s made waves with a propo ...

Chengming Liu / The 2nd International Aerial Photographer of the YearEmerald Waves at Dusk. Captured above the rolling hills of San Jose, California, at golden hour, this image reveals the Diablo Range at its greenest after winter rains, highlighting smooth contours and flowing patterns.Michiko Kimu ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.Days before the United States launched its war on Iran in late February, a senior official from an Arab nation was being escorted through the West Wing when the Oval Office door swung open to present three familiar faces: Secretary of State Mar ...

With the artificial intelligence boom reshaping the global economy, workers are racing to defend their rights as the ground shifts beneath them. A narrowly averted strike at Samsung Electronics in Korea this spring was a major test of labor’s ability to fight back.Weeks before the planned strike, a ...

Marion Morassi ist Einzelhändlerin und Lokalpolitikerin der Linken im Ahrtal. Fünf Jahre nach dem Hochwasser zieht sie eine gemischte Bilanz

Planung des letzten Bauabschnitts bis zur alten Nord­brücke soll dem­nächst beginnen

Die neuen Rüstungsprojekte für Kiew und Machtdemonstrationen in Paris zeigen: Aus der blutigen Logik der Konfrontation will niemand ausbrechen.

Im 45. Jahr ihres Bestehens spielen die Pet Shop Boys auf der Berliner Wald­bühne – als nach­bar­schaft­liche Alter­native zu den Toten Hosen.

Stiftung Zukunft Berlin spricht sich für Wohnraum in Gewerbegebieten und Bürogebäuden aus

Spaniens Lamine Yamal blieb bei der WM bisher hinter Kylian Mbappé zurück. Frühere Siege gegen Frankreich machen ihm Hoffnung.

Die Familienministerin will den Unterhaltszuschuss kürzen. Sinnvoller wäre es, die Umgehungskonstrukte wohlhabender Väter einzudämmen. Ein Kommentar.

Mit den Kürzungen beim Bundesprogramm »Demokratie leben!« geraten viele Basisangebote bei Bildung und Kultur in Gefahr, die Teilhabe ermöglichen

More than 20 years ago, Senator Lindsey Graham visited Ukraine for the first time. An election was looming, one that would be reversed and run again, and that would ultimately produce victory for the pro-Western Orange coalition. In the summer of 2004, however, all of that lay in the future. Graham, ...

Vor sechs Wochen ist der indigene Anführer Brooklyn Rivera mit 73 Jahren in nicaraguanischer Haft gestorben. Sein Vermächtnis lebt weiter.

Antifascism can be served with a pot of overcooked pasta.On July 25, 1943, after twenty-one years of dictatorship, Benito Mussolini was dismissed and arrested. Amid Italy’s worsening position in World War II, the Fascist Grand Council turned against Mussolini during the night, and Marshal Pietro Bad ...

As part of its ongoing expansion into Games, today The Atlantic is launching its first immersive-narrative game: Lemony Snicket’s Suspicious Incident in Dubious Park. The game transports characters to the center of a fictional scene––written by the author Lemony Snicket––to solve a murder mystery. ...

Maria Borelli, Vorständin des Berliner IT-Dienstleistungszentrums, steht wegen fragwürdiger Vergabepraktiken in der Kritik.

Marie Gottschalk has spent more than two decades meticulously researching the origins and documenting the consequences of American mass incarceration. Her books The Prison and the Gallows and Caught are both foundational texts for anyone seeking to understand how the United States built the world’s ...

In the week that NATO met in Ankara, calls for rearmament are reshaping political life across Europe. In the Baltic states, where the Russian threat is felt as most immediate, governments are already fast pushing defense spending up toward 5 percent of GDP. Much has already been written about the mo ...

Sind Journalisten nach der Demonstration gegen den Parteitag der AfD von Protestierenden angegriffen worden?

Kommt man ohne Lesen in den Himmel? Teil 9: Ein Gespräch mit dem Münchner Autor und brandneuen Verleger Stefan Wimmer.

Berlin versorgt Kiew mit US-Drohnen, die schwärmend angreifen können. Die deutsche Konkur­renz sammelt derweil frisches Kapital – auch von Peter Thiel

Ein gutes Konzert einer nicht so guten Band: Die Toten Hosen spielten auf ihrer Abschiedstournee im Berliner Olympiastadion.

Wenn kurzfristige Gewinne höher gewichtet werden als langfristige ökologische Stabilität, könnte das die globale Konkurrenz verschärfen.

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsFollowing the United States’ war with Iran can give you whiplash. One day, it’s nearing a resolution; the next, the nations have resumed missile strikes on each other’s military installations, and Iran on Gulf States caught ...

Per Gesetz sollen in Frankreich Schüsse der Polizei automatisch als Notwehr gelten. Diese rechte Identitätspolitik bringt keine Sicherheit, sondern mehr Tote

Ein Gesetzentwurf sieht Schusswaffengebrauch durch Polizisten grundsätzlich als legitim an. Kritiker prangern den Text als »Freibrief zum Töten« an.

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.Henry Kissinger often said that nuclear arms are “weapons in search of a doctrine.” After the Cold War, some strategists have tried to figure out what, exactly, these weapons could buy them beyond deterrence. The answer, as it turns out, is: no ...

Photographs by Benedetta RistoriA famous entertainer would like to have the Colosseum to herself for a small evening event—anything you can do? A visitor on a layover hopes to see a privately owned Caravaggio behind the walls of a Roman palazzo—what about tonight? A traveler wants to make railway ex ...

Innenminister Dobrindt will mehr Befugnisse für Geheimdienste und sie damit Polizeien annähern. Der radikale Gesetzesentwurf dazu hat 700 Seiten.

Undine Spillner über das Transit-Festival in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und die Mühen von Kulturarbeit abseits der Metropolen

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.This is not a sentence written often lately, but the U.S. Supreme Court has just done a great service to American democracy.On June 30, the Court struck down federal limits on the amount of money that p ...

Ein Sammelband der Buchmacherei analysiert die deutsche Staatsräson – und beklagt ein historisches Versagen der gesellschaftlichen Linken.

Wann die U1 wieder zur War­schauer Straße fahren kann, steht in den Sternen. Die Unter­suchung des Schadens ist laut BVG noch nicht abgeschlossen.

Sibel Schick denkt darüber nach, was es gesellschaftlich braucht, selbst wenn die AfD verboten wird. Denn was geschieht dann mit den Wählern?

Mehr als 4000 zusätzliche Tote zählte das RKI in der Hitzewelle im Juli. Obwohl sich das Problem absehbar verschärft, bleibt die Politik untätig.

Bundesjustizministerin Hubig will die Haftentschädigung erhöhen und Abzüge für »Kost und Logis« abschaffen. Was sich außerdem ändern soll

Seit Oktober 2025 gilt eine Waffenruhe im Gaza-Krieg. Doch noch immer gibt es nahezu täglich Tote bei Angriffen.

Es war bereits die vierte US-Angriffswelle, seit die Kämpfe in der Nacht zu Mittwoch wieder aufflammten. Im Visier: Flugabwehr- und Radarsysteme.

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.Ukraine had few, if any, friends in Washington more devoted than Senator Lindsey Graham, who visited Kyiv at the end of last week. His sudden death over the weekend left the Ukrainian leadership wondering who might fill the role he played: some ...

Tour-Debütant Max Kanter fährt bereits aufs Podium. Der Cottbuser Sprinter will die deutsche Durststrecke bei der Tour beenden.

Senator Lindsey Graham, who died unexpectedly last night, was a pivotal citizen of the Washington conversation. He loved being in the mix, slapping bipartisan backs off camera, and then, when the lights came on, cracking wise, weighing in, and, yes, currying favor with a certain Audience of One.What ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Lindsey Graham had just returned from a trip to Ukraine last night when he called President Trump to talk with him—about the trip, about one of the president’s key legislative priorities, about the days ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.In his way, the late Lindsey Graham, who unexpectedly died Saturday evening, was the consummate politician of our time. The Republican senator from South Carolina was the epitome, the poster child, the quintesse ...

Watchless, wordless, compassless. Isn’t that when mountains open and light roars through, as when in the delivery room, slammed by a lot of meaningless brightness, you cried and were held and forgot? In your nursery, did you reach for the moon? Many babies do. Moon, your mother said, and soon enough ...

Thea Riofrancos has an interview out in New Left Review where she discusses the concept of “green capital” and what it means for the Left’s climate organizing. In the interview, she says we should “maybe . . .  endorse a paradoxical position: that a stronger fraction of green capital would create be ...

When Aleksi Toiviainen was fifteen, he led a protest against changes in his school’s curriculum that removed content on LGBTQ and indigenous communities. Aleksi rallied over five hundred students to walk out against these curriculum changes, yet follow-up actions that attempted to protect this conte ...

Elon Musk is officially the richest man on Earth. The source of his wealth is not his own cunning. Nor can it be fully explained by capitalism’s financial architecture, tax loopholes, and the value created by the workers employed in his various ventures.Tech billionaires’ companies are robbing human ...

A century ago, Britain was rocked by perhaps the most serious episode of class struggle it has ever known. Millions of workers joined the general strike of 1926, buoyed by hope that they could fend off attacks on the pay and conditions of coal miners and reverse efforts by bosses to claw back the ga ...

If Julius Caesar had debuted this year, William Shakespeare might have been accused of writing it with AI. A certain suspicious rhetorical device appears again and again in the play. It’s in Act I, Scene ii: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” In Act III, Scene ii: “Not ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Brian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland when he delivered a message that, coming from a Democratic House candidate in the year 2026, sounded almost provocati ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.Donald Trump has long treated NATO like a punching bag, leading many observers to proclaim the demise of the Western alliance. Some analysts have called NATO “a zombie alliance.” Others have announced that the United States is decoupling from E ...

Driving on I-79 south from Pittsburgh toward Charlottesville, I started composing this birthday card in my head—a love letter to America on its 250th birthday. The hills of Pennsylvania were blanketed in glittering white snow from which bare-armed trees rose like the locals: lean, weathered, lined a ...

I was pregnant with my first baby when my grandmother died. The last time I saw her,  she had moved into an assisted-living facility where all of her worldly possessions were condensed down to two small rooms. She had been condensed down, too, from the tall southern woman of my childhood memories in ...

On Thursday morning, PEN America, the free-speech organization, posted an article detailing the “isolation and exclusion” many Israeli and Jewish writers have felt since October 7, 2023. The authors describe being blacklisted at publishing houses, boycotted by activists, pressured to downplay their ...

Bis 2029 soll die U5 zeitgemäße Signaltechnik erhalten. Die Fahrgäste profitieren durch eine kürzere Fahrzeit. Kurzzüge sollen dann Geschichte sein.

Nach der Bestattung von Ajatollah Ali Khamenei schwört Irans Führung Vergeltung. US-Präsident Donald Trump kontert mit Zerstörungsandrohungen

Aus Eitelkeit verstrickte sich Kai Wegner in ein Lügengebilde. Stefan Evers wird den Scherbenhaufen nicht aufräumen können, meint Marten Brehmer.

More than two hundred businesses were present at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, Poland, at the end of June, eighty-two of them from Ukraine. But out of Ukraine’s eighty-three sectoral trade unions, none had so much as a stall, let alone a seat on a main panel. That asymmetry is telling; ...

Als Berliner Finanzsenator hielt sich Stefan Evers im Hintergrund. Nachdem Kai Wegner über Falschaussagen stolperte, soll er nun CDU-Spitzenkandidat werden.

Vor einem Jahr wurden in Südsyrien über 1300 Drusen von Regierungstruppen massakriert. Die drusische Diaspora in Deutschland erinnert sich mit Grauen.

17 Mexikaner sind bei Einsätzen der US-Einwanderungsbehörde oder in Haftzentren ums Leben gekommen. Mexiko erwägt nun rechtliche Schritte in den USA

“Lastly, to my brother Charlie Kirk. Rest now, brother. We have the watch. See you in Valhalla.”These were the words used by FBI Director Kash Patel during a press conference following the assassination of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk. The choice of words was curious: Patel is a Hindu, and Kirk was a ...

Ökonom Rudolf Hickel zur Kontroverse in der Wirtschaftswissenschaft um militärische und zivile Staatsausgaben

After Graham Platner officially withdrew from the Maine Senate race this week, Democrats are now in the process of naming his replacement. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss how the party is trying to salvage their chances in the state, and more.Democrats have been loo ...

Nach einem Feuer an der Bahnstrecke zwischen Düsseldorf und Köln taucht ein Bekennerschreiben auf. Die Gruppe »Angry Birds« könnte dahinterstecken.

For Palestinians, a lack of leverage has always accompanied their century-long struggle for self-determination. Without a capacity to disrupt the Israeli status quo — and operating against a highly resilient Israel that is immune to exogenous shocks while deeply integrated into American imperial heg ...

The other night, I found myself in the unenviable position of trying to cook a salad. And I mean cook a salad: I spread fresh, delicious-looking gem lettuce in a pan and watched it wilt away into a sad, heated blob.America appears to be in the midst of an outbreak of—I’m sorry, but there’s no better ...

Pieter de Hooch was a contemporary of Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch city of Delft for a time; they painted similar subjects, in similar costumes, engaged in similarly quotidian activities. But they were quite different artists. De Hooch’s 1663 painting Interior With Women Beside a Linen Cupboard del ...

On June 28, Austria’s second largest city, Graz, elected a new council. The Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) secured 35.7 percent of the vote, once again emerging as the clear winner. Building on its historic 2021 success, the party — led by Mayor Elke Kahr — increased its vote share by nearly 7 per ...

Die Rechtsaußen-Partei bekräftigt ihren Anspruch auf die Staatskanzlei und kündigt Sofortmaßnahmen in der Migrations-, Medien- und Bildungspolitik an.

You know it’s hot when summer camps have to cancel bonfires and doctors warn that playgrounds could be dangerous. Last week, when a heat dome was descending on New York City, I grew a bit concerned myself. My children’s outdoor day camp promised to “pivot to ‘water games,’” as the email put it, and ...

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.One of my favorite parts of the World Cup is asking people a deceptively simple question: What team a ...

Last week, as I settled into my seat in the dark and blessedly cool basement theater of New York’s Guggenheim Museum to watch an experimental film, I was conscious that in just a few hours, people all over the planet would be turning on TVs and streaming from laptops and phones to see that night’s l ...

My early days of expatriation were disorienting. It was 2011, and I had recently gotten married and moved to Paris. Although I didn’t realize it at the time, my friendships to that point had depended on proximity: Once I crossed the Atlantic, many of them dwindled to digital approximations of intima ...

Drei Hitzewellen in zwei Monaten – jetzt ruft die Regierung für Landesteile »Alarmstufe rot« aus. Vor allem Älteren und Obdachlosen wird geholfen.

Nach gegenseitigen Angriffen der USA und des Iran geht die Suche nach einer Verhandlungslösung weiter. Beide Seiten scheinen bereit, weiterzuverhandeln.

Nach dem Rücktritt des Ministerpräsidenten hat Präsidentin Sandu den pro-europäischen Unternehmer Vasile Tofan als Nachfolger nominiert.

Der Vorstoß der AfD zum Homeschooling ist weit mehr als Bildungspolitik. Es geht um die Frage, wer die nächste Generation prägt.

Nach Mikel Merinos Last-Minute-Treffer zum 2:1 gegen Belgien blicken die Spanier dem »Finale vor dem Finale« gegen Frankreich hoffnungsvoll entgegen.

Die Rapperin Ikkimel meldet sich mit ihrem neuen Album »Poppstar« zurück. Das ist präzise, eingängig, gewohnt pöbelig und vor allem lustig.

Das Remake der Kult-Serie »Unsere kleine Farm« auf Netflix wird die Rechten erzürnen und bietet trotzdem kein wirklich kritisches Narrativ.

Deutschland und Frankreich wollen sich in ihrer Libanon-Politik abstimmen. Der Bundesaußenminister hofft auf eine Chance für Frieden.

Für Politik und Autobahnverantwortliche ist der Ersatzneubau von Ringbahn- und Westendbrücke der A100 ein Beispiel dafür, dass der Staat es noch kann

Auf einem UN-Gipfel ging es um das humanitäre Potenzial der neuen Technologie. Es wurde auch Kritik an den Geschäftsmodellen von Big Tech laut.

In Südostasien hat sich eine milliardenschwere, politisch einflussreiche Branche entwickelt, die von Online-Kriminalität lebt. Die Beschäftigten schuften wie Sklaven.

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.Donald Trump summoned the National Guard to Washington, D.C., last August in an attempt to “rescue” the ...

This summer’s lineup of sporting events has been an embarrassment of riches. This morning, the No. 1 men’s tennis player in the world (Jannik Sinner) and the winningest men’s tennis player of all time (Novak Djokovic) played in the semifinal of the biggest tennis tournament in the world (Wimbledon). ...

All over the world, we can find Indian migrant workers subject to extreme forms of exploitation and abuse: dying in the Gulf states as a result of the US war on Iran, just as they died a few years earlier of heat exhaustion as they built the stadiums for the World Cup in Qatar; brought in to replace ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Modern life is built to make things easier, faster, and more efficient. But what if, in smoothing away life’s everyday frictions, we’ve also lost something essential? This week on Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with The Atlantic’s Ian Bogost abo ...

Juristische Probleme der Rechtsextremen garantieren keinen Wahlsieg demokratischer Kräfte, kommentiert die Pariser L’Humanité das Urteil gegen Le Pen.

Southeast Asia has a long history of being on the receiving end of global capitalism’s relentless search for profit. For centuries, the region’s trade networks supplied the global economy with precious spices, aromatic sandalwood, and rare items collected on coastal reefs and in dense rainforests.In ...

“AI Code = Dumpster Fire?” asks an advertisement wrapped around a set of pillars in New York’s Penn Station. “We can help,” it answers. The ad is for CodeRabbit, a company whose software identifies and fixes bugs in code written by artificial-intelligence software. Besides the obvious irony of such ...

What is the role of a general in a democracy? Many of today’s military leaders have a very particular answer: Focus on tactics, carry out orders, and otherwise shut up.This is not what America’s top officers have always done. The country’s most senior generals and admirals are expected to provide un ...

Christopher T. wurde wegen eines Demo-Auftritts vom DHL-Konzern entlassen. Jetzt hat das Leipziger Arbeitsgericht den Rauswurf für nichtig erklärt

CDU-Politiker will sein Amt nur noch bis nach der Abgeordnetenhauswahl im September ausfüllen und dann nicht weitermachen.

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Around the time I turned 15, I was convinced that the only person who really got me was a 17-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield. Although Holden is fictional, the protagonist of J. D. Salin ...

Ein umstrittenes Maßnahmenpaket soll eine Finanzlücke bei den gesetzlichen Krankenkassen verhindern. Folgen hat das auch für die Versicherten.

Zu dem umstrittenen GKV-Gesetz gibt es einige Alternativen, darunter drastische Veränderungen auf der Einnahmeseite. Ein Kommentar.

Matt Kennard’s new book Irregular Army is the culmination of more than a decade of investigation into how the United States waged the war on terror both at home and abroad. Picking up where classic critiques of Vietnam-era militarism left off, Kennard traces how a hollowed-out empire kept up its occ ...

Verschanzt sich der Waffenhersteller Rheinmetall in Berlin etwa in einem Wohngebiet und missbraucht die Bevölkerung als Schutzschild?

Gegen die Hoffnungslosigkeit die Diaspora sichtbar machen: Bald ist in Berlin das erste Festival für Hip-Hop, House und Electro aus Afghanistan.

Länderkammer stimmt für Gesetzesinitiative aus Hessen, nach der Infragestellen des Staates Israel mit bis zu fünf Jahren Haft geahndet werden kann

Nach NRW-Vorbild schreitet die Bundesregierung weiter mit Maßnahmen gegen sogenannten Leistungsmissbrauch voran. Die Fallzahlen bleiben gering.

Der deutsche Trainer weckt in England vor dem Viertelfinale gegen Norwegen die große Sehnsucht. Mit seiner Art passt er einfach besser auf die Insel.

Beim absehbaren VW-Schrumpfkurs ignoriert der Konzernvorstand die Frage, wie dies ohne soziale Härten gelingen soll. Ein Kommentar.

Die Bundesregierung kauft US-Raketen und zeigt gegenüber Trumps Hochrüstungsdruck der USA keinerlei Rückgrat. Ein Kommentar.

Die Bundesregierung kauft US-Raketen und zeigt gegenüber Trumps Hochrüstungsdruck der USA keinerlei Rückgrat. Ein Kommentar.

First, let’s get one thing straight. Rahm Emanuel’s much-heralded speech on US-Israel relations portends no shift at all in Democratic Party policy toward Israel.In fact, if leaked media accounts are accurate, it doesn’t contain a single proposal that wasn’t already adopted in the waning days of the ...

Monopolkommission kritisiert, dass die Wirtschaftspolitik vor allem den 100 Großen nutzt und bei der Aufrüstung die »Monopole der Zukunft« bildet.

Bei Volkswagen bleibt unklar, was der Vorstand konkret plant. Die Gewerkschaft fordert Aufklärung und macht Druck bei einem ersten Protesttag.

Brandenburg greift den Landkreisen mit 80 Millionen Euro unter die Arme, weil die Krankenkassen Rettungsdiensteinsätze nicht voll bezahlen.

Mike Blake / ReutersMarseel Bahnan, originally from Iraq, poses with her face painted in the colors of the U.S. flag during a World Cup watch party in San Diego, California, as the United States played against Belgium on July 6, 2026.Nathan Howard / ReutersLightning strikes behind the illuminated Wa ...

Eva Trobischs neues Drama »Etwas ganz Besonderes« erzählt ganz wunderbar von Casting-Shows der ostdeutschen Provinz und einer zersplitternden Familie.

During Donald Trump’s second term, senior figures in his administration have regularly used the language of invasion as they talk about migration to Europe. Speaking in France on the eighty-second anniversary of D-Day, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that Europe was being “invaded” by migrants ...

Ein mitreißender und motivierender Fluss des Wissens und der Diskussion: Der linke Berliner Bildungsverein Helle Panke feierte seinen 35. Geburtstag.

Berliner Bündnis gegen Waffenproduktion veranstaltet im Humboldthain ein Protestcamp gegen den Rüstungskonzern Rheinmetall.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The CIA officer Ray Cline, who was the agency’s chief analyst during the Cuban missile crisis, once observed that when it comes to intelligence analysis, “objectivity is the only virtue that really counts.” By t ...

Madonna looks like she’s hiding something on the cover of her 15th album, Confessions II. She’s seated atop a speaker box with her leotard and legs peeking out from beneath a rippling veil of rich purple. The effect is regal, holy, sexual, and funereal—a chic update of her trademark sacred-profane f ...

Initiative Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen protestiert vor dem Bundesrat gegen ein Verbot der Vergesellschaftung

Die Linke-Spitzenkandidatin Eva von Angern über die Ziele und Strategien ihrer Partei bei der Landtagswahl und eine CDU mit Realitätsverlust.

They usually start with a harmless-looking social-media post: a call for teenagers to “pull up” and “shake some ass,” as one online flyer put it. These get forwarded across the internet, and soon masses of young people are surging into an urban plaza or park, often terrifying any adult who happens t ...

For those old enough to remember, Michael and Robby Meeropol will always be the Rosenberg boys.I never knew them as such, but it’s not hard to imagine what they were like, in part because there are so many pictures. In one, from June 1953, they are sitting outside the White House in shirts and ties, ...

Der Einwanderer Lorenzo Salgado Araujo wurde in Houston von Beamten der Einwanderungsbehörde ICE getötet. Eine Tragödie, die nach einem typischen Muster abgelaufen ist.

Robert Diendorfer vom Forum Fairer Handel über rechtswidrige Koalitionspläne und eine lahmgelegte Kontrollbehörde

VW schweigt zu Stellenabbau und Werksschließungen. Nach der Aufsichtsratssitzung ist weiterhin unklar, was auf die Beschäftigten zukommt.

Fast eine Woche lang dauerten die staatlich organisierten Trauerfeiern für das getötete iranische Staatsoberhaupt Ajatollah Ali Khamenei.

Der Bundestag will das Gesetz für stabile Kassenbeiträge verabschieden. Ob die Länderkammer mitzieht, ist noch unklar.

Mitch McConnell has not been seen in public in almost a month. The senator from Kentucky and former majority leader was hospitalized on June 14, and his staff has declined to elaborate, instead recycling the same statement: “The Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on ...

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.Twice a day, all across the country, the National Weather Service launches a fleet of latex balloons in ...

In late March, I started receiving daily texts from the federal government about AI. “🇺🇸AI is changing how we work and live,” one message read. “You might feel curious, skeptical, or unsure—that’s normal.” I had enrolled in an AI-literacy course from the Labor Department created to help workers su ...

Everyone at this point understands Donald Trump’s war with Iran is a debacle. The nearly two-thirds of Americans who think the United States didn’t win the war understand it. Trump himself, spinning and lashing out as he tries to get out of it, seems to understand it. And the clown car of war hawks ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.In the eyes of its many critics, New York City has always been both too American and not American enough. It’s the place where the pursuit of profit curdles into greed—wh ...

It’s time for your scheduled open-heart surgery. Unfortunately, no one has seen or heard from the surgeon in weeks, since the Incident. The nurse says that she spoke with him at length on a wide variety of important subjects and that he had never been more eloquent. “Will he be along shortly?” you a ...

Yesterday, the International Monetary Fund happily reported that the world had weathered the recently settled Iran war surprisingly well. That same day, President Trump declared the cease-fire “over” and promised, “We’re going to hit them hard again tonight.” The United States resumed bombing Iran. ...

In Deutschland darf nicht sein, dass ein Azubi für die Ver­mittlung auf einen Ausbildungs­platz bezahlen muss. Doch im Ausland gilt das nicht

When the iPod Nano was first released, in 2005, it cost $199 and was sold on the promise of limitlessness. This year, Celeste Stange bought her magenta 8-gigabyte model on eBay for $69 and the exact opposite reason. Every time she’d pick a song on Spotify to stream, she’d think about the millions of ...

Nearly halfway through his latest special, Ridiculous, Louis C.K. asks his audience to help out with a joke. When he announces “I’m so old!,” the crowd is meant to respond in unison, “How old are you?” Another comedian might answer with an exaggerated zinger. Instead, C.K. deadpans a series of grim ...

Eltern sorgen sich um ihre Kinder, weil neben der Rosa-Parks-Grundschule in Kreuzberg die Tannenhof-Schule einziehen soll

The ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon has displaced more than a million people — around one-fifth of the country’s population. Between March 2 and June 19, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported 3,980 deaths resulting from the conflict.Lebanese journalists have been in the firing line. Since Octobe ...

Silicon Valley is still riding high on what seems like an unending wave of Wall Street enthusiasm. Investments in artificial intelligence continue to eclipse expectations, with Bloomberg reporting that financiers plan to plow some $700 billion into the industry this year alone. AI stocks now account ...

There is a myth that Friedrich Engels distorted Karl Marx’s revolutionary social theory into a politically fatalistic form of technological determinism. While it is possible to pull phrases out of context to justify this claim, the truth is that Engels was a highly sophisticated thinker with an ency ...

The word dawa, Swahili for “medicine,” threads through Francis Marete Mboroki’s speech as he describes the chemicals he spent decades spraying across his small farm on the fertile slopes of Mount Kenya. They were sold as the tools of progress: modern seeds, bigger harvests, prosperity.Even as Europe ...

It’s getting harder and harder to defend the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Quite aside from the seemingly endless disclosures that management failed to act on sexual abuse allegations against some of its most high-profile presenters, the organization’s news output has long made things diff ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsOn Tuesday, an ICE officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during an attempted arrest in Houston. The agency immediately issued a statement explaining the officer’s use of lethal force, providing nearly the same descr ...

When the 82-year-old psychologist Peter Gray describes the way he grew up, he punctuates the anecdotes by saying that modern parents would be arrested for letting a child have such fun. When he was 4 years old, he would walk to a store in Minneapolis to buy cigarettes for his grandmother. When he wa ...

The golden age of tennis didn’t end with a whimper. After Roger Federer walked off the court for the final time, at the 2022 Laver Cup, he broke into full-on sobs. Federer’s doubles partner at that event in London, his longtime rival Rafael Nadal, seemed to understand that he was staring down his ow ...

There is no easier city in the world for an American to love than Paris. So it has been since the time of Benjamin Franklin. Love, though, comes with spats and fits of temper, ruptures and reconciliations. So, too, with the United States and France. A recent visit reminded me, however, of why the Am ...

Updated on July 9 at 8:52 a.m. ET The Nazi tattoo wasn’t bad enough to force Graham Platner to abandon his Senate bid, his defenders argued earlier this year. Any young Marine, under the powerful influence of alcohol and immaturity, might see a skull and crossbones and think: Badass. The now-deleted ...

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old construction contractor and father of three, was a “man of routine,” according to his sons. He woke up at 5 a.m. every day, ate a big breakfast prepared by his wife, and left home at sunrise to build houses in the Houston area. Salgado Araujo came across the bor ...

Two hundred fifty years and two days into the American experiment, a 55-year-old bespectacled bald man from Liverpool enters a sterile hotel conference room in Atlanta, shaking his head. “It’s all gone to hell, hasn’t it?” he mutters. In 14 hours, the United States men’s soccer team is scheduled to ...

Iran’s decision to attack ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. decision to retaliate and threaten to abandon diplomacy have pushed both sides close to the resumption of a war that neither wants.For the United States—which joined Israel in late February in a war to end Iran’s nuclear am ...

If Donald Trump ever had any control over the war he started with Iran, he’s lost it. The Iranians are now setting the terms of this conflict and are routinely humiliating the American president. The “cease-fire” Trump declared last month—a move probably meant to both soothe international markets an ...

Looking at popular discourse around heterosexual dating and relationships, you might be forgiven for thinking that relations between the sexes have never been worse. Online communities of incels and radical feminists alike write off the other gender as irredeemable, while dating apps seem to be bree ...

In Volume 1 of Capital, Karl Marx ventures the opinion that “classical political economy stumbles approximately onto the true state of affairs, but without consciously formulating it. It is unable to do this as long as it stays within its bourgeois skin.”Marx and the bourgeois economists confront th ...

On America’s 250th anniversary, a large group of men in khaki caps and white face masks, their navy button-down shirts tucked into khaki pants, were struggling to navigate the turnstiles of D.C.’s public-transit system. “Just give it a minute and try again!” yelled their leader, Thomas Rousseau. At ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum discusses the recent allegations toward Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner. David warns Democrats that if they don’t exercise caution with candidate selection, they risk losing ...

Danylo Antoniuk / APA woman looks up at a burning apartment building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 2, 2026. Russian missiles have hit sites across the country, but Kyiv’s infrastructure and residential areas are especially frequent targets.Efrem Lukatsky / APA woman carrie ...

The acid attack on Indonesian human rights activist Andrie Yunus in March 2026 was a message written in chemical burns and delivered in the language of fear: dissent will be punished. For those familiar with Indonesia’s political history, the attack feels less like a shocking rupture than another gr ...

Wisconsin has long served as a proving ground for American politics. It gave rise to Progressive Era reforms and Milwaukee’s socialist tradition, but it also became a laboratory for the Right under Governor Scott Walker, whose assault on organized labor helped reshape Republican politics nationwide. ...

Am 17. Juli 2026 starb Carlo Ginzburg. Er begründete die Mikrogeschichte gegen Großerzählungen, postmodernen Relativismus – und gegen die Herrschaft.

Communism is a system of government in which the ruling party controls major investment decisions while hoarding wealth for itself and suppressing all opposition.Nevertheless, Donald Trump professes to dislike it.The president is trying to whip the nation into an anti-communist frenzy. His two speec ...

The Democratic Party is moving left. Its most dynamic leaders over the past few years have been Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani. Its most passionate activists are the young progressives who gave us the campus encampments after October 7. It’s only a slight exaggeration t ...

Los Angeles has had a rough couple of years. Fires have destroyed entire neighborhoods, the Hollywood streaming boom is going bust, ICE raids have torn through neighborhoods, and the city was subjected to an airborne toxic event; the vibes are so bad that a reality-TV villain almost made the mayoral ...

Brandon Mancilla is very happy.For the United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 9A Director and a Democratic Socialists of America member, June’s New York primary elections were a massive success. Speaking with Jacobin a week later, hours before a rally supporting Columbia University postdoctoral workers, t ...

At this year’s Fourth of July celebration, marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Donald Trump devoted part of his speech to an attack on “communism.” Sounding a note from an earlier era of the nation’s history, he hissed about the “communist menace,” which he called “a mo ...

For The Atlantic’s August-issue cover story, “The Age of Reading Is Over,” staff writer Rose Horowitch argues that we are living in a “postliterate world” where fewer and fewer adults read books of any kind, and examines whether civilization can survive this era. Horowitch wrote the viral 2024 essay ...

Leave it to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to casually drop a policy bombshell in a press conference. Two weeks ago, he pointed out that Canada’s lack of diplomatic ties with Venezuela had hampered its ability to respond to the horrific earthquake there, and so he proposed reopening the Canadia ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. Ptolemy, who had served under Alexander the G ...

The Senate race in Maine looks significantly different than it did 48 hours ago. Yesterday, Politico reported a credible allegation of sexual assault against the Democratic nominee, Graham Platner. In a video posted after the story broke, Platner denied the accusation but said that his campaign woul ...

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.In recent years, ABC’s daytime talk show The View has become an essential stop for top-level politician ...

Anyone with eyes can see that Monday night’s World Cup game was rigged. Team USA is winning, 0–0, and then suddenly all these goals start coming in for Belgium? Bang, bang, bang, one after the other, just like that? Very suspicious. But don’t worry. Your favorite president is on the case!I couldn’t ...

Updated at 2:40 p.m. ET on July 8, 2026Years ago, when the Simpsons animator Chuck Sheetz was a lecturer at UCLA, he invited a producer colleague of his from the series to attend a screening of his students’ work. That was a Saturday night; when Sheetz entered the Simpsons offices the following Mond ...

Stepping onto the Firestone rubber plantation in Liberia, the largest contiguous rubber plantation in the world at 185 square miles, is a step into the past — though which past or which historical moment is debatable. The “plantation,” as it’s officially referred to by Firestone, is at once reminisc ...

Nigel Farage is a great survivor. A decade ago, the British populist provocateur achieved his lifelong ambition—getting his country to vote itself out of the European Union. Since then, he has founded Reform UK—now Britain’s most popular party—and won a seat in Parliament after seven failed attempts ...

In recent weeks, Silicon Valley has been fawning over an AI model released by a lab in China. The program, called GLM-5.2, has been called a “marvel,” “very good,” and a “step change.” The billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen posted on X that “AI insiders are saying GLM-5.2 is the first Ch ...

The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete. But pundits, activists, and members of the Trump administration have long insisted that the case is closed, and that the virus slipped out from a lab in China. They’ve maintained the view that U.S. scientists were ...

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, One Battle After Another, there’s a scene I still think about at least once a week.About halfway through the movie, the main character, Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio), is on the lam and seeks refuge with his daughter’s karate teacher, Sergio “Sensei” St Carlos ...

At roughly 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 3, the words JUST&T MARRIED! appeared on the jumbotrons outside Madison Square Garden. The sign meant that the “T&T” in question—the pop star Taylor Swift and her footballer fiancé Travis Kelce—had just wed. Onlookers outside the venue who’d braved the he ...

Neoliberalism often hides in plain sight. Its defenders rarely identify as neoliberals. Philip Mirowski described it as the movement that dared not speak its own name. Its advocates often suggest that it never existed, except as a term of abuse invented by the Left. Branko Milanovic has recently gon ...

China’s release of yet another impressive open-source AI model has lately raised urgent questions in Silicon Valley about which country will dominate the AI market. What has received less attention are the ways that Chinese actors are already exploiting existing AI tools—many of them American—to cov ...

There’s a new Criterion Channel series called “Odysseys” that is clearly meant as a tie-in with Christopher Nolan’s upcoming much-anticipated epic The Odyssey opening soon.But before I get into the Criterion film picks, I must note that I have now had this conversation a few times in the past month ...

Sign up for Ordinary Extraordinary, Ian Bogost’s guide to making everyday life vivid again. You’ll receive one edition every Saturday for the next eight weeks.What if your life could be richer and more delightful without your having to change anything you’re currently doing?For most of us, when we t ...

I.Will and his brother, Butch, lived under the same roof for 23 years without it ever dawning on either of them that living together was what they did. This was in Will’s house in Montana. Butch called it “Will’s house,” not “our house,” even after 23 years. At some point that Will could not remembe ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit this week in the Turkish capital began in familiar circumstances: police repression of anyone dissenting against the alliance. Ahead of the meeting, Ankara was placed under what amounted to a quasi–state of emergency. Without formally declaring em ...

When Ludivine Verboogen and Romain Alderweireldt’s third child was born in Belgium in late 2015, they marveled at his long fingers. Perhaps one day he will be a famous pianist, they thought. But soon Ludivine grew worried that her son was not developing as well as his two older sisters had. His musc ...

Simon Paré-Poupart begins Trash!, a memoir of his years as a garbage collector, by explaining why he started swearing again. He had promised religious friends he would stop taking the Lord’s name in vain. Then one day, he jumped off the truck and found eighteen overloaded contractor bags wedged betw ...

The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger’s classic of adolescent alienation, turns 75 this summer, though it has the cast-iron reputation of a much older book. Just as Moby-Dick is canonically about whales, Catcher is canonically about phonies. Its narrator, Holden Caulfield, is tormented—though I lik ...

The debate over the future of the Democratic Party’s foreign policy has become intensely personal. In May, Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii posted on social media that although he did not favor “black listing,” he thought it nevertheless “fair to want a whole new crop of foreign policy staffers in the ...

Photographs by Houston CofieldFrom the outside, the church looked like a plain brick storefront, the mirrored windows peeling, a sign above painted white with blue letters. THE WELL, it read, and underneath, REVIVAL HUB.There were older and grander churches in Maryville, a college town in East Tenne ...

The celebrations of America’s 250th birthday, though they offered many wonderful moments, did not provide the sweeping sense of national unity for which some people had hoped. Some Americans found the July 4 weekend too political, too polarizing, and offering too much President Trump.But another eve ...

The buff George Washington statue in the National Museum of American History speaks for itself. Taking in the washboard abs and determined expression of the 1840 work by Horatio Greenough, a visitor would be hard-pressed to see anything but a Founding Father rendered as a Greek god. Yet in a searing ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Last September, the progressive strategist Morris Katz confessed to The New Yorker that the process by which he decided that Graham Platner was qualified to run for U.S. Senate required less time than drinking a ...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.This evening, the U.S. Men’s National Team will take on Belgium in a World Cup Round of 16 match in Sea ...

The only thing more riling than a referee’s interference in a sports event is a politician’s. How to kill America’s goodwill in the World Cup: Wave a “red card” under the nose of Donald Trump. Let him go to work, by putting in a call to his good friend Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, to inq ...

When I was 16, I did something I’m embarrassed to admit: I waited in a long line to buy a video game called Assassin’s Creed III. Over the past few days, though, that experience has become ever so slightly tinged with nostalgia. Last week, Sony announced that, starting in 2028, new PlayStation games ...

On June 23, democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated pro-Israel incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat by 4 percentage points in New York’s Thirteenth Congressional District. However, in the process of campaigning, Espaillat’s team leaned into a rather audacious strategy. It weaponized anti ...

I’ve been following the recent protests in Albania but from a particular angle: as a participant in a similar wave of mass protests in Serbia. In 2024, I got three months of death threats after I published a scholarly article exposing controversial economic data related to a German-backed lithium mi ...

When Pope Leo XIV signed off on the excommunication of four newly consecrated bishops and other formal followers of the Society of Saint Pius X on July 2, the dark cloud of schism floated over Christianity’s largest religious denomination. Leo, only in office since last year, invoked the extraordina ...

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSubscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsOne month after his return to office, President Trump purged the senior ranks of the U.S. military. He started at the very top. Charles “C. Q.” Brown Jr., a four- ...

On July 7, France Insoumise Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan will appear in court for the first time, after two years of judicial harassment from French pro-Israel organizations, Emmanuel Macron’s government, and the far right.The case against Hassan is based on so-called “apologia for ...

Nearly six months have passed since federal officers shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis. No one has been arrested, the Trump administration has provided no reason to believe that any serious investigation is taking place, and federal officials continue to stonew ...

The following article contains spoilers through Season 3, Episode 3 of House of the Dragon.Halfway through the latest episode of House of the Dragon, the freshly crowned Rhaenyra Targaryen concedes that being a leader is already taking a heavy toll on her. “I am awash in dilemmas,” the queen (played ...

Robert Morris migrated from England to the American colonies as a teenager and established himself in the mercantile industry. During the Revolutionary War, his trading ships attacked British vessels and seized their cargo; after the conflict, the Founding Father became a millionaire, likely the cou ...

Since the mid-1990s, Social Security trustees have warned lawmakers that insolvency was coming in the 2030s. Why are lawmakers seemingly content to wait until we reach that cliff, now projected for 2032? Because so many voters misunderstand how the system works and steadfastly refuse to accept the c ...

The official line remains the same: The 10-month campaign of strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has nearly stopped the flow of drugs by sea into the United States. In December, President Trump boasted about a 92 percent drop in seaborne shipments. Last month, in an apparent ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.This past January, in his inaugural address, Zohran Mamdani memorably promised to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” In the parlance of the Democratic Socialists of ...

Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket CastsA common piece of advice for those who are chronically online is to “go touch grass.” This upcoming season of How To, co-hosts Natalie Brennan and Julie Beck will look more closely at the often-fraught, always-changing relat ...

Colorado’s rural Fourth Congressional District is Republican territory. In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried it by 18 percentage points. Yet Eileen Laubacher, a former Navy rear admiral running as a Democrat there, has managed to raise nearly $10 million. The reason? The incumbent ...

In Garfield, Washington, the second of three speed-trap towns cutting over into Idaho on the way home from Spokane, there is a gray-going-white basketball furred from use and exposure, deflated only enough to discourage prolonged play, in the grass by the public court, beside the little park’s restr ...

Janeese Lewis George just made history. On June 16, the Ward 4 councilmember and democratic socialist won the Democratic primary for mayor of Washington, DC — decisively enough to end the race before all the votes were even counted and by the widest margin the city has seen in two decades. In the ov ...

Donald Trump’s favorite movie is Sunset Boulevard. That movie tells the story of an aging silent-film star, Norma Desmond, who has locked herself away from the real world so that she can endlessly replay past glories until she loses her mind entirely. In his Independence Day speech, Donald Trump ind ...

The Spanish language has a single word, historia, that can mean both “history” and “story.” In Argentina, where the military dictatorship that disappeared thirty thousand people between 1976 and 1983 remains prominent in collective memory, the reconstruction of democracy has depended on an ongoing p ...

Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and Israel’s ensuing war on Gaza, few academic fields have experienced more internal upheaval than Holocaust and genocide studies. Scholars who once shared broad institutional consensus now find themselves divided over whether Gaza constitutes genoc ...

Between August 2025 and the present, over 330 Reddit posts have appeared on forums made for working-class people and teenagers. The posts purported to chronicle users stumbling across small windfalls of cash through Stake.com, the multibillion-dollar online casino (currently headquartered in Curaçao ...

One evening in May, passengers boarded United Flight 661 from Newark, New Jersey, to Chicago. As the plane readied for takeoff, a thunderstorm swept in, grounding the plane. The storm, which produced winds upwards of 50 miles an hour, was fast moving and cleared a few hours later. And yet, seven hou ...

On Juneteenth, I watched Doug Jones, the Democratic nominee for Alabama governor, deliver a speech at the Scottsboro Boys Museum, in the northeastern corner of the state. I found myself thinking of the 1960s civil-rights rallies that I’d covered as a young reporter, and that many of the older Alabam ...

This past May, the globally famous pop star Lizzo was spotted on the side of a busy road in Los Angeles, putting up her own posters. Wearing a white crop top and a tiny skirt, she dipped a long brush into a bucket of paste and then used her body to press her new album cover onto a wall. A passing ca ...

Even before the Supreme Court reached its decision in Trump v. Slaughter, the joke was that the decision would slaughter independent agencies. The opinion, issued earlier this week, has not eliminated them, but it has ended their independence.The facts of the case are political. When Donald Trump fi ...

Updated at 5:01 p.m. ET on July 4, 2026President Trump is set to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States today with an elaborate celebration in Washington, D.C., featuring military flyovers and a fireworks display that organizers say will break world records. America’s other global leader, h ...

“I like the Fourth of July, it breathes a spirit of revolution,” said Eugene V. Debs in a 1901 Independence Day speech. The socialist firebrand was far from blindly patriotic (“I am not of those who worship the flag,” he added in the same speech), but throughout his life, Debs refused to let the Ame ...

It is impossible to revisit the American Revolution without raising the question: Did that late eighteenth-century conflict create a truly new kind of society, an “exceptional” nation that has ameliorated class conflict and sustained capitalist hegemony for more than 250 years? With Donald Trump in ...

In a 1988 memoir recounting his thirty-year tenure as chief Washington correspondent of the Sunday Times, the British journalist Henry Brandon recalled the flicker of disquiet he felt in 1964 as he watched the chaos and extremism of Barry Goldwater’s hard-right presidential campaign. He had wondered ...

Season after season, year after year, the tides have come in and out of New York Harbor. Long before the name “New York” had ever been spoken, Lenape dugouts crossed these currents. It was on these waters that tall masts crested the horizon, captained by explorers like [Giovanni da] Verrazzano and [ ...

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.In his 2022 essay on how to want less, Arthur C. Brooks recalls a line from Ralph Waldo Emerson about ...

“In vain was the collected wisdom of America convened at Philadelphia. In vain were the anxious labours of a Washington bestowed. Their works are regarded as nothing better than empty bubbles destined to be blown away.”— Alexander Hamilton, “The Examination, Number IX,” January 18, 1802“Perhaps no m ...

Two hundred years ago, on July 4, 1826, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died within hours of each other. Today, this is usually recalled, when it’s recalled at all, as trivia. But it was far from trivial when it happened. Americans were stunned that the two men most responsible for the Declaration o ...

George Washington, this nation’s first general, its inaugural president, the eponym of its capital city, left one of his most indelible marks on America from afar. Not one for a grand speech, Washington printed his Farewell Address in Philadelphia’s American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796, t ...

Earlier this year, President Trump claimed a new area of expertise: election law. “I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject,” Trump wrote on social media, and found an “irrefutable one” that he would soon present. He suggested that it would allow hi ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.TEN YEARS AGO TODAY, in the middle of the presidential campaign, an essay in The Atlantic set out to explain the appeal of Donald Trump. Its author traced that appeal to the social decline and cultural trauma he ...

On the eve of the United States’ 250th birthday, in the nation’s capital, people were sweating through their shirts, and tourists were pressing electric fans directly to their foreheads. The record-breaking heat wave that roasted the Midwest earlier this week has turned Washington, D.C., into hell. ...

An often forgotten historical truth about the American Revolution is the crucial role that Spain played in providing financing, logistical support, and supplies. As Greg Grandin details in America, América, in late 1776, Benjamin Franklin entered secret talks with the Bourbon Court to plead support ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Elon Musk isn’t just the world’s richest man—he’s one of the most influential people alive. His companies have transformed industries, his wealth has shattered records, and his politics now shape governments and public debate. But how did he become ...

The Mexican city of Tijuana, right across the border from California, had three teams this World Cup. First, and most obvious, is Mexico. Then there was Haiti, on account of the large Haitian migrant population that has put down roots in the city after being denied entry to the United States. And — ...

Who is responsible for American independence? The most common answer invokes a short list of familiar names: Washington, Jefferson, Adams. Despite their mistakes and biases, these men deserve the credit they’re typically given. But by focusing so much on the Founders, the conventional telling of Ame ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.This week in The Atlantic, Michael O’Donnell took aim at a film critic who is himself notorious for takedowns. Point by point, O’Donnell debunks the arguments in A Sudden Flicker of Light, D ...

“Heaven created all persons in the same rut.” This is how one early Japanese translation of the Declaration of Independence rendered the self-evident truth mentioned in its most celebrated sentence. To many Americans, this may sound like an eccentric misunderstanding of “all men are created equal.” ...

As everyone in the country who’s not a fanatical Trumpist breaths a sigh of relief over yesterday’s Supreme Court affirmation of birthright citizenship, it seems like a useful moment to reflect on Israel.The principle of birthright citizenship states that it matters not a whit who your parents are o ...

Jamir Nazir has become the face of the AI-writing crisis. In May, the largely unknown 62-year-old Trinidadian writer was named a regional winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Prize for his short story “The Serpent in the Grove.” But after it was published in the literary magazine Granta, signs beg ...

July 1976 wasn’t exactly a moment of unity in America, coming just after Roe v. Wade, Watergate, and the end of the Vietnam War. Nonetheless, the nation’s bicentennial was a display of patriotic capitalism. IBM released a bicentennial punch card. 7-Up had a series of cans that could be stacked into ...

A popular anecdote maintains that, upon their defeat at Yorktown, Lord Charles Cornwallis’s British fife-and-drum regiment was instructed by General George Washington to perform the Royalist anthem “The World Turned Upside Down.” As appealing as the story is, it’s almost certainly apocryphal.Traditi ...

This 250th year of American independence has seen no shortage of paeans to Thomas Paine, the high priest of the American Revolution. Organs of liberal-left politics from the Atlantic to the New York Times to the Nation have implored a return to Paine and his 1776 tract, Common Sense, in our moment o ...

In 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois told his friend George Streator, “I believe in Karl Marx. I am an out and out opponent of modern capitalistic labor exploitation. I believe in the ultimate triumph of socialism in a reasonable time, and I mean by socialism, the ownership of capital and machines by the state ...

One of feminism’s most enduring contributions to political thought has been its insistence that personal life matters politically. Long before questions of identity, subjectivity, and everyday life became fashionable across the humanities and social sciences, feminists argued that political dominati ...

Jonathan Chait has an essay in the Atlantic warning that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has become the very thing it was founded to oppose. There is nothing wrong with a liberal writer in a liberal publication taking aim at the socialist left. If anything, it is a good sign.The socialist ...

According to a 2013 Irish government report, more than ten thousand women and girls passed through Ireland’s Magdalene laundries. Primarily run by Roman Catholic orders in Ireland, the laundries were institutions where women and girls deemed “wayward” were incarcerated and subjected to forced labor. ...

The US Constitution is “not a living document,” Justice Antonin Scalia once said. “It’s dead, dead, dead.” In her Pulitzer Prize–winning book We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, Harvard historian Jill Lepore shows that the document’s demise came slowly. Before originalists like Scalia ...

In a probing Substack, John Judis writes, “In ten or fifteen years, it is very possible that the Democratic Party will be known as ‘democratic socialist’ in the same way it is now known widely as ‘liberal.’” Before you dismiss this as ideological patter from a political adventurer, you should know t ...

Labor unions have historically played an essential role in the fight for democracy and workers’ rights. Yet they have largely retreated during Donald Trump’s second presidency in the face of his administration’s vicious attacks on organized labor.In 2025, the number of strikes in the United States d ...

As Democrats struggle to rebuild their brand with working-class and rural voters, new evidence points to a surprisingly effective way to increase trust and connection: rebuilding the nonpartisan community organizations that were once crucial for providing the party a solid anchor in rural and small- ...

The United States is an exceptionally militarized, lethal, and violent country. The growing concentration of economic, political, and military power is draining America of vital resources to sustain healthy and peaceful communities. It is pushing more people to the margins, where a police officer, a ...

On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th birthday. Initially an inspiration to Latin American and Caribbean independence fighters seeking liberation from European colonization, the United States soon emerged as the premier obstacle to the pursuit of peace, equality, and self- ...

One of the great contradictions of American life is that we think of ourselves as a democracy, a model for the world, but one with a profoundly rich elite that exercises enormous influence over politics. Although we often feel (correctly) that democracy is eroding in the United States, we shouldn’t ...

In July 2021, Ivanka Trump was on a yacht off Albania’s western coast when she, like a modern-day Columbus, discovered Sazan Island, an Enver Hoxha–era army base. She and her husband Jared Kushner were so captivated by the pristine, unpopulated island that they decided to launch a $4 billion mega-re ...

Silicon Valley and other powerful industries have spent millions of dollars to defeat a landmark bill in California that would expand state regulations against monopolies and threaten common business practices of numerous tech giants. The Lever has uncovered that lawmakers who may cast the deciding ...

Donald Trump has made the issue of immigration a key battleground in American politics. But with public opinion swinging against the brutal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and deportations over the past year, how should the Left respond?On the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podc ...

On September 8, 2025, a tweet, soundtracked by Antonio Vivaldi’s “Spring,” went viral. In it, we’re shown a seemingly random collection of titles from Columbia University’s bookstore: Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks; a kids’ book about the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Richa ...

Across the world, it appears democracy is in retreat. Democratic institutions are degrading, voter turnout is plummeting, party membership is cratering, and citizens increasingly feel shut out of the decisions that govern their lives. Even in the healthiest capitalist democracies, elites wield outsi ...

If we wanted to capture the meaning of Carlo Ginzburg and his family’s relationship to antifascism, we could do no better than read Winter in the Abruzzi (1944), one of the finest stories by his mother, the celebrated writer Natalia Ginzburg.His father, Leone Ginzburg, a scholar of Russian literatur ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is on his way out of office. The former mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, is set to become the country’s seventh leader in the past decade. Burnham is in the process of selecting his front bench, including chancellor (the equivalent of the US treasury secretary). ...

Chanting, “We are not partners, we are workers,” hundreds of workers across Mexico who provide rides and deliveries through apps held a two-hour work stoppage on May 15 demanding fair rates, an end to unjustified deactivations, and ultimately a collective labor agreement with app giants like Uber, D ...

Socialist candidates for Congress are on a roll this election cycle.In May, Pennsylvania state house member Chris Rabb, endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), as well as incumbent democratic socialist representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, pulled a victory in th ...

Insurance companies get all the attention for gatekeeping Americans’ health care. But another corporate middleman may have even more influence over prescription prices: pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs. Most Americans haven’t heard of them, and that invisibility is part of their power.Senate candi ...

The United States’ descent into oligarchy was first gradual, then swift. While the ultrarich have been steadily accumulating political power for decades, the election of Donald Trump in 2024 rapidly accelerated the process. Since then, the country’s oligarchs have grown increasingly brazen in their ...

Omer Bartov is one of the world’s leading scholars of genocide and the Holocaust. A professor of history at Brown University, he has written extensively on nationalism, political violence, and historical memory.In his new book, Israel: What Went Wrong?, Bartov examines the evolution of Zionism from ...

V was a precocious child. By the time he was six, he was reading at a seventh-grade level, much to the amazement of his teachers in rural Louisiana. “They decided I was just the most wonderful curiosity since Edwin Merrick,” he says. His report cards were a source of great pride for his father, who ...

A top private prison company profiting from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is claiming immunity from lawsuits alleging forced labor at its detention centers. To do so, the company is using a controversial legal doctrine best known for shielding cops from police brutality claims.The p ...

The world is running out of time to kick our fossil fuel addiction and stave off the most destructive effects of climate change. To keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, climate scientist Kevin Anderson calculates that we need to cut emissions by 8 percent every year, starting now — which mea ...

Two years ago, the summer that he turned seventy, my father worked for his younger brother’s thriving contracting company. Week after sweltering week, Dad tore down ceiling tile, crushed ductwork, and carried heavy industrial air conditioners and other HVAC equipment out of an old school. The buildi ...

Of all the schemes devised by the rich and powerful to rip off workers and escape democratic accountability, private equity might be the most brazen and destructive. Born out of the conservative backlash of the 1980s, it was pitched as a way to save moribund Western economies and wrestle capitalism ...

In the opening paragraphs of William Morris’s utopian science fiction novel News From Nowhere, readers are confronted with a scene that will be as painfully familiar to many socialists in 2026 as it no doubt was when the work was first published in 1890. After a night of “brisk conversational discus ...

The very title of A NEW Democratic Party: The Comeback of the Left reflects the optimism and enthusiasm generated by Avi Lewis’s successful bid to become leader of Canada’s federal New Democratic Party (NDP). Lewis’s policy statements throughout the campaign expressed a clear-minded, even courageous ...

In its decision in Louisiana v. Callais last month, the US Supreme Court weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for districts with a high proportion of racial minorities to be gerrymandered out of existence. In response to this ruling, Republicans have been racing to redraw el ...

Every revolution, once it has reached its zenith, looks back and measures its achievements against the standards set by those that came before. On the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, it’s the opportune time to look back at the influence the English Revolution of the 1640s had on it.The ...

The central questions confronting the United Auto Workers (UAW) are no mystery: Can the union organize the nonunion auto industry, particularly across the South? Can it bargain contracts that reverse decades of concessions? Can it rebuild the kind of shop-floor power that once made the UAW the count ...

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 ...