Throughout the twentieth century, socialism came to be associated with both central planning and shortages. But could democratic ownership of the economy work alongside market competition?On the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber examines different mode ...

For seven weeks, American and Israeli air power dominated Iranian skies. High-altitude surveillance, precision strikes on military infrastructure and apartment buildings in Tehran, and near-uncontested flight paths defined the opening phase of the conflict. Iran absorbed the blows and responded not ...

Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz near Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 4, 2026. [File: Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via Reuters]

Caught between rising inflation and slowing growth, the United States Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England are keeping interest rates and borrowing costs steady.That’s despite rising energy bills, fuel and food costs squeezing businesses and households worldwide.The Int ...

A woman walks past a large tiled image of Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei in Tehran on May 9, 2026 [Atta Kenare/AFP]

Marty Makary, the Johns Hopkins surgeon who has led the FDA for the past year, is facing criticism from all sides. Vaping advocates are angry because of the FDA’s slow progress on green-lighting their products. Pro-life groups have called for Makary’s firing because he has not been tough enough on a ...

A Palestinian woman with kidney failure who hopes to leave Gaza to have further treatment abroad, undergoes dialysis treatment at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip on February 1, 2026 [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]On May 10, many flowers and many boxes of chocolates will be gift ...

In the beginning, God created Man and Man created cities. And from these cities sprang forth a service to cart Man around: the taxi. And it was good. So good that, over centuries, it barely changed. Visitors to ancient Rome could hail a cisium. In 17th-century France, they could take a fiacre. And 1 ...

Florida continues to Florida. Dissatisfied with the AP U.S. History curriculum (too woke), the state is trying to provide—as Kellyanne Conway used to say—alternative facts.I have some authority to speak on this issue because I wrote an entire book of bad, inaccurate AP U.S. History, so I know the ki ...

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.Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what ...

It’s hard to think of a time when the United States suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ignored. The calamitous losses suffered at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and throughout the Western Pacific in the first months of W ...

US forces patrol near the Iranian-flagged cargo ship MV Touska after capturing it on Sunday in the Arabian Sea [File: Handout/US Central Command on X via Reuters]

A burned-out car is pictured in Libya's capital [File: Mahmud Turkia/AFP]

Qatar defeated Jordan 3-1 to win the AFC Asian Cup 2023 at their home ground, Lusail Stadium [File: Molly Darlington/Reuters]Four-time winners Japan have been grouped with defending champions Qatar at the Asian Cup 2027 football tournament.Saudi Arabia will host the 24-team tournament for the first ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has made new appointments after criticism that he put many friends in posts in his interim government [File: Tolga Akmen/EPA]

Mourners react during the funeral of people killed in an Israeli strike in Saksakiyeh, in Haret Saida, Sidon district in Lebanon on May 10, 2026. [Aziz Taher/Reuters]Israeli jets have targeted more than 10 towns in southern Lebanon as the ceasefire between Iran and the United States appears to be ho ...

Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, right, and Spanish activist Saif Abu Keshek appear in court in Ashkelon, Israel [File: Ilia Yefimovich/AFP]

Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, right, and Spanish activist Saif Abu Keshek appear in court in Ashkelon, Israel [File: Ilia Yefimovich/AFP]

Nach einem bewaffneten Anschlag 2023 auf die Synagoge El-Ghriba in Tunesien reisen Pilger aus der ganzen Welt wieder auf die Insel Djerba.

French President Emmanuel Macron starts East Africa tour to mend ties after a series of setbacks [File: AFP]French President Emmanuel Macron has started a tour of East Africa as Paris seeks to rebuild its influence on the continent after a series of setbacks, especially in its former West African co ...

Iranian media is reporting that Tehran has sent to mediator Pakistan its response to a US proposal to end the war. Qatar’s PM has warned Iran that using the Strait of Hormuz “as a pressure card would only lead to deepening the crisis”.

Defence ministries in Kuwait and UAE have announced their air defences have shot down a number of drones coming in from Iran this morning. Israel’s relentless bombardment of Lebanon continues, with attacks killing at least 24 people on Saturday and more attacks on Sunday.

A woman reacts at the site of a Friday Israeli air strike on houses at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, May 9, 2026 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

A Palestinian family in Jenin says Israeli settlers forced them to exhume and rebury their father hours after his funeral. The settlers claimed the cemetery land belonged to the nearby Sa-Nur settlement. The UN rights office condemned the incident as part of a wider pattern of “dehumanisation of Pal ...

An Israeli flag flies adjacent to a road in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 7, 2026 [Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]

Winning a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities can take months of preparation and can require multiple attempts. So last year, when DOGE officials with no humanities experience yanked the funds of hundreds of grantees using little more than a chatbot and a haphazard search for terms ...

Longtime Donald Trump supporter Tucker Carlson has broken with the president on some key issues, becoming one of the country’s staunchest critics of the US relationship with Israel. Carlson is engaging with voices he once criticised, like The New York Times, and his rising popularity has fueled spec ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa shakes hands with Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam at the People's Palace in Damascus on May 9, 2026 [AFP/SANA]

Parteispitze will, dass Bundestagsabgeordnete den Großteil ihrer Bezüge spenden. Laut von einem Genossen beauftragter Expertise ist das rechtswidrig

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Al-Shati Refugee Camp, where families search through the rubble after overnight Israeli airstrikes despite a ceasefire. Residents described the attacks as a breach of the truce, saying they lost shelter, belongings and the only places they had left to stay.

A person in front of a large screen displaying vessel movements in the Strait of Hormuz on a ship-tracking website, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 4, 2026 [AFP]

Die Lausitzer siegen mit 2:1 gegen Wehen Wiesbaden und haben im hart umkämpften Aufstiegsrennen der 3. Liga nun die besten Karten am letzten Spieltag.

Für erfolgreiches Engagement gegen Neonazis ist mehr nötig als Protest. Es braucht den Mut, aus der eigenen Blase herauszutreten. Ein Kommentar

Die österreichische Polizei ruft auf, nicht bei Rom*nja einzukaufen. Einen weiteren Fall von Geschichtsrevisionismus kommentiert Sarah Yolanda Koss.

Those seeking to understand the history of capitalism are immediately presented with a formidable challenge. The complexity and historical sweep of the subject seem to invite treatment in weighty tomes, whether of classic or recent vintage, that demand considerable endurance from the reader. Those s ...

In the occupied West Bank, a marathon is a political statement. Palestinians ran alongside the separation wall today, a structure that cuts them off from their land, their families, and even the sea. Al Jazeera’s @leila.shw reports from Bethlehem.

Unkonkret und nicht gerade utopisch fällt das Wahlprogramm der SPD Berlin aus – Krach und König übernehmen mit großer Rückendeckung den Landesvorsitz.

Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. Is the United States still at war with Ira ...

“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land,” Frantz Fanon wrote in The Wretched of the Earth: “the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”Marching for over twenty days from the tropics into freezing high-altitude ter ...

Behörden im Bundesland Burgenland rufen dazu auf, keine Güter und Dienstleistungen von Rom*nja zu erwerben. Der Beirat der Roma zeigt sich empört.

Saif Abu Keshek, a Palestinian-Spanish activist, left, and Thiago Avila, a Brazilian activist, are to be released from Israeli detention [Max Cavallari/Greenpeace via AP]

Vehicles move on a road in Bahrain's capital Manama [File: AFP]

Rund 1500 Menschen beteiligten sich am Protest gegen einen Nazi-Aufmarsch und feierten anschließend den Tag der Befreiung vom Faschismus

For more than fifty years, conservatives and liberals alike in the United States have ignored, denied, and disparaged class struggle. Academic “left” liberalism has reduced class to a minor category of identity politics. But as Karl Marx explained, the class struggle carries on uninterrupted, even i ...

Iran's Mehdi Taremi trains with teammates in Antalya, Turkiye, in March [Umit Bektas/Reuters]

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.As I grew older, I began wondering about the version of my mother that existed before I did. Not just ...

Please don’t judge me, but in March 2020, when I moved across the country, I got rid of six boxes of books, including many classic works of literature and nonfiction. Gone were titles by Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey—I’d rather reread Pride and Prejudice) and Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities—pl ...

While the high-security corridors of Washington and Berlin are occupied with a frantic, transactional debate over NATO burden sharing and the fallout of the Iran blockade, a far more profound rupture is occurring in the quiet streets of the Rhineland-Palatinate.President Trump announced last week th ...

Spaceships. That’s all I’m asking for. Just one actual stinking spaceship. I’d also take an actual alien body—I’ve been told that the government has some of them as well. Instead, the first “alien files,” released yesterday, appear to be the same old, same old: stories, but no hard evidence—certainl ...

From the beginning, Soylent was shorthand for a certain kind of guy. A guy who worked in tech and probably wore a hoodie. A guy who, despite his six-figure salary, lived in an unfurnished apartment. Soylent Guy, above all else, did not have time for quotidian tasks such as cooking and chewing. One w ...

Was die Berliner CDU mit Helmut Kohl verbindet, ist mehr als Nostalgie. Insofern ergibt eine Straßenumbenennung sogar Sinn. Ein Kommentar

A selection of embroidered panels from the Gaza Genocide Tapestry [Courtesy of Palestine Museum US]I am a journalist; storytelling is my craft.Words are the tools I turn to, again and again, to make sense of events and shape them into narratives that do them justice. And yet, when it comes to the ge ...

Russland begeht den 81. Jahrestags des Siegs über Nazideutschland und denkt möglicherweise über ein Ende des Ukraine-Krieges nach.

It’s a low bar, perhaps, but no one in the Trump administration seems to be having more fun at the moment than Marco Rubio. Last weekend, he was acting as a DJ at a family wedding, headphones to his ear with head and hand pumping to the beat. Midweek, the secretary of state was at the podium in the ...

Der Plan der Bundesregierung zur Naturwiederherstellung ist recht unverbindlich. Agrar- sowie Wald- und Grundbesitzverbänden geht er aber zu weit.

Die Befreiung vom Faschismus wird in Berlin am historischen Ort der Kapitulation kontrovers gefeiert. Es gibt Streit um sowjetische Ehrenmale.

An Iranian walks next to an anti-US mural in a street in Tehran, Iran, 04 May 2026 [Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA]The war against Iran that the United States and Israel launched on February 28, 2026, will likely end in an American retreat. The United States cannot continue the war without producing disast ...

Israeli soldiers take security measures during a raid in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, on February 14, 2026 [Wisam Hashlamoun/Anadolu]

Government soldiers ride on the back of a pick-up truck in the Arabian Sea port city of Mukalla [File: Reuters]Marib, Yemen – Inside a military facility on the outskirts of this western Yemeni city, soldier Suleiman al-Hajj sits beside two of his comrades in a sparse room where they spend most of th ...

People ride motorcycles near a billboard featuring an image of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, on May 6, 2026 [Majid Asgaripour/West Asia News Agency via Reuters]This live page is now closed. You can continue to follow our coverage here.

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have escalated despite a United States-brokered ceasefire, killing at least 23 people so far today. The US awaits a formal response from Iran on a proposal to end the war, after Iranian media reported “sporadic clashes” between Iranian and US naval forces in the Strait of ...

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have escalated despite a United States-brokered ceasefire, killing at least 19 people so far today. The US awaits a formal response from Iran on a proposal to end the war, after Iranian media reported “sporadic clashes” between Iranian and US naval forces in the Strait of ...

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have escalated despite a United States-brokered ceasefire, killing at least 18 people so far today. The US awaits a formal response from Iran on a proposal to end the war, after Iranian media reported “sporadic clashes” between Iranian and US naval forces in the Strait of ...

The United States awaits a formal response from Iran on a proposal to end the war, after Iranian media reported “sporadic clashes” between Iranian and US naval forces in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said “every time a diplomatic solution is on the table, the US op ...

United States Secretary of State Marco ⁠Rubio told reporters that Washington should receive a response from Iran on Friday ‌to a US proposal to end the war. Iran’s Fars news agency reported “sporadic clashes” between Iranian and US naval forces in the Strait of Hormuz.

A student emailed me yesterday, panicked, in the early afternoon. She was worried about her final project in my university course, which was due at midnight. By the time I saw the email, three hours had elapsed. By the time we got on Zoom to discuss the matter, another 90 minutes.That’s when I learn ...

For more than four decades, the Ninth Congressional District of Tennessee stood as a bulwark, ensuring that the Black voters who compose a majority of the city of Memphis could choose their representative in Washington. With a nod from the Supreme Court, the state’s ruling Republicans took barely 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.I have a confession to make: I love listening to bad music.This realization came to me a few months ago ...

The Zawiya Oil Refinery west of Tripoli in Libya [Ben Curtis/AP]

Extreme weather events are ever more exposing the unsustainability of today’s anarchic global capitalism. When disasters strike, they unfailingly follow deep-seated fault lines in society: which is to say, lines of class. Such is the reality in Mathare, an informal settlement on the northeastern out ...

ASEAN leaders pose for a group photo during a welcome ceremony for the 48th Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Cebu, central Philippines on May 8, 2026 [AFP]

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.“There has been a threat to publicly release government material long shrouded in secrecy.” This sentence could have been intoned by a TV newscaster anytime in the past few years, about any number of real or all ...

Ken Burns, a two-time Oscar nominee and five-time Emmy winner, is arguably America’s greatest documentarian. And with his new six-part, twelve-hour series, The American Revolution — codirected with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and written by Geoffrey Ward — audiences finally have Burns’s definit ...

Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon seen from the city of Tyre [AFP]

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.The Pulitzer Prizes, whose 2026 honorees were announced this week, reward excellent American journalism, music, drama, and books. Public conversation about the six categories of book awards ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube On this week’s episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with his Atlantic colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany about what our phones are doing to us. Tiffany recently wrote about swapping her iPhone for a flip phone as part of a movement called “Month Off ...

The MV Hondius, the cruise ship where an outbreak of hantavirus was confirmed over the weekend, is moving once again. On Wednesday, after three people were evacuated, the ship departed from Cabo Verde. By Sunday, it will arrive at the Canary Islands, where the Spanish government says it can dock. So ...

President Trump really, really wants the war with Iran to end. He has declared victory many times, including about three weeks ago, when Iran briefly reopened the Strait of Hormuz. He has repeatedly extended his cease-fire deadlines instead of following through on his (sometimes-apocalyptic) threats ...

A pro-Israel group is preparing a nearly half-million-dollar ad blitz in a contentious California congressional primary race to boost a candidate who recently walked back from calling the Gaza war a genocide. The ad spend comes just days after Democratic Party leadership intervened to bankroll the s ...

Während sich die Spannungen zwischen dem Iran und den USA zuletzt zugespitzt haben, setzen die USA weiter auf eine Verhandlungslösung mit Teheran

Die Union lernt nichts und setzt im Umgang mit der Linksfraktion die unselige Gleichsetzung von rechts und links fort. Ein Kommentar

Der Krieg zwischen dem Iran und den USA findet kein Ende, jetzt griffen sich die beiden sogar wieder an. Israel schaut zu. Ein Kommentar.

Thabet, Maysoon and Hajja inside the family home [Al Jazeera]Khirbet al-Marajim, occupied West Bank — The metal door of the Masallam family home still bears the dents from a settler’s axe. Inside, the smell of freshly made cheese hangs beneath a stone-domed ceiling. Mattresses line the circular room ...

»Schulstreik«: In 150 Städten demonstrierten vor allem junge Menschen für friedliche Außenpolitik und gegen Zwangsdienste

Conjure in your mind’s eye the most grating, cynically obnoxious forms of claiming oppression and wielding supposed traumas in service of winning an argument that you can recall from the last few years. Are you feeling annoyed now? Good. Now imagine that same rhetoric being uttered by some of the wo ...

Bei Lokalwahlen in England muss die regierende Labour-Partei deutliche Einbußen hinnehmen. Um seinen Job bangen muss Premier Starmer trotzdem nicht

Verbände kritisieren, dass kommunale Stellen nicht vom Gesetz betroffen sind

The tenth Palestine International Marathon has been run in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, with a parallel race held in Gaza after a two-year hiatus caused by Israel’s war on the Strip.The 42km race began at 6am local time (03:00 GMT) on Friday, with thousands of Palestinian and internatio ...

Scroll through the New York Times’ Instagram Reels and a new editorial strategy is immediately evident. Amid breaking news and investigative reporting are celebrities cooking in the Times’ kitchen, giving culture recommendations to the camera, and chatting with journalists in a format nearly indisti ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.Throughout year one of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV has been especially vocal about two issues: immigration and war. The first American pope has spoken of the “inalienable rights” of migrants and lamented the growing, global “zeal for war.” He ...

Zamalek defeated another Algerian side Chabab Belouizdad in the semifinals [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]

Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni welcomes US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at Palazzo Chigi in Rome on May 8, 2026 [Stefano Rellandini/AFP]

Der Tag der Befreiung vom Faschismus am Freitag in Berlin am sowjetischen Ehrenmal im Treptower Park

Der Bundesrat hat die von der Bundesregierung gewünschte steuerfreie Einmalzahlung für Beschäftigte durchfallen lassen. Diese ist ohnehin schädlich.

Ministerin kritisiert, Streichung von Sprachkursen sei ein »integrationspolitisches Erdbeben« gewesen

Updated on May 8 at 5:24 p.m. ETThere are a few ways to think about Iowa. You might imagine America’s 29th state as the land of corn and pigs (20 million hogs can’t be wrong, reads my favorite T-shirt for sale at the Eastern Iowa Airport). Maybe you associate it with Field of Dreams, Caitlin Clark, ...

Marcin Golba / NurPhoto / GettyA Finnish lapphund pauses after fetching a ball in Łuczyce, Poland, on May 1, 2026.Martin Bernetti / AFP / GettyA dog cools off under a stream of water during high temperatures at Omar Torrijos Herrera Recreational and Cultural Park in Panama City on May 3, 2026.Lintao ...

A collection of avid bowlers across the country has filed a class-action lawsuit against private equity–backed bowling giant Bowlero, accusing the company of a “multi-year anticompetitive scheme to consolidate bowling centers,” which has led to skyrocketing bowling prices, deteriorating lanes, and “ ...

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy speedboats move during an exercise in Abu Musa island, in this picture obtained on August 2, 2023 [Handout/IRGC/West Asia News Agency via Reuters]

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy's speedboats move during an exercise in Abu Musa island, in this picture obtained on August 2, 2023 [IRGC handout/West Asia News Agency via Reuters]

Leverkusen, Stuttgart und Hoffenheim gehen punktgleich in den Endspurt. Auch Freiburg hat noch eine besondere Hintertür.

On December 1, 1936, a group of artists stormed the New York City office of the Works Progress Administration. They were protesting budget cuts to the Federal Art Project, a New Deal program that employed artists to create works for public spaces across the country. Of the 219 who were arrested, sev ...

In this picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency, vessels are pictured anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in southern Iran [File: Amirhossein Khorgooei/ISNA/via AFP]

Bundesverband Selbsthilfe Körperbehinderter warnt vor Einschnitten bei Teilhabeleistungen im Gesetz zur Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderungen

Yalçın Tekinoğlu über Verfahren gegen Menschen, die sich propalästinensisch äußern, und politischen Druck auf Grundrechte

Zwei Berliner Mieter nutzen künstliche Intelligenz, um überhöhte Heizkosten aufzudecken – und wollen ihr Werkzeug für alle zugänglich machen

Gaza mother Maha Abu Shaar holds her phone displaying a photo of her son Eid as she cries with joy and sadness after discovering he is alive but in an Israeli prison [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]For 18 months, the family of Eid Nael Abu Shaar, aged 25, a Palestinian man from Gaza, believed this eldest son ...

Mitglieder von Vertriebenenverband wollen Treffen auf Einladung von Festival-Veranstaltern in Brno abhalten. Protest von rechts und links

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.In early February, while much of the world was focused on a looming war in the Persian Gulf, an outspoken Iranian exile named Masood Masjoody disappeared in Canada. Days later, 10 other well-known diaspora figures were tagged in a menacing anon ...

Photographs by Paola ChapdelaineAdam Silver is one of America’s most powerful men. Part businessman and part diplomat, he leads a multibillion-dollar international conglomerate and exercises soft power across continents. But on the day we met, the commissioner of the National Basketball Association ...

Einige Länder setzen in der Iran-Krise auf zielgerichtete Unterstützung armer Haushalte. Die Bundesrepublik gehört nicht dazu

Einige Länder setzen in der Irankrise auf zielgerichtete Unterstützung armer Haushalte. Die Bundesrepublik gehört nicht dazu

Shireen Abu Akleh shows her reporting from Jerusalem on June 12, 2021. Palestinian American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead by an Israeli soldier [AFP]The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded a “public progress update” from United States authorities on the FBI probe into the ...

The Iranian navy fires a missile at an unknown location, in this still image taken from a video [Pool via WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters]

Motorcyclists queue to refuel at a petrol station in the city of Mukalla, as a new round of fuel hikes by the Yemeni government pushes up prices and further strains daily life and transport costs [Saeed Al Batati/Al Jazeera]

Iran has accused the United States of violating their ceasefire by targeting two ships near the Strait of Hormuz and attacking civilian areas along the country’s southern coast, as tensions continue to escalate around the strategic waterway.US Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces intercepted “u ...

Der Iran und die USA beschießen sich in der Straße von Hormus gegenseitig. Teheran spricht von einem Verstoß gegen die Waffenruhe.

In dem Ausschuss zur Kontrolle der Geheimdienste sitzt mit dem Grünen Konstantin von Notz weiterhin nur ein einziger Abgeordneter der Opposition.

Vessels are pictured anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in southern Iran [File: Amirhossein Khorgooei/ISNA via AFP]

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says “Iranians never bow to pressure” and “every time a diplomatic solution is on the table the US opts for a reckless military adventure” after new US attacks. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is expecting a response from Tehran on its latest pea ...

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says “Iranians never bow to pressure” and “every time a diplomatic solution is on the table the US opts for a reckless military adventure” after US attacks. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is expecting a response from Tehran on its latest peace p ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is expecting a response from Tehran on its latest peace proposal at some point today. Iran announced that it seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman and directed it to the country’s southern coast.

Iran’s military said United States forces targeted an Iranian oil tanker in coastal waters and a second vessel near the United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah port, while US air strikes hit civilian areas in Bandar Khamir, Sirik and Qeshm Island in southern Iran. Iranian air defences were also active over w ...

Iran’s military said United States forces targeted an Iranian oil tanker in coastal waters and a second vessel near the United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah port, while US air strikes hit civilian areas in Bandar Khamir, Sirik and Qeshm Island in southern Iran. Iranian air defences were also active over w ...

Iran’s military said US forces targeted an Iranian oil tanker in coastal waters and a second vessel near the United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah port, while US air strikes hit civilian areas in Bandar Khamir, Sirik and Qeshm Island in southern Iran. Iranian air defences were also active over western Tehr ...

Iran’s military said United States forces targeted an Iranian oil tanker in coastal waters and a second vessel near the United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah port, while US air strikes hit civilian areas in Bandar Khamir, Sirik and Qeshm Island in southern Iran. Iranian air defences were also active over w ...

When Stephen Kornfeld set sail aboard the MV Hondius in early April, his grand plan for the cruise was to add as many new species as possible to his birding list. A medical oncologist based in Bend, Oregon, Kornfeld is also an avid birder—second on eBird’s renowned rankings of birders worldwide—and ...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.For true fans of Diet Coke, soda is sacrament, and reverence comes with strict parameters. The fountain ...

Israeli soldiers drive a tank in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel, April 29 [Ariel Schalit/AP Photo]

Clinging to a fence at the Rafah border in southern Gaza [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

Before Ted Turner created a world of endless news, he imagined how the news would end. In 1980, in the run-up to the launch of CNN—in the days when 24-hour news cycle was a pipe dream, and something of a joke—the future mogul commissioned a segment to be aired in the case of environmental disaster, ...

The US Ambassador to the United Nations is joined by envoys from Gulf countries as he speaks to reporters about a UNSC draft resolution on the Strait of Hormuz, May 7, 2026 [Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP]

Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world’s most prominent advocate for irreligiosity, has become besotted with the godlike power of a chatbot. According to his recent essay for the online magazine UnHerd, Anthropic’s Claude has really blown his hair back. After a few days of on-and-off conversations with ...

China is emerging as a major player in global diplomacy – including in the Middle East.In 2023, it helped re-establish diplomatic ties between Riyadh and Tehran.While it is not officially mediating efforts to end the ongoing war – both the United States and Iran are looking to China to help de-escal ...

A displaced girl in a makeshift camp in Beirut, May 5, 2026 [Wael Hamzeh/EPA]

An oil tanker at one of Iraq's offshore terminals near Basra [Mohammed Aty/Reuters]

The US accuses Iraqi oil officials of helping Iran avoid sanctions through corrupt methods [Mohammed Aty/Reuters]

WEST BENGAL, India – As campaign rallies, television theatrics, and symbolic culture-war politics dominated headlines in India’s West Bengal election, millions of voters were dealing with a less visible crisis: their names missing from the electoral rolls.After more than a decade without a voter-rol ...

Con men are irritating for a lot of reasons. One of the biggest is how little respect they have for their marks. The very human response to most confidence pitches is some version of, “You must think I’m pretty stupid, don’t you?” And when it comes to conservative grifters, the answer has historical ...

Rescuers work at the site of an Israeli strike, a day after it hit the southern suburbs of Beirut on May 6, 2026 [Mohamad Azakir/Reuters]

Der 8. Mai soll endlich Feiertag sein und rechte Aufmärsche gehören blockiert: In der Kleinstadt Demmin gibt es erstaunlich große Proteste

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (centre) meets officials on March 1, 2026. [IRIB/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/handout via Reuters]

With his presidential library, former President Barack Obama is unveiling an oligarch-funded shrine to himself amid everyone in America being fleeced by oligarchs. It’s a perfect bookend of a presidency that bailed out its Wall Street donors who were throwing millions of Americans out of their homes ...

Der niederländische Umweltaktivist Donald Pols steht in der Kritik, weil er künftig beim Umweltverschmutzer Tata Steel hoch dotiert seine Brötchen verdient.

In the before times—before machines could hallucinate, before compute was a noun—it was not uncommon to go several weeks without someone telling me the world was about to end. Similarly, a whole season might pass without anyone assuring me that it was also, simultaneously, about to become perfect.Th ...

Climate policy has long been framed as a trade-off between protecting the environment and protecting jobs. At a moment when affordability and the cost of living have become major political issues, this raises new challenges and opportunities for the climate left. The Trump administration has tried t ...

In München weist die Kampagne »No Alliance with Genocide« auf Verstrickungen des Versicherers in die israelische Rüstungsfinanzierung hin

The surveillance video begins with a seemingly innocent scene: A Jewish man stands next to a bus shelter, adjusting his yarmulke. Suddenly, he is pummeled by a passerby and stabbed repeatedly until he is propelled off-screen. The victim’s skullcap, which had fallen into the street, slowly wafts away ...

The Strokes broke through in the early 2000s with crisp-toned vintage guitars and an unapologetic croon from their lead singer. It was to be a decade marked by a return of sounds from the past.Despite the vastly different genres, the Strokes, Amy Winehouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, TV on the Radio ...

Ukrainian tourist Ruslana Novak and her friend had Jordan’s ancient city of Petra largely to themselves as they stood before its vast facade carved into pink sandstone.Since the United States and Israel’s war on Iran began in late February, the famed Rose City has been largely deserted, its usual cr ...

Die Tarifrunde beim Anne-Frank-Zentrum läuft an – doch Kürzungen drohen

Andreas Koristka freut sich schon auf die Olympischen Spiele in Berlin

Die neue Anti-Terror-Strategie der USA ist weniger Sicherheitsdoktrin als ein Manifest der extremen Rechten

We’re not even halfway through 2026, and global conflicts are already surging.Last year marked a grim turning point with nearly 60 active conflicts worldwide, war-related deaths at a 30-year high and more than 120 million people displaced.I’m Ali Rae, a journalist with Al Jazeera English and present ...

Last December, Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner was interviewed on the socialist podcast Left Reckoning. The hosts asked him about his approach to voters who are swayed by Trumpian demagoguery and played a clip from one of his town halls. In the clip, a woman in the audience asks him how he pla ...

Briefe nicht beantworten ist gut, Protest gegen den »neuen Wehrdienst« und Kriegsdienstverweigerung besser, meint Jana Frielinghaus

Anja Köhne (Germanwatch) über Kerosineinsparung, Verhaltensänderung und die Zukunft des Reisens

Fatima Arafa, a pregnant and displaced Palestinian woman, eats a meal inside her tent, where she has taken shelter with her family after fleeing Israeli attacks in Gaza City, July 10, 2025 [Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters]

Berlin und Brandenburg begehen den Tag der Befreiung vom Faschismus. Allein in der Hauptstadt sind mehr als 60 Versammlungen angemeldet.

When the curtain of New York’s Metropolitan Opera House rose for the closing matinee of Porgy and Bess in January, the boos that typically accompany the entrance of the show’s villains were a mere murmur. The nearly 4,000 people who packed the space to capacity—175 of them standing-room ticket holde ...

Die libanesische Regisseurin Lana Daher erzählt in ihrem Debütfilm »Do You Love Me« die Geschichte von Beirut

Ex-Nationalfußballer Niklas Süle beendet mit 30 seine Karriere. Der Dortmunder Profi schützt seinen Körper und entzieht ihn lästigen Diskussionen

Republic of Ireland fans display the flag of Palestine in the stands before a football match at the country's national stadium in Dublin in 2024 [Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters]

The Turkish-made intercontinental ballistic missile, Yildirimhan, on display at the SAHA International Defence and Aerospace exhibition in Istanbul, May 6, 2026 [AP Photo]

Working from home. Fuel queues. Blackouts. This is the fallout from the war on Iran across Asia. Governments are scrambling to shield their economies from the worst of the energy crisis. Some are rationing fuel. Others are reintroducing subsidies or limiting exports altogether. And the longer the St ...

You’re scrolling TikTok, Instagram, or one of the many other apps where short-form video devours your time (maybe the app you use to order sushi). You come across a stranger doing something amusing while a song plays in the background. A few swipes later, you hear the song again. Now it’s in your he ...

Motorcycle taxi drivers queue to refuel at a petrol station in Karatina, Kenya [File: Simon Maina/AFP]

Für Sebastian Weiermann ist die Migrationspolitik kein Erfolg

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsEvery generation of feminism has the tormentor it needs. For mine, it was Martha Stewart, a tycoon masquerading as a domestic goddess, who taunted us with her lazy afternoons on the farm picking peaches and tending to her fl ...

Photographs by Kevin Wurm“My dad was a big Lakers fan,” Kobe Shaquille Robinson told me, indulging an admittedly obvious question. Robinson was born in 2001, in the middle of Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal’s three-NBA-championship run. But he discovered early on that his name couldn’t help him sho ...

Statt die Zionismus-Debatte zu führen, sollte sich Die Linke besser auf den Kampf gegen Genozid, Apartheid und Besatzung konzentrieren

Statt die Zionismus-Debatte zu führen, sollte sich Die Linke besser auf den Kampf gegen Genozid, Apartheid und Besatzung konzentrieren

Iran has said that it was reviewing a United States peace proposal that sources said would formally end the war, while leaving unresolved the key US demands that Iran suspend its nuclear programme and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson quoted by Iran’s ISNA news age ...

Mohsen Mahdawi speaks outside the court after a judge released the Palestinian student activist on April 30, 2025 [File: Amanda Swinhart/AP]

Erstmals haben Ärzte und Menschenrechtler auf einem Symposium in Deutschland über die Gesundheitsversorgung in Gaza beraten

Nach kurzfristig abgesagter Premierenfahrt im Februar sollen nun zusätzliche Stützen bei U2 und U5 am Alexanderplatz den Einsatz möglich machen.

Nach dem frustrierenden Aus im Halbfinale gegen Paris St.-Germain planen die Münchner schon den nächsten Angriff in der Champions League.

French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle off the coast of the Greek island of Crete, April 27, 2026 [AFP]

French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle off the coast of the Greek island of Crete, April 27, 2026 [AFP]

Amal Sobeih lost her husband Yahya during Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, and she is now raising her three children alone [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

Israeli military vehicles leave Lebanon, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border, in northern Israel [Ammar Awad/Reuters]

Rechtsextreme liegen vier Monate vor der Wahl bei 41 Prozent. CDU verliert an Boden. Linke-Frontfrau von Angern: »Hoffe, dass der Schuss gehört wird«.

Rechtsaußen-Partei führt das Ranking klar an, bekäme bei der anstehenden Landtagswahl aber keine absolute Mehrheit

Deepfake-Skandale soll es in der Europäischen Union künftig nicht mehr geben. Deshalb nimmt Brüssel auch die KI-Anbieter ins Visier

Unionsfraktionschef spricht sich für die bisherige Regelung aus. SPD und Linke wollen die Erhöhung aussetzen

Neue Anti-Terror-Strategie der US-Regierung visiert Europa und radikale linke Kräfte an

Why don’t more Republicans defy President Trump? The president’s poll numbers are bad. The war in Iran is raising gasoline prices. The president’s family is pocketing billions. The president seems to care only about building glitzy monuments to himself. With the impending midterms looking pretty bad ...

Iran continues to review a 14-point US proposal to end the war and is expected to convey a response to Pakistani mediators later today. US President Donald Trump says he held “very good talks” with Iran adding “it’s very possible we’ll make a deal”.

One of J. Edgar Hoover’s greatest reforms at the FBI was his embrace of fingerprinting. During the 1930s, visitors to the FBI offices in Washington, D.C., received souvenir fingerprint cards featuring his name. The men who succeeded him as FBI director were more discreet and judicious, mindful of th ...

Over the weekend, reproductive-health-care providers across the country confronted a puzzle they had never before needed to solve at scale: how to offer medication abortion without mifepristone. The drug, also known as the abortion pill, is the first in a two-pill regimen that the FDA approved for p ...

Palestinians gather around a vehicle hit by an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza on May 6, 2026 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]

“As Maine goes, so goes the nation” is an old adage that describes the nearly one-hundred-year streak of Maine politics as the bellwether of presidential elections. Between 1820 and 1958, elections were held in September so farmers from one of the most rural states in the country could participate b ...

A Palestinian woman ushers her children away from a group of Israeli soldiers during a weekly settlers’ tour in Hebron, in the Israeli‑occupied West Bank [File: Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]

People gather at the site of an Israeli strike that targeted Beirut's southern suburbs, May 6, 2026 [Ibrahim Amro/AFP]

The Devil Wears Prada 2 strutted to the top of the box office in the first days of its theatrical run — a surprise to no one who saw the first Devil Wears Prada twenty years ago, then watched its popularity grow over the decades from a brisk, lively comedy fave affectionately skewering the fashion i ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsIn this episode of The David Frum Show, David is joined by his wife, the writer Danielle Crittenden, to discuss her new memoir, Dispatches From Grief, and the loss of their daughter Miranda.The following is a transcript of t ...

Kurz vor knapp überarbeitet die Bundesregierung das Gleichbehandlungsgesetz. Die Antidiskriminierungsstelle fordert Nachschärfungen.

On a blistering day in May 2008, seventeen-year-old farmworker María Isabel Vásquez Jiménez was tying grapevines in a vineyard outside Stockton, California, when the temperature crept past 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It was only her second day on the job. She was two months pregnant and, according to in ...

Das neue Wehrdienstgesetz ist beschlossen, die ersten Musterungen rücken näher. Jugendliche rufen zum dritten Streiktag auf

Last year, I took a drastic step to protect my attention: I cut off my home internet service. I already refuse to get a smartphone and have long paid for an app to block internet access on my laptop when I need to be productive. Yet I was still wasting too many late-night hours scrolling X, or watch ...

Das unwürdigen Gezerre um die Finan­zierung des Rettungs­dienstes im Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald beschädigt das Vertrauen in den Staat.

Während der Konflikt mit den USA weiter schwelt, sucht der Iran das Gespräch mit Verbündeten. Außenminister Araghtschi führt Gespräche in China

Seit Monaten verschlechtert sich der Gesundheitszustand der iranischen Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Narges Mohammadi. Ihr Umfeld wendet sich an die Uno

Das Berliner Verwaltungsgericht erklärt die Ausweisung einer pro­paläs­ti­nen­sischen Aktivistin für rechts­widrig – ein Rück­schlag für den Senat

Im Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald droht, dass Patienten den Notarzt zunächst selbst bezahlen müssen. Doch die Bescheide gehen vorerst nicht raus

This story was updated on May 6, 2026 at 11:39 a.m.The Trump administration’s war against freedom of the press has reached a startling new low.According to a report this morning from MS NOW, the FBI has opened a criminal investigation focusing on my Atlantic colleague Sarah Fitzpatrick, related to a ...

Schon vor einem Jahrzehnt verabschiedete sich die Allianz SE öffentlichkeitswirksam von der Finanzierung von Kohleförderung und Co.

This story was updated on May 6, 2026, at 4:50 p.m.Nearly three weeks after The Atlantic reported that some government officials were alarmed by FBI Director Kash Patel’s behavior, including conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences, MS NOW reported this morning that the bureau has “launched ...

The Trump administration has quietly hired a team of scandal-plagued private debt collectors to hound immigrants slapped with new multimillion-dollar civil penalties for not leaving the country, according to documents reviewed by the Lever. All of the companies previously worked on a federal student ...

Der legendäre Tierfilmer Sir David Attenborough wird am 8. Mai 100 Jahre alt – und filmt einfach immer weiter

Das Tagebuch des Norwegers Odd Nansen dokumentiert den Schrecken und die Traumata im KZ Sachsenhausen. Karsten Krampitz hat Auszüge zusammengestellt.

»Serotonin« ist zu Gast beim Berliner Theater­treffen. Der Schau­spieler Guido Lambrecht, der diesen gewaltigen Abend alleine stemmt, im Gespräch

Über die Hälfte der Krankenhausbehandlungen wäre auch ambulant möglich – ohne Rund-um-die-Uhr-Betreuung.

Schulreinigung soll nun per App überprüft werden. Eine Rekommunalisierung steht allerdings nicht auf der Tagesordnung.

As usual, US states redrew their congressional district maps after the 2020 census. Due to a series of Supreme Court rulings in the 1960s, congressional and state legislative districts are required to contain an equal number of people. “The right to vote freely for the candidate of one’s choice is o ...

Nicht Feinde Israels, sondern Freunde des Landesbeauftragten Andreas Büttner schmierten Hamas-Dreieck und setzten Schuppen in Brand

Warum ich beim Retten der Welt auf keinen Fall dabei bin

Unbelegte Berichte über US-Waffenlieferung an Kurden geben dem Iran einen Vorwand für Angriffe auf kurdische Gebiete – mit fatalen Folgen.

Each year, the undergraduate college at Harvard awards the Sophia Freund Prize to the graduating senior with the highest GPA. For decades, the prize went to one student, sometimes two if there was a tie. In 2025, there was a 55-way tie. The top students all had a perfect GPA. Hundreds more were near ...

In Indien siegt die Partei BJP von Premier Modi bei vier weiteren Regionalwahlen. Für die Linke in Kerala gab es ein Desaster

Neuer Report des AOK-Instituts Wido sieht Änderungsbedarf bei der Krankenhausreform, unter anderem bei Leistungsgruppen und Ambulantisierung.

Last summer, Giorgia Meloni’s Italian government approved a so-called “anti-Gandhi law,” which criminalizes even nonviolent protests and passive resistance. The highly controversial “Security Decree” was recently followed by a further one, introducing measures such as preventive detention during pub ...

Beim Wirtschaftstag des CDU-Wirtschaftsrats verteidigt der Kanzler die schwarz-rote Koalition und stellt scharfe Forderungen an den Koalitionspartner

Feine Kunststoffpartikel in der Luft absorbieren das Sonnenlicht und tragen so zur Erd­erwärmung bei.

Die Band Frei.Wild geht auf Tournee durch Deutschland. Ein Gespräch mit dem Musikwissenschaftler Thorsten Hindrichs

Der Giro d’Italia expandiert nach Osten. Topfavorit ist Jonas Vingegaard, sein größter Herausforderer der italienische Jungstar Giulio Pellizzari.

Stephanie Hollenstein machte als Künstlerin unter Hitler Karriere

Bei einer Mieter-Anhörung der Linken in Berlin berichten Vonovia-Mieter von systematischer Abzocke – die Partei will das Thema in den Bundestag tragen

Wie Häftlinge im KZ Buchenwald 1941 sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen halfen und was dies für den späteren Lagerwiderstand bedeutete

Impfstoffhersteller will drei Standorte schließen und massiv Stellen abbauen. Die Gewerkschaft ist sauer

Ein Plädoyer für mehr Gelassenheit im Umgang mit Straßenfesten

Der 1. Mai muss wieder zu einem wahren Kampftag um die Rechte der Arbeiter werden, meint unsere Partnerzeitung »Naše Pravda« aus Prag

CDU-Oberbürgermeister Ursu geht mit breiter Unterstützung in einen Zweikampf mit dem AfD-Mann, dem er 2019 fast unterlag. Linke mit »Symbolkandidatur«

Grace Mausser, Ko-Vorsitzende der Democratic Socialists of America – New York City über den Wahlkampf Zohran Mamdanis und linke Politik in den USA

Eine Erinnerung an die Bücher­verbrennung 1933 und den verfolgten Literaten Ernst Erich Noth

Sebastian Weiermann begrüßt die Ermittlungen gegen junge Nazi-Gruppen und warnt gleichzeitig, diese könnten sich gewachsenen Strukturen anschließen.

Nach ihrem Sieg bei Paris-Roubaix führte die Deutsche nun die Vuelta Femenina an und zeigt, dass ihr Aufstieg im Frauenradsport kein Zufall ist.

In »Nürnberg« werden der Psychiater Douglas M. Kelley und dessen Gespräche mit Hermann Göring vor Beginn der Nürnberger Prozesse ins Zentrum gestellt.

Das Friedrichshainer Kulturareal RAW-Gelände soll mit Hochhäusern bebaut werden. Eine Initiative fordert, die bestehenden Gebäude zu erhalten.

Die BVG muss wegen der Ampelphasen der Kreuzung am SEZ in Friedrichshain Züge kürzen und Fahrten umleiten. Auch am Frankfurter Tor flutscht es nicht.

Chaos statt Glamour: Nadia Shehadeh hat einen neuen Trend in der Popmusik ausgemacht. Selbst Madonna macht mit.

Ewald Iljenkows »Kosmologie des Geistes« liegt auf Deutsch vor

36 Personen wird die Bildung oder Mitgliedschaft in den kriminellen Vereinigungen »Jung und Stark« sowie »Deutsche Jugend voran« vorgeworfen.

Polizeiliche Maßnahmen in acht Städten richten sich gegen die Gruppe »Jung und Stark«. Sicherheitskreise sprechen von zehn Beschuldigten.

Nach der Amokfahrt kommt der Täter vorerst in ein psychiatrisches Krankenhaus. Ihm werden zweifacher Mord sowie versuchter Mord vorgeworfen.

Norovirus loves a cruise ship. So did the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. The crowded rooms, stuffy air, and communal dining of a giant boat filled with humans create the ideal conditions for pathogens to spread. Now hantavirus—a highly deadly rodent-borne pathogen that typically spreads when ...

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.By the United States military’s estimation, about 1,550 marine vessels—oil tankers, bulk carriers, cont ...

Michael, the new biopic of “King of Pop” Michael Jackson, has gotten scathing reviews, which it deserves. Nevertheless, it’s a huge hit. This figures, in part because critics are more and more aware of the biopic as a rotten film formula, while the viewing public tends to like biopics, though they’r ...

Every year, the Met Gala—the opulent celebration of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute—unveils a theme with a dress code that its famous attendees then attempt to interpret. And every year, many of the guests fail the assignment: They arrive in a superficial take on “punk” or an awkw ...

Donald Trump’s return to power has brought chaos and real harm to millions of people. It’s no surprise that much of the opposition to his administration has been defensive, trying to block the worst abuses and hold the line where it can. But that can’t be the whole strategy.If the Left wants to defe ...

Der »Omnibus für direkte Demokratie« sammelt in Berlin Unterschriften für die Volksbegehren »Werbefrei« und »Autofrei«

Die USA und der Iran bleiben in der Straße von Hormus auf Konfrontationskurs. Pakistan mahnt zur Zurückhaltung, Irans Außenminister reist nach China.

Der Plan für Sommerspiele in der Hauptstadt rechnet mit hohem finan­ziellen Gewinn. Fast alle erforder­lichen Sport­stätten sind demnach vorhanden.

Das Bundesinnenministerium stuft nach wiederholten Attacken durch Milizen auch Libyens Such- und Rettungszone als gefährlich ein – besonders für NGOs.

Ein Jahr Merz, und die Koalition hält nur noch aus Angst vor der AfD zusammen. Sie »funktioniert« nur deshalb, weil ihr Scheitern zu riskant ist.

Der südafrikanische Literaturnobelpreisträger begründet die Absage seiner Teilnahme mit Israels »Kampagne des Völkermords«

On April 10, moments before a ceasefire was announced, Donald Trump was making unhinged threats of civilizational genocide against Iran if that country’s regime didn’t immediately open the Strait of Hormuz. Two days later, Trump announced that because negotiations had failed, the United States would ...

The debate over Israel’s war with Hamas has been unusually vicious in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where pro-Palestine activists have vandalized, spat on, and menaced targets they deemed too Zionist. At the University of Michigan’s graduation ceremony on an unseasonably chilly Saturday morning in front of s ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did not die all at once, or by one means. It died through attrition: a Congress that was too sclerotic and polarized to defend one of its finest accomplishments, lawyers and academics who tolerated retreats on civil rights, a society that lapsed into the comfortable ill ...

Besucher und Standbetreuer treten im brandenburgischen Buckow gewalttätigen Anhängern der rechten Partei Der Dritte Weg entgegen

Besucher und Standbetreuer treten im brandenburgischen Buckow gewalttätigen Anhängern der rechten Partei Der Dritte Weg entgegen

Der scheidende Linke-Vorsitzende Jan van Aken über internationale Politik und neue Kriege

Seit einem Jahr ist Wolfram Weimer im Amt. Das nd-Feuilleton hat – nicht immer schmerzfrei – in den Schriften des Kultur­staats­ministers geblättert

Geflüchtete Frauen haben auf dem deutschen Erwerbsarbeitsmarkt einen bis zu 41 Prozent geringeren Stundenlohn. Das beeinflusst ihre Bleibeperspektive.

The opposition’s monumental victory in Hungary has swept away the petty despotism that strangled the country’s dreams for over a decade and upended the myth of the far right’s inevitable momentum. The government to be sworn in on May 9 faces a historic opportunity that carries a profound burden of r ...

Auf der Hauptversammlung der Allianz SE in München will eine Kampagne gegen die Unterstützung von Israels Verbrechen durch den Konzern protestieren

Cyrus Salimi-Asl kritisiert das Treffen des deutschen Außenministers Johann Wadephul mit seinem israelischen Amtskollegen Gideon Saar als inopportun.

Jens Büttner / DPA / GettyA helper splashes a stranded humpback whale at sunset in shallow waters of the Baltic Sea near Fährdorf, off the island of Poel, Germany, on April 24, 2026. The humpback whale, nicknamed Timmy by German media, became stranded in the area three weeks earlier.Daniel Bockwoldt ...

Schwarz-Rot trat mit dem Anspruch an, Stabilität und Handlungsfähigkeit zurückzubringen. Ein Jahr später ringt die Regierung vor allem mit sich selbst.

Internetkonzerne zu besteuern und von den Erlösen Medien zu fördern, ist überfällig. Doch ohne klare Kriterien droht eine problematische Verteilung.

15 Jahre nach der Öffnung arbeiten viele polnische Beschäftigte noch immer prekär. Seit 2024 migrieren mehr Deutsche in den Nachbarstaat als umgekehrt.

Am 10. Mai Stichwahl im brandenburgischen Landkreis Barnim: Die Brandmauer steht und der Vorsprung des Amtsinhabers scheint komfortabel.

Am 9. Mai 1976 wurde Ulrike Marie Meinhof erhängt in ihrer Gefängniszelle aufgefunden. Eine Erinnerung an sie als kommunistische Journalistin.

Im Gefängnis gibt es nur das Recht auf eine Stunde Kontakt zu anderen Häftlingen täglich. Aufschlusszeiten werden vor allem in der U-Haft beschränkt.

In recent years, the perils of body mass index, or BMI, have become a hobbyhorse for professionals in several fields of medicine and research. For decades, doctors have used BMI to help diagnose and treat obesity, diabetes, and other chronic conditions, even as evidence has accumulated that the metr ...

How does she do it? Not just the neat trick of beguiling highbrow critics while at the same time pleasing millions of readers who don’t care about literary bona fides. The real feat is harpooning the reader artlessly (or so it seems), with language as plain as a Congregational church, a paucity of d ...

Spaniens sozialdemokratischer Ministerpräsident Pedro Sánchez setzt auf die Außenpolitik, um die nächsten landesweiten Parlamentswahlen zu gewinnen.

Im größten Gefängnis Niedersachsens sind die Haftbedingungen auch wegen Personalmangels miserabel

The very short list of constraints on partisan gerrymandering has gotten even shorter. Until last week, the Supreme Court had interpreted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to require states to draw some majority-minority districts. But in Louisiana v. Callais, it overturned that requirement and hel ...

A conspiracy theory is soothing to the believer not just because it promises a complete explanation for all that appears wrong with the world, but also because it confirms the sense that something is wrong with the world. Society is in flux: New technology is altering how we work and think, centurie ...

The Democratic wilderness is starting to look awfully sunny. Gone, for the most part, are the blame-casting, hand-wringing, and paralysis-by-analysis that gripped the party after Donald Trump’s reelection. Same with the constant grousing about how the party is fractured, leaderless, locked out of po ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Cole Tomas Allen, the man accused of trying to assassinate President Trump late last month, appeared to consume political news like so many of his fellow citizens, absorbing daily doses of outrage on social medi ...

Integration der sächsischen Standorte in das Gesamtunternehmen soll aufgeschoben werden. Mitarbeiter sind »wütend und verunsichert«.

In »Love Me Tender« porträtiert Anna Cazenave Cambet eine Frau, die ihr Begehren gegenüber Frauen lebt und dafür von ihrem Ex-Partner bestraft wird.

Der Historiker Moshe Zimmermann über Vernunft in Krisenzeiten, die Erosion der Demokratie und seinen konstruktiven Pessimismus

Mit dem EU-Armenien-Gipfel hat Brüssel Wahlkampf für Nikol Paschinjan betrieben, ohne Armenien eine echte Zukunft zu bieten, meint Daniel Säwert.

Mit dem EU-Armenien-Gipfel hat Brüssel Wahlkampf für Nikol Paschinjan betrieben, ohne Armenien eine echte Zukunft zu bieten, meint Daniel Säwert

In einer Lokalzeitung werden Suraj Mailitafi und die Initiative »Gerechtigkeit für Lorenz« geschmäht, weil sie die Polizei grundsätzlich kritisieren.

Kameraaufnahmen sollen helfen, Kollisionen von Walen und Schiffen zu verhindern.

Die BVG muss wegen der Ampelphasen der Kreuzung am SEZ in Friedrichshain Züge kürzen und Fahrten umleiten. Auch am Frankfurter Tor flutscht es nicht.

Drei Monate nach ihrer Festnahme bestätigt Damaskus die Haft von Eva Maria Michelmann und Ahmed Polad. Die Familie zweifelt jedoch an der offiziellen Darstellung.

Kaufsucht kann zu Verschuldung führen. Online-Shopping macht das Ganze für viele zeitintensiver und noch verlockender.

Musiker Voodoo Jürgens spricht im Interview über Vokuhila-Frisuren, Schnauzbärte, seine großen Vorbilder und das neue Album »Gschnas«.

Der Grundrechtsbeauftragte von Frontex hat den Tod von acht Menschen vor Lesbos untersucht und sieht Griechenlands Grenztruppen als Verursacher

Die Favoritenrolle hat der Titelverteidiger aus der Hauptstadt freiwillig abgegeben – trotzdem fehlt zur Volleyball-Meisterschaft nur noch ein Sieg.

Eine Ausstellung mit Werken von Erika Dobslaff und Strawalde in Berlin-Adlershof

Mitten in Leipzig fährt ein Autofahrer mehrere Menschen an – zwei von ihnen sterben. Ermittler gehen nicht von einem politischen Motiv aus.

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.Seven years ago, midway through a multiyear demolition of the Voting Rights Act, John Roberts’s Supreme ...

At a moment when the American media landscape is consolidating at the top and fragmenting at the edges, a new documentary spotlights one of the most durable experiments in independent journalism in the United States. Steal This Story, Please! traces the career of Amy Goodman and the growth of Democr ...

We got this. That was the Trump administration’s message to European allies in the early days of its war with Iran. Washington hadn’t warned its NATO partners about the military campaign, jointly undertaken with Israel, much less consulted with them about the war’s objectives.Instead, American offic ...

In mid-January, while Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and agents were battling protesters on the icy streets of Minneapolis, ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan abruptly quit. This was a week after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good; another protester, Alex Pretti, was slain nine d ...

Silicosis is a lethal workplace illness that killed thousands each year up through the 1960s. In recent decades, thanks to union workplace safety fights, it became much rarer. Annual deaths dropped to the hundreds. The disease affected mostly older workers with longer exposures.So it was hard for st ...

The military stalemate between the United States and Iran is crippling the flow of oil around the world. Gas prices are soaring. Inflation is back above 3 percent. Consumer confidence is tanking, and most Americans are pessimistic about the economy. Yet the S&P 500 has risen 29 percent over the ...

Die USA wollen blockierte Schiffe aus dem Persischen Golf befreien. Der Iran droht mit Angriffen. Legt Trump es auf eine neue Eskalation an?

The general strike was “the greatest effort the British workers had ever made,” wrote the historian and economist G. D. H. Cole. One hundred years ago on May 4, 1926, a million British workers walked off their jobs.These workers struck in sympathy with miners — more than a million of them, who had b ...

Staatsanwaltschaft Rom ermittelt wegen des israelischen Angriffs auf die Aktivisten der Gaza-Flotille. De Ávila und Abu Keschek weiter in Haft

For almost two decades, British retailers have told customers that if they were born after the current date 18 years ago, they can’t buy cigarettes. Starting next year, that date will freeze. Under a recently passed law, selling cigarettes to anyone born on or after January 1, 2009, will be illegal— ...

Das Berliner Stromnetz muss in Sicherheit investieren – zusätzlich zu einem massiven Netzausbau.

In December 1939, just a few months after the outbreak of World War II, the National Geographic reporter E. John Long caught a flight to Puerto Rico. As the Clipper seaplane buzzed over the island’s turquoise waters and densely forested hills, the copilot called Long’s attention to a map. “Now do yo ...

Ken Martin hat seinen Anteil an den jüngsten Wahlerfolgen der US-Demokraten, steht bei den Parteianhängern aber trotzdem unter Druck.

Kurz vor dem Tag des Sieges schlägt eine ukrainische Drohne in Moskau ein. Die Parade wird dieses Jahr mit massiven Einschränkungen stattfinden.

Der Politologe Fredson Guilengue über den Generalstreik unter dem Motto »Schickt die Ausländer nach Hause«, die wachsende Xenophobie und internationale Reaktionen.

Diplomaten aus Peking sollen gefordert haben, taiwa­ne­sische Teil­nehmer auszuschließen. Veranstalter Access Now muss sich Regierung in Lusaka beugen.

On the first day of the general strike, the response in East London was strong. Almost all workers at the docks along the River Thames were on strike, as well as hundreds of thousands more in various other industries in the area. For the first time ever, clerical staff at the Port of London walked o ...

NASAA view of the Earth, seen passing behind the moon on April 6, 2026, taken by a camera attached to NASA’s Artemis II spacecraft as it swung around the far side of the moon. See all 12,217 Artemis II images on NASA’s Gateway to Astronaut Photography website here.NASAA view of the Earth, seen on Ap ...

Updated at 11:56 a.m. ET on April 8, 2026.Just a few months ago, the New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel was experiencing a special kind of celebrity. Across the sports world, Vrabel was widely praised for becoming one of eight coaches in NFL history to take his team to the Super Bowl in his very ...

Theoretisch können extrem hohe Mieten strafbar sein. Aber das Gesetz kommt nicht zur Anwendung. Die Linke hat in einem besonderen Fall Anzeige erstattet.

Die Vögel piepen, die Leute lesen wieder Bücher im Park! Ein paar Literaturhighlights dieser Woche

Trainer und Klublegende Diego Simeone will im Halbfinal-Rückspiel beim FC Arsenal den ersten Schritt machen, um ein altes Versprechen einzulösen.

Gesetze, die Menschen mit Behinderungen entrechten und Kürzungen in der Eingliederungshilfe: Die Gründe für Protest am Tag für Gleichstellung häufen sich.

Eine Potsdamer Ausstellung feiert 35 Jahre Städtebauförderung in Brandenburg. Doch die Schattenseiten der Nachwendezeit bleiben weitgehend unsichtbar.

Das Mitbestimmungsgesetz von 1976 übernahm einen zentralen Punkt der Montan-Mitbestimmung nicht: die Neutralität des »elften Manns«.

Die aktuellen Veränderungen im Bundesprogramm »Demokratie leben!« sind ein Schritt des autoritären Umbaus. Kolumne von Sebastian Wehrhahn

Das Europaparlament fordert von Aserbaidschan Rechte für Armenier. Das geht Baku zu weit. Die Kooperation mit EU-Institutionen wird eingestellt.

Steuerentlastungen sollen durch Einsparungen bei den Kommunen finanziert werden. Doch die stehen oft schon mit dem Rücken zur Wand, meint Stefan Otto

Neue Fotos zeigen die Hinrichtung von 200 Kommunist*innen in einem Athener Vorort. Deutschlands Außenminister weicht der Frage nach dem Umgang mit dem NS-Verbrechen aber aus.

Neue Fotos zeigen die Hinrichtung von 200 Kommunist*innen in einem Athener Vorort. Deutschlands Außenminister weicht der Frage nach dem Umgang mit dem NS-Verbrechen aber aus.

A billionaire acquaintance of mine who moved from Manhattan to Miami during the pandemic was talking with me recently about New York City’s proposed pied-à-terre tax—an annual surcharge on second homes that are valued above $5 million. When Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul announced th ...

When the first edition of Into Thin Air was published not long after the 1996 Mount Everest calamity, during which eight climbers died in a violent storm, I assumed that the disturbing events I described in my book would convince amateur climbers that paying a lot of money to be guided up the highes ...

Die 72. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen widmeten sich der Frage, unter welchen Bedingungen Wahrheit sichtbar wird – und wer sie zu sehen bekommt

Bio- und E‑Fuels helfen höchstens langfristig gegen die drohende Knappheit im Flugverkehr. Zusätzlich braucht es ein verändertes Verkehrsverhalten.

Illustrations by Mike McQuadeThe courtship between Silicon Valley and MAGA was consummated on June 6, 2024, in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood, on a street known as “Billionaires’ Row,” at the 22,000-square-foot, $45 million French-limestone mansion of a venture capitalist named David S ...

Mit einer gemeinsamen Aktion kritisieren die Parteien den Internetdienst und wollen dort nichts mehr posten.

Nach der öffentlichen Kritik Trumps zieht Washington die Reißleine – die Union warnt vor einer Sicherheitslücke, während die Linke den Schritt begrüßt.

Des Deutschen liebstes Hobby ist das Expertentum. Vor allem in Sachen Nahost ist man hierzulande bestens informiert, um Täter und Opfer zu benennen.

Die Landesdatenschutzbeauftragte Dagmar Hartge verhängte im vergangenen Jahr 25 Bußgeldbescheide mit einer Gesamthöhe von knapp 109 000 Euro.

50 Jahre nach der Verabschiedung des Mitbestimmungsgesetzes sind Deutschland und Europa von einer Demokratisierung der Wirtschaft weit entfernt.

Timm Ulrichs, der »Totalkünstler«, der bei seinen Aktionen auch den eigenen Körper nie schonte, ist im Alter von 86 Jahren gestorben.

Die Münchner Fußballerinnen scheiden in der Champions League gegen das weltbeste Vereinsteam im Halbfinale aus – sind aber stolz auf ihre Saison

Zum Tod des Malers Georg Baselitz

Die Bundesregierung will auch weiterhin für Abschiebungen mit den Taliban kooperieren

Trump hat eine neue Initiative verkündet, die festsitzenden Schiffen die Weiterfahrt ermöglichen soll. Die Aktion soll heute starten.

Der moralische Niedergang der »Washington Post« steht für die Gefährdung der Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit. Ein Kommentar

Der moralische Niedergang der »Washington Post« steht für die Gefährdung der Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit. Ein Kommentar

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Spirit Airlines died as it lived: lots of angry customers and no one picking up the phone. Early yesterday morning, when America’s most hated airline announced that it would immediately cease all operations, Spi ...

With time, a breakup can become an edifying event in one’s life. The immediate aftermath of a split tends to be less clear, a hazy maelstrom that can involve medicinal tubs of ice cream, insomnia by way of intrusive thoughts, and an aversion to wearing anything other than sweats. But a fresh breakup ...

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In 1948, the radical sociologist C. Wright Mills published a book called The New Men of Power, which examined the careers of postwar labor leaders who emerged from industrial union struggles in the 1930s. At the time, the author was hopeful that labor’s progressive wing — led by this new generation ...

Home may be perilous and the destination out of reachBut there are no paths without an end, do not grieve— HafizMy cousin’s message arrived on January 21 at 8:39 p.m. After the January massacres in Iran. Before the war and its precarious ceasefire.She wrote to me on WhatsApp:I don’t see you and othe ...

Venezuela’s sweeping new mining law, passed on April 9, is the latest in a series of domestic “reforms” purportedly directed at rebuilding the country’s energy and mining sectors. This follows years of debilitating US sanctions and disinvestment, which have seen the mining centers of the Amazonas, B ...

“American fascism would . . . be correspondingly democratic in the American fashion.”— Bertolt Brecht, JournalsAt the end of last year, Donald Trump deployed more than two thousand Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to Minneapolis and St Paul, essentially occupying the Twin Cities and ...

Supposedly, the menstrual cycle is a gift. It’s a product of good design. It’s a miraculous dance of hormones that can’t be contained. Such are the messages flooding the internet these days, courtesy of lifestyle influencers, crunchy moms, so-called hormone coaches, and all sorts of popular entertai ...

The good news, for me at least, is that the computer thinks I have a nice personality. According to an app called MorphCast, I was, in a recent meeting with my boss, generally “amused,” “determined,” and “interested,” though—sue me—occasionally “impatient.” MorphCast, you see, purports to glean insi ...

The Justice Department is entering a hyperaggressive new era, cutting legal corners in service of getting President Trump the headlines—and revenge—he wants. Last month, Trump pushed out Attorney General Pam Bondi, reportedly because he was unhappy with her failure to secure legal victories against ...

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.Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what ...

Americans have a long history of being hurried into war on false pretexts. The “yellow press” encouraged a war fever in 1898 by blaming the sinking of the USS Maine on the Spanish, even though the Navy’s own expert said it was caused by an accidental explosion. The George W. Bush administration just ...

Gegen den 1. FC Köln holt Trainerin Marie-Lousie Eta erstmals Zählbares. Viel mehr Positives gibt es nicht in Köpenick, dafür sehr viel Arbeit.

Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. Fallout from the war in Iran may play a ro ...

The decapitation of Venezuela’s government. Saber-rattling over the annexation of Greenland. The US and Israeli war of choice against Iran. The opening months of 2026 have seen a dramatic escalation in Donald Trump’s bellicose militarism. And if much separates the three crises, what they share is th ...

I never got into the corporate thrillers of the 1980s, ’90s, and aughts, the subject of a new retrospective at the Criterion Channel. These films tended to involve plots and characters that ostentatiously deplore that world of greed and wrongdoing, but that deploring generally requires a long, linge ...

Google bricht ein Versprechen zur Künstlichen Intelligenz und erhält mit sechs Konkurrenten weiteren Vertrag. Anthropic ist aus dem Rennen

Nach Einschätzung aus Teheran droht ein Wiederaufflammen des Konflikts. Zuvor hatte US-Präsident Trump einen Verhandlungsvorschlag zurückgewiesen.

In precapitalist England, a person could gather wood from the forest for fuel and shelter, graze cattle on common pasture, or glean the fields after harvest to gather what the reapers left behind. These uses of the land are hard to imagine from today’s vantage point, where our movement is constraine ...

Der von Trump angekündigte Abzug von 5000 US-Soldat*innen aus Deutschland ist keine »Drohung«, sondern ein prima Anlass zum Rauswurf der Truppen

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.When the writer David Epstein had to get stitches in his head and was told to move slowly for a few d ...

The New York Times recently ran a story on Alex Adams, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Administration for Families and Children (ACF). Adams, who used to oversee Idaho’s Department of Health and Welfare, has reportedly suggested he wants federal childcare regulations to “fit on an index car ...

Die Kommission hat eine »Grenzpartnerschaft« mit den USA ausgehandelt, die mit sensiblen Daten über frühere Forderungen Washingtons hinausgeht

Earlier this week, Tony Blair admonished the UN Security Council for dragging its heels in approving Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan under his “Board of Peace.” Blair trumpeted it as a “strategically coherent framework” that heroically “succeeded in bringing the war in Gaza to an end.” But Trump’ ...

One afternoon in November, just north of the small Oregon coastal town of Yachats, a juvenile humpback whale tumbled ashore. A few hours earlier, local residents had spotted it thrashing in distress half a mile out at sea, entangled in crabbing gear, with a rope bound around its pectoral fin and wov ...

Die EU und die Mercosur-Staaten bilden seit dem 1. Mai vorläufig eine Freihandelszone. Den notwendigen sozial-ökologischen Umbau befördert es nicht.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.One day last November, my dog, Forrest, sat on the cold marble steps of the Smithsonian’s natural-history museum in Washington, D.C., ready to meet Celine Halioua, a woman who may one day add a tail-wagging year ...

Updated at 4:34 p.m. ET on May 2, 2026Donald Trump is on TikTok doing his morning routine. “Get ready with me for a big day 💄🇺🇸,” reads the caption, as the president holds a makeup brush to his cheek. The scene is a still, ostensibly a screenshot of a TikTok clip. Like so much other AI-generated ...

One of the less-discussed traditions of American presidents is how they hide the reality that they need protection. Following the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, however, Donald Trump and his allies have doubled down on their assertion that the ballroom he wants to b ...

In the Instagram video, a knockoff JFK Jr. towers over a beautiful woman with a raspy voice. “Are you single?” the woman asks. He smirks into the camera. “I am.”I had no choice: I clicked on the account, only to discover an endless stream of gorgeous single men looking for love. They were movie star ...

The best things shine bright, but never long. So it was for the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 legislation that protected Black suffrage by neutralizing voter suppression in southern states, and became the foundation for equal ballot access for all Americans. Of the 250 years since the country’s foundi ...

Offenbar waren es ein rechtes Krawallvideo, AfD-Bundestagsanfragen und der Geheimdienst, die Geld und Preise für vier linke Buchläden gestoppt haben

Der Krieg am Golf zieht viele Länder und ihre Bevölkerung in Mitleidenschaft. Das zeigen Beispiele von Menschen im Iran, in Syrien und im Libanon.

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.Most wars take a long time to achieve quagmire status, but Donald Trump’s Iran war is precocious. Just ...

That Denmark was once a slave-trading and slaveholding empire remains relatively little known outside of the former Danish West Indies, known since 1917 as the US Virgin Islands. Nor have the Danes been eager to acknowledge a chapter of history rather at odds with national self-understanding.Two ini ...

On Wednesday, May 13, the Atlantic staff writer Gal Beckerman will sit down with podcast host Adam Harris to discuss Beckerman’s new book, How to Be a Dissident. Beckerman’s book is part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian dri ...

Hurry! Get up on your two legs (good) or four legs (better) and walk down to your local cineplex, where George Orwell’s Animal Farm has been made into an animated family adventure that critics are describing as “geared to younger children for inexplicable reasons.” If you have ever wanted to see Ani ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.Last summer, I spent a shocking amount of time at my local D.C. pool reading about the Ebola virus. As my friends tanned on nearby chairs and tweens did cannonballs, I sat happily in the wat ...

Max Page is president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA), one of the largest state affiliates of the National Education Association and the largest union in New England, representing roughly 117,000 education workers from pre-K through higher education. A professor of architecture and h ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube What happens when the majority of content on the internet tips over into AI slop? On this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks to Max Spero, a co-founder of Pangram, an AI-detection company. They discuss how AI-detection tools work and how ...

Half a century after its release, Harlan County USA (1976) still lands with the force of something happening in the present tense. The documentary is full of scenes that have become part of the language of labor in the United States: miners’ wives holding the picket line at dawn, a woman pulling a g ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.A successful stock-market trader once went to therapy with a very specific request. He had been dating a woman he was really excited about—but now she wasn’t responding to his texts, and he was despondent. He wa ...

For several weeks, the idea of the first of May as a nonworking public holiday for all workers has been contested in France. After well over a century at the center of the international workers’ movement calendar, it took an effort by trade unions to defeat a draft law allowing bakeries, pastry shop ...

On Monday, Iran made Donald Trump an offer: It would open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for lifting the U.S. blockade while nuclear negotiations continued. On Wednesday, Trump rejected this offer, promising to keep the blockade in place until Iran agrees to America’s terms on the nuclear issue. T ...

In the summer of 2020, we decided to count every strike in the United States. The Labor Action Tracker (LAT), currently the only comprehensive strike database in the country, was conceived amid the upsurge of activism during the most intense phase of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. At the tim ...

Carl Court / GettyA competitor poses for photographers near the finish line of the Maldon Mud Race on April 26, 2026, in Maldon, England. More than 350 runners took part in the annual race, tackling the mud of the Blackwater Estuary over a 400-yard (366-meter) course. Many competitors run in costume ...

In its failed attempts to undermine and abolish the May 1 bank holiday, the French government has sought to depict International Workers’ Day as an anachronism. But when we look at the problems facing society today — and the ways in which people are trying to deal with them — it strikes me that a da ...

Six months ago, the AI sector was looking pretty bubbly. Companies were plowing hundreds of billions of dollars, much of it borrowed, into building new data centers, but had no clear path to profitability. Experts and journalists, myself included, were comparing the AI build-out to the railroad bubb ...

According to the Trump administration’s latest messaging, talks between the United States and Iran are deadlocked because of infighting in Tehran. The military hard-liners of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps must be stopping the civilian diplomats from making a deal. Or, to put it in President ...

“If Obama had a son, he’d attack the White House Correspondents Dinner like Cole Allen,” Randy Barnett, a Georgetown law professor and prominent libertarian activist, wrote on X earlier this week.The claim that a former president’s hypothetical son would have attempted to assassinate President Trump ...

If Isabel Allende’s office needs to be painted, it has to be done by January 8 or put on hold. Every year, that’s the day she starts writing.The pattern goes back to January 8, 1981, when Allende began her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Ever since, she has cleared her calendar and started a ...

As of today, it seems likely that the nation’s next surgeon general will, at least, have an active medical license. President Trump announced that he was pulling his nomination for Casey Means, a wellness influencer who dropped out of her surgical residency in 2018, in a Truth Social post this after ...

There’s a lot going on right now: a war that threatens to plunge the entire globe off an economic cliff; a small group of the ultrarich hoarding ever more wealth as economic misery piles up for the rest of us; an unprecedented, multipronged assault on free speech and the press; and the president’s m ...

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.Staying in Donald Trump’s good graces while also protecting your own political future requires supreme ...

When you stand at the summit of Mount Everest, the sky is a deep-blue bowl inverted above you, and the peaks of the Himalayas are a carpet at your feet. The sun on the snow is bright enough to blind you, even as your body starts failing in air so thin it can hardly sustain human life. I know that no ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.“When I was nine or ten and lived in a dark fourth-floor apartment in a building that had seen better days, I fantasized mansions that were more suited to my romantic nat ...

President Trump, celebrating Tehran’s declaration that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen to commercial shipping, posted on Truth Social on April 17, “IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN AND READY FOR FULL PASSAGE.” The opening didn’t last. But, in his haste, Trump had inadv ...

For Iranian people who imagine a democratic future, 2026 began with thrilling promise: the largest uprising in a series of uprisings since the turn of the millennium. It began on December 28, 2025, with a strike of shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, a social stratum typically supportive of the re ...

Democratic senator (and possible 2028 presidential candidate) Jon Ossoff has a solid video out explaining the link between legalized political corruption and high drug prices — and touting his work to end the ban on Medicare negotiating lower rates on a handful of medicines. That was long-overdue le ...

If the first rule of capitalism is “commodify it,” the second is now: “Put it on a platform.” Contemporary technologies offer speed, reach, and network effects that even the most prolific robber barons of earlier ages would marvel at. Add to the mix a regulatory environment that is as permissive as ...

Over the past two months, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has drawn international attention as the most prominent European critic of the US-Israeli war on Iran. As clips of his speeches have gone viral on social media, the Financial Times dubbed him “Trump's nemesis”; the Independent “E ...

Earlier this year, one of the most popular apps in China was called Are You Dead?. This was not a game, but a handy way for the many young people who live alone across the country, mostly in cities, to keep tabs on one another. Users needed to check in with the app every 48 hours by pressing a big g ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsThis week, the State Department released a mock-up of a new limited-edition passport designed to commemorate America’s 250th birthday. Previews show it including John Trumbull’s famous image of the presentation of the Declar ...

On Saturday night, after Cole Tomas Allen’s alleged attempt to assassinate President Trump and administration officials at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a familiar ritual began on the internet: compiling a portrait of the shooter, based on the digital breadcrumbs of his online life. Over t ...

More than 90 lawsuits have been filed by creators against AI companies for copyright infringement. Authors, musicians, visual artists, and news publishers have all accused firms such as OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic of using their copyrighted works to train AI models without permission. (The Atlantic ...

At an Easter luncheon at the White House earlier this month, Donald Trump said to his guests that it is “not possible” for the federal government to “take care of day care” (or Medicaid, or Medicare), because “we’re fighting wars,” “we’re a big country,” and “we have all these other people.” Instead ...

C, a man in his late sixties with a head of thick white hair and a large, bright red nose, sits on a plastic chair under a small tree in front of my building every day from 6 a.m. to 6p.m., except Sunday. C is a parquero, whose job is to help people, both those who come to the hospital on one corner ...

As Congress nears a vote this week on extending the deep state’s ability to spy on Americans, emails obtained by the Lever show how an influential Democratic member of Congress is whipping votes behind the scenes in President Donald Trump and his defense industry donors’ favor while claiming to the ...

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks marked a paradigm shift in US politics. Following the unprecedented horror and the worst intelligence failure in US history, the United States embarked on the “war on terror:” a sprawling, multifaceted, and in many ways illegal global campaign that profoundl ...

Concerned citizens crowding into a rec center to protest a proposed data center in El Paso, Texas. Suburban homeowners shouting down pro-data-center politicians in Festus, Missouri. Teenagers and their parents swamping a local zoning meeting to demand an end to data center construction in DeKalb Cou ...

Péter Magyar’s “announced program amounts to a ‘regime change,’” wrote political scientist Zsolt Kapelner shortly after Hungary’s recent elections, while also noting the new government’s lack of concrete plans. Especially in socioeconomic matters, it seemed unclear what Magyar’s liberal-conservative ...

In late March this year, a flurry of headlines declared that junior rates for workers under the age of eighteen had been abolished in Australia. It seemed like a good-news story. The only problem is that it wasn’t true.Other articles claimed that junior rates for workers between the ages of eighteen ...

Gig-economy workers have very few legal rights or protections at the federal level due to a single, endlessly contested question: How do courts and regulators define a gig worker on any given day?In most states, without their own strong worker classification rules or gig-worker protections, the answ ...

Zohran Mamdani said the word “deliver” twenty-two times in his first one hundred days in office celebration speech. It's the administration's defining theme — and a limitation.The mayor’s speech foregrounded his democratic socialist convictions and provided example after example of h ...

After the 2024 election, a schism in the Democratic Party quickly widened. The party’s corporate faction — which urged nominee Kamala Harris to shun economic populism — decided the lesson of the election wasn’t that voters were sick of an oligarch-appeasing party, but that operatives should better c ...

One of the Republican Party’s biggest donors — a tech and financial industry oligarch who’s been called Pennsylvania’s version of Elon Musk — is the top beneficiary of a state tax loophole that allows the wealthy to write off billions in donations to private and religious schools, even as the Keysto ...

On the night of October 8, 2000, I left my university campus in downtown Cairo and drove to Giza, where I was to meet for the first time Ahmed Fouad Negm, the legendary leftist colloquial poet whose words had inspired some of the most iconic Egyptian and Arab protest songs since the late 1960s.Negm ...

The Ramones’ self-titled debut album, Ramones, was released fifty years ago this month. Recorded in a handful of days on a shoestring budget and clocking in under thirty minutes, the record has become the stuff of legend.Long hailed as a key influence on generations of punk, metal, alternative rock, ...

As Zohran Mamdani passes one hundred days as the mayor of New York City, we are being offered numerous retrospectives of his early returns. Some will seek to grade his policy work and evaluate his success in enacting his agenda. Others will assess the state of his political alliances within governme ...

The scandal was minimal, a blip in a Democratic primary race in New York’s Hudson Valley. But the incident was an early sign of a powerful new political machine playing an unprecedented role in Democratic primaries.The problem emerged in February. Jackie Rosa, a political communications strategist, ...

Recent polling suggests that working-class voters have soured on the Trump administration over the past year. The president's approval ratings have cratered, war and tariff-induced inflation is on the rise, and some commentators have begun to wonder whether the much-touted exodus of working- ...

Yakov Kronrod was a leading figure of the Soviet economic school of so-called marketeers (tovarniki) and a major participant in the debates about economic reform in the 1960s, as Soviet planners discussed whether to accord a greater role to market relations within the framework of the planned, natio ...

In the minds of many outsiders, Colombia remains trapped in a predicament straight from Netflix’s Narcos: suspended between cartels and guerrilla warfare, with the US’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and CIA operatives hovering as weary custodians of order, saving Colombians from themselves — ...

Labor law reform. Ending at-will employment. A federal jobs guarantee. A four-day workweek. Guaranteed paid family, medical, and sick leave and vacation. Medicare for All. This list reflects the ambitious, long-standing policy goals of the labor left — goals that many have given up on after decades ...

Jewish Labor Bund groups are springing up throughout the United States and Europe. Until recently, this was a phrase you could only have found in a primary historical document, perhaps a newspaper in 1905. The Jewish Labor Bund, once a collection of anti-Zionist, democratic socialist organizations l ...

Trump officials planned to let artificial intelligence software developed by one of Elon Musk’s deregulatory foot soldiers undertake “regulation extermination” and even write new federal statutes, according to newly released government documents reviewed exclusively by the Lever. The documents revea ...

Until this book by Keith Michael Baker appeared in late 2025, there had been only two English-language biographies of Jean-Paul Marat published in the previous ninety-nine years. As it happens, I am the author of the other two. I find Baker’s work to be an invaluable contribution to the anglophone l ...

A crucial resource is being choked off from the world amid the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran — and it’s not oil. It’s helium. The rare, nonrenewable gas is a key ingredient for more than just party balloons. It’s needed for lifesaving medical procedures, groundbreaking research ...

Though America has become a goldfish-brain society that forgets its entire world every fifteen minutes, it’s worth taking a moment to appreciate the cautionary tale implicit in the New York Times’ new blockbuster story about the Supreme Court’s shadow docket. The secret memos that the Times unearthe ...

“Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.” As thousands of believers filled St Peter’s Square in the Vatican for the rites of Palm Sunday this year, Pope Leo XIV chose to include in his homily these words that God speaks at the beginning of the Book […]

Ibrahim Traoré, president of Burkina Faso since October 2022, polarizes opinion, not only in Burkina Faso itself but also on the Pan-African and internationalist left. Some cheer for him as the hope for a new Pan-Africanism, the long overdue end of French imperialism in West Africa, and (resource) s ...

The second Trump administration has been labeling political leftists as “domestic terrorists” and targeting immigrants whose beliefs it disagrees with for detention and deportation. This would not have surprised Michael J. Obermeier, the president of the Hotel, Restaurant and Club Employees and Bart ...

For the past year and a half, residents of Washington, DC, have seen the federal administration attempt to take an increasing share of control of local governance. The Trump administration has deployed the National Guard in the city and established a “Safe and Beautiful Task Force,” both of which ar ...

As the White House worked to secure the sale of TikTok’s US business to President Donald Trump’s allies, Big Tech firms received personal promises from the Justice Department that they wouldn’t be prosecuted for violating a new national security law by hosting the Chinese social media platform. But ...

Critics of generative AI have for the most part been obsessed with a single question: What if the several hundred billion–dollar bet on the future of the world economy fails? This isn’t just a concern about the benefits of the technology. Bottlenecks exist at seemingly every stage. Energy supply is ...

In the early 1920s, the Latin American landscape was rocked by two political earthquakes. Though different in nature, the Mexican and Russian Revolutions shared much in common: domestically, both fought for the cause of social justice, while abroad both raised the flag of sovereignty against imperia ...

Many readers will be familiar with Victor Serge’s literary work: his novels, notably The Case of Comrade Tulayev, and his fascinating autobiography Memoirs of a Revolutionary. All his work centers around the great historical events of the first half of the twentieth century, the hopes aroused by the ...

On a late March afternoon, beneath the vaulted, medieval-revival ceiling of Immanuel Presbyterian Church, more than four hundred members of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) gathered in the lingering heat of a citywide heat wave. The air inside the sanctuary was t ...

The venue was New York’s Madison Square Garden (MSG), June 1928. This was not the Madison Square Garden you and I might know, but rather a sturdy, rectangle-shaped arena located in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. (It was the third building to bear the MSG name; the current home of the Knicks, in Midtown ...

In the fight for taxes on the rich, Kathy Hochul just blinked. Earlier this week, the Governor conceded to a tax on second homes in New York City worth over $5 million. The tax is a yearly surcharge on luxury residences in New York City — multimillion-dollar apartments that the wealthy collect and l ...

Ahead of May Day 2022, two months after Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine, Ukrainian trade unionists called for solidarity with the invaded country. Artem Tidva, a Ukrainian left-winger and labor activist, addressed international unions calling for actions to help stop the Russian war machine. I ...

Gabriel Rockhill’s polemic against Western Marxism seeks to condemn a set of postwar left-wing intellectuals such as Herbert Marcuse. Heavy on innuendo but light on evidence, the result is more like a show trial than a serious political indictment.Gabriel Rockhill draws a sharp contrast between the ...

In New York City, a tax on superexpensive second homes is a victory for Zohran Mamdani and the socialist movement and should mark the beginning of a larger project of redistribution.Gov. Kathy Hochul insisted she would never tax the rich. After months of pressure from the socialist movement and Zohr ...

Jonah Hill’s new Apple TV Hollywood satire, Outcome, wants to skewer celebrity culture. But even with the likable Keanu Reeves, its muddled script and self‑pitying subtext reveal more about the industry’s narcissism than the film ever intended.Outcome is Jonah Hill’s big statement on cancel culture. ...

Sam Altman may be the reigning king of the AI boom, but the story that matters isn’t his rise or fall. The sector will still demand scale, speed, and the right to run roughshod over the pesky public interest, no matter who wears the industry crown.There is some debate as to what extent Sam Altman an ...

In Hungary’s election, Péter Magyar rallied urban white-collar workers, business figures excluded from state patronage networks, intellectuals, and youth. It’s much less clear that his new government can satisfy all these groups’ expectations.Now entering government, it’s unclear how Péter Magyar’s ...

Geese are the most talked-about new rock band in years. But thanks to a recent Wired article, they’re now facing a backlash — accused of being privileged, reactionary, and even a “psyop.” It’s everything that’s wrong with music discourse today.Geese clearly appeal to a crowd who wants music to matte ...

A California logistics worker allegedly burned down a 1.2-million-square-foot warehouse in anger over low pay. The billionaire class may have to learn the hard way: you can only pack so much pressure into a deeply unequal system before it blows.A California logistics worker texted his coworkers befo ...

Mexico’s new national health system aims to provide universal care. At a moment when US taxpayer dollars are being harnessed to destroy health care infrastructure abroad, Mexico is attempting to make a constitutional right to care into a lived reality.Claudia Sheinbaum is making the current disparat ...

Critics see Zohran Mamdani’s inclusion of the wealthy in his new free public childcare initiative as a flaw. It’s actually an integral part of the policy’s design, rooted in the fact that universal programs are far more enduring than means-tested ones.Zohran Mamdani’s childcare policy is driven by t ...

Thirty years after the Eldorado do Carajás massacre, Brazil’s landless poor still find themselves under the heel of Latin America’s most powerful and impudent rural oligarchy.Members of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) protest on the PA-50 highway on the eve of the twenty-seventh anniversary of ...

Viktor Orbán was full of contradictions: a critic of neoliberalism who gave handouts to corporations and a moralist who ended up mired in scandal. But even after his election defeat, it’s unclear how much Hungary will really change.Despite Viktor Orbán’s outsize international profile, this was an el ...

As long as housing remains a profit-driven investment for landlords, the pace and scope of decarbonization will be shaped by their financial calculations. That’s a problem.For residential buildings, decarbonization upgrades have primarily gone to homeowners. (Michael P. Farrell / Albany Times Union ...

We can’t revive labor without reviving workers’ confidence to take action on the job. In 1936 and into 1937, during a period of union weakness, Flint’s sit-down strikers in the auto industry figured out how to do just that.Sit-down strikers occupying one of the Fisher Body plants in Flint, Michigan. ...

The defining feature of American imperialism is its combination of an enormous capacity for death and destruction with an equally enormous sense of self-entitlement. Cold War journalist Dwight Macdonald understood this outlook better than most.Dwight Macdonald’s writing was critical of a Cold War li ...

Democratic socialist Illapa Sairitupac is running to represent the New York State Assembly’s 65th District in Lower Manhattan, an area that was once a hotbed of left-wing politics. Jacobin spoke to him about his campaign.Illapa Sairitupac believes that his campaign might be DSA’s chance to win a Man ...

Japan’s conservative leader, Takaichi Sanae, won a supermajority of seats in this year’s general election. Takaichi and her allies are using this position of strength to advance a dangerous militarist agenda as part of Washington’s anti-China front.Eighty years after suffering devastating defeat in ...

While many critics view rising global chaos strictly in geopolitical terms, political philosopher Lea Ypi argues that it’s really ideological — the result of an increasingly coordinated global right. To compete, the Left must internationalize in equal measure.At the annual May Day march in London, d ...

For many migrant workers in India, the inability to cook affordably disrupts the economics of city life. As fuel becomes increasingly expensive due to market volatility and supply shocks, families are being forced to ration meals or relocate.India’s shift to market-linked LPG pricing is passing glob ...

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are staying tight-lipped about whether they will supply the decisive votes needed to pass a Trump-backed bill reauthorizing a warrantless surveillance law exploited by federal police.Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are largely staying silent about ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has now inked a $12.2 million contract for an artificial intelligence tool that purportedly maps out immigrants’ daily routines, habits, and real-time locations and categorizes them as potential threats.Under the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Se ...

The chaos and destruction Donald Trump has wrought has been facilitated by the decades-long expansion of the president’s executive power. Far from checking that power when they hold office, Democrats have expanded it. That has to change.The chaos and rapidly growing danger of Donald Trump’s presiden ...

Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for government-run grocery stores echoes a long-running system in Mexico — one that delivers affordability, but not without trade-offs.NYC’s grocery plan isn’t a “socialist fantasy.” It’s already a reality in Mexico. (Lara Nour-Walton / Jacobin)On a bright mid-February morn ...

Women are overrepresented in low-paid work, care work, and unpaid labor. Their time, their bodies, and their emotional energy are resources for capital. Feminism cannot succeed without confronting the economic system that structures these inequalities.Feminist Marxist social reproduction theory make ...

On a very bad liberal habit that just won’t quit.Kamala Harris’s political skill consists of being an elite liberal from the citadel of elite liberalism. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)Recently, Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias debated the merits of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) progr ...

A little-known Supreme Court case that just vacated the corruption conviction of a local official raises a crucial question: Will the kind of influence peddling now ubiquitous in politics become unprosecutable simply because it has become so commonplace?The recent ruling in the Roberts Court is part ...

You Need This, a new documentary produced by Adam McKay, tracks the long march of consumer society from postwar suburbia to the sleeping mind.Still from You Need This. (Grasshopper Film / Hotel Motion Pictures)Consider the sudden appearance of a product called full-body deodorant on a store shelf ne ...

New York City’s Avenue of the Americas reflects a New Deal gesture toward hemispheric cooperation. April 14, Día de las Américas, offers a chance to revive that spirit by affirming Pan-American solidarity, self-determination, and social equality.A statue of Simón Bolívar, one of the seven such tribu ...

Throughout his prolific career as a left-wing economist, Anwar Shaikh has kept asking the right questions about the dynamics of capitalism. Shaikh has given us a powerful framework for understanding the system and its fundamental flaws.Economist Anwar Shaikh’s approach is distinctive due to its comb ...

A new bill in France would criminalize slogans said to call for the destruction of Israel. In the name of combating antisemitism, establishment political forces want to muzzle criticism of Israel’s apartheid order.A protester holds a placard reading "No to the Yadan bill" during a rally against the ...

In a speech marking his first 100 days as New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani describes his administration’s accomplishments so far and champions “pothole politics,” a 21st-century version of Milwaukee’s proud tradition of sewer socialism.Zohran Mamdani speaking on his first 100 days in office on Su ...

Instead of restoring or increasing funding to programs with a proven record of strengthening children’s long-term prospects, the Trump administration is creating investment accounts for kids that offer marginal benefit while widening income inequality.President Donald Trump arrives on stage before d ...

Instead of building a resilient economy to meet the challenges of the present economic “rupture,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are turbocharging austerity and gutting the capacity of Canada's federal public service.If the Carney government stays the course, workers and the broader ...

With President Donald Trump recently threatening to destroy Iranian civilization itself, the country’s filmmakers carry on their long tradition of defiant, deeply human cinema forged under censorship, imprisonment, and war.Iranian filmmakers have endured censorship, prison, and exile — and still cre ...

Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán combined talk of defending Hungary’s traditions with a promise of prosperity. When he stopped delivering workers good economic news, culture-war messaging wasn’t enough to save him.Hungary’s Viktor Orbán lost the election because of splits in his own base. (Balint Szent ...

When UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese visited Serbia in March, the government cast her as an interfering foreigner. Yet it was happy to back the Israeli embassy’s campaign to silence pro-Palestinian speech in Serbia.Serbia’s government is a proud Israeli ally, ramping up its weapons sales in ...

The Australian Football League is a corporation that longs for global expansion. But in its greed and desperation, the league is undermining what makes the game great.Nat Fyfe thanks fans as he leaves the field during a match between the Fremantle Dockers and Brisbane Lions on August 15, 2025, in Pe ...

Our images of the Roman Empire are dominated by the monuments and lifestyles of wealthy urban elites. An important new history shifts our attention to the 90% of Rome’s population whose brutally exploited labor made it all possible.In her book Surviving Rome, Kim Bowes gives us a magnificent, revela ...

Years of IMF and World Bank reforms have created two-tiered health care systems across Africa. In Kenya, the private sector is out of reach for most, but public health care has been wrecked by budget cuts and the introduction of fees for many services.Kenya is meant to have a public health care syst ...

The horrifying revelations of César Chávez’s widespread sexual abuse of young women and girls were in part rooted in the culture of unquestioning loyalty and top-down dictation that Chávez established in the United Farm Workers.There were two reasons that no one in the United Farm Workers sought the ...

From universities to medical research centers, Israel and the US have been systematically attacking Iran’s technical infrastructure. While claiming their only issue is with Iran’s rulers, they have targeted its entire people and their achievements.This photo, taken on April 7, 2026, shows a view of ...

Critics read Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription, as a commentary on smartphones. But with gothic style and a Victorian temperament, it meditates on a much older technology — the spectral quality of disembodied speech introduced at the dawn of telephonics.Transcription, the new novel by Ben Lerner ...

Capitalists have succeeded in arranging the future as a calculable source of extraordinary wealth, enriching a few in the present by imposing debts on the vast majority — and undermining the environmental conditions for a better tomorrow.Capitalist profitability increasingly depends on the extractio ...

Zohran Mamdani’s early wins are a testament to what a talented left-wing municipal executive can accomplish even in the face of major obstacles. But much of his ambitious agenda will remain blocked if he can’t convince the state to tax the rich.Using the mayor’s office to craft new forms of mass mob ...

The US war on Iran may have seemed like an irrational move by a president who is as reckless and impulsive as he is destructive. But there was a geopolitical logic behind the attack, based on Washington’s desire to deny China access to vital resources.The resource wars between the US and China have ...

The recent death of a student at the University of Belgrade triggered a police raid and fresh government attacks on education. Professors appear as the vanguard of a broad social movement, but their plans for change are less clear. A recent speech by the rector of Belgrade university, Vladan Đokić, ...