Linke-Parteivorstand: European Forum fortschrittlicher Kräfte findet in Berlin statt. Statutenänderung angeschoben

Bekannter ukrainischer Pazifist berichtet von Folter

Iranians pass a billboard at Valiasr Square in Tehran, Iran, March 22, 2026 [Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA]

Flüchtlingsräte warnen vor »systematischer Zerschlagung« der Unterstützung für Geflüchtete

Denkmalschutz für zwei Wandmosaike von Walter Womacka an der Marzahner Promenade

Mieter*innen wehren sich gegen Verdrängung durch möbliertes Wohnen

Smoke rises following Israeli bombardment on southern Lebanon near the border as seen from the Upper Galilee in northern Israel on March 18, 2026 [AFP]

A US Air Force B-1B bomber takes off from the Diego Garcia military base on a mission in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 [Handout/US Department of Defense via AFP]

Raul Zelik zur Zionismus-Debatte in der Linken

Petition, Einwohnerantrag, Bezirksbeschluss: Der Humboldthain-Club bekommt breite Unterstützung gegen einen geplanten Hotelbau

Behörden ermitteln wegen Terrorverdachts – »Earthquake Faction« bittet um Krypto-Spenden für »nächsten Schlag«

Lindy West is the most successful feminist writer of her (and my) generation. In her pomp at Jezebel, she mastered both viral takedowns—sorry, Love Actually—and confessional writing. She embraced adjectives that were meant to demean her: loud, fat, shrill. When Lindy shouted, women listened.That bac ...

Krise, Krise, Krise – der Welt, der Politik und des Buchs. Das war der Tenor der Leipziger Buchmesse

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 ...

Last May, I gave a lecture at the Air War College, the Air Force’s senior service school for officers. I have taught at West Point and spoken at several other senior service schools. At the Air War College, I presented my work on the history of U.S. civil-military relations—research that later led t ...

We are bumbling toward an AI-enabled, nuclear-curious World War III. A new book urges us to get over antiwar protest burnout and cynicism and to rebuild the long-dormant Cold War movement to ban the bomb.A new book on nuclear winter makes clear the scale of our present danger. It calls for pushing p ...

Iranian missiles struck two communities in southern Israel, leaving buildings shattered and dozens injured in dual attacks not far from Israel’s main nuclear research centre.The Iranian strikes late on Saturday came after Tehran’s main nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz was hit earlier in the day ...

Kristi Noem is out as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Markwayne Mullin appears to be on his way in. The switch is cosmetic: The problem with DHS isn’t Noem or Mullin or whoever else will run it. The problem is with the agency itself.Some aspects of the disarray are long-standing. F ...

My husband and I wanted a divorce without the divorce part. No adversarial process. No lawyers telling us what we “deserved.” We thought: Why not handle it ourselves? Lawyers are expensive; ChatGPT is cheap, even free at first. I typed: We agree on everything and want an amicable divorce. Can we wri ...

Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt explains where the US stands under international law and highlighting how Gulf states warned of the serious consequences of a US–Israeli war on Iran.

Tanker trieb nach Explosionen auf Malta zu – Bergung mit italienischem Ölkonzern

In Western democracies today, intense political polarization is the norm, and mass protests are not uncommon. Yet ordinary people remain far from the levers of power.The past decade saw the Left fail to make major policy gains despite massive protest waves. Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics explains why. ...

Zwei reichweitenstarke Tweets sollen bewusst falsche Aussagen enthalten haben

Bei Menschen und Tieren im Gleis soll nicht mehr komplett gesperrt werden

Versorgungssicherheit wegen früherer LNG-Lieferungen durch Hormus-Nadelöhr angeblich nicht gefährdet

Am Montag startet der Mammutprozess zum Eisenbahnunglück von 2023 im Tempi-Tal

Panos Ruci, Vater eines der Opfer des Tempi-Unglücks, über seinen Kampf für Gerechtigkeit

Israeli soldiers work at the scene of damage after Iranian missile barrages struck Dimona, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in southern Israel March 21, 2026 [Ilan Assayag/Reuters]For decades, the world has treated Israel’s nuclear arsenal as an awkward secret — something everyone knows exis ...

Austria’s experience with 16-year-old voters shows that expanding the franchise does little to restore trust when elections amount to a choice between managed decline and the far right. Rhineland-Palatinate is one of only five German states where the local voting age remains 18. Some politicians, ...

A Red Crescent rescue team works at a building in Tehran that was damaged by US-Israeli strike on March 21, 2026 [Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters]United States President Donald Trump has threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran does not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz within two days, as I ...

As the US-Israeli war against Iran drags on, Yemen’s Ansar Allah, or the Houthis, have stayed out of the conflict.But that could change. They have said they consider themselves directly concerned and could take a position alongside Iran.The armed group has attacked Israel and shipping in the Red Sea ...

United States President Donald Trump has threatened to attack Iran’s power plants if freedom of navigation is not fully restored at the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, a dramatic escalation as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues for a fourth week.The statement on Saturday came as Trump faces incr ...

United States President Donald Trump has threatened to attack Iran’s power plants if freedom of navigation is not fully restored at the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, a dramatic escalation as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues for a fourth week.The statement on Saturday came as Trump faces incr ...

Iran has warned of retaliatory attacks on regional infrastructure if US President Donald Trump follows through on his ultimatum over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump has said he will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it fails to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.

Vehicles drive near Riyadh's diplomatic quarter after drone strikes earlier this month that hit the US Embassy compound and were intercepted by Saudi air defences, according to the Defence Ministry [File: Stringer/Reuters]

Israeli soldiers work at the scene of damage after Iranian missile barrages struck Dimona, March 21, 2026 [Ilan Assayag/Reuters]

Israeli soldiers work at the scene of damage after Iranian missile barrages struck Dimona [Ilan Assayag/Reuters]

The war in Sudan was created one of the world's largest humanitarian crises [File: AFP]

Robert Mueller III was a Bronze Star Marine veteran, an FBI director, and an American citizen. When the president of the United States heard the news that Mueller died today, he put it this way: “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.”Mueller was honored for his service in Vietnam, and served presidents of both ...

European Union energy commissioner Dan Jorgensen, pictured this month, said developments in Iran and the wider region threaten regional and global security [Omar Havana/Reuters]

Children in Gaza want toys for Eid, but dramatic price rises brought on by the war make purchasing them difficult for parents [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

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. Opposition to President Trump’s continued ...

A building damaged in a reported Iranian drone strike, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Seef, Manama, Bahrain, on March 10, 2026 [Reuters]

A view of the platform of the Leviathan natural gasfield in the Mediterranean Sea on August 29, 2022 [File: Jack Guez/AFP]At the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, reports emerged that Jordan and Egypt have cut off gas supplies to Syria. These reports appeared as minor details amid the shock of th ...

After more than a century of German and South African rule, Namibia finally gained its independence on this day in 1990. Working-class struggles and organizations played a vital role in the country’s long march to freedom.Mobilization by Namibian workers was an important factor in the struggle that ...

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 Andrew McCarthy’s 21-year-old son turned to him and asked, “You don’t really have any friends, d ...

In 1926, a widely respected Dutch gynecologist named Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde published a manual whose aim was to explain the vital role of sex in marriage. “What husband and wife who love one another seek to achieve in their most intimate bodily communion,” he wrote, is “a means of expression ...

Twenty years before Donald Trump was posting AI images of himself as a king, the internet learned how to meme by exaggerating the masculine superiority of Chuck Norris. What began innocently with “Chuck Norris Facts” has evolved into MAGA’s empire of slop. Long before memes became instruments of pol ...

A satellite image shows a view of the Natanz nuclear facility after a building was damaged on March 2, 2026 following US-Israeli attacks [Vantor/Handout via Reuters]

This is a trend? The Alpine Divorce? When a man abandons his girlfriend and his relationship mid-hike? This sounds like a cutesy name for something genuinely alarming! Here are some other trends that might be coming next.Alpine Divorce, Hannibal Edition: When you leave your significant other in the ...

In the Persian Gulf, about 20 miles off the Iranian coast, is a small, rocky island called Kharg that could be the Trump administration’s key to victory in the war it unleashed. It could also be America’s undoing.The island is tiny—a little less than eight square miles—and has a population of about ...

The war on Iran has entered a much more damaging phase with more assassinations of the leadership in Tehran, the continued blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and major strikes on energy infrastructure across the region.As the war has escalated, pressure on news organisations in the United States, Isra ...

A fire burns outside the grounds of the United States embassy headquarters in Baghdad's fortified 'Green Zone' on March 17 following a drone and rocket attack, according to security officials [File: AFP]

Donald Trump has resurrected the military fantasy of the “video game war,” waged mostly through high-tech, lethal air power with few US casualties. But his administration may have miscalculated the ease of what can pass as victory.Americans and the world watch a video game war unfold in what they lo ...

Report by Francesca Albanese says about 9,000 Palestinians were still in Israeli detention, while 'more than 4,000 have been subjected to enforced disappearance' [File: Pierre Albouy/Reuters]

A mourner holds a sign denouncing the US during the funeral ceremony for Iran's slain Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib and his family, after the weekly Friday Muslim noon prayers in Tehran [AFP]The war launched by the United States and Israel on Iran has entered its fourth week, with more than 1, ...

British class society had a dress code: the rich could be flashy, but workers were expected to wear a drab uniform. In the 1950s, England’s working-class Teddy Boys and Girls boldly donned pompadours and velvet, giving birth to modern British subculture.Before the Beatles, before the Stones, before ...

A dhow sails in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz off Khasab in Oman's northern Musandam peninsula on June 25, 2025 [Giuseppe Cacace/AFP]

People react as emergency crews search for victims trapped in the rubble following a strike on a residential building on March 16, 2026 in central Tehran, Iran [Getty Images]

Israel says an Iranian missile has hit Dimona, a southern town hosting its nuclear facility, in an attack that wounded dozens of people. Iran says its naval forces destroyed facilities at the Al-Minhad base in the UAE and the Ali Al Salem airbase in Kuwait claiming they were used in attacks on Irani ...

Iran says its naval forces destroyed facilities at the Al-Minhad base in the UAE and the Ali Al Salem airbase in Kuwait claiming they were used in attacks on Iranian territory. A US-Israeli air raid targets Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility with state media reporting “no leakage of radioacti ...

US President Donald Trump says he does not “want to do a ceasefire” with Iran. “You know you don’t do a ceasefire when you’re literally obliterating the other side,” Trump tells reporters. Trump calls NATO allies “cowards” over lack of support for his war on Iran, brands the Western military allianc ...

Here’s how you know Project Hail Mary is a work of science fiction: It’s about the disparate nations of Earth pooling together their resources and intelligence to confront an apocalyptic problem—in this case, the pending death of the sun, due to a mysterious alien substance. The film, co-directed by ...

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.To national audiences, the news that a North Carolina state senator had apparently lost a Republican pr ...

Bad news to the many, many Duke-basketball haters out there: It appears that you’re going to have to put up with the Blue Devils in all of their punchable smugness, with their fade haircuts and the skinny blue letters on their swelling chests, their floor-smacking defense and their clean, net-twitch ...

Taylor Frankie Paul’s turn on The Bachelorette was meant to be a fairy tale fit for reality, an age-old love story made modern by a heroine who had risen to fame as an antihero. Frankie Paul first gained notoriety as an online influencer and came to ABC’s soft-lit dating show through her role on The ...

Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET on March 21, 2026.You’ve got a very special lineup today: the worldwide record holder for most entertaining Atlantic-branded trivia published on March 20, 2026.And by the way, did you know that in addition to the nearly 70,000 active records that Guinness maintains, it has a ...

QatarEnergy's liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities, amid the US.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar March 20, 2026 [Reuters]

'We turned down the request to maintain Sri Lanka's neutrality,' says President Anura Kumara Dissanayake [File: Omer Messinger/Getty Images]

A man wears and holds Iranian flags while holding a poster of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei after the conclusion of the Friday prayers at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, March 20, 2026. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]

After a US-Israeli strike killed Iran’s Ali Khamenei, the war on Iran escalates, and the Islamic Republic faces a critical moment. Mojtaba Khamenei has been elected supreme leader, marking a rare and controversial succession. This explainer breaks down how Iran’s power structure was built after the ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.At a recent event, the novelist Marlon James was asked to name a book by another author that he wished he’d written. He picked Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn’s 1990 novel about the Philippines. ...

Since shortly after the United States military’s 2 a.m. seizure of Nicolás Maduro from his bedroom in early January, people in Venezuela and Washington, D.C., alike have struggled to characterize what exactly the Trump administration was doing. Regime change, finally! was the chorus in Caracas, at l ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Just how are powerful AI models being used in warfare overseas? In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel sits down with Will Knight, a senior writer at Wired, to discuss the rise of autonomous weapons. From the origins of Project Maven to the ...

If you’ve been following the Iran war, you will have heard about the surpassing geopolitical significance of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway responsible for carrying a fifth of the world’s oil out of the Persian Gulf. Shortly after first being attacked, Iran announced that it would not let ...

Mojtaba Khamenei was nominated Iran's supreme leader after his father was killed in an air strike during a joint US-Israeli military campaign [File:Shahzaib Akber/EPA]

Schon zum zweiten Mal: Gipfel zur Ausgestaltung der Aufrüstung mit CEOs von Rheinmetall, KNDS und Co

First came the energy shock. Now, the Iran war is hitting something even more basic: Food.With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, vessels are being rerouted and supply chains are under strain.The disruption is pushing up the costs of almost everything from factories to supermarket shelves thousands of mi ...

For many Latinos, Cesar Chavez seemed like a saint. There have in fact been efforts to canonize him. I lived in Los Angeles for a summer when I was an undergraduate, and I frequently drove down Cesar E. Chavez Avenue. Just about every institution I’ve belonged to has named something after him. In Tu ...

Sarah Yolanda Koss über die verdeckte Pflegearmut

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. In April 2024, Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO and a current AI evangelist, gave a closed-door lecture to a group of Stanford students. If these young people hoped to be Silico ...

A navy vessel is seen sailing in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway through which much of the world's oil and gas passes on March 1, 2026 [File: Sahar al-Attar/AFP]

Smoke and flames rise from the South Pars gasfield following [Social Media/via Reuters]

This story was updated on March 20, 2026, at 6:12 p.m. ET.You could measure the on-and-off feud between President Trump and the comedian Bill Maher in weeks, years, or decades. Last month, Trump called Maher a “highly overrated LIGHTWEIGHT” in a lengthy Truth Social post. Years ago, he briefly sued ...

Bundesvorsitzende schalten sich mit gemeinsamer Erklärung in parteiinterne Debatte ein

Nur eine von fünf Personen in häuslicher Pflege erhält die finanzielle Unterstützung, die ihr zusteht

Sebastian Weiermann über alten Atommüll und neue Pläne

Elif Eralp hält den niedersächsischen Parteitagsbeschluss für falsch – Massaker vom 7. Oktober fehle im Text völlig

Jurij Scheljaschenko drohen bis zu acht Jahre Haft

2025 zählte der Verein Opferperspektive 290 rechte Übergriffe in Brandenburg

Those of us who worship at the altar of Rachel Weisz had high hopes for Vladimir, Netflix’s new miniseries starring the British actor as a frustrated English professor who becomes giddily unmoored by a sexual fixation on her new colleague Vladimir (played by Leo Woodall). On-screen, Weisz is our pre ...

Dear Media:There is no other way of putting this. The Fake News’s contumacious insistence on reporting what is actually happening in Iran rather than what Donald Trump would prefer was happening is setting back the war effort. So we at the FCC would like to provide you with some suggestions for upda ...

AfD erzwingt Untersuchungsausschuss des Landtags

Der Prominentenauftritt bei der Corona-Kommission hat wenig gebracht

Gulf countries are coming increasingly under attack from Iranian strikes as the United States-Israeli war on Iran continues to escalate.On Friday, Saudi Arabia intercepted multiple waves of Iranian drones and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said its Mina al-Ahmadi refinery had been targeted by several ...

Stephen Sondheim was so firmly established as a divine eminence in the theater world that, in his 80th year, he wrote a song of self-parody called “God.” Unlike his celestial counterpart, however, Sondheim never sought to make creations in his own image. The songs he wrote—words and music (sometimes ...

Eine Bürgerinitiative, Bezirkspolitiker und Naturschützer wehren sich gegen 440 Eigentumswohnungen im Neuköllner Wald

Cathal McNaughton / ReutersA performer dressed as as Saint Patrick takes part in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin, Ireland, on March 17, 2026.Robert F. Bukaty / APAmish birders focus their binoculars on waterfowl at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area on March 7, 2026, in Kleinfeltersville, ...

Wahlkampf zwischen sozialem Abstieg, US-Militärpräsenz und aufstrebender AfD

IRGC spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini was killed in an Israeli strike [Screengrab]

IRGC spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini was killed in an Israeli strike [Screengrab]

The affluent often blame poverty on bad budgeting skills, claiming the poor just need to be taught financial literacy. But working-class people require living wages and a functioning safety net, not condescending lectures about money management. Last week, Ohio Senator Jon Husted condescendingly bla ...

Rüstungskonzerne liefern trotz Kriegsverbrechen in Krisengebiete – und die Justiz schaut weg

Mehrere Tausend Kolumbianer kämpfen in der Ukraine

Die Allrounderin kann beim Weltcupfinale Großes erreichen

Updated at 11:31 a.m. ET on March 20, 2026On the evening of February 12, members of a French anti-fascist group allegedly pummeled a 23-year-old neo-Nazi activist named Quentin Deranque. The attack, filmed in Lyon, left Deranque unconscious; two days later, he died from severe brain trauma.The atroc ...

Smoke rises in the aftermath of an Israeli air attack on Syria's Defence Ministry headquarters on July 16, 2025 in Damascus, Syria [Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images]

Schon in der kommenden Woche droht der erste Atommülltransport

RWE beginnt Leitungsbau für Tagebau-Flutung

In der Straße von Hormus könnte sich die Zukunft der Globalisierung entscheiden

Australia's Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke, centre, posed in an undisclosed location with five Iranian women football players who were granted asylum in Australia on March 10 [Australia Ministry of Home Affairs via AP]

Timothée Chalamet's offhand jab at “dying” high culture sparked celebrity outrage. But without robust public investment and democratic ownership, opera and ballet will keep shrinking into elite pastimes instead of surviving as vibrant public art forms.Far too many of Timothée Chalamet’s critics are ...

Men watch from a hillside as a plume of smoke rises after an explosion on March 2, 2026 in Tehran, Iran [Majid Saeedi/Getty Images]Israel and America’s war on Iran has killed more than 1,500 people in a matter of weeks, and the toll continues to rise.In Tehran on March 7, mourners gathered around th ...

A satellite view of Qeshm Island in Hormozgan Province, Iran, within the Strait of Hormuz region on January 17, 2026 [ Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2026]The world still speaks about the Strait of Hormuz as if the central question were whether Iran will try to close it. That ...

The speech that arguably won Barack Obama the presidency was delivered six years before he ran for the White House and four years before he reached Congress. In October 2002, Obama, then a state senator from Illinois, delivered a blistering speech against the impending war in Iraq. “I don’t oppose w ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Three weeks into Donald Trump’s war against Iran, the president has still refused to define victory other than to say the war will soon be over. From the moment he launched hostilities, he offered many rationale ...

Die Vereinten Nationen fordern bessere Beteiligung von Frauen an Entscheidungsprozessen

Umweltschützer fordern tiefgreifende Maßnahmen gegen den zunehmenden Wassermangel in Spanien

Cargo ships sail in the Gulf towards the Strait of Hormuz of the United Arab Emirates, on Thursday, March 19, 2026 [AP Photo]

Muslims around the world celebrated Eid al-Fitr on Friday, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, during which they fast from sunrise to sunset.Ramadan ends with the sighting of the new moon, which ushers in the month of Shawwal.Because some countries rely on physical moon sightings, the timi ...

The Trump administration has spent around $24 billion in public funds on its war against Iran so far. Here’s what that money might have been used for instead.The $24 billion that the US has spent bombing Iran could have been spent on any number of useful programs instead, from public broadcasting to ...

The proletarian revolution is playing out on a desktop near you.A screenshot of the socialist Xeroist Republic of Zilatra on the Stoneworks server in Minecraft.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

The United States has launched a war in Iran. Soaring gas prices are pounding an economy that many Americans already considered unaffordable. And the federal department responsible for protecting the homeland ran out of money more than a month ago.Naturally, the Senate is debating none of those thin ...

Photographs by Adriana Loureiro FernándezThey arrived suddenly—five white vans, identical and unmarked, blocking the street.It was February 9, 2023, and Mauricio Morales was leading a group of migrants he had found at a bus station through Mexico City’s San Rafael neighbor­hood. Mau, as his friends ...

The Christian Zionist movement has long pushed for regime change in Iran. With allies in Donald Trump’s inner circle and its ideas seeping into the US military, it has played a key role in building support for the current war.Christians United for Israel and the broader Christian Zionist movement ha ...

Shireen Shreim says that Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to find the joy in Eid [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long framed Iran as Israel's existential threat [File: Abir Sultan/Reuters]

»Verhütung? Frauensache!« – Eine ARD-Doku zeigt, wie seit Jahrtausenden immer dieselben Leute aufpassen müssen

Eine kompakte Werkmonografie enthüllt den Gestaltwandler Sighard Gille zwischen Alter und Neuer Leipziger Schule als Maler im »Gestus des Dennoch«

Sanctions were once sold as a gentler foreign policy tool for exerting pressure on dictatorships and terrorist organizations. Yet measures like banning individuals from having bank accounts or traveling are increasingly used to chill free speech in Europe.Europe is increasingly turning toward sancti ...

Fires broke out at Kuwait's Mina al-Ahmadi refinery after it was hit by Iranian drone attacks [AP Photo]

A picture of a child killed in a US-Israeli strike is displayed at Tajrish Bazaar, Tehran, ahead of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year on March 19, 2026 [Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters]Iran has warned it will show “zero restraint” if its energy facilities are attacked again, a d ...

Displaced Palestinian Shireen al-Kurdi makes crochet dolls to sell for the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on March 17, 2026 [AFP]While the world’s attention is fixed on the Iran war, Israel has quietl ...

Striker Sardar Azmoun is a key forward for the Iran national side [File: Majid Asgaripour/West Asia News Agency via Reuters]

Switzerland, citing its neutrality, says it will not issue licences ⁠for companies to export ⁠weapons to the United States due to the ongoing attacks ‌on Iran. The Iranian Red Crescent says at least 204 children have been killed as the overall death toll in Iran exceeds 1,444 people. More than 1,000 ...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesperson, General Ali Mohammad Naeini, has been killed in what Israel says was an overnight air attack. ⁠Israel’s ⁠Oil Refineries, a refining and petrochemicals ⁠company, says an Iranian assault on its complex in Haifa ‌has damaged essential infras ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran used only a “fraction” of its firepower in attacks on regional energy infrastructure after Israel struck Iran’s South Pars gasfield, and warned of “zero restraint” if Iran’s energy facilities are targeted again. Iran’s ⁠attack on the Ras Laffan gas ...

People read newspapers reporting on the Confederation of African Football decision stripping the Senegal national football team of their Africa Cup of Nations title and awarding it to Morocco national football team in Dakar, Senegal [Misper Apawu/AP]

Palestinians walk past the rubble of residential buildings destroyed during Israel's more than two-year genocidal war, in Gaza City [File: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Etched into the facade of the Internal Revenue Service’s headquarters, just above a trio of limestone a ...

The Palestine Football Association reported allegations of discrimination by the Isreal Football Association to FIFA in 2024 [Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters]

Israel assassinated Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran late last month.Since then, other senior Iranian military, intelligence and political figures also have been killed.For decades, assassination has been Israeli policy.But what has the str ...

US Air Force F-35 jets fly side by side with aircraft from the Republic of Korea Air Force as part of a bilateral exercise on July 12, 2022 [File: US Air Force Senior Airman Trevor Gordnier/Reuters]

Cold-­water bathing has a long history as a health hack. The ancient Greeks and Romans partook to treat fevers. Eighteenth-­century mental institutions employed a tactic called the bain de surprise, suddenly dunking their patients in cold water to jolt them out of their depression or psychosis. (Som ...

The new arms deal comes as the Pentagon seeks additional funding from Congress [File: Evan Vucci/Reuters]

Nicht nur deren eigene Wähler wollen, dass die Linke die rechte CDU stützt, um eine AfD-Regierung zu verhindern

Answer here my questions three, and quizzing pride shall come to thee!And by the way, I’m sure you know that most of our warm and fuzzy fairy tales originally had horrifying endings, but let’s run through a few of them: The little mermaid turns into sea foam, Sleeping Beauty awakens only during chil ...

A mourner holds a picture depicting Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei during the funeral of Iran's security chief Ali Larijani and Gholamreza Soleimani, a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who commanded Basij forces, in Tehran on March 18, 2026 [AFP]

Excess gas is burned at an oil refinery in Haifa, in northern Israel, late on March 19, 2026 [AFP]

When the Stanford biologist and science writer Paul Ehrlich died last week at 93, the obituaries that followed were a fascinating exercise in editorial balance. As usual, most hesitated to speak too critically of the recently deceased. But they needed to point out why Ehrlich was famous in the first ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.“I think of celebrities as the transient royalty of a democracy,” Thomas Griffith wrote in The Atlantic in 1975. “While reigning, they live like kings, with paid and unpa ...

A view of the phase 12 of the South Pars gasfield facilities near the southern Iranian town of Kangan on the shore of the Gulf, on January 22, 2014 [File: AFP]

'Everybody should stay away from oil and gas facilities,' QatarEnergy CEO Saad al-Kaabi says [Hannibal Hanschke/EPA]

Tankers sail in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran on March 11 [File: Stringer/Reuters]

Jana Frielinghaus überlegt, wozu der UN-Aktionstag gut ist

Abdoulaye Fall, president of the Senegalese Football Federation (FSF), speaks at a news conference, after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) stripped Senegal of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations title and awarded it to Morocco [Ngouda Dione/Reuters]

Die rechte italienische Regierung will das Justizsystem umbauen, um Einfluss auf die Richterschaft zu nehmen

Schöneberg erinnert endlich an die NS-Geschäfte der Ofenbaufirma H. Kori GmbH

Wer oder was ist Banksy? Anmerkungen zu einer vermeintlichen und unwichtigen Enthüllung

Bundestrainer Julian Nagelsmann will sich nicht politisch zum WM-Gastgeber USA äußern, er konzentriert sich auf den richtigen Mix des DFB-Kaders

Mourners react during the funeral of a Lebanese civil defence member killed in an Israeli attack on the city of Sidon, on March 19, 2026 [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]

Brandenburgs Ministerpräsident Dietmar Woidke (SPD) gibt eine relativ nichtssagende Regierungserklärung ab

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on March 19, 2026 [AFP]

Spring is just about here, if you go by its official start date, on the equinox. But in the American West, it feels like we skipped right to summer. A record-smashing heat dome has settled over a huge swath of the United States, from California to Montana and down to Texas. At my house in Colorado S ...

Als Mittel der US-Außenpolitik versagen Sanktionen zunehmend ihren Dienst

Some on the Left believe that the capitalist system will not tolerate any greater interventions in its operation or redistribution of its spoils. There is no good evidence that this is true.The feasibility of a broader set of redistributive policies under capitalism today is far larger than is commo ...

Norwegen prüft Auslieferung des Menschenrechtsverteidigers Tommy Olsen an Griechenland

Trump will die US-Vorherrschaft neu errichten – doch der Golfkrieg bewirkt eher das Gegenteil

Internationalisten wollen Kuba praktisch unterstützen – zwei Projekte aus Deutschland setzen auf Solarkraft

Beim Kommunalwahlkampf in der einst kommunistischen Pariser Banlieue macht sich die Spaltung der Linken bemerkbar

Von Künstlern und denen, die noch welche werden wollen

Leipziger Historiker untersucht Berliner Gewerkschaften in der Nachkriegszeit

Raul Zelik über die US-Ölblockade gegen Kuba

»Muskismus« will den Einfluss von Elon Musk auf die Gegenwart analysieren. Aber wie lässt sich dieses System begreifen?

Trotz hoher Verluste hält die Politik noch immer am regionalen Airport fest

Die USA bauen ihre Partnerschaften in Lateinamerika aus. Die wichtigsten Länder jedoch halten sich eher zurück

1967 hielt Jürgen Habermas Rudi Dutschke und den Studierenden »linken Faschismus« vor. Aber was hatte er damit eigentlich gemeint?

Last summer, a friend called bearing bad news: Her two-year relationship was finished. In between insisting that she was, in fact, totally fine, and that everything was probably for the best, she told me that her (now ex-) partner had accused her of cheating.My friend had not, to be clear, slept wit ...

Das dreitägige Reiterspektakel Durbar im Norden Nigerias gilt als eines der bedeutendsten Feste im westlichen Afrika

Sarah Yolanda Koss über die bundesweiten Streiks im ÖPNV

Warum die öffentliche Empörung über den geplanten Ausschluss linker Verlage vom Buchhandelspreis zu kurz greift

Tupoka Ogette ist schwarz und erfuhr in beiden deutschen Staaten Rassismus, erzählt sie in »Trotzdem zuhause«

Sudanese refugees at the Tine transit camp in Chad last year [File: Joris Bolomey/AFP]

Börsenvereins-Chef Sebastian Guggolz zeigt klare Kante gegen Wolfram Weimer und das Nebulöse

Gegen progressive Ideen und linke Bewegungen weht an griechischen Universitäten zunehmend der eiskalte Wind des Neoliberalismus

Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen as he listens to speeches at the Great Hall of the People on March 5, 2026 in Beijing, China [Kevin Frayer/Getty Images]February 28, 2026, will be remembered as the day the law of the jungle returned. On that fateful day, the United States and Israel, in flagrant ...

Was ist eine Parole? Diese Frage bearbeitet Daphne Weber in ihrem aktuellen Buch – in historischer Dimension und ihrer Bedeutung für die Gegenwart

Senegal's Edouard Mendy clashes with Morocco's Anass Salah-Eddine in what was a heated final to the 2025 edition of the Africa Cup of Nations [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]

Israels Premier treibt den US-Präsidenten vor sich her – und der macht das »Spiel« gern mit, meint die italienische Zeitung »Il Manifesto«

Dem Westen wird in Kriegsfragen oft eine »selektive Moral« vorgeworfen. Das ist eigentlich noch zu freundlich

In a move which has shifted the US-Israel war on Iran up a gear, Israel struck Iran’s critical South Pars gasfield on Wednesday. Soon after, Iran hit energy facilities across the Gulf region, including a gas facility at Qatar’s Ras Laffan plant early on Thursday.It is the latest escalation in a war ...

Schwierigkeiten mit der Erinnerungskultur in Polen

Der Streit um eine Gedenktafel für Rosa Luxemburg offenbart die Schwierigkeiten mit der Erinnerungskultur in Polen

Emergency crews work to extract an injured person from debris following a strike on a residential building on March 16, 2026, in central Tehran, Iran [Getty Images]As the United States–Israel war against Iran enters its third week and continues to spill across the region, the question is no longer w ...

A mourner (C) holds a picture depicting Iran's supreme leaders since 1979: (R to L) Ayatollahs Ruhollah Khomeini (until 1989), Ali Khamenei (until 2026), and Mojtaba Khamenei (incumbent) during the funeral of Iran's security chief Ali Larijani and Gholamreza Soleimani, a senior officer in the Islami ...

Jan Ebel lebt seit 15 Jahren auf seinem Hausboot mitten in der Stadt, andere folgten ihm.

Victor Osimhen, right, of Galatasaray goes down with an injury during the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 second-leg match at Liverpool [Adam Vaughan/EPA]

Trotz meterhoher Wellen und Notfällen an Bord sollte das Rettungsschiff bis Norditalien fahren

Die Kinderwunschmesse »Wish for a Baby« trifft auf Gegenprotest von rechts

Bei der »La Classicissima« kommt es zum ersten großen Duell dieser Saison

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The dog was asleep in the corner, and I was seated at the kitchen table, drinking a cup of weak tea. My 21-year-old son sat cross-legged on the floor, messing with his guitar, telling me a funny story about a da ...

Die vor Thailands Küsten lebenden Dugongs sind stark gefährdet

First came the energy shock. Now, the Iran war is hitting something even more basic: Food.With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, vessels are being rerouted and supply chains are under strain.The disruption is pushing up the costs of almost everything from factories to supermarket shelves thousands of mi ...

As Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seeks his final term as Brazil’s president, the Left’s electoral strategy — who runs, which factions align, and how the coalition balances pragmatism with principle — is already shaping the post-Lula era of Brazilian politics.As Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seeks his final ...

Foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim countries gather for a meeting on regional security in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 19, 2026 [Handout/Saudi Press Agency via Reuters]As the United States-Israeli war on Iran approaches its fourth week after unleashing chaos across the Middle East, foreign min ...

“We’re living in a society!” the Seinfeld character George Costanza sputters when strangers wrong him. It’s a justly famous line. Seinfeld’s nine seasons are an extended ode to irritation as the greatest enforcer of social norms, made funnier by the fact that the show’s protagonists are all irritati ...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsFor the past year or so, economists have remained, if not optimistic about the economy, not alarmed either. Then recently came what economists call a series of “revisions” to data reports. These were not the superficial kind ...

Suddenly, Israel has a remarkable opportunity for a diplomatic breakthrough in Lebanon. You’d be forgiven for not knowing about this, because both Israel and Hezbollah seem committed instead to a spiraling conflict.Hezbollah apparently decided to plunge itself, and Lebanon, into the U.S.-Israeli war ...

Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agenda.Zohran Mamdani needs to raise taxes on New York’s wealthiest to fund his affordability agenda. Cit ...

Nelli Tügel erklärt, warum es so schwer ist für die Die Linke, die politischen Verhältnisse zu verändern

Ines Geipel untersucht in einem Romanessay Buchenwald als »den Riss der Erinnerung«

Fehlende Abstellflächen bringen den Verein AG Traditionsbus in existenzielle Nöte

Israel is again invading Lebanon and displacing hundreds of thousands of people. With Israel determined to crush all forms of resistance, Lebanon has been dragged into a war it did nothing to start.The return of the Israeli army to Lebanese territory is no longer only about occupying but also about ...

In January, Donald Trump uttered the most idealistic words of his presidency. As protesters filled Iran’s streets, he told them, “Help is on the way.” How well they heard him through the regime’s internet blackouts is unclear, but his message was that their sacrifice might be worth it—that the world ...

Iraqi PMF fighters on the Iraq-Syria border in Nineveh, Iraq [File: Martyn Aim/Getty Images]

US President Donald Trump walks with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, on board the aircraft carrier USS George Washington, during a visit to the US Navy's Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, Japan, on October 28, 2025 [Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]

Mehdi Taj, president of the Iranian Football Federation, says his nation will not play its FIFA World Cup group fixtures in the US due to security fears [File: Atta Kenare/AFP]

The late Jürgen Habermas saw Europe as a vehicle for a social democratic, postnational politics. But as the real European Union increasingly diverged from this ideal, Habermas’s thinking failed to reckon with the project’s fundamental limits.Jürgen Habermas was among the leading thinkers of the Germ ...

This US Navy handout photo released on March 18, 2026, by US Central Command, shows US sailors taxiing an F/A-18F Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 41, on the flight deck on board the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in support of the war on Iran on March 17, 2 ...

In Gaza, Samira Touman makes Eid cookies for her own family, as well as customers who place orders [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

Smoke rises following Israeli bombardment on southern Lebanon near the border as seen from the Upper Galilee in northern Israel on March 18, 2026 [AFP]

People mourn on the day of the funeral of the victims following a reported strike on a school in Minab, Iran, March 3, 2026 [Amir Hossein Khorgooei/Reuters]The Israel-Iran war is escalating across several fronts, with assassinations of senior Iranian officials, and Israeli and Iranian attacks on key ...

The aftermath of an Israeli strike on Evin Prison after the ceasefire between Israel and Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 29, 2025 [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

Currency traders work near a screen showing the KOSPI index at the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on March 19, 2026 [Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo]

A man pumps petrol at an Exxon station as the price of oil and gas surges amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Washington, DC, United States, on March 5, 2026 [Ken Cedeno/Reuters]

Several Gulf states report Iranian attacks on energy sites after Israel struck Iran’s South Pars gasfield. Tensions between Iran and its neighbours are growing. Qatar ordered Iranian security and military attaches to leave after Iranian missiles caused “extensive damage” to its main gas facility at ...

US President Donald Trump warns Iran he will blow up the South Pars gasfield if it attacks Qatar again, and says Israel will not be attacking the Iranian energy site again. Qatar orders Iranian security and military attaches to leave the country after Iranian missiles cause “extensive damage” to its ...

Relentless United States and Israeli attacks on Iran. Senior officials killed, with thousands of air strikes across the country.Iran has retaliated, hitting Israel and its Gulf neighbours, targeting energy facilities and supply routes.So what are Iran’s options now?Presenter: Imran KhanGuests:Elijah ...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.After ordering the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani killed in 2020, Donald Trump claimed that the milit ...

Hugo Ekitike scores Liverpool's second goal against Ugurcan Cakir [Michael Regan/Getty Images]

On March 10, the journalist Emanuel Fabian reported on a missile that had been launched from Iran. The warhead hit an open area outside Jerusalem, which Fabian confirmed by speaking with rescue services and reviewing footage of the explosion. He wrote a short post on The Times of Israel’s live blog ...

Defense for Children International-Palestine says 51 percent of the 351 Palestinian children detained by Israel at the end of 2025 were being held under 'administrative detention', without charge or trial [File: Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]

Today’s questions look back to a quarter century ago, as well as to what feels like a quarter century ago: 2024. Good luck!And by the way, did you know that in addition to Democrats and Republicans (as well as their Federalist, Whig, and other predecessors), the Senate has held members of at least a ...

A picture shows a view of the phase 12 of the South Pars gasfield facilities [File: AFP]

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, the United States [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]

QatarEnergy's liquefied natural gas production facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City [File: Reuters]

QatarEnergy's liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City [File: Reuters]Qatar’s Ministry of ⁠Interior says civil ⁠defence teams are responding to a fire at the country’s main gas facility after an Iranian attack.In a statement on Wednesday, QatarEnergy said there ...

All eyes are on the Strait of Hormuz.The longer it remains closed, the greater the damage to the global economy.Iran continues to block tankers from shipping close to 20 percent of the world’s oil supply.That is roughly twice the disruption the world suffered during the energy shock of the 1970s.Big ...

Updated at 12:11 p.m. ET on March 19, 2026Sidar Can Eren / Anadolu / GettyA stork perches on its nest atop a power pole after returning for spring, in the Mazgirt district of Tunceli, Turkey, on March 18, 2026.Patrick Pleul / DPA / GettyA robin, seen in Brandenburg, Germany, on March 8, 2026Patrick ...

Studie zeigt steigende Belastung – besonders Kinder aus armen Familien betroffen

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on President Trump’s dangerous disregarding of Congress’s powers of war-making and peacemaking. David argues that though Republicans have enabled the pre ...

Modschtaba Khamenei ist vermutlich nicht in der Lage, das Land zu führen

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Liverpool host Galatasaray for the second leg of their Champions League last 16 clash, with the Turkish giants leading the tie 1-0 after the first leg. The game at Anfield in Liverpool, England kicks off at 8pm (20:00 GMT).

Rulers of the nations along the Arabian Peninsula bet decades ago that they could use oil sales to build thriving modern societies. They aimed to lure expats from around the world in search of work, security, and warm weather. Anyone who has visited Dubai or Doha knows how successfully that worked o ...

US President Donald Trump holds a model of a B-2 stealth bomber in the Oval Office of the White House on March 16, 2026, [Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo]

Integration von Geflüchteten in Arbeitsmarkt und Hochschulen kommt trotz verbleibender Hürden voran

Cyrus Salimi-Asl zur Tötung führender iranischer Funktionsträger

Cyrus Salimi-Asl zur Tötung führender iranischer Funktionsträger

Warum schlechte Schulbedingungen Kinder belasten

Milliardeninvestitionen müssen sich an Klimazielen orientieren – nicht an alten Reflexen

Der Politikwissenschaftler Uwe Jun über die dominierenden großen Parteien und den schleichenden Wandel im Land

Spitzenkandidatin Rebecca Ruppert über den Aufbruch ihrer Partei in Rheinland-Pfalz

Spitzenkandidatin Rebecca Ruppert über den Aufbruch ihrer Partei in Rheinland-Pfalz

Nach der Wahl am Sonntag wird die bislang in Mainz mitregierende FDP nicht mehr im Landtag vertreten sein

Zur geschönten Bilanz der alten Brandenburger Koalition

On Monday, a federal judge issued a preliminary ruling with a harsh reprimand for the Trump administration: You’ve done this vaccine stuff all wrong.The Trump administration likely broke the law, the judge’s 45-page decision argued, when it dismissed and abruptly reconstituted the CDC’s expert vacci ...

Los Angeles, United States – It was another blue-sky day in southern California, but on the streets of Los Angeles, a stark divide was playing out.On the city's Westside, protests had erupted to support the United States in its strikes against Iran. Flags of Iran's former monarchy fluttered in the b ...

Kurdinnen setzen sich auf internationalem Parkett für eine neue syrische Ordnung ein und fordern dafür internationale Unterstützung ein

In Brandenburg regieren jetzt SPD und CDU und das BSW ärgert sich

Read more about the Democrats who might run for president in 2028 here.A touch of annoyance flashes across Cory Booker’s face as we talk about fighting. “Why do people preemptively, continually, mistake kindness for weakness?” he asks. By “people,” he means, at this moment, me. I had just brought up ...

Am Tag der politischen Gefangenen besuchen Unterstützer den Dresdner Großprozess

Wirtschaft weiter unzufrieden mit der Ausbildungsplatzumlage

Fehlende Abstellflächen bringen den Verein AG Traditionsbus in existenzielle Nöte

Das geplante neue EU-Unternehmensrecht stößt auf scharfe Kritik

A unit of the South Pars gasfield at the Asalouyeh Seaport in Iran [File: Raheb Homavandi/TIMA via Reuters]

Ein Berufungsgericht des afrikanischen Fußballverbandes wertet das Skandalspiel von Rabat zu Gunsten der Gastgeber

Clashes between Pakistan’s military and Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers took a bloody turn this week as an air strike in Kabul killed at least 100 people. With world attention focused on the Middle East, there’s little sign of either side backing down.The hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s ...

Mutmaßlicher Rechtsterrorist missachtet das Dresdner Gericht und nimmt Beugehaft in Kauf

Israeli attacks severely damaged the Barquq Castle, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip [File: Ramadan Abed/Reuters]

Kommt man ohne Lesen in den Himmel? Teil 6: Ein Gespräch mit Tom Jonas Müller über sein Leben nach der Literaturproduktion

Mitarbeiter des Kurdischen Roten Halbmonds arbeiten in Nordostsyrien unter Lebensgefahr. In der Selbstorganisation finden Binnenflüchtlinge ihre Würde

Die DSEI Germany bietet eine internationaler Bühne für die Antikriegsbewegung

Football players from both sides clash after a controversial penalty was awarded to Morocco towards the end of the Africa Cup of Nations final on January 18 in Rabat, Morocco [Youssef Loulidi/AP]

An Iranian woman walks across posters depicting images of US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as she takes part in the al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally, a commemoration in support of the Palestinian people, on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, ...

Every year, an algorithm assigns thousands of medical students to residencies they can’t leave, can’t negotiate with, and can’t refuse. The Match system creates a captive workforce that stiffs residents and generates billions for the health care industry.Medical residents make about one-sixth of wha ...

Senegal players celebrate after winning the Africa Cup of Nations final against Morocco, January 18, 2026 [Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo]

Amid the ongoing war in Iran, the soaring price of oil since shipping was disrupted through the Strait of Hormuz has caused great alarm.On March 2, Ebrahim Jabari, a senior adviser to the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), announced that the Strait of Hormuz – thr ...

The robots befriended us remarkably fast.Over the past year or two, AI has become not just a utilitarian tool but a technology that many people are turning to for connection and emotional support. One survey last year found that 16 percent of American adults had used AI for companionship, and a quar ...

On January 19, a six-foot-wide sewer pipe broke beneath the land alongside the Potomac River, nine miles northwest of the Lincoln Memorial. A landslide of dirt and rocks dammed the flow, and the products of a million toilets, showers, sinks, and washing machines in the Washington, D.C., suburbs shot ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.After a decade of trashing American allies as freeloaders, President Trump is begging for their help in opening the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway adjacent to Iran sometimes referred to as the “jugular” ...

A fighter jet takes off from Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkiye [File: AP Photo]

Members of the Iranian women's national football team outside the airport after they arrived in Igdir, Turkiye, from Australia, on March 18, 2026 [Ali Ihsan Ozturk/Reuters]

Smoke rises from the Thai bulk carrier Mayuree Naree near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack on March 11, 2026 [Handout/Royal Thai Navy via AFP]

In Israel these days, unless your apartment has a blast-resistant room, it’s best to go to bed in something that you’re comfortable wearing in a bomb shelter. Your phone is likely to wake you with the clatter of an alert for incoming missiles: First comes a text message that says to be near a protec ...

President Trump appears to careen between two opposing visions for victory in Iran: He has demanded Tehran’s “unconditional surrender” and also has signaled that he might abruptly declare victory and leave. Neither scenario is likely to end this war, because neither reflects any real understanding o ...

My colleague Perry was clutching a Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream bar. Our office, which made websites at the turn of the millennium, had decided to try Kozmo.com, a new site that promised to bring DVDs, books, and treats to your door within an hour. We paid a couple of dollars for the ice-cream bar—de ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Despite Donald Trump’s promises, America has not been Made Affordable Again. This has created an immense political opportunity for his opponents. But Democratic lawmakers are failing just as badly to ar ...

Lindy West’s new memoir, Adult Braces, ends with a portrait of unconventional domestic bliss. She has moved to a cabin a few hours outside of Seattle with her husband, Aham, and her husband’s girlfriend, Roya, who is now also her girlfriend, Roya. Happiness in triplicate! This arrangement gives West ...

Amid the horrors of war, it’s always tempting for some on the Left to stake out more and more radical sloganeering. This was a dead end during the Vietnam War — mass action was not.Today’s organizers against the US war on Iran can learn a lot from the tactics and strategies that helped put an end to ...

Israel says it has killed Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib [File: Vahid Salemi/AP]

Israel says it has killed Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib [File: Vahid Salemi/AP]

Senegal's Idrissa Gueye, second right, calls players to walk off the pitch during the Africa Cup of Nations final against hosts Morocco, in Rabat, January 18, 2026 [Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo]

Illinois Democratic Senate candidate and Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton celebrates her primary win on March 17, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois [Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP]

Now is the moment for a presidential candidate who commits to cutting off all aid to Israel — whether it’s military or nonmilitary.New polling shows two-thirds of Democrats sympathize with the Palestinians over the Israelis. It’s the perfect time to advance a simple and stark demand: no more militar ...

A man photographs a building damaged by an Israeli air strike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, March 17, 2026 [Hassan Ammar/AP]

There is little sign that Israel is achieving its war aims against Iran. But Israel is the only state in the region with nuclear weapons — and it may use them if it feels like it has run out of options.Israel has started a war with Iran that is quickly spiraling out of control. We need to take serio ...

Two explosions are seen in footage released by US President Donald that he says shows the bombing of Iran's Kharg Island. [Donald Trump via social media]The United States and Israel say their escalating military assault on Iran is about nuclear proliferation, deterrence and regional security. But re ...

Firefighters are seen at the site of an Israeli air strike in Beirut's Bashoura neighbourhood on March 18, 2026. Lebanon said Israel struck central Beirut early March 18 without warning, killing at least six people, as the Israeli military announced it was targeting the country's south [Ibrahim Amro ...

Rocket trails are seen in the sky amid a barrage of Iranian missile attacks above the Israeli coastal city of Netanya on March 18, 2026 [Jack Guez/AFP]

Rocket trails are seen in the sky amid a new barrage of Iranian missile attacks above the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, on March 18, 2026 [Jack Guez/AFP]

A supermarket in the Qatari capital, Doha, seen here on May 27, 2018 [AFP]Qatar has no reason to worry about shortages of goods or disruptions to its supply chains despite heightened regional tensions, the head of the country’s customs authority has told Al Jazeera, saying strategic reserves, digita ...

Motorists drive past a plume of smoke rising from a reported Iranian strike in the industrial district of Doha amid the US-Israel war on Iran [File: Mahmud Hams /AFP]

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tells Talk to Al Jazeera that the United States is responsible for the war engulfing the region.He denies targeting civilians, defends Iran’s retaliation, and warns that the US military presence across the Gulf makes escalation unavoidable.Araghchi also signal ...

A picture provided by the Iranian Army in 2023 shows locally-made drones during a military drill at an undisclosed location in Iran [Handout: Iranian Army office via AFP]

A picture provided by the Iranian Army in 2023 shows locally-made drones during a military drill at an undisclosed location in Iran [Handout: Iranian Army office via AFP]

Iran launches more attacks on Israel in retaliation for the killings of its security chief, Ali Larijani, and Basij force commander Gholamreza Soleimani. At least two people are killed. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran’s political system remains strong and the assassination of its ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.It was supposed to be easy. In the weeks after President Trump authorized the military raid to snatch Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, he would tell pretty much any audience about how flawlessly the opera ...

Senegal forward Sadio Mane holds up the trophy as he celebrates with his teammates after the AFCON final [File: AFP]African football’s governing body has stripped Senegal of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title they won in a chaotic final two months ago and declared Morocco the champions.In a stu ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Joe Kent, the U.S. government’s top counterterrorism official and a self-identified “America First” Republican, is not the only Donald Trump ally to disagree with the president’s decision to attack Iran ...

Tornadoes did not hit the nation’s capital yesterday, and many meteorologists on the internet are extremely sorry. “What a HORRIBLE forecast by meteorologists—especially myself,” Matthew Cappucci, of the weather app MyRadar, posted on X yesterday after the tornado warnings that prompted schools, bus ...

US President Donald Trump meets with Taoiseach of Ireland Micheal Martin during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC [AFP]

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.When Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned today in protest of the I ...

The official World Cup trophy is displayed during its presentation within the FIFA World Cup 2026 Trophy Tour at BBVA Stadium in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon, Mexico on March 14, 2026 [Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP]

Updated at 6:54 p.m. ET on March 17, 2026In February 2025, Donald Trump nominated Joe Kent, a 2020-election conspiracy theorist with links to the Proud Boys and white supremacists, as head of the National Counterterrorism Center. What could possibly go wrong?Kent’s beliefs did not complicate his ten ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does n ...

The president stood on the steps of the palace after the ball, watching the staffer depart. Technically, it was the White House, not a palace yet, and it was very difficult to host balls there, a deep, intractable problem for average Americans that he feared would overshadow his legacy if he failed ...

Today’s trivia is a pleasure trip to the Strait of Hormuz and then volatile northwestern Africa. Don’t forget your toothbrush.And by the way, did you know that among the many types of inlets—firth, ria, bayou, bight—stands the mighty seapoose? A seapoose is, very specifically, a shallow inlet along ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street, in London, UK, on March 17, 2026 [Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters]

The United States has a historic chance to restore its old relationship with Lebanon and to broker peace between Lebanon and Israel. But seizing that opportunity would require more robust and sustained U.S. diplomatic engagement than what we have seen thus far.The Trump administration’s attention is ...

Palestinian families carry their belongings after being forced from their homes during Israeli military operations in the West Bank city of Hebron in January 2026 [File: Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Getty Images]

A 500-gramme gold bar [File: Chris McGrath/Getty]

In a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI’s GPT-2 seven years ago. Little known to anyone outside of tech circles, GPT-2 excelled at producing unexpected answers. It was creative. “You could be like, ‘Continue this story: The man decided to take a shower,’ and GPT-2 would be like, ...

The US-Israel war with Iran has made energy prices soar across the globe. In a world increasingly dominated by imperial war and great-power conflicts, inflation will become an ordinary feature of politics.With shipping halted and storage insufficient, most petroleum and liquefied gas production in t ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.Last week, Iran assumed the position it had long threatened to take, that of the troll under the bridge determining which ships can pass into and out of the Persian Gulf. Maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was throttled down to almos ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a sporty American woman would have had relatively few arenas to test her skill: croquet, maybe, or archery, or basketball played gently in an ankle-length skirt. Public displays of aggression were almost universally condemned, and colliding was especially unsavory. T ...

At the end of the Gilded Age, Edwin Markham’s poem “The Man with the Hoe” became an ideological litmus test, polarizing the American public between an allegiance to either workers or the oligarchy in an age of massive inequality surpassed only by our own.The Man with a Hoe by Jean-François Millet, 1 ...

After a newspaper profile of the “looksmaxxing” influencer Braden Peters, otherwise known as Clavicular, went viral last month, many critics focused on how divorced his nihilistic quest for beauty—he’d call it “sexual market value”—was from any pursuit of women, relationships, or even sex. I was esp ...

Last month, Jonathan Silva, the chief executive officer of WS Game Company, paused a meeting to try to make sense of a Supreme Court decision the moment it was handed down. “I have no law experience whatsoever,” he told me. But “I know that at 10 a.m., you go to the Supreme Court’s website, and I kn ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.The window for Donald Trump to end the Iran war by simply declaring victory and walking away is rapidly closing. Soon he will face a stark choice: He can take greater risks in pursuit of a decisive tactical success, prepare the country for a pr ...

Recently, I stood in an airfield in Sweetwater, Texas, and looked up. I was wondering what it would have been like to take off from there in a small plane, flying into the dust of West Texas and the chaos of World War II, as my grandmother had. The land around me had the palette of a well-used water ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The smell was strange. Sharp. Chemical. Wrong. The concrete wall was too close. My glasses were gone. One of my kids was standing on the sidewalk next to our car—not crying, just confused.The seat belt had held. ...

The Most Powerful Man in ScienceIn the January issue, Michael Scherer considered why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is so convinced he’s right.I am a pediatrician who witnessed the rise of vaccine and science skepticism during the coronavirus pandemic, and I’m terrified by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decimation ...

When a war begins, our emotions often overtake our ability to analyze and judge. That is a problem not only for those who wage war, engaging either directly as combatants or indirectly as senior leaders, but for the rest of us. That partial eclipse of reason is on full display in the current Iran wa ...

Photographs by Philip CheungAt Coronado National Memorial in Arizona, the demolition crews blowing up national-park land tend to announce explosions at least a day in advance, as a warning for hikers to stay away. The crews have been working their way up the western slope of the park for the past co ...

Photographs by Kent AndreasenWhen I arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, in October, at the windy end of spring, setting foot on African soil for the first time in my life, it wasn’t to indulge in the animal voyeurism that wealthy newlyweds tell me will change my life. The prospect of being stuck in ...

Reminders of Him is exactly the movie novelist Colleen Hoover set out to make — which is the problem.Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers star in Reminders of Him. (Universal Pictures)I suppose if there’s a hell and I die and go there, Reminders of Him will be the only movie available, and it will play ev ...

First-round results suggest the French left can hold its ground in this month’s local elections. This positive outcome comes despite a campaign defined by an acrimonious civil war between the center-left establishment and France Insoumise.The price of disunity is that the Left is at best holding its ...

Vilfredo Pareto once observed that history was a “graveyard of aristocracies” as ruling elites gradually become decadent, depraved, and dysfunctional. The contemporary United States is a disturbingly neat fit for Pareto’s model.Vilfredo Pareto warned that aristocracies did not endure in the long run ...

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.Mike Pence should have been a warning to J. D. Vance about the inevitable abasement in store once you j ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.Two months ago, when President Trump was threatening to annex Greenland, I spoke with Danish and other European officials who warned of lasting damage to the system of alliances that the United States created after the Second World War, above a ...

If you, like me, had an early bedtime last night, you might require The Atlantic’s help in answering today’s Oscars trivia. By all means, read up.And by the way, did you know that this weekend’s tie between the two winners for Best Live-Action Short is the seventh in Oscars history? The most famous ...

It’s a lot to ask of President Trump for him to show a little humility. But that’s exactly what the moment requires.War is always tragic. When innocent civilians die, that tragedy is multiplied. Even disciplined militaries can’t eliminate the fog of war, faulty intelligence, or human error. Terrible ...

When Israel assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, one of the many people who celebrated the death of the supreme leader was a Syrian surgeon not far from Damascus. He had lived through four years of siege and bombardment by pro-Iranian militias. Over WhatsApp, he told me that, in the West, “the discu ...

The smart political move for Democrats, many will assume, is total opposition to President Trump’s war on Iran.The war is already nearly as unpopular as the Iraq War was in the worst months of the insurgency, from 2004 to 2006. The current war is also getting bigger and lasting longer than what Trum ...

Leftists have celebrated the growing favorability of socialism among young people, but youth politics are more heterodox than they appear.Illustration by Michael DeForgeSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here.By the time President Trump ousted Kristi Noem from the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month, her team had already embarked on a spending spree that included far more than the new luxury jet and the self-promotional ads that got h ...

Two weeks after the United States and Israel launched their combined military campaign against Iran’s clerical regime, the outlines of victory are beginning to emerge.Military campaigns of this kind—especially those aimed not only at degrading military capability but also at creating conditions for ...

Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries.Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some o ...

In a decrepit Manhattan apartment, Barbara Rosenberg, the elderly Jewish narrator of Jordy Rosenberg’s new novel, Night Night Fawn, is dying from a “notoriously lethal illness.” Thanks to the effect of OxyContin, she’s flickering through memories of her life, composing (possibly only in her head) he ...

Even as Donald Trump’s war roils global energy markets and runs down stocks of U.S. air-defense weapons, the president’s relentless assault on the Iranian regime has yielded at least one perhaps accidental achievement: It’s undermining the reputation of America’s chief global rival. China is proving ...

In 1984, a white man named Bernie Goetz shot four unarmed black youths on a New York City subway train. The tabloids hailed him as a fed-up everyman — rhetoric that permeated the culture and intensified a culture of white grievance and racist vigilantism.In Reagan-era New York City, a white man name ...

For many in the United States, life is bleak — so bleak that some look to China and see an alternative, decently functioning society that doesn’t allow its citizens to fall below a “kill line.”With a sense of hope for a better future collapsing for many in the United States, China is starting to loo ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.This is an age of mutinies. For more than a decade in America, they’ve come so thick and fast that they trip over one another: the Tea Party, Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Resistance, the anti-lockdown protest ...

There’s no ambiguity about who Vyleesi is for. The prescription drug, commonly referred to as female Viagra, boosts the libido of women experiencing hypoactive-sexual-desire disorder, a condition in which lack of interest in sex causes distress. When Vyleesi was approved in 2019, an FDA official ann ...

“I’ll share my lipid profile with anybody!” Janet Mills, the governor of Maine, pledged to me.These are the kinds of assurances that candidates make when everyone keeps harping on their age.Mills, who is 78, is trying to dislodge Susan Collins, a spring chicken at 73, in Maine’s Senate race this fal ...

Photographs by Stacy KranitzWhat does it feel like to be struck by lightning?There is no easy analogue. A defibrillator delivers up to 1,000 volts to a patient’s heart; inmates executed by electric chair typically receive about 2,000. A typical lightning strike, by contrast, transmits 100 million vo ...

A strike in Colorado shows what happens when thousands of workers confront one of the most concentrated industries in the American economy.Roughly 3,800 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 are now on strike at one of the country’s largest meatpacking plants in Greeley, Colorado, af ...

At a time of profound unrest and the launch of an insane new war, Hollywood mostly stuck to its “keep politics out” mandate at this year’s Academy Awards. Javier Bardem, however, stood firm: no to war, and freedom for Palestine.Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Javier Bardem at the 98th Academy Awards. (Ric ...

With his pro-worker reforms and pacifist foreign policy, Bruno Kreisky was Austria’s greatest chancellor. His successes weren’t just a product of his own talent but of the powerful labor movement that shaped him.Thirty-six years after his death, there is no doubt that Bruno Kreisky is the specter ha ...

The narrative of this year’s Oscars was: how to pick? Between Sinners and One Battle After Another, voters put two majorly successful, critically beloved, star-driven studio releases at the top of the nominations pile. While One Battle After Another had seemed like the odds-on Best Picture favorite ...

It was one of the funniest lines of the night: “This is freaking insane, and I have one before you, which is also crazy.” Toward the end of her acceptance speech, Cassandra Kulukundis, onstage as the winner of the Oscars’ first casting award ever for her work on One Battle After Another, shouted out ...

The death of Jürgen Habermas has left philosophy and the Left poorer. Central to his work was a profound critique of irrationality in all its forms. Taken seriously, his philosophy provides an indispensable guide in the struggle against oppression.The philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who died yesterday, ...

The investment portfolio of the interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York shows financial stakes in Epstein-associated financial institutions and Venezuelan oil interests. The Trump appointee stands to win big from his own investigations.What do the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and t ...

As democratic socialism returns to the US public eye, socialists need to make clear how their vision differs from the liberalism most Americans are familiar with. Here are five crucial distinctive elements of a socialist policy agenda.The popularity of Zohran Mamdani’s baby steps in the directions o ...

Ireland’s taoiseach, Micheál Martin, will be paying homage to Donald Trump on St Patrick’s Day. Irish public opinion is strongly opposed to the US war on Iran and the Gaza genocide, but Martin and his allies are anxious to stay on Trump’s good side.Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin presents Donald Trum ...

The death of French far-right activist Quentin Deranque one month ago has cast a shadow over elections typically focused on local concerns.A half-torn sticker featuring the portrait of far right activist Quentin Deranque is pasted on a map of the Lyon metropolitan area. (Matthieu Delaty / Hans Lucas ...

In Minneapolis, a new generation of activists is challenging Donald Trump, reviving labor militancy, and scoring victories. Next stop: May Day 2026.Working-class resistance in Minneapolis was integral to the battle that pushed back against Trump’s immigration crackdown. The labor movement is redisco ...

Our male protagonists — or perhaps men more broadly — are searching for meaning, solace, or glory anywhere but in the workplace. The trend represents a collective ambiguity about the point of work.The leading men of this year's Oscar films aren't climbing ladders or running boardrooms. They're quitt ...

We’re living in the imperial end times, argues Hasan Piker. With Trump entering a quagmire in Iran after having cast off America’s allies, a new era of belligerence, cruelty, and MAGA fascism looms over the home front.Hasan Piker is photographed during an election night event for Zohran Mamdani at t ...

As US power declines, it is destroying the norms and institutions that once organized its international projection of authority. While the US is losing its leadership role, no single power is replacing it as a global hegemon.If the international order has now come to an end, it is because consent fo ...

Europe’s far-right parties have long boasted about putting their own countries’ interests first but now slavishly support the latest US-Israeli war. While they opt for vassalage, antiwar forces have turned out to be the real defenders of sovereignty.Most Europeans oppose the latest US-Israeli war, w ...

Donald Trump’s efforts to blockade Cuba’s fuel supply aim to create chaos. Now more than ever, Cuba needs practical international solidarity to resist US imperialist bullying.For years, the US establishment has blamed the Cuba’s economic problems on socialism, incompetence, and mismanagement. (Yamil ...

As the US attacks Iran, Donald Trump is following a blueprint laid out by a long-standing force in US foreign policy: the neocons who backed the Iraq War more than 20 years ago.The US war on Iran follows a road map drafted by a revived neocon network of Iraq War defense hawks, Israel lobby allies, a ...

Donald Trump fired Kristi Noem for embarrassing him on TV, not for the civil rights catastrophe she oversaw at Homeland Security. Her replacement, Markwayne Mullin, is a loyal Trump ally who promises more of the same egregious overreach and abuse.There’s only one rule of the second Trump administrat ...

Centrist Democrats claim to be the bearers of hard facts, dismissing leftist dissent as emotional and naive. But their “facts” are often a mishmash of consultant data, selectively interpreted focus groups, and big donor priorities.Former Barack Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz recently complained ab ...

AI-assisted warfare extends a logic with roots in the industrial warfare of the 20th century: a cold distance that turns humans into points in a dataset.Surveillance via a drone equipped with artificial intelligence. (Niharika Kulkarni / AFP via Getty Images)The United States is using artificial int ...

The US bombing campaign in Iran relies heavily on British military bases. For a moment, it seemed Keir Starmer might refuse Washington access, but he has proved too cowardly to make even this basic stand for human rights against imperial war.Under Keir Starmer, the Labour Party appears incapable of ...

Youth sports should be about fun and fair play — not turning kids into anxious investments for parents and private equity.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Years and years before gangster rap, satanic lyrics, glam rock, and Led Zeppelin’s groupie antics, good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll — the chosen music of the postwar youth — roused nothing less than a full-blown moral panic across America. Here are the songs most responsible.Standing atop a piano, r ...

“Gen Z” protesters in Mexico rallied under the Straw Hat Pirates’ Jolly Roger from One Piece. (Isaac Ortega / ObturadorMX / Getty Images)Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Dystopian teen films will remain popular as long as they keep reflecting truths about young people’s prospects under capitalism. The pessimistic Lord of the Flies, which has been adapted many times for the stage and screen, was criticized after the emergence of a story about six actual shipwrecked t ...

We surveyed 1,789 socialist teens. Here’s what they’re reading before prom.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

By treating young adult fiction as a laboratory for professional-class moralizing, the publishing industry has effectively abandoned actual teens. The Harry Potter books — which have sold hundreds of millions of copies since 1997, making author J. K. Rowling a billionaire — proved to publishers ju ...

Public spaces are replete with laws and design choices that limit teens’ access to them. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

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Jacobin contributor and former teenager Sofia Baker answers your most burning questions. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Kneecap talks to Jacobin about attempts to punish the hip-hop trio for its vocal stance on Palestine and its hopes for a unified Ireland.Glastonbury Festival attendees hold aloft Welsh and Irish flags at a Kneecap performance. Presumably some are supporters of a unified Ireland, like Kneecap’s own m ...

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As SNL’s resident body-horror comic, Sarah Sherman brings Bernie-era politics — and stubborn optimism — into a moment defined by ICE raids, massive inequality, and creeping authoritarianism. (Todd Owyoung / NBC / Getty Images)Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscr ...

Hasan Piker talks to Jacobin about radicalization, the Right, and his own place in socialist politics.Photography by Max PitegoffSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Therapeutic culture risks raising a generation taught to look inward while the sources of their distress lie outside themselves.Illustration by Benny Douet.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.Illustration by Benny Douet.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

When revolutionary Cuba asked its youth to eliminate illiteracy, 100,000 answered the call, reshaping their country and themselves in the process.(STF / AFP / Getty Images)Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Growing up after the monarchy’s fall, Nepal’s youth are confronting a republic that transformed political institutions while leaving the underlying social order intact.(Narayan Maharjan / NurPhoto / Getty Images)Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Mexico City’s “Gen Z” anti-government protest against President Claudia Sheinbaum bears all the hallmarks of an astroturf campaign.A simultaneous “Gen Z” protest in Guadalajara, Jalisco, also turned out mostly affluent, middle-aged demonstrators. (Ulises Ruiz / AFP / Getty Images) Sorry, this artic ...

What Donald Trump wants from Venezuela’s oil fields is not money but power.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

A recent turnaround in South Korea’s marriage rate shows that its fertility crisis is also an affordability crisis. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

In the West Bank, at-risk youth are recast as pioneers — funded by Israeli ministries and US tax-deductible charities — and deployed to harass, dispossess, and drive Palestinians from their land.A local Palestinian resident argues with soldiers about the illegal plowing and grazing taking place on p ...

Israel is arresting more Palestinian children than ever before — and it’s not even bothering to charge many of them with crimes. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

In May 1970, four million students went on strike across the country, shutting down classes at hundreds of colleges, universities, and high schools and demanding an end to the Vietnam War. Armed Ohio National Guardsmen advance through the Kent State University campus, forcing back student participan ...

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A little over two years ago, the student movement for Palestine transformed American college campuses seemingly overnight. But the passion and energy that built those encampments wasn’t enough to sustain the fight.Student demonstrators at Columbia University lock arms to prevent law enforcement from ...

We surveyed over a thousand young people across the anglophone world to get a sense of their views on politics and culture.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

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Across the country, Democrats have tried and failed to emulate Mamdani’s successful mayoral campaign. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

A new crop of young Democratic Party challengers is running on generational politics alone, hoping to capitalize on voters’ hunger for change without running afoul of the centrist establishment.Illustration by Richard ChanceSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe ...

A recent string of revelations about abuses by the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps presents an opportunity to rein in the military’s presence and power in public schools. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

The 20th century saw an explosion in teen media. Now many of those magazines have folded.(SGranitz / WireImage)Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

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Twenty-five years ago, someone like Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson would have had little to offer the world. His rise to global phenomenon suggests that virality is emptier than even pessimists thought possible.Illustration by Richard ChanceSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here ...

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Youth sports are transforming from neighborhood fun to big business.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

When the military wants to recruit students, it targets schools in big cities and the South, as well as schools that are poorer and less white than the national average.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

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In a culture without a middle, Teen Vogue became a lodestar for aging millennials.Illustration by Richard ChanceSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

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The teenager we know today came of age in the postwar era — but she owes her existence to the New Deal.Illustration by David Milan.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

When it comes to reversing labor’s decline, union elections through the National Labor Relations Board have proven woefully insufficient. We need strategies for building workplace power that aren’t dependent on the NLRB.Demonstrators during an Alphabet Workers Union rally in New York. (Victor J. Blu ...

What were once considered the ravings of tinfoil-hat conspiracy junkies are now par for the course for the Trumpian right and its analysis of the state of public education.The cultural Marxist conspiracy theory that has bounced around the far right for decades is clearly now comfortably embraced by ...

Under capitalism, technological “progress” like AI systematically deskills workers, deepens managerial control, and turns the labor process into a site of conflict rather than liberation. This is by design.Every change in technology also brings about and requires a change in workplace relations. (Fl ...

Police body camera and weapons juggernaut Axon is reporting blockbuster earnings amid the Trump administration’s explosive spending on immigration policing. The company is resisting efforts to make it disclose its political spending strategy.This year, Axon is expected to receive $220 million in tax ...