The Urgent Need for a United Arab Initiative
US President Donald Trum’'s state visit to China will go down in history as the day the United States finally acknowledged Beijing’s ascendancy as a global superpower.
Behind the Blog: The Attention Wars
This week, we discuss Spencer Pratt, bricking phones, and the FTC.
The quiet resistance of working-class women in Egypt
Everyday acts of financial self-protection, mutual support and safer mobility are subtle, enduring forms of resistance practiced by women in Egypt.
Business motives don’t explain the right-wing turn of the Washington Post and CBS. Billionaire ideology does.
We need to come to terms with the fact that––increasingly––media properties are overt ideological playtoys largely indifferent to ratings and clicks.
An Afghan Woman’s Ascent of Everest
A survivor of a 2014 Taliban ambush in Afghanistan who feigned death to live, River Ahmad fled the country in 2019 and is now climbing Everest for the women and girls back home — and for her brother, who died by suicide.
Trump Is Plunging Cuba Into a Humanitarian Crisis
From 30-hour blackouts to extreme fuel shortages, the situation in Cuba under the second Trump administration is a catastrophe. Still, Cubans are showing extraordinary creativity and resilience in the face of the suffocating blockade.
The Absurd Sexism of Euphoria’s Third Season
When HBO’s Euphoria premiered in 2019, critics were equal parts entranced and horrified.
Gerüchtekiller #11: Sterben Menschen unweigerlich aus, wenn Bienen aussterben?
Albert Einstein gilt als einer der klügsten Köpfe des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wenn er sagt, dass der Mensch nur noch vier Jahre zu leben hätte, wenn Bienen aussterben, dann wird das wohl stimmen. Oder nicht?
House GOP Cancels Iran War Powers Vote for Second Day in a Row
The cancellation comes just after four GOP senators joined Democrats to pass a Senate war powers resolution.
‘What Kind of Life Is This?’: Desperate Cubans Weigh Their Odds in Texas
Refugees from Cuba have always had to struggle for success in America. In Trump’s second term, they’ve been plunged into legal chaos.
Shein Buying Everlane Actually Makes Perfect Sense
The acquisition struck many people as a bizarre mismatch, but it's really a sign of where Chinese ecommerce giants are already going.
Patrick O’Donovan’s department didn’t disclose his secret Coimisiún na Meán call in meeting minutes
Patrick O’Donovan’s departmental records of his meeting with Coimisiún na Meán don’t disclose the secret phone call he’d made to a commissioner where the media minister sought to initiate a state examination of RTÉ’s fuel protest coverage.
California Governor’s Race Is Turning Into a Three-Way Fight
After a surprisingly chaotic race, we’re finally getting a clearer picture of who’s likely to be the next governor of California.
Google appeals search monopoly ruling, says it won business ‘fair and square’
Google officially filed its appeal of the federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing the decision "crashed" through legal guardrails. "Google just prevailed in the marketplace fair and square," it writes in its legal filing.
Putsch gegen die Opposition
Türkische Justiz enthebt die Spitze der CHP-Partei von ihren Ämtern, weil deren Wahl angeblich nicht korrekt abgelaufen sein soll
Two-state Israel-Palestine solution is Washington’s empty liturgy
When the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres declares, once again, that “the only way” out of the Israeli-Palestinian impasse runs through two states, one is reminded less of a policy proposal than of a Latin Mass. The words are sacred.
AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share
The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.
