Western North Carolina Pleaded for Hurricane Help. It Got ICE Instead.
As the G20 descends on Asheville, North Carolina, the communities that helped rebuild after Hurricane Helene live in fear of Trump’s immigration regime.
A Florida Community Aimed to Address a Legacy of Pollution. The Trump Administration Cancelled Its Funding.
TAMPA, Fla. —Ross Fabian’s low-slung apartment building sits beside a pond that sometimes smells of dead fish. He has seen dead dogs in the pond.
How Cooking Gas Became a Barometer for the Iran War’s Energy Shock
Trade in liquefied petroleum gas has been redrawn over the past six months, becoming a microcosm of a global crisis.
HowMeta's bold plan to replace staff with AI imploded
To make its workforce " AI native," Meta explored slashing the size of many teams across the company by as much as 60% in two waves, internal documents show.
The Perez Hilton livestream was horrifying. So was what came next
Plus, how WeddingTok became this generation's MLM marketplace.
Revenance Event
China Miéville returns to fiction with a secret history of late-twentieth-century Britain.
You Love To See It: The $17 Billion Unfollow
Meta loses its screen privileges, a toxic weedkiller is toast, voters block a cash grab, and Trump’s trans-healthcare-records heist hits a wall.
Liberal Zionism and the Democratic Party
Séamus Malekafzali on pro-Palestine gestures by U.S. Democratic politicians.
Dispute offers new details on settlement that followed notorious Dupont Circle killing
The estate of Robert Wone says former defendants in a wrongful-death suit have failed to make agreed payments that help fund a scholarship in his name.
The Latest Chapter In American Military Muddling
On day one of America’s supposedly “ most precise ” aerial bombing campaign in history, 150 people, including 120 children, at Iran’s Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School, were killed . Over the following weeks, nearly two dozen more schools along with 10 hospitals were also hit by air strikes.
While Losing a Real War, Pete Hegseth Is Building a Troll Army
The defense secretary is more comfortable around influencers than with seasoned generals.
Subjective Perspective Makes Objective Reality ‘Everywhere Whole’
Earlier this month, the Berggruen Institute gathered religious scholars, philosophers, quantum physicists, AI technologists, neuroscientists and science fiction novelists at Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice to ponder the nature of consciousness.
U.S. investment in international reporting is shrinking, taking international journalists’ opportunities with it
As Donald Trump wins more attention from news media, one loser has often been international reporting — despite the growing imperative for American readers to have a more expansive view of their place in an increasingly interconnected world.
Against the Lewis Model
The work of Arthur Lewis is one the best entry points for an engagement with classic development thinking.
Behind the Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flamin' Hot Slop
This week, we discuss cool old books, new toys for ICE, and a boardwalk slop invasion.
An American Returns to Palestine to Defend His Home from Settlers
Loui Ridi returned to Qusra to confront the settlers trying to steal his home. Now he's imprisoned inside it, and he's asking the US Embassy for help. So far, they've offered none.
Investigating a Murder: Public Records Uncover New Clues in Chinatown Cold Case
Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. On a June night in 1996, in a basement apartment in Boston’s Chinatown, a killer put a pistol to the back of a young man's head and pulled the trigger.
After Petro
On 10 August at 7.34am, an earthquake struck western Colombia, killing over 300 people and leaving many more homeless.
