How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics
In March 2020, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Donald J. Trump competed for the White House for the first time, American life became almost unrecognizable. A deadly virus and…
In Hezbollah’s Sights, a Stretch of Northern Israel Becomes a No-Go Zone
More than 60,000 Israelis who live far from Gaza but close to the front line of another spiraling conflict have in recent months been ordered from their homes along Israel’s…
Could Trump’s Properties Really Be Seized?
Rejected by more than two dozen bond companies, Donald J. Trump has so far been unable to come up with the nearly half-a-billion dollar penalty owed by Monday in his…
Trump Will Face His Greatest Fears as Two Legal Threats Coincide Monday
Donald J. Trump is expected to spend his Monday morning in the courtroom of a New York judge who might soon preside over his criminal trial and, ultimately, throw him…
The Dogs Helping the Covenant Children Find Their Way Back
Two of April Manning’s children, Mac and Lilah, had just survived the mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville. They needed stability and time to grieve. So she did…
The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave
On a June afternoon in 2018, a man named Mickey Barreto checked into the New Yorker Hotel. He was assigned Room 2565, a double-bed accommodation with a view of Midtown…
The Man Who Helped Redefine Campus Antisemitism
In the early 2000s, as the uprising known as the second intifada instilled fear in Israelis through a series of suicide bombings, Kenneth Marcus, then an official in the U.S.…
ISIS-K, Group Tied to Moscow Attack, Has Grown Bolder and More Violent
Few know better than the Taliban what a relentless foe the Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan can be. Much of the West considers the Taliban, which reclaimed power in the…
Deadly Moscow Attack Shatters Putin’s Security Promise to Russians
Less than a week ago, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia claimed a fifth term with his highest-ever share of the vote, using a stage-managed election to show the nation…
Matt Taibbi: “Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism” | naked capitalism
For those of you who have not seen Matt Taibbi’s piece on Google’s threat to demonetize us over flawed, even nonsensical AI-generated charges against a handful of posts since 2018,…