A war of attrition.
CJRby Ivan L. Nagy8d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On September 18, Theodore Boutrous Jr., a prominent appellate and media lawyer, was preparing to take a vacation.
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top 86%‘Willful Blindness’: Ruth Margalit on Israelis’ media consumption.
CJRby Amos Barshad8d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Ruth Margalit, a contributing writer at the New York Times magazine, specializes in profiles of prominent Israelis.
Back to School, in Gaza
The New Yorkerby Mosab Abu Toha8d ago
When I was growing up, in northern Gaza, my parents took my siblings and me to a stationery store about a week before each school year started.
Will Netanyahu Escape His Reckoning?
The New Yorkerby David Remnick8d ago
In his desperate attempt to hold on to power as Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to cast a spell on the electorate with a stark and profoundly cynical message: Forget the...
Millions from the Opioid Settlement Are Being Spent on Law Enforcement
The New Yorkerby Oliver Whang8d ago
The Walter Smittle III Regional Responder Training Center sits at the end of a gravel road on a ridge just south of Ripley, West Virginia, in Jackson County.
The Fighting in Ethiopia Is Part of a Far Bigger Conflict
The New Yorkerby Ishaan Tharoor8d ago
If talk of a collapsing “international order” can feel like a distant abstraction, look to the Horn of Africa for a sense of its reality on the ground.
Teaching Havel in Kyiv: Lessons From Ukraine for Trump’s America
The New Republicby Jonathan Becker8d ago
It was 9 a.m. in Kyiv, and I showed up at class ready to teach Vaclav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless,” his celebrated 1978 essay about totalitarian control, but was feeling rough around the...
Francis Fukuyama’s Failures of Imagination
The New Republicby Sean T. Byrnes8d ago
There is a strange irony in the career that Francis Fukuyama recounts in his new memoir, In the Realm of the Last Man.
If Trump Steals an Election, Here’s What to Do
The New Republicby Neil Abrams8d ago
It is January 3, 2027. The Democrats, fresh off their sweeping victory in the November elections, are set to take the majority in the House of Representatives.
Are the Blue Wave Polls Too Good to Be True?
The New Republicby Perry Bacon8d ago
I’m nervous about the polls and election forecasts projecting a huge Democratic wave. And I think you should be too. Why? For two reasons.
A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat
Wiredby Brian Kahn, Molly Taft8d ago
An industrial park in Irvine, California, may seem an odd spot to show off technology that wouldn’t be out of place in Dune, but that’s what’s happening on a sweltering September morning.
Newsom Calls for 25th Amendment After Trump Imagines Iran Attacking California
Timeby Chad de Guzman8d ago
“Donald Trump is mentally ill,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom told TIME and other media outlets in a statement after the President made remarks Monday suggesting an attack by Iran on the cities of...
Florida poll: Republicans lead in the races for governor and Senate
NBC Newsby Matt Dixon8d ago
Republican Byron Donalds holds a 7-percentage-point advantage over Democrat David Jolly in the Florida governor’s race, according to a new NBC South Florida/Telemundo Station Group poll, while...
The federal government is backing away from a decades-old disability rights promise
The 19thby Sara Luterman8d ago
More than 25 years ago, Lois Curtis called a lawyer with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society from a pay phone in a hospital hallway.
'Get your house in order': IMF chief's stark warning for France over surging bond yields
US Top News and Analysisby Chloe Taylor8d ago
The head of the International Monetary Fund had a blunt message to the French government in a CNBC interview on Wednesday: bring your finances under control.
Scientists reprogram immune cells inside the body to fight cancer
ScienceDaily8d ago
Scientists reprogram immune cells inside the body to fight cancer A new CRISPR-based approach could turn immune cells into powerful cancer fighters directly inside the body, making CAR-T therapy...
Ex-Obama spy chief prepped for anti-Trump trial by Biden-era special counsel's team, new records reveal
FOX Newsby Alec Schemmel8d ago
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers he had "never met" former CIA Director and vocal Trump critic John Brennan when pressed about whether Brennan provided consultation or counsel...
Congress killed the penny — now it's coming for the 13-cent nickel
FOX Newsby Elizabeth Elkind; Alex Miller8d ago
It's common sense that common cents are getting less use in Americans' daily lives. Congress already took action to eliminate the lowest rung — the penny — and now another coin collecting dust in...
Google ordered to halt work on two data centers in ‘Texas of Europe’
US Top News and Analysisby Kai Nicol-Schwarz8d ago
Google has been ordered to halt work on two data centers it's developing in Finland, a month after the tech giant committed to investing $15 billion in AI infrastructure in the country.
On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work
Literary Hubby Kelly Marie Coyne8d ago
On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work Kelly Marie Coyne Considers What’s Revealed By Plath’s Unpublished Poetry In 1971, eight years after Sylvia Plath died, a dispute...