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Mount Sinjar rises from the arid plains of northwestern Iraq like a grassy sentinel — ancient, scarred, and unyielding. Today marks ten years since the Islamic State launched its genocidal assault on the Yazidis in...

Between eight and nine thousand: this is the rough number of people who go to jail in Germany each year for failing to pay a public transportation ticket. Once discovered, passengers are asked to pay...

In February 2020, the insurgent left was on top of the world. Bernie Sanders had just won the Nevada caucuses, solidifying his status as the front-runner in the Democratic presidential primary. A month later, the...

Review of Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Simon & Schuster, 2025) “Socialism means plenty for all. We do not preach a gospel of want and scarcity, but of abundance.” — Suffragette and socialist...

Since early April, immigrant workers in the Tuscan city of Prato have staged a wave of strikes demanding their right to a forty-hour work week, or “8×5.” Organized by the union SUDD Cobas, these walkouts, dubbed...

At some point or another, something will happen to you as a parent that will turn you — no doubt a once normal, fun-loving person — into an obsessive lunatic. In my case, it happened...

This week, Keir Starmer announced that Britain would recognize a Palestinian state in September, if Israel doesn’t agree to a cease-fire first. Starmer’s arrogant posture — teasing the idea that the former colonial power might...

When I was in graduate school in the 1990s — and this continued into the aughts and 2010s — the dominant idea in liberal foreign policy circles was that of humanitarian intervention or Responsibility to...

The key decision in director Lisaboa Houbrechts’s new production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, which showed this June in Paris as part of a European tour, was to replace the play’s famed...

TikTok has announced mass layoffs as it looks to replace staff with artificial intelligence. Around 160 of the social media firm’s four hundred employees in Berlin have lost their jobs. Many are up before the...

In the 2020s, a cursory search about the latest hot new band that has seemingly arrived from nowhere usually uncovers a private school education or the Wikipedia entry of some parent. Ozzy Osbourne, who died...

The new light, bright, poppy Fantastic Four movie directed by Matt Shakman (WandaVision) is a big hit just two weeks after James Gunn’s light, bright, poppy Superman was a big hit, which seems to indicate...