Six years ago, Genevieve Lane was enjoying an active life in Florida when she began to forget her neighbors’ names and where she put her keys. At seventy-six, she might have shrugged off these lapses...
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Even by its own dizzying standards, New York City is in a state of flux. Ongoing political uncertainty, with Mayor Eric Adams’s administration deep in crisis, is now compounded by the return of Donald Trump....
“You’re going to be very happy with me,” Donald Trump told thousands of rapt Bitcoin believers back in July. I was standing within the throng, having gone down to Nashville to cover the annual Bitcoin...
In late November, shortly after the United States began condemning the International Criminal Court for charging senior Israeli leaders with war crimes and crimes against humanity for overseeing the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, a...
Like many of Mike Leigh’s films, Hard Truths is both extremely well-done and tormenting to watch. It always surprises me that Leigh’s cinematic portraits of British working-class life are often considered to be quite funny...
Donald Trump’s first days in office have proved that his earlier isolationist rhetoric was always a facade. Statements about conquering Greenland, “retaking” the Panama Canal, and invading Mexico have made headlines; it seems that the...
On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency quietly removed all information about climate change from its home page and other prominent areas of its website, burying it deep in sections that are harder to find. Environmental...
Last May, Quebec’s Administrative Labour Tribunal certified a union of roughly 230 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Laval, a suburb just outside Montreal, Quebec. Following an inspiring campaign involving the Immigrant Workers Centre, workers...
Months before Wednesday night’s fatal midair collision of an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter in Washington, lawmakers brushed off safety warnings amid midflight near-misses and passed an industry-backed measure designed to add...
As soon as Donald Trump won the election in November, predictions about his second term began to fly. Among liberals and leftists, the dominant interpretation has been that a second Trump term would be “without...
Millions of Americans this week found out what it means to have Russell Vought, the nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in Donald Trump’s White House. The pause on federal...
Akbar Shahid Ahmed It is a bit of a Groundhog Day situation. There’s no denying that the contours of the agreement we now see between Israel and Hamas, negotiated by the US — with Egypt...
