“It’s pure happiness,” Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, a member of France’s Parti Socialiste (PS), said of her much publicized swim in the Seine a few days before the start of the Olympic Games. “We have...
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“Renaissance.” So reads the massive billboard confronting those traveling east to Middletown, Ohio, via I-75. It’s an advertisement for Renaissance Pointe, a $200 million new construction development that broke ground in June. The fifty-acre project...
In the midst of a recent pickup basketball game, a friend of mine called a time-out. He ran to the sideline, hopped on the bleacher, and yanked out his phone. Still scrolling, he yelled out...
Nobody’s more surprised than I am to report that Alien: Romulus is actually pretty good. It takes a while to set up, but then it’s tense throughout, with a genuinely scary nail-biter of a final...
It was 9:15 p.m. one August night in Seraing, Belgium. Géraldine Noël called her husband to the front door. Two strangers had arrived and were asking after him. Julien Lahaut stepped forward. Five shots were...
This month’s far-right riots brought chaos to communities across the country, perhaps most notably in parts of the North East. The pattern of locations might initially have seemed random, but it quickly became clear that...
For the past few weeks, Israel has been caught up in a scandal around torture at its Sde Teiman detention camp involving an act so nauseatingly heinous, you should only keep reading if you have...
Union negotiations covering longshore workers on the East and Gulf Coasts have been stalled since June 10, bringing the union closer to a potential strike at the September 30 contract expiration. Leaders of the International...
As Vice President Kamala Harris begins sketching out her policy agenda as the presumptive Democratic nominee, one element isn’t being discussed: the arcane Senate procedures that could stop any bold action under a Harris presidency....
How far will Emmanuel Macron kick the can down the road? For much of the past month, the French president has shuttled between his official vacation residence in Provence and the Olympics, repeatedly heading back...
Adam Hamawy Everything that happens in Gaza is deliberate. When you drop a bomb on a tent in the middle of a refugee camp, that’s a deliberate act, knowing that you’re going to kill mostly...
As the presidential campaigns gear up over the summer, one topic remains curiously underdiscussed: housing. Despite the ever-worsening crises that continue to afflict renters in the US housing market — from the affordability and tenant...
