JUNE 29. 2025

How Biden Is to Blame for Israel and the U. S. ’s 12-Day War Against Iran

Biden’s failure to reenter Obama’s nuclear deal helped create the risk for a potentially catastrophic U. S. war against Iran.

In Photos: An Artist’s Reckoning With a Vanishing Sea

At California’s Salton Sea, where cracked shores meet chemical haze, Lío Mehiel performs a ritual act of resilience in the face of toxicity.

Struggle and archive

The formerly exiled ANC activist and later judge Albie Sachs is archiving his life, including a new film that forms part of a larger project of legacy-making.

JUNE 28. 2025

Who’s the Real Bully of the Middle East?

Iranian American author Hooman Majd on the Israel–Iran ceasefire, Trump’s role in escalating the conflict, and whether diplomacy can survive.

Fetterman Voted With GOP to Make Sure Trump Can Attack Iran Again

After Trump's Iran attack, most Democrats rallied behind Tim Kaine's war powers resolution in the Senate, but not John Fetterman.

A barren sowing

Donato Ndongo’s latest collection of short stories portrays African exile and diaspora in Spain and France.

JUNE 27. 2025

Intimate Apparel will make you fall in love with theatre again

The Handmaid’s Tale star Samira Wiley offers a haunting portrait of dignified pain

Matthew d’Ancona’s culture: F1 will have you on the edge of your seat

Joseph Kosinski's F1 is a throwback to the age of the summer blockbuster in which the film was a vehicle for a true star

Outrageous is Downton Abbey, with added Nazis

A new series about the Mitford sisters gains extra poignancy in an era when extremist politics again divides families

Ozempic and the weight of expectation

Weight loss jabs really can help people to slim down. But that’s when the problems start

Britain is not ready for heatwaves – and it’s out fault

It's time for the country to change its entire approach to the weather

Is Poland Europe’s literary giant?

A new book of Polish short stories reveals the inventive mischievousness of the nation’s writers

Are these the best 10 films of the 21st century so far?

A new list from the New York Times gives an insight into what actors and directors watch. But here is a personal choice

“No Right Is Safe. ” SCOTUS Bars Judges From Reining in Trump

The Supreme Court halted courts from issuing national injunctions, forcing “judges to shrug and turn their backs to intermittent lawlessness. ”

In a Sinking Venice, Jeff Bezos’ Wedding Draws Private Jets and Protestors

Hundreds of the world’s wealthiest guests have travelled to Venice by the most polluting means possible to celebrate Jeff Bezos’ wedding.

Pete Hegseth Is Mad the Media Won’t Celebrate U. S. War With Iran

“How about we talk about how special America is? ” Hegseth asked. He’s not the first U. S. official to demand pro-war propaganda.

Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month

The U. S. -backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping, ” per an Israeli professor.