Afees Monsef has a grave magnetism that makes him easy to find, even in a crowd. 1 We first met in the spring of 2025, at a gathering in the basement of
metazine
The Scottish national team, playing in the World Cup for the first time in twenty-eight years, is based out of Boston for the group stage. Fifty thousand Scots traveled here for the tournament, equal to nearly a full percent of Scotland’s population. They have won the city’s hearts by drinking up all the beer, buying up all the unwanted Red Sox tickets, and tumbling down the metal slide outside City Hall in their kilts.
Daniel Sanchez Estrada’s 30-year sentence for moving a box of pamphlets is likely just the start for criminalizing possession of information.
The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.
As head of Labour, Starmer served his role ignobly: weeding out the Left and paving the way for the far right.
A new papal encyclical exposes the democratic trilemma shaping how the world governs artificial intelligence.
The Save Our Bacon bill would make it harder for consumers to know how their meat was raised.
A new exhibition examines how Western art and colonial aggression made each other possible.