MAY 22. 2026

Rory Scothorne: Capture the Flag

Some Labour MPs​ always had their doubts about the 1998 Scotland Act. According to Tom Harris, former Labour MP for Glasgow South, there was a joke in the Commons tearoom: ‘Line 1, between. ..

Claire Wilmot: Gold Rush

Across Tigray, the remains of razed towns are marked with mounds of earth piled over the dead – impressions of war. ..

Jonathan Parry: Certain Kinds of Carpet

If historians​ are remembered posthumously, it tends to be for their book titles, while the books themselves gather. ..

Hal Foster: At MoMA

In​ 1973, when a Marcel Duchamp retrospective was last staged in the United States, the critic Lucy Lippard declared. ..

Rahmane Idrissa: AK-47 and Guitar

The Sahara is now one of the most inhospitable places on earth, but not because of the desert. It is a dumping ground in. ..

J. Robert Lennon: Buffalo Bones

I came of age as a writer in the 1990s, in Montana, where I moved to attend graduate school, and cut my teeth on the. ..

Jon Day: All I need is love

Klaus Kinski is in some respects the archetypal Myers character: a charismatic, morally compromised figure fully. ..

Ardis Butterfield: When Horses Snigger

The psalms seem deeply familiar, but the not particularly Christian anglophone might struggle actually to provide much. ..

Michael Hofmann: Let me count the geese

The Effingers is a remarkable way of rendering history. That said, stasis, being, durée, existence, longueurs don’t. ..

Lili Owen Rowlands: Againstness

Beneath the whimsy and the wit, Agnès Varda’s films were motivated by contradiction and critique. She said she was. ..

Susannah Clapp: At the King’s Gallery

It is​ a fascinating and fawning exhibition. At the King’s Gallery some three hundred items of. ..

Inigo Thomas: Diary

Working at George, JFK Jr’s magazine, was never dull, despite the contradictions emanating from the editor-in-chief. ..

MAY 21. 2026

Trump Hasn’t Given Up on Greenland

And America’s NATO allies are still on edge about it.

Israeli Minister’s Taunting of Detained Flotilla Activists Sparks Foreign Backlash

Foreign leaders and Israeli officials are condemning Itamar Ben-Gvir’s treatment of Global Sumud Flotilla activists.

Georgia’s Dogs Are Disappearing

A botched government program has become a PR disaster.

No, Russia’s Economy Is Not About to Collapse

The war with Ukraine has slowed growth, but Moscow remains stable.

The Trump Administration Is Facing Scrutiny for How It’s Handing Out Billion-Dollar Border Wall Contracts

A new lawsuit alleges the Trump administration awarded the bulk of new Texas border wall contracts to two firms without “genuine competitive opportunities. ” One of the chosen firms has faced legal issues and claims of shoddy construction work.

DNC Autopsy of 2024 Loss Doesn’t Mention Gaza or Israel at all

Commissioned from an outside consultant, the 192-page report on why Democrats lost in 2024 doesn't address the hot-button issue.

ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence

Social media posts by the Department of Homeland Security recruiting for ICE contained so many white supremacist themes that they could endanger the public, Colorado law enforcement officials warned, according to internal records obtained by The Intercept.

Donald Trump’s War on Tourism

Turned off by U. S. policies and border practices, foreign visitors are going elsewhere.