A separatist group backed by the United Arab Emirates has seized power in Yemen’s two biggest districts. It’s part of an intensifying power struggle between Saudi and Emirati elites, with the people of both Yemen and Sudan suffering the consequences.Members of the...
Steve Bannon’s whole pitch is that he’s leading a movement against a decadent, borderless elite. Except according to newly released messages and emails, that movement has been heavily reliant on the most decadent, borderless elite of all: Jeffrey Epstein.Newly...
Driven by the AI boom, chip manufacturers are pivoting production lines toward megacorporate clients. The move will make consumer electronics even less affordable.Hardware essential to consumer electronics like laptops and gaming consoles is set to go up in price as...
Cleaners at London Heathrow have begun a strike that could last until the end of the year. While subcontractors pay them only the legal minimum, they’re demanding that the airport live up to its proclaimed standards as a Living Wage employer.London’s biggest airport...
Interacting with the neoconservative intellectual Norman Podhoretz, you felt desire. But it wasn’t a desire for ideas; it was a desire for being thought of as someone who was adept at ideas.If feminists taught us that the personal is the political, Norman Podhoretz...
Over the years, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been torn between different approaches to identity and class. She’s no stranger to a universalist approach that emphasizes economic inequality and common struggle. If she runs for president, that’s the ticket.Alexandria...
The small Iraqi town of Haditha was the site of a notorious 2005 massacre in which US Marines killed two dozen civilians. Twenty years later, our reporter speaks with the family members who survived and are still waiting for justice.Raseef holds up an image of the...
Dating apps have transformed intimacy into a marketplace of frustration. They fuel gender conflict while ruthlessly extracting value from our most intimate desires.Love is increasingly shaped by platforms that monetize desire and disappointment alike. The result is...
Wall Street traders have sharply increased how much they’re spending on credit default swaps tied to artificial intelligence. That means more and more investors are managing their risk by putting their money on the AI market’s eventual crash.The volume of credit...
Netflix is after far more than the Warner Bros. movie studio — it wants to destroy cinema as we know it.When Discovery merged with Warner back in 2022, CEO David Zaslav planned major cutbacks to Turner Classic Movies, firing 80 percent of the staff and likely planning...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a GOP-led case that could repeal campaign finance limits on how much money parties can redirect to individual candidates. Here are the standout moments.A new Supreme Court case could become Citizens United 2.0. (Doug Mills /...
We’re heading into what could be a rough economic patch with the worst leadership imaginable.Job seekers wait in line to enter a job fair hosted by the Cook County government in Chicago to support federal workers who have been laid off. (Jamie Kelter Davis / Bloomberg...