Recognized in hiding

Monday, Week XLII, MMXXV Recently: The weekend despatch: Agreeing to disagree in the Middle East. Sanctions against the little guys in Europe. &c. Today: Can the Nobel protect someone a regime wants dead? Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won it on Friday, while underground, threatened with arrest, […]

Metapolitical Offensive 2025

By Joakim Andersen Arktos Journal Oct 14, 2025 Joakim Andersen describes the ongoing effort spearheaded by Trump and Elon Musk to dismantle left-liberal institutions and networks, reshaping the cultural power dynamic and offering breathing room for the advance of right-wing and populist forces. Metapolitics is not only about […]

Ceasefire Working

Ceasefire Working Plus: Letitia James’ legal trouble, everything’s TV (and that’s bad), millionaire explosion, and more… LIZ WOLFE Israeli troops retreating: The ceasefire came into effect at noon local time in Gaza, and Israeli forces stopped their advances, repositioning themselves according to the demarcated lines. Israel’s cabinet convened […]

A Break for Ukraine

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Foiled Plots

Foiled Plots    A sad reality of our broken news media is that successful terror plots get all of the coverage. We hear about the violent psychopaths who kill or injure their targets. But when one of these people fails, their story gets relegated to a brief wire-service […]

Can’t get started

Saturday, Week XLI, MMXXV Recently: Why does Japan need a new prime minister—again? Tobias S. Harris on political scandals, economic struggles, and a deep loss of public confidence in Japanese institutions. Today: And why is it struggling so much to get one? A strangely similar dynamic disrupts political business […]

New Media Rules

Sponsored by Duke University Press Jacob Weisberg; photograph by Deborah Needleman In the Review’s October 23 issue, Jacob Weisberg turns his attention to the attention-seeking, all-seeing algorithms that continue to shape our culture, on- and offline. “How did we get to this place,” he asks, “where mirror realities have replaced shared facts?” Weisberg […]

Homeless in Plain Sight

Sponsored by Little Bear Ridge Road   Today in The New York Review of Books: Jay Neugeboren on the rise of working homelessness; Elaine Blair on women’s work in the Soviet Union; Vicente L. Rafael on a forgotten massacre in the Philippines; Ken Chen on the films of Miguel Gomes; Peter Cole on the […]

Is the War Over?

  Is the War Over? Plus: Zohran Mamdani’s bus plan makes no sense, Kristi Noem’s description of antifa makes no sense, and more… LIZ WOLFE All hostages will be returned: This week marked two years since the October 7 terrorist attack in which Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and […]

Thoughts On The Ceasefire News

Caitlin Johnstone Oct 09, 2025 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Israel continued to hammer Gaza with military explosives on Thursday despite the announcement of the first stages of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Israel always does this. When normal people get a […]

Burbank after dark

Thursday, Week XLI, MMXXV Recently: What’s so special about the Chinese tech multinational Huawei? Eva Dou’s House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China’s Most Powerful Company. Today: What do you get when critical infrastructure depends on impossible schedules and missing paychecks? Hollywood Burbank Airport had zero […]

Trump the Peacemaker?

NATIONAL REVIEW OCTOBER 10, 2025 ◼ We hear the Nobel Peace Prize committee has gone into hiding.   ◼ President Trump is heading to Israel on Sunday to celebrate the peace agreement that his administration orchestrated. It promises to end the war in Gaza and bring all the […]

Pinochet’s Right-Hand Nazi

Sponsored by Reaktion Books Today in The New York Review of Books: Ariel Dorfman excoriates Pinochet’s Nazi assistant, and the people who enabled him; Mae Ngai investigates the campaign to end asylum in the US; Jessi Jezewska Stevens reads the weird fables of the Icelandic novelist Sjón; Geoff Mann discounts the discount rate; Christopher […]

Christian Zionism

9 October, 2025 Without Prejudice Christian Zionism by David Webb I want to examine the concept of Christian Zionism, which I regard as heresy, and a particularly pernicious one, given that it is linked to genocidal policies. It is somewhat disconcerting or even flabbergasting that those in America […]

Is He The Next Zohran Mamdani?

Krystal Kyle & Friends Oct 10, 2025 Welcome back to KK&F. It’s officially been over two years since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians. As we mark this horrifying continuation of the war crimes Israel is conducting against Palestinians, we think about the shortcomings of mainstream […]