Weekly Review
Donald Trump lives; Secret Service agents foiled what seemed the second design on the presidential candidate’s life while he golfed along the Trump International Golf Club course in West Palm Beach,...
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One day after U.S. officials visited Israel and warned against escalation in the region, Israel sent error messages to thousands of pagers purchased by Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria and produced by a...
View ArticleHarper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, and Big Tech
Our October issue is now available, and we’ve received numerous requests to explain the appearance of The Atlantic’s app logo beneath that of Google, Amazon, Meta, and Apple on its cover. To quote...
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In New York City, federal prosecutors charged Mayor Eric Adams with fraud and bribery for unlawfully accepting more than $10 million in public campaign funds from “straw donors” and engaging in a quid...
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One year after Hamas killed or captured at least 1,200 Israelis during raids on 21 kibbutzim and other sites and Israel responded by invading Gaza and eventually dropping more than 70,000 tons of...
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Two weeks after Hurricane Helene made landfall, killing more than 250 people across seven states and causing at least 30 billion dollars’ worth of damage, Hurricane Milton hit Florida, killing at least...
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In the Gazan city of Rafah, where Israel’s military has destroyed over 40 percent of buildings in the past year, a patrol unit of Israeli commanders in training cut off the finger from the corpse of a...
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In the United States, it was reported that the Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world’s twelfth-richest person, secretly gave $50 million to an organization supporting the campaign of the Democratic...
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A gota fría above the Mediterranean sea caused as much as nine feet of rain to flood the streets of eastern Spain, sweeping up cars, derailing a high-speed train with nearly 300 passengers aboard, and...
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In a single evening, Ukraine and Russia carried out their largest drone strikes against each other in more than two years of war; Ukrainian officials announced the next day that the country had been...
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Donald Trump made more than two dozen appointments and cabinet nominations, including, for secretary of the interior, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, who earlier this year organized a private...
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Russia fired an experimental nuclear-capable hypersonic Oreshnik missile at a military facility in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.1 Following the strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that no...
View ArticleThoughts on Oligarchy
A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on November 4, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. There may have been a genius somewhere who accurately predicted the results of...
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Across Africa, authorities arrested more than 1,000 people suspected of running online scams, including a Ponzi scheme in Senegal, credit card crimes in Kenya, a fraudulent virtual casino in Angola, a...
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In New York, Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, which has the highest claim-denial rate of any insurance company in the country and was recently taken to court for systematically denying...
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The judge of a manslaughter trial in Manhattan directed the jury to weigh the facts of the life of the 30-year-old victim, Jordan Neely, including that, in 2007, his mother was strangled to death by...
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The Security Service of Ukraine accused a Russian general of targeting Reuters journalists, the deputy chairman of Russia’s security council said that Times of London editors were legitimate military...
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In the last days of 2024, police officers in Iowa arrested an intoxicated man for walking down the middle of the street with a sword and crossbow, police officers in California pulled over an allegedly...
View ArticleThe Canary Dies
A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on December 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. The darkest moment of the Democratic defeat on November 5 must have been the...
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The largest wildfires in Los Angeles history continued to burn, destroying more than 12,000 structures across 40,000 acres and killing at least 24 people.1 2 3 Public fire hydrants ran dry; an...
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