(GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip) — Israel killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza early Tuesday in a rare targeted killing that threatened to unleash a fierce round of cross-border violence with Palestinian militants. The militant group said the commander’s wife was also killed in the airstrike and that their children were wounded. Air raid…
Click:face painting French President Emmanuel Macron has been crusading to all corners of the world, receiving applause for his impassioned pleas on behalf of the postwar liberal order in the face of rising authoritarianism and nationalism. This spring, in his address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the new French leader compared the ongoing political…
For several years now, I have been writing regular posts on my blog with one end in mind: to help open a door for readers and encourage them to step through. I select issues, usually those that dominate western media coverage and represent a consensus that we might term the Great Western Narrative, and try to show…
Climate scientists sounded alarms on Tuesday as reports circulated of extreme weather and record-breaking high temperatures all over the globe, with dozens of deaths and thousands of hospitalizations reported in some countries—while one journalist with a major platform on corporate cable news admitted the news media’s failure to give serious attention to the link between…
After U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley fired off a letter (pdf) this week blaming prominent human rights organizations for the Trump administration’s widely condemned decision to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council over its alleged anti-Israel bias, Amnesty International denounced Haley’s contempt for rights groups in a letter of its own…
Instagram’s Adam Mosseri speaks onstage at the WIRED25 Summit 2019 in San Francisco. He said some users will no longer see the “like” counter, but it won’t impact “the whole U.S. at once.” Like seriously, if you post something to the ‘gram and not one of your followers hits “like,” is it even worth sharing?…
Former NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen—often called “the father of modern climate change awareness” for, among other things, his famous 1988 Senate testimony about global warming caused by human activity—believes the international community has failed to take adequate action to address the global climate crisis. “All we’ve done is agree there’s a problem,” Hansen told…
Underscoring the urgent need for increased and intensely focused conservation efforts, new research shows that human activity worldwide is wiping out plant and animal life—including our own—so rapidly that evolution can’t keep up. “We are starting to cut down the whole tree [of life], including the branch we are sitting on right now.”—Matt Davis, lead…
The fall season is coming in hot, and for many women around the country, this means swapping sundresses for sweaters while keeping an eye out for new pieces to add to an autumn wardrobe. It can be difficult, though, to find the right balance between cute fashion and affordability. Enter Heidi Klum. The supermodel/designer/multi-show judge/mother/superwoman is…
Anti-war groups have been cautiously hopefully in recent weeks that the U.S. would withdraw support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen following widespread outcry over Saudi Arabia’s murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi—but those hopes were dashed late Tuesday when House Republicans moved to stop a long-planned-for vote from going to the floor. In their final…