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VFYW: A Diver's Paradise

As Israel Openly Declares Starvation as a Weapon, Media Still Hesitate to Blame It for Famine

‘Yemen Has Been a Place the US Has Seen Fit to Bomb With Little Public Discussion’: CounterSpin interview with Khury Petersen-Smith on Yemen distortions

Cuts to PBS, NPR Part of Authoritarian Playbook

A Bold Metaphysical Portal by Hilma’s Ghost Stretches 600 Feet Across Grand Central Station

Why I Loved Pope Francis

Lee & Macedo On Covid Failures

Vance’s Junk History

New York Review of Books

Unwind with the Ancient Japanese Art of Kumiko, a Wood Joinery Technique

The Art of Befriending Time and Change: Debbie Millman’s Illustrated Love Letter to Gardening as a Portal to Self-discovery

The Marginalian

Jeff Hauser on DOGE, Karen Thompson on ‘Fetal Personhood’

No, you can't just replace science with Silicon Valley

Intrinsic Perspective

The Pure Street Photography Competition Spotlights Humor and Chance Amid the Ordinary

Kenya’s vibe shift

Africa is a Country

This tree is hostile

Just a pale blue dot

Introducing Marginalian Editions: Extraordinary Forgotten Books Brought Back to Life

The Marginalian

AI Has No Noticer

Politico Plays With Polling to Manufacture ‘Trump-Resistance Fatigue’

Get ‘H.A.P.P.Y’ with Liz West’s Immersive Installation Made of More Than 700 Colorful Discs

Hundreds of Huge Flowers Spring Forth in Carly Glovinski’s Monumental ‘Almanac’

Zambia’s quiet diplomacy

Africa is a Country

‘Why Not All These Things at Once?’

New York Review of Books

New York Review of Books

The Last Bulwark

New York Review of Books

New York Review of Books

Ambition, Discipline, Nerve

New York Review of Books

A Century of Surrealism

New York Review of Books

Internalizing the Crises

New York Review of Books

A More Perfect Truth

New York Review of Books

Weekly Quiz: Tricky Tax Cuts, Costly Child Care, and Cutting Ties with Alaska

How closely have you been reading our online stories this week? Take The Walrus Weekly Quiz to find out—released every Saturday....

At the Southbank Centre

A Wound with Teeth, the first half of the choreographer Holly Blakey’s recent double bill at the Southbank Centre, reminded me...

London Review of Books

The Book That Built Pierre Poilievre

Milton Friedman’s free-market bible forged the Conservative leader's vision for Canada The post The Book That Built Pierre Poilievre first appeared...

Pastor Of The Planet

The post Pastor Of The Planet appeared first on NOEMA....

Heteropessimism of the Intellect

On Sophie Kemp’s biblical saga of romantic disappointment....

Baffler Magazine

How J.D. Vance Brought US Politics to an Election in Durham, Ontario

His friendship with a local Conservative candidate was treated as a boon. Then came the Trump tariffs The post How J.D....

The Sex Lives Of Common Vegetables

The post The Sex Lives Of Common Vegetables appeared first on NOEMA....

Borders May Change, But People Remain

Quiero recordarle al gringo Yo no crucé la frontera La frontera me cruzó América nació libre El hombre la dividió —Los...

Benefit of the Doubt

If the British government is to be believed, only one civilian has been killed by its armed forces during its air...

London Review of Books

Tax Cuts Won’t Make Life More Affordable

Politicians like promising them to the middle class. But they often benefit the wealthy The post Tax Cuts Won’t Make Life...

Cher·es Architectes de l’Enfermement…

Cher·es architectes de l’enfermement, Ce matin, j’ai passé plusieurs heures sur le site internet de l’Agence publique pour l’immobilier de la...

Tariffs Are Unravelling the Lifeline Between Yukon and Alaska

For one Northern community, the cost of friendship with Trump's America is too high The post Tariffs Are Unravelling the Lifeline...

“Poetry City”: Iowa City, Iowa

Iowa City is the place where contemporary English literature matters more than anywhere else on earth. The post “Poetry City”: Iowa...

‘You can read the writing on them’

Most wars kill men, and leave widows and fatherless children. The war on Gaza follows a different pattern. According to the...

London Review of Books

The C.U.P. Runneth Over

Busch Light’s C.U.P.s are full to the brim with reactionary politics....

Baffler Magazine

Which Party Has the Best Blueprint for Fixing the Housing Crisis?

From GST cuts to subsidies, here's how the different promises measure up The post Which Party Has the Best Blueprint for...

Is the Democratic Party violating civil-rights law?

On constitutionality & the DNC’s delegate-selection rules....