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1 week ago | 
thesgnl.com | Gustav Jönsson |Martin Wolf
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1 month ago | 
thesgnl.com | Gustav Jönsson |Yuan Yi Zhu
Last November, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant for alleged crimes perpetrated against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Reactions in Washington were not muted.
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2 months ago | 
thesgnl.com | Daniel Bessner |Gustav Jönsson
Ever since the beginning of Donald Trump’s first presidency, many Americans have worried that he might try to become a tyrant. Those worries have of course been stoked by things Trump has actually said and done: He’s threatened to imprison his political opponents; he’s vowed to purge the federal government of “disloyal” bureaucrats; and he led a concerted, if ineffective, effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thesgnl.com | Dennis Culhane |Gustav Jönsson
A year after record increases in American homelessness, it’s now gone up even more—why? Dennis Culhane on the immigration crisis playing out in U.S. cities.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thesgnl.com | Gustav Jönsson |Adam Tooze
The 2020 Democratic Party platform described Donald Trump’s proposal to build new nuclear weapons as “unnecessary, wasteful, and indefensible”—criticizing Trump for his “reckless embrace of a new arms race.” The party’s 2024 platform, however, praised Joe Biden’s administration for “modernizing each leg of our nuclear triad, updating our command, control, and communication systems, and investing in our nuclear enterprise.” Which wasn’t mere talk.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Gustav Jönsson
Before Claud Cockburn first entered the Times of London premises in 1929, he had contributed to its Berlin bureau, which gave him some idea of what to expect. But even so, he thought it rather much that the first conversation he overheard was one editor translating Plato’s Phaedo into Chinese, while his colleague recited the relevant passages in Greek from memory.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thesgnl.com | Gustav Jönsson |Adolph Reed
Ever since Donald Trump launched his first presidential campaign in 2016, critics have often described his politics and his supporters’ as “racist.” It’s been a common view of Trump personally for longer than that—going back at least to 2011, when he started questioning whether Barack Obama was really born on American soil.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
thesgnl.com | Andrew deWaard |Gustav Jönsson
Last week, U.S. entertainment-industry outlets reported that The Walt Disney Company is in early development on a new, and fourth, Star Wars trilogy—along with a handful of other upcoming films in the seemingly ever-expanding franchise. Neither, of course, is Star Wars the only franchise expanding: The third season of HBO’s Game of Thrones spin-off series House of the Dragon is in the works, as is an upcoming prequel series. Max is working on a rebooted TV series of the Harry Potter books.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thesgnl.com | Anton Jäger |Adam Tooze |Gustav Jönsson
Donald Trump is once again the president-elect of the United States, having won not only the electoral college—America’s state-based system for choosing the president—but the popular vote, resoundingly.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thesgnl.com | Gustav Jönsson |Richard H. Pildes
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