Jordan Smith

May 7, 2024 | everand.com | Tamara Davison |William Mata |Chris Stokel-Walker |Jordan Smith

TikTok has filed a lawsuit to try and block the US government’s law that would either ban the video-sharing app or force its parent company ByteDance to sell it. The Senate’s ruling on April 23 gives the Chinese-owned business one year to sell its stake or face deletion from American application stores. that also included sending foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel.

Mar 18, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Jordan Smith

In his 1979 book, The Question of Palestine, the academic, literary critic, and Palestinian-American activist Edward Said observed of Palestine that “[O]ne of the features of a small non-European people is that it is not wealthy in documents, nor in histories, autobiographies, chronicles, and the like.” Partly for this reason, the traditional Zionist narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict predominated in Western countries for decades, even in North American and European universities,...

Mar 1, 2024 | atlasobscura.com | Marina Wang |Jordan Smith |Kevin Gepford |Adam Schrader

Norval Morrisseau's Migration (1973), at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. Wonder is everywhere. That’s why, every other week, Atlas Obscura drags you down some of the rabbit holes we encounter as we search for our unusual stories. We highlight surprising finds, great writing, and inspiring stories from some of our favorite publications.