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1 week ago | 
justwatch.com | Gal Gadot |Chris Pine |Connie Nielsen |Robin Wright
2h 21min Where to watch Watch for free Synopsis Trailers Similar titles 141min - English Subscription $9.99 / month Subtitle languages English Audio technology Generic 5.1 141min - English, Spanish, French Audio languages English, Spanish, French Subtitle languages Danish, Estonian, Hebrew, Japanese, Swedish, Arabic, German, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Turkish, Czech, Greek, Spanish, French, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Bulgarian...
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1 week ago | 
newyorker.com | Robin Wright
The Evin House of Detention, in Tehran, is among the world’s most infamous prisons. It was built by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, to hold around three hundred political prisoners, including some of the ayatollahs who campaigned against the monarchy. After the 1979 Revolution, Iran’s theocracy expanded the gruesome compound, which includes gallows and an execution yard. It now holds fifteen thousand people.
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2 weeks ago | 
tvmovie.de | Bennett Miller |Brad Pitt |Robin Wright |Jonah Hill
Baseball? Football? Für die Mehrheit der Deutschen sind die beiden Lieblingssportarten der US-Amerikaner ein ewiges Rätsel. Hierzulande dämpfen die irgendwie komplizierten Regeln die Begeisterung. Kein Wunder, dass auch Filme mit dieser Thematik in Europa kaum Anklang finden. Auch „Moneyball“ konnte trotz des Stars Brad Pitt und eines hervorragenden Skripts keine Wende bringen. Während der Film in den USA über 75 Mio.
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3 weeks ago | 
thisage.com.ng | Robin Wright
By Robin WrightOn Monday, dozens of white Afrikaners arrived in Washington from Johannesburg, on a charter plane paid for by U.S. taxpayers.
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3 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | Robin Wright
On his first day in office, Donald Trump suspended refugee admissions. This week, his government made an exception when it welcomed white families from South Africa. A report on a policy that one Democratic senator called “baffling.” Plus:• Buying Trump’s magic crypto beans• The Israeli soldiers who refuse to fight in Gaza• Adam Gopnik on taking the stageRobin WrightWright has written for The New Yorker since 1988.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
newyorker.com | Robin Wright
The most striking sight at the Panama Canal are the many monstrous gates—seven feet thick and more than a hundred feet wide—that slowly swing open, like French doors. They shimmer with dark-green algae. Iron rivets dot the gates like jewels. There are multiple gates in each of the three sets of locks that elevate ships from sea level on the Atlantic, up eighty-five feet into Gatun Lake, then back down to sea level on the Pacific.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
newyorker.com | Robin Wright
In today’s newsletter, D.C.’s newest animal power players. And breaking down Trump’s Day One. Plus:• The TV spectacle of the inauguration• What to see at Under the Radar festivalRobin WrightReporting from the other side of Washington, D.C.Across town from the inaugural speeches and Presidential pardons, high-fashion billionaire balls and limousine motorcades, some traumatized inhabitants of Washington, D.C., were pinning their hopes on two panda cubs at the National Zoo.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Robin Wright
In 2004, I interviewed King Abdullah II, the Sunni leader of Jordan’s Hashemite dynasty, who warned about an emerging “crescent” of Shiite powers that began in Iran and extended through Iraq, into Syria, and ended in Lebanon. The Middle East—dominated for centuries by Sunni monarchies, tribal sheikdoms, and autocracies—was being transformed by this Shiite arc, he told me.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Robin Wright
Now the scramble is on to define the future of Syria, quickly, to prevent ethnic, political, and sectarian rivalries from triggering a war even more divisive than the conflict that has riven the nation for thirteen years. Syria’s twenty-three million people include multiple Muslim sects, Christians, Druze, and Kurds. Both Ramadan and Easter are legally celebrated. Its history after declaring independence from a French mandate in 1946 was volatile.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Robin Wright
Almost two decades ago, a classified analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency warned that global terrorist attacks masterminded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, would continue—even if he were captured or killed. “Network has proven adaptability and resiliency,” the D.I.A. reported in its outlook for 2005.
