The D.C. Brief Newsletter

1 day ago | time.com | Kayti Burt

Squid Game ends on a brutal but hopeful note with Season 3

2 days ago | time.com | Solcyre Burga

When Jim Obergefell and John Arthur boarded a charter medical jet one summer day in 2013 to exchange vows, national attitudes towards same-sex marriage were shifting. That May, a record-high 51% of American adults said they were in favor of allowing queer couples to marry, a dramatic uptick from the just 32% who supported marriage equality in 2003, when Massachusetts became the first state to legalize it following a state Supreme Court decision.

3 days ago | time.com | Rebecca Schneid

Florida has begun building a new migrant detention center deep in the Everglades, springing into action after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved the development.

4 days ago | time.com | Rebecca Schneid

A day before New York City’s mayoral primary election, all eyes are on Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist candidate looking to topple former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to be on the Democratic ticket. Mamdani, who serves as a state Assemblymember, has seemingly closed Cuomo’s longtime lead in the contest.

6 days ago | time.com | Justin Worland

The consequences of the increasingly urgent hostilities between Israel and Iran are multifold—humanitarian, geopolitical, and so on. If the situation deepens, it could also have important implications for energy markets and, by extension, climate change and the energy transition. Central to that picture are oil prices. In the past month, oil prices have risen nearly 25% as hostilities have deepened.