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Girgory Yavlinsky Funeral.

“We Are All Passengers on the Titanic” “We Are All Passengers on the Titanic”

An interview with Grigory Yavlinsky.

Feb 6, 2026 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina

How Big Gaming Is Swallowing Up the Big Game

How Big Gaming Is Swallowing Up the Big Game How Big Gaming Is Swallowing Up the Big Game

The Super Bowl will showcase the lords of legalized betting, even as they’ve already colonized every other reach of human experience.

Feb 6, 2026 / Matt Alston

Central Park Anti Nuclear Rally 1982

Speaking Out on the Insanity of Nuclear Weapons Speaking Out on the Insanity of Nuclear Weapons

At a time when nuclear dangers are not just rising, but multiplying, we need all hands on deck in sounding the alarm and advocating for abolition of nuclear weapons.

Feb 6, 2026 / Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick

The Pain and Glory of My Football Life

The Pain and Glory of My Football Life The Pain and Glory of My Football Life

A comic about the Eagles, fathers, incarceration, and the holes that sports can't fill.

Feb 6, 2026 / Christopher Blackwell and Solomon J. Brager

A World War II–themed party held by the residents of Rose Mount, Birkby, 1986.

Barbara Pym’s Archaic England Barbara Pym’s Archaic England

In the novelist’s work, she mocks English culture’s nostalgia, revealing what lies beneath the country’s obsession with its heritage.

Feb 6, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Ashley Cullina

Winter Olympic Committee Press Conference

The International Olympics Committee Is Urged to Drop Oil Company Sponsors The International Olympics Committee Is Urged to Drop Oil Company Sponsors

Global warming means the future of Winter Games “is literally melting away.”

Feb 5, 2026 / Mark Hertsgaard

Russian Nuclear Missile Victory Day Parade

The End of Arms Control? The End of Arms Control?

For the first time, we will live in a world without constraints on the US-Russian nuclear arsenal.

Feb 5, 2026 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Donald Trump gestures while speaking during an executive order signing event in the Oval Office of the White House.

Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Are Pure Hypocrisy Trump’s Denunciations of the Iranian Killings Are Pure Hypocrisy

The arbitrary arrests and killings committed by agents of Trump’s authoritarian-style rule differ only in number, not in kind, from those in Iran.

Feb 5, 2026 / Juan Cole

A Grieving Planet

A Grieving Planet A Grieving Planet

Half mast for a troubled world.

Feb 5, 2026 / OppArt / Tom Toro

Trump’s Oily Attack On Venezuela

Trump’s Oily Attack On Venezuela Trump’s Oily Attack On Venezuela

The US Government is seizing tankers like pirates.

Feb 5, 2026 / OppArt / Glen Le Lievre

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