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Visitors watch Magnus Carlsen and Nihal Sarin at the Esports World Cup 2025 online chess event on July 31, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia Is Using Games to Improve Its Image Saudi Arabia Is Using Games to Improve Its Image

Podcast / Tech Won’t Save Us / Nov 13, 2025 Saudi Arabia Is Using Games to Improve Its Image On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us: Nathan Grayson discusses Saudi…

Nov 13, 2025 / Podcast

World leaders attend a session on the energy transition on the second day of COP30 on November 7, 2025, in Belém, Brazil.

Global Leaders Are Glad the US Isn’t Attending COP30 Global Leaders Are Glad the US Isn’t Attending COP30

Momentum behind decarbonizing the global economy has built to the point where it is inevitable—with or without the United States.

Nov 13, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

Zohran Mamdani and Jessica Tisch.

If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power

We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.

Nov 13, 2025 / Jonathan Ben-Menachem

Real estate developer (and future US president) Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000.

The Epstein Files Could Finally Sink Donald Trump The Epstein Files Could Finally Sink Donald Trump

New e-mails show Trump knew of Epstein’s trafficking. As sickening as it is, it should be no surprise.

Nov 12, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

Zohran Mamdani cheers after winning the mayoral election.

Dear New York: A Love Letter From Jackson, Mississippi Dear New York: A Love Letter From Jackson, Mississippi

We join you in celebrating the election of Zohran Mamdani.

Nov 12, 2025 / Makani Themba and Rukia Lumumba

The Enemy Within?

The Enemy Within? The Enemy Within?

The White House attacks the United States.

Nov 12, 2025 / OppArt / Anonymous and Peter Kuper

The Campaign to Free Jimmy Lai

The Campaign to Free Jimmy Lai The Campaign to Free Jimmy Lai

How a globe-trotting attorney is trying to win the release of the famed Hong Kong publisher.

Nov 12, 2025 / Feature / Liam Scott

Franz Kafka’s  Best Friend

Franz Kafka’s Best Friend Franz Kafka’s Best Friend

Kafka’s late story about a philosopher dog, like most of his stories about animals, is really about our lost humanity.

Nov 12, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Lethem

The Left Must Build Its Infrastructure

The Left Must Build Its Infrastructure The Left Must Build Its Infrastructure

We need to look not at what it will take to win the next election, but what it’ll take to win the next 10 elections.

Nov 12, 2025 / Amanda Litman

Zohran Mamdani, center, joined by members of his transition team, from left, Elana Leopold, Melanie Hartzog, Maria Torres-Springer, Grace Bonilla, and Lina Khan, in Queens, New York, on November 5, 2025.

Mamdani’s Momentum, Plus “The Radical Fund” Mamdani’s Momentum, Plus “The Radical Fund”

On Start Making Sense: Bhaskar Sunkara comments on the tasks facing New York City’s new socialist mayor, and historian John Fabian Witt talks about left politics in the 1920s.

Nov 12, 2025 / Podcast / Jon Wiener

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