Turkey Is Brutally Oppressing Queer People. Here’s What You Need to Know. Turkey Is Brutally Oppressing Queer People. Here’s What You Need to Know.
The government’s sweeping crackdown on the LGBTQ community is an escalation of a decades-long pattern.
Oct 12, 2026 / Levent Pişkin
Writing About War as Bombs Fall Writing About War as Bombs Fall
While the Israeli government launched a well-orchestrated offensive of disinformation and hyperbole that would make the illegal permissible in the war on Gaza.
Oct 12, 2026 / Marwan Bishara
The Anatomy of a Literary Scandal The Anatomy of a Literary Scandal
The pillorying of Canadian-Haitian novelist Thélyson Orélien, accused of using AI to write his new novel, is the latest in a chaotic year for French publishing.
Oct 12, 2026 / June Loper and Harrison Stetler
How I Fell Through the Cracks at Facebook How I Fell Through the Cracks at Facebook
A chronic illness forced me out of my software engineering job. What would have helped me most was a workplace union.
Oct 10, 2026 / Natalie Mead
This November, Vote Like Alito Is on the Ballot This November, Vote Like Alito Is on the Ballot
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent gives Democrats another reason to vote in November. Plus: How Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Medicaid unmasked the racists.
Oct 9, 2026 / Elie Mystal
Does America First Really Mean Israel First? Does America First Really Mean Israel First?
Mike Huckabee’s aide shows how an extremist agenda dominates Trump’s Middle East policy.
Oct 9, 2026 / Jeet Heer
“I Had to Get My Mind Right”: The Challenges to Loving Relationships After Being Laid Off by DOGE “I Had to Get My Mind Right”: The Challenges to Loving Relationships After Being Laid Off by DOGE
After the federal firings, Black women felt betrayed and disillusioned. One longtime federal worker learned from experience the importance of community.
Oct 9, 2026 / Lottie Joiner
The Violent, Militaristic Ideology that Undergirds Fraternities The Violent, Militaristic Ideology that Undergirds Fraternities
The first major hazing scandal in American history occurred at West Point in 1900. There are eerie parallels to what happened at Cornell’s Chi Phi.
Oct 9, 2026 / Jasper Craven