Mehdi challenges Syrian official Qutaiba Idlbi on his President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s past record as a militant and Al Qaeda leader, and on the new post-Assad Syria’s relations with Israel.
The complexity bias destroying the country, the death of a campus institution, and more from The Lever this week.
In March, the fictional TV miniseries Adolescence became a surprise global sensation. Its story centers on the Millers, a working-class family of four in England whose world is upended when 13-year-old Jamie Miller—a bright, soft-spoken schoolboy—is arrested for murder. Jamie is accused of fatally stabbing a female classmate, Katie, apparently after being radicalized online. Through […]
This story was originally published by the High Country News in partnership with the Puente News Collaborative and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sunland Park, New Mexico, is not a notably online community. Retirees have settled in mobile homes around the small border town, just over the state line from El Paso. Some don’t own […]
When it passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in June, Congress handed nearly $75 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some $30 billion of that money will be spent on enforcement and deportation—hiring spree incoming—and another $45 billion will go toward new detention centers, including 50 by the end of the year. The OBBB […]
A week that began with shocking revelations about the president and the pedophile was quickly and shockingly overtaken by a brutal murder, followed by the dangerous smearing of Democrats and the left.
Subtlety is not one of Stephen Miller’s strong suits. Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, who alternately has been called the administration’s “attack dog” and “the president’s id,” has a well-known penchant for the kind of breathless, overheated language that would make the hackiest of hacks blush. Scroll through his X feed and […]
By Murtaza Hussain, Ryan Grim, and Waqas Ahmed