Merz backs EU plan to fund Ukraine with frozen Russian assets

The move marks a major shift in Berlin’s posture.

Microsoft blocks Israeli military unit from cloud services

US tech firms have been hesitant to stop doing business with the IDF, even as Israel’s isolation deepens elsewhere.

Radiohead album art gets museum treatment

At Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood's 30-year artistic collaboration takes center stage.

Debunked! Trump's Absurd Claim That He Ended Seven Wars

Desperate for a Nobel Peace Prize, the US president keeps taking credit for ending conflicts that either aren’t over – or didn’t exist to begin with! Here are the receipts.

Even a brief government shutdown might hamper morale, raise costs and reduce long-term efficiency in the federal workforce

A study of the 2013 shutdown that lasted 16 days revealed long-term negative effects on federal workers and led to weakened government performance.

Q&A: Why not just ban killing animals?

Trade restrictions likely to be new normal post-Trump

Jennifer Granholm, energy secretary under President Joe Biden, spoke to reporters about the future of tariffs.

The Charter School Pressuring Teachers to Get Involved in Politics

A few days before a September 18 pro–charter school rally, Eva Moskowitz, the CEO of Success Academy—New York City’s largest charter school network—dropped in at a new teacher training. The visit was unannounced. Moskowitz had an urgent message for her employees that had nothing to do with pedagogy or classroom management: You need to help […]

Clean energy finance firm Generate Capital expects industry consolidation

David Crane gave his first interview to Semafor since being tapped as CEO of Generate Capital.