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South Africa records rapid economic growth
Semafor Sep 10, 2025

South Africa records rapid economic growth

The continent’s largest economy grew 0.8% in the three months to June, compared with the previous quarter, driven by manufacturing and mining.

Saudi speeds up Riyadh, Red Sea gigaprojects
Semafor Sep 10, 2025

Saudi speeds up Riyadh, Red Sea gigaprojects

Nearly half of the kingdom’s development plans are tied to the sovereign wealth fund’s five gigaprojects: NEOM, Diriyah, ROSHN, Red Sea, and Qiddiya.

Death of the Holocaust Industry
Chris Hedges Sep 10, 2025

Death of the Holocaust Industry

The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.

The Threat That Could Destroy 20 Years of Progress in the Lower Ninth
Mother Jones Sep 10, 2025

The Threat That Could Destroy 20 Years of Progress in the Lower Ninth

This story was published in partnership with Capital B. Willie Calhoun knows how to live with water. His home, cradled between the Mississippi River and a patchwork of canals, is split by the surging, ever-present current. But it wasn’t always that way in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Before the city’s largest aqueduct, known as the […]