James Meek on the housing crisis

Notes on Reverse Edgelordism. By Freddie deBoer

Confronted with her parents' dementia and teenagers' climate anxiety, one woman considers how our baselines shift in the face of personal — and global — loss. By Heidi Lasher

Two new books take up the ethics of killing some animals to protect others. By Elizabeth Kolbert

Leading archaeologist Professor Ian Ralston has rewritten the story of Doon Hill in East Lothian, with his long career set to be honoured

At the conversational AI conference. By Laura Preston

The very title of Adam Shatz’s most recent, unfortunate piece of writing announces itself clearly as Zionist apologia. By Kerry Sinanan

The Waterboys

Alex Odeh’s story is more than an unsolved murder case

Dr Ralph Wilde

Guantánamo stands out as one of the most extreme examples of how people’s lives can be totally ruined not because they actually did anything wrong, but because it was simply not politically advantageous for anyone to care what happened to them.

The National

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Another [Long Reads] special episode about the Israeli war on Gaza

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The Interrupters

Arielle Angel, Nathan Goldman, Judee Rosenbaum, and Mitch Abidor argue about the evolving role of religion at Jewish Currents

Three big lessons from Narendra Modi's shocking underperformance in the 2024 election. By Zack Beauchamp

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The Iron Dome is broken, and Hezbollah has fire control of the north