The long read: In 2008, many of Barack Obama’s supporters hoped he would bring the global war on terror to a close. Instead, he expanded it – and his successors have done nothing to change course

Team Blacksheep

It’s not a proving ground for Capitalism vs. Socialism. It’s a story of corruption. By Mike Centeno. (Nov. 21, 2018)

Forty-two years ago today, antifascists beat back a violent, far-right mob that had descended on a diverse neighborhood of North London. Among the antifascist organizers was a young Labour councillor named Jeremy Corbyn. By Luke Savage.

In thick woods and swamplands and on small river islands, they bided their time. By Keri Leigh Merritt.

The question is no longer whether or not we are going to fail, but how are we going to comport ourselves in the era of failure? By Dahr Jamail.

When you live inside of your shame, everything you see is inadequate and embarrassing. By Heather Havrilesky.

How my suburban-hewn world-view was flipped on its head. By Jesse Bering.

"My nickname is Dr. Kevorkian Slow Death. I feed [people] alcohol, I feed them cigarettes, I feed them Viagra." By Eduardo L. Perro.

The Dramatics

A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect. By Joe Sexton.

Benjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances — Urte Laukaityte on how a craze for sessions of 'animal magnetism' in late 18th-century Paris led to the randomised placebo-controlled and double-blind clinical trials we know and love today.

Over and over we’ve gotten scientific wake-up calls, and over and over we’ve hit the snooze button. If we keep doing that, climate change will no longer be a problem, because calling something a problem implies there’s still a solution. By Bill McKibben.

Monsters once inhabited the mysterious fringes of the known world. In our human-dominated present, can they still be found? By Natalie Lawrence.

W. Scott Poole on the abyss opened up by the Great War.

Can the study of the past really help us to understand the present? By Robert Crowcroft.

There he is in my six-year-old notebook, very much alive, still demanding peace with the Palestinians, peace with Hamas, and generosity and a Palestinian state on the old 1967 borders – and he believes Israel could have peace tomorrow. By Robert Fisk.

At Chicago’s most intense ERs, the degree of mayhem rivals that of a war zone. Working there can take a heavy toll—and yield immense rewards. By Kim Bellware, Illustrations by Amrita Marino.

Researchers warn that even limited climate warming could trigger conditions not seen in a million years. By Matt McGrath.

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