The Atlantic 19 Aug 2026
The ‘Resistance’ Is Over
The insurgent left cares more about its own factional agenda than the president’s threats to democracy.
PBS 19 Aug 2026
WATCH LIVE: Tipping Point
Join PBS News science correspondent Miles O’Brien as he talks about the future of this critical waterway with scientists, policymakers and other stakeholders.
Lit Hub 19 Aug 2026
Lit Hub Daily: August 19, 2026
How environmentalism shows up in Ursula K. Le Guin’s fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism “The vast majority of contemporary literature is not in fact published but submitted.” On publish…
The National 19 Aug 2026
Cartoon for August 19, 2026
Shadi's take on the expiry of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding Shadi's take on the reconstruction vacuum in Lebanon Shadi's take on the US warning it will step up economic …
Harpers 18 Aug 2026
Weekly Review
The Israeli finance minister stated that the Israel Defense Forces “cannot retreat one millimeter in the Gaza Strip”; Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced plans to spend …
Lit Hub 18 Aug 2026
The Maltese Version
One day they were in love and the next, a manuscript appeared in his study, written in a language she didn’t speak. Ix-Xmara Mżerżqa. The papers were flopping off the edge of his …
NPR 18 Aug 2026
Morning news brief
Jared Kushner and Israel's prime minister meet in attempt to move Gaza ceasefire plan forward, U.S. focus on Iran draws key resources from Asia, voters head to the polls for prima…
The National 18 Aug 2026
Libya’s latest turmoil exposes fault lines beneath uneasy status quo
Libya has spent years learning how to live with division. Since the ceasefire that halted the country’s last major round of fighting in 2020, after military commander Field Marsha…
Lit Hub 17 Aug 2026
Unprecedented Times
Listen: I am not ungrateful. I have always known I am the luckiest girl on earth. I was born in America, for starters, in the belly of the empire instead of its jaws—and I was eve…
The Conversation 18 Aug 2026
The Taliban has brought Afghanistan close to collapse, but resistance is growing
Five years after returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s rule remains as ultra-extremist as ever. Acting in the name of a self-centred version of Islam, the group has mad…
The Atlantic 17 Aug 2026
What Trump Officials Mean by “Never”
The claim that the president could not possibly do something unethical marks a new frontier of impunity by the administration.
Al Jazeera 17 Aug 2026
Somali army clashes with rebel forces for control of key city Baidoa
Somali forces repel rebel fighters in Baidoa after intense fighting involving explosives and dozens of casualties.