The Mess at the BBC Will Never End
But if you can’t stand the BBC, or want to see it dramatically weakened, then you don’t have to waste time thinking carefully about these questions. The day after the Telegraph published Prescott’s memo,...
In Gaza, Home Is Just a Memory
In October, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire, after two years of war. In the weeks since, sporadic Israeli strikes have killed at least a hundred people in Gaza, according to Palestinian health...
The Hidden Devastation of Hurricanes
Parks’s team estimated that, among Medicare patients alone, tropical cyclones are associated with nearly seventeen thousand excess hospitalizations per decade in the United States. “It’s shocking, to be honest,” Parks told me. He sees...
David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation
If you spend enough time wandering around downtown Manhattan, the odds are that you’ll eventually encounter the musician David Byrne riding a bicycle. (He owns four: a folding bike, an electric, an eight-speed, and...
Rian Johnson Is an Agatha Christie for the Netflix Age
When the film director Rian Johnson was a child, he picked up the final book that Agatha Christie published before her death, in 1976: “Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case.” The novel was sitting on a...
Gaza Faces Risk Of Permanent Partition As Trump’s So-Called Peace Plan Falters
MANAMA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - A de facto partition of Gaza between an area controlled by Israel and another ruled by Hamas is increasingly likely, multiple sources said, with efforts to advance U.S. President...
China’s CO2 Emissions Haven’t Risen For 18 Months, Analysis Finds
BEIJING, Nov 11 (Reuters) - China’s carbon dioxide emissions were flat year-on-year in the third quarter, extending a now 18-month streak of flat or falling emissions, an analysis for climate publication Carbon Brief found.The...
Canada Loses Measles Elimination Status, Putting U.S. On Notice
Canadian health officials announced Monday that the country has lost its measles elimination status due to an outbreak of the infectious disease persisting in the country for more than a year, and the United...
Brazil’s COP30 Climate Summit Opens With A Plea For Countries To Get Along
BELEM, Brazil, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The COP30 climate summit opened on Monday with the U.N. climate chief urging countries to cooperate rather than battle over priorities, as efforts to limit global warming are...
Netanyahu And Kushner Meet As Gaza Ceasefire’s First Phase Winds Down
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the next stages of the fragile Gaza ceasefire, while Israel...