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Businesses in Hendersonville are delighted by the influx.</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1239254250\" />"}], "authors": [{"name": "Lydia Wilson"}], "author": "Lydia Wilson", "author_detail": {"name": "Lydia Wilson"}}, {"title": "Trump unable to post $450M bond in New York fraud case, his lawyers say", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml", "value": "Trump unable to post $450M bond in New York fraud case, his lawyers say"}, "summary": "Trump's lawyers say they've approached 30 companies through four brokers and none will accept his real estate holdings as a guarantee on the bond and argue the judgment is unconstitutionally high.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml", "value": "Trump's lawyers say they've approached 30 companies through four brokers and none will accept his real estate holdings as a guarantee on the bond and argue the judgment is unconstitutionally high."}, "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:58:55 -0400", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 58, 55, 0, 78, 0], "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239242523/trump-bond-civil-fraud-case"}], "link": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239242523/trump-bond-civil-fraud-case", "id": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239242523/trump-bond-civil-fraud-case", "guidislink": false, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml", "value": "<img alt=\"Former President Donald Trump speaks during a &quot;Get Out The Vote&quot; rally at the Forum River Center in Rome, Ga., on March 9.\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/03/18/gettyimages-2064219549-b8d375d48909879fd29b76e8ef93633a91a8a15d.jpg\" /><p>Trump's lawyers say they've approached 30 companies through four brokers and none will accept his real estate holdings as a guarantee on the bond and argue the judgment is unconstitutionally high.</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1239242523\" />"}], "authors": [{"name": "Andrea Bernstein"}], "author": "Andrea Bernstein", "author_detail": {"name": "Andrea Bernstein"}}, {"title": "'James' revisits Huck Finn's traveling companion, giving rise to a new classic", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml", "value": "'James' revisits Huck Finn's traveling companion, giving rise to a new classic"}, "summary": "In a fever dream of a retelling, America's new reigning king of satire has turned a loved classic, <em>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,</em> upside down, placing Huck's enslaved companion Jim at the center.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml", "value": "In a fever dream of a retelling, America's new reigning king of satire has turned a loved classic, <em>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,</em> upside down, placing Huck's enslaved companion Jim at the center."}, "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:53:00 -0400", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 17, 53, 0, 0, 78, 0], "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1238251709/percival-everett-james-reimagines-jim-in-mark-twain-huckleberry-finn"}], "link": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1238251709/percival-everett-james-reimagines-jim-in-mark-twain-huckleberry-finn", "id": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1238251709/percival-everett-james-reimagines-jim-in-mark-twain-huckleberry-finn", "guidislink": false, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml", "value": "<img alt=\"undefined\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/03/18/james1_custom-5b4ac0168d033856a990142b179b9981b871c505.jpg\" /><p>In a fever dream of a retelling, America's new reigning king of satire has turned a loved classic, <em>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,</em> upside down, placing Huck's enslaved companion Jim at the center.</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1238251709\" />"}], "authors": [{"name": "Carole V. 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She was later surprised by the community's overwhelming support for Donald Trump.</p><p>(Image credit: Samuel Corum)</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1239122282\" />"}], "authors": [{"name": "Tonya Mosley"}], "author": "Tonya Mosley", "author_detail": {"name": "Tonya Mosley"}}, {"title": "The arts and crafts giant Joann files for bankruptcy, but stores will remain open", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml", "value": "The arts and crafts giant Joann files for bankruptcy, but stores will remain open"}, "summary": "Joann expects to receive $132 million in new financing as part of the bankruptcy<strong> </strong>agreement. 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The arts and crafts retailer announced Monday that it was filing for bankruptcy.\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/03/18/2cb5p3t-b9b4c3fb5158c4244e119f18004ded42ce439079.jpg\" /><p>Joann expects to receive $132 million in new financing as part of the bankruptcy<strong> </strong>agreement. 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New research out of the National Institutes of Health finds no unusual pattern of damage in the brains of Havana syndrome patients.\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/03/17/gettyimages-1252227545_slide-e782ee09d43b327be42c8541d929d00d0c04c53a.jpg\" /><p>The mysterious ailments that became known as Havana syndrome left no physical evidence of injury or disease, according to two government studies.</p><p>(Image credit: Emily Michot/Miami Herald)</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1239087164\" />"}], "authors": [{"name": "Jon Hamilton"}], "author": "Jon Hamilton", "author_detail": {"name": "Jon Hamilton"}}, {"title": "Putin wins Russian election; Supreme Court tackles misinformation, censorship case", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml", "value": "Putin wins Russian election; Supreme Court tackles misinformation, censorship case"}, "summary": "Putin hails his victory in a Russian election with no real opposition. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that examines whether the government can combat misinformation online.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml", "value": "Putin hails his victory in a Russian election with no real opposition. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that examines whether the government can combat misinformation online."}, "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:10:30 -0400", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 12, 10, 30, 0, 78, 0], "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239123421/up-first-newsletter-russia-putin-election-supreme-court-censorship"}], "link": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239123421/up-first-newsletter-russia-putin-election-supreme-court-censorship", "id": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239123421/up-first-newsletter-russia-putin-election-supreme-court-censorship", "guidislink": false, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml", "value": "<img alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking on a visit to his campaign headquarters after a presidential election in Moscow, Russia, early Monday.\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/03/18/ap24077768828433_wide-ef96c3801a3ace9e99c253327eea01211d8c9454.jpg\" /><p>Putin hails his victory in a Russian election with no real opposition. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that examines whether the government can combat misinformation online.</p><p>(Image credit: Alexander Zemlianichenko)</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1239123421\" />"}], "authors": [{"name": "Suzanne Nuyen"}], "author": "Suzanne Nuyen", "author_detail": {"name": "Suzanne Nuyen"}}, {"title": "Israel's military launched an overnight raid on Gaza's largest hospital", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml", "value": "Israel's military launched an overnight raid on Gaza's largest hospital"}, "summary": "The Israeli military said it was \"operating to thwart terrorist activity\" at Al-Shifa Hospital. 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url: https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss
title: The Guardian World News
created_at: 2024-03-19 00:09:31
entries:
{"entries": [{"title": "Move to overturn FGM ban in the Gambia postponed", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Move to overturn FGM ban in the Gambia postponed"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/18/move-to-overturn-fgm-ban-in-the-gambia-postponed"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/18/move-to-overturn-fgm-ban-in-the-gambia-postponed", "summary": "<p>Committee will examine for at least three months a bill proposing repeal of ban on female genital mutilation </p><p>A decision on whether to overturn a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Gambia has been postponed for three months after MPs called for more consultation.</p><p>FGM was outlawed in the country eight years ago and is punishable by up to three years\u2019 imprisonment.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/18/move-to-overturn-fgm-ban-in-the-gambia-postponed\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Committee will examine for at least three months a bill proposing repeal of ban on female genital mutilation </p><p>A decision on whether to overturn a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Gambia has been postponed for three months after MPs called for more consultation.</p><p>FGM was outlawed in the country eight years ago and is punishable by up to three years\u2019 imprisonment.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/18/move-to-overturn-fgm-ban-in-the-gambia-postponed\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Global development", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development", "label": null}, {"term": "The Gambia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/gambia", "label": null}, {"term": "Female genital mutilation (FGM)", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/female-genital-mutilation", "label": null}, {"term": "Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:49:15 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 49, 15, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/18/move-to-overturn-fgm-ban-in-the-gambia-postponed", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/901ca7a84c29aa28bb9e1cc2b219a9f518cccaf5/0_444_8192_4915/master/8192.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d3e1acb2725ad03f8e3c7fde2033ed2f"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/901ca7a84c29aa28bb9e1cc2b219a9f518cccaf5/0_444_8192_4915/master/8192.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cdef1ef7bfcf4eadf23f5686240dc744"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters"}], "credit": "Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters", "authors": [{"name": "Kaamil Ahmed"}], "author": "Kaamil Ahmed", "author_detail": {"name": "Kaamil Ahmed"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T18:49:15Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 49, 15, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Libya coastguard accused of hampering attempt to save more than 170 people", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Libya coastguard accused of hampering attempt to save more than 170 people"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/libya-coastguard-accused-hampering-rescue-attempt"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/libya-coastguard-accused-hampering-rescue-attempt", "summary": "<p>M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res says \u2018dangerous manoeuvres\u2019 by coastguard put refugees at even greater risk</p><p>An NGO performing search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean has accused the Libyan coastguard of hampering an attempt to save more than 170 people making the perilous journey across the sea to Europe.</p><p>In a statement, M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) said its ship had come to the rescue of two boats in international waters on Saturday: a small fibreglass boat carrying 28 people and a double-deck wooden vessel with 143 people onboard, which appeared to be in distress.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/libya-coastguard-accused-hampering-rescue-attempt\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res says \u2018dangerous manoeuvres\u2019 by coastguard put refugees at even greater risk</p><p>An NGO performing search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean has accused the Libyan coastguard of hampering an attempt to save more than 170 people making the perilous journey across the sea to Europe.</p><p>In a statement, M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) said its ship had come to the rescue of two boats in international waters on Saturday: a small fibreglass boat carrying 28 people and a double-deck wooden vessel with 143 people onboard, which appeared to be in distress.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/libya-coastguard-accused-hampering-rescue-attempt\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Refugees", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/refugees", "label": null}, {"term": "Libya", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/libya", "label": null}, {"term": "Migration", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/migration", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Middle East and north Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast", "label": null}, {"term": "Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa", "label": null}, {"term": "Europe", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news", "label": null}, {"term": "M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/medecins-sans-frontieres", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:19:42 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 15, 19, 42, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/libya-coastguard-accused-hampering-rescue-attempt", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/033899a316b8c122b6bbc9c9a578477712a1fc67/0_162_4853_2911/master/4853.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1b4492018e5458317316778846519765"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/033899a316b8c122b6bbc9c9a578477712a1fc67/0_162_4853_2911/master/4853.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8ff804be192209f85eaa9e39b3a9bd73"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Simone Boccaccio/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Simone Boccaccio/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock"}], "credit": "Photograph: Simone Boccaccio/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock", "authors": [{"name": "Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels"}], "author": "Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels", "author_detail": {"name": "Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T15:19:42Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 15, 19, 42, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Idris Elba reveals \u2018dream\u2019 of building eco city on island off Sierra Leone", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Idris Elba reveals \u2018dream\u2019 of building eco city on island off Sierra Leone"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/18/idris-elba-reveals-dream-of-building-eco-city-on-island-off-sierra-leone"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/18/idris-elba-reveals-dream-of-building-eco-city-on-island-off-sierra-leone", "summary": "<p>Actor and his childhood friend planning development on Sherbro to be a public-private partnership</p><p>Idris Elba has shared details of his \u201cdream\u201d to turn an island off the coast of Sierra Leone, the country where his father was born, into an environmentally friendly smart city.</p><p>The actor is working with his childhood friend to develop Sherbro, which is roughly the size of the Isle of Man, after the island was given enough autonomy by the west African nation\u2019s government to allow the work to go ahead.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/18/idris-elba-reveals-dream-of-building-eco-city-on-island-off-sierra-leone\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Actor and his childhood friend planning development on Sherbro to be a public-private partnership</p><p>Idris Elba has shared details of his \u201cdream\u201d to turn an island off the coast of Sierra Leone, the country where his father was born, into an environmentally friendly smart city.</p><p>The actor is working with his childhood friend to develop Sherbro, which is roughly the size of the Isle of Man, after the island was given enough autonomy by the west African nation\u2019s government to allow the work to go ahead.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/18/idris-elba-reveals-dream-of-building-eco-city-on-island-off-sierra-leone\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Idris Elba", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/culture/idris-elba", "label": null}, {"term": "Sierra Leone", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/sierraleone", "label": null}, {"term": "Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "UK news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk", "label": null}, {"term": "Sustainable development", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/sustainable-development", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:06:33 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 6, 33, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/18/idris-elba-reveals-dream-of-building-eco-city-on-island-off-sierra-leone", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/269fd5cd981997ab12244ee166a53c081712bfe7/0_85_3889_2333/master/3889.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6098efe3ea308063391baaa19fd46c5c"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/269fd5cd981997ab12244ee166a53c081712bfe7/0_85_3889_2333/master/3889.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f6f2cfff9bf24ebd91635b09cf7c931b"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP"}], "credit": "Photograph: Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP", "authors": [{"name": "Kevin Rawlinson"}], "author": "Kevin Rawlinson", "author_detail": {"name": "Kevin Rawlinson"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T14:06:33Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 6, 33, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Weather tracker: cyclone warning in Australia while Finland freezes in -16C lows", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Weather tracker: cyclone warning in Australia while Finland freezes in -16C lows"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/weather-tracker-cyclone-warning-in-australia-while-finland-freezes-in--16c-lows"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/weather-tracker-cyclone-warning-in-australia-while-finland-freezes-in--16c-lows", "summary": "<p>Meanwhile, South Sudan has ordered schools to shut amid extreme heatwave</p><p>A cyclone warning has been issued in northern Australia for coastal communities from the island of Groote Eylandt to the Northern Territory/Queensland border. Tropical Cyclone Megan, which developed in the Gulf of Carpentaria on Saturday, has been declared a category 3 cyclone by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Megan is forecast to make landfall on Monday, but has already brought gale-force winds and heavy rainfall to some areas over the weekend. Groote Eylandt was cut off after more than 400mm of rain in just 24 hours on Sunday.</p><p>There is a chance that Megan could strengthen further into a category 4 storm before making landfall, with the potential for damaging wind gusts of up to 125km/h. Megan is the fifth named cyclone in Australian waters so far this season, which is below the average of about 10 by this stage of the year.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/weather-tracker-cyclone-warning-in-australia-while-finland-freezes-in--16c-lows\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Meanwhile, South Sudan has ordered schools to shut amid extreme heatwave</p><p>A cyclone warning has been issued in northern Australia for coastal communities from the island of Groote Eylandt to the Northern Territory/Queensland border. Tropical Cyclone Megan, which developed in the Gulf of Carpentaria on Saturday, has been declared a category 3 cyclone by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Megan is forecast to make landfall on Monday, but has already brought gale-force winds and heavy rainfall to some areas over the weekend. Groote Eylandt was cut off after more than 400mm of rain in just 24 hours on Sunday.</p><p>There is a chance that Megan could strengthen further into a category 4 storm before making landfall, with the potential for damaging wind gusts of up to 125km/h. Megan is the fifth named cyclone in Australian waters so far this season, which is below the average of about 10 by this stage of the year.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/weather-tracker-cyclone-warning-in-australia-while-finland-freezes-in--16c-lows\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Extreme heat", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/extreme-heat", "label": null}, {"term": "South Sudan", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-sudan", "label": null}, {"term": "Extreme weather", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/extreme-weather", "label": null}, {"term": "Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa", "label": null}, {"term": "Environment", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment", "label": null}, {"term": "Finland", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/weather/finland", "label": null}, {"term": "Australia weather", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-weather", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 09:44:12 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 9, 44, 12, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/weather-tracker-cyclone-warning-in-australia-while-finland-freezes-in--16c-lows", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/29fcd8c0e9972fca74a521d901132b31e89300f7/0_203_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8b58f167298ef8dd3fc0b3fa6b01adce"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/29fcd8c0e9972fca74a521d901132b31e89300f7/0_203_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=afb440939e92f19a13558737ab9c910c"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Adriane Ohanesian/Reuters"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Adriane Ohanesian/Reuters"}], "credit": "Photograph: Adriane Ohanesian/Reuters", "authors": [{"name": "Claire Jones and Matt Andrews"}], "author": "Claire Jones and Matt Andrews", "author_detail": {"name": "Claire Jones and Matt Andrews"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T09:44:12Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 9, 44, 12, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "South Sudan closes schools in preparation for 45C heatwave", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "South Sudan closes schools in preparation for 45C heatwave"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/south-sudan-closes-schools-in-preparation-for-45c-heatwave"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/south-sudan-closes-schools-in-preparation-for-45c-heatwave", "summary": "<p>Authorities advise parents to keep children indoors during extreme heatwave, expected to last two weeks</p><p>South Sudan is closing all schools from Monday in preparation for an extreme heatwave expected to last two weeks.</p><p>The health and education ministries have advised parents to keep all children indoors as temperatures are expected to soar to 45C (113F).</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/south-sudan-closes-schools-in-preparation-for-45c-heatwave\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Authorities advise parents to keep children indoors during extreme heatwave, expected to last two weeks</p><p>South Sudan is closing all schools from Monday in preparation for an extreme heatwave expected to last two weeks.</p><p>The health and education ministries have advised parents to keep all children indoors as temperatures are expected to soar to 45C (113F).</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/south-sudan-closes-schools-in-preparation-for-45c-heatwave\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "South Sudan", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-sudan", "label": null}, {"term": "Extreme heat", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/extreme-heat", "label": null}, {"term": "Extreme weather", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/extreme-weather", "label": null}, {"term": "Climate crisis", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis", "label": null}, {"term": "Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa", "label": null}, {"term": "Environment", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Drought", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/drought", "label": null}, {"term": "Flooding", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/flooding", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:50:43 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 8, 50, 43, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/south-sudan-closes-schools-in-preparation-for-45c-heatwave", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/782fddd24b97a02decf05ce3a86ce0863b851aa0/0_345_5616_3370/master/5616.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3ac90e3b35a18109d2a0b2ddbbebf8d1"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/782fddd24b97a02decf05ce3a86ce0863b851aa0/0_345_5616_3370/master/5616.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e8b21014be5d7dd5426f28608fd9e43a"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP"}], "credit": "Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP", "authors": [{"name": "Associated Press in Juba"}], "author": "Associated Press in Juba", "author_detail": {"name": "Associated Press in Juba"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T08:50:43Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 8, 50, 43, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "EU seals \u20ac7.4bn deal with Egypt in effort to avert another migration crisis", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "EU seals \u20ac7.4bn deal with Egypt in effort to avert another migration crisis"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/egypt-eu-deal-refugees-mediterranean"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/egypt-eu-deal-refugees-mediterranean", "summary": "<p>Six of bloc\u2019s leaders sign agreement in Cairo aimed at boosting  economy and bringing stability to region</p><p>EU leaders have sealed a \u20ac7.4bn (\u00a36.3bn) deal with Egypt to help boost the country\u2019s faltering economy, in an attempt to bring stability to the \u201ctroubled\u201d region and avert another migration crisis in Europe.</p><p>The three-year EU-Egypt strategic partnership involves \u20ac5bn in soft loans to support economic changes, \u20ac1.8bn to support investments from the private sector and \u20ac600m in grants including \u20ac200m for migration management.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/egypt-eu-deal-refugees-mediterranean\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Six of bloc\u2019s leaders sign agreement in Cairo aimed at boosting  economy and bringing stability to region</p><p>EU leaders have sealed a \u20ac7.4bn (\u00a36.3bn) deal with Egypt to help boost the country\u2019s faltering economy, in an attempt to bring stability to the \u201ctroubled\u201d region and avert another migration crisis in Europe.</p><p>The three-year EU-Egypt strategic partnership involves \u20ac5bn in soft loans to support economic changes, \u20ac1.8bn to support investments from the private sector and \u20ac600m in grants including \u20ac200m for migration management.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/egypt-eu-deal-refugees-mediterranean\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "European Union", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/eu", "label": null}, {"term": "Egypt", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/egypt", "label": null}, {"term": "Migration", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/migration", "label": null}, {"term": "Refugees", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/refugees", "label": null}, {"term": "Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa", "label": null}, {"term": "Europe", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news", "label": null}, {"term": "Middle East and north Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Sun, 17 Mar 2024 17:48:55 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 17, 48, 55, 6, 77, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/egypt-eu-deal-refugees-mediterranean", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/876babd774d84ecb98a5ee0e9eba98b14d862c89/108_311_3642_2185/master/3642.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b6258ed9d17217acc4c7d11ea387b26c"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/876babd774d84ecb98a5ee0e9eba98b14d862c89/108_311_3642_2185/master/3642.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e5abeafc5986bd48ffcb538012acdb61"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Stavros Ioannides/PIO/AFP/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Stavros Ioannides/PIO/AFP/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: Stavros Ioannides/PIO/AFP/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Lisa O'Carroll Brussels correspondent"}], "author": "Lisa O'Carroll Brussels correspondent", "author_detail": {"name": "Lisa O'Carroll Brussels correspondent"}, "updated": "2024-03-17T17:48:55Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 17, 48, 55, 6, 77, 0]}, {"title": "Cuba blames US for stoking protests amid power cuts and food shortages", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Cuba blames US for stoking protests amid power cuts and food shortages"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/cuba-protests-food-electricity-shortage"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/cuba-protests-food-electricity-shortage", "summary": "<p>US embassy says \u2018absurd\u2019 to suggest Washington behind protests in Santiago de Cuba led by parents struggling to feed their children</p><p>The Cuban government has summoned the US ambassador, Benjamin Ziff, to its foreign ministry, accusing Washington of stoking a protest which saw hundreds of people take to the streets in the island\u2019s second city of Santiago de Cuba.</p><p>The demonstration late on Sunday was a rare public show of disenchantment against Cuba\u2019s communist government, and was apparently led by parents struggling to feed their children in the face of a worsening food crisis. The protesters reportedly chanted: \u201cWithout electricity and food, the people get hot.\u201d</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/cuba-protests-food-electricity-shortage\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>US embassy says \u2018absurd\u2019 to suggest Washington behind protests in Santiago de Cuba led by parents struggling to feed their children</p><p>The Cuban government has summoned the US ambassador, Benjamin Ziff, to its foreign ministry, accusing Washington of stoking a protest which saw hundreds of people take to the streets in the island\u2019s second city of Santiago de Cuba.</p><p>The demonstration late on Sunday was a rare public show of disenchantment against Cuba\u2019s communist government, and was apparently led by parents struggling to feed their children in the face of a worsening food crisis. The protesters reportedly chanted: \u201cWithout electricity and food, the people get hot.\u201d</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/cuba-protests-food-electricity-shortage\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Cuba", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/cuba", "label": null}, {"term": "US news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news", "label": null}, {"term": "Americas", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "US foreign policy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-foreign-policy", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:17:24 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 19, 17, 24, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/cuba-protests-food-electricity-shortage", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f0522ada4bb96c995bbe9455c4aa96a93f5bc4b6/0_87_5549_3329/master/5549.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b08a7d89e33d261680a6ce34bf78cf8d"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f0522ada4bb96c995bbe9455c4aa96a93f5bc4b6/0_87_5549_3329/master/5549.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3f56bea32bba2c43332771b4ba25c14c"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana"}], "author": "Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana", "author_detail": {"name": "Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T19:17:24Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 19, 17, 24, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Medical studies find no trace of physical harm in Havana syndrome patients", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Medical studies find no trace of physical harm in Havana syndrome patients"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/havana-syndrome-study-government-officials"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/havana-syndrome-study-government-officials", "summary": "<p>Two new studies find no significant differences between US government officials suffering from condition and control group</p><p>Two new medical studies have found that US government officials suffering from Havana syndrome symptoms did not show any discernible physical damage or alteration.</p><p>One of the studies published on Monday by the federally funded <a href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/newonline\">National Institutes of Health (NIH)</a> examined brain imaging, while the other looked at blood biomarkers and clinical assessments of hearing, vision, hand-eye coordination, cognitive ability and balance.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/havana-syndrome-study-government-officials\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Two new studies find no significant differences between US government officials suffering from condition and control group</p><p>Two new medical studies have found that US government officials suffering from Havana syndrome symptoms did not show any discernible physical damage or alteration.</p><p>One of the studies published on Monday by the federally funded <a href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/newonline\">National Institutes of Health (NIH)</a> examined brain imaging, while the other looked at blood biomarkers and clinical assessments of hearing, vision, hand-eye coordination, cognitive ability and balance.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/havana-syndrome-study-government-officials\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "US news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news", "label": null}, {"term": "Cuba", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/cuba", "label": null}, {"term": "US healthcare", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/healthcare", "label": null}, {"term": "Americas", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas", "label": null}, {"term": "US foreign policy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-foreign-policy", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:04:50 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 17, 4, 50, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/havana-syndrome-study-government-officials", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a026c1ca37a9cbbd8609f90cdae6eaaf7cc168d6/0_254_3804_2282/master/3804.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0ffdefac4e6438b00c972c85a1d7e8dc"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a026c1ca37a9cbbd8609f90cdae6eaaf7cc168d6/0_254_3804_2282/master/3804.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c95005b85dc23705320283332500d589"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Ismael Francisco/AP"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Ismael Francisco/AP"}], "credit": "Photograph: Ismael Francisco/AP", "authors": [{"name": "Julian Borger in Washington"}], "author": "Julian Borger in Washington", "author_detail": {"name": "Julian Borger in Washington"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T17:04:50Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 17, 4, 50, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "At least a dozen dead as gang violence spills into wealthy areas of Haiti capital", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "At least a dozen dead as gang violence spills into wealthy areas of Haiti capital"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/deaths-haiti-gang-violence-laboule-thomassin-neighborhoods"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/deaths-haiti-gang-violence-laboule-thomassin-neighborhoods", "summary": "<p>Gunmen looted homes in Laboule and Thomassin, forcing residents to flee previously peaceful neighborhoods</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/08/haiti-crisis-gang-jailbreak-explained\">\u2022 Haiti: what caused the gang violence and will it end now the PM has quit?</a></p><p>Gunmen have assaulted two upscale neighborhoods in <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/haiti\">Haiti</a>\u2019s capital in an attack that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas and suggested that a gang insurrection that prompted the prime minister to resign is far from over.</p><p>Assailants looted homes in the communities of Laboule and Thomassin before sunrise on Monday, forcing residents to flee as some called radio stations pleading for police. Both neighborhoods had previously remained largely peaceful despite a surge in gang attacks across Port-au-Prince that began on 29 February.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/deaths-haiti-gang-violence-laboule-thomassin-neighborhoods\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Gunmen looted homes in Laboule and Thomassin, forcing residents to flee previously peaceful neighborhoods</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/08/haiti-crisis-gang-jailbreak-explained\">\u2022 Haiti: what caused the gang violence and will it end now the PM has quit?</a></p><p>Gunmen have assaulted two upscale neighborhoods in <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/haiti\">Haiti</a>\u2019s capital in an attack that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas and suggested that a gang insurrection that prompted the prime minister to resign is far from over.</p><p>Assailants looted homes in the communities of Laboule and Thomassin before sunrise on Monday, forcing residents to flee as some called radio stations pleading for police. Both neighborhoods had previously remained largely peaceful despite a surge in gang attacks across Port-au-Prince that began on 29 February.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/deaths-haiti-gang-violence-laboule-thomassin-neighborhoods\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Haiti", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/haiti", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Americas", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:40:55 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 16, 40, 55, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/deaths-haiti-gang-violence-laboule-thomassin-neighborhoods", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8a989fa38d230b53e5784fbf00cad9e78dab3ccd/0_219_6565_3939/master/6565.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5c56d9c4822d92fa73fabfd716d5a6ed"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8a989fa38d230b53e5784fbf00cad9e78dab3ccd/0_219_6565_3939/master/6565.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dc26d6585b9d7b5ab0cb566fcfa95117"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Johnson Sabin/EPA"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Johnson Sabin/EPA"}], "credit": "Photograph: Johnson Sabin/EPA", "authors": [{"name": "Staff and agencies in Port-au-Prince"}], "author": "Staff and agencies in Port-au-Prince", "author_detail": {"name": "Staff and agencies in Port-au-Prince"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T16:40:55Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 16, 40, 55, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "US citizens flee Haiti on government-chartered flight", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "US citizens flee Haiti on government-chartered flight"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/haiti-us-citizens-escape-flight"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/haiti-us-citizens-escape-flight", "summary": "<p>More than 30 Americans arrive in Miami from Cap-Ha\u00eften as US urges citizens to leave \u2018as soon as possible\u2019 amid gang violence</p><p>A charter flight carrying dozens of US citizens fleeing spiraling <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/17/haiti-healthcare-system-collapse-gang-warfare\">gang violence in Haiti</a> landed on Sunday in Miami, state department officials said.</p><p>More than 30 US citizens were on the government-chartered flight, officials said in a statement. It arrived in <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/miami\">Miami</a>\u2019s international airport after the US embassy in Port-au-Prince earlier this month urged US citizens to leave \u201cas soon as possible\u201d as <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/08/haiti-crisis-gang-jailbreak-explained\">chaos grips Haiti</a>.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/haiti-us-citizens-escape-flight\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>More than 30 Americans arrive in Miami from Cap-Ha\u00eften as US urges citizens to leave \u2018as soon as possible\u2019 amid gang violence</p><p>A charter flight carrying dozens of US citizens fleeing spiraling <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/17/haiti-healthcare-system-collapse-gang-warfare\">gang violence in Haiti</a> landed on Sunday in Miami, state department officials said.</p><p>More than 30 US citizens were on the government-chartered flight, officials said in a statement. It arrived in <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/miami\">Miami</a>\u2019s international airport after the US embassy in Port-au-Prince earlier this month urged US citizens to leave \u201cas soon as possible\u201d as <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/08/haiti-crisis-gang-jailbreak-explained\">chaos grips Haiti</a>.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/haiti-us-citizens-escape-flight\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Haiti", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/haiti", "label": null}, {"term": "US news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news", "label": null}, {"term": "Miami", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/miami", "label": null}, {"term": "Americas", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:07:07 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 12, 7, 7, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/haiti-us-citizens-escape-flight", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ca2c55f3c999814a39cfe7c7eb1bd4e54bfa3222/0_275_4184_2512/master/4184.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5668c4f13e8662595cd4e7cda6a0618b"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ca2c55f3c999814a39cfe7c7eb1bd4e54bfa3222/0_275_4184_2512/master/4184.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=552e79a326017e9378738740a66f1715"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Odelyn Joseph/AP"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Odelyn Joseph/AP"}], "credit": "Photograph: Odelyn Joseph/AP", "authors": [{"name": "Associated Press"}], "author": "Associated Press", "author_detail": {"name": "Associated Press"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T12:07:07Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 12, 7, 7, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Haiti healthcare system on verge of collapse as gang warfare rages on", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Haiti healthcare system on verge of collapse as gang warfare rages on"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/17/haiti-healthcare-system-collapse-gang-warfare"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/17/haiti-healthcare-system-collapse-gang-warfare", "summary": "<p>Only a single hospital in Port-au-Prince remains open, with others devoid of staff as patients look for care and the dead pile up</p><p>Haiti\u2019s healthcare system has all but collapsed amid the ferocious gang insurrection which forced the resignation of the country\u2019s prime minister, leaving victims of the violence with little hope of medical attention, according to aid workers in the stricken Caribbean country.</p><p>In the past two weeks hospitals have been set ablaze, doctors murdered and the most basic medical supplies have now dried up. Only a single public hospital in Haiti\u2019s capital now remains operational \u2013 and that too is expected to shut its doors soon.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/17/haiti-healthcare-system-collapse-gang-warfare\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Only a single hospital in Port-au-Prince remains open, with others devoid of staff as patients look for care and the dead pile up</p><p>Haiti\u2019s healthcare system has all but collapsed amid the ferocious gang insurrection which forced the resignation of the country\u2019s prime minister, leaving victims of the violence with little hope of medical attention, according to aid workers in the stricken Caribbean country.</p><p>In the past two weeks hospitals have been set ablaze, doctors murdered and the most basic medical supplies have now dried up. Only a single public hospital in Haiti\u2019s capital now remains operational \u2013 and that too is expected to shut its doors soon.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/17/haiti-healthcare-system-collapse-gang-warfare\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Haiti", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/haiti", "label": null}, {"term": "Hospitals", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/hospitals", "label": null}, {"term": "Health", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/health", "label": null}, {"term": "Americas", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas", "label": null}, {"term": "Caribbean", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/caribbean", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Sun, 17 Mar 2024 12:15:33 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 12, 15, 33, 6, 77, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/17/haiti-healthcare-system-collapse-gang-warfare", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7727bbbd603bc9daa765cb9b2a1c566238aabeec/0_241_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ebade1b0b37df7e1c02a0b6d7229b4f8"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7727bbbd603bc9daa765cb9b2a1c566238aabeec/0_241_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=014282dd4856f672586b4ccb4ce7bac5"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters"}], "credit": "Photograph: Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters", "authors": [{"name": "Luke Taylor"}], "author": "Luke Taylor", "author_detail": {"name": "Luke Taylor"}, "updated": "2024-03-17T12:15:33Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 12, 15, 33, 6, 77, 0]}, {"title": "Boxing great Roberto Dur\u00e1n receiving medical care for heart problem", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Boxing great Roberto Dur\u00e1n receiving medical care for heart problem"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/16/roberto-duran-receiving-care-heart-boxing"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/16/roberto-duran-receiving-care-heart-boxing", "summary": "<ul><li>Four-weight champion suffering from \u2018health complication\u2019</li><li>Dur\u00e1n, 72, being treated in a hospital in native Panama</li></ul><p>Boxing great Roberto Dur\u00e1n was receiving medical care for a heart problem, the family of the 72-year-old Panamanian said Saturday.</p><p>Dur\u00e1n, who was a champion in four different weight classes, \u201chas suffered a health complication due to an atrioventricular blockade\u201d, his family <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4j-5UtsiRc/\">said in a statement</a> on Dur\u00e1n\u2019s Instagram account.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/16/roberto-duran-receiving-care-heart-boxing\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<ul><li>Four-weight champion suffering from \u2018health complication\u2019</li><li>Dur\u00e1n, 72, being treated in a hospital in native Panama</li></ul><p>Boxing great Roberto Dur\u00e1n was receiving medical care for a heart problem, the family of the 72-year-old Panamanian said Saturday.</p><p>Dur\u00e1n, who was a champion in four different weight classes, \u201chas suffered a health complication due to an atrioventricular blockade\u201d, his family <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C4j-5UtsiRc/\">said in a statement</a> on Dur\u00e1n\u2019s Instagram account.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/16/roberto-duran-receiving-care-heart-boxing\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Boxing", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/sport/boxing", "label": null}, {"term": "Panama", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/panama", "label": null}, {"term": "Sport", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport", "label": null}, {"term": "Americas", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas", "label": null}], "published": "Sat, 16 Mar 2024 14:08:49 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 14, 8, 49, 5, 76, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/16/roberto-duran-receiving-care-heart-boxing", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/495eda97d68d5d46f9fbe5603e0aa84c8ff707d4/0_105_3376_2026/master/3376.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=908def89e0e24c5075ea9a0a3960e6c3"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/495eda97d68d5d46f9fbe5603e0aa84c8ff707d4/0_105_3376_2026/master/3376.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=373adb07708333d68d7157b2e72b2171"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Agencies"}], "author": "Agencies", "author_detail": {"name": "Agencies"}, "updated": "2024-03-16T14:08:49Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 14, 8, 49, 5, 76, 0]}, {"title": "World\u2019s largest solar manufacturer to cut one-third of workforce", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "World\u2019s largest solar manufacturer to cut one-third of workforce"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/worlds-largest-solar-manufacturer-longi-china-cut-third-workforce"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/worlds-largest-solar-manufacturer-longi-china-cut-third-workforce", "summary": "<p>China\u2019s Longi looks to slash costs as renewable energy sector faces tough headwinds from inflation</p><p>The world\u2019s largest solar manufacturer has slashed nearly a third of its workforce after a cost-cutting drive that included telling staff to only print in black and white fell short and as a chill ripples through the renewable energy sector.</p><p>China\u2019s Longi is to cut as much as 30% of its workforce, in an acceleration of cost reductions that began late last year, Bloomberg reported.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/worlds-largest-solar-manufacturer-longi-china-cut-third-workforce\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>China\u2019s Longi looks to slash costs as renewable energy sector faces tough headwinds from inflation</p><p>The world\u2019s largest solar manufacturer has slashed nearly a third of its workforce after a cost-cutting drive that included telling staff to only print in black and white fell short and as a chill ripples through the renewable energy sector.</p><p>China\u2019s Longi is to cut as much as 30% of its workforce, in an acceleration of cost reductions that began late last year, Bloomberg reported.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/worlds-largest-solar-manufacturer-longi-china-cut-third-workforce\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Solar power", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/solarpower", "label": null}, {"term": "Renewable energy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/renewableenergy", "label": null}, {"term": "Environment", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment", "label": null}, {"term": "Energy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/energy", "label": null}, {"term": "Energy industry", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/energy-industry", "label": null}, {"term": "Business", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/business", "label": null}, {"term": "China", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/china", "label": null}, {"term": "Chinese economy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/chinese-economy", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Asia Pacific", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific", "label": null}, {"term": "Global economy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/global-economy", "label": null}, {"term": "Economics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:11:53 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 11, 53, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/worlds-largest-solar-manufacturer-longi-china-cut-third-workforce", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a5e9ae33b4b81cbd8d928059b32c1879ddc625c1/0_209_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0ff0338a46aff1e2bacb246534e4505f"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a5e9ae33b4b81cbd8d928059b32c1879ddc625c1/0_209_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fe820e2b017351be9ca2f0f146a0567a"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Muyu Xu/Reuters"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Muyu Xu/Reuters"}], "credit": "Photograph: Muyu Xu/Reuters", "authors": [{"name": "Alex Lawson"}], "author": "Alex Lawson", "author_detail": {"name": "Alex Lawson"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T14:11:53Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 11, 53, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Tuvalu prime minister calls on Australia for sovereignty \u2018guarantees\u2019 over treaty", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Tuvalu prime minister calls on Australia for sovereignty \u2018guarantees\u2019 over treaty"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/tuvalu-prime-minister-calls-on-australia-for-sovereignty-guarantees-over-treaty"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/tuvalu-prime-minister-calls-on-australia-for-sovereignty-guarantees-over-treaty", "summary": "<p>Feleti Teo tells the Guardian Tuvaluans fear last year\u2019s treaty may give Australia too much say over the Pacific nation\u2019s security</p><p>Tuvalu\u2019s new prime minister, Feleti Teo, wants \u201cguarantees\u201d from Canberra that a landmark treaty with Australia will not undermine his country\u2019s sovereignty.</p><p>Teo, who <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/26/tuvalu-election-feleti-teo-named-pm-prime-minister-kausea-natano\">was appointed leader last month</a>, told the Guardian a controversial security clause in the <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/10/tuvalu-residency-and-security-treaty-what-is-it-and-why-is-australia-doing-it\">Falepili Union treaty</a> has led to fears among Tuvaluans that Australia \u201cmight encroach on Tuvalu\u2019s sovereignty\u201d.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/tuvalu-prime-minister-calls-on-australia-for-sovereignty-guarantees-over-treaty\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Feleti Teo tells the Guardian Tuvaluans fear last year\u2019s treaty may give Australia too much say over the Pacific nation\u2019s security</p><p>Tuvalu\u2019s new prime minister, Feleti Teo, wants \u201cguarantees\u201d from Canberra that a landmark treaty with Australia will not undermine his country\u2019s sovereignty.</p><p>Teo, who <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/26/tuvalu-election-feleti-teo-named-pm-prime-minister-kausea-natano\">was appointed leader last month</a>, told the Guardian a controversial security clause in the <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/10/tuvalu-residency-and-security-treaty-what-is-it-and-why-is-australia-doing-it\">Falepili Union treaty</a> has led to fears among Tuvaluans that Australia \u201cmight encroach on Tuvalu\u2019s sovereignty\u201d.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/tuvalu-prime-minister-calls-on-australia-for-sovereignty-guarantees-over-treaty\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Tuvalu", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/tuvalu", "label": null}, {"term": "Australia news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news", "label": null}, {"term": "China", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/china", "label": null}, {"term": "Asia Pacific", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific", "label": null}, {"term": "Pacific islands", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/pacific-islands", "label": null}, {"term": "Climate crisis", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Sat, 16 Mar 2024 19:00:14 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 19, 0, 14, 5, 76, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/tuvalu-prime-minister-calls-on-australia-for-sovereignty-guarantees-over-treaty", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e7ecf4f134128767a2f41f6404482905ff2b109f/0_0_3543_2127/master/3543.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6c42ec7bab8a1476f1b66252f2494185"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e7ecf4f134128767a2f41f6404482905ff2b109f/0_0_3543_2127/master/3543.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c92746ef0a48b88003be8438742479dc"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Kalolaine Fainu/The Guardian"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Kalolaine Fainu/The Guardian"}], "credit": "Photograph: Kalolaine Fainu/The Guardian", "authors": [{"name": "Prianka Srinivasan"}], "author": "Prianka Srinivasan", "author_detail": {"name": "Prianka Srinivasan"}, "updated": "2024-03-16T19:00:14Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 19, 0, 14, 5, 76, 0]}, {"title": "Apple to pay $490m to settle claims it misled investors over sales in China", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Apple to pay $490m to settle claims it misled investors over sales in China"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/15/apple-tim-cook-settlement-misleading-investors-iphone-sales"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/15/apple-tim-cook-settlement-misleading-investors-iphone-sales", "summary": "<p>Company denies that Tim Cook deceived investors when he said iPhone sales were strong weeks before revenue warning</p><p>Apple has agreed to pay $490m to settle a class-action lawsuit led by the UK\u2019s Norfolk county council.</p><p>The class action alleged chief executive Tim Cook misled investors about a steep downturn in iPhone sales in China that culminated in a jarring revision to the company\u2019s revenue forecast.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/15/apple-tim-cook-settlement-misleading-investors-iphone-sales\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Company denies that Tim Cook deceived investors when he said iPhone sales were strong weeks before revenue warning</p><p>Apple has agreed to pay $490m to settle a class-action lawsuit led by the UK\u2019s Norfolk county council.</p><p>The class action alleged chief executive Tim Cook misled investors about a steep downturn in iPhone sales in China that culminated in a jarring revision to the company\u2019s revenue forecast.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/15/apple-tim-cook-settlement-misleading-investors-iphone-sales\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Apple", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/apple", "label": null}, {"term": "iPhone", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/iphone", "label": null}, {"term": "Law (US)", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/law/law-us", "label": null}, {"term": "China", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/china", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Technology", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology", "label": null}, {"term": "Computing", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/computing", "label": null}, {"term": "Asia Pacific", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific", "label": null}, {"term": "US news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news", "label": null}], "published": "Sat, 16 Mar 2024 14:44:30 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 14, 44, 30, 5, 76, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/15/apple-tim-cook-settlement-misleading-investors-iphone-sales", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5eacac031dd565fd5fd60f320958927e329b54fa/0_135_3072_1843/master/3072.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6e21efdfdd2a8aa80d65d51542c42572"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5eacac031dd565fd5fd60f320958927e329b54fa/0_135_3072_1843/master/3072.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7a3625bb9d56cf7e66c23f0964e42d39"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Cesare Abbate/EPA"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Cesare Abbate/EPA"}], "credit": "Photograph: Cesare Abbate/EPA", "authors": [{"name": "Agencies"}], "author": "Agencies", "author_detail": {"name": "Agencies"}, "updated": "2024-03-16T14:44:30Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 14, 44, 30, 5, 76, 0]}, {"title": "Hong Kong court jails 12 for storming parliament in pro-democracy protests", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Hong Kong court jails 12 for storming parliament in pro-democracy protests"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/hong-kong-court-jails-12-for-storming-parliament-in-pro-democracy-protests"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/hong-kong-court-jails-12-for-storming-parliament-in-pro-democracy-protests", "summary": "<p>Sentences of nearly seven years handed down over 2019 action that was pivotal moment in uprising against Chinese rule</p><p>A Hong Kong court has sentenced 12 people to jail terms of up to seven years over the storming of the city\u2019s legislature in 2019 at the height of pro-democracy protests that challenged the Beijing-backed government.</p><p>It was the most violent episode in the initial stage of the huge protests that upended the city that year, with Beijing later imposing a sweeping national security law to snuff out dissent.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/hong-kong-court-jails-12-for-storming-parliament-in-pro-democracy-protests\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Sentences of nearly seven years handed down over 2019 action that was pivotal moment in uprising against Chinese rule</p><p>A Hong Kong court has sentenced 12 people to jail terms of up to seven years over the storming of the city\u2019s legislature in 2019 at the height of pro-democracy protests that challenged the Beijing-backed government.</p><p>It was the most violent episode in the initial stage of the huge protests that upended the city that year, with Beijing later imposing a sweeping national security law to snuff out dissent.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/hong-kong-court-jails-12-for-storming-parliament-in-pro-democracy-protests\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Hong Kong", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/hong-kong", "label": null}, {"term": "China", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/china", "label": null}, {"term": "Asia Pacific", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific", "label": null}, {"term": "Carrie Lam", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/carrie-lam", "label": null}], "published": "Sat, 16 Mar 2024 04:32:08 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 4, 32, 8, 5, 76, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/hong-kong-court-jails-12-for-storming-parliament-in-pro-democracy-protests", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/26764a1ed567fd27ce800c7a49b21654abfd4bfe/275_756_2627_1577/master/2627.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1bb92f1f1f8ed0a700a2539c1163a4a0"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/26764a1ed567fd27ce800c7a49b21654abfd4bfe/275_756_2627_1577/master/2627.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=16d709c9936cf29b90c3a0020fcf2145"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters"}], "credit": "Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters", "authors": [{"name": "Reuters"}], "author": "Reuters", "author_detail": {"name": "Reuters"}, "updated": "2024-03-16T04:32:08Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 4, 32, 8, 5, 76, 0]}, {"title": "McDonald\u2019s hit by \u2018technology outage\u2019 in UK, Australia, Japan and China", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "McDonald\u2019s hit by \u2018technology outage\u2019 in UK, Australia, Japan and China"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/15/mcdonalds-outage-australia-restaurants-update-details"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/15/mcdonalds-outage-australia-restaurants-update-details", "summary": "<p>Fast food chain working to resolve problem but denies it has been hit by cybersecurity attack</p><p>McDonald\u2019s restaurants in multiple countries including the UK and Australia have been hit by a \u201ctechnology outage\u201d, which the fast food chain denied had been caused by a cybersecurity attack.</p><p>Australia, the UK, Japan and China were among the markets where services were affected, with restaurant, drive-through and online orders hit.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/15/mcdonalds-outage-australia-restaurants-update-details\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Fast food chain working to resolve problem but denies it has been hit by cybersecurity attack</p><p>McDonald\u2019s restaurants in multiple countries including the UK and Australia have been hit by a \u201ctechnology outage\u201d, which the fast food chain denied had been caused by a cybersecurity attack.</p><p>Australia, the UK, Japan and China were among the markets where services were affected, with restaurant, drive-through and online orders hit.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/15/mcdonalds-outage-australia-restaurants-update-details\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "McDonald's", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/mcdonalds", "label": null}, {"term": "Food & drink industry", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/fooddrinks", "label": null}, {"term": "Business", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/business", "label": null}, {"term": "Australia news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news", "label": null}, {"term": "Business", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/business-australia", "label": null}, {"term": "Food", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/food/food", "label": null}, {"term": "Technology", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology", "label": null}, {"term": "UK news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk", "label": null}, {"term": "China", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/china", "label": null}, {"term": "Japan", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/japan", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Asia Pacific", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific", "label": null}, {"term": "Europe", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news", "label": null}], "published": "Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:16:24 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 15, 17, 16, 24, 4, 75, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/15/mcdonalds-outage-australia-restaurants-update-details", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4206885854b161e70f86d7bbec4a94e2010ceead/0_96_4068_2441/master/4068.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=56df094a7c297affe66f54c559b34321"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4206885854b161e70f86d7bbec4a94e2010ceead/0_96_4068_2441/master/4068.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7ff384ff236be9ed19d11dcc926bcca3"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Daniel Pockett/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Daniel Pockett/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: Daniel Pockett/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Dan Milmo,  Jordyn Beazley and Amy Hawkins"}], "author": "Dan Milmo,  Jordyn Beazley and Amy Hawkins", "author_detail": {"name": "Dan Milmo,  Jordyn Beazley and Amy Hawkins"}, "updated": "2024-03-15T17:16:24Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 15, 17, 16, 24, 4, 75, 0]}, {"title": "Squid Game actor O Yeong-su convicted of sexual harassment", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Squid Game actor O Yeong-su convicted of sexual harassment"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/15/o-yeong-su-sexual-misconduct-conviction"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/15/o-yeong-su-sexual-misconduct-conviction", "summary": "<p>The 79-year-old actor who won a Golden Globe for his role as Oh II-nam on the hit Netflix show has been handed a suspended prison sentence</p><p>The South Korean actor O Yeong-su, who starred in the first season of the hit Netflix series Squid Game, was convicted on Friday on charges of sexual harassment and handed a suspended prison sentence, a court official said.</p><p>The Seongnam branch of the Suwon district court sentenced O to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, as well as 40 hours of attendance at a sexual violence treatment programme, the court official said by telephone.</p><p><em>Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organisations. In the US, <a href=\"https://www.rainn.org/\">Rainn</a> offers support on 800-656-4673. In the UK, <a href=\"https://rapecrisis.org.uk/\">Rape Crisis</a> offers support on 0808 500 2222. In Australia, support is available at <a href=\"https://www.1800respect.org.au/\">1800Respect</a> (1800 737 732). Other international helplines can be found at <a href=\"http://ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html\">ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html</a>.</em></p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/15/o-yeong-su-sexual-misconduct-conviction\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>The 79-year-old actor who won a Golden Globe for his role as Oh II-nam on the hit Netflix show has been handed a suspended prison sentence</p><p>The South Korean actor O Yeong-su, who starred in the first season of the hit Netflix series Squid Game, was convicted on Friday on charges of sexual harassment and handed a suspended prison sentence, a court official said.</p><p>The Seongnam branch of the Suwon district court sentenced O to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, as well as 40 hours of attendance at a sexual violence treatment programme, the court official said by telephone.</p><p><em>Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organisations. In the US, <a href=\"https://www.rainn.org/\">Rainn</a> offers support on 800-656-4673. In the UK, <a href=\"https://rapecrisis.org.uk/\">Rape Crisis</a> offers support on 0808 500 2222. In Australia, support is available at <a href=\"https://www.1800respect.org.au/\">1800Respect</a> (1800 737 732). Other international helplines can be found at <a href=\"http://ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html\">ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html</a>.</em></p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/15/o-yeong-su-sexual-misconduct-conviction\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Squid Game", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/squid-game", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Television & radio", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio", "label": null}, {"term": "Netflix", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/media/netflix", "label": null}, {"term": "South Korea", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-korea", "label": null}, {"term": "Culture", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture", "label": null}, {"term": "Asia Pacific", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific", "label": null}, {"term": "Sexual harassment", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/sexual-harassment", "label": null}], "published": "Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:41:08 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 15, 14, 41, 8, 4, 75, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/15/o-yeong-su-sexual-misconduct-conviction", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/78be6abe09f995bf9cbde2e0ddaaeea0ef950886/0_24_4559_2736/master/4559.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a5187525de9a7dcfd185b750f82b3f44"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/78be6abe09f995bf9cbde2e0ddaaeea0ef950886/0_24_4559_2736/master/4559.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dbac956df2584c8413cad510d4c942c2"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock"}], "credit": "Photograph: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock", "authors": [{"name": "Reuters and other agencies"}], "author": "Reuters and other agencies", "author_detail": {"name": "Reuters and other agencies"}, "updated": "2024-03-15T14:41:08Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 15, 14, 41, 8, 4, 75, 0]}, {"title": "Australia politics live: Victoria pushes to confiscate \u2018unexplained\u2019 wealth, yachts and penthouses from criminals; Bowen defends Keating\u2019s China meeting", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Australia politics live: Victoria pushes to confiscate \u2018unexplained\u2019 wealth, yachts and penthouses from criminals; Bowen defends Keating\u2019s China meeting"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition", "summary": "<p>Former PM called \u2018reckless\u2019 for accepting talks with foreign minister Wang Yi. Follow the day\u2019s news live</p><ul><li>Get our <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href=\"https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3\">free app</a> or <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p><strong>Tehan claims Giles not being \u2018upfront\u2019 on immigration detention situation</strong></p><p>Shadow immigration minister <strong>Dan Tehan</strong> is the guest on ABC radio RN Breakfast.</p><p>What we\u2019re calling for is for minister Giles for the first time to be transparent, to be very clear to the Australian people. What is the scale and size of this mess that he\u2019s got us into? And what is his plan to get us out of it? And so far and we\u2019ve seen this in question time now for six months. He just refuses to be upfront with the Australian people on this issue</p><p>As minister, I would take those legal briefings, and I would look at all the information. I would make sure that we\u2019re being upfront with the Australian people as the size of the challenge that is confronting the government and then work through it with my number one priority in place, keeping the Australian community in place.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Former PM called \u2018reckless\u2019 for accepting talks with foreign minister Wang Yi. Follow the day\u2019s news live</p><ul><li>Get our <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href=\"https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3\">free app</a> or <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p><strong>Tehan claims Giles not being \u2018upfront\u2019 on immigration detention situation</strong></p><p>Shadow immigration minister <strong>Dan Tehan</strong> is the guest on ABC radio RN Breakfast.</p><p>What we\u2019re calling for is for minister Giles for the first time to be transparent, to be very clear to the Australian people. What is the scale and size of this mess that he\u2019s got us into? And what is his plan to get us out of it? And so far and we\u2019ve seen this in question time now for six months. He just refuses to be upfront with the Australian people on this issue</p><p>As minister, I would take those legal briefings, and I would look at all the information. I would make sure that we\u2019re being upfront with the Australian people as the size of the challenge that is confronting the government and then work through it with my number one priority in place, keeping the Australian community in place.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Australian politics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-politics", "label": null}, {"term": "Australia news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news", "label": null}, {"term": "Labor party", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/labor-party", "label": null}, {"term": "Anthony Albanese", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/anthony-albanese", "label": null}, {"term": "Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-competition-and-consumer-commission", "label": null}, {"term": "Supermarkets", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/supermarkets", "label": null}, {"term": "Australian economy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/australia-economy", "label": null}, {"term": "Business", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/business-australia", "label": null}, {"term": "Tax", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/tax-australia", "label": null}, {"term": "Australian education", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-education", "label": null}, {"term": "Reserve Bank of Australia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/reserve-bank-of-australia", "label": null}, {"term": "China", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/china", "label": null}, {"term": "Australian foreign policy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-foreign-policy", "label": null}, {"term": "Australian security and counter-terrorism", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-security-and-counter-terrorism", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:52:54 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 23, 52, 54, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5a6034b97e87a57f2bc232a750762e101a61bf95/0_286_7334_4403/master/7334.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=acfcdd62b2c284309d77a5eee852b564"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5a6034b97e87a57f2bc232a750762e101a61bf95/0_286_7334_4403/master/7334.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=19d60519821db26267c8145cc7f21540"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: James Ross/AAP"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: James Ross/AAP"}], "credit": "Photograph: James Ross/AAP", "authors": [{"name": "Amy Remeikis"}], "author": "Amy Remeikis", "author_detail": {"name": "Amy Remeikis"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T23:52:54Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 23, 52, 54, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "NT residents assess damage from Tropical Cyclone Megan after evacuation efforts fail", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "NT residents assess damage from Tropical Cyclone Megan after evacuation efforts fail"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/nt-residents-assess-damage-from-tropical-cyclone-megan-after-evacuation-efforts-fail"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/nt-residents-assess-damage-from-tropical-cyclone-megan-after-evacuation-efforts-fail", "summary": "<p>Town of Borroloola was due to be evacuated before cyclone arrived but dangerous weather prevented aircraft from landing</p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></strong></li><li><strong>Get our <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href=\"https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3\">free app</a> or <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast</a></strong></li></ul><p>Tropical Cyclone Megan has been downgraded to a tropical low in Australia\u2019s north-east where remote communities were waking up to assess damage from the severe weather.</p><p>About 700 residents in the town of Borroloola faced the worst of the cyclone, which made landfall on the south-western side of the Gulf of Carpentaria on Monday afternoon as a category-three storm before weakening to a category one.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/nt-residents-assess-damage-from-tropical-cyclone-megan-after-evacuation-efforts-fail\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Town of Borroloola was due to be evacuated before cyclone arrived but dangerous weather prevented aircraft from landing</p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></strong></li><li><strong>Get our <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href=\"https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3\">free app</a> or <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast</a></strong></li></ul><p>Tropical Cyclone Megan has been downgraded to a tropical low in Australia\u2019s north-east where remote communities were waking up to assess damage from the severe weather.</p><p>About 700 residents in the town of Borroloola faced the worst of the cyclone, which made landfall on the south-western side of the Gulf of Carpentaria on Monday afternoon as a category-three storm before weakening to a category one.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/nt-residents-assess-damage-from-tropical-cyclone-megan-after-evacuation-efforts-fail\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Northern Territory", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/northern-territory", "label": null}, {"term": "Australia news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news", "label": null}, {"term": "Extreme weather", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/extreme-weather", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:43:51 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 20, 43, 51, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/nt-residents-assess-damage-from-tropical-cyclone-megan-after-evacuation-efforts-fail", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6bc66de90cd2aebbc3ddddb16d32b826c4a9fd3e/0_18_640_384/master/640.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a82b5d7824720aa2fbfe123d3ac25604"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6bc66de90cd2aebbc3ddddb16d32b826c4a9fd3e/0_18_640_384/master/640.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b56ebee2010a0c08a3273878a9d7f839"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Bureau of Meteorology"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Bureau of Meteorology"}], "credit": "Photograph: Bureau of Meteorology", "authors": [{"name": "Australian Associated Press and Emily Wind"}], "author": "Australian Associated Press and Emily Wind", "author_detail": {"name": "Australian Associated Press and Emily Wind"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T20:43:51Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 20, 43, 51, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Australia\u2019s power regulator drafts price cuts of up to 7.1% for households as generation costs ease", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Australia\u2019s power regulator drafts price cuts of up to 7.1% for households as generation costs ease"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/australias-power-regulator-orders-price-cuts-of-up-to-71-for-households-as-generation-costs-ease"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/australias-power-regulator-orders-price-cuts-of-up-to-71-for-households-as-generation-costs-ease", "summary": "<p>The regulator released its draft \u2018default market offer\u2019 for 2024-25 which sets the maximum amount retailers can charge for power</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href=\"https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3\">free app</a> or <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>Millions of households could see power prices fall in the coming year as falling costs for generation have declined from the \u201cextreme peaks of 2022\u201d, the Australian Energy Regulator says.</p><p>The regulator <a href=\"https://www.aer.gov.au/news/articles/news-releases/default-market-offer-dmo-2024-25-draft-determination\">released its draft default market offer</a> for the 2024-25 on Tuesday, setting a guide for electricity prices in New South Wales, South Australia and south-east Queensland.</p><p><strong><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/australias-power-regulator-orders-price-cuts-of-up-to-71-for-households-as-generation-costs-ease\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>The regulator released its draft \u2018default market offer\u2019 for 2024-25 which sets the maximum amount retailers can charge for power</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href=\"https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3\">free app</a> or <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>Millions of households could see power prices fall in the coming year as falling costs for generation have declined from the \u201cextreme peaks of 2022\u201d, the Australian Energy Regulator says.</p><p>The regulator <a href=\"https://www.aer.gov.au/news/articles/news-releases/default-market-offer-dmo-2024-25-draft-determination\">released its draft default market offer</a> for the 2024-25 on Tuesday, setting a guide for electricity prices in New South Wales, South Australia and south-east Queensland.</p><p><strong><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/australias-power-regulator-orders-price-cuts-of-up-to-71-for-households-as-generation-costs-ease\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Energy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/energy-australia", "label": null}, {"term": "Australia news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news", "label": null}, {"term": "Business", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/business-australia", "label": null}, {"term": "Energy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/energy", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:33:33 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 20, 33, 33, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/australias-power-regulator-orders-price-cuts-of-up-to-71-for-households-as-generation-costs-ease", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7a09916c3f1a957c93b7bb2f4217caa84e8f3b96/0_348_5218_3131/master/5218.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=24799d41c160a269b315bfff70434b32"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7a09916c3f1a957c93b7bb2f4217caa84e8f3b96/0_348_5218_3131/master/5218.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0c03f63ca3b7600995df530cd4e2f227"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP"}], "credit": "Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP", "authors": [{"name": "Peter Hannam and Benita Kolovos"}], "author": "Peter Hannam and Benita Kolovos", "author_detail": {"name": "Peter Hannam and Benita Kolovos"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T20:33:33Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 20, 33, 33, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Queensland farming lobby launches legal challenge against Great Artesian Basin carbon capture trial", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Queensland farming lobby launches legal challenge against Great Artesian Basin carbon capture trial"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/queensland-farming-lobby-launches-legal-challenge-against-great-artesian-basin-carbon-capture-trial"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/queensland-farming-lobby-launches-legal-challenge-against-great-artesian-basin-carbon-capture-trial", "summary": "<p>AgForce is seeking a judicial review of a 2022 decision that found the project did not need to be assessed under federal environmental laws</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/14/sign-up-for-rural-network-guardian-australia-email-newsletter-about-regional-affairs?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/guardianaustraliaruralnetwork\">Join the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the community</a></li></ul><p>Queensland farming body AgForce has launched legal action against the federal government in a bid to stop liquified carbon dioxide from being pumped into the Great Artesian Basin.</p><p>The Carbon Transport and Storage Corporation (CTSCo), a subsidiary of mining giant Glencore, is awaiting state government approval for a pilot scheme to inject Co<sub>2</sub> emitted by a coal-fired power station in southern Queensland into underground water aquifers as part of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project trial.</p><p><strong><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/14/sign-up-for-rural-network-guardian-australia-email-newsletter-about-regional-affairs?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive Guardian Australia\u2019s fortnightly Rural Network email newsletter</a></strong></p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/14/sign-up-for-rural-network-guardian-australia-email-newsletter-about-regional-affairs?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/guardianaustraliaruralnetwork\">Join the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the community</a></p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/queensland-farming-lobby-launches-legal-challenge-against-great-artesian-basin-carbon-capture-trial\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>AgForce is seeking a judicial review of a 2022 decision that found the project did not need to be assessed under federal environmental laws</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/14/sign-up-for-rural-network-guardian-australia-email-newsletter-about-regional-affairs?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/guardianaustraliaruralnetwork\">Join the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the community</a></li></ul><p>Queensland farming body AgForce has launched legal action against the federal government in a bid to stop liquified carbon dioxide from being pumped into the Great Artesian Basin.</p><p>The Carbon Transport and Storage Corporation (CTSCo), a subsidiary of mining giant Glencore, is awaiting state government approval for a pilot scheme to inject Co<sub>2</sub> emitted by a coal-fired power station in southern Queensland into underground water aquifers as part of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project trial.</p><p><strong><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/14/sign-up-for-rural-network-guardian-australia-email-newsletter-about-regional-affairs?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive Guardian Australia\u2019s fortnightly Rural Network email newsletter</a></strong></p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/14/sign-up-for-rural-network-guardian-australia-email-newsletter-about-regional-affairs?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/guardianaustraliaruralnetwork\">Join the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the community</a></p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/queensland-farming-lobby-launches-legal-challenge-against-great-artesian-basin-carbon-capture-trial\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Australia news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news", "label": null}, {"term": "Queensland", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/queensland", "label": null}, {"term": "Greenhouse gas emissions", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/carbon-emissions", "label": null}, {"term": "Coal", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/coal", "label": null}, {"term": "Rural Australia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/rural-australia", "label": null}, {"term": "Carbon capture and storage (CCS)", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/carbon-capture-and-storage", "label": null}, {"term": "Energy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/energy", "label": null}, {"term": "Fossil fuels", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/fossil-fuels", "label": null}, {"term": "Environment", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment", "label": null}, {"term": "Conservation", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/conservation", "label": null}, {"term": "Water", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/water", "label": null}, {"term": "Energy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/energy-australia", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:00:05 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 0, 5, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/queensland-farming-lobby-launches-legal-challenge-against-great-artesian-basin-carbon-capture-trial", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/60e72453a896696991d3905903b2423ef6da05ca/0_371_5568_3341/master/5568.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=252eec3a122d14cf94e4b00842ec18bc"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/60e72453a896696991d3905903b2423ef6da05ca/0_371_5568_3341/master/5568.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=07297882494ae72d6ba8ca97e2790830"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Brian Cassey"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Brian Cassey"}], "credit": "Photograph: Brian Cassey", "authors": [{"name": "Aston Brown"}], "author": "Aston Brown", "author_detail": {"name": "Aston Brown"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T14:00:05Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 0, 5, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Australia\u2019s big electricity generators say nuclear not viable for at least a decade", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Australia\u2019s big electricity generators say nuclear not viable for at least a decade"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/australias-big-electricity-generators-say-nuclear-not-viable-for-at-least-a-decade"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/australias-big-electricity-generators-say-nuclear-not-viable-for-at-least-a-decade", "summary": "<p>AGL Energy, Alinta, EnergyAustralia and Origin Energy say they will remain focused on renewables despite Coalition support for nuclear reactors</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href=\"https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3\">free app</a> or <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>Australia\u2019s big private electricity generators have dismissed nuclear energy as a viable source of power for their customers for at least a decade.</p><p>They say they will remain focused on developing renewable sources as coal and gas plants exit the grid.</p><p><strong><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/australias-big-electricity-generators-say-nuclear-not-viable-for-at-least-a-decade\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>AGL Energy, Alinta, EnergyAustralia and Origin Energy say they will remain focused on renewables despite Coalition support for nuclear reactors</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href=\"https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3\">free app</a> or <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>Australia\u2019s big private electricity generators have dismissed nuclear energy as a viable source of power for their customers for at least a decade.</p><p>They say they will remain focused on developing renewable sources as coal and gas plants exit the grid.</p><p><strong><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/australias-big-electricity-generators-say-nuclear-not-viable-for-at-least-a-decade\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Energy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/energy-australia", "label": null}, {"term": "Nuclear power", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/nuclearpower", "label": null}, {"term": "Energy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/energy", "label": null}, {"term": "Environment", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment", "label": null}, {"term": "Coal", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/coal", "label": null}, {"term": "Fossil fuels", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/fossil-fuels", "label": null}, {"term": "Renewable energy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/renewableenergy", "label": null}, {"term": "Australia news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news", "label": null}, {"term": "Australian politics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-politics", "label": null}, {"term": "Coalition", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/coalition", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:00:04 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 0, 4, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/19/australias-big-electricity-generators-say-nuclear-not-viable-for-at-least-a-decade", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/de4256678158fbbda06a30caca095c8cf2e3d0f9/0_0_5568_3341/master/5568.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e5ed785d0dd769869a6755cc31c366c1"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/de4256678158fbbda06a30caca095c8cf2e3d0f9/0_0_5568_3341/master/5568.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0b3367c756b54a408dbda56e7ac20772"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Darren England/AAP"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Darren England/AAP"}], "credit": "Photograph: Darren England/AAP", "authors": [{"name": "Peter Hannam"}], "author": "Peter Hannam", "author_detail": {"name": "Peter Hannam"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T14:00:04Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 0, 4, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Australian eSafety commissioner puts tech companies on notice over reports terror-related content still being shared", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Australian eSafety commissioner puts tech companies on notice over reports terror-related content still being shared"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/19/australian-esafety-commissioner-tech-companies-terror-related-content-shared-google-telegram-meta-reddit-"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/19/australian-esafety-commissioner-tech-companies-terror-related-content-shared-google-telegram-meta-reddit-", "summary": "<p>Julie Inman Grant has asked companies including Google, Meta and Telegram to explain how they are taking action against violent and extremist material</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href=\"https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3\">free app</a> or <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>Australia\u2019s online safety regulator has issued notices to Telegram, Google, Meta, Reddit and X asking how they are taking action against terror material on their platforms.</p><p>It is five years since an Australian murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch in New Zealand, and broadcast the massacre on Facebook live. Australia\u2019s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said she still receives reports that video and other perpetrator-produced material from terror attacks are being shared on mainstream platforms, although there were now slightly less on mainstream platforms such as X and Facebook.</p><p><strong><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/19/australian-esafety-commissioner-tech-companies-terror-related-content-shared-google-telegram-meta-reddit-\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Julie Inman Grant has asked companies including Google, Meta and Telegram to explain how they are taking action against violent and extremist material</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/19/australia-politics-live-interest-rates-rba-political-donations-crossbench-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-greens-supermarkets-competition\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href=\"https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3\">free app</a> or <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>Australia\u2019s online safety regulator has issued notices to Telegram, Google, Meta, Reddit and X asking how they are taking action against terror material on their platforms.</p><p>It is five years since an Australian murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch in New Zealand, and broadcast the massacre on Facebook live. Australia\u2019s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said she still receives reports that video and other perpetrator-produced material from terror attacks are being shared on mainstream platforms, although there were now slightly less on mainstream platforms such as X and Facebook.</p><p><strong><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/19/australian-esafety-commissioner-tech-companies-terror-related-content-shared-google-telegram-meta-reddit-\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Australian security and counter-terrorism", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-security-and-counter-terrorism", "label": null}, {"term": "Social media", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/media/social-media", "label": null}, {"term": "Meta", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/meta", "label": null}, {"term": "Google", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/google", "label": null}, {"term": "Reddit", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/reddit", "label": null}, {"term": "X", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/twitter", "label": null}, {"term": "Digital media", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/media/digital-media", "label": null}, {"term": "Internet", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/internet", "label": null}, {"term": "Australia news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:00:04 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 0, 4, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/19/australian-esafety-commissioner-tech-companies-terror-related-content-shared-google-telegram-meta-reddit-", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2f76e93107e5ab0444beeb346389ac25cdce3e49/0_0_4172_2504/master/4172.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=785bd47d05723d5f87842ee3e84a9605"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2f76e93107e5ab0444beeb346389ac25cdce3e49/0_0_4172_2504/master/4172.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5df2a604af124a8b71e0c18241b817c1"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Michele Ursi/Alamy"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Michele Ursi/Alamy"}], "credit": "Photograph: Michele Ursi/Alamy", "authors": [{"name": "Josh Taylor"}], "author": "Josh Taylor", "author_detail": {"name": "Josh Taylor"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T14:00:04Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 0, 4, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Michelin hails \u2018cultural dynamism\u2019 as 52 French restaurants earn their first stars", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Michelin hails \u2018cultural dynamism\u2019 as 52 French restaurants earn their first stars"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/18/michelin-hails-cultural-dynamism-as-52-french-restaurants-earn-their-first-stars"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/18/michelin-hails-cultural-dynamism-as-52-french-restaurants-earn-their-first-stars", "summary": "<p>One chef receives three stars at first attempt in 115th edition of the French foodies\u2019 bible</p><p>A record 52 restaurants in France \u2013 including 23 that only opened in the past year \u2013 have been awarded one or more Michelin stars for the first time, which the French foodies\u2019 bible said reflected the \u201ccultural dynamism\u201d of a new generation of innovative young chefs.</p><p>\u201cThis year\u2019s is a generous vintage, and also true to our values,\u201d said Gwendal Poullennec, the director of the <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/food/michelin-guide\">Michelin Guide</a>, at the launch of its 115th edition on Monday. Well over half of the new laureates were under the age of 40, he said.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/18/michelin-hails-cultural-dynamism-as-52-french-restaurants-earn-their-first-stars\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>One chef receives three stars at first attempt in 115th edition of the French foodies\u2019 bible</p><p>A record 52 restaurants in France \u2013 including 23 that only opened in the past year \u2013 have been awarded one or more Michelin stars for the first time, which the French foodies\u2019 bible said reflected the \u201ccultural dynamism\u201d of a new generation of innovative young chefs.</p><p>\u201cThis year\u2019s is a generous vintage, and also true to our values,\u201d said Gwendal Poullennec, the director of the <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/food/michelin-guide\">Michelin Guide</a>, at the launch of its 115th edition on Monday. Well over half of the new laureates were under the age of 40, he said.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/18/michelin-hails-cultural-dynamism-as-52-french-restaurants-earn-their-first-stars\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Michelin Guide", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/food/michelin-guide", "label": null}, {"term": "Restaurants", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/food/restaurants", "label": null}, {"term": "Food", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/food/food", "label": null}, {"term": "France", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/france", "label": null}, {"term": "Europe", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:42:20 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 19, 42, 20, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/18/michelin-hails-cultural-dynamism-as-52-french-restaurants-earn-their-first-stars", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ddd09a9adc79046779f073dc0d11b44adee7353b/424_481_4852_2911/master/4852.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=436299c232441cfb99617d196303b038"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ddd09a9adc79046779f073dc0d11b44adee7353b/424_481_4852_2911/master/4852.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6cf793835569a42adcc4cffb00d086fa"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Jon Henley in Paris"}], "author": "Jon Henley in Paris", "author_detail": {"name": "Jon Henley in Paris"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T19:42:20Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 19, 42, 20, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Russia-Ukraine war: Putin says Crimea \u2018returned home\u2019 when it was annexed and declares Donbas part of \u2018New Russia\u2019 \u2013 as it happened", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Russia-Ukraine war: Putin says Crimea \u2018returned home\u2019 when it was annexed and declares Donbas part of \u2018New Russia\u2019 \u2013 as it happened"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/mar/18/russia-ukraine-war-live-west-criticises-putins-election-win-as-another-breach-of-international-law"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/mar/18/russia-ukraine-war-live-west-criticises-putins-election-win-as-another-breach-of-international-law", "summary": "<p>This live blog is now closed. For more on Putin\u2019s re-election, you can read our latest reporting:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-election-result-russia-ukraine-war\">West condemns \u2018undemocratic\u2019 Russian election as results show Putin landslide</a></li></ul><p>The EU has said the Russian election took place in a highly restricted environment \u201cexacerbated by Russia\u2019s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine\u201d.</p><p>The EU said it regretted the decision of Russian authorities not to invite international observers to its elections.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/mar/18/russia-ukraine-war-live-west-criticises-putins-election-win-as-another-breach-of-international-law\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>This live blog is now closed. For more on Putin\u2019s re-election, you can read our latest reporting:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-election-result-russia-ukraine-war\">West condemns \u2018undemocratic\u2019 Russian election as results show Putin landslide</a></li></ul><p>The EU has said the Russian election took place in a highly restricted environment \u201cexacerbated by Russia\u2019s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine\u201d.</p><p>The EU said it regretted the decision of Russian authorities not to invite international observers to its elections.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/mar/18/russia-ukraine-war-live-west-criticises-putins-election-win-as-another-breach-of-international-law\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Ukraine", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine", "label": null}, {"term": "Russia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia", "label": null}, {"term": "Europe", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:02:53 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 19, 2, 53, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/mar/18/russia-ukraine-war-live-west-criticises-putins-election-win-as-another-breach-of-international-law", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7ee6b08fd56df9a2df89965439733a7b43a6875f/0_112_8256_4954/master/8256.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=925933f296b0c0f398a739dcedf52156"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7ee6b08fd56df9a2df89965439733a7b43a6875f/0_112_8256_4954/master/8256.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d98f2c18679926b4745554eea145bafa"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Gloria Oladipo (now); Yohannes Lowe and Lili Bayer (earlier)"}], "author": "Gloria Oladipo (now); Yohannes Lowe and Lili Bayer (earlier)", "author_detail": {"name": "Gloria Oladipo (now); Yohannes Lowe and Lili Bayer (earlier)"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T19:02:53Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 19, 2, 53, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "False King Charles death story spread by Russian media outlets", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "False King Charles death story spread by Russian media outlets"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/false-king-charles-death-story-spread-by-russian-media-outlets"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/false-king-charles-death-story-spread-by-russian-media-outlets", "summary": "<p>One site tweeted of monarch\u2019s purported demise only to later concede: \u2018Most likely, the information is fake\u2019</p><p>The news broke in the Russian media on Monday afternoon. King Charles III was dead. He was not, but no one really had time to check the details. The saga of the royal family finally had its latest twist: a viral Russian disinformation angle.</p><p>The rumour went into overdrive when it was shared on a Telegram channel used by Vedomosti, once Russia\u2019s most respected business newspaper. There was a photo of Charles in ceremonial military uniform and the curt caption: \u201cBritish King Charles III has died.\u201d It made it through Russian internet channels, including Readovka, a pro-Kremlin Telegram channel with more than 2.35 million subscribers.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/false-king-charles-death-story-spread-by-russian-media-outlets\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>One site tweeted of monarch\u2019s purported demise only to later concede: \u2018Most likely, the information is fake\u2019</p><p>The news broke in the Russian media on Monday afternoon. King Charles III was dead. He was not, but no one really had time to check the details. The saga of the royal family finally had its latest twist: a viral Russian disinformation angle.</p><p>The rumour went into overdrive when it was shared on a Telegram channel used by Vedomosti, once Russia\u2019s most respected business newspaper. There was a photo of Charles in ceremonial military uniform and the curt caption: \u201cBritish King Charles III has died.\u201d It made it through Russian internet channels, including Readovka, a pro-Kremlin Telegram channel with more than 2.35 million subscribers.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/false-king-charles-death-story-spread-by-russian-media-outlets\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "King Charles III", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/prince-charles", "label": null}, {"term": "Russia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "UK news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk", "label": null}, {"term": "Europe", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news", "label": null}, {"term": "Monarchy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/monarchy", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:51:54 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 51, 54, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/false-king-charles-death-story-spread-by-russian-media-outlets", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bd6b8a0f569d4bd7ffdca37a680b263f426b740f/0_321_5908_3544/master/5908.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b1a2b083a561dfd73eb309d611bc671a"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bd6b8a0f569d4bd7ffdca37a680b263f426b740f/0_321_5908_3544/master/5908.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b41a5934b8717b002cf9b723f8569207"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Royal Household/Reuters"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Royal Household/Reuters"}], "credit": "Photograph: Royal Household/Reuters", "authors": [{"name": "Andrew Roth"}], "author": "Andrew Roth", "author_detail": {"name": "Andrew Roth"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T18:51:54Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 51, 54, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "West condemns \u2018undemocratic\u2019 Russian election as results show Putin landslide", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "West condemns \u2018undemocratic\u2019 Russian election as results show Putin landslide"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-election-result-russia-ukraine-war"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-election-result-russia-ukraine-war", "summary": "<p>UK, US and Germany denounce poll that was said to give president vote share of 87.28% amid crackdown on dissent</p><p>Western nations have widely condemned Russia\u2019s presidential election, in which Vladimir Putin claimed a landslide victory that will keep him in power until at least 2030 amid a crackdown on dissent and opposition.</p><p>\u201cThese Russian elections starkly underline the depth of repression under President Putin\u2019s regime, which seeks to silence any opposition to his illegal war,\u201d said the British foreign secretary, David Cameron, as EU foreign ministers met to approve new sanctions against<strong> </strong>30 individuals and organisations<strong> </strong>in response to the death <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/vladimir-putin-claims-prisoner-swap-alexei-navalny\">of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny</a>.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-election-result-russia-ukraine-war\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>UK, US and Germany denounce poll that was said to give president vote share of 87.28% amid crackdown on dissent</p><p>Western nations have widely condemned Russia\u2019s presidential election, in which Vladimir Putin claimed a landslide victory that will keep him in power until at least 2030 amid a crackdown on dissent and opposition.</p><p>\u201cThese Russian elections starkly underline the depth of repression under President Putin\u2019s regime, which seeks to silence any opposition to his illegal war,\u201d said the British foreign secretary, David Cameron, as EU foreign ministers met to approve new sanctions against<strong> </strong>30 individuals and organisations<strong> </strong>in response to the death <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/vladimir-putin-claims-prisoner-swap-alexei-navalny\">of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny</a>.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-election-result-russia-ukraine-war\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Russian presidential election 2024", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/russian-presidential-election-2024", "label": null}, {"term": "Vladimir Putin", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/vladimir-putin", "label": null}, {"term": "Russia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia", "label": null}, {"term": "Ukraine", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine", "label": null}, {"term": "Crimea", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/crimea", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Europe", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:30:25 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 30, 25, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-election-result-russia-ukraine-war", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f3ce24271415545fa7c2811c0fc547b81ce1584e/0_74_1952_1171/master/1952.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=da326738f0d8b817decb122f1799c122"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f3ce24271415545fa7c2811c0fc547b81ce1584e/0_74_1952_1171/master/1952.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e0c3636a0e0bb63541029bd2fbf6aeb0"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Pjotr Sauer"}], "author": "Pjotr Sauer", "author_detail": {"name": "Pjotr Sauer"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T18:30:25Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 30, 25, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Putin\u2019s vote share nears outer limits but still the only way is up", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Putin\u2019s vote share nears outer limits but still the only way is up"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-vote-share-outer-limits-russia-election"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-vote-share-outer-limits-russia-election", "summary": "<p>Observers say Russian leader\u2019s election numbers approaching 90% mark final break with western conventions</p><p>Vladimir Putin is approaching the electoral outer limits. Claiming a <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-election-result-russia-ukraine-war\">record landslide</a> on Sunday of 87.28% of the vote on a 77.44% turnout, Putin has launched himself into the stratosphere of post-Soviet election results.</p><p>It is a mathematical axiom for any president-for-life: support should never go down, only up; turnout should never go down, only up. And as Putin\u2019s one-man rule extends past a quarter of a century, Russian officials retain straight faces even as they post astronomical numbers that would make many convinced autocrats blush.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-vote-share-outer-limits-russia-election\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Observers say Russian leader\u2019s election numbers approaching 90% mark final break with western conventions</p><p>Vladimir Putin is approaching the electoral outer limits. Claiming a <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-election-result-russia-ukraine-war\">record landslide</a> on Sunday of 87.28% of the vote on a 77.44% turnout, Putin has launched himself into the stratosphere of post-Soviet election results.</p><p>It is a mathematical axiom for any president-for-life: support should never go down, only up; turnout should never go down, only up. And as Putin\u2019s one-man rule extends past a quarter of a century, Russian officials retain straight faces even as they post astronomical numbers that would make many convinced autocrats blush.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-vote-share-outer-limits-russia-election\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Vladimir Putin", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/vladimir-putin", "label": null}, {"term": "Russian presidential election 2024", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/russian-presidential-election-2024", "label": null}, {"term": "Russia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia", "label": null}, {"term": "Europe", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:29:35 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 17, 29, 35, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/putin-vote-share-outer-limits-russia-election", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a404a2ee5d0d8b09c2f24cbfea0b53720bd88b7e/0_0_3238_1943/master/3238.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=85ae7cdb3f3102d7d8fe3f6658909e7a"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a404a2ee5d0d8b09c2f24cbfea0b53720bd88b7e/0_0_3238_1943/master/3238.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ae6e618e3c693c9a95f486fb49a515d2"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Andrew Roth"}], "author": "Andrew Roth", "author_detail": {"name": "Andrew Roth"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T17:29:35Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 17, 29, 35, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Rose Dugdale, English heiress turned IRA bomb maker, dies aged 83", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Rose Dugdale, English heiress turned IRA bomb maker, dies aged 83"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/rose-dugdale-english-heiress-ira-bomb-maker-dies-aged-83"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/rose-dugdale-english-heiress-ira-bomb-maker-dies-aged-83", "summary": "<p>Sinn F\u00e9in members pay tribute to Dugdale, who was also involved in 1974 art heist and police station attack using hijacked helicopter</p><p>Rose Dugdale, who went from a background of wealth and privilege in England to become an IRA militant and bomb maker, has died in a Dublin nursing home aged 83.</p><p>Dugdale was presented as a 17-year-old to Queen Elizabeth as part of the 1958 summer debutante season. Years later, in 1974, Dugdale was given a nine-year prison sentence, in part for her role in the theft of 19 paintings from the home of a wealthy British politician.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/rose-dugdale-english-heiress-ira-bomb-maker-dies-aged-83\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Sinn F\u00e9in members pay tribute to Dugdale, who was also involved in 1974 art heist and police station attack using hijacked helicopter</p><p>Rose Dugdale, who went from a background of wealth and privilege in England to become an IRA militant and bomb maker, has died in a Dublin nursing home aged 83.</p><p>Dugdale was presented as a 17-year-old to Queen Elizabeth as part of the 1958 summer debutante season. Years later, in 1974, Dugdale was given a nine-year prison sentence, in part for her role in the theft of 19 paintings from the home of a wealthy British politician.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/rose-dugdale-english-heiress-ira-bomb-maker-dies-aged-83\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "IRA", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/ira", "label": null}, {"term": "Northern Ireland", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/northernireland", "label": null}, {"term": "Ireland", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/ireland", "label": null}, {"term": "Europe", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news", "label": null}, {"term": "UK news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:58:17 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 16, 58, 17, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/rose-dugdale-english-heiress-ira-bomb-maker-dies-aged-83", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/df3b0aa7e7a4c4226d9015c16c1567f884a17a5c/0_154_3184_1911/master/3184.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bb898a940c17fe5da35d8dae284523c9"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/df3b0aa7e7a4c4226d9015c16c1567f884a17a5c/0_154_3184_1911/master/3184.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1f8fdf651a84000c1de97a20d2a4b7e5"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Jimmy James/Evening News/Shutterstock"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Jimmy James/Evening News/Shutterstock"}], "credit": "Photograph: Jimmy James/Evening News/Shutterstock", "authors": [{"name": "Shane Harrison in Dublin"}], "author": "Shane Harrison in Dublin", "author_detail": {"name": "Shane Harrison in Dublin"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T16:58:17Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 16, 58, 17, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Israeli delegation to visit Washington to discuss planned offensive on Rafah", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Israeli delegation to visit Washington to discuss planned offensive on Rafah"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/israeli-delegation-us-officials-plan-offensive-rafah-gaza-war"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/israeli-delegation-us-officials-plan-offensive-rafah-gaza-war", "summary": "<p>US says attack would be \u2018mistake\u2019 as Biden and Netanyahu talk by phone for first time in over a month</p><p>Israel will send a team of officials to Washington to discuss its planned offensive on Rafah, the White House has said, as the Biden administration insists that an attack would be a \u201cmistake\u201d and seeks to persuade Israel to allow in more aid in the face of an imminent famine in Gaza.</p><p>The US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, announced the Israeli visit after a phone call on Monday between Joe Biden and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, focusing on the planned Rafah assault that Netanyahu has vowed to launch.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/israeli-delegation-us-officials-plan-offensive-rafah-gaza-war\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>US says attack would be \u2018mistake\u2019 as Biden and Netanyahu talk by phone for first time in over a month</p><p>Israel will send a team of officials to Washington to discuss its planned offensive on Rafah, the White House has said, as the Biden administration insists that an attack would be a \u201cmistake\u201d and seeks to persuade Israel to allow in more aid in the face of an imminent famine in Gaza.</p><p>The US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, announced the Israeli visit after a phone call on Monday between Joe Biden and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, focusing on the planned Rafah assault that Netanyahu has vowed to launch.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/israeli-delegation-us-officials-plan-offensive-rafah-gaza-war\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Israel-Gaza war", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war", "label": null}, {"term": "Israel", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Middle East and north Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast", "label": null}, {"term": "Palestinian territories", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories", "label": null}, {"term": "US foreign policy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-foreign-policy", "label": null}, {"term": "US news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news", "label": null}, {"term": "US national security", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-national-security", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 21:36:48 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 21, 36, 48, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/israeli-delegation-us-officials-plan-offensive-rafah-gaza-war", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/81e3f02931c51dceeea2f6dd786782e801a878e7/0_177_5301_3181/master/5301.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bd60b925c62b5d53fb3a3add59fc2d64"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/81e3f02931c51dceeea2f6dd786782e801a878e7/0_177_5301_3181/master/5301.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1cad76590369490324352ba37d1b1d4c"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP"}], "credit": "Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP", "authors": [{"name": "Julian Borger in Washington"}], "author": "Julian Borger in Washington", "author_detail": {"name": "Julian Borger in Washington"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T21:36:48Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 21, 36, 48, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Fierce clashes between IDF and Hamas after Israel takes control of key hospital", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Fierce clashes between IDF and Hamas after Israel takes control of key hospital"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/clashes-idf-hamas-israel-takes-control-key-al-shifa-hospital"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/clashes-idf-hamas-israel-takes-control-key-al-shifa-hospital", "summary": "<p>Israel claims to have killed 20 militants at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City following early morning raid</p><p>Fierce fighting has continued around al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, as Israeli troops battled Hamas militants after seizing control of the strategically situated medical complex in an early morning raid.</p><p>Witnesses reported multiple airstrikes and ferocious firefights as fears rose for the safety of hundreds of civilians in the immediate vicinity of the hospital.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/clashes-idf-hamas-israel-takes-control-key-al-shifa-hospital\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Israel claims to have killed 20 militants at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City following early morning raid</p><p>Fierce fighting has continued around al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, as Israeli troops battled Hamas militants after seizing control of the strategically situated medical complex in an early morning raid.</p><p>Witnesses reported multiple airstrikes and ferocious firefights as fears rose for the safety of hundreds of civilians in the immediate vicinity of the hospital.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/clashes-idf-hamas-israel-takes-control-key-al-shifa-hospital\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Israel-Gaza war", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Israel", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel", "label": null}, {"term": "Palestinian territories", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories", "label": null}, {"term": "Gaza", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza", "label": null}, {"term": "Middle East and north Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:06:54 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 6, 54, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/clashes-idf-hamas-israel-takes-control-key-al-shifa-hospital", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fb904ba40da50368c190ce31a81afb33e2f88587/0_181_5640_3384/master/5640.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=46a06be7493bde1b13aae054c5618da9"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fb904ba40da50368c190ce31a81afb33e2f88587/0_181_5640_3384/master/5640.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a24acf139c9ca9d2a57efdc6a070a1ab"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: AFP/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: AFP/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: AFP/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Jason Burke in Jerusalem"}], "author": "Jason Burke in Jerusalem", "author_detail": {"name": "Jason Burke in Jerusalem"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T18:06:54Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 6, 54, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "\u2018Catastrophic levels of hunger\u2019 in Gaza mean famine is imminent, says aid coalition", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "\u2018Catastrophic levels of hunger\u2019 in Gaza mean famine is imminent, says aid coalition"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/18/famine-gaza-imminent-hunger-aid-group-coalition-oxfam-israeli-authorities"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/18/famine-gaza-imminent-hunger-aid-group-coalition-oxfam-israeli-authorities", "summary": "<p>More than a million people are at risk, according to report, as Oxfam says Israeli authorities are blocking relief deliveries</p><p>Famine is imminent in northern Gaza with people suffering \u201ccatastrophic levels of hunger\u201d, a coalition of aid groups has warned.</p><p>The situation was called \u201cman-made starvation\u201d, as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a group that includes the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization, said that 1.1 million people, half of Gaza\u2019s population, <a href=\"https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/details-map/en/c/1156872/\">faced famine</a>.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/18/famine-gaza-imminent-hunger-aid-group-coalition-oxfam-israeli-authorities\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>More than a million people are at risk, according to report, as Oxfam says Israeli authorities are blocking relief deliveries</p><p>Famine is imminent in northern Gaza with people suffering \u201ccatastrophic levels of hunger\u201d, a coalition of aid groups has warned.</p><p>The situation was called \u201cman-made starvation\u201d, as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a group that includes the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization, said that 1.1 million people, half of Gaza\u2019s population, <a href=\"https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/details-map/en/c/1156872/\">faced famine</a>.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/18/famine-gaza-imminent-hunger-aid-group-coalition-oxfam-israeli-authorities\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Global development", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development", "label": null}, {"term": "Gaza", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza", "label": null}, {"term": "Israel-Gaza war", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war", "label": null}, {"term": "Palestinian territories", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Middle East and north Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast", "label": null}, {"term": "Israel", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel", "label": null}, {"term": "Famine", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/famine", "label": null}, {"term": "Aid", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/aid", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:00:36 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 0, 36, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/18/famine-gaza-imminent-hunger-aid-group-coalition-oxfam-israeli-authorities", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e0fc7b1499c931aedb13108d14fbb9979c26d388/0_306_5168_3101/master/5168.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=373463d4674dea24f22947e5e1407c3b"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e0fc7b1499c931aedb13108d14fbb9979c26d388/0_306_5168_3101/master/5168.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=67110cc7835202f88837e200d8fea32b"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Ruth Michaelson"}], "author": "Ruth Michaelson", "author_detail": {"name": "Ruth Michaelson"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T18:00:36Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 0, 36, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Israel\u2019s Shifa raid shows its grip is slipping as a \u2018forever war\u2019 looms", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Israel\u2019s Shifa raid shows its grip is slipping as a \u2018forever war\u2019 looms"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/israel-shifa-raid-shows-its-grip-is-slipping-as-a-forever-war-looms"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/israel-shifa-raid-shows-its-grip-is-slipping-as-a-forever-war-looms", "summary": "<p>Retaking of Shifa complex shows Hamas militants, despite heavy losses, are still operational in northern Gaza</p><p>The latest raid on al-Shifa hospital reveals that the Israeli military\u2019s hold on the areas of Gaza supposedly cleared of Hamas militants is considerably more tenuous than the country\u2019s political leaders have claimed \u2013 and suggests the region\u2019s military superpower is <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/02/as-the-ceasefire-ends-a-question-from-history-lingers-will-israel-win-the-battle-but-lose-the-war-against-hamas\">facing its own \u201cforever war\u201d in the territory</a> with enormous costs for everyone involved, particularly civilians.</p><p>The fighting around the Shifa hospital and its eventual seizure was the climactic moment of the first phase of Israel\u2019s offensive in Gaza, launched last year after Hamas killed 1,200 and captured 250 people, mostly civilians, in a surprise raid on 7 October. There was bitter argument over <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/17/idf-evidence-so-far-falls-well-short-of-al-shifa-hospital-being-hamas-hq\">whether the hospital\u2019s buildings and basements had been used by Hamas</a> as a covert command centre, as Israel claimed, but none over the strength of Israel\u2019s control of the site when its <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/15/idf-entered-gaza-al-shifa-hospital-raid-targeted-operation-hamas\">soldiers moved in on 15 November</a>.</p><p><em><strong><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-live-events/2024/feb/16/guardian-newsroom-the-unfolding-crisis-in-the-middle-east\">Guardian Newsroom: The unfolding crisis in the Middle East</a><br /></strong>On Tuesday 30 April, 7-8.15pm GMT, join Devika Bhat, Peter Beaumont, Emma Graham-Harrison and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad as they discuss the fast-developing crisis in the Middle East. Book tickets<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-live-events/2024/feb/16/guardian-newsroom-the-unfolding-crisis-in-the-middle-east\"> here</a> or at <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-live-events\">theguardian.live</a></em></p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/israel-shifa-raid-shows-its-grip-is-slipping-as-a-forever-war-looms\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Retaking of Shifa complex shows Hamas militants, despite heavy losses, are still operational in northern Gaza</p><p>The latest raid on al-Shifa hospital reveals that the Israeli military\u2019s hold on the areas of Gaza supposedly cleared of Hamas militants is considerably more tenuous than the country\u2019s political leaders have claimed \u2013 and suggests the region\u2019s military superpower is <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/02/as-the-ceasefire-ends-a-question-from-history-lingers-will-israel-win-the-battle-but-lose-the-war-against-hamas\">facing its own \u201cforever war\u201d in the territory</a> with enormous costs for everyone involved, particularly civilians.</p><p>The fighting around the Shifa hospital and its eventual seizure was the climactic moment of the first phase of Israel\u2019s offensive in Gaza, launched last year after Hamas killed 1,200 and captured 250 people, mostly civilians, in a surprise raid on 7 October. There was bitter argument over <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/17/idf-evidence-so-far-falls-well-short-of-al-shifa-hospital-being-hamas-hq\">whether the hospital\u2019s buildings and basements had been used by Hamas</a> as a covert command centre, as Israel claimed, but none over the strength of Israel\u2019s control of the site when its <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/15/idf-entered-gaza-al-shifa-hospital-raid-targeted-operation-hamas\">soldiers moved in on 15 November</a>.</p><p><em><strong><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-live-events/2024/feb/16/guardian-newsroom-the-unfolding-crisis-in-the-middle-east\">Guardian Newsroom: The unfolding crisis in the Middle East</a><br /></strong>On Tuesday 30 April, 7-8.15pm GMT, join Devika Bhat, Peter Beaumont, Emma Graham-Harrison and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad as they discuss the fast-developing crisis in the Middle East. Book tickets<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-live-events/2024/feb/16/guardian-newsroom-the-unfolding-crisis-in-the-middle-east\"> here</a> or at <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-live-events\">theguardian.live</a></em></p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/israel-shifa-raid-shows-its-grip-is-slipping-as-a-forever-war-looms\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Hamas", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas", "label": null}, {"term": "Israel-Gaza war", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war", "label": null}, {"term": "Gaza", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza", "label": null}, {"term": "Palestinian territories", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Middle East and north Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:45:40 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 15, 45, 40, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/israel-shifa-raid-shows-its-grip-is-slipping-as-a-forever-war-looms", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cbf8890aac1157a61f149bd173ab433c373507c9/0_274_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c47b35e662b9c300c911a4642e18f4c5"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cbf8890aac1157a61f149bd173ab433c373507c9/0_274_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=215b8314b84d547798974d781aed3ab8"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: AFP/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: AFP/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: AFP/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Jason Burke in Jerusalem"}], "author": "Jason Burke in Jerusalem", "author_detail": {"name": "Jason Burke in Jerusalem"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T15:45:40Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 15, 45, 40, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Middle East crisis: famine \u2018imminent\u2019 in northern Gaza, UN report says, as EU foreign policy chief calls area \u2018open air graveyard\u2019  \u2013 as it happened", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Middle East crisis: famine \u2018imminent\u2019 in northern Gaza, UN report says, as EU foreign policy chief calls area \u2018open air graveyard\u2019  \u2013 as it happened"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/mar/18/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-gaza-palestine-al-shifa-live-updates"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/mar/18/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-gaza-palestine-al-shifa-live-updates", "summary": "<p>Israel using starvation as weapon of war, says Josep Borrell, as UN report warns 1.1 million face \u2018catastrophic\u2019 food supply conditions. This live blog is closed</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war\">See all our Israel-Gaza war coverage</a></li></ul><p><strong>Oxfam has accused Israel of controlling \u201can unpredictable and chaotic regime of approval, scanning and inspection\u201d of humanitarian aid destined for the Gaza Strip.</strong></p><p>In a new report, the NGO says \u201cpeople living in Gaza will suffer mass death from disease and starvation far beyond the current 31,000 Palestinian war casualties unless Israel takes immediate steps to end its violations.\u201d</p><p>The ICJ order should have shocked Israeli leaders to change course, but since then conditions in Gaza have actually worsened. The fact that other governments have not challenged Israel hard enough, but instead turned to less effective methods like airdrops and maritime corridors is a huge red flag, signalling that Israel continues to deny the full potential of better ways to deliver more aid.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/mar/18/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-gaza-palestine-al-shifa-live-updates\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Israel using starvation as weapon of war, says Josep Borrell, as UN report warns 1.1 million face \u2018catastrophic\u2019 food supply conditions. This live blog is closed</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war\">See all our Israel-Gaza war coverage</a></li></ul><p><strong>Oxfam has accused Israel of controlling \u201can unpredictable and chaotic regime of approval, scanning and inspection\u201d of humanitarian aid destined for the Gaza Strip.</strong></p><p>In a new report, the NGO says \u201cpeople living in Gaza will suffer mass death from disease and starvation far beyond the current 31,000 Palestinian war casualties unless Israel takes immediate steps to end its violations.\u201d</p><p>The ICJ order should have shocked Israeli leaders to change course, but since then conditions in Gaza have actually worsened. The fact that other governments have not challenged Israel hard enough, but instead turned to less effective methods like airdrops and maritime corridors is a huge red flag, signalling that Israel continues to deny the full potential of better ways to deliver more aid.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/mar/18/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-gaza-palestine-al-shifa-live-updates\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Israel-Gaza war", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war", "label": null}, {"term": "Israel", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel", "label": null}, {"term": "Hamas", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas", "label": null}, {"term": "Gaza", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza", "label": null}, {"term": "Middle East and north Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast", "label": null}, {"term": "Palestinian territories", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:01:25 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 15, 1, 25, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/mar/18/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-gaza-palestine-al-shifa-live-updates", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e88b4bfba0dc25c2e140837fd83b66fa1fa3e682/0_0_5760_3456/master/5760.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=eb31add87a4568d4e97048df563e599a"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e88b4bfba0dc25c2e140837fd83b66fa1fa3e682/0_0_5760_3456/master/5760.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2372d9942965e60571b949da164d10f6"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Martin Belam and Lili Bayer"}], "author": "Martin Belam and Lili Bayer", "author_detail": {"name": "Martin Belam and Lili Bayer"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T15:01:25Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 15, 1, 25, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Israel tells civilians to evacuate after taking control of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Israel tells civilians to evacuate after taking control of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/al-shifa-hospital-raid-gaza-palestine-israel-idf-hamas-terrorist-activity-claims"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/al-shifa-hospital-raid-gaza-palestine-israel-idf-hamas-terrorist-activity-claims", "summary": "<p>Casualties reported after raids on complex, where hundreds are reportedly sheltering and IDF claims is being used by Hamas</p><p>Israeli forces are in control of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, after an overnight raid on the medical complex, and have told thousands living nearby to evacuate towards the south of the Palestinian territory.</p><p>Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesperson, said early on Monday that troops were \u201cconducting a high-precision operation in limited areas of Shifa hospital based on \u2026 intelligence information indicating the use of the hospital by senior Hamas terrorists to command attacks\u201d.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/al-shifa-hospital-raid-gaza-palestine-israel-idf-hamas-terrorist-activity-claims\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Casualties reported after raids on complex, where hundreds are reportedly sheltering and IDF claims is being used by Hamas</p><p>Israeli forces are in control of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, after an overnight raid on the medical complex, and have told thousands living nearby to evacuate towards the south of the Palestinian territory.</p><p>Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesperson, said early on Monday that troops were \u201cconducting a high-precision operation in limited areas of Shifa hospital based on \u2026 intelligence information indicating the use of the hospital by senior Hamas terrorists to command attacks\u201d.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/al-shifa-hospital-raid-gaza-palestine-israel-idf-hamas-terrorist-activity-claims\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Israel-Gaza war", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war", "label": null}, {"term": "Gaza", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza", "label": null}, {"term": "Israel", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel", "label": null}, {"term": "Palestinian territories", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories", "label": null}, {"term": "Middle East and north Africa", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:22:39 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 10, 22, 39, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/al-shifa-hospital-raid-gaza-palestine-israel-idf-hamas-terrorist-activity-claims", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/de7cc81fb65ca922503ed9bcac23882ae4ddb794/0_56_2435_1462/master/2435.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=15a51b2db511253dd1bb8cd4eb7f48a0"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/de7cc81fb65ca922503ed9bcac23882ae4ddb794/0_56_2435_1462/master/2435.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b32c238b6384d8b6c6382f849f7f8c3d"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: AFP/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: AFP/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: AFP/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Jason Burke in Jerusalem and Helen Livingstone"}], "author": "Jason Burke in Jerusalem and Helen Livingstone", "author_detail": {"name": "Jason Burke in Jerusalem and Helen Livingstone"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T10:22:39Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 10, 22, 39, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Star wars: Sri Lanka\u2019s powerful astrologers split over auspicious dates", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Star wars: Sri Lanka\u2019s powerful astrologers split over auspicious dates"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/star-wars-sri-lankas-powerful-astrologers-split-over-auspicious-dates"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/star-wars-sri-lankas-powerful-astrologers-split-over-auspicious-dates", "summary": "<p>Group employed by government divided for first time over best date for new year rituals</p><p>Sri Lanka\u2019s government-backed traditional astrologers have failed to unanimously agree on the best date for new year rituals, with squabbling seers warning of \u201cdisaster\u201d and accusing rivals of misinterpreting the position of stars.</p><p>Astrologers are hugely influential figures consulted by the island\u2019s Buddhist and Hindu communities, and their advice for auspicious dates guides everything from marriages to business deals \u2013 and even national elections.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/star-wars-sri-lankas-powerful-astrologers-split-over-auspicious-dates\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Group employed by government divided for first time over best date for new year rituals</p><p>Sri Lanka\u2019s government-backed traditional astrologers have failed to unanimously agree on the best date for new year rituals, with squabbling seers warning of \u201cdisaster\u201d and accusing rivals of misinterpreting the position of stars.</p><p>Astrologers are hugely influential figures consulted by the island\u2019s Buddhist and Hindu communities, and their advice for auspicious dates guides everything from marriages to business deals \u2013 and even national elections.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/star-wars-sri-lankas-powerful-astrologers-split-over-auspicious-dates\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Sri Lanka", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/srilanka", "label": null}, {"term": "South and central Asia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:21:13 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 21, 13, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/star-wars-sri-lankas-powerful-astrologers-split-over-auspicious-dates", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e2a0975364e997d257420049246733bef94b98c8/0_628_7200_4320/master/7200.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=613894087ed89699a2027ee5a24f01b4"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e2a0975364e997d257420049246733bef94b98c8/0_628_7200_4320/master/7200.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=59186d65c073fdb30ed8f01fe42b9a1a"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Denys Bilytskyi/Alamy"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Denys Bilytskyi/Alamy"}], "credit": "Photograph: Denys Bilytskyi/Alamy", "authors": [{"name": "Staff and agencies in Colombo"}], "author": "Staff and agencies in Colombo", "author_detail": {"name": "Staff and agencies in Colombo"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T14:21:13Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 21, 13, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Global eradication of polio \u2018tantalisingly close\u2019 with UK urged to keep up funding", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Global eradication of polio \u2018tantalisingly close\u2019 with UK urged to keep up funding"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/16/global-eradication-of-polio-tantalisingly-close-with-uk-urged-to-keep-up-funding"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/16/global-eradication-of-polio-tantalisingly-close-with-uk-urged-to-keep-up-funding", "summary": "<p>After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and Afghanistan</p><p>The world is \u201ctantalisingly close\u201d to eradicating polio \u2013 with no confirmed cases of wild polio anywhere so far this year. But experts warn that vaccination efforts \u2013 and funding \u2013 must not falter if the world is to rid itself of a human infectious disease for the <a href=\"https://asm.org/articles/2020/march/disease-eradication-what-does-it-take-to-wipe-out\">second time in history</a>, after smallpox.</p><p>There have been no reported cases of wild polio infection in people for the last 19 weeks. <a href=\"https://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/weekly-polio-analyses-WPV-20240305.pdf\">Figures from the World Health Organization</a> reveal that the last confirmed cases were on the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan in October and September 2023 respectively; these are the last nations on Earth where polio is endemic.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/16/global-eradication-of-polio-tantalisingly-close-with-uk-urged-to-keep-up-funding\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and Afghanistan</p><p>The world is \u201ctantalisingly close\u201d to eradicating polio \u2013 with no confirmed cases of wild polio anywhere so far this year. But experts warn that vaccination efforts \u2013 and funding \u2013 must not falter if the world is to rid itself of a human infectious disease for the <a href=\"https://asm.org/articles/2020/march/disease-eradication-what-does-it-take-to-wipe-out\">second time in history</a>, after smallpox.</p><p>There have been no reported cases of wild polio infection in people for the last 19 weeks. <a href=\"https://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/weekly-polio-analyses-WPV-20240305.pdf\">Figures from the World Health Organization</a> reveal that the last confirmed cases were on the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan in October and September 2023 respectively; these are the last nations on Earth where polio is endemic.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/16/global-eradication-of-polio-tantalisingly-close-with-uk-urged-to-keep-up-funding\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Polio", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/polio", "label": null}, {"term": "Vaccines and immunisation", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/vaccines", "label": null}, {"term": "Pakistan", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/pakistan", "label": null}, {"term": "Afghanistan", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/afghanistan", "label": null}, {"term": "South and central Asia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}, {"term": "Health", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/health", "label": null}, {"term": "Society", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/society", "label": null}, {"term": "World Health Organization", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world-health-organization", "label": null}, {"term": "Andrew Mitchell", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/andrew-mitchell", "label": null}, {"term": "Medicine", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/education/medicine", "label": null}, {"term": "Infectious diseases", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/infectiousdiseases", "label": null}], "published": "Sat, 16 Mar 2024 13:00:05 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 13, 0, 5, 5, 76, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/16/global-eradication-of-polio-tantalisingly-close-with-uk-urged-to-keep-up-funding", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1a3984eefd2ee8040d12ef53c0df8490093863bd/0_182_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e650bad754713f346626eaed3c7e2133"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1a3984eefd2ee8040d12ef53c0df8490093863bd/0_182_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1e6d00f3c66eac533b4822f3a2691e90"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Bilawal Arbab/EPA"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Bilawal Arbab/EPA"}], "credit": "Photograph: Bilawal Arbab/EPA", "authors": [{"name": "Shaoni Bhattacharya"}], "author": "Shaoni Bhattacharya", "author_detail": {"name": "Shaoni Bhattacharya"}, "updated": "2024-03-16T13:00:05Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 13, 0, 5, 5, 76, 0]}, {"title": "India to hold world\u2019s biggest election in seven stages from April", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "India to hold world\u2019s biggest election in seven stages from April"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/india-to-hold-worlds-biggest-election-in-seven-stages-from-april"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/india-to-hold-worlds-biggest-election-in-seven-stages-from-april", "summary": "<p>Modi favourite to win third term in largest democratic exercise in history held across six weeks </p><p>India is to hold a national election in April it has been announced, in what will be the world\u2019s largest election with nearly a billion people eligible to vote.</p><p>Many consider Modi\u2019s re-election a <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/31/bjp-modi-india-general-election-2024\">foregone conclusion</a>, owing to both the premier\u2019s robust popularity a decade after taking office and a glaringly uneven playing field.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/india-to-hold-worlds-biggest-election-in-seven-stages-from-april\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Modi favourite to win third term in largest democratic exercise in history held across six weeks </p><p>India is to hold a national election in April it has been announced, in what will be the world\u2019s largest election with nearly a billion people eligible to vote.</p><p>Many consider Modi\u2019s re-election a <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/31/bjp-modi-india-general-election-2024\">foregone conclusion</a>, owing to both the premier\u2019s robust popularity a decade after taking office and a glaringly uneven playing field.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/india-to-hold-worlds-biggest-election-in-seven-stages-from-april\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "India", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/india", "label": null}, {"term": "Narendra Modi", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/narendra-modi", "label": null}, {"term": "South and central Asia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:18:28 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 12, 18, 28, 5, 76, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/india-to-hold-worlds-biggest-election-in-seven-stages-from-april", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0f5a51d2df6c2ab986590ac4d7090221ed865eb7/0_140_3543_2126/master/3543.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a5bf8c8214c2ffc8c435b20d77344507"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0f5a51d2df6c2ab986590ac4d7090221ed865eb7/0_140_3543_2126/master/3543.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2a81c6085b08b5a4bd41ec8ed8dc5fc1"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA"}], "credit": "Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA", "authors": [{"name": "Agence France-Presse in New Delhi"}], "author": "Agence France-Presse in New Delhi", "author_detail": {"name": "Agence France-Presse in New Delhi"}, "updated": "2024-03-16T12:18:28Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 12, 18, 28, 5, 76, 0]}, {"title": "Five killed in attack on Pakistan military post near Afghan border", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Five killed in attack on Pakistan military post near Afghan border"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/five-killed-in-attack-on-pakistan-military-post-near-afghan-border"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/five-killed-in-attack-on-pakistan-military-post-near-afghan-border", "summary": "<p>Unnamed militant group drove vehicle laden with explosives into post and detonated suicide bombs</p><p>Militants have attacked a military post in Pakistan near Afghanistan using a vehicle laden with explosives, killing five security force members, Pakistan\u2019s military said.</p><p>The incident in north-west Pakistan was carried out by six attackers, the military\u2019s media wing said in a statement, without naming the militant group responsible for the attack.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/five-killed-in-attack-on-pakistan-military-post-near-afghan-border\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Unnamed militant group drove vehicle laden with explosives into post and detonated suicide bombs</p><p>Militants have attacked a military post in Pakistan near Afghanistan using a vehicle laden with explosives, killing five security force members, Pakistan\u2019s military said.</p><p>The incident in north-west Pakistan was carried out by six attackers, the military\u2019s media wing said in a statement, without naming the militant group responsible for the attack.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/five-killed-in-attack-on-pakistan-military-post-near-afghan-border\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Pakistan", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/pakistan", "label": null}, {"term": "Afghanistan", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/afghanistan", "label": null}, {"term": "South and central Asia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Sat, 16 Mar 2024 10:39:04 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 10, 39, 4, 5, 76, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/16/five-killed-in-attack-on-pakistan-military-post-near-afghan-border", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5901d88c14b944fb3c7c543c9f0d7d5d268369a0/0_232_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b1fe462da865e7c42a55ffdbf729b1a9"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5901d88c14b944fb3c7c543c9f0d7d5d268369a0/0_232_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=443ab735da9c82b96f86641c4d16b390"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Caren Firouz/Reuters"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Caren Firouz/Reuters"}], "credit": "Photograph: Caren Firouz/Reuters", "authors": [{"name": "Reuters in Peshawar"}], "author": "Reuters in Peshawar", "author_detail": {"name": "Reuters in Peshawar"}, "updated": "2024-03-16T10:39:04Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 10, 39, 4, 5, 76, 0]}, {"title": "Narendra Modi\u2019s BJP given \u00a3570m under scheme allowing anonymous donations", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Narendra Modi\u2019s BJP given \u00a3570m under scheme allowing anonymous donations"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/narendra-modi-bjp-given-570m-under-scheme-allowing-anonymous-donations"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/narendra-modi-bjp-given-570m-under-scheme-allowing-anonymous-donations", "summary": "<p>Party of Indian prime minister was by far biggest beneficiary of electoral bonds, which were struck down as unconstitutional</p><p>India\u2019s election commission has published details of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of political donations, exposing how much prime minister Narendra Modi\u2019s party benefited from a controversial financing scheme.</p><p>According to the data that was released, Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) received more than 60bn rupees (\u00a3570m) in donations through a scheme known as electoral bonds, which the Modi government <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/india-caps-cash-donations-to-parties-in-landmark-reform\">introduced in 2017</a>.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/narendra-modi-bjp-given-570m-under-scheme-allowing-anonymous-donations\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Party of Indian prime minister was by far biggest beneficiary of electoral bonds, which were struck down as unconstitutional</p><p>India\u2019s election commission has published details of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of political donations, exposing how much prime minister Narendra Modi\u2019s party benefited from a controversial financing scheme.</p><p>According to the data that was released, Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) received more than 60bn rupees (\u00a3570m) in donations through a scheme known as electoral bonds, which the Modi government <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/01/india-caps-cash-donations-to-parties-in-landmark-reform\">introduced in 2017</a>.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/narendra-modi-bjp-given-570m-under-scheme-allowing-anonymous-donations\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "India", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/india", "label": null}, {"term": "South and central Asia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia", "label": null}, {"term": "Narendra Modi", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/narendra-modi", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:16:54 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 15, 13, 16, 54, 4, 75, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/narendra-modi-bjp-given-570m-under-scheme-allowing-anonymous-donations", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e9212c28d0989fe6848db278fa072ae4ceea9ed9/0_165_5017_3012/master/5017.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=710e88923a8eabec704867eeabc125aa"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e9212c28d0989fe6848db278fa072ae4ceea9ed9/0_165_5017_3012/master/5017.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b4cda9cf5664250a4d1055d498dd7ac8"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: AP"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: AP"}], "credit": "Photograph: AP", "authors": [{"name": "Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi"}], "author": "Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi", "author_detail": {"name": "Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi"}, "updated": "2024-03-15T13:16:54Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 15, 13, 16, 54, 4, 75, 0]}, {"title": "India blocks access to documentary about death of Sikh activist in Canada", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "India blocks access to documentary about death of Sikh activist in Canada"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/14/india-block-documentary-sikh-activist-canada"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/14/india-block-documentary-sikh-activist-canada", "summary": "<p>CBC aired an investigation into the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whose killing the Canadian government suspects India was behind</p><p>India has ordered prominent video-sharing platforms to block access to a new Canadian documentary probing the assassination of a prominent Sikh activist in Vancouver, in a move that highlights India\u2019s mounting frustration with the allegations its government was behind the high-profile killing.</p><p>The request <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/23/india-emergency-laws-to-ban-bbc-narendra-modi-documentary\">marks the second time</a> in just over a year that India has sought to block a documentary critical of the Indian government or its leader, Narendra Modi. In 2023, India used emergency laws to block the distribution of the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/14/india-block-documentary-sikh-activist-canada\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>CBC aired an investigation into the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whose killing the Canadian government suspects India was behind</p><p>India has ordered prominent video-sharing platforms to block access to a new Canadian documentary probing the assassination of a prominent Sikh activist in Vancouver, in a move that highlights India\u2019s mounting frustration with the allegations its government was behind the high-profile killing.</p><p>The request <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/23/india-emergency-laws-to-ban-bbc-narendra-modi-documentary\">marks the second time</a> in just over a year that India has sought to block a documentary critical of the Indian government or its leader, Narendra Modi. In 2023, India used emergency laws to block the distribution of the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/14/india-block-documentary-sikh-activist-canada\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Canada", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/canada", "label": null}, {"term": "India", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/india", "label": null}, {"term": "Americas", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas", "label": null}, {"term": "South and central Asia", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:02:59 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 14, 16, 2, 59, 3, 74, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/14/india-block-documentary-sikh-activist-canada", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f7404e7c2e0affd7cf4449841cd301834ab715c9/0_313_6500_3902/master/6500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=533fbbb5a2dcccafded326dd1e9f5499"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f7404e7c2e0affd7cf4449841cd301834ab715c9/0_313_6500_3902/master/6500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=920d3d9203589ba73b550ac51ebe20b4"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Ethan Cairns/EPA"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Ethan Cairns/EPA"}], "credit": "Photograph: Ethan Cairns/EPA", "authors": [{"name": "Leyland Cecco in Toronto"}], "author": "Leyland Cecco in Toronto", "author_detail": {"name": "Leyland Cecco in Toronto"}, "updated": "2024-03-14T16:02:59Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 14, 16, 2, 59, 3, 74, 0]}, {"title": "Rachel Reeves: Treasury will \u2018hardwire\u2019 growth into tax and spending decisions", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Rachel Reeves: Treasury will \u2018hardwire\u2019 growth into tax and spending decisions"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/18/treasury-growth-tax-spending-rachel-reeves-labour-election"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/18/treasury-growth-tax-spending-rachel-reeves-labour-election", "summary": "<p>Shadow chancellor to outline plans to shake up department after Labour election victory</p><p>The Treasury under a Labour government would \u201chardwire\u201d raising Britain\u2019s growth rate into its budget tax and spending decisions as part of plans to shake up Whitehall\u2019s most powerful department, Rachel Reeves is to announce.</p><p>The shadow chancellor will use a lecture in London on Tuesday to say that a decade of national renewal must start with \u201cday one\u201d reform after a Labour election victory to make growth more pivotal to the Treasury\u2019s work.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/18/treasury-growth-tax-spending-rachel-reeves-labour-election\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Shadow chancellor to outline plans to shake up department after Labour election victory</p><p>The Treasury under a Labour government would \u201chardwire\u201d raising Britain\u2019s growth rate into its budget tax and spending decisions as part of plans to shake up Whitehall\u2019s most powerful department, Rachel Reeves is to announce.</p><p>The shadow chancellor will use a lecture in London on Tuesday to say that a decade of national renewal must start with \u201cday one\u201d reform after a Labour election victory to make growth more pivotal to the Treasury\u2019s work.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/18/treasury-growth-tax-spending-rachel-reeves-labour-election\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Economics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics", "label": null}, {"term": "Economic growth (GDP)", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/economicgrowth", "label": null}, {"term": "Rachel Reeves", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rachel-reeves", "label": null}, {"term": "Business", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/business", "label": null}, {"term": "Economic policy", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/economy", "label": null}, {"term": "Labour", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour", "label": null}, {"term": "Politics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics", "label": null}, {"term": "UK news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:30:13 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 22, 30, 13, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/18/treasury-growth-tax-spending-rachel-reeves-labour-election", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9076a20e72c54caf377fbbed03b4d48bf2da3d7a/0_0_5441_3266/master/5441.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=909aebc217fdcb4112a082ab3254ce95"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9076a20e72c54caf377fbbed03b4d48bf2da3d7a/0_0_5441_3266/master/5441.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d44f572ae006fc073baadcf4c9b58828"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Larry Elliott"}], "author": "Larry Elliott", "author_detail": {"name": "Larry Elliott"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T22:30:13Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 22, 30, 13, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "MPs vote to throw out amendments to Rwanda deportation bill", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "MPs vote to throw out amendments to Rwanda deportation bill"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/mps-vote-to-throw-out-amendments-to-rwanda-deportation-bill"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/mps-vote-to-throw-out-amendments-to-rwanda-deportation-bill", "summary": "<p>All 10 amendments made by peers voted down, giving much-needed boost to beleaguered PM</p><p>Rishi Sunak\u2019s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda took a step forward on Monday night after MPs voted overwhelmingly to throw out a <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/04/lords-pass-five-amendments-to-rwanda-bill-in-heavy-defeat-for-rishi-sunak\">series of amendments</a> made to the Rwanda bill by the House of Lords.</p><p>MPs voted down all 10 amendments made by peers over the past few weeks to return the bill to the form in which it was initially passed by the Commons in January, giving a much-needed boost to the beleaguered prime minister.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/mps-vote-to-throw-out-amendments-to-rwanda-deportation-bill\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>All 10 amendments made by peers voted down, giving much-needed boost to beleaguered PM</p><p>Rishi Sunak\u2019s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda took a step forward on Monday night after MPs voted overwhelmingly to throw out a <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/04/lords-pass-five-amendments-to-rwanda-bill-in-heavy-defeat-for-rishi-sunak\">series of amendments</a> made to the Rwanda bill by the House of Lords.</p><p>MPs voted down all 10 amendments made by peers over the past few weeks to return the bill to the form in which it was initially passed by the Commons in January, giving a much-needed boost to the beleaguered prime minister.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/mps-vote-to-throw-out-amendments-to-rwanda-deportation-bill\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Immigration and asylum", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/immigration", "label": null}, {"term": "Rishi Sunak", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rishi-sunak", "label": null}, {"term": "Politics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics", "label": null}, {"term": "UK news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk", "label": null}, {"term": "Refugees", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/refugees", "label": null}, {"term": "House of Lords", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/lords", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:05:00 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 22, 5, 0, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/mps-vote-to-throw-out-amendments-to-rwanda-deportation-bill", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/71a69ad442f14500e3115d94fcf12ff70059aee9/0_182_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=94f37dbb1092d499b8bb72ac9c82df26"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/71a69ad442f14500e3115d94fcf12ff70059aee9/0_182_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=82ebd766d5b4fd65c01a09e752ac6a17"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Leon Neal/PA"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Leon Neal/PA"}], "credit": "Photograph: Leon Neal/PA", "authors": [{"name": "Kiran Stacey Political correspondent"}], "author": "Kiran Stacey Political correspondent", "author_detail": {"name": "Kiran Stacey Political correspondent"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T22:05:00Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 22, 5, 0, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "West Midlands PCC wins case to stop his powers being given to Tory mayor", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "West Midlands PCC wins case to stop his powers being given to Tory mayor"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/west-midlands-police-commissioner-wins-legal-challenge-over-power-transfer"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/west-midlands-police-commissioner-wins-legal-challenge-over-power-transfer", "summary": "<p>Home Office had planned to scrap the police commissioner role held by Labour\u2019s Simon Foster and give powers to mayor</p><p>The police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands has won a high court challenge against government plans to transfer his powers to the region\u2019s mayor.</p><p>Simon Foster, a Labour politician, took legal action against the Home Office\u2019s move to scrap his role in time for local elections in May.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/west-midlands-police-commissioner-wins-legal-challenge-over-power-transfer\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Home Office had planned to scrap the police commissioner role held by Labour\u2019s Simon Foster and give powers to mayor</p><p>The police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands has won a high court challenge against government plans to transfer his powers to the region\u2019s mayor.</p><p>Simon Foster, a Labour politician, took legal action against the Home Office\u2019s move to scrap his role in time for local elections in May.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/west-midlands-police-commissioner-wins-legal-challenge-over-power-transfer\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "West Midlands", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/west-midlands", "label": null}, {"term": "UK news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk", "label": null}, {"term": "Police and crime commissioners", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/police-and-crime-commissioners", "label": null}, {"term": "Police", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/police", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 21:34:17 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 21, 34, 17, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/18/west-midlands-police-commissioner-wins-legal-challenge-over-power-transfer", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4e365c800b853bb94e29ad870ff9461219972d9b/2526_613_4137_2482/master/4137.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=02f44350877e657c595a684a2fcc8531"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4e365c800b853bb94e29ad870ff9461219972d9b/2526_613_4137_2482/master/4137.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9df4d4521e30369d58ef7faeb7d580eb"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Handout"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Handout"}], "credit": "Photograph: Handout", "authors": [{"name": "PA Media"}], "author": "PA Media", "author_detail": {"name": "PA Media"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T21:34:17Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 21, 34, 17, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Sunak and ministers stoking division over UK\u2019s net zero target, warns Ed Miliband", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Sunak and ministers stoking division over UK\u2019s net zero target, warns Ed Miliband"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/sunak-and-ministers-stoking-division-over-uk-net-zero-target-warns-ed-miliband"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/sunak-and-ministers-stoking-division-over-uk-net-zero-target-warns-ed-miliband", "summary": "<p>Labour shadow energy minister will use speech to say Tory approach is also leading to higher bills</p><p>Ministers are stoking the fires of the culture wars over the UK\u2019s net zero target instead of addressing the urgency of the climate crisis, Ed Miliband will say.</p><p>The shadow energy secretary will make a pitch directly to Conservative voters who are concerned that the party has made major U-turns on cutting greenhouse gas emissions amid increasingly anti-green rhetoric.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/sunak-and-ministers-stoking-division-over-uk-net-zero-target-warns-ed-miliband\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Labour shadow energy minister will use speech to say Tory approach is also leading to higher bills</p><p>Ministers are stoking the fires of the culture wars over the UK\u2019s net zero target instead of addressing the urgency of the climate crisis, Ed Miliband will say.</p><p>The shadow energy secretary will make a pitch directly to Conservative voters who are concerned that the party has made major U-turns on cutting greenhouse gas emissions amid increasingly anti-green rhetoric.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/sunak-and-ministers-stoking-division-over-uk-net-zero-target-warns-ed-miliband\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Green politics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-politics", "label": null}, {"term": "Ed Miliband", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/edmiliband", "label": null}, {"term": "Conservatives", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives", "label": null}, {"term": "Labour", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour", "label": null}, {"term": "Environment", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment", "label": null}, {"term": "Climate crisis", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis", "label": null}, {"term": "Politics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics", "label": null}, {"term": "UK news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 21:00:11 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 21, 0, 11, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/18/sunak-and-ministers-stoking-division-over-uk-net-zero-target-warns-ed-miliband", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6c528729c67f67275405d16766952a9870c33a2e/46_1149_4162_2499/master/4162.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2ff4e2b67148b4afee29d72d1933ad62"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6c528729c67f67275405d16766952a9870c33a2e/46_1149_4162_2499/master/4162.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2eb40867348a6dc7b2c0c3ed4888f56c"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian"}], "credit": "Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian", "authors": [{"name": "Fiona Harvey"}], "author": "Fiona Harvey", "author_detail": {"name": "Fiona Harvey"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T21:00:11Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 21, 0, 11, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Barack Obama drops in on Rishi Sunak on London trip", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Barack Obama drops in on Rishi Sunak on London trip"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/barack-obama-rishi-sunak-downing-street-london-visit"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/barack-obama-rishi-sunak-downing-street-london-visit", "summary": "<p>Former US president understood to have discussed AI and other subjects with PM on informal \u2018courtesy\u2019 visit</p><p>Barack Obama has held talks with Rishi Sunak as the former US president paid a \u201ccourtesy visit\u201d to Downing Street during a trip to London.</p><p>The pair are understood to have discussed a range of subjects during an hour-long meeting, including one of the prime minister\u2019s favourite topics, artificial intelligence.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/barack-obama-rishi-sunak-downing-street-london-visit\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Former US president understood to have discussed AI and other subjects with PM on informal \u2018courtesy\u2019 visit</p><p>Barack Obama has held talks with Rishi Sunak as the former US president paid a \u201ccourtesy visit\u201d to Downing Street during a trip to London.</p><p>The pair are understood to have discussed a range of subjects during an hour-long meeting, including one of the prime minister\u2019s favourite topics, artificial intelligence.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/barack-obama-rishi-sunak-downing-street-london-visit\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Barack Obama", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/barack-obama", "label": null}, {"term": "Rishi Sunak", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rishi-sunak", "label": null}, {"term": "Politics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics", "label": null}, {"term": "UK news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:36:59 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 19, 36, 59, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/barack-obama-rishi-sunak-downing-street-london-visit", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b9aa16cf95258d0b3fb6429e6de994a14603eced/0_29_3469_2081/master/3469.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d19352717993f59980fe084c7700fb11"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b9aa16cf95258d0b3fb6429e6de994a14603eced/0_29_3469_2081/master/3469.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3d824bef25f127da22876645e3b5d06d"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP"}], "credit": "Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP", "authors": [{"name": "Ben Quinn Political correspondent"}], "author": "Ben Quinn Political correspondent", "author_detail": {"name": "Ben Quinn Political correspondent"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T19:36:59Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 19, 36, 59, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Sunak braces for backlash as smoking ban bill to be introduced in Commons", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Sunak braces for backlash as smoking ban bill to be introduced in Commons"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/18/sunak-braces-for-backlash-as-smoking-ban-bill-to-be-introduced-in-commons"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/18/sunak-braces-for-backlash-as-smoking-ban-bill-to-be-introduced-in-commons", "summary": "<p>Libertarian faction of Conservatives expected to stage a rebellion but measure has widespread support</p><p>Rishi Sunak\u2019s public health policy banning the next generation from being able to buy cigarettes is to be introduced in parliament this week, with officials braced for a backlash from Conservative rebels.</p><p>While the policy commands considerable support in Conservative ranks, the scale of an expected rebellion by libertarian Tories \u2013 whose ranks includeLiz Truss \u2013 has yet to become clear.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/18/sunak-braces-for-backlash-as-smoking-ban-bill-to-be-introduced-in-commons\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Libertarian faction of Conservatives expected to stage a rebellion but measure has widespread support</p><p>Rishi Sunak\u2019s public health policy banning the next generation from being able to buy cigarettes is to be introduced in parliament this week, with officials braced for a backlash from Conservative rebels.</p><p>While the policy commands considerable support in Conservative ranks, the scale of an expected rebellion by libertarian Tories \u2013 whose ranks includeLiz Truss \u2013 has yet to become clear.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/18/sunak-braces-for-backlash-as-smoking-ban-bill-to-be-introduced-in-commons\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Smoking", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/smoking", "label": null}, {"term": "Rishi Sunak", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rishi-sunak", "label": null}, {"term": "Health", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/health", "label": null}, {"term": "Conservatives", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives", "label": null}, {"term": "UK news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk", "label": null}, {"term": "Politics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics", "label": null}, {"term": "House of Commons", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/houseofcommons", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:23:33 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 19, 23, 33, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/18/sunak-braces-for-backlash-as-smoking-ban-bill-to-be-introduced-in-commons", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/952ec6cfa98f7696be75c0304a53ca83ec1eda2e/0_228_3710_2227/master/3710.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bd87785489addb3cc1b547271a740ead"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/952ec6cfa98f7696be75c0304a53ca83ec1eda2e/0_228_3710_2227/master/3710.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7fd689e51f66764ec0501bd35081cae6"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Jeff Chiu/AP"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Jeff Chiu/AP"}], "credit": "Photograph: Jeff Chiu/AP", "authors": [{"name": "Ben Quinn Political correspondent"}], "author": "Ben Quinn Political correspondent", "author_detail": {"name": "Ben Quinn Political correspondent"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T19:23:33Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 19, 23, 33, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "US foundation cancels RBG awards for Musk and Murdoch after backlash", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "US foundation cancels RBG awards for Musk and Murdoch after backlash"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/rbg-elon-musk-rupert-murdoch"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/rbg-elon-musk-rupert-murdoch", "summary": "<p>Dwight D Opperman Foundation had planned to give award named for late supreme court justice to Tesla chief and News Corp mogul </p><p>A foundation which stirred controversy by planning to give awards named for the late US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch said on Monday it had canceled the ceremony.</p><p>\u201cWhile we believe each of the honorees is worthy of our respect for their leadership and their notable contributions, the foundation has decided that the planned ceremony in April 2024 will be canceled,\u201d Julie Opperman, chair of the Dwight D Opperman Foundation, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1769825783533506704/photo/1\">said</a> in a statement.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/elon-musk\">Musk</a>, 52, the billionaire owner of SpaceX, Tesla and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, through which he has taken increasingly rightwing political stances;</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/media/rupert-murdoch\">Murdoch</a>, 93 and the rightwing media baron owner of Fox News;</p><p>Michael Milken, 77, a financier jailed on securities charges, <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/feb/18/donald-trump-democrats-nevada-bloomberg-bernie-sanders-joe-biden-amy-klobuchar-live-updates?page=with:block-5e4c462e8f08e13324745bd2\">pardoned</a> by Trump and now a philanthropist;</p><p>And Sylvester Stallone, 77, the star of films including the Rocky saga and the violent Rambo franchise.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/rbg-elon-musk-rupert-murdoch\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Dwight D Opperman Foundation had planned to give award named for late supreme court justice to Tesla chief and News Corp mogul </p><p>A foundation which stirred controversy by planning to give awards named for the late US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch said on Monday it had canceled the ceremony.</p><p>\u201cWhile we believe each of the honorees is worthy of our respect for their leadership and their notable contributions, the foundation has decided that the planned ceremony in April 2024 will be canceled,\u201d Julie Opperman, chair of the Dwight D Opperman Foundation, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1769825783533506704/photo/1\">said</a> in a statement.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/elon-musk\">Musk</a>, 52, the billionaire owner of SpaceX, Tesla and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, through which he has taken increasingly rightwing political stances;</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/media/rupert-murdoch\">Murdoch</a>, 93 and the rightwing media baron owner of Fox News;</p><p>Michael Milken, 77, a financier jailed on securities charges, <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/feb/18/donald-trump-democrats-nevada-bloomberg-bernie-sanders-joe-biden-amy-klobuchar-live-updates?page=with:block-5e4c462e8f08e13324745bd2\">pardoned</a> by Trump and now a philanthropist;</p><p>And Sylvester Stallone, 77, the star of films including the Rocky saga and the violent Rambo franchise.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/rbg-elon-musk-rupert-murdoch\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ruth-bader-ginsberg", "label": null}, {"term": "Elon Musk", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/elon-musk", "label": null}, {"term": "Rupert Murdoch", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/media/rupert-murdoch", "label": null}, {"term": "US politics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics", "label": null}, {"term": "US news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news", "label": null}, {"term": "US supreme court", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/law/us-supreme-court", "label": null}, {"term": "World news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/world", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:04:25 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 23, 4, 25, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/rbg-elon-musk-rupert-murdoch", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6618aa8e6382d3edc792550b03edc5796ac29db2/20_12_1465_879/master/1465.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9effdb3ab179de7d701175a144fd412c"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6618aa8e6382d3edc792550b03edc5796ac29db2/20_12_1465_879/master/1465.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7bee8be61ef4ac6d1ad21cc73e60ab33"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Composite: Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Composite: Getty Images"}], "credit": "Composite: Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Martin Pengelly in Washington"}], "author": "Martin Pengelly in Washington", "author_detail": {"name": "Martin Pengelly in Washington"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T23:04:25Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 23, 4, 25, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Teenage twin sisters stabbed, one fatally, at New York deli", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Teenage twin sisters stabbed, one fatally, at New York deli"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/twin-sisters-stabbed-new-york-brooklyn-deli"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/twin-sisters-stabbed-new-york-brooklyn-deli", "summary": "<p>Sanyia Spain, 19, said that attacker made advances towards her and her sister Samyia and violently retaliated when they declined</p><p>Early Sunday morning in New York\u2019s Park Slope neighborhood, 19-year-old twins Samyia and Sanyia Spain were stabbed by an unknown assailant following an altercation. The sisters were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist hospital, where Samyia died and Sanyia was released after being treated for her injuries.</p><p>Sanyia said in an interview with the New York Daily News that the attacker made advances towards both girls, and violently retaliated when they declined. The teens were with a group of friends and relatives inside a bodega moments before the stabbings occurred.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/twin-sisters-stabbed-new-york-brooklyn-deli\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Sanyia Spain, 19, said that attacker made advances towards her and her sister Samyia and violently retaliated when they declined</p><p>Early Sunday morning in New York\u2019s Park Slope neighborhood, 19-year-old twins Samyia and Sanyia Spain were stabbed by an unknown assailant following an altercation. The sisters were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist hospital, where Samyia died and Sanyia was released after being treated for her injuries.</p><p>Sanyia said in an interview with the New York Daily News that the attacker made advances towards both girls, and violently retaliated when they declined. The teens were with a group of friends and relatives inside a bodega moments before the stabbings occurred.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/twin-sisters-stabbed-new-york-brooklyn-deli\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "New York", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york", "label": null}, {"term": "US crime", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-crime", "label": null}, {"term": "US news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:42:14 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 22, 42, 14, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/twin-sisters-stabbed-new-york-brooklyn-deli", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/900f933af20eedf9a430f10167e0d76671cadc47/0_0_8666_5203/master/8666.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cf3db49f74b6734a0e5ae80217342ae2"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/900f933af20eedf9a430f10167e0d76671cadc47/0_0_8666_5203/master/8666.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=515fb9cadd4c6a6f3c0838f657312a1e"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: kali9/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: kali9/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: kali9/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "Adria R Walker"}], "author": "Adria R Walker", "author_detail": {"name": "Adria R Walker"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T22:42:14Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 22, 42, 14, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Nearly 130,000 children exposed to lead-tainted drinking water in Chicago", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Nearly 130,000 children exposed to lead-tainted drinking water in Chicago"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/chicago-children-lead-drinking-water-study"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/chicago-children-lead-drinking-water-study", "summary": "<p>Study says the 19% of kids using unfiltered tap water have about twice as much lead in their blood as they would otherwise</p><p>About 129,000 Chicago children under the age of six are exposed to poisonous lead in their household drinking water because of lead pipes, according to a study published on Monday.</p><p>The study used artificial intelligence to analyse 38,000 home water tests conducted for the city of Chicago, along with neighborhood demographics, state blood samples and numerous other factors.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/chicago-children-lead-drinking-water-study\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Study says the 19% of kids using unfiltered tap water have about twice as much lead in their blood as they would otherwise</p><p>About 129,000 Chicago children under the age of six are exposed to poisonous lead in their household drinking water because of lead pipes, according to a study published on Monday.</p><p>The study used artificial intelligence to analyse 38,000 home water tests conducted for the city of Chicago, along with neighborhood demographics, state blood samples and numerous other factors.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/chicago-children-lead-drinking-water-study\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Chicago", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/chicago", "label": null}, {"term": "Illinois", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/illinois", "label": null}, {"term": "Children", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/children", "label": null}, {"term": "Water", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/water", "label": null}, {"term": "Health", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/health", "label": null}, {"term": "Race", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/race", "label": null}, {"term": "US news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news", "label": null}, {"term": "Environment", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:18:05 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 22, 18, 5, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/chicago-children-lead-drinking-water-study", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/93bddb325f9dec5c38da3b8a4df7974a6ff8408e/188_240_3532_2120/master/3532.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=43948ef512d68b1f776411841c2e156b"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/93bddb325f9dec5c38da3b8a4df7974a6ff8408e/188_240_3532_2120/master/3532.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=93fbf932771f83aa2e9e2540bec9708c"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Jamie Kelter Davis/The Guardian"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Jamie Kelter Davis/The Guardian"}], "credit": "Photograph: Jamie Kelter Davis/The Guardian", "authors": [{"name": "Erin McCormick"}], "author": "Erin McCormick", "author_detail": {"name": "Erin McCormick"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T22:18:05Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 22, 18, 5, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Trump unable to make $454m bond in civil fraud case, say his lawyers \u2013 as it happened", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Trump unable to make $454m bond in civil fraud case, say his lawyers \u2013 as it happened"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/mar/18/government-shutdown-biden-trump-election-latest-updates"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/mar/18/government-shutdown-biden-trump-election-latest-updates", "summary": "<p>This live blog is now closed. For more on Trump\u2019s bond efforts, you can read our full report:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/trump-cant-post-bond-fraud-case\">Trump lawyers say he can\u2019t post bond covering $454m civil fraud judgment</a></li></ul><p><strong>Donald Trump</strong>\u2019s lawyers have asked the appeals court to delay posting the bond to cover the $454m fraud judgment against him until his appeal of the case is over.</p><p>The former president\u2019s lawyers filed notices of appeal late last month challenging Judge Arthur Engoron\u2019s 16 February verdict that he lied about his wealth as he grew the real estate empire that launched him to stardom and the presidency.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/mar/18/government-shutdown-biden-trump-election-latest-updates\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>This live blog is now closed. For more on Trump\u2019s bond efforts, you can read our full report:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/trump-cant-post-bond-fraud-case\">Trump lawyers say he can\u2019t post bond covering $454m civil fraud judgment</a></li></ul><p><strong>Donald Trump</strong>\u2019s lawyers have asked the appeals court to delay posting the bond to cover the $454m fraud judgment against him until his appeal of the case is over.</p><p>The former president\u2019s lawyers filed notices of appeal late last month challenging Judge Arthur Engoron\u2019s 16 February verdict that he lied about his wealth as he grew the real estate empire that launched him to stardom and the presidency.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/mar/18/government-shutdown-biden-trump-election-latest-updates\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "US Congress", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-congress", "label": null}, {"term": "US Senate", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-senate", "label": null}, {"term": "House of Representatives", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/house-of-representatives", "label": null}, {"term": "US news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news", "label": null}, {"term": "US politics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics", "label": null}, {"term": "Joe Biden", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/joebiden", "label": null}, {"term": "Donald Trump", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump", "label": null}, {"term": "US elections 2024", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-elections-2024", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:00:19 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 20, 0, 19, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/mar/18/government-shutdown-biden-trump-election-latest-updates", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/28301d9896fb75746c93ac992e479a0a9ae2e749/424_499_3470_2082/master/3470.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c0a958ba95f2fd6736674eca5d518b9f"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/28301d9896fb75746c93ac992e479a0a9ae2e749/424_499_3470_2082/master/3470.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=27a463a832c3f113385c43f611f5f524"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images"}], "credit": "Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images", "authors": [{"name": "L\u00e9onie Chao-Fong"}], "author": "L\u00e9onie Chao-Fong", "author_detail": {"name": "L\u00e9onie Chao-Fong"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T20:00:19Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 20, 0, 19, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Supreme court rules insurrection clause bars local official despite sparing Trump", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "Supreme court rules insurrection clause bars local official despite sparing Trump"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/supreme-court-rejects-new-mexico-appeal"}], "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/supreme-court-rejects-new-mexico-appeal", "summary": "<p>Decision on New Mexico election official\u2019s 14th amendment appeal comes two weeks after court said ex-president could stay on ballot</p><p>The US supreme court declined an appeal on Monday from a former New Mexico county commissioner who was removed from office for his role in the January 6 attack, leaving intact a significant decision that enforced a constitutional ban on insurrectionists holding office.</p><p>The commissioner, <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/17/new-mexico-insurrectionist-fourteenth-amendment\">Couy Griffin</a>, is <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/06/jan-6-new-mexico-couy-griffin-first-politician-removed\">the only US public official thus far </a>who has been removed from office for his role in the January 6 attack. Citing language in the 14th amendment that bars insurrectionists from holding office, a New Mexico judge removed him in 2022 after he was convicted of trespassing on the Capitol grounds. The New Mexico supreme court <a href=\"https://nmpoliticalreport.com/quick-reads/state-supreme-court-dismisses-couy-griffin-appeal-over-removal-from-office/\">dismissed</a> an initial appeal in the state.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/supreme-court-rejects-new-mexico-appeal\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Decision on New Mexico election official\u2019s 14th amendment appeal comes two weeks after court said ex-president could stay on ballot</p><p>The US supreme court declined an appeal on Monday from a former New Mexico county commissioner who was removed from office for his role in the January 6 attack, leaving intact a significant decision that enforced a constitutional ban on insurrectionists holding office.</p><p>The commissioner, <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/17/new-mexico-insurrectionist-fourteenth-amendment\">Couy Griffin</a>, is <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/06/jan-6-new-mexico-couy-griffin-first-politician-removed\">the only US public official thus far </a>who has been removed from office for his role in the January 6 attack. Citing language in the 14th amendment that bars insurrectionists from holding office, a New Mexico judge removed him in 2022 after he was convicted of trespassing on the Capitol grounds. The New Mexico supreme court <a href=\"https://nmpoliticalreport.com/quick-reads/state-supreme-court-dismisses-couy-griffin-appeal-over-removal-from-office/\">dismissed</a> an initial appeal in the state.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/supreme-court-rejects-new-mexico-appeal\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "US Capitol attack", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-capitol-breach", "label": null}, {"term": "New Mexico", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/newmexico", "label": null}, {"term": "US news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news", "label": null}, {"term": "US politics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:30:07 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 30, 7, 0, 78, 0], "id": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/supreme-court-rejects-new-mexico-appeal", "guidislink": false, "media_content": [{"width": "140", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b86c75bf5deb266202e97542dcff11e4d594d477/0_161_2603_1562/master/2603.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5c78d43e59893bd3d247cd2ff0441c82"}, {"width": "460", "url": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b86c75bf5deb266202e97542dcff11e4d594d477/0_161_2603_1562/master/2603.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a73265fe912e3635edfe276dcadcc19e"}], "media_credit": [{"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP"}, {"scheme": "urn:ebu", "content": "Photograph: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP"}], "credit": "Photograph: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP", "authors": [{"name": "Sam Levine in New York"}], "author": "Sam Levine in New York", "author_detail": {"name": "Sam Levine in New York"}, "updated": "2024-03-18T18:30:07Z", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 30, 7, 0, 78, 0]}, {"title": "Arizona county fears \u2018homelessness on steroids\u2019 as migrant shelter funds end", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, 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north from the border cities of Nogales, Douglas and Lukeville.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/arizona-migrant-shelter-funds-homeless\">Continue reading...</a>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/rss", "value": "<p>Additional federal funding for shelter has been caught in broader political battles about illegal migration and government spending</p><p>An Arizona migrant shelter that has housed thousands of asylum seekers plans to halt most operations in two weeks when funding from Washington runs out, a problem for towns along the border where officials fear a surge in homelessness and extra costs.</p><p>Arizona\u2019s Pima county, which borders Mexico, has said that at the end of the month its contracts must stop with Tucson\u2019s Casa Alitas shelter and services that transport migrants north from the border cities of Nogales, Douglas and Lukeville.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/arizona-migrant-shelter-funds-homeless\">Continue reading...</a>"}, "tags": [{"term": "Arizona", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/arizona", "label": null}, {"term": "US immigration", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/usimmigration", "label": null}, {"term": "US-Mexico border", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-mexico-border", "label": null}, {"term": "US news", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news", "label": null}, {"term": "US politics", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics", "label": null}, {"term": "Biden administration", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/biden-administration", "label": null}, {"term": "Republicans", "scheme": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans", "label": null}], "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:50:14 GMT", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 17, 50, 14, 0, 78, 0], "id": 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{"entries": [{"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677798", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/03/putins-nuclear-theatrics/677798/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p><small><i>This is an edition of </i>The Atlantic<i> Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. </i><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/atlantic-daily/?utm_source=feed\"><i>Sign up for it here.</i></a></small></p><p>Last spring, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would station nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. Evidence suggests that this move is imminent, but it is strategically meaningless.</p><p>First, here are four new stories from <i>The Atlantic</i>:</p><ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/oregon-drug-decriminalization-failed/677678/?utm_source=feed\">Why Oregon\u2019s drug decriminalization failed</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/03/dna-tests-incest/677791/?utm_source=feed\">DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest.</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/israel-gaza-war-idf/677790/?utm_source=feed\">Is the destruction of Gaza making Israel any safer?</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/cj-rice-philadelphia-exonerated/677787/?utm_source=feed\">Jake Tapper: Finally, justice for C. J. Rice</a></li>\n</ul><hr /><p><strong>Cold War Games</strong></p><p>Last week, <i>Foreign Policy</i> <a href=\"https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/14/russia-nuclear-weapons-belarus-putin/\">reported</a> that Putin was in the process of making good on his <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-russia-positions-nuclear-bombs-belarus-warning-west-2023-06-16/#:~:text=June%2016%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20President,a%20strategic%20defeat%20on%20Russia.\">announcement</a> from last spring to station Russian nuclear arms in Belarus, thus putting Russia\u2019s nuclear-strike forces that much closer to both Ukraine and NATO. <i>Foreign Policy</i> attributed the news to \u201cWestern officials,\u201d but so far, only Lithuania\u2019s defense minister has offered a public confirmation. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-belarus-nuclear-weapons-shipments-lukashenko-poland-a035933e0c4baa0015e2ef2c1f5d9b1a\">claimed</a> in December that weapons had arrived in his country, but no public evidence confirmed that assertion, and so far, no Western governments or intelligence services have commented on this news.</p><p>What intelligence analysts are likely seeing at a base they\u2019ve been <a href=\"https://fas.org/publication/russian-nuclear-weapons-deployment-plans-in-belarus-is-there-visual-confirmation/\">watching</a> in the Belarusian town of Asipovichy, however, are the kinds of preparations one might expect when nuclear weapons are on the move. Nuclear warheads cannot just be stashed in an armory; their presence requires <a href=\"https://fas.org/publication/depot-in-belarus-shows-new-upgrades-possibly-for-russian-nuclear-warhead-storage/\">special infrastructure measures</a> (fences, guard units, and other signs) that are relatively easy to spot.</p><p>If this news is confirmed\u2014and it is certainly possible it will be\u2014how much would such a move change the situation in Europe, and especially Russia\u2019s danger to the North Atlantic Alliance? And why would Putin do this at all?</p><p>The answer to the first question, as <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/05/what-happens-if-russia-stashes-nukes-in-belarus/674221/?utm_source=feed\">I wrote last spring</a>, is that moving short-range nuclear missiles means virtually nothing as a military issue. Right now Russia can hit anything it wants in Europe or North America without shuffling around a single weapon. The Kremlin has options to attack NATO bases with small weapons launched over a matter of a few hundred miles, or it could destroy New York and Washington with city-killing warheads launched from the heart of Russia. (The U.S. and NATO have the same options against Russia, and the same kinds of weapons.) As <a href=\"https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/rose-gottemoeller\">Rose Gottemoeller</a>, the former deputy secretary-general of NATO, told <i>Foreign Policy</i>, moving Russian nuclear arms into Belarus \u201cdoes not change the threat environment at all.\u201d</p><p>This may seem counterintuitive: How can moving nuclear weapons closer to NATO have so little effect on the overall threat to the West? In purely military terms, the answer lies in the nature of nuclear weapons and the systems Russia has deployed for years in the region.</p><p>Nuclear weapons are not merely super-artillery with better range and more destructive power. Mounted on short-range missiles, it doesn\u2019t matter where they begin their journey; the target nation will see them only after launch and have no chance of evading what is about to happen in only a few minutes. A missile from Russia or a missile from Belarus makes no difference; Russia <i>already</i> borders Ukraine and NATO, and moving some short-range missiles further west into another nation that shares the same borders is, in a strictly military sense, meaningless.</p><p>More to the point, no matter where those launches come from, they can happen only with Putin\u2019s finger on the trigger in Moscow. If Russia has placed nuclear arms in Belarus, it confirms only that Belarus really is one of Putin\u2019s imperial holdings, and that Lukashenko is little more than a Kremlin subcontractor whose power is mostly limited to abusing Belarusians. (Consider the fate of the mutinous Russian military contractor Yevgeny Prigozhin, who rebelled against Putin and then apparently relied on <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/26/europe/lukashenko-warned-prigozhin-twice-intl-hnk/index.html\">Lukashenko\u2019s word</a> in a deal for safe passage in the summer of 2023. He was later <a href=\"https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/who-killed-yevgeny-prigozhin\">assassinated</a> anyway when Putin\u2019s <a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putin-patrushev-plan-prigozhin-assassination-428d5ed8\">regime</a> blew Prigozhin from the sky as he flew over Russia, according to U.S. intelligence.)</p><p>Besides, if Putin means to start and fight (and die in) a nuclear war, he needs nothing from Lukashenko, and he gains nothing from moving some of his nuclear arsenal to Belarus. If anything, the Kremlin is buying itself some extra security and transportation headaches by moving nukes around\u2014and doing so under the prying eyes of multiple Western intelligence agencies. It\u2019s not a smart play, but neither was the decision to mount a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>Why, then, is Putin doing this?</p><p>Putin is a product both of the Soviet political system in which he grew up and the Cold War that ended in the defeat of his beloved U.S.S.R. He is counting on anything involving the phrase <i>nuclear weapons</i> to provoke sweaty teeth-clenching in the West, because that\u2019s how it was done in the Bad Old Days. During the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union used nuclear weapons to signal seriousness and commitment. (In 1973, for example, the Nixon administration <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/10/10/yom-kippur-war-defcon-nuclear/\">increased</a> America\u2019s nuclear-alert status to warn the Kremlin off sending Soviet troops to intervene in the Yom Kippur War.)</p><p>And because Putin is not a particularly insightful strategist, he probably believes that deploying short-range missiles in Belarus will serve as a kind of Jedi hand-wave that will intimidate the West and make Russia seem strong and willing to take risks. But he is drawing the wrong lessons from the Cold War: The U.S. positioned nuclear weapons in allied nations far forward in Western Europe not only to emphasize the shared risks of the alliance but also because advancing Soviet forces would place NATO in a use-or-lose nuclear dilemma. Putting nuclear weapons in the path of a Soviet invasion was a deterrent strategy meant to warn Moscow that Western commanders, facing rapid defeat, might have to launch before being overrun.</p><p>No one, however, is going to invade Belarus anytime soon. No matter what happens in Ukraine, Russia\u2019s weapons will rot in their bunkers in Asipovichy unless Putin decides to use them. And if he makes <i>that</i> decision, then he\u2014and the world\u2014will have bigger issues to deal with than whether Alexander Lukashenko is bravely joining the defense of the Russian Motherland. (Lukashenko <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/lukashenko-i-have-veto-over-use-russian-nuclear-weapons-belarus-2023-07-06/\">claims</a> he has a veto over the use of the Russian weapons. Fat chance.) At that point, Putin will have chosen national (and personal) suicide, and once again, some nuclear missiles in Belarus aren\u2019t going to matter that much. But Putin and his circle\u2014many of whom lived at least part-time in the West <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/us/kremlin-kids-in-the-west-invs/index.html\">with their families</a> before sanctions and travel bans were imposed\u2014almost certainly fear that outcome as much as anyone else does. (Even many of the stoic Soviet generals, it turns out, were <a href=\"https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb285/index.htm\">riven by such fears</a>, as any rational human being would be.)</p><p>I was one of the people who two years ago <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/putin-war-nato-intervention/627092/?utm_source=feed\">cautioned</a> the West against doing anything that would allow Putin to <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/russia-putin-nuclear-escalation-ukraine-war/672082/?utm_source=feed\">escalate his way out</a> of his disastrous bungles and string of defeats in Ukraine. A nuclear giant fighting a neighbor on the border of a nuclear-armed alliance is inherently dangerous, even if no one wants a wider war. But where this Belarus nuclear caper is concerned, the U.S. and NATO should undertake two clear responses: First, they should roll their eyes at Putin\u2019s clumsy nuclear theatrics. Second, they should step up aid to Ukraine.</p><p><b>Related:</b></p><ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/putin-successor-russia-election/677776/?utm_source=feed\">Putin\u2019s rabble of \u201cthin-necked henchmen\u201d</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/russia-2024-rigged-election/677717/?utm_source=feed\">What\u2019s happening in Russia is not an election.</a></li>\n</ul><hr /><p><b>Today\u2019s News</b></p><ol>\n\t<li>Donald Trump and his co-defendants <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/trump-464-million-dollar-bond/index.html\">could not make the $464 million bond</a> in their New York civil fraud case after failing to find an insurance company that would underwrite the bond, according to Trump\u2019s lawyers.</li>\n\t<li>Putin <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/russia-election-putin-2024-updates-ebdaae1bf12b44343b88ba471f9f0cb0\">won his fifth term</a> in an election that was widely denounced for having an undemocratic process; he will lead Russia for another six years.</li>\n\t<li>The Biden administration finalized a <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/climate/biden-administration-bans-asbestos.html\">ban on the last type of asbestos</a> that is still known to be used in some roofing materials, textiles, cement, and automotive parts in the United States. The ban set a phaseout timeline for usage in manufacturing that will take more than a decade.</li>\n</ol><hr /><p><strong>Evening Read</strong></p><figure><img alt=\"Pines in a forest\" height=\"3209\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/img/mt/2024/03/GettyImages_120087496/original.jpg\" width=\"4813\" />\n<figcaption class=\"caption\">Carol M. Highsmith / Buyenlarge / Getty</figcaption>\n</figure><p>Scientists Are Moving Forests North</p><p><i>By John Tibbetts</i></p><blockquote>\n<p>On a brisk September morning, Brian Palik\u2019s footfalls land quietly on a path in flickering light, beneath a red-pine canopy in Minnesota\u2019s iconic Northwoods. A mature red pine, also called Norway pine, is a tall, straight overstory tree that thrives in cold winters and cool summers. It\u2019s the official Minnesota state tree and a valued target of its timber industry.</p>\n\n<p>But red pine\u2019s days of dominance here could fade.</p>\n</blockquote><p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/03/assisted-migration-forests-climate-change/677782/?utm_source=feed\">Read the full article.</a></p><p><b>More From <em>The Atlantic</em></b></p><ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/caitlin-clark-women-basketball/677694/?utm_source=feed\">What Caitlin Clark\u2019s fans are missing</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/03/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-carnival-review/677789/?utm_source=feed\">Kanye\u2019s creepy comeback</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/sonia-sotomayor-should-retire/677764/?utm_source=feed\">Josh Barro: Sonia Sotomayor should retire now.</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/american-satellites-russia-ukraine-war/677775/?utm_source=feed\">A suspicious pattern alarming the Ukrainian military</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/musk-zuckerberg-altman-drama-kings-tech/677778/?utm_source=feed\">The drama kings of tech</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/joe-biden-unrequited-love-american-workers/677777/?utm_source=feed\">Why Biden\u2019s pro-worker stance isn\u2019t working</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/trump-second-term-civil-rights/677783/?utm_source=feed\">\u201cAll we must do is survive four years.\u201d</a></li>\n</ul><hr /><p><b>Culture Break</b></p><figure><img alt=\"A briefcase that doubles as a book\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/newsletters/2024/03/culture_3_18/original.jpg\" width=\"2000\" />\n<figcaption class=\"caption\">Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty.</figcaption>\n</figure><p><b>Read. </b>Hwang Bo-reum\u2019s debut novel, <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9781639732425\"><i>Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop</i></a>, follows a character who <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/hyunam-dong-bookshop-hwang-boreum-novel-review/677768/?utm_source=feed\">quits her corporate job</a> to open a bookstore\u2014only to discover that resisting the culture of work takes work too.</p><p><b>Try this tip. </b><i>Atlantic</i> staff writer Charlie Warzel recently met a friend who gave him a key piece of advice on the <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/03/the-smart-way-to-order-good-wine/677780/?utm_source=feed\">smart way to order good wine</a> at a restaurant.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/free-daily-crossword-puzzle/?utm_source=feed\">Play our daily crossword.</a></p><hr /><p><b>P.S.</b></p><p>Speaking of nuclear weapons\u2014and I wish we weren\u2019t\u2014it\u2019s important to understand how the Cold War shaped the arms race and produced the nuclear systems and strategies that are still with us today. I will immodestly suggest taking a look at the new <a href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81614129\">Netflix documentary series</a> <i>Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War</i>.<i> </i>I say \u201cimmodestly\u201d because I\u2019m in most of the episodes; in my previous life, I was a professor at the Naval War College, and I\u2019ve written books about the Cold War, Russia, and nuclear weapons. (And unlike in my Emmy-snubbed <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/05/succession-america-decides-tom-nichols/674060/?utm_source=feed\">star turn in <i>Succession</i></a>, I actually speak in <i>Turning Point</i>.) The series has several experts and former policy makers in it, and some fascinating archival footage.</p><p>Those of us who participated would probably disagree here and there on some of the points in the series, but that\u2019s part of what makes it worth watching, especially if you pair it with a good general history of the Cold War. I would suggest something by John Gaddis or Odd Arne Westad, among others, but on nuclear issues, there\u2019s no better and more readable history than John Newhouse\u2019s <i>War and Peace in the Nuclear Age</i>, which was the companion volume to a <a href=\"https://openvault.wgbh.org/collections/war_peace/interviews\">PBS series</a> many years ago. It\u2019s out of print now, but used copies are still available online.</p><p>\u2014 Tom</p><hr /><p><i>Stephanie Bai contributed to this newsletter.</i></p><p><em><a href=\"https://link.theatlantic.com/click/29767897.0/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlYXRsYW50aWMuY29tL25ld3NsZXR0ZXJzLz91dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249YXRsYW50aWMtZGFpbHktbmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fY29udGVudD0yMDIyMTEyMQ/61813432e16c7128e42f4628B52865c35\">Explore all of our newsletters here.</a></em></p><p><em>When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting </em>The Atlantic<em>.</em></p>"}], "summary": "The Kremlin continues its clumsy nuclear games with threats to send Russian weapons to Belarus.", "authors": [{"name": "Tom Nichols", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/tom-nichols/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Tom Nichols", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/tom-nichols/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/tom-nichols/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Tom Nichols", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/QrZOgubL6VE1SO8cOh0ZrPzuxCI=/0x52:1880x1109/media/img/mt/2024/03/GettyImages_1238613411/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Anadolu / Getty"}], "credit": "Anadolu / Getty", "title": "Putin\u2019s Nuclear Theatrics", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Putin\u2019s Nuclear Theatrics"}, "published": "2024-03-18T18:19:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 22, 19, 0, 0, 78, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T18:22:08-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 22, 22, 8, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "The Kremlin continues its clumsy nuclear games with threats to send Russian weapons to Belarus."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/03/putins-nuclear-theatrics/677798/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677795", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/xai-grok-open-source-ai/677795/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p>Yesterday afternoon, Elon Musk fired the latest shot in his feud with OpenAI: His new AI venture, xAI, now allows anyone to download and use the computer code for its flagship software. No fees, no restrictions, just <a href=\"https://x.ai/blog/grok-os\">Grok</a>, a large language model that Musk has positioned against OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4, the model powering the most advanced version of ChatGPT.</p><p></p><p>Sharing Grok\u2019s code is a thinly veiled provocation. Musk was one of OpenAI\u2019s original backers. He left in 2018 and recently sued for breach of contract, arguing that the start-up and its CEO, Sam Altman, have betrayed the organization\u2019s founding principles in pursuit of profit, transforming a utopian vision of technology that <a href=\"https://openai.com/charter\">\u201cbenefits all of humanity\u201d</a> into yet another opaque corporation. Musk has spent the past few weeks <a href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1765409615070601417\">calling</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1769586942641951213\">the secretive firm</a> \u201c<a href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1765387202953937224/photo/1\">ClosedAI</a>.\u201d</p><p></p><p>It\u2019s a mediocre zinger at best, but he does have a point. OpenAI does not share much about its inner workings, it added a <a href=\"https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp\">\u201ccapped-profit\u201d subsidiary</a> in 2019 that expanded the company\u2019s remit beyond the public interest, and it\u2019s valued at <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-valued-80-billion-after-deal-nyt-reports-2024-02-16/#:~:text=Feb%2016%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20Microsoft,with%20knowledge%20of%20the%20deal.\">$80 billion</a> or more. Meanwhile, more and more AI competitors are freely distributing their products\u2019 code. <a href=\"https://llama.meta.com/\">Meta</a>, <a href=\"https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models/\">Google</a>, <a href=\"https://huggingface.co/blog/aws-partnership\">Amazon</a>, <a href=\"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-mistral-ai-announce-new-partnership-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-and-introduce-mistral-large-first-on-azure/\">Microsoft</a>, and <a href=\"https://venturebeat.com/ai/apple-releases-mgie-a-revolutionary-ai-model-for-instruction-based-image-editing/\">Apple</a>\u2014all companies with fortunes built on proprietary software and gadgets\u2014have either released the code for various open-AI models or partnered with start-ups that have done so. Such \u201copen source\u201d releases, in theory, allow academics, regulators, the public, and start-ups to download, test, and adapt AI models for their own purposes. Grok\u2019s release, then, marks not only a flash point in a battle between companies but also, perhaps, a turning point across the industry. OpenAI\u2019s commitment to secrecy is starting to seem like an anachronism.</p><p></p><p>This tension between secrecy and transparency has animated much of the debate around generative AI since ChatGPT arrived, in late 2022. If the technology does genuinely represent an existential threat to humanity, as <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/06/ai-regulation-sam-altman-bill-gates/674278/?utm_source=feed\">some believe</a>, is the risk increased or decreased depending on how many people can access the relevant code? Doomsday scenarios aside, if AI agents and assistants become as commonly used as Google Search or Siri, who should have the power to steer and scrutinize that transformation? Open-sourcing advocates, a group that now seemingly includes Musk, argue that the public should be able to look under the hood to rigorously test AI for both civilization-ending threats and the less fantastical biases and flaws plaguing the technology today. Better that than leaving all the decision making to Big Tech.</p><p></p><p>OpenAI, for its part, has provided a <a href=\"https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp\">consistent</a> <a href=\"https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond\">explanation</a> for why it began raising enormous amounts of money and stopped sharing its code: Building AI became incredibly expensive, and the prospect of unleashing its underlying programming became incredibly dangerous. The company has said that releasing full products, such as ChatGPT, or even just demos, such as one for the video-generating <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/openai-sora-generated-video-fake/677493/?utm_source=feed\">Sora</a> program, is enough to ensure that future AI will be safer and more useful. And in <a href=\"https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk\">response to Musk\u2019s lawsuit</a>, OpenAI published snippets of old emails suggesting that Musk explicitly agreed with these justifications, going so far as to suggest a merger with Tesla in early 2018 as a way to meet the technology\u2019s future costs.</p><p></p><p>Those costs represent a different argument for open-sourcing: Publicly available code can enable competition by allowing smaller companies or independent developers to build AI products without having to engineer their own models from scratch, which can be prohibitively expensive for anyone but a few ultra-wealthy companies and billionaires. But both approaches\u2014getting investments from tech companies, as OpenAI has done, or having tech companies open up their baseline AI models\u2014are in some sense sides of the same coin: ways to overcome the technology\u2019s tremendous capital requirements that will not, on their own, redistribute that capital.</p><p></p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/ai-transparency-meta-microsoft/677022/?utm_source=feed\">Read: There was never such a thing as \u201copen\u201d AI</a>]</i></p><p></p><p>For the most part, when companies release AI code, they withhold certain crucial aspects; xAI has not shared Grok\u2019s training data, for example. Without training data, it\u2019s hard to investigate why an AI model exhibits certain biases or limitations, and it\u2019s impossible to know if its creator <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/generative-ai-lawsuits-copyright-fair-use/677595/?utm_source=feed\">violated copyright law</a>. And without insight into a model\u2019s production\u2014technical details about how the final code came to be\u2014it\u2019s much harder to glean anything about the underlying science. Even with publicly available training data, AI systems are simply too massive and computationally demanding for most nonprofits and universities, let alone individuals, to download and run. (A standard laptop has too little storage to even download Grok.) xAI, Google, Amazon, and all the rest are not telling you how to build an industry-leading chatbot, much less giving you the resources to do so. Openness is as much about branding as it is about values. Indeed, in a recent earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg <a href=\"https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2023/q4/META-Q4-2023-Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdf\">did not mince words</a> about why openness is good business: It encourages researchers and developers to use, and improve, Meta products.</p><p></p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/openai-sora-generated-video-fake/677493/?utm_source=feed\">Read: OpenAI\u2019s Sora is a total mystery</a>]</i></p><p></p><p>Numerous start-ups and academic collaborations are releasing open code, training data, and robust documentation alongside their AI products. But Big Tech companies tend to keep a tight lid. Meta\u2019s flagship model, Llama 2, is free to download and use\u2014but its policies forbid deploying it to improve another AI language model or to develop an application with more than 700 million monthly users. Such uses would, of course, represent actual competition with Meta. Google\u2019s most advanced AI offerings are still proprietary; Microsoft has supported open-source projects, but OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4 remains central to its offerings.</p><p></p><p>Regardless of the philosophical debate over safety, the fundamental reason for the closed approach of OpenAI, compared with the growing openness of the tech behemoths, might simply be its size. Trillion-dollar companies can afford to put AI code in the world, knowing that different products and integrating AI into those products\u2014bringing AI to Gmail or Microsoft Outlook\u2014are where profits lie. xAI has the direct backing of one of the richest people in the world, and its software could be worked into X (formerly Twitter) features and Tesla cars. Other start-ups, meanwhile, have to keep their competitive advantage under wraps. Only when openness and profit come into conflict will we get a glimpse of these companies\u2019 true motivations.</p><p></p><p></p>"}], "summary": "Transparency, or the appearance of it, is the technology\u2019s new norm.", "authors": [{"name": "Matteo Wong", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/matteo-wong/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Matteo Wong", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/matteo-wong/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/matteo-wong/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Matteo Wong", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/48aVFJNQ0Wq9P7jYORqyDhfqkSs=/media/img/mt/2024/03/HR_1945509300/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Sergei Gapon / AFP / Getty"}], "credit": "Sergei Gapon / AFP / Getty", "title": "Elon Musk Just Added a Wrinkle to the AI Race", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Elon Musk Just Added a Wrinkle to the AI Race"}, "published": "2024-03-18T16:26:36-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 20, 26, 36, 0, 78, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T17:21:51-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 21, 21, 51, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Transparency, or the appearance of it, is the technology\u2019s new norm."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/xai-grok-open-source-ai/677795/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677789", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/03/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-carnival-review/677789/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p>The funny thing about the concept of cancel culture is that its popularization coincided with the demise of the mechanisms through which a person might truly be exiled from public life. The mainstream is now fractured into pieces; former gatekeepers in the media and entertainment industry are constantly undermined; the internet has created anarchic new routes for public figures to reach an audience. When an entertainer is canceled, it mostly means that certain moneyed interests\u2014such as a publicly traded company that must cater to the diverse sensitivities of investors or consumers\u2014are more hesitant to work with them. But it doesn\u2019t mean that regular people can\u2019t, or won\u2019t, still engage with whoever succeeds at grabbing their attention.</p><p>These facts have been proved time and again in <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/09/the-phantom-reckoning/570217/?utm_source=feed\">popular comebacks</a> for <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/02/morgan-wallen/618137/?utm_source=feed\">disgraced figures</a>, but the recent success of Ye, formerly Kanye West, is a particularly telling example. Last week, \u201cCarnival,\u201d off his recently released collaborative album with <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/ty-dolla-sign-isnt-just-a-feature-artist-hes-a-star/564248/?utm_source=feed\">Ty Dolla $ign</a>, became his first No. 1 on the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 since 2011. \u00a0It\u2019s an eerily apt hit for a cultural climate charged by visions of incipient fascism and war, and a case study in how embattled artists can exploit the power of a good hook.</p><p>Never an <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/02/kanye-jeen-yuhs-netflix-documentary/622865/?utm_source=feed\">uncontroversial celebrity</a>, Ye went even further in 2022 by repeatedly <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/12/kanye-west-twitter-ban-infowars-interview-anti-semitism/672346/?utm_source=feed\">praising Hitler during an interview with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones</a>. Adidas, which allegedly put up with behind-the-scenes bigotry and abuse from Ye for <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/business/kanye-west-adidas-yeezy.html\">more than a decade</a>, exited a profitable deal with him. Even Elon Musk, who\u2019s hardly known for <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/elon-musks-disturbing-truth/676019/?utm_source=feed\">sensitivity toward the Jews</a>, felt compelled to briefly boot Ye off X (formerly Twitter) after the rapper posted a swastika.</p><p>In the run-up to his new album, <em>Vultures 1</em>\u2014by \u00a5$, his supergroup with Dolla\u2014Ye published an apology in Hebrew, in which he <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ye-kanye-antisemitism-apology-40450fa8868c660d954b672d5dfbcc3a#:~:text=Hebrew%20on%20Tuesday.-,%E2%80%9CI%20sincerely%20apologize%20to%20the%20Jewish%20community%20for%20any%20unintended,name%20to%20Ye%20in%202021.\">said</a>, \u201cIt was not my intention to offend or demean.\u201d His sincerity seemed dubious, given that he\u2019s also recently been photographed wearing the merchandise of a<a href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2024/01/kanye-burzum-photo-jpegmafia.html\"> neo-Nazi metal band</a>. <em>Vultures</em> included collaborations with prominent hip-hop figures such as Dolla and Travis Scott, but Ye had<a href=\"https://www.vulture.com/article/kanye-west-vultures-1-removed-streaming.html\"> trouble clearing samples</a> from Ozzy Osbourne, Nicki Minaj, and the estate of Donna Summer. The album temporarily disappeared from streaming because of distribution companies\u2019 reluctance to work with him.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/?utm_source=feed\">Read: I\u2019m not Black, I\u2019m Kanye</a>]</i></p><p>Ye\u2019s rapping on <em>Vultures</em> was far from repentant. \u201c\u2018Crazy, bipolar, anti-Semite\u2019 / And I\u2019m still the king\u201d went one refrain. In another line, he defended himself by using the same logic that concentration-camp guards could have used to refer to their sex slaves: \u201cHow I\u2019m antisemitic? / I just fucked a Jewish bitch.\u201d The music itself was grandiose, churning, and gothic\u2014but like most of<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/08/kanye-west-donda-review/619934/?utm_source=feed\"> Ye\u2019s work</a> since the mid-2010s, it was also underwritten, poorly paced, and mostly forgettable. Yet \u201cCarnival\u201d did stand out, thanks to a sampled vocal of Italian soccer fans rowdily chanting the hook. In his verse, Ye riffed on his pariah status in the gasping tone of a street preacher: \u201cNow I\u2019m Ye-Kelly, bitch / now I\u2019m Bill Cosby, bitch / Now I\u2019m Puff Daddy rich / that\u2019s Me Too me rich.\u201d</p><p>For any song to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 these days does not necessarily mean it is an era-defining, unescapable smash. The construction of the <em>Billboard</em> charts factors in streaming, which allows pluralities of fans to send a song up the charts by listening to it on repeat. (Remember, before streaming, the number of times you played a song privately didn\u2019t influence its popularity.) Gunning for the No. 1 spot has thus become like a game of capture the flag for pop fandoms and even <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/08/oliver-anthony-zach-bryan-working-class-hero/675190/?utm_source=feed\">political projects</a>. Ye posted repeatedly about the song\u2019s chart performance, encouraging diehards to help push \u201cCarnival\u201d to No. 1. But, holding strong <a href=\"https://www.billboard.com/lists/ariana-grande-we-cant-be-friends-hot-100-number-one-debut/and-another-thing-top-10-streak-continues/\">at No. 4</a> on this week's Hot 100, the track is likely also catching on among a broad base of hip-hop fans.</p><p>The song\u2019s appeal is partly musical: Its adrenalizing vocal loop sits atop a bone-crushing bass line recalling Sheck Wes\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWoIpDVkOH0\">Mo Bamba</a>,\u201d the 2018 song that helped set the template for a recent strain of hip-hop that seeks to create punk-rock-style mosh pits. The song also features the<a href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/rage-music-hip-hop-subgenre-yeat-sofaygo-rap-1235211126/\"> rage rapper</a> Playboi Carti, a young cult celebrity who hasn\u2019t released a full album since 2020. Ye\u2019s own verse is situated midway through the song, among those from three other emcees (Dolla, Carti, and Rich the Kid). He\u2019s effectively taking an edgy, subcultural sound and executing it with blockbuster production\u2014a<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/madonna-hung-up-video-age-sexuality/675441/?utm_source=feed\"> classic</a> pop-star move.</p><p>What\u2019s more, Ye remains talented at linking his personal mood with a broader social climate. The mesmerizing \u201cCarnival\u201d music video depicts a tableau of men\u2014some looking like skinheads, others like police troopers\u2014brawling with one another. The imagery draws on soccer riots, but also induces thoughts of factional war, male anger, and the apocalypse. Whereas Ye\u2019s lyrics compare him to various alleged monsters such as <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/bill-cosby-and-his-enablers/422448/?utm_source=feed\">Cosby</a>, the other featured rappers traffic in more standard-issue pop misogyny, depicting sex as an act of material and physical subjugation. All in all, \u201cCarnival\u201d really does crackle with a sense of menace, a feeling of macho alienation cohering into a mob.</p><p>\u201cThis number #1 is for \u2026 the people who won\u2019t be manipulated by the system,\u201d Ye <a href=\"https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/entertainment/kanye-west-slams-critics-who-tried-to-destroy-him-as-carnival-single-hits-no-1/\">wrote</a> on Instagram. He\u2019s right, if you consider <em>the system</em> to be the entrenched commercial institutions motivated to ice out Nazis. But in other ways, he has used the system available to him\u2014the levers of streaming and social media\u2014to win this hit. And the record industry, in which moral postures are <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/06/what-went-wrong-with-spotifys-hateful-conduct-policy/561965/?utm_source=feed\">informed by money-minded risk management</a>, may well warm to him a bit now that he\u2019s at No. 1. For example, last week, he played at a major festival, Los Angeles\u2019s Rolling Loud\u2014a low-effort performance in which he essentially did <a href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-03-15/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-rolling-loud-vultures-1-headlining-set\">karaoke onstage</a>.</p><p>To enjoy a song as catchy and powerful as \u201cCarnival\u201d is, of course, not to endorse any particular ideology; the song\u2019s surging sound is an equally effective spur to lift weights, vent about work, or plan a coup. Nevertheless, the song\u2019s popularity is being spun by Ye as vindication of his own righteousness, and will no doubt further energize the worst segments of his supporters\u2014such as the ones who draped a banner over a highway that read <span class=\"smallcaps\">Kanye was right about the Jews</span>. Pop music ultimately succeeds or fails according to principles of pleasure, not politics, but the perception to the contrary holds its own danger.</p>"}], "summary": "Despite his supposed cancellation, the Hitler-praising rapper has his first No. 1 single since 2011.", "authors": [{"name": "Spencer Kornhaber", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/spencer-kornhaber/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Spencer Kornhaber", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/spencer-kornhaber/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/spencer-kornhaber/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Spencer Kornhaber", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/pCJ2RpezpotOoe51Qh4-wOmS7Ms=/media/img/mt/2024/03/GettyImages_2085558745/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Scott Dudelson/Getty"}], "credit": "Scott Dudelson/Getty", "title": "Kanye\u2019s Creepy Comeback", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Kanye\u2019s Creepy Comeback"}, "published": "2024-03-18T14:01:14-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 1, 14, 0, 78, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T17:11:37-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 21, 11, 37, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Despite his supposed cancellation, the Hitler-praising rapper has his first No. 1 single since 2011."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/03/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-carnival-review/677789/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677791", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/03/dna-tests-incest/677791/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p dir=\"ltr\">When Steve Edsel was a boy, his adoptive parents kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in their bedroom closet. He would ask for it sometimes, poring over the headlines about his birth. Headlines like this: \u201cMother Deserts Son, Flees From Hospital,\u201d <em>Winston-Salem Journal,</em> December 30, 1973.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">The mother in question was 14 years old, \u201c5 feet 6 with reddish brown hair,\u201d and she had come to the hospital early one morning with her own parents. They gave names that all turned out to be fake. And by 8 o\u2019clock that evening, just hours after she gave birth, they were gone. In a black-and-white drawing of the mother, based on nurses\u2019 recollections, she has round glasses and sideswept bangs. Her mouth is grimly set.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">The abandoned boy was placed in foster care with a local couple, the Edsels, who later adopted him. Steve knew all of this growing up. His parents never tried to hide his origins, and they always gave him the scrapbook when he asked. It wasn\u2019t until he turned 14, though, that he really began to wonder about his birth mom. \u201cI\u2019m 14,\u201d he thought at the time. \u201cThis is how old she was when she had me.\u201d</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Steve began looking for her in earnest in his 20s, but the paper trail quickly ran cold. When he turned 40, he told his wife, Michelle, that he wanted to give the search one last go. This was in 2013. AncestryDNA had started selling mail-in test kits the previous year, so he bought one. His matches at first seemed unpromising\u2014some distant relatives\u2014but when he began posting in a Facebook group for people seeking out biological family, he got connected to a genetic genealogist named CeCe Moore. Moore specializes in finding people via distant DNA matches, a technique made famous in 2018 when it led to the <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/golden-state-killer-east-area-rapist-dna-genealogy/559070/?utm_source=feed\">capture of the Golden State Killer</a>. But back then, genetic genealogy was still new, and Moore was one of its pioneers. She volunteered to help Steve.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Within just a couple of weeks, she had narrowed down the search to two women, cousins of the same age. On Facebook, Steve could see that one cousin had four kids, and she regularly posted photos of them, beautiful and smiling. They looked well-off, their lives picture-perfect\u2014 \u201clike a storybook,\u201d Steve says. The other woman was unmarried; she didn\u2019t have kids. She was not friends with her immediate family on Facebook, and she had moved halfway across the country from them. One evening\u2014a Saturday, Steve clearly remembers\u2014Moore asked to speak with him by phone.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">She confirmed what he had already suspected: His birth mom was the second woman. But Moore had another piece of news too. She had unexpectedly figured out something about his biological father as well.<em> It looks like your parents are related.</em> Steve didn\u2019t know what to say. <em>Do you understand what I mean?</em> He said he thought so. <em>Either your mom\u2019s father or your mom\u2019s brother is your father.</em> A sea of emotions rose to a boil inside him: anger, hurt, worthlessness, disgust, shame, and devastation all at once. In his years of wondering about his birth, he had never, ever considered the possibility of incest. Why would he? What were the chances?</p><hr class=\"c-section-divider\" /><p dir=\"ltr\">In 1975, around the time of Steve\u2019s birth, a psychiatric textbook put the frequency of incest at one in a million.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">But this number is almost certainly a dramatic underestimate. The stigma around openly discussing incest, which often involves child sexual abuse, has long made the subject difficult to study. In the 1980s, <a href=\"https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674002708\">feminist scholars argued</a>, based on the testimonies of victims, that incest was far more common than recognized, and in recent years, DNA has offered a new kind of biological proof. Widespread genetic testing is uncovering case after secret case of children born to close biological relatives\u2014providing an unprecedented accounting of incest in modern society.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">The geneticist Jim Wilson, at the University of Edinburgh, was shocked by the frequency he found in the U.K. Biobank, an anonymized research database: One in 7,000 people, according to his unpublished analysis, was born to parents who were first-degree relatives\u2014a brother and a sister or a parent and a child. \u201cThat\u2019s way, way more than I think many people would ever imagine,\u201d he told me. And this number is just a floor: It reflects only the cases that resulted in pregnancy, that did not end in miscarriage or abortion, and that led to the birth of a child who grew into an adult who volunteered for a research study.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Most of the people affected may never know about their parentage, but these days, many are stumbling into the truth after AncestryDNA and 23andMe tests. Steve\u2019s case was one of the first Moore worked on involving closely related parents. She now knows of well over 1,000 additional cases of people born from incest, the significant majority between first-degree relatives, with the rest between second-degree relatives (half-siblings, uncle-niece, aunt-nephew, grandparent-grandchild). The cases show up in every part of society, every strata of income, she told me.</p><p dir=\"ltr\"><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/dna-test-misattributed-paternity/562928/?utm_source=feed\">Read: When a DNA Test Shatters Your Identity</a>]</i></p><p dir=\"ltr\">Neither AncestryDNA nor 23andMe informs customers about incest directly, so the thousand-plus cases Moore knows of all come from the tiny proportion of testers who investigated further. This meant, for example, uploading their DNA profiles to a third-party genealogy site to analyze what are known as \u201cruns of homozygosity,\u201d or ROH: long stretches where the DNA inherited from one\u2019s mother and father are identical. For a while, one popular genealogy site instructed anyone who found high ROH to contact Moore. She would call them, one by one, to explain the jargon\u2019s explosive meaning. Unwittingly, she became the keeper of what might be the world\u2019s largest database of people born out of incest.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">In the overwhelming majority of cases, Moore told me, the parents are a father and a daughter or an older brother and a younger sister, meaning a child\u2019s existence was likely evidence of sexual abuse. She had no obvious place to send people reeling from such revelations, and she was not herself a trained therapist. After seeing many of these cases, though, she wanted people to know they were not alone. Moore ended up creating a private and invite-only support group on Facebook in 2016, and she tapped Steve and later his wife, Michelle, to become admins, too. The three of them had become close in the months and years after the search for his birth mom, as they navigated the emotional fallout together.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">One day this past January, Michelle, who also works as Moore\u2019s part-time assistant, told me she had spoken with four new people that week, all of them with ROH high enough to have parents who were first-degree relatives. She used to dread these calls. \u201cI would stumble over my words,\u201d she told me. But not anymore. She tells the shaken person on the line that they can join a support group full of people who are living the same reality. She tells them they can talk to her husband, Steve.</p><hr class=\"c-section-divider\" /><p dir=\"ltr\">When Steve first discovered the truth about his biological parents, a decade ago, he had no support group to turn to, and he did not know what to do with the strange mix of emotions. He was genuinely happy to have found his birth mom. He had never looked like his adoptive parents, but in photos of her and her family, he could see his eyes, his chin, and even the smirky half-grin that his face naturally settles into.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">But he radiated with newfound anger, too, on her behalf. He could not know the exact circumstances of his conception, and his DNA test alone could not determine whether her older brother or her father was responsible. But Steve could not imagine a consensual scenario, given her age. The bespectacled 14-year-old girl who disappeared from the hospital had remained frozen in time in his mind, even as he himself grew older, got married, became a stepdad. He felt protective of that young girl.\u00a0\u00a0</p><p dir=\"ltr\">As badly as he wanted to know his birth mom, he worried she would not want to know him. Would his sudden reappearance dredge up traumatic memories\u2014memories she had perhaps been trying to outrun her whole adult life, given how far she had moved and how little she seemed connected to her family? A religious man, Steve prayed over it and settled on handwriting a letter. He included a couple of paragraphs about his life, some photos, and a message that he loved her. He left out what he knew about his paternity. And he took care to send the letter by certified mail, so that he could confirm its receipt and so that it would not accidentally fall into anyone else\u2019s hands.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">She never responded. But Steve knew that she had received it: The post office sent him the green slip that she had signed upon delivery, and he scrutinized her signature\u2014her actual name, written by her actual hand. At 40 years old, he touched for the first time something his mother had just touched, held something she had just held. He put the slip inside the pages of his Bible.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Steve had never faulted his mother for leaving him at the hospital, and finding out about his paternity made him even more understanding. But the revelation also made him struggle with who he was. Did it mean that something was wrong with him, written into his DNA from the moment of his conception? On a <a href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1-the-secret-one/id1572201167?i=1000526354990\">podcast</a> later, he admitted to feeling like trash, \u201clike something that somebody had just thrown away.\u201d Those first six months after his discovery were the hardest six months of his life.</p><hr class=\"c-section-divider\" /><p dir=\"ltr\">Across human cultures, incest between close family members is one of the most universal and most deeply held taboos. A common explanation is biological: Children born from related parents are more likely to develop health complications, because their parents are more likely to be carriers of the same recessive mutations. From the 1960s to the \u201980s, a <a href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/40/1/55/43627/CHILDREN-OF-INCEST\">handful</a> <a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022347682803478\">of</a> <a href=\"https://karger.com/hhe/article-abstract/21/2/108/158742/A-Study-of-Children-of-Incestuous-Matings\">studies</a> following a few dozen children born of incest documented high rates of infant mortality and congenital conditions.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">But in the past, healthy children born from incestuous unions would have never come to the attention of doctors. As widespread DNA testing has uncovered orders of magnitude more people whose parents are brother and sister or parent and child, it\u2019s also shown that plenty of those people are perfectly healthy. \u201cThere is a large element of chance in whether incest has a poor outcome,\u201d according to Wilson, the geneticist. It depends on whether those runs of homozygosity contain recessive disease-causing mutations. All of us have some of these runs in our DNA\u2014usually less than 1 percent of the genome in Western populations, higher in cultures where cousin marriage is common. But that number is about 25 percent, Wilson said, in people born from first-degree relatives. While the odds of a genetic disease are much higher, the outcome is far from predetermined.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Still, these numbers make people wonder. Steve was born with a heart murmur, which required open-heart surgery at ages 13 and 18, though he does not know for sure the cause; heart defects are among the more common birth defects in the general population. He and Michelle were also never able to have children together. Others in the Facebook group have shared their struggles with autoimmune diseases, fibromyalgia, eye problems, and so on\u2014though these are often hard to definitively link to incest. Health problems arising from incest might manifest in any number of ways, depending on exactly which mutations are inherited. \u201cWhen I go to the doctor and they ask me my family history, I wonder: <em>How much do I need to go into it?</em>\u201d says Mandy, another member of the group. (I am identifying some people by first name only, so they can speak freely about their family and medical histories.) How much experience would a typical doctor have with incest, anyway?</p><p dir=\"ltr\">After Mandy first learned that her father was her mother\u2019s uncle, she went looking for stories about other people like her. All she could find were \u201cgross fantasies\u201d online and medical-journal articles about health problems. She felt very lonely. \u201c<em>I don\u2019t have anybody I can talk to about this</em>,\u201d she remembers thinking. \u201c<em>Nobody knows what to say.</em>\u201d When she found the Facebook group, she could see that she was far from the only one like her. She watched the others cycle, too, through the stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">She does not know exactly what happened between her biological parents, but her mother was 17, and her mother\u2019s uncle was in his 30s. The discovery, for all the hurt that it surfaced, has helped Mandy reconcile some of her childhood experiences. Unlike Steve, she was raised by her biological mother, and she believed her mother\u2019s husband to be her biological father. He mostly ignored her, but her mother was cruel. She treated Mandy differently than she did her younger brothers. \u201cAt least now I have more of an answer as to why,\u201d Mandy told me. \u201cI wasn\u2019t a bad kid and unlovable.\u201d</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Kathy was also raised by her mother, though she had an early inkling that her dad was not her biological dad. Their blood types were incompatible, and she heard rumors about her mother and grandfather. Although her mother\u2019s family was violent and chaotic, she was close to her dad\u2019s family, especially her granny on that side. \u201cThey\u2019ve been my rock,\u201d she told me. By the time Kathy took a DNA test confirming that her dad was not her biological dad, she had spent a lifetime distancing herself from her biological family and embracing one with whom she shared no DNA.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Hers was, in some ways, the opposite journey of adoptees such as Steve, who wanted so badly to know his biological family. But the two of them have become close. Kathy remembers how angry he used to be on his mother\u2019s behalf. She told him that she used to be angry too, but she had to leave it behind. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to bring me any peace. It\u2019s not going to bring my mother any peace,\u201d she recalled saying. And it wouldn\u2019t undo what had been done to his mother by her father or her brother so many years ago.</p><hr class=\"c-section-divider\" /><p dir=\"ltr\">In the end, Steve was able to identify his biological father, though not through any particular feat of genetic sleuthing. One day, two and a half years after his DNA test, he logged in to AncestryDNA and saw a parent match. It was his mother\u2019s older brother. From the site, he could see that his father-uncle had logged in once, presumably seen that Steve was his son, and\u2014even after Steve sent him a message\u2014never logged back on again.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">By then, his initial anger had started to dissipate. He still felt deeply for his birth mom. Michelle says that her husband has always been a sensitive guy\u2014she makes fun of him for crying at movies\u2014but he\u2019s become even more empathetic. The feelings of worthlessness he initially struggled with has given way to a sense of purpose; he and Michelle now spend hours on the phone talking with others in the support group.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Steve has still never spoken to his birth mother. He tried writing to her a second time, sending a journal about his life\u2014but she returned it unopened. He messages her occasionally on Facebook, sending photos of grandkids and puppies he\u2019s raised. Every year, he wishes her a happy birthday. She has not replied, but she has also not blocked him.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">When the journal came back unopened, Steve decided to try messaging his mother\u2019s cousin\u2014the other woman he\u2019d initially thought could be his birth mom. He yearned for some kind of connection with someone in his biological family. He wrote to the cousin about his mom\u2014but not his dad\u2014and she\u00a0 actually replied. She told him that she and his mom had been close as children, Steve recounted, but she did not know about a pregnancy. To her, it had seemed like her cousin one day \u201cfell off the face of the Earth,\u201d he says. She agreed to read his journal, and the two of them soon began speaking on the phone about their families.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Months later, Steve felt like he could finally share the truth about his biological father, and the cousin again accepted him for who he was. They met for the first time in 2017 when she was visiting a nearby town, and she later invited Steve and Michelle to Thanksgiving. Last year, she extended another invitation to a large family gathering. Steve\u2019s immediate biological family was not there, but hers was, and they all knew about him and his mom and his dad. They greeted him with hugs, and they took photos together as a family. \u201cIt felt like a relief,\u201d he told me, like a burden had been lifted from him. In this family, he was not a secret.\u00a0\u00a0</p>"}], "summary": "People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA\u2014and learning that incest is far more common than many think.", "authors": [{"name": "Sarah Zhang", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/sarah-zhang/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Sarah Zhang", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/sarah-zhang/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/sarah-zhang/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Sarah Zhang", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/DKEKA056FN6t8YBlzxpbzF0A7n0=/media/img/mt/2024/03/DNA_testing_4_horizontal/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Illustration by the Atlantic; Sources: The Herald Sun; Courtesy of Steve Edsel"}], "credit": "Illustration by the Atlantic; Sources: The Herald Sun; Courtesy of Steve Edsel", "title": "DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest"}, "published": "2024-03-18T11:52:55-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 15, 52, 55, 0, 78, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T12:34:48-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 16, 34, 48, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA\u2014and learning that incest is far more common than many think."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/03/dna-tests-incest/677791/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677790", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/israel-gaza-war-idf/677790/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p>Israeli forces are killing thousands of innocent civilians and badly damaging their country\u2019s standing with its most important partners, including the United States. Israel has also no doubt severely degraded Hamas\u2019s military capabilities, but the question needs to be asked: Is the country\u2019s furious response to the Hamas invasion of October 7 making Israel any safer? At best, it\u2019s still too soon to say\u2014but on balance, what I see worries me.</p><p>It sometimes takes years to fully appreciate the strategic significance of a conflict. Great victories look more ambiguous in hindsight, and catastrophic defeats sometimes have silver linings. That seems especially true for Israel.</p><p>In 2006, Israel fought a 34-day war with Hezbollah that most observers at the time classed as a decisive victory for the Iranian-sponsored Lebanese militant group. Eighteen years later, that conflict looks instead like the moment when Israel reestablished a measure of cross-border deterrence that it had lost when it withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000. The Israeli ground onslaught in 2006 may have been disjointed and underwhelming, but the aerial campaign was ferocious; memory of it has almost certainly contributed to the halfheartedness of Hezbollah\u2019s commitment of resources to the current conflict, as well as to the years of relative peace in between.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/hamas-survival-gaza-israel-war/677368/?utm_source=feed\">Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: It\u2019s not too late to give Gaza a better future</a>]</i></p><p>Conversely, Israel\u2019s greatest military victory\u2014the Six-Day War of 1967, in which the country shocked itself and the world by rapidly triumphing over its three most dangerous state adversaries\u2014also enabled the West Bank settlement enterprise, which now threatens Israel\u2019s continued existence as a Jewish-majority democracy and makes a clean separation from the Palestinian people almost impossible.</p><p>In focusing on the question of Israeli security, I don\u2019t mean to minimize the horrific human suffering this war has caused for Palestinians, many Israelis, and countless Lebanese. Indeed, that suffering, especially the destruction of Palestinian lives and infrastructure, could directly and negatively affect Israel\u2019s security in the future. But the United States has made a commitment, going back at least 50 years, to safeguard Israeli security\u2014a commitment that I, as a former U.S. policy maker, was once charged with upholding. And so it seems worth asking whether this war is actually advancing that goal or hurting it.</p><p>The good news for Israel and its remaining international partners is that the Israel Defense Forces still have a serious, competent officer corps\u2014one that has fought its way through some very challenging urban terrain in Gaza with relatively minimal friendly casualties. At the beginning of this conflict, I anticipated that the IDF would struggle to design and execute such a campaign. Fighting in dense areas is very difficult for even the best-drilled units\u2014ask a U.S. Marine what Fallujah was like in 2004\u2014and Israel relies heavily on part-time soldiers and conscripts. But the IDF has worked its way through the territory slowly and deliberately, while preserving combat power in case Hezbollah decides to launch a full-scale attack on Israel\u2019s north.</p><p>The bad news, however, is that the IDF has made clear\u2014repeatedly\u2014that it does not prioritize preserving the lives of noncombatants relative to other aims. This indifference has strategic as well as moral repercussions. Biden-administration officials were <a href=\"https://www.axios.com/2024/03/05/israel-gaza-aid-benny-gantz-white-house\">reportedly horrified by the disregard that Israeli leaders</a> showed for the deaths of more than 100 Palestinians trying to reach humanitarian aid a few weeks ago. Now Washington finds itself in the supremely embarrassing position of having to <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/08/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news?smid=url-share\">build a pier to deliver aid to Gaza</a>, because its principal ally in the region\u2014which receives more than $3.8 billion in U.S. taxpayer money each year\u2014is apparently slow-rolling the delivery of humanitarian necessities to a population on the brink of <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/burns-says-ceasefire-is-needed-to-help-starving-children-in-gaza-00146397\">famine</a>.</p><p>As a largely conscript force augmented by reservists, the IDF lacks a strong noncommissioned-officer corps\u2014the more experienced junior leaders who provide tactical direction in many Western armies and, crucially, help <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israeli-military-vulnerable-war-hamas/675591/?utm_source=feed\">instill order</a> and discipline. Gaza has revealed the best and the worst of this structure: the best, in that the IDF has shown itself to be a truly cohesive national institution, capable of fighting together as citizen-soldiers despite the bitter political and religious divisions in Israel; the worst, because the IDF has shown itself to be undisciplined, reckless, and willing to use large amounts of artillery and white-phosphorus rounds in urban areas, tendencies that undermine the credibility of Israel\u2019s public claims that it is doing its best to minimize civilian casualties.</p><p>Israel complains that it is fighting in challenging and often subterranean conditions in Gaza, which is true. Israel also complains that it is held to a higher standard than other regional militaries, which is also true. Few in the international community spoke out, for example, when the Iraqi army leveled half of Mosul in its effort to expel the Islamic State in 2016 and 2017. But as a democracy that claims to adhere to the international conventions that protect civilians in combat, Israel must realize\u2014as the United States realized during its own wars in the region\u2014that its actions will be measured against those commitments.</p><p>The IDF\u2019s history of being deployed as an occupation force, particularly in southern Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, has coarsened it and led to strikingly callous and deadly applications of force. Some of its soldiers engage in crimes and abuses that may be commonplace in wartime, but whose public exposure understandably erodes international support. Pictures on social media show Israeli soldiers <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/world/middleeast/israel-idf-soldiers-war-social-media-video.html\">laughing and joking </a>while destroying the belongings of Palestinian civilians. Those videos and images are copied, pasted, and widely broadcast across the world, giving further fuel to Israel\u2019s opponents, embarrassing Israel\u2019s few remaining allies, and leaving Israel ever more isolated internationally. These soldiers are no doubt operating under high levels of stress. No doubt they are also, like all Israelis, traumatized by the many acts of sadistic cruelty inflicted on the elderly, women, and children by Hamas. But understanding these pressures is not the same as excusing them. A professional army that says it holds itself to Western legal standards must not be governed by the atavistic desire for revenge.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/03/photos-gaza-brink-famine/677741/?utm_source=feed\">Photos: Gaza on the brink of famine</a>]</i></p><p>Meanwhile, the physical destruction of Gaza\u2014including housing, schools, and hospitals serving the population there\u2014will make governing the Strip very difficult for whoever attempts it after the shooting stops. I don\u2019t see Palestinians or other Arabs stepping up to take that burden off Israel\u2019s shoulders, so most likely, Israel is making its own life harder by damaging so much necessary infrastructure. For all that Israel appears to be waging a punitive campaign against the people of Gaza, this campaign looks likely to end up punishing Israel as well.</p><p>Finally, wars are fought for political ends and are therefore most often judged by their ability to achieve those ends. One week after October 7, the military strategist Lawrence Freedman <a href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/03b8ea8a-891d-4457-811f-27448ced6c7b\">wrote</a> in the <em>Financial Times</em>: \u201cIsrael is trying to develop a military strategy to deal with the Hamas threat while it lacks a political strategy. For the moment it is impossible to identify a future modus vivendi with Gaza. No deals with Hamas will be trusted but nor is there a certain route to eliminate Hamas.\u201d</p><p>Five months later, the problem is the same: Israel has neither a military strategy for eliminating Hamas nor a political strategy for living with Gaza. A long-term agreement with the Palestinians is hard to imagine at a time when Israel\u2019s left camp\u2014already decimated by the Second Intifada two decades ago, in which Hamas and other groups launched a series of suicide bombings against civilian targets in order to undermine the possibility of a two-state solution\u2014has seen its remaining domestic credibility shattered by the Hamas attacks. And Hamas, of course, has promised, again and again, to keep fighting until Israel is destroyed.</p><p>The picture here is bleak, but this conflict could conceivably create opportunities for Israel. For example, Saudi Arabia has <a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-29/saudi-led-arabs-push-blueprint-for-palestine-state-as-war-rages\">floated</a> the prospect of diplomatic recognition in exchange for a Palestinian state. But Israeli domestic politics are fractious, particularly regarding the question of Palestinian autonomy in Gaza and the West Bank\u2014a crucial point for any prime minister seeking to take advantage of such opportunities.</p><p>Israel is in fact headed in the opposite direction at the moment: It will need years, perhaps even decades, to recover from the traumas of October 7 before its leaders will be able to show the same courage in confronting the political right as the IDF has shown in confronting Hamas. Israeli politics are especially febrile and plastic at the moment, but the right seems unlikely to be disempowered in the near future, even if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is somehow dethroned. By the time realistic politics take hold, whatever opportunities this horrible war creates for Israel may have been lost.</p>"}], "summary": "More than five months in, Israel has neither a military strategy for eliminating Hamas nor a political strategy for living with Gaza.", "authors": [{"name": "Andrew Exum", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-exum/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Andrew Exum", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-exum/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-exum/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Andrew Exum", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/GfTdqdcRLbyS-4brmYGi3ix-fjw=/media/img/mt/2024/03/GettyImages_1910608495/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty"}], "credit": "Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty", "title": "Is the Destruction of Gaza Making Israel Any Safer?", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Is the Destruction of Gaza Making Israel Any Safer?"}, "published": "2024-03-18T11:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 15, 0, 0, 0, 78, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T11:01:56-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 15, 1, 56, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "More than five months in, Israel has neither a military strategy for eliminating Hamas nor a political strategy for living with Gaza."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/israel-gaza-war-idf/677790/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677787", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/cj-rice-philadelphia-exonerated/677787/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p><small><i>This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. </i><i><a delay=\"150\" href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/one-story-to-read-today/?utm_source=feed\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for it here</a></i><i>.</i></small></p><p><span class=\"smallcaps\">C. J. Rice was first arraigned</span> in 2011 on the 11th floor of 1301 Filbert Street, a towering, steel-framed criminal-court complex two miles from the South Philadelphia neighborhood where he\u2019d grown up. In 2013, on the fifth floor of the same building, Rice was tried on four counts of attempted murder, found guilty, and sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison. For three years, he appealed the sentence, appearing on the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth floors. After each attempt failed, he was shuttled back to a state prison in rural Coal Township, Pennsylvania.</p><p>This morning,<b> </b>on the eighth floor, the Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office announced that it no longer considers Rice a viable suspect in the shooting for which he had been found guilty. His conviction had already been <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/c-j-rice-jake-tapper-sixth-amendment/676161/?utm_source=feed\">overturned by a federal court in November</a>, on the grounds that his attorney had been constitutionally deficient. In today\u2019s decision, the D.A.\u2019s office <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/cj-rice-freed/index.html\">formally dismissed the charges against him</a>. The D.A.\u2019s decision fully exonerates Rice. He is now a free man. He had been imprisoned for more than 12 years.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/11/campaign-to-free-incarcerated-philadelphia-teenager-sixth-amendment/671527/?utm_source=feed\">From the November 2022 issue: Jake Tapper on his father, a Philadelphia teenager, and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment</a>]</i></p><p>Rice was the subject of my November 2022 cover story for <i>The Atlantic</i>, \u201c<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/11/campaign-to-free-incarcerated-philadelphia-teenager-sixth-amendment/671527/?utm_source=feed\">Good Luck, Mr. Rice</a>,\u201d which investigated his trial and the shortcomings of Sandjai Weaver, his court-appointed attorney. The case against Rice was always weak. No physical evidence tied Rice to the shooting for which he was arrested, and the single victim who identified him had told police three times that she didn\u2019t know who had shot her before eventually changing her story. Yet Weaver failed to gather exculpatory evidence and repeatedly missed opportunities to challenge the state\u2019s case against her client.<b> </b>A source with the D.A.\u2019s office told me that Rice\u2019s conviction likely resulted from his representation being so bad.</p><p>Rice had compelling evidence of his innocence: Three weeks prior to his alleged crime, he had been shot in a separate incident that had left him hospitalized for days. When he visited his pediatrician for follow-up care, he could barely walk. That pediatrician was my father, Theodore Tapper. Six days later, the Philadelphia police announced that they sought his patient as a suspect. My father was dumbfounded. Witnesses had seen the perpetrators of Rice\u2019s alleged crime running from the scene. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s physically possible,\u201d he told me.</p><p>My father campaigned for Rice\u2019s release for more than a decade, testifying at his trial and appeals, even marshaling a team of specialized lawyers to his defense and\u2014after lobbying by me\u2014allowing me to report on the story. Today\u2019s announcement is the vindication of his efforts, the culmination of an 83<b>-</b>year-old physician\u2019s commitment to a patient whom everyone else seemed to have forgotten.</p><p>For Rice, now 30, it\u2019s a chance to finally live an adult life, set his own schedule, choose his own clothes, turn lights on and off at his leisure. When he first visited 1301 Filbert for his arraignment, Blockbuster was still renting DVDs and America was still at war in Iraq. This morning, when the announcement came, Rice wasn\u2019t even in the building. He\u2019d spent enough time there. \u201cThat\u2019s behind me now,\u201d Rice said.</p><p class=\"dropcap\">O<span class=\"smallcaps\">n his last day</span> in prison, Rice received something of a send-off: His cellblock at State Correctional Institution\u2013Chester, the medium-security prison to which he was transferred after my story was published, was put on lockdown and he was strip-searched. Rice stood compliantly as guards and German shepherds scoured his room. He was used to the invasive procedure, but he was still irritated.</p><p>Clothes off, arms straight out, then up. Behind one ear, then behind the other. A guard made him open his mouth, lift his tongue. He ran his fingers through Rice\u2019s hair and then his beard. Rice knew the drill by then: lift his penis, then his scrotum, turn around, squat, cough.</p><p>Rice had been through hundreds of these searches over the years. During lockdowns. Before and after every in-person visit. The searches were humiliating, degrading, but also routine. Nothing found. His day proceeded as usual. He went for a walk in the yard with his fellow inmates, then made a phone call to his brother.</p><p>Before long, he was interrupted by a correctional officer.</p><p>\u201cMr. Rice!\u201d she said. \u201cMr. Rice!\u201d</p><p>Rice made eye contact, his brother still on the line.</p><p>\u201cMr. Rice!\u201d she continued, insistent.</p><p>Rice said goodbye, hung up the phone, and approached her desk.</p><p>\u201cMr. Rice, do you have a lot of property and stuff?\u201d</p><p>\u201cNo,\u201d he said.</p><p>\u201cWell, pack your stuff, because you\u2019re going home today.\u201d</p><p>It was December 19, 2023. After Rice\u2019s conviction was overturned in federal court, his lawyers arranged his release from prison as the D.A.\u2019s office weighed its next move in the case.</p><p>Rice had just turned 30. He had been 17 in 2011 when he turned himself in to the Philadelphia police, having heard they wanted to talk with him. Now he was being told that he would be signing out of the Department of Corrections. \u201cI\u2019m ready,\u201d he told himself.</p><p>As Rice gathered his things, Amelia Maxfield, a lawyer then working with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, waited in the prison lobby. When she visited clients, guards weren\u2019t typically effusive. Today was different. The assistant superintendent chatted with her casually. She sat through a shift change, and a number of staffers made a point to tell her how happy they were for Rice, what a great person he was. Some even waited past their shift to say goodbye to him.</p><p>Rice had written to Maxfield and the Innocence Project asking for help, and the group became involved in his case<b> </b>not long after my <i>Atlantic</i> story was published. They worked with Karl Schwartz, a Philadelphia defense attorney, to file a writ of habeas corpus<i> </i>on Rice\u2019s behalf, a petition in federal court challenging the legality of a person\u2019s incarceration. Soon, Rice\u2019s team had grown to include <a href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/crime/harold-staten-philadelphia-exonerated-arson-20240205.html\">Nilam Sanghvi of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project</a>; Ginger Anders, a <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/tsarnaev-marathon-bomber-supreme-court/2021/10/12/4be6a196-2b9f-11ec-985d-3150f7e106b2_story.html\">seasoned defense attorney</a> of the law firm Munger, Tolles &amp; Olson; and Donald Verrilli, a <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/us/donald-verrilli-supreme-court-solicitor-general.html\">solicitor general under President Barack Obama</a>. Verrilli became involved when I ran into him at a restaurant, got his cell number, and texted him my <i>Atlantic</i> story. Washington, D.C., is a town where lots of people make well-meaning but ultimately empty promises about helping people with various projects. This was not one of those instances.</p><p>In his petition, Schwartz argued that Weaver had fallen short of the Sixth Amendment\u2019s guarantee of a right to effective counsel. She\u2019d made a number of inexplicable blunders while representing Rice: She never subpoenaed his phone records, which Rice said would prove that he wasn\u2019t at the scene of the crime; she also failed to challenge the victim who identified Rice on why she had changed her story. In his petition, Schwartz chose to focus on one particularly egregious error: Weaver\u2019s decision to allow the prosecution to introduce a theory that one of the victims of the shooting had shot Rice earlier that month. That narrative had no evidentiary basis, but it suggested that Rice had had a motive to retaliate.</p><p>Habeas petitions are long shots, succeeding in just 0.3<b> </b>percent of cases,<a href=\"https://www.law360.com/articles/1509640\"> according to one 2007 study</a>. Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims are perhaps even more difficult to establish, owing to a high burden of proof set in the 1984 Supreme Court case <i>Strickland v. Washington</i>. But on September 22, 2023, the Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office conceded that the retaliation theory was<i> </i>\u201cprejudicial\u201d and that Weaver\u2019s decision to allow it was \u201cobjectively unreasonable.\u201d It agreed, in other words, that she had been ineffective. On October 23, a U.S. magistrate judge affirmed Schwartz\u2019s habeas<i> </i>petition. The decision then went to Nitza I. Qui\u00f1ones Alejandro, a district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She officially overturned Rice\u2019s conviction on November 27.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/c-j-rice-jake-tapper-sixth-amendment/676161/?utm_source=feed\">Andrew Aoyama: C. J. Rice\u2019s conviction is overturned</a>]</i></p><p>That put Rice\u2019s fate back in the hands of the Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office. Larry Krasner, elected D.A. in 2017, could either retry Rice or drop all of the charges. In the meantime, Rice was back to a legal state akin to pretrial detention. He could leave prison under a bail agreement.</p><p>Rice walked out of SCI-Chester that evening with a big smile on his face. He gave Maxfield a warm embrace.</p><p>\u201cAmelia!\u201d he shouted.</p><p>\u201cHey!\u201d she said.</p><p>He carried a tub of his legal work, documents he\u2019d amassed over the years as he\u2019d attempted to prove his innocence. They walked to Maxfield\u2019s rental car. He seemed delirious, in disbelief. He kept saying \u201cWow!\u201d</p><p>\u201cDo you want to change your clothes in the waiting-room bathroom?\u201d Maxfield asked. Rice was still wearing his orange prison sweatshirt and hat. Maxfield had brought a change of clothes for him from his girlfriend, Shawna, but the last place he wanted to go was back into SCI-Chester. So they got in the car and drove to a local diner, where Shawna was waiting.</p><p>\u201cC.J. is an incredible person, and his determination over the past 12 years has been remarkable,\u201d Maxfield told me. \u201cThe problems that led to C.J.\u2019s wrongful conviction\u2014unreliable eyewitnesses, ineffective assistance of counsel, and a poor police investigation\u2014infect so many cases in Philadelphia and across the country.\u201d Maxfield now works for the Exoneration Project, an organization that provides free legal services to the wrongfully convicted. \u201cWe are so happy that C.J. is home and free, and we look forward to continuing the fight for those who are not.\u201d</p><p>\u201cI\u2019m glad to see this wrong righted,\u201d Rice texted me once he was out. Still, his experience had destroyed his confidence in the legal system. \u201cCan\u2019t call it a mistake. Because the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania\u2019s judicial system had at least five separate times to correct this specific situation, and chose not to act in the interest of justice,\u201d he continued, referring to his trial and subsequent appeals. Either the Pennsylvania court system failed to seriously review his case, he said, or it did review it and \u201cchose to allow a clear injustice to stand.\u201d<br />\nRice knows Weaver was bad at her job, but he sees many other systemic reasons why he ended up in prison unfairly. He seems motivated to join the legal system and help others like him. He is whip-smart. He should be a lawyer.</p><figure><img alt=\"a portrait of C.J. Rice\" height=\"831\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/img/posts/2024/03/Gutman_CJ_Rice_03/b27c9587b.jpg\" width=\"665\" />\n<figcaption class=\"caption\">(Caroline Gutman for <em>The Atlantic</em>)</figcaption>\n</figure><p class=\"dropcap\">O<span class=\"smallcaps\">n Sunday</span>, February 4, my father traveled from his home outside Philadelphia to meet up with Rice, who is far from the city, trying to build a new life.</p><p>My father was anxious about how this reunion would go. Though freeing Rice had become one of the great causes of his life, my father hadn\u2019t been within arm\u2019s length of him since September 2011, when Rice came to his office and he inspected the more than two dozen staples holding his torso together after Rice had been shot. Since then, they\u2019d spent years corresponding by mail.</p><p>When my father arrived at the diner where they\u2019d planned to meet, he emailed Rice from the parking lot, telling him he was there. A moment later, Rice appeared at his window.</p><p>\u201cI got out of my car,\u201d my dad recalls. \u201cWe stared at one another briefly and then gave each other a huge hug.\u201d</p><p>My father took in how much Rice had changed since they\u2019d last met. In addition to growing two or three inches, he\u2019s put on about 80 pounds of muscle.</p><p>My dad ordered French toast and sweetened raspberry tea. Rice had tea and a Mexican wrap. As had been their practice over the years that they had exchanged letters, Rice shared some of his writing. He had left behind the college-ruled paper he used in prison for a new iPhone. These were his reflections on being free:</p><blockquote>\n<p>It was a shock to the senses, in both a figurative and literal way. The simple act of a hug is so warming and appreciated, something I\u2019ve become so deprived of for over the past dozen years or so. Amazing how hugs make you feel human. At the same time it feels real but I guess that\u2019s where I ask someone to pinch me so I know I\u2019m not dreaming. Ouch. That\u2019s because it\u2019s reality. Wow. A lot to take in \u2026 like I came out of the twilight zone. Overwhelmingly humble. I guess that\u2019s the best way to try and describe the feeling. Many people who I did not get to see again, guess that\u2019s a part of life and have to keep on keeping on.</p>\n</blockquote><p>After about 90 minutes, my dad and Rice stood, hugged, and returned to their respective homes.</p><p>\u201cThe ruling this morning was the correct one\u2014except C.J. never should have been charged with any crime in the first place,\u201d my dad said today. \u201cThe legal system churns on its own merry way, and justice is seldom found. Twelve years of C.J.\u2019s life were taken away from him without any compensation.\u201d</p><p>That said, some of the photos from my dad reuniting with Rice show a big, relieved smile on his face, a joy that isn\u2019t a common sight.</p><p class=\"dropcap\">W<span class=\"smallcaps\">hen Rice was first arrested</span>, in 2011, his niece Promise was just a month old; he could hold her by cupping his hands together. She\u2019s now 12. When they talk after school, Rice says, he peppers her with questions about what\u2019s happened during her day, what she\u2019s learned. \u201cYou\u2019d be surprised by how <i>real</i> life is out here,\u201d he said. He\u2019s been fascinated by food-delivery apps, streaming services.</p><p>Since his release, he\u2019s tried to spend as much time as possible with his family. Two cousins and a nephew were born while he was incarcerated. Before he was transferred to SCI-Chester, in 2023, a three-hour in-person visit required five hours of driving, round trip, from Philadelphia.</p><p>This past weekend, Rice was sitting by a river, far from the city where he was found guilty and sent to prison. He counted seven seagulls flying overhead, watched a father race his three children down the riverbank. \u201cThere\u2019s so much space out here,\u201d he said. It was just past 4 p.m.; if he were still in prison, he noted, he\u2019d be locked in his cell until \u201cnighttime rec\u201d at 6 p.m., staring at a cold, gray wall.</p><p>\u201cI\u2019m gonna sit here for about 40 minutes and just get it together,\u201d he said. In the future, there will be college, a career, a family. For now, he\u2019s content to let the time pass.</p>"}], "summary": "Two years ago, I wrote an <em>Atlantic</em> cover story about the case of C. J. Rice, a Philadelphia teenager convicted of attempted homicide. Today, he was exonerated. C. J. Rice is now a free man.", "authors": [{"name": "Jake Tapper", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/jake-tapper/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Jake Tapper", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/jake-tapper/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/jake-tapper/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Jake Tapper", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/KEk75yuT9K2MIWa4MnEC6HnYgj8=/media/img/mt/2024/03/Gutman_CJ_Rice_05/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Caroline Gutman for The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Caroline Gutman for The Atlantic", "title": "Finally, Justice", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Finally, Justice"}, "published": "2024-03-18T10:37:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 37, 0, 0, 78, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T13:47:07-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 17, 47, 7, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Two years ago, I wrote an <em>Atlantic</em> cover story about the case of C. J. Rice, a Philadelphia teenager convicted of attempted homicide. Today, he was exonerated. C. J. Rice is now a free man."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/cj-rice-philadelphia-exonerated/677787/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677694", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/caitlin-clark-women-basketball/677694/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p dir=\"ltr\">Earlier this month, Iowa star Caitlin Clark surpassed basketball legend Pete Maravich to become the all-time leading scorer in Division I basketball history\u2014the first time a woman has held this distinction.</p><p>But amid the jubilation over this milestone have been disappointing reminders of just how much of women\u2019s basketball history is forgotten\u2014sometimes at the expense of the Black women who helped nurture and grow the sport when it was considered an afterthought.</p><p>NCAA records show that Clark unseated the University of Washington guard Kelsey Plum as the leading scorer for women. But that\u2019s wrong: Another player named Lynette Woodard actually held that record.</p><p>Woodard scored those points back when women\u2019s sports were governed by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), which tracked individual player records. When the NCAA took over the organization, in the early \u201980s, it counted only individual coaching accomplishments and school win-and-loss records. It didn\u2019t preserve individual player statistics, which means that many athletes have not received the credit they deserved for shaping the game.</p><p>None of this is Clark\u2019s fault. She <a href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaw/2024/03/07/caitlin-clark-explains-wnba-draft-decision/72877560007/\">announced this month</a> that she is forgoing a fifth year of eligibility to enter the WNBA draft, and has been playing brilliantly. Clark has brought unprecedented attention to the women\u2019s game, as evidenced by the record-setting crowd she helped draw to the <a href=\"https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2024/03/06/big-ten-women-basketball-tournament-minneapolis-things-to-do\">Big Ten tournament in Minneapolis </a>last week. In fact, Clark has been <a href=\"https://www.news-press.com/story/sports/2024/03/03/caitlin-clark-and-iowa-set-attendance-records-in-almost-all-their-games-except-these-two/72819485007/\">selling out arenas</a> all season; many fans have lined up for hours to see her play.</p><p>Last year, the NCAA women\u2019s basketball national championship game was the <a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradadgate/2023/04/05/ratings-for-the-march-madness-finals-games-sets-a-record-high-women-and-a-record-low-men/?sh=633e19456837\">most-watched</a> women\u2019s basketball game ever, in large part because of the budding rivalry between Clark and Angel Reese of Louisiana State University, who defeated Iowa 102\u201385. With this being Clark\u2019s final NCAA tournament, the expectation is that this year\u2019s women\u2019s tournament will be an even bigger ratings blockbuster, especially if the Hawkeyes make it to the Final Four.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/angel-reese-jill-biden-ncaa-championship/673628/?utm_source=feed\">Jemele Hill: Angel Reese meets the same old stereotypes</a>]</i></p><p dir=\"ltr\">Unfortunately, it\u2019s taken Clark\u2019s massive popularity\u2014and her breaking some hallowed all-time scoring records\u2014to resurface not only Woodard\u2019s historic accomplishment and her overall impeccable career but the achievements of so many other women who have been crucial to the sport\u2019s success.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Woodard was an Olympic gold medalist who joined the Harlem Globetrotters in 1985, becoming the first woman to ever play for a men\u2019s professional team. While she was in attendance for Clark\u2019s notable performance against Ohio State, she <a href=\"https://twitter.com/CasNegley/status/1764331878734004589?s=20\">told ESPN</a>, \u201cI don\u2019t think Lynette Woodard would have this moment without Caitlin Clark.\u201d</p><p>And not just Woodard. Pearl Moore actually scored more points while at a small college than Clark, Woodard, and Maravich when she played for Francis Marion College in Florence, South Carolina, from 1975 to 1979.</p><p>The NCAA has a long history of failing to properly support women\u2019s sports. Just two years ago <a href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/ncaa-apologizes-womens-basketball-players-weight-room-disparity/story?id=76563430#:~:text=Interest%20Successfully%20Added-,NCAA%20apologizes%20to%20women's%20basketball%20players%20for%20weight%20room%20disparity,ve%20been%20doing%20to%20prepare.%22&amp;text=NCAA%20officials%20apologized%20for%20%22dropping,during%20the%20Division%201%20tournaments.\">the NCAA was forced to publicly apologize</a> after the former University of Oregon player Sedona Prince posted a video on social media showing how substandard the training facilities were for the women\u2019s players competing in the tournament compared with the men\u2019s. This same organization fought against the passage of Title IX\u2014the landmark legislation passed in 1972 that prohibited discrimination in federally funded higher-education institutions based on gender and mandated fair opportunities for female athletes. In 1976, the NCAA tried unsuccessfully to sue its way out of <a href=\"https://vault.si.com/vault/2012/05/07/title-ix-timeline\">complying with Title IX</a>. The NCAA eventually complied with the law by <a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/women-college-sports-ncaa-aiaw-11617422325\">essentially executing a hostile takeover of the AIAW</a>.</p><p>Maybe some of that hostility remains, because the refusal to acknowledge the individual AIAW records doesn\u2019t make any sense, and it does a disservice to not only Clark but the new fans she\u2019s brought to the game who would be better served knowing the game\u2019s complete history. For example, as remarkable as it is that Clark is averaging 32 points a game this season, during the AIAW days, Carol Blazejowski averaged 38.6 points a game in her final season at Montclair State College\u2014the highest single-season scoring average for a woman. But according to the NCAA, that record doesn\u2019t exist either.</p><p>Other prominent sports leagues have successfully integrated records from preexisting and competing leagues. In 2020, Major League Baseball <a href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/negro-leagues-given-major-league-status-for-baseball-records-stats\">announced that it was adding Negro League baseball</a> statistics to its official records, recognizing about 3,400 Negro League baseball players as MLB players. The NFL also integrated statistics from its onetime rival, the American Football League, which the NFL merged with in 1970.</p><p>But Clark\u2019s popularity and the NCAA\u2019s shoddy behavior are much more than just entry points to discuss equitable record keeping. The attention Clark has drawn also opens a wider conversation about how many Black women, such as Woodard and Moore, have been marginalized in this sport despite their invaluable contributions.</p><p>Although both Moore and Woodard have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame\u2014perhaps the highest honor for a basketball player\u2014the NCAA not recognizing their scoring records is an insult to their legacies. Sports media have also played a role in dismissing the magnitude of what these athletes have accomplished. The University of Massachusetts researchers E. Nicole Melton and Risa Isard <a href=\"https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/SB-Blogs/COVID19-OpEds/2021/05/24-IsardMelton.aspx\">released a study</a> in 2021 that showed a deep discrepancy in media coverage between white and Black WNBA players. The research focused on 2020, when Black women accounted for 80 percent of the postseason WNBA awards, including the Most Valuable Player award. According to the report, Black WNBA players on average received 52 media mentions while their white counterparts received 118. A\u2019ja Wilson, the 2020 WNBA MVP, for instance, received half the media coverage of the white player Sabrina Ionescu that season, though Ionescu played in only three games that year due to injury.</p><p>White players are aware of this disparity. When the University of Connecticut star Paige Bueckers accepted her award for best female college athlete at the 2021 ESPYs, <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/11/us/paige-bueckers-espys-speech/index.html\">she expressed her gratitude for the Black women</a> in basketball, because she knew their contributions tended not to be viewed with the respect they deserve.</p><p>\u201cWith the light that I have now as a white woman who leads a Black-led sport and celebrated here, I want to shed a light on Black women,\u201d said Bueckers, who was <a href=\"https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-women/article/2021-04-03/uconn-freshman-paige-bueckers-named-2021-naismith-trophy-winner\">the reigning Naismith national player of the year</a> at the time. \u201cThey don\u2019t get the media coverage that they deserve. They\u2019ve given so much to the sport, the community, and society as a whole, and their value is undeniable.\u201d</p><p>While celebrating Clark\u2019s accomplishments and decorated NCAA career, we should also remember the pioneers who helped carry her to this inflection point in the sport. The very least that legends such as Moore, Blazejowski, and Woodard deserve is having their accomplishments properly included in the history of the game.</p>"}], "summary": "A wider conversation about how many Black women athletes have been marginalized in this sport, despite their invaluable contributions", "authors": [{"name": "Jemele Hill", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/jemele-hill/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Jemele Hill", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/jemele-hill/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/jemele-hill/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Jemele Hill", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/xmpVDDiWOu86wvdy9mg_6N1oj88=/media/img/mt/2024/03/h_15667892/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Bryan Anselm / Redux"}], "credit": "Bryan Anselm / Redux", "title": "What Caitlin Clark\u2019s Fans Are Missing", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "What Caitlin Clark\u2019s Fans Are Missing"}, "published": "2024-03-18T09:24:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 13, 24, 0, 0, 78, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T11:19:54-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 15, 19, 54, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "A wider conversation about how many Black women athletes have been marginalized in this sport, despite their invaluable contributions"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/caitlin-clark-women-basketball/677694/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677778", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/musk-zuckerberg-altman-drama-kings-tech/677778/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p>One Tuesday last month, Mark Zuckerberg uploaded a video to Instagram, but not to his Stories, where it would quickly disappear. This one was a keeper. He put it right on his permanent grid. It shows Zuckerberg sitting on his living-room couch in comfy pants and a dark T-shirt, while his friend Kenny records him through Meta\u2019s mixed-reality headset. Zuckerberg proceeds to rattle off a three-and-a-half-minute critique of Apple\u2019s new mixed-reality headset, the Vision Pro. His tone is surprisingly combative. At certain points, he sounds like a forum post come to life. \u201cSome fanboys get upset\u201d when people question Apple, he says, but his company\u2019s much cheaper headset is not only a better value; it is a better product, \u201cperiod.\u201d CEOs of the world\u2019s most valuable companies don\u2019t often star in this kind of video. It reminded me of a commercial that a car-dealership owner might make about a rival.</p><p>I don\u2019t mean to moralize. Marketing is a matter of taste, and Zuckerberg is entitled to his. I mention this video only because it\u2019s part of a larger atmosphere of chippiness in the world of Big Tech. Just last year, a slow-burn feud between Zuckerberg and Elon Musk flared into threats of violence\u2014albeit refereed\u2014when Musk suggested that the two face off in a cage match. \u201cSend Me Location,\u201d Zuckerberg replied on Instagram. In the weeks that followed, Musk, who habitually lobs <a href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1386825367948644352?lang=en\">sexual taunts</a> at his rivals, called Zuckerberg a \u201ccuck\u201d and challenged him to \u201ca literal dick measuring contest.\u201d But amid the tough talk, Musk also seemed to be playing for time. He said that he\u2019d contacted Italy\u2019s prime minister and minister of culture, and that they had agreed to host the fight in an \u201cepic location\u201d among the ruins of ancient Rome. Zuckerberg implied that this was all news to him. Within days, Musk said he would ask his Tesla to drive him to Zuckerberg\u2019s house to fight him in his backyard. He even said that he would livestream it. Alas, Zuckerberg was out of town. Eventually, both men got injured\u2014they are, after all, middle-aged\u2014and the whole idea was abandoned.</p><p>Captains of industry have been known to mix it up on occasion. Collis Huntington, the American industrialist and railway magnate, once called Leland Stanford a \u201c<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1938/05/men-against-mountains/655022/?utm_source=feed\">damned old fool</a>.\u201d Michael Ovitz said that David Geffen was part of a \u201c<a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2002/08/ovitz200208\">Gay Mafia</a>,\u201d determined to bring him down. But, to my knowledge, none of them ever proposed a cage match. Even in their histrionics, the drama kings of tech aim to disrupt.</p><p>Their schoolyard feuding cuts an odd contrast with the earnestness that so often emanates from Silicon Valley. We have long known, for instance, that <em>very serious </em>conflicting views about AI safety played a role in November\u2019s boardroom drama at OpenAI, but it was also driven by interpersonal resentments. Last week, <em>The New York Times</em> <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/technology/openai-executives-role-in-sam-altman-ouster.html\">reported</a> that before Sam Altman\u2019s ouster, Mira Murati, the company\u2019s chief technology officer, sent Altman a private memo \u201coutlining some of her concerns with his behavior.\u201d According to the <em>Times</em>, she told OpenAI\u2019s board that when Altman went to sell some new strategic direction, he would put on a charming mask, but when people dissented or even just delayed, he would freeze them out. In a statement <a href=\"https://twitter.com/miramurati/status/1766247920242929913\">posted to X</a>, Murati described these anonymous claims as misleading, and said that the previous board members were scapegoating her to save face. Altman reposted Murati\u2019s post with a heart emoji, the lingua franca of reconciliation at OpenAI. Now that he\u2019s back with a new board in place, the company line is: <em>It\u2019s time to move on.</em></p><p>Musk, who cannot seem to stand the idea that there might be tech drama somewhere that does not involve him, has been trolling OpenAI relentlessly on X. Last week, he posted a doctored image of Altman holding up a visitor\u2019s pass that read \u201cClosedAI,\u201d and followed up this past Tuesday with a word-cloud image of the company\u2019s logo, in which every word was <a href=\"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1767594547591180564\"><em>lie</em></a>. (Not his best work.) He also filed a lawsuit against the company. It alleges that by pursuing material gain instead of the good of all humanity, OpenAI\u2019s executives have breached their \u201cfounding agreement.\u201d The company responded with a blog post that soberly refuted some of Musk\u2019s claims, but Altman also went to X to respond personally. He tracked down an old Musk post from 2019, in which he had thanked Altman for criticizing Tesla\u2019s naysayers. Altman replied with \u201c<a href=\"https://twitter.com/sama/status/1763687262536290615\">anytime</a>\u201d and a salute emoji, implying that Musk is now the one bitterly rooting against the high cause of innovation.</p><p>Moguls in other sectors rarely put one another on blast like this in public. (They have the decency to call a reporter and do it on background.) It\u2019s hard to know whether this performative strain in tech culture reflects something essential about the industry. Maybe its leaders are just unusually visible, because the legacy media are more interested in them, or because they figure so prominently on the social-media platforms that they operate. Or maybe a few outlier personalities\u2014Musk in particular\u2014are responsible for most of the soap-opera vibes. It could also be the general cultural atmosphere. Over the past 20 years, a fashion for aggrieved and confrontational behavior has migrated out of reality television into the wider entertainment and <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/bill-ackman-neri-oxman-twitter-posts/677164/?utm_source=feed\">business</a> worlds, and also into politics, in the person of Donald Trump.</p><p>If the tech titans weren\u2019t so self-serious, their bad behavior might simply blend into this broader coarsening. Folk wisdom and life experience tell us that rivalries and infighting will emerge, organically, anywhere that there is money and power. That\u2019s why we direct our scrutiny wherever those things accumulate. But the leaders of the tech world want to wave us off, on the grounds that they are playing for higher stakes than just money and power. They tell us that yesterday\u2019s technologists were the framers of our very civilization and that today\u2019s are ushering in a benevolent future. They assure us that they have thought through that future\u2019s risks and know exactly which ones to worry about, up to and including those that may be existential. They insist that they are the grown-ups. We will believe it when we see it.</p>"}], "summary": "Just stop.", "authors": [{"name": "Ross Andersen", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/ross-andersen/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Ross Andersen", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/ross-andersen/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/ross-andersen/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Ross Andersen", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/Cd1RFCL5gM_nrGOjWXdWVLiOdeA=/media/img/mt/2024/03/drama_kings_tech_2/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Chris Ratcliffe / Odd Andersen / Chesnot / Getty."}], "credit": "Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Chris Ratcliffe / Odd Andersen / Chesnot / Getty.", "title": "The Drama Kings of Tech", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "The Drama Kings of Tech"}, "published": "2024-03-18T09:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 13, 0, 0, 0, 78, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T13:39:38-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 17, 39, 38, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Just stop."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/musk-zuckerberg-altman-drama-kings-tech/677778/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677777", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/joe-biden-unrequited-love-american-workers/677777/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p>Joe Biden <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/12/teamsters-biden-trump-unions/#:~:text=But%20in%202020%2C%20Biden%20secured,good%20shot%2C%20I%20think.%E2%80%9D\">courted</a> the leaders of the Teamsters this week, looking for the endorsement of the 1.3-million-member union. He will probably get it. The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, <a href=\"https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/8-ways-the-biden-administration-has-fought-for-working-people-by-strengthening-unions/#:~:text=American%20workers%20want%20to%20unionize,pro%2Dunion%20president%20in%20history.\">calls him</a> \u201cthe most pro-union president in history.\u201d He\u2019s already won the endorsement of many of the country\u2019s most important unions, including the United Auto Workers, the AFSCME public employees\u2019 union, the Service Employees International Union, and the main umbrella organization, the AFL-CIO.</p><p>Biden\u2019s real concern in November, though, isn\u2019t getting the support of union leaders; it\u2019s winning the support of union <i>members</i>. Labor\u2019s rank and file were a valuable part of his winning coalition in 2020, when, according to AP VoteCast, he <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/12/teamsters-biden-trump-unions/\">got 56 percent</a> of the union vote. Today, things on this front are looking a little shakier, particularly in key electoral battlegrounds. A <i>New York Times</i>/Siena survey of swing states late last year, for instance, <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/31/politics/union-voters-election-trump-biden/index.html\">found</a> that Biden was tied with Donald Trump among union voters (who, that same survey noted, had voted for Biden by an eight-point margin in the previous general election).</p><p>That slippage is not itself a reason for Democratic panic, because it suggests that the drop-off in union support has been similar to the decline in support for Biden generally. But the softening support among union voters is striking in light of how hard Biden has tried to win their trust. He has certainly shown his love for workers during his three-plus years in office, but not even unionized workers seem to love him back.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/biden-railroad-labor-unions-deal-erik-loomis/671445/?utm_source=feed\">Read: Is Biden the most pro-union president in history?</a>]</i></p><p>Biden has made plenty of symbolic and rhetorical gestures, including <a href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-wasnt-invited-to-white-house-electric-cars-summit-2021-8\">the exclusion</a> of Tesla CEO Elon Musk from a 2021 electric-vehicle summit at the White House, most likely because of Musk\u2019s anti-union stance, and <a href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-makes-history-striking-auto-workers-picket-line-rcna117348\">walking</a> a UAW picket line during the union\u2019s strike against the Big Three carmakers last fall. He\u2019s made support for labor, and the working class generally, a legislative priority, pushing bills that subsidize investments in infrastructure and manufacturing, protect union pension funds, fund apprenticeships, and boost wages for federal contractors. He also kept Trump\u2019s trade tariffs, which industrial unions mostly favored, in place. And the people he appointed to the National Labor Relations Board have handed down a series of rulings that <a href=\"https://prospect.org/labor/2023-08-28-bidens-nlrb-brings-workers-rights-back/\">have made it easier</a> for workers to organize and harder for employers to punish them for doing so. To give just one metric (<a href=\"https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/8-ways-the-biden-administration-has-fought-for-working-people-by-strengthening-unions/\">from the Center for American Progress</a>), the NLRB ordered companies to hire back more illegally fired workers in Biden\u2019s first year than it did during Trump\u2019s entire four years in office.</p><p>Biden has done all of this at a time when unions are enjoying a big surge in popularity. Fifteen years ago, public support for unions, as <a href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/12751/labor-unions.aspx\">measured by</a> Gallup, dipped below 50 percent for the first time since it was first surveyed, in the 1930s. Today, more than two-thirds of Americans say they support unions, one of the highest marks since the \u201960s, and polling <a href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/510281/unions-strengthening.aspx\">found that</a> two-thirds to three-quarters of Americans supported the recent strikes by the UAW and by Hollywood screenwriters and actors, which not only enjoyed a high profile but were also successful. Perhaps this means that Biden would be doing even worse in the polls if he hadn\u2019t been so pro-labor. But so far, the political rewards seem to have been meager at best.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/auto-industry-uaw-strike-profit/675418/?utm_source=feed\">James Surowiecki: The Big Three\u2019s inevitable collision with the UAW</a>]</i></p><p>Some of this can be explained straightforwardly by the fact that the same issues dragging down Biden\u2019s popularity among voters generally, such as inflation and immigration, also hurt him with union voters. That seems particularly true for white men working in old-line industries, a segment of workers who were already disposed to support Trump. (According to a <a href=\"https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/unions-critical-democratic-partys-electoral-success/\">Center for American Progress Action Fund study</a>, white male non-college-educated union workers supported Trump over Biden by 27 points in 2020, though Biden did nine points better with them than he did with white male non-college <i>non-union</i> workers.)</p><p>On top of this, the percentage of American workers in unions has not risen over the past three years\u2014only about 10 percent of all workers are unionized, according to <a href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf\">the Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>, and in the private sector, that proportion falls below 7 percent (despite some high-profile organizing campaigns such as the one at Starbucks). So even though the public has become more supportive of labor organizations, union issues simply have less cultural and political resonance than they once did. And unions themselves are less integral to their members\u2019 daily lives than they once were, particularly in former industrial strongholds that are now swing states, as the Harvard scholars Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol document in their recent book, <a href=\"https://cup.columbia.edu/book/rust-belt-union-blues/9780231208826\"><i>Rust Belt Union Blues</i></a>. That means it takes more work to reach union voters and win their support; endorsements from leaders alone won\u2019t deliver workers\u2019 votes.</p><p>Another dimension of Biden\u2019s limited success is that he faces an opponent in Trump who, unlike most Republican presidential candidates, has also courted union voters aggressively while selling himself as a tribune of the working class. That stand is mostly marketing: During Trump\u2019s presidency, the NLRB was actively hostile to union organizing efforts, and when House Democrats passed a bill that would make joining unions easier for workers and significantly weaken states\u2019 right-to-work laws, the Trump White House <a href=\"https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/union-leaders-laud-house-passage-of-pro-act-trump-veto-threatened/\">threatened to veto it</a>. (The president never got the chance; the bill did not come up for a vote in the Senate.) But Trump\u2019s rhetorical nods toward labor have helped blur the contrast between him and Biden. And the fact that Trump\u2019s signature economic issue is raising tariffs has also helped him with union voters.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/where-trump-gm-strike/598189/?utm_source=feed\">David A. Graham: Why isn\u2019t Trump helping the autoworkers?</a>]</i></p><p>What that suggests, of course, is that Biden needs to do a better job of sharpening that contrast on labor policy. But that\u2019s not as easy as it sounds. Much of the struggle over workers\u2019 rights and interests today takes place in a courtroom or through administrative hearings or via regulatory changes. This sort of bureaucratic haggling means that it\u2019s hard to make labor issues vivid for voters\u2014even union voters. For all the difference in the NLRB\u2019s record during the Biden administration compared with that under Trump, administrative-agency rulings are not the stuff of a rousing stump speech.</p><p>These problems are not insurmountable\u2014and the unions themselves will be trying to help Biden surmount them. (The Service Employees International Union, for instance, <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/13/seiu-biden-democrats-election/\">just announced</a> that it would be spending $200 million on voter education in this election cycle.) And once the presidential campaign gets fully under way, union voters may well move back in Biden\u2019s direction. But Biden\u2019s difficulty in landing their support is a microcosm of his struggles with voters broadly: The way they feel about him seems disconnected from what he\u2019s done.</p>"}], "summary": "The most pro-labor president in history could hardly do more for unions, but their members aren\u2019t feeling it.", "authors": [{"name": "James Surowiecki", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/james-surowiecki/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "James Surowiecki", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/james-surowiecki/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/james-surowiecki/?utm_source=feed", "author": "James Surowiecki", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/ka2CaEOl8VA7wrKE6dUOXFcI0QM=/media/img/mt/2024/03/HR_15300925/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Bridget Bennett / The New York Times / Redux"}], "credit": "Bridget Bennett / The New York Times / Redux", "title": "Why Biden\u2019s Pro-worker Stance Isn\u2019t Working", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Why Biden\u2019s Pro-worker Stance Isn\u2019t Working"}, "published": "2024-03-18T07:30:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 11, 30, 0, 0, 78, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T13:52:03-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 17, 52, 3, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "The most pro-labor president in history could hardly do more for unions, but their members aren\u2019t feeling it."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/joe-biden-unrequited-love-american-workers/677777/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677768", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/hyunam-dong-bookshop-hwang-boreum-novel-review/677768/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p>Some of my friends and I keep an accountability tracker to help us stay on top of our goals. Most of us use it to keep tabs on our weekly freelance assignments. Sometime last year, I also started using it to monitor my reading, which is all I really do with my free time anyway. My friends couldn\u2019t understand why these novels needed to invade our tracker\u2014but I liked having my recreational activities on my to-do list. Although it rebranded one of my favorite <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/01/history-hobbies-america-productivity-leisure/621150/?utm_source=feed\">hobbies as work</a>, this seemed natural enough to me: Anything that brings joy is serious business.</p><p>This murky line between labor and leisure lies at the core of Hwang Bo-reum\u2019s debut novel, <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9781639732425\"><i>Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop</i></a>. Through a constellation of characters that orbit the titular store, Hwang explores how a person might choose to counter <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/?utm_source=feed\">workism</a> without rejecting work entirely, and how a meaningful life might be built by applying oneself to even the most pleasurable pastimes.</p><div class=\"review-placeholder\"></div><p>Yeongju, a former office employee in Seoul, is suffering from intense burnout: After a career-driven life in which she toiled through vacations and saw her husband in their corporate canteen more often than at home, she quits her job, files for divorce, and moves across the city for a fresh start. She doesn\u2019t know what she wants to do with her life\u2014but she loves to read, and uses her savings to open a bookshop in Hyunam-dong, a neighborhood she chooses because one of the characters in its name means \u201crest.\u201d</p><p>But Yeongju quickly realizes that her new life still involves work. She is frequently drowning in book orders, accounting tasks, and inventory checks. When she\u2019s not treading water, she\u2019s hosting a monthly book club or running a popular interview series with authors. Sometimes she will \u201cstew in regret\u201d at all of her freshly assumed responsibilities, but she finds that she usually isn\u2019t satisfied until she completes them.</p><p>Her bookshop begins to attract a group of regulars and employees who are similarly disillusioned with the corporate world. Through them, Hwang explores the different forms that hard work can take\u2014including in the service of activities that are unrelated to making a living, but add momentum to her characters\u2019 lives. Minjun, the store\u2019s new barista, dropped out of the rat race after a year of job rejections and spends his days diligently studying coffee, films, and yoga. Seungwoo, a dissatisfied former programmer, is \u201cimmersing himself in the Korean language.\u201d Jungsuh, who spent eight years as a \u201cpermanent contract\u201d worker until \u201cthe anger destroyed [her] body,\u201d now comes to the bookshop to meditate and crochet. Mincheol, a high-school student with seemingly little interest in life, sits riveted watching Jungsuh\u2019s knitting needles.</p><p>Each character has turned away, in one form or another, from inherited notions of success and is looking to find their own. One night, some of them gather to discuss a book with a fitting theme\u2014David Frayne\u2019s <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9781350354296\"><i>The Refusal of Work</i></a>. The outpouring of frustration about their careers is familiar: The corporate world held no promise of stability, even for those who played the game right; there was always another goal to achieve, without the guarantee of rest. Meanwhile, their bosses kept pressuring them to identify as a \u201cteam\u201d or \u201c<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/02/work-actually-is-like-a-family/622813/?utm_source=feed\">family</a>.\u201d</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/04/kikuko-tsumura-new-kind-office-novel-theres-no-such-thing-as-an-easy-job/618474/?utm_source=feed\">Read: The paradox of caring about \u2018bullshit\u2019 jobs</a>]</i></p><p>As Yeongju and her friends discover, though, true \u201cresistance to work,\u201d undertaken deliberately, also takes work. After the bookshop\u2019s events become more popular, Yeongju begins fielding requests to write for various publications, including a books column for a local paper; she takes \u201ccare and pride in writing each piece, even though it felt like she had to squeeze out every last bit of her brain juices.\u201d She feels an affinity for people who \u201cgive their utmost to a pursuit\u201d and is initially drawn to Minjun because he begins practicing his barista skills on the bookstore\u2019s \u201cno barista Mondays\u201d\u2014his off days.</p><p>Such moments underscore that Hwang\u2019s characters don\u2019t actually want to stop being industrious; they\u2019re just trying to build up a more satisfying understanding of work for themselves, one that doesn\u2019t bind their \u201cwhole identity and value\u201d to a company. They discover, for one, the benefits of goals that are short-term, simple, and malleable. \u201cInstead of agonising over what you should do, think about putting effort into whatever you\u2019re doing,\u201d Seungwoo, the programmer turned writer, tells Mincheol, the disenchanted high-schooler. Minjun \u201canchor[s] himself with coffee,\u201d simply focusing on making the best cup he can. The point is not for them to clearly define what makes them happy but rather to recognize the moments in which they are. What the bookshop\u2019s denizens come to see is that the problems with their former office environments\u2014no matter how widespread\u2014couldn\u2019t always explain why they were miserable, or teach them how not to be. What they can do, as they reconsider how to spend their lives, is pay close attention to what they\u2019re doing, and do it with care.</p><p>In doing so, they bring a different meaning to the idea of \u201coptimizing\u201d one\u2019s life. They may seek to be productive, but they don\u2019t shy away from the conviction that taking life day by day\u2014and measuring happiness without \u201cstak[ing] everything on a single accomplishment\u201d\u2014can coexist with being willing to work, not necessarily toward an end goal but for the pleasure of the moment. My mother, for one, is always engaged with projects and deadlines that she has set for herself. Though she likes to think of herself as constantly \u201cbusy doing nothing,\u201d like Minjun with his coffee, she has slowly built herself into a formidable bridge player and a prolific crochet artist. She, too, has accepted that the external pressure of success is unlikely to be satisfying, but that each game, completed scarf, or cup of coffee is a serious achievement in itself.</p><p>By the end of the story, Yeongju has committed to keeping the bookshop open and acknowledged it not just as her place of rest but as her dream, her job, and her source of joy all at once. She takes a leave of absence to go on a tour of independent bookshops, planning to study what makes them thrive and return to Hyunam-dong with new ideas. Minjun assumes responsibility for the bookshop in the meantime. In her farewell note to him, Yeongju writes:</p><blockquote>\n<p>I had thought of work as stairs. Stairs to climb to reach the top. Now, I see work as food. Food that you need every day. Food that makes a difference to my body, my heart, my mental health, and my soul. There is food you just shove down your throat, and food that you eat with care and sincerity. I want to be one who takes great care in eating simple food. Not for anyone, but for myself.</p>\n</blockquote><p>Her words acknowledge the fundamental difference between the pressure to succeed and the instinct to improve, the difference between being a \u201cjob seeker\u201d and searching for meaningful work. And they suggest that, perhaps, the wisest thing to do is to get up every day and treat our minor routines like they matter; to approach the various pockets of our lives, whether they are spaces of work or play, with both flexibility and commitment.</p>"}], "summary": "A new novel suggests that finding daily satisfaction is itself a serious job.", "authors": [{"name": "Apoorva Tadepalli", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/apoorva-tadepalli/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Apoorva Tadepalli", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/apoorva-tadepalli/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/apoorva-tadepalli/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Apoorva Tadepalli", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/23cYR12e0h3lhBubD2EP8q-EzNs=/media/img/mt/2024/03/book/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty."}], "credit": "Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty.", "title": "What Comes After Workism?", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "What Comes After Workism?"}, "published": "2024-03-18T07:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 11, 0, 0, 0, 78, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T08:43:02-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 12, 43, 2, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "A new novel suggests that finding daily satisfaction is itself a serious job."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/hyunam-dong-bookshop-hwang-boreum-novel-review/677768/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677775", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/american-satellites-russia-ukraine-war/677775/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p>Earlier this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got unusually testy over the failure of the United States to deliver anti-missile and anti-drone systems. On March 2, a strike in Odesa had <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/04/europe/russian-drone-strike-killed-12-odesa-intl/index.html\">killed 12 people, five of them children</a>. \u201cThe world has enough missile-defense systems,\u201d he said. Debates over funding have kept those systems from being delivered. \u201cDelaying the supply of weapons to Ukraine, missile-defense systems to protect our people, leads, unfortunately, to such losses.\u201d</p><p>Others in Ukraine\u2019s government, however, have expressed an even deeper frustration. What if Americans, in addition to not sending defensive assistance to Ukraine, <i>are </i>sending offensive assistance to Russia? A Ukrainian military source told me he believes that Russia\u2019s long-range strikes, by cruise missiles that are among the most costly weapons in its nonnuclear arsenal, are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies. He says the sequence is clear: A satellite snaps pictures of a site, then some days or weeks later a missile lands. Sometimes another satellite is sent to capture additional images afterward, perhaps to check the extent of the damage. \u201cThe number of coincidences, where the images are followed by strikes, is too high to be random,\u201d the source told me. (I agreed not to name him because he is not authorized to speak publicly.)</p><p>Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence. But the suspicious cases have added up, and because many satellite-imagery companies offer a backlist of archived images, marked with dates and coordinates, it\u2019s possible to browse tens of thousands of images taken of Ukraine and notice suggestive patterns. In the week before April 2, 2022, about a month after Russia\u2019s initial invasion, images of a remote <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrhorod_Air_Base\">airfield</a> outside Myrhorod, Ukraine, were requested from American companies at least nine times. Myrhorod is not a particularly interesting place, apart from that airfield. On April 2, <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/air-strike-damages-airfield-fuel-depot-ukraines-poltava-region-says-governor-2022-04-02/\">missiles landed</a> there. In the week that followed, someone asked for images of the airfield again. Satellite imaging has preceded strikes in urban areas as well: In Lviv, just before March 26, 2022, someone tasked a satellite with looking at a factory used for military-armor production. <a href=\"https://interfax.com.ua/news/general/818290.html\">It, too, was struck</a>. In late January of this year, someone commissioned a commercial-satellite company to take fresh images of Kyiv, just before the city was hit by a missile barrage.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/09/starlink-satellite-technology-foreign-national-security-ukraine/675290/?utm_source=feed\">Steven Feldstein: The answer to Starlink is more Starlinks</a>]</i></p><p>There are hundreds of such cases. The Ukrainians say they monitor flyovers by Russia\u2019s own satellites. But until recently, they assumed that the satellites of <i>allies</i> would not be available for Russia\u2019s advantage. \u201cBefore about six months ago, we couldn\u2019t imagine that private companies would be selling satellite imagery in sensitive areas,\u201d the Ukrainian military official told me. But \u201cit has become hard to believe that [these coincidences] are random.\u201d Russian satellite capabilities are limited, and Ukraine\u2019s are too. Anyone who has seen the social-media footage of ragtag infantrymen huddled in trenches is aware that this war is being fought by two poor countries. But with subterfuge, even poor countries can try to rent the services of rich ones\u2014or, more precisely, the services of the private companies that operate within the rich ones\u2019 borders.</p><p>Ukraine\u2019s deputy defense minister, Kateryna Chernohorenko, sent me a statement noting that U.S. satellite companies have supported Ukraine. But she said that her ministry\u2019s experts suspect that Russia \u201cpurchases satellite imagery through third-party companies\u201d that do business with Western satellite-imagery companies, and that these images \u201ccould be used in armed aggression against Ukraine.\u201d</p><p>Ordering imagery from these companies is simpler than you might think. Stale, blurry images are free on Google Maps. Fresh, crisp imagery of something you may or may not wish to blow to smithereens costs a little more. A site called spymesat.com tracks various companies\u2019 satellites and will give a cost estimate for a brand-new image taken the next time one of them passes over the location you choose. In the business, ordering a satellite to take an image is called \u201ctasking.\u201d The companies offer astonishingly fast turnaround times, at costs in the low thousands of dollars. Faster turnaround and higher resolution raise the cost. I zoomed in on the apartment where I stayed in Odesa early in the war, and the site told me that a U.S. company would let me task its satellite for $1,200 when it passed in just a few hours. If I went there now and painted <span class=\"smallcaps\">BOMB ME</span> in huge letters on the roof, the paint would still be wet for its close-up.</p><p>For even less, one can order archival imagery from Ukraine\u2014some of it very recent, and of militarily significant areas. The city of Zaporizhzhia is about an hour\u2019s drive from the front line. An <em>Atlantic</em> staffer requested a recent satellite photo of that city from a reseller that works with Planet, a San Francisco-based commercial satellite company. The staffer gave the reseller a credit-card number and a name, and received a high-resolution image just minutes later.</p><p>Some targets are stationary: You can\u2019t move an air base. But even those are worth monitoring persistently, sometimes weeks or even months before an intended attack. A cruise missile costs about $1 million, so a kopeck-pinching government would happily pay just a few thousand dollars for recent evidence of how a target is being used, what\u2019s there, and what time of day is optimal for maximum damage. Watching a parking lot outside a factory or barracks can tell you when the building is full and when it is empty. A strike on a full building kills more than a strike on an empty one, so these images can theoretically multiply the Ukrainian body count, at minimal extra cost. Many of the images tasked in Ukraine\u2014including many of sites of future strikes\u2014show only cloud cover. These very expensive images of clouds are still much cheaper than another cruise missile.</p><p>Two of the largest commercial-satellite-imaging companies in the United States are Maxar and Planet. Both have produced imagery of Ukrainian sites later struck by Russian missiles. Both stressed that they vet their customers diligently, and that they have observed the U.S. regulation that has forbidden transactions with Russia since the beginning of the war. Maxar declined to comment on specific cases of suspicious imagery orders in Ukraine but said it \u201cceased all business with Russian entities, including resellers, in early March 2022.\u201d Planet said it was dedicated to providing imagery to \u201cresponsible actors such as governments, aid and relief organizations, and media,\u201d with \u201cdiligent operations to avoid the potential for misuse and abuse.\u201d A spokesperson from Planet told me that after a review of more than a dozen cases of prestrike tasking, the company \u201cdid not find evidence of misuse or abuse.\u201d The spokesperson declined to comment further or explain how Planet had exonerated itself in these cases.</p><p>Neither company was willing to say whether it had ever detected instances when it suspected that Russia had used its satellites, nor was either willing to describe how it ensured that its customers were not in fact Russian front companies. Maxar and Planet would not say how they would respond if they noticed a suspicious pattern\u2014image tasking, missile strike on a Ukrainian airfield, follow-up tasking. \u201cWe regularly conduct thorough reviews\u201d of security, a Maxar spokesperson told me, and have implemented \u201cmore stringent controls\u201d for Ukraine imagery.</p><p>Sometimes the tasking is benign. If you deal in commodities, you might peek at Odesa\u2019s port to see whether ships are loaded with grain, and whether the world\u2019s grain supply is about to rise. You might also order an image of a wheat field 150 miles north, in Kropyvnytskyi, to see whether the crop is harvested early or late. Even sites of military significance can be of interest to neutral or friendly entities\u2014including the Ukrainian government itself, media organizations, and humanitarian groups that need accurate pictures of the conflict to do their work.</p><p>An executive of a firm that analyzes satellite imagery told me that the firm noticed a pattern dating back to 2022, by cross-referencing tasked images against actual attacks. (The executive requested anonymity because the firm does business with the same satellite companies whose images it reviewed, and does not want its relationships to sour over bad publicity.) The executive identified more than 350 Russian missile strikes in the first year of the war, all deep within Ukrainian territory. I showed a selection of cases to Jack O\u2019Connor, who teaches geospatial intelligence at Johns Hopkins University, and he wrote back, \u201cThe data suggests that the Russians are doing what the Ukrainians suspect.\u201d He was, however, cautious about what one can infer with certainty, no matter what patterns one sees. \u201cThere is no direct causal relation that can be proven from this data.\u201d</p><p>In any particular case, it\u2019s impossible to be sure whether the tasking was done with malign intent. That is especially true when the imagery captures a large area. (Maxar, for example, produces very-high-resolution images of whole neighborhoods or even towns.) But the correlations are there. On February 27, 2022, days after the outbreak of war, Maxar was tasked with taking an image near the Belarusian border. On March 6, 2022, <a href=\"https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/03/6/7328702/\">a Russian missile hit</a> buildings in Ovruch\u2014which happened to be dead in the middle of the previous week\u2019s tasked image. (Maxar declined to say whether it had taken these images, but a source with access to the company\u2019s catalog confirmed that the images were in it.) On May 18, 2022, with the war in full swing, someone asked Maxar to look at a large square in the town of Lubny. Two days later, <a href=\"https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3487870-lubny-community-hit-by-missile-strike-infrastructure-damaged.html\">a missile struck</a> Lubny, and soon after, someone asked Maxar to take another look, in the area of the original image where the missile had just hit.</p><p>The Ukrainian military official acknowledged the possibility that the tasking was just a benevolent citizen or group with curiosity about obscure Ukrainian military assets and armor factories. And he said he had no reason to believe that the companies themselves favor Russia in the war. Planet and Maxar both do a great deal of business with the U.S. government, and intentionally helping Russia would jeopardize contracts and invite regulation.</p><p>But the executive I spoke with said that to keep the imagery out of Russian hands, the satellite companies would have to control not just which customers they accept tasking from but also the resale of those images. The executive said the U.S. companies\u2019 process of vetting their customers was \u201cdetailed.\u201d Industry experts stressed that the companies have contracts with the U.S. government, and would not gain from doing business with Russia under the table. Although Maxar insists that it no longer does business with Russian entities, including resellers, it did not reply when I asked whether its resellers\u2019 customers also stopped doing business with Russian entities.</p><p>The U.S. companies\u2019 desire to avoid doing business with Russia, directly or indirectly, is not in serious doubt. A former U.S. official who worked on commercial-satellite regulation told me that, early in the war, the companies regularly approached the government seeking help to determine whether their customers might be working for the Russians. \u201cIt was a confusing time,\u201d he said, \u201cand then companies got better at vetting their customers.\u201d He said the companies had implemented stronger procedures since then. Skies over Ukraine have become crowded with image-capturing satellites. \u201cThere are many cooks in the kitchen,\u201d he said\u2014\u201csometimes five U.S. government agencies at once,\u201d all seeking imagery from commercial and government satellites. And it is very hard to figure out who wants images, and for what purpose. \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t surprise me at all that some of those images coincide in space and time with Russian military activities.\u201d</p><p>The Ukrainian official told me he would just \u201clike to see these images moderated,\u201d possibly by giving the Ukrainian military a chance to see what images are tasked before they\u2019re taken. He added that \u201cthe companies should look very carefully at the records of who has been buying these images,\u201d and probably involve local spy agencies in tracking companies suspected of funneling the images to Moscow. Other Ukrainians I spoke with suggested that instead of blacklisting certain customers, the companies should develop a limited white list of approved taskers, and add to it only when someone is clearly not a Russian agent. (Planet and Maxar did not directly reply when I asked if they had a blacklist or white list, and if so, what one had to do to get on it.)</p><p>Andrey Liscovich, a former Silicon Valley executive who now runs a U.S.\u2013based nonprofit funneling nonlethal aid to Ukraine, was skeptical of the companies\u2019 claims that they can control the ultimate destination of their images. \u201cThey lack the necessary resources to adequately screen the final recipients of their products,\u201d Liscovitch texted me. He said the answer is regulation, along the lines of <a href=\"https://irp.fas.org/congress/1996_cr/h960730r.htm\">statutes</a> in place to blur out satellite imagery of Israel. \u201cWestern governments should impose restrictions on the distribution of satellite imagery over Ukraine, ensuring access is granted only to thoroughly vetted recipients.\u201d Chernohorenko, the deputy defense minister, wrote to me that her government \u201cwill propose a mechanism to address this issue.\u201d</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/?utm_source=feed\">Anne Applebaum: What Russia got by scaring Elon Musk</a>]</i></p><p>The power to regulate these satellites already belongs to the Department of Commerce\u2019s Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA), which specifies conditions whereby any U.S. company with advanced satellites can be <a href=\"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-15/subtitle-B/chapter-IX/subchapter-D/part-960\">forced</a> to \u201climit data collection and/or dissemination during periods of increased concerns for national security and \u2026 foreign policy interests.\u201d CRSRA told me it had issued licenses to Planet and Maxar, but the terms of those licenses\u2014which might impose limits on what images their satellites can produce\u2014are not public information.</p><p>The companies that produce imagery sometimes act as if they are neutral, just as Amazon sells books without asking customers why they want to read them. The companies should, under this theory, preserve their credibility by staying independent, rather than offering Ukraine or anyone else veto power over their imagery. This stance sounds awfully pious to Ukrainians worried that the last thing they will ever hear is a Russian missile screaming across the sky. And the companies have, after all, already taken a side. They are American, subject to regulations that force their cooperation with American interests. Some of them have huge Department of Defense contracts. The principal backer of Ukraine is already paying them.</p><p>\u201cBy no means am I trying to cast a shadow on any of the [imagery] vendors,\u201d the executive told me. He said he supports Ukraine in the war and knows that the Ukrainian military has used satellite imagery from the same companies. (Planet cited customer confidentiality and would not say whether it had given imagery to Ukraine. Maxar did not reply.) \u201cAll of them have been very helpful to Ukraine overall. I want there to be a reasonable explanation\u201d for the imagery they have produced, he said\u2014an explanation that shows \u201cno malice or negligence.\u201d But, he added: \u201cWith the information that I have access to, I cannot find that explanation.\u201d</p>"}], "summary": "A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia\u2019s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies.", "authors": [{"name": "Graeme Wood", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/graeme-wood/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Graeme Wood", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/graeme-wood/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/graeme-wood/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Graeme Wood", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/8aHF0q8cRDjJuivUVGh27NqUpW8=/media/img/mt/2024/03/ukraine_satellite/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Maxar Technologies / Getty."}], "credit": "Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Maxar Technologies / Getty.", "title": "A Suspicious Pattern Alarming the Ukrainian Military", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "A Suspicious Pattern Alarming the Ukrainian Military"}, "published": "2024-03-18T06:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 10, 0, 0, 0, 78, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T09:59:27-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 13, 59, 27, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia\u2019s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/american-satellites-russia-ukraine-war/677775/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677764", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/sonia-sotomayor-should-retire/677764/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p>On Election Day in 2006, Justice Antonin Scalia was 70 years old and had been serving on the Supreme Court for 20 years. That year would have been an opportune time for him to retire\u2014Republicans held the White House and the Senate, and they could have confirmed a young conservative justice who likely would have held the seat for decades to come. Instead, he tried to stay on the Court until the next time a Republican president would have a clear shot to nominate and confirm a conservative successor.</p><p>He didn\u2019t make it\u2014he died unexpectedly in February 2016, at the age of 79, while Barack Obama was president. Conservatives nevertheless engineered some good fortune: There was divided control of government, and then\u2013Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to even hold confirmation hearings for Merrick Garland, Obama\u2019s nominee to the seat. Donald Trump won that fall\u2019s election and named Neil Gorsuch to the seat that McConnell had held open.</p><p>But imagine for a moment that Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election, as many expected. By running a few points stronger, she might have taken Democratic candidates across the finish line in close races in Pennsylvania and Missouri, resulting in Democratic control of the Senate. In that scenario, Clinton would have named a liberal successor to Scalia\u2014more liberal than Garland\u2014and conservatives would have lost control of the Court, all because of Scalia\u2019s failure to retire at the opportune moment.</p><p>Justice Sonia Sotomayor will turn 70 in June. If she retires this year, President Joe Biden will nominate a young and reliably liberal judge to replace her. Republicans do not control the Senate floor and cannot force the seat to be held open like they did when Scalia<b> </b>died. Confirmation of the new justice will be a slam dunk, and liberals will have successfully shored up one of their seats on the Court\u2014playing the kind of defense that is smart and prudent<b> </b>when your only hope of controlling the Court again relies on both the timing of the death or retirement of conservative judges and not losing your grip on the three seats you already hold.</p><p>But if Sotomayor does not retire this year, we don\u2019t know when she will next be able to retire with a likely liberal replacement. It\u2019s possible that Democrats will retain the presidency and the Senate in this year\u2019s elections, in which case the insurance created by a Sotomayor retirement won\u2019t have been necessary. But if Democrats lose the presidency or the Senate this fall\u2014or both\u2014she\u2019ll need to stay on the bench until the party once again controls them. That could be just a few years, or it could be longer. Democrats have previously had to wait as long as 14 years (1995 to 2009). In other words, if Sotomayor doesn\u2019t retire this year, she\u2019ll be making a bet that she will remain fit to serve until possibly age 78 or even 82 or 84\u2014and she\u2019ll be forcing the whole Democratic Party to make that high-stakes bet with her.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/supreme-court-justices-public-conflict/672494/?utm_source=feed\">Steven Mazie: The Supreme Court justices do not seem to be getting along</a>]</i></p><p>If Democrats lose the bet, the Court\u2019s 6\u20133 conservative majority will turn into a 7\u20132 majority at some point within the next decade. If they win the bet, what do they win? They win the opportunity to read dissents written by Sotomayor instead of some other liberal justice. This is obviously an insane trade. Democrats talk a lot about the importance of the Court and the damage that has been done since it has swung in a more conservative direction, most obviously including the end of constitutional protections for abortion rights. So why aren\u2019t Democrats demanding Sotomayor\u2019s retirement?</p><p>Well, they are whispering about it. <i>Politico</i> <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2023/01/11/what-to-do-about-sotomayor-00077506\">reported in January</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p>Some Democrats close to the Biden administration and high-profile lawyers with past White House experience spoke to West Wing Playbook on condition of anonymity about their support for Sotomayor\u2019s retirement. But none would go on the record about it. They worried that publicly calling for the first Latina justice to step down would appear gauche or insensitive. Privately, they say Sotomayor has provided an important liberal voice on the court, even as they concede that it would be smart for the party if she stepped down before the 2024 election.</p>\n</blockquote><p>This is incredibly gutless. You\u2019re worried about putting control of the Court completely out of reach for more than a generation, but because she is Latina, you can\u2019t hurry along an official who\u2019s <i>putting your entire policy project at risk</i>? If this is how the Democratic Party operates, it deserves to lose.</p><p>The cowardice in speaking up about Sotomayor\u2014<a href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sonia-sotomayor-medic-retirement_n_65d8ec05e4b0cc1f2f7bab77\">a diabetic who has in some instances traveled with a medic</a>\u2014is part of a broader insanity in the way that the Democratic Party thinks about diversity and representation. Representation is supposed to be important because the presence of different sorts of people in positions of power helps ensure that the interests and preferences of various communities are taken into account when making policy. But in practice, Democratic Party actions regarding diversity <a href=\"https://www.joshbarro.com/p/fire-xavier-becerra\">tend to be taken for the benefit of <i>officials</i> rather than demographic groups</a>. What\u2019s more important for ordinary Latina women who support Democrats\u2014that there not be one more vote against abortion rights on the Supreme Court, or that Sotomayor is personally there to write dissenting opinions? The answer is obvious, unless you work in Democratic politics for a living, in which case it apparently becomes a difficult call.</p><p>I thought Democrats had learned a lesson from the Ruth Bader Ginsburg episode about the importance of playing defense on a Court where you don\u2019t hold the majority. Building a cult of personality around one particular justice served to reinforce the idea that it was reasonable for her to stay on the bench far into old age, and her unfortunate choice to do so ultimately led to Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s appointment and a string of conservative policy victories. All liberals have to show for this stubbornness is <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Dissent-Ruth-Bader-Ginsburg-Makes/dp/1481465597\">a bunch of dissents</a> and <a href=\"https://www.etsy.com/listing/287541973/our-lady-of-dissent-prayer-candle?gpla=1&amp;gao=1&amp;&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=shopping_us_c-home_and_living-home_decor-other&amp;utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAiAloavBhBOEiwAbtAJO2JqIadLLDuP8uDmTvbg8jr2kh_r9ZZCgSNauESqWf7u8PJkQUaRDBoCrBIQAvD_BwE_k_&amp;utm_content=go_12569671679_118325095334_507439143269_aud-2007167693709:pla-303663660129_c__287541973_109490211&amp;utm_custom2=12569671679&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADtcfRIAFN9S1ckOazf05C9n0d4ms&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAloavBhBOEiwAbtAJO2JqIadLLDuP8uDmTvbg8jr2kh_r9ZZCgSNauESqWf7u8PJkQUaRDBoCrBIQAvD_BwE\">kitsch home decor</a>. In 2021, it seemed that liberals had indeed learned their lesson\u2014not only was there a well-organized effort to hound the elderly Stephen Breyer out of office, but the effort was quite rude. (I\u2019m not sure screaming \u201c<a href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/snls-michael-che-earns-groans-mocking-bidens-vow-to-put-black-woman-on-scotus\">Retire, bitch</a>\u201d at Stephen Breyer was strictly necessary, but I wasn\u2019t bothered by it either\u2014he was a big boy, and he could take it.) But I guess maybe the lesson was learned only for instances where the justice in question is a white man.</p><p>One obvious response to this argument is that the president is also old\u2014much older, indeed, than Sonia Sotomayor. I am aware, and I consider this to be a serious problem. But Democrats are <a href=\"https://www.joshbarro.com/p/democrats-are-still-better-off-with\">unlikely to find a way to replace Biden</a> with a younger candidate who enhances their odds of winning the election. The Sotomayor situation is different. Her age problem can be dealt with very simply by her retiring and the president picking a candidate to replace her who is young and broadly acceptable (maybe even exciting) to Democratic Party insiders. And if Democrats want to increase the odds of getting there, they should be saying in public that she should step down. In order to do that, they\u2019ll have to get over their fear of being called racist or sexist or ageist.</p><p></p><p><i>This article was adapted from </i><a href=\"https://www.joshbarro.com/p/sonia-sotomayor-must-retire\"><i>a post</i></a> <i>on Josh Barro\u2019s Substack, </i><a href=\"https://www.joshbarro.com/\"><i>Very Serious</i></a><i>.</i></p>"}], "summary": "If she leaves the Court this year, President Joe Biden will nominate a young and reliably liberal judge to replace her.", "authors": [{"name": "Josh Barro", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/josh-barro/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Josh Barro", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/josh-barro/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/josh-barro/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Josh Barro", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/mN4wJFSmNQFmCjSQPH_0RMpxWnY=/media/img/mt/2024/03/AP23187748131514_copy/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: J. Scott Applewhite / AP."}], "credit": "Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: J. Scott Applewhite / AP.", "title": "Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now"}, "published": "2024-03-18T06:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 10, 0, 0, 0, 78, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T09:24:32-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 13, 24, 32, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "If she leaves the Court this year, President Joe Biden will nominate a young and reliably liberal judge to replace her."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/sonia-sotomayor-should-retire/677764/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677785", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/03/marine-heat-caribbean-coral-bleaching/677785/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p><small><em>This article was originally published by </em><a href=\"https://hakaimagazine.com/news/six-months-after-the-heat-spiked-caribbean-corals-are-still-reeling/\">Hakai Magazine</a><em>.</em></small></p><p>In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer of 2023 <a href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-announces-summer-2023-hottest-on-record/\">was the hottest on record</a>. In the Caribbean, coral reefs sat in sweltering water for months\u2014stewing in a dangerous marine heat wave that started earlier, lasted longer, and climbed to higher temperatures than ever recorded in some locations. In some places, the water was more than 32\u00a0 degrees Celsius\u2014as toasty as a hot tub. Ever since the water started to warm, researchers and conservationists have been anxiously watching to see how the debilitating heat has affected the region\u2019s corals.</p><p>For many Caribbean corals, last year\u2019s heat proved too much to bear. The more time corals spend in hot water, the more likely they are to bleach, turning white as they expel the single-celled algae that live within their tissues. Without these symbiotic algae\u2014and the energy they provide through photosynthesis\u2014bleached corals starve. Survival becomes a struggle, and what was a healthy thicket of colorful coral can turn into a tangle of skeletons.</p><p>Corals <em>can</em> recover from bleaching. But while some Caribbean corals survived last year\u2019s bleaching, and others were unaffected, multitudes perished. And for many corals, the harrowing experience isn\u2019t even over.</p><p>Lorenzo \u00c1lvarez-Filip, a marine ecologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, says that, for a coral, recovering after bleaching is like recuperating from a long illness. It takes time. Yet even now, several months after the water has cooled to temperatures that no longer stress corals, researchers across the Caribbean are still finding bleached corals living in limbo.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/coral-scientists-coping-reefs-mental-health/546440/?utm_source=feed\">Read: How coral researchers are coping with the death of reefs</a>]</i></p><p>In the Bahamas, where the shallowest reefs were hit particularly hard, Valeria Pizarro, a marine biologist at the Perry Institute for Marine Science, started to see some bleached corals recover in October and November 2023, gradually regaining patches of color as symbiotic algae recolonized their still-living tissues. But as recently as January 2024, she and her team were still finding bleached corals that had yet to regain their algal allies.</p><p>\u201cSome days it\u2019s just frustrating,\u201d says Pizarro.</p><p>Last summer\u2019s extreme heat also bleached and killed many of the corals within parts of the Mesoamerican Reef\u2014the Western Hemisphere\u2019s largest barrier-reef system, which stretches from the coast of Mexico\u2019s Yucatan Peninsula south to Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. At the Mexican end of the barrier reef, calm water near shore rose to some 3 degrees Celsius warmer than normal, causing widespread coral mortality. The same was true farther south, in a shallow lagoon of the barrier reef in northern Belize.</p><p>Although these shallow reefs suffered heavier losses, \u00c1lvarez-Filip says corals in the deeper reefs he surveyed also experienced widespread bleaching. Even 50 to 80 feet below the waves, \u201cit was just bright white everywhere,\u201d \u00c1lvarez-Filip says. \u201cIt was really hard to find a coral that was not bleached.\u201d</p><p>Many of these corals in deeper water have been left partially dead and partially alive, says \u00c1lvarez-Filip. Because each coral is usually a colony, some clones\u2014genetic copies of the parent coral\u2014can die while others survive, which leaves the coral with dead patches. Although grim, it\u2019s better than the outcome in the shallow lagoon he monitored, where many corals died completely.</p><p>Even amid such sweeping losses, however, not all Caribbean reefs were decimated by the heat.</p><p>On certain Bahamian reefs, Pizarro says, coral survival rates were much higher. There, some corals didn\u2019t bleach at all, while others did but have already recovered. A sprawling archipelago of hundreds of islands, the Bahamas includes broad, turquoise shallows where water is likely to overheat. But it also includes locations where currents bring cooler water into the reefs, which may have helped protect the corals.</p><p>Another apparent sanctuary was Mexico\u2019s Limones Reef, where large groups of branching <a href=\"https://eol.org/pages/45276378\">elkhorn coral</a> held on to their deep-orange color. According to temperature sensors within the reef, the water was a bit cooler than in other reefs\u2014still warmer than normal, but not as deadly.</p><p>As winter once again turns to spring in the Northern Hemisphere, researchers in the Bahamas and Mexico will be looking into how corals in some locations were able to avoid bleaching, and investigating whether those animals owe their success entirely to cooler conditions, or whether they themselves are more able to cope with heat.</p><p>Mass coral bleaching was first observed in the early 1980s and has become more common, especially in years when tropical waters are heated by both climate change and El Ni\u00f1o, which is what happened in 2023. Although last year\u2019s heat was more extreme than anything recorded before in parts of the Caribbean, it may be a harbinger of things to come: As the planet continues to warm, marine heat waves may become more common and more intense.</p><p>But amid all the loss, \u201cthere are some corals that have energy and are resistant,\u201d Pizarro says. \u201cWe need to keep working for them.\u201d</p>"}], "summary": "Six months later, the bleached corals are still recovering.", "authors": [{"name": "Lisa S. Gardiner", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/lisa-s-gardiner/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Lisa S. Gardiner", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/lisa-s-gardiner/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/lisa-s-gardiner/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Lisa S. Gardiner", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/hzCSsHV6gVhpFfFH0isBhg9BlCs=/media/img/mt/2024/03/GettyImages_687506446/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Luis Javier Sandoval / Universal Images Group / Getty"}], "credit": "Luis Javier Sandoval / Universal Images Group / Getty", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Six months later, the bleached corals are still recovering."}, "title": "Extreme Heat Toasted the Caribbean\u2019s Corals", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Extreme Heat Toasted the Caribbean\u2019s Corals"}, "published": "2024-03-17T08:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 12, 0, 0, 6, 77, 0], "updated": "2024-03-17T08:00:57-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 12, 0, 57, 6, 77, 0], "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/03/marine-heat-caribbean-coral-bleaching/677785/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677783", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/trump-second-term-civil-rights/677783/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p>For the venerable American Civil Liberties Union, Donald Trump\u2019s four years in the White House had the intensity of life during wartime.</p><p>The group filed its <a href=\"https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/groups-challenge-trump-immigration-ban-after-refugees-detained-airports\">first lawsuit</a> against the Trump administration on January 28, 2017, just eight days after Trump took office and one day after he promulgated his first attempt at banning the entry into the U.S. of travelers from several Muslim-majority nations.</p><p>The pace of the organization\u2019s legal combat against Trump never let up. Ultimately the ACLU filed more than 250 lawsuits against Trump\u2019s administration on issues as varied as immigration, abortion, contraception, fair housing, and the rights of racial-justice protesters forcibly dispersed by federal troops around the White House.</p><p>Like environmental groups, media outlets, and other institutions to the left of center in American politics, the ACLU experienced a renewed burst of relevance and visibility during the Trump years. Fueled by the demand for unstinting \u201cresistance\u201d from the many voters and donors stunned by Trump\u2019s election and horrified by his actions, the group\u2019s staff during his presidency roughly doubled, its budget nearly tripled, and its membership increased by a factor of four. The ACLU won some big cases (overturning Trump\u2019s policy of separating migrant parents from their children and blocking his effort to add a citizenship question to the census) and lost others (the Supreme Court eventually upheld Trump\u2019s third try at the Muslim ban after courts rejected two earlier iterations). The fights placed the ACLU at the center of the political arena, nearly 100 years after it was founded, in 1920.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/trump-2024-reelection-civil-rights-discrimination/676138/?utm_source=feed\">From the January/February 2024 issue: Civil rights undone</a>]</i></p><p>In an interview last week, Anthony D. Romero, the ACLU\u2019s longtime executive director, told me that he believes protecting civil liberties will be even harder if Trump wins a second term in November. I spoke with Romero about the challenges that a reelected Trump could pose to rights and liberties, how the ACLU is already coordinating with other advocacy groups to develop plans for fighting Trump\u2019s agenda in the courts, and why Romero thinks legal battles may be less important than public protest in determining how American democracy will look in 2029 if Trump wins.</p><p><i>The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity.</i></p><hr class=\"c-section-divider\" /><p><b>Ronald Brownstein:</b> When you look across both what Trump has explicitly already said and <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/03/florida-dont-say-gay-law/627021/?utm_source=feed\">what you see unfolding in the red states</a> as a template, what are you most concerned about in terms of civil rights and civil liberties in a second Trump term?</p><p><b>Anthony D. Romero:</b> Our greatest concerns have to do with the areas where Donald Trump already has a track record. Clearly, we expect him to double down on the immigration issue. It is the centerpiece of his \u201cMake America great again\u201d ideology. The Muslim ban was the first executive order he signed.</p><p>We can expect a militarization of the border, the third-country transit ban, the shutting down of asylum. This time, he\u2019s likely to make good <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/02/trumps-immigration-plan-is-even-more-aggressive-now/677385/?utm_source=feed\">on his promise</a> to create a deportation force and enact nationwide deportations. So immigration will be front and center.</p><p>A second issue will be abortion, because it is animating politics in the Republican Party. Trump is already playing with the idea of a federal abortion ban\u2014whether it\u2019s 14 weeks, 15 weeks, he hasn\u2019t made up his mind yet\u2014but it\u2019s clear that is the direction he\u2019s going to be pushed into by his party.</p><p><b>Brownstein:</b> Will he also face greater pressure in the party <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/12/medication-abortion-mifepristone-trump/676930/?utm_source=feed\">for executive-branch action on abortion</a>?</p><p><b>Romero:</b> Correct. Whether it\u2019s mifepristone, the Comstock Act, restrictions on the U.S. Postal Service\u2014you bet.</p><p>Certainly he will address the other culture-war grievances from the Republican Party: restrictions on gender-affirming health care for transgender individuals; attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion; the attack on birthright citizenship. He said it was a target when he was running for office the first time around, but he didn\u2019t do anything on it; this time he is more likely to. Birthright citizenship, in addition to it being at the core of the immigration issue, is also at the core of race relations and racial justice. It was the way that America converted African slaves into U.S. citizens. It is hallowed ground for the civil-rights community, which is an invitation for him to trample all over it.</p><p>The final set of buckets, I would say, would be around his weaponization of the Department of Justice to go after his political adversaries; his threatened use of the Insurrection Act to curtail demonstrations; the threat to use police and even the National Guard to <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/trump-liberal-america-reelection-law-enforcement/676136/?utm_source=feed\">deal with crime in blue cities</a>. He\u2019s going to want to pick a fight in blue-state jurisdictions and use the power of the federal government to do so.</p><p><b>Brownstein:</b> Another area, I suppose, in immigration would be <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/texass-immigration-policy-biden/674784/?utm_source=feed\">allowing red states to enforce the immigration laws</a>?</p><p><b>Romero:</b> I think he will endeavor to enact the restrictive policies <i>for </i>them. But if he gives the red states the carte blanche to do what they want, then it\u2019s going to be hard for him to curtail the blue states from enacting sanctuary-city laws. Consistency has never been an impediment to Trump, but from a legal-theory point of view, I\u2019m not sure he is going to want to throw away the preeminence of the executive branch by allowing the state governors to usurp the federal-government role. I think he\u2019s going to want to fill that role himself.</p><p><b>Brownstein:</b> Why do you think that this term could be more difficult even than his first?</p><p><b>Romero:</b> I think the adults in the Republican Party are not going to get in the room with him this time. I think you will only have the most zealous and ideological of players join a second Trump administration, and the institutionalists and the establishment types who curtailed his worst abuses will be in a form of exile even while they are in power.</p><p>The retirement of Mitch McConnell, health issues aside, points to this very issue: The institutionalists and the establishment Republicans are not going to populate the administration and the Cabinet the way they once did. Stephen Miller will be more like the norm rather than the exception.</p><p>Then I think they are going to be smarter and more experienced and therefore more effective the second time around. They are not going to make rookie mistakes like the Muslim ban\u2014the fact that it took them three tries to perfect it. I think you see a greater level of focus even in what he talks about on the campaign and the [lack of focus] that was endemic to Trump One might be mitigated with greater discipline and greater focus the second time around.</p><p><b>Brownstein:</b> In the interview <a href=\"https://www.truthnetwork.com/show/the-charlie-kirk-show-charlie-kirk/72387/\">where Miller laid out in remarkable detail</a> their plans on mass deportation, he also said, <i>We\u2019re going to be doing so many things at once that no one can respond to, </i>and that is part of the strategy.</p><p><b>Romero:</b> I don\u2019t doubt it. And in some ways, they have finally woken up to the fact that what they have on their side is the scale of the federal government. It was always a bit astonishing to me that we could make as much progress as we could in Trump\u2019s first term, given the awesome asymmetry between the power of the federal government and the power of civil society.</p><p><b>Brownstein:</b> What is your feeling about the kind of bulwark the Supreme Court will be for civil liberties?</p><p><b>Romero:</b> I am worried, and yet I think we must give it our best shot. At this point, all we need to do is get to five [votes on the Supreme Court], and on any case or controversy, the point is, what other two justices can you peel away [to join the three Democratic-appointed justices]? I\u2019m not willing to give up the litigation ghost in a second Trump administration. At some level, all we must do is survive four years; we don\u2019t have to survive eight years of Trump. All we have to do is play for his final four years, because that\u2019s all he\u2019s got.</p><p><b>Brownstein:</b> What do you consider potentially the most volatile or incendiary of his proposals? To me, the various ways in which he is talking about using federal forces in blue cities seems the most explosive.</p><p><b>Romero: </b>Definitely. The deportation force can implicate 11 million to 13 million undocumented people. Remember that undocumented people live in families and communities alongside many American citizens, so the level of disruption when you start ripping out people who don\u2019t have legal papers can be extensive.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/02/trumps-immigration-plan-is-even-more-aggressive-now/677385/?utm_source=feed\">Ronald Brownstein: Trump\u2019s \u2018knock on the door\u2019</a>]</i></p><p>Certainly, the power of the National Guard and use of the Insurrection Act put a lot of things at his fingertips that are incredibly worrisome. That\u2019s why litigation, I think, will be important; litigation preserves the status quo, litigation takes time, and when you are buying time, that is a good thing.</p><p>Litigation also helps focus public attention. Part of what happened in the first Trump administration is the avalanche of Trump policies and outrages became a little numbing for the public at one level, and yet with litigation, you could really focus a spotlight on key policies. Family separation is an example I would use: The litigation that we filed engendered such a public outcry that even Trump himself had to backtrack on the policy.</p><p>But lawyers are going to play a much less important role in a second Trump administration, because of the specter of a much more consistent and greater assault on civil liberties and civil rights. That\u2019s where you really have to convert the public into a protagonist and not a spectator. And you saw elements of that in the first Trump administration. The women\u2019s marches were largely a spontaneous outburst of energy from constituents. Certainly, the <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/todays-protest-movements-are-as-big-as-the-1960s/613207/?utm_source=feed\">George Floyd protests</a> that happened in the summer of 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic, were also an indication that people were willing to take to the streets on issues that really mattered to them. I\u2019ve got to believe that we\u2019ll have the potential of mobilizing the public in that way. Part of what we\u2019ve got to do is get ready for that kind of energy and activism that will be beyond any of our control\u2014the work we have to do as legal observers on protests, know-your-rights training.</p><p><b>Brownstein:</b> Is that under way?</p><p><b>Romero:</b> We\u2019re beginning to map that out\u2014what we need to do, and relationships we need to build.</p><p><b>Brownstein:</b> If Trump wins, I don\u2019t know if he does everything that he\u2019s saying. But if he does even two-thirds of what he is saying, what do blue state governors like J. B. Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, and Kathy Hochul do? What do their attorneys general do? How much pressure could Trump put on the fundamental cohesion of the country if he follows through on this idea of using federal force in blue jurisdictions?</p><p><b>Romero:</b> The real wild card is the extent to which it devolves into a confusing chaos or even violence, in which case Trump\u2019s use of the executive powers will look more justifiable in the eyes of ordinary Americans. Remember the play he made around [sending federal forces to quell the 2020 protests in] Portland? There was an element of Trump\u2019s actions in Portland that resonated with the American public. In some ways, the greatest danger is when Trump\u2019s extreme policies tap into the commonsense reactions of the American people, when he truly is playing the populist role. That\u2019s what I think is the most dangerous.</p><p><b>Brownstein:</b> How different could America look after four years of another Trump presidency? And what do you think could be the most important differences from where we are now that we might face?</p><p><b>Romero:</b> I think we could very much be on the brink of losing our democracy and losing certain rights and liberties that would be lost for a generation. I am not one given to hyperbole, especially in the face of real threat, but the efforts to curtail protest and demonstrations; the promise to enact gestapo-like searches and deportation forces; <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/11/gop-congress-2022-midterm-elections-rights/671996/?utm_source=feed\">the enactment of federal bans</a> on reproductive rights or gender-affirming care or diversity-and-inclusion efforts could fundamentally change the way that we think about rights and liberties in the United States.</p><p>Right now, we bemoan the idea that our zip code determines our rights and liberties. That if I am 10010 in New York\u2014my zip code\u2014I am de facto going to have a much greater enjoyment of rights and liberties than if I were in a zip code in Alabama or Mississippi. And the challenge with a second Trump administration is that rights and liberties may be lost even in blue states. We are already living with a status quo where rights and liberties are curtailed in red states, but it\u2019s the metastasis into blue states and liberal and progressive jurisdictions that is perhaps the most concerning.</p>"}], "summary": "The ACLU\u2019s game plan for protecting civil rights through a potential second Trump administration", "authors": [{"name": "Ronald Brownstein", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/ronald-brownstein/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Ronald Brownstein", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/ronald-brownstein/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/ronald-brownstein/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Ronald Brownstein", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/p_fJlOihb8ehKCmYDPoOcWGmDDc=/8x3:1986x1115/media/img/mt/2024/03/QA/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Paul Morigi / Getty."}], "credit": "Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Paul Morigi / Getty.", "title": "\u2018All We Must Do Is Survive Four Years\u2019", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "\u2018All We Must Do Is Survive Four Years\u2019"}, "published": "2024-03-17T08:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 12, 0, 0, 6, 77, 0], "updated": "2024-03-17T14:26:27-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 18, 26, 27, 6, 77, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "The ACLU\u2019s game plan for protecting civil rights through a potential second Trump administration"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/trump-second-term-civil-rights/677783/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677780", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/03/the-smart-way-to-order-good-wine/677780/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p><small><i>This is an edition of </i>The Atlantic<i> Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. </i><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/atlantic-daily/?utm_source=feed\"><i>Sign up for it here.</i></a></small></p><p>Welcome back to The Daily\u2019s Sunday culture edition, in which one <i>Atlantic</i> writer or editor reveals what\u2019s keeping them entertained. Today\u2019s special guest is Charlie Warzel, a staff writer and the author of the <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/galaxy-brain/?utm_source=feed\">Galaxy Brain</a> newsletter. He has reported on the information dystopia embodied by the <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/kate-middleton-mothers-day-photo-fake/677718/?utm_source=feed\">recent Kate Middleton scandal</a>, last year\u2019s <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-chaos/676050/?utm_source=feed\">chaos at OpenAI</a>, and <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/inside-las-vegas-sphere-u2/676000/?utm_source=feed\">his night inside the Sphere</a>, in Las Vegas.</p><p>Charlie is a semi-lapsed prestige-TV watcher who found his love for the genre reinvigorated by the fifth season of <i>Fargo</i>, which he calls \u201charrowing, bizarre \u2026 totally propulsive.\u201d He\u2019s also a jam-band guy (Goose is his current fascination) and a golf guy who enjoys bingeing YouTube videos of amateur golfers.</p><p>First, here are three Sunday reads from<i> The Atlantic</i>:</p><ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/best-books-american-fiction/677479/?utm_source=feed\">The Great American Novels</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/?utm_source=feed\">The terrible costs of a phone-based childhood</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/secret-adoptions-right-to-know/677677/?utm_source=feed\">America\u2019s long history of secret adoption</a></li>\n</ul><hr /><p><b>The Culture Survey: Charlie Warzel</b></p><p><b>The television show I\u2019m most enjoying right now: </b>I took some time away from prestige TV in order to catch up on Oscar movies this winter, so it was with some trepidation that I agreed to watch the fifth season of <i>Fargo</i> (I hadn\u2019t seen the first four, but the narrative changes each year, so you can drop in anew). It\u2019s probably the best season of TV I\u2019ve seen in some time. The showrunners succeed in something extremely difficult: The season is somehow funny, harrowing, bizarre, and poignant. And totally propulsive. Most important, it does the original <i>Fargo</i> justice. [<b>Related:</b> <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/01/fargo-dot-season-five-finale/677162/?utm_source=feed\">The character that breathed new life into <i>Fargo</i></a>]</p><p><b>Best novel I\u2019ve recently read, and the best work of nonfiction: </b>The most special kind of novel, in my opinion, is one that will rip you out of a reading funk. In December, I was in a total rut\u2014unmotivated to read and floundering in three or so novels that weren\u2019t really doing it for me. And then I picked up <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9780593793725\"><i>North Woods</i></a>,<i> </i>by Daniel Mason, and tore through it in a day or so. It\u2019s a beautiful, haunting, and at times hilarious story of a house and a piece of land in New England, told over generations. It rekindled my desire to grab a book instead of a smartphone, which is the highest compliment I can give. As for nonfiction, I found a copy of Patrick Radden Keefe\u2019s <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9780593467732\"><i>Rogues</i></a> in a leave-a-book-take-a-book hotel library and fell in love. It\u2019s an anthology of Keefe\u2019s best <i>New Yorker </i>stories, many about criminals and shady dealings. As a magazine writer myself, I find his work astounding\u2014deeply reported nonfiction that always reads like a thriller. The wine-forgery piece is a <i>delight</i>.</p><p><b>A good recommendation I recently received: </b>One of the best things to happen to me in recent memory is making friends who are significantly older than I am. In 2022, my partner and I met some people on a bike trip who are in their 60s (I\u2019m 35), and they\u2019re constantly helping me learn how to live. One of these friends used to work in the wine industry and shared a great nugget of wisdom. He said that restaurants tend to mark up the wines in the middle tier of a wine list, in part because people are afraid of looking cheap, so they go for the middle and end up paying too much. If you want a great bottle of wine, he said, you need to splurge. But if you\u2019re not a snob, the cheapest thing is often as good as, if not better than, the stuff that\u2019s medium-priced. I love these kinds of tips, because they make me feel way smarter than I am. [<b>Related:</b> <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/what-3-700-year-old-wine-tasted-like/281777/?utm_source=feed\">What 3,700-year-old wine tasted like</a>]</p><p><b>A musical artist who means a lot to me: </b>Please don\u2019t make fun of me, but I\u2019m a jam-band guy. A few years ago, I stumbled upon Goose, a bunch of young guys who are seen as the next great American jam band. But here\u2019s the thing\u2014their studio albums absolutely slap too. They recently split up with their drummer, and lots of people were worried they\u2019d lose the magic. But last month, they announced a new tour, and it\u2019s been really fascinating to watch them introduce their new drummer. They recently released two long jam-session videos on YouTube, and it\u2019s so fun to see the new energy. Their <a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/3NwJRNY5uYjQP62rkQEXyV?si=LBBp8ZkgQPO1ouVzWM8ugw\">most recent studio album</a> is a true indie banger that even my partner (<i>not</i> into jam bands) loves.</p><p><b>An online creator that I\u2019m a fan of: </b>I\u2019m going to follow up my jam-band confession with another one: I\u2019m a golf sicko. Love it; can\u2019t get enough of it. And my security-blanket YouTube binges usually involve a <i>lot</i> of forgettable amateur golfers. One big exception is a series called <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5vefWGHKLbNNXOaMYYERsSLulrhN6yGn\"><i>Strapped</i></a>, by No Laying Up. It centers on two friends, Neil and Big Randy, who go on various three-day golf trips\u2014but the catch is that they have only $500 to spend on food, golf, and lodging. What started off almost five years ago as a low-budget experiment has turned into one of the best travel shows anywhere. Like any good art or entertainment, the series transcends the original premise and is really about <a href=\"https://www.golfdigest.com/story/why-strapped-is-a-youtube-series-that-feels-like-more-than-that\">friendship</a>, getting outside your comfort zone, and exploring new places. The most recent two seasons (\u201cSouth Carolina\u201d and \u201cSpring Training\u201d) are phenomenal, hilarious bits of storytelling. Can\u2019t recommend it enough, even if you hate golf (especially if you hate golf)!</p><p><b>The last museum or gallery show that I loved: </b>I grew up outside Philadelphia, but my whole family is from Cleveland, and I go back there for the holidays. This year, we spent a Saturday afternoon at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and \u2026 sheesh. There was a cool Chinese-art feature and a great Degas exhibit of his paintings of Parisian laundresses, but, honestly, the permanent collections are astounding. I will admit to being a snob and thinking that Cleveland was going to underwhelm on the art front, but it punches way above its weight. It\u2019s an incredibly underrated city when it comes to culture and food.</p><hr /><p><b>The Week Ahead</b></p><ol>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://tv.apple.com/us/show/palm-royale/umc.cmc.6vwg3ce7ovsexa3a6r7f6qk49\"><i>Palm Royale</i></a>, a comedy series starring Kristen Wiig and Laura Dern about a woman fighting to break into Palm Beach high society (premieres Wednesday on Apple TV+)</li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpOBXh02rVc\"><i>Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire</i></a>, a movie featuring new and old Ghostbusters who unite to save the world from a second ice age (in theaters Friday)</li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9780593299784\"><i>The Black Box: Writing the Race</i></a>, by Henry Louis Gates, a book that explores how Black writers have helped shape a common understanding of Black identity in America (out Tuesday)</li>\n</ol><hr /><p><strong>Essay</strong></p><figure><img alt=\"Kate Middleton turning away from a photographer\" height=\"2700\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/img/mt/2024/03/HR_167344787/original.jpg\" width=\"4800\" />\n<figcaption class=\"caption\">Toby Melville / AFP / Getty</figcaption>\n</figure><p>The Eternal Scrutiny of Kate Middleton</p><p><i>By Hillary Kelly</i></p><blockquote>\n<p>Kate Middleton has been reduced to her body. By which I mean: Many weeks into her recovery from surgery, and many years into her life as a royal, the physical form of Catherine, Princess of Wales, has become a commodity that the public feels entitled to consume. Her image has been on screens and in print for the past 20 years, so scrutinized and idolized that now, while she\u2019s <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/kate-middleton-conspiracy-theories/677603/?utm_source=feed\">out of sight</a>, newspaper columnists and intrepid TikTokers are fixated on not just where she is but also how she might look.</p>\n</blockquote><p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/03/kate-middleton-photo-celebrity/677756/?utm_source=feed\">Read the full article.</a></p><hr /><p><b>More in Culture</b></p><ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/03/ariana-grande-eternal-sunshine-review/677743/?utm_source=feed\">The pleasure of judging a pop star</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/america-domestic-apparel-production/677734/?utm_source=feed\">The artisans who are still making clothes in America</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/why-animals-play-evolution/677477/?utm_source=feed\">Do animals have fun?</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/riddles-of-the-sphinx-crossword-anna-shechtman-book-review/677720/?utm_source=feed\">What do crossword puzzles really test?</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/james-book-percival-everett-huckleberry-finn/677474/?utm_source=feed\">A bloody retelling of <i>Huckleberry Finn</i></a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/03/abbott-elementary-oscars-bradley-cooper/677726/?utm_source=feed\">Why that big <i>Abbott Elementary </i>cameo made so much sense</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/guernica-retracted-essay-joanna-chen/677738/?utm_source=feed\">The cowardice of <i>Guernica</i></a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/03/love-lies-bleeding-review/677725/?utm_source=feed\"><i>Love Lies Bleeding </i>is a Coen brothers thriller on steroids.</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/03/the-end-of-love-book-review/677715/?utm_source=feed\">Why does romance now feel like work?</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/03/oscars-im-just-ken-ryan-gosling-barbie/677716/?utm_source=feed\">A seriously silly Oscars moment</a></li>\n</ul><hr /><p><b>Catch Up on <em>The Atlantic</em></b></p><ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/america-wont-miss-tiktok-ban-congress/677745/?utm_source=feed\">America will be fine without TikTok.</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/alabama-ivf-ruling-regulation/677747/?utm_source=feed\">The real lessons of the Alabama IVF ruling</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/hur-report-biden-2024-election/677740/?utm_source=feed\">How Hur misled the country on Biden\u2019s memory</a></li>\n</ul><hr /><p><b>Photo Album</b></p><figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"1339\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/newsletters/2024/03/photo_album_3_17/original.jpg\" width=\"2000\" />\n<figcaption class=\"caption\">Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies. 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Thank you for supporting </em>The Atlantic<em>.</em></p>"}], "summary": "Culture and entertainment musts from Charlie Warzel", "authors": [{"name": "Stephanie Bai", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/stephanie-bai/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Stephanie Bai", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/stephanie-bai/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/stephanie-bai/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Stephanie Bai", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/P7LEsKYXtnGfeoCzePSHZZvtSYI=/0x188:6720x3968/media/img/mt/2024/03/GettyImages_1350671514/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Yulia Reznikov / Getty"}], "credit": "Yulia Reznikov / Getty", "title": "The Smart Way to Order Good Wine", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "The Smart Way to Order Good Wine"}, "published": "2024-03-17T07:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 11, 0, 0, 6, 77, 0], "updated": "2024-03-17T07:01:56-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 11, 1, 56, 6, 77, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Culture and entertainment musts from Charlie Warzel"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/03/the-smart-way-to-order-good-wine/677780/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677774", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/subway-safety-new-york-hochul-policy/677774/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p dir=\"ltr\">New York Governor Kathy Hochul unfurled a subway \u201csafety\u201d plan last week. It included assigning <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/nyregion/subway-national-guard-police.html?login=smartlock&amp;auth=login-smartlock\">750 National Guard and 250 state police</a> and Metropolitan Transit Authority officers to the subway\u2014in addition to the 1,000 NYPD officers the mayor added in February\u2014to check riders\u2019 bags. The governor insisted that her plan is designed to protect New Yorkers and keep them riding the trains. \u201cMy No. 1 priority is the safety of all New Yorkers,\u201d <a href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/governor-tells-nyc-subway-riders-who-refuse-bag-searches-to-go-home\">she said</a>. \u201cDownstate,\u201d she said, \u201cdoes not function without a healthy subway system that people have confidence in\u2014I have to do this for them.\u201d</p><p dir=\"ltr\">As a lifelong subway rider here in \u201cdownstate,\u201d I can tell from her plan that the governor has only a limited understanding of what we need in the way of \u201ca healthy subway system.\u201d I immigrated to the city in 1994 at age 7, and have been taking the subway\u2014largely on my own from the very beginning\u2014in the three decades since. I rode through the late 1990s, when the transit system saw an <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/22/us/new-york-city-subway-safety-plan/index.html\">all-time high</a> in recorded crimes; into 2020, when ridership <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/08/climate/nyc-transit-covid.html\">dropped</a>; and through 2021, when anti-Asian attacks rose. The governor\u2019s plan does dedicate <a href=\"https://www.metro-magazine.com/10217121/new-york-unveils-5-point-plan-to-increase-subway-safety?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">$20 million</a> for 10 teams of mental-health workers, which could be beneficial (assuming those teams really do get vulnerable New Yorkers much-needed resources). But the rest of the plan does not seem to contemplate how the subway system works in practice. How do bag checks prevent people from carrying weapons in their pockets or under their clothes? How does one efficiently administer fair checks in a system that sees<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/nyregion/subway-national-guard-police.html?login=smartlock&amp;auth=login-smartlock\"> 3 million riders a day</a>, and countless congested stations during rush hour? How can law-enforcement omnipresence in high-traffic stations in high-income areas offer anything to far-flung, low-traffic stations,<a href=\"https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/03/09/lack-of-police-observed-at-subway-stations-rated-least-safe\"> which score worst on safety and harassment</a>?</p><p dir=\"ltr\">And the plan misapprehends what makes riders feel safe: not cops or soldiers, but fellow riders. Ask any New Yorker what they love about the subway\u2014and what makes them feel safest down in those busy tunnels\u2014and they will say the community of their fellow riders. The kindness of the brisk good Samaritans who stop just long enough to carry luggage up the stairs without a word; the infectious energy of dancers who bring showtime to cars and platforms across the city; the laughter exchanged after sharing a very New York moment of dodging a subway rat. Nowhere on this list is the presence of national militia and state law enforcement\u2014no, that is a burden, not a perk; we ride the subway in spite of, not because of, such features.</p><p dir=\"ltr\"><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2021/12/fight-gentrification-read-a-book-on-the-subway/676646/?utm_source=feed\">Xochitl Gonzalez: Fight gentrification and read a book on the subway</a>]</i></p><p dir=\"ltr\">As for the purported lack of safety, it\u2019s unclear whether that is real. Mayor Eric Adams said on social media the very same day the governor announced her new plan that<a href=\"https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1765453947441992132?s=20\"> transit crime last month was down 15 percent</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1765453947441992132?s=20\">compared with the same month last</a> year (murder, shootings, and car thefts are also down). He declared that \u201cthe safest big city in America just got even safer.\u201d The governor\u2019s intervention in our city\u2019s lifeblood is perhaps an unsurprising political move in an important election year. But at what cost? Every car and platform holds New Yorkers who could benefit from not more policing but more public services\u2014that is, more funding for the public libraries,<a href=\"https://council.nyc.gov/carlina-rivera/2024/02/12/ny-daily-news-nyc-library-use-surged-before-adams-budget-cuts-eliminated-sunday-service/\"> </a>for which the <a href=\"https://council.nyc.gov/carlina-rivera/2024/02/12/ny-daily-news-nyc-library-use-surged-before-adams-budget-cuts-eliminated-sunday-service/\">budget was slashed</a> so greatly that all Sunday hours were eliminated, and for which the mayor <a href=\"https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/us-news/nyc-libraries-will-be-cut-to-unacceptable-5-day-service-under-mayors-budget-plan-heads-warn/\">just this week</a> proposed further cuts that would also eliminate Saturday hours; for<a href=\"https://www.nydailynews.com/2022/12/02/mayor-adams-is-calling-for-improving-mental-health-care-in-nyc-but-the-city-continues-to-cut-services/\"> </a>emergency mental-health-personnel training programs, the budget for one of which was recently reduced by <a href=\"https://www.nydailynews.com/2022/12/02/mayor-adams-is-calling-for-improving-mental-health-care-in-nyc-but-the-city-continues-to-cut-services/\">$12 million</a>; and indeed, for the subway itself, a public good that belongs to all New Yorkers regardless of race, income, or status, and that <a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-27/mta-faces-potential-900-million-budget-gap-in-2026-cbc-says?embedded-checkout=true\">faces its own budgetary threats</a>.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">In 2020, when white-collar New Yorkers had the privilege of abstaining from the subway, their poorer, more marginalized counterparts<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/08/climate/nyc-transit-covid.html\"> continued</a> to take the train because they had no other choice. These are the very individuals whom the governor\u2019s plan might deter from riding the subway: People of color, for instance, are far more likely to be stopped by law enforcement, to be criminalized and institutionalized. The governor\u2019s plan compounds existing structural barriers to equity and justice.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">And then, of course, there are the undocumented New Yorkers, of whom I used to be one. When I was growing up in the \u201990s, riding the subway to the public school where I was fed the free lunch that stood between me and starvation, my biggest fear was seeing cops in the subway.</p><p>I still remember the first time a cop stepped into my car when I was on the F train, heading from East Broadway to the tenement-style home my parents and I shared with other immigrant families in Brooklyn. I was in a packed rush-hour car; there was scarcely floor space for the shuffle of feet as passengers got on and off. My mother was with me that day, and when I saw the uniformed officer embark, I grabbed her hand without turning to look at her. I listened to the blood rushing in my ears during the long minutes as the train descended lower in the tunnels, under the East River, and then rose again on the other side, where, at York Street, the doors pinged open. The officer stepped out.</p><p>It was then that I regained my senses, and realized with a start that my mother was not in fact where I thought she had been. And then, a beat later, I realized that the hand I had been holding was not hers. I still remember looking down at the hand and tracing it up to its wrist, elbow, and shoulder, before finally arriving at the face of its owner: a woman I did not know, whom I\u2019d never seen before and haven\u2019t seen since, but who gave me the warmest smile.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">That smile made me feel safe. In a city with limited space for a poor, hungry, undocumented kid, the subway became one of my few havens. The subway kept me fed and educated.<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/opinion/subway-new-york-city.html\"> </a>The subway is where I first read some of my very favorite library books, teaching myself English one word at a time; it is where I wrote the first draft of my childhood memoir, tracing and healing my deepest wounds; and <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/opinion/subway-new-york-city.html\">it is where I first started to understand what home might feel like in America</a>. When I read the news last week, a kaleidoscope of subway memories played in my mind, and I wondered how I might react to the news if I were still undocumented, still living in poverty and fear.</p><p>The governor emphasized that she is not forcing anyone to undergo bag checks. Those who refuse to submit to a check can \u201cgo home,\u201d she said: \u201cYou can say no. But you\u2019re not taking the subway.\u201d Where, I ask, does that leave the countless New Yorkers for whom the subway is the only way home?</p>"}], "summary": "It\u2019s not cops or soldiers.", "authors": [{"name": "Qian Julie Wang", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/qian-julie-wang/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Qian Julie Wang", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/qian-julie-wang/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/qian-julie-wang/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Qian Julie Wang", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/bdVxgD9FJmkoMQAW5lnwganZ2lA=/media/img/mt/2024/03/NYC5989_HR/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Bruce Davidson / Magnum"}], "credit": "Bruce Davidson / Magnum", "title": "What Really Makes People Feel Safe on the Subway", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "What Really Makes People Feel Safe on the Subway"}, "published": "2024-03-17T07:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 11, 0, 0, 6, 77, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T15:30:21-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 19, 30, 21, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "It\u2019s not cops or soldiers."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/subway-safety-new-york-hochul-policy/677774/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677678", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/oregon-drug-decriminalization-failed/677678/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p class=\"dropcap\">A<span class=\"smallcaps\">merica\u2019s most</span> radical experiment with drug decriminalization has ended, after more than three years of painful results. Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has pledged to sign legislation repealing the principal elements of the ballot initiative known as Measure 110: Possessing hard drugs is again a crime in Oregon, and courts will return to mandating treatment for offenders. Oregonians had <a href=\"https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/01/16/a-third-way-is-needed-to-address-oregons-drug-crisis/\">supported</a> Measure 110 with 59 percent of the vote in 2020, but three years later, <a href=\"https://gooddrugpolicy.org/2023/08/new-poll-finds-oregonians-regret-measure-110-blame-law-for-increases-in-crime-and-homelessness/\">polling</a> showed that 64 percent wanted some or all of it repealed. Although the measure was touted by advocates as a racial-justice policy, support for its repeal was especially strong among African American and Hispanic Oregonians.\u00a0\u00a0</p><p>The key elements of Measure 110 were the removal of criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of drugs such as methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl, and a sharper focus, instead, on reducing the harm that drugs cause to their users. <a href=\"https://sos.oregon.gov/audits/Pages/audit-2023-39-Measure-110.aspx\">More than $260 million were allocated</a> to <a href=\"https://sos.oregon.gov/audits/Documents/2023-39.pdf\">services</a> such as naloxone distribution, employment and housing services, and voluntary treatment. The original campaign for the measure <a href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/10/backers-put-millions-behind-nations-first-bid-to-decriminalize-possession-of-heroin-meth-other-street-drugs.html\">was well funded</a> by multiple backers, most prominently the <a href=\"https://drugpolicy.org/more-about-decriminalization/\">Drug Policy Alliance, based in New York</a>. Supporters hoped that ending penalties\u2014and reducing the associated stigma of drug use\u2014would bring a range of benefits. Once drugs were decriminalized and destigmatized, the thinking went, those who wanted to continue using would be more willing to access harm-reduction services that helped them use in safer ways. Meanwhile, the many people who wanted to quit using drugs but had been too ashamed or fearful to seek treatment would do so. Advocates foresaw a surge of help-seeking, a reduction in drug-overdose deaths, fewer racial disparities in the health and criminal-justice systems, lower rates of incarceration, and safer neighborhoods for all.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/07/oregon-drug-decriminalization-results-overdoses/674733/?utm_source=feed\">Read: What happened when Oregon decriminalized hard drugs</a>]</i></p><p>But disappointments stacked up rapidly. Measure 110 failed because its advocates misunderstood addiction, and also because they misunderstood the culture and political history of Oregon. Both of these misunderstandings should be of keen interest to other states and municipalities contending with the fentanyl crisis, and to the federal government. An appreciation of what went wrong can help other places land on a drug policy that is both humane and effective, instead of veering toward one extreme or another.</p><p class=\"dropcap\">M<span class=\"smallcaps\">easure 110</span> did not reduce Oregon\u2019s drug problems. The <a href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/drug_poisoning_mortality/drug_poisoning.htm\">drug-overdose-death rate increased by 43 percent in 2021</a>, its first year of implementation\u2014and then kept rising. The latest CDC data show that in the 12 months ending in September 2023, deaths by overdose grew by <a href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm\">41.6 percent, versus 2.1 percent nationwide</a>. No other state saw a higher rise in deaths. Only one state, Vermont, ranks higher in its <a href=\"https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/drug-use-by-state\">rate of illicit drug use</a>.</p><p>Neither did decriminalization produce a flood of help-seeking. The replacement for criminal penalties, a $100 ticket for drug possession with the fine waived if the individual called a toll-free number for a health assessment, with the aim of encouraging treatment, failed completely. More than 95 percent of people <a href=\"https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/13/oregon-botches-the-decriminalisation-of-drugs\">ignored</a> the ticket, for which\u2014in keeping with the spirit of Measure 110\u2014there was no consequence. The cost of the hotline worked out to about $7,000 per completed phone call, <a href=\"https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/04/13/oregons-drug-decriminalisation-has-had-a-troubled-start\">according to <i>The Economist</i></a>. These realities, as well as associated disorder such as open-air drug markets and <a href=\"https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend\">a sharp rise in violent crime\u2014while such crime was falling nationally</a>\u2014led Oregonians to rethink their drug policy.\u00a0\u00a0</p><p>Both of us have spent the better part of our careers studying and working on drug policy. Both of us watched this deterioration in Oregon\u2019s public health and safety with dismay, and tried to help stanch the damage. We <a href=\"https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021I1/Committees/SJD110/2022-09-21-08-30/Agenda\">testified</a> before the Measure 110 legislative implementing committee in 2022 in the hopes that the spirit of Measure 110 could be maintained if some <a href=\"https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021I1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/256878\">reforms</a> were allowed, such as the elimination of open-air drug markets and the resumption of mandated treatment for those suffering from severe addiction. But tweaking the measure proved very difficult. Last year, one of us, Rob Bovett, began working closely with a number of groups trying to reform Measure 110 through legislation, including a <a href=\"https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Measures/Overview/HB4036\">bill</a> based on a <a href=\"https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023I1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/277671\">proposal</a> developed by Oregon\u2019s city governments, sheriffs, police chiefs, and district attorneys, and a <a href=\"https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Measures/Overview/SB1555\">bill</a> based primarily on a <a href=\"https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2024/047text.pdf\">petition</a> filed by a coalition of Oregonians that had grown weary of the measure\u2019s ongoing failure. He <a href=\"https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2024R1/Downloads/PublicTestimonyDocument/103834\">testified</a> before the Measure 110 reform committee and participated in negotiations that led to the reform package that just passed.</p><p>We were not surprised that a trivial pressure to seek treatment was ineffective. Fentanyl and meth addiction are not like depression, chronic pain, or cancer, conditions for which people are typically motivated to seek treatment. Even as it destroys a person\u2019s life, addictive drug use by definition feels good in the short term, and most addicted people resist or are ambivalent about giving that up. Withdrawal, meanwhile, is wrenchingly difficult. As a result, most addicted people who come to treatment do so not spontaneously but through pressure from family, friends, employers, health professionals, and, yes, the law.</p><p>But it wasn\u2019t just that the measure\u2019s proponents misunderstood addiction. They also did not understand Oregon, a state in which the measure\u2019s biggest funders did not live. Branding Measure 110 as a rebuke to the War on Drugs made no sense, because Oregon had never fought such a war. In 1973, it became the first state to decriminalize possession of marijuana. When federal and state mandatory-minimum sentences for drug crimes flowered in the \u201980s and \u201990s, Oregon went the other way, making it impossible for someone to go to prison for simple drug possession. Overall, the state had the country\u2019s <a href=\"https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20373-the-hard-truth-about-oregons-prisons-they-work.html\">lowest rate of imprisonment for nonviolent crimes</a>. Short local-jail sentences for drug possession were permitted, but diversion programs, including <a href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/cjc/sc/Pages/default.aspx\">drug courts</a> and <a href=\"https://www.oregon.gov/doc/community-corrections/pages/home.aspx\">community supervision with drug testing</a>, were widely used. However, after Measure 110 was passed and the <i>threat </i>of jail time eliminated, the flow of people into these programs slowed.</p><p class=\"dropcap\">D<span class=\"smallcaps\">oes the repeal</span> of Measure 110 mean that drug-policy reform is dead? Oregon\u2019s drug policy attracted national and international attention, and its high-profile failure will likely discourage other states and countries from pursuing maximalist decriminalization policies, at least for a time.</p><p>But the lessons from Oregon\u2019s troubles should not be overdrawn. One thing Measure 110 got right, at least in principle, is that Oregon\u2019s addiction-treatment system was grossly underfunded, with access to care frequently ranking at the bottom of national indicators. The mechanism that the measure created to manage new spending was clumsy and didn\u2019t work well, but the new law acknowledges the problem and provides <a href=\"https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/rayfield/Documents/House%20Passes%20Oregon%20Drug%20Intervention%20Plan%20(ODIP).pdf\">extensive new funding</a> for immediate needs, including detox facilities, sobering centers, treatment facilities, and the staff to support those services.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/destigmatizing-drug-use-mistake-opioid-crisis/676292/?utm_source=feed\">Keith Humphreys and Jonathan Caulkins: Destigmatizing drug use has been a profound mistake</a>]</i></p><p>Though our polarized politics tends to frame policy choices as on-off switches, in truth they are more like a dial with many intervening settings. That dial can be productively turned in many parts of the country. Many states are far more punitive toward drug users than Oregon was before Measure 110 passed. They overemphasize incarceration of people who use drugs, they do not provide adequate, publicly funded health treatment and health insurance, and they do not use criminal justice productively to discourage drug use (for instance, by using arrests and probations as leverage to get people into drug courts and treatment). If these states could be persuaded to dial down their criminal-justice approach to approximate what Oregon had <i>before </i>Measure 110<b>, </b>except with adequately funded, evidence-based prevention and treatment, substantial gains in public health and safety would likely follow. The future of successful drug-policy reform is not greater laxity in states that are already quite progressive in their approach to drug use; it is using criminal justice and public health together in a balanced, pragmatic fashion, as Oregon is now poised to do.</p>"}], "summary": "The sponsors of the law fundamentally misunderstood the nature of addiction.", "authors": [{"name": "Keith Humphreys", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/keith-humphreys/?utm_source=feed"}, {"name": "Rob Bovett", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/rob-bovett/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Rob Bovett", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/rob-bovett/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/rob-bovett/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Rob Bovett", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/G7385gKzZ1-wJQlfSk09LQScwHQ=/media/img/mt/2024/03/h_16066730/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Jordan Gale / The New York Times / Redux"}], "credit": "Jordan Gale / The New York Times / Redux", "title": "Why Oregon\u2019s Drug Decriminalization Failed", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Why Oregon\u2019s Drug Decriminalization Failed"}, "published": "2024-03-17T07:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 11, 0, 0, 6, 77, 0], "updated": "2024-03-17T07:01:56-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 11, 1, 56, 6, 77, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "The sponsors of the law fundamentally misunderstood the nature of addiction."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/oregon-drug-decriminalization-failed/677678/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677786", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/poem-rae-armantrout-specimens/677786/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p dir=\"ltr\"><small>When I was a child, my grandmother Rachel lived in a small room next to mine.</small></p><p><small>She wore what were called \u201chousecoats\u201d and put her hair up in \u201cpin curls.\u201d</small></p><p><small>She raised roses.</small></p><p><small>She enjoyed watching pro wrestlers on television. Her favorite was Gorgeous George.</small></p><p><small>And she loved the piano player Liberace.<br />\nI remember the rhinestones on his cape.</small></p><p><small>She spoke very little.</small></p><p><small>I assumed Rachel<br />\nmust be typical of something.</small></p><p><small>2</small></p><p><small>Listen, the god who made you<br />\ncannot know<br />\nanything about you.</small></p><p><small>It can\u2019t become distracted.</small></p><p><small>It has to keep producing<br />\norchids with monkey faces,<br />\ncaterpillars with pink feathers,</small></p><p><small>and the one who floats<br />\non her own reflection.</small></p>"}], "summary": "A poem for Sunday", "authors": [{"name": "Rae Armantrout", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/rae-armantrout/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Rae Armantrout", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/rae-armantrout/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/rae-armantrout/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Rae Armantrout", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/rgR0jA2UDi4kwJkuf9A_rsFNpwg=/0x916:2267x2192/media/img/mt/2024/03/Gegisian_Anlantic_specimens1-1/original.tiff"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Illustration by Akaterini Gegisian"}], "credit": "Illustration by Akaterini Gegisian", "title": "Specimens", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Specimens"}, "published": "2024-03-17T06:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 17, 10, 0, 0, 6, 77, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T13:38:13-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 17, 38, 13, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "A poem for Sunday"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/poem-rae-armantrout-specimens/677786/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677769", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/03/israel-gaza-russia-putin-trump-biden-washington-week/677769/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> Washington Week With The Atlantic <em>is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and </em>The Atlantic <em>airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em> <br /></p><p>Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer set off a fierce debate in Washington on Thursday after criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and calling for Israel to hold new elections to replace him.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">In Russia, where the presidential election is being held this weekend, Vladimir Putin is on track to win a fifth term, as he continues his war against Ukraine. The U.S. will send a small military aid package to Ukraine, the first in months, but the larger $60 billion aid package remains stalled in Congress.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, President Biden is campaigning in key battleground states, while Donald Trump, his Republican rival, contends with developments in his various legal battles.<br />\n<br />\nJoining guest moderator and White House Correspondent at PBS NewsHour, Laura Barr\u00f3n-L\u00f3pez, to discuss this and more are Zolan Kanno-Youngs, White House Correspondent for The New York Times; Jim Scuitto, Anchor and Chief National Security Analyst at CNN; and Scott MacFarlane, Congressional Correspondent for CBS News.</p><p>Watch the full episode and read the transcript <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2024/03/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-31524\">here</a>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "\u201cYou don\u2019t see the president condemning Schumer's statements, criticizing it at all \u2026 That does say a lot.\u201d", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/x73AjoMXKTKIgtREST8sEVNiruA=/media/img/mt/2024/03/still1/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "The Wars That Divide Washington", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "The Wars That Divide Washington"}, "published": "2024-03-16T11:39:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 15, 39, 0, 5, 76, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T14:14:55-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 14, 55, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "\u201cYou don\u2019t see the president condemning Schumer's statements, criticizing it at all \u2026 That does say a lot.\u201d"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/03/israel-gaza-russia-putin-trump-biden-washington-week/677769/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677784", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/03/reading-school-lifelong/677784/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p><small><em>This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/the-wonder-reader/?utm_source=feed\">Sign up here</a> to get it every Saturday morning.</em></small></p><p>This week,<i> The Atlantic </i>published its list of <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/best-books-american-fiction/677479/?utm_source=feed\">the 136 most significant American novels of the past century</a>. \u201cOur goal was to single out those classics that stand the test of time, but also to make the case for the unexpected, the unfairly forgotten, and the recently published works that already feel indelible,\u201d my colleagues wrote in their introduction. \u201cWe aimed for comprehensiveness, rigor, and open-mindedness. Serendipity, too: We hoped to replicate that particular joy of a friend pressing a book into your hand and saying, \u2018You have to read this; you\u2019ll love it.\u2019\u201d</p><p>That last line reminded me of the serendipity that\u2019s always at play when we pick up a book. Happening upon the right words at the right moment, and in the right frame of mind, isn\u2019t easy; when all those pieces fall into place, it can feel like a fragile victory, almost magic. Today\u2019s reading list explores how our attention spans, attitudes, and education affect the way we read\u2014and how to bring yourself closer to the reading experience you might want.</p><hr /><p><strong>On Reading</strong></p><p>Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers</p><p><i>By Joe Pinsker</i></p><p>A lot rides on how parents present the activity to their kids.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/09/love-reading-books-leisure-pleasure/598315/?utm_source=feed\">Read the article.</a></p><p>How to Show Kids the Joy of Reading</p><p><i>By Natalie Wexler</i></p><p dir=\"ltr\">In her 28 years of teaching, Deloris Fowler had seen educational reforms come and go. Then one of them surprised her.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/08/how-show-kids-joy-reading/615109/?utm_source=feed\">Read the article.</a></p><p>Seven Books That Will Make You Put Down Your Phone</p><p><i>By Bekah Waalkes</i></p><p>These titles self-consciously aim to grab their reader\u2019s attention.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/08/attention-focus-book-recommendations/674941/?utm_source=feed\">Read the article.</a></p><hr /><p><b>Still Curious?</b></p><ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/01/books-briefing-against-counting-books-new-year/677031/?utm_source=feed\"><b>Against counting the books you read</b></a><b>:</b> The number of titles you finish in a year says little about your actual reading habits, Emma Sarappo writes.</li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/03/americans-focus-attention-span-threat-democracy/626556/?utm_source=feed\"><b>The great fracturing of American attention</b></a><b>:</b> In 2022, Megan Garber explored why resisting distraction is one of the foundational challenges of this moment.</li>\n</ul><hr /><p><b>Other Diversions</b></p><ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/03/crows-urban-city-habitat/677766/?utm_source=feed\">Crows are the new pigeons.</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/03/dad-stereotypes-caregiving/677639/?utm_source=feed\">Dad culture has nothing to do with parenting.</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/06/how-vacations-make-friendships-stronger/661349/?utm_source=feed\">Want close friendships? Move away from your friends. (<i>From 2022</i>)</a></li>\n</ul><hr /><p><b>P.S.</b></p><p>In 2016, James Hamblin <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/a-better-way-to-read/482127/?utm_source=feed\">explored</a> how black text written on a white background\u2014in other words, the standard style of a book\u2014may not actually be the best way for the human brain to take in information. That format \u201cpersists today out of tradition, not because of some innate tendency of the human brain to process information in this way,\u201d he wrote.</p><p>\u2014 Isabel</p>"}], "summary": "Attention spans, attitudes, and education all affect the way we read.", "authors": [{"name": "Isabel Fattal", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/isabel-fattal/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Isabel Fattal", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/isabel-fattal/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/isabel-fattal/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Isabel Fattal", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/tPB4tTnzsGA147BkCh6tCKvKLxs=/0x321:4787x3013/media/img/mt/2024/03/reading/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Chris J. Ratcliffe / Getty"}], "credit": "Chris J. Ratcliffe / Getty", "title": "How to Teach the Thrill of Reading", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "How to Teach the Thrill of Reading"}, "published": "2024-03-16T08:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 12, 0, 0, 5, 76, 0], "updated": "2024-03-16T08:00:56-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 12, 0, 56, 5, 76, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Attention spans, attitudes, and education all affect the way we read."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/03/reading-school-lifelong/677784/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677765", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/black-box-race-slavery-american-history/677765/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p class=\"dropcap\">M<span class=\"smallcaps\">y daughter</span> Maggie gave birth to Ellie, my granddaughter, by C\u2011section on a Saturday afternoon in November of 2014. That evening, my son\u2011in\u2011law, Aaron, came over for a warm hug and a celebratory shot of bourbon. I listened to Aaron\u2019s play\u2011by\u2011play of the events, and after a decent pause, I asked the question that I had wanted to ask all along:</p><p>\u201cDid you check the box?\u201d</p><p>Without missing a beat, my good son\u2011in\u2011law responded, \u201cYes, sir. I did.\u201d</p><p>\u201cVery good,\u201d I responded, as I poured a second shot.</p><p>Aaron, a young white man, had checked the \u201cBlack\u201d box on the form that Americans are required to complete at the time of the birth of a child.</p><p>Now, my daughter\u2019s father\u2019s admixture\u2014in other words, mine\u2014is 50 percent sub\u2011Saharan African and 50 percent European, according to DNA tests. My son\u2011in\u2011law is 100 percent European. Because Maggie is 75 percent European, Ellie will test about 87.5 percent European when she spits in the test tube.</p><p>Eleanor Margaret Gates\u2011Hatley, who looks like an adorable little white girl, will live her life as a \u201cBlack\u201d person, because her father and mother checked the \u201cBlack\u201d box. That choice will define so very many of Ellie\u2019s encounters with the world\u2014from how her college application is read to how her physician assesses her risks for certain medical conditions. And she will be destined, throughout her life, to face the challenge of \u201cproving\u201d that she is \u201cBlack,\u201d simply because her self\u2011styled \u201crace man\u201d grandfather ardently\u2014and perhaps foolishly\u2014wished for her racial self to be socially constructed that way.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/06/atlantic-reader-race-and-racism-us/613057/?utm_source=feed\">Read: How did we get here?</a>]</i></p><p>Such is the absurdity of the history of race and racial designations in the United States, stemming from \u201cthe law of hypodescent,\u201d the proverbial \u201cone\u2011drop rule.\u201d Perhaps Eleanor will choose to dance the dance of racial indeterminacy, moving effortlessly back and forth across the color line. Or maybe she will claim a social identity that reflects her European ancestry. Or maybe she will keep a photograph of her grandfather in her pocketbook and delight in refuting\u2014or affirming, as the case may be\u2014the laughable, tragic arbitrariness of the social construction of race in America. The most important thing is that this be her choice.</p><p class=\"dropcap\">T<span class=\"smallcaps\">he \u201cblack box\u201d</span> has become a powerful symbol for me. In the event of a plane crash, of course, the black box is what survives\u2014a record of the truth amid disastrous circumstances. The black box is something you can\u2019t see inside\u2014it has inputs and outputs, but its internal workings are not comprehendible. Above all it is a metaphor for the circumscribed universe within which people of African descent have been forced to construct a new identity on this side of the Atlantic.</p><p>The Yale legal scholar Stephen L. Carter defined his own box in this way:</p><blockquote>\n<p>To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. So, I live in a box, not of my own making, and on the box is a label, not of my own choosing. Most of those who have not met me, and many of those who have, see the box and read the label and imagine they have seen me.</p>\n</blockquote><p>In Carter\u2019s usage, the black box is a place of identity confinement through predefinition, akin to the late literary critic Barbara Johnson\u2019s definition of a stereotype as \u201can already read text.\u201d The Black face enters the room, and at a glimpse, the viewer knows all that they need to know about the person wearing the mask<i> </i>of Blackness. Good luck, Carter is suggesting, shedding any of those connotations.</p><figure class=\"left\"><img alt=\"The book cover\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/img/posts/2024/03/_preview_5/c99778310.jpg\" width=\"199\" /></figure><p>And yet a great portion of the history of African Americans consists of the marvelous and ingenious means by which they have navigated their way in and out of the box in which they\u2019ve been confined.</p><p>Perhaps the first black box was the definition of Africa as \u201cthe Dark Continent,\u201d a metaphor for the color of its inhabitants\u2019 skin as well as for their supposed benightedness. This metaphor was used to justify the second, even crueler black box, within which people of African descent found themselves placed by Europeans\u2014the dreadful transatlantic slave trade, responsible for perhaps the largest forced migration in human history. It was the repository of all the racist stereotypes employed to justify the enslavement of a continent of human beings and then, subsequent to the abolition of slavery, to justify the rollback of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow segregation.</p><p>The author Henry Box Brown literalized this trope by escaping from slavery in 1849 by being shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia in a box measuring three feet, one inch long; two feet, six inches high; and two feet wide. The box was labeled <span class=\"smallcaps\">this side up</span> to keep Brown upright, but the instruction was often ignored, meaning Brown spent hours of his trip upside down, drinking water from a beef bladder and breathing through three drilled holes.</p><p class=\"dropcap\">B<span class=\"smallcaps\">ut the black box</span> was also, somehow, a place of creativity, a universe of culture mysteriously and inexplicably produced, and often unintelligible to those outside it. <a href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/NARRATIVE_OF_THE_LIFE_OF_FREDERICK_DOUGL/sD2FEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=Frederick+Douglass+%22They+would+make+the+dense+old+woods,+for+miles+around,+reverberate+with+their+wild+songs,+revealing+at+once+the+highest+joy+and+the+deepest+sadness.%E2%80%9D&amp;pg=PT35&amp;printsec=frontcover\">Frederick Douglass recognized this</a> when he mused about the \u201cSorrow Songs\u201d\u2014spirituals composed by enslaved men and women. \u201cThey would make the dense old woods, for miles around, reverberate with their wild songs, revealing at once the highest joy and the deepest sadness.\u201d These songs were composed in code, music set \u201cto words which to many would seem unmeaning jargon, but which, nevertheless, were full of meaning to themselves.\u201d Douglass himself confessed he did not understand: \u201cThey told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension.\u201d</p><p>In 1884, this magazine published a long article called \u201c<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1884/11/the-negro-problem/531366/?utm_source=feed\">The Negro Problem,</a>\u201d by the Harvard professor Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, a paleontologist and geologist as well as a strong proponent of scientific racism and eugenics. Shaler\u2019s white-supremacist discourse fell squarely into the school of thought imposed on the Black community that was used well into the 20th century to justify the eradication of rights gained by African Americans during Reconstruction. Thirteen years later, also in this magazine, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote, \u201cBeing a problem is a strange experience.\u201d His essay, \u201c<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/strivings-of-the-negro-people/305446/?utm_source=feed\">Strivings of the Negro People</a>\u201d (which he would revise slightly for his 1903 book, <i>The Souls of Black Folk</i>), described the \u201cNegro Problem\u201d label as a kind of black box:</p><blockquote>\n<p>The \u2018shades of the prison-house\u2019 closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly watch the streak of blue above.</p>\n</blockquote><p>(The writers of these two <i>Atlantic </i>essays knew each other: Shaler was Du Bois\u2019s professor at Harvard.<b> </b>Perhaps paradoxically, Du Bois expressed gratitude to Shaler for defending his presence in class against the protests of a southern student.)</p><p>It was to free himself and the race from the bounds of this box that Du Bois and many others wrote and spoke so prolifically, addressing the subject again and again. For Ralph Ellison, in <i>Invisible Man</i>, the black box is both a boxing ring in which two blindfolded Black boys are forced to beat each other senseless and also the hole in which Ellison\u2019s protagonist hides from a world that seeks to impose upon him its masks of identity, where he types the manuscript that we eventually are surprised to learn we are reading over his shoulder.</p><p>But being doomed to fight against racism could also be a trap. As Du Bois\u2019s fellow Harvard graduate and sometime ideological foe, the philosopher <a href=\"https://c250.columbia.edu/dkv/tools/0746/web/s5/s5_prim.html\">Alain Locke, put it</a>, even \u201cthe thinking Negro\u201d inside a black box forged \u201cin the mind of America\u201d is forced \u201cto see himself in the distorted perspective of a social problem. His shadow, so to speak, has been more real to him than his personality.\u201d</p><p>More recently, Terrance Hayes\u2019s poem \u201cThe Blue Seuss\u201d explores the metaphor of the black box. It begins:</p><p>Blacks in one box<br />\nBlacks in two box<br />\nBlacks on<br />\nBlacks stacked in boxes stacked on boxes<br />\nBlacks in boxes stacked on shores<br />\nBlacks in boxes stacked on boats in darkness<br />\nBlacks in boxes do not float<br />\nBlacks in boxes count their losses</p><p>And ends:</p><p>Blacks in voting booths are<br />\nBlacks in boxes<br />\nBlacks beside<br />\nBlacks in rows of houses are Blacks in boxes too</p><p class=\"dropcap\">A<span class=\"smallcaps\">s a professor</span>, I try to teach my students about how Black people have sought to escape from this box. But even more important, I endeavor to expose them to the long tradition of Black discourse, and the often disregarded fact that Black people have been arguing with one another about what it means to be Black since they began to publish their thoughts and feelings in the latter quarter of the 18th century.</p><p>When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had the audacity to insert himself into the morality of American involvement in the Vietnam War, for example, even\u2014or especially\u2014several of his fellow leaders of the civil-rights movement told him that he was out of bounds, demanding that he redirect his concerns to issues relevant to those doomed to dwell within the black box, advice that the good reverend boldly ignored.</p><p>The moral is that there never has been one way to be Black; that African Americans are as varied and as complex in their political and religious beliefs as any other group. And they have voiced those internal differences with great fervor and passion, stunning eloquence, and vehemence, often even subjecting those Black thinkers with whom they disagree to the nastiest and pettiest ad hominem attacks.</p><p>These debates within and about the African American tradition have for too long been opaque to most Americans, in the same way that the songs of his enslaved sisters and brothers remained opaque to Frederick Douglass. Too often, we talk about \u201cthe Black community\u201d as if it were a village composed of a unitary group, one with shared experiences and unified views. Reflecting on what binds Black Americans together and on what distinguishes individuals and subcultures within that tradition has never been more crucial than at this contested and polarized moment, with its focus on identity and identity politics, and Americans\u2019 lazy predisposition to think of every group as monolithic.</p><p>But the tradition of Black thought is most correctly described as a series of contentions, many of them fiery ones. And fire, as the greatest Black intellectuals have always known, can generate light as well as heat.</p><p>The \u201cright\u201d answer about how to escape the black box has never been formulated, precisely because there never has been, and never will be, <i>one right answer </i>to that haunting question.</p><p>Consider this paradox: The very concept of \u201crace\u201d is the child of <i>racism. </i>\u201cBlackness\u201d was an arbitrary category invented by Europeans and Americans in the Enlightenment to justify the horror show of Black subjugation. The human beings who suddenly became \u201cBlack\u201d were then forced to play a complex game of \u201crepresentation\u201d to claim some space in the world, and that vexed process evolved into a rich legacy of self\u2011definition within this diverse community composed of every type of person living on the planet Earth\u2014some 50 million of them in this country alone\u2014connected by their relationship to this proverbial black box, a metaphysical construct invented to justify an economic order in which their selfhood could be objectified, their subjectivity robbed, and their labor stolen.</p><p class=\"dropcap\">T<span class=\"smallcaps\">hey created</span> this legacy of self-definition, in no small part, by using the master\u2019s tool: writing.</p><p>During the Enlightenment, Black authors such as Ignatius Sancho, John Marrant, and Olaudah Equiano managed to forge successful careers against all the odds. Others were less fortunate. Despite her unprecedented fame, the poet Phillis Wheatley died in obscurity and poverty in 1784. Jacobus Capitein, a formerly enslaved man from the Gold Coast, defended his doctoral dissertation (which argued that the Bible did not oppose slavery) at the University of Leiden in 1742. He returned home, founded a school, and, after falling from Dutch grace, was buried in an unmarked grave. We can begin to understand how he was seen by his contemporaries through the words a fellow student at Leiden inscribed in the foreword to Capitein\u2019s dissertation: \u201cSee this Moor, his skin is black, but white his soul \u2026 He will bring faith, hope and love to the Africans, so they will, whitened, honour the Lamb.\u201d</p><p>The small, elite group of Black intellectuals wrote very few words about the matter of their \u201cBlackness\u201d in a world still wrestling with who and what they were, and what the relation between \u201cBlackness\u201d and \u201cwhiteness\u201d could possibly be in European economies defined by the trade in Black human beings. No matter how brilliant an individual of color might be, no matter how much fame, respect, or financial success he might achieve, he was standing on a trap door.</p><p>Thus was the fate of Angelo Soliman.</p><p>Soliman was born around 1721, likely in what is now Nigeria. According to the scholars Iris Wigger and Spencer Hadley, he was stolen from his family as a child and forced into slavery in Italy, where he became the property of the imperial governor of Sicily, Count Lobkowitz. When the count died, Soliman became a servant to a prince in Vienna, dressed in exotic styles as a so\u2011called court Moor. The prince dismissed Soliman when, without permission, he married an aristocratic widow. Nevertheless, Soliman\u2019s stature only increased, and his black box began to crack open.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/black-career-success-race-backlash/675437/?utm_source=feed\">From the November 2023 issue: Black success, white backlash</a>]</i></p><p>He continued to move in aristocratic circles, rejoined the royal court as an educator under the prince\u2019s successor, and joined a Masonic lodge that counted Mozart and Haydn among its members. Soliman became the grand master of this lodge and gave its rituals a more scholarly bent, so much so that he is still celebrated in Masonic lore as Angelus Solimanus, the \u201cFather of Pure Masonic Thought.\u201d He spoke multiple languages. He may well have been the most prominent Black person in Europe at the time.</p><p>In death none of this mattered. Soliman died on November 21, 1796. Despite the pleas of his daughter, Josephine, Soliman would not receive a proper Christian burial. Instead, his body fell into the hands of the director of the Royal Natural History Collection, Abb\u00e9 Simon Eberl\u00e9, who had hatched his heinous plan while Soliman was still alive, petitioning the government for the \u201ccession of the corpse.\u201d What followed was horrific.</p><p>As Wigger and Hadley write, Eberl\u00e9 \u201cordered a death mask to be created before Soliman\u2019s skin was removed and prepared for exhibition with a stuffing compound. The so created figure was then dressed up as a \u2018savage\u2019 in a loin cloth, with an ostrich feather crown and glass beads, and presented to the public in the midst of taxidermised exotic animals.\u201d</p><p>In the ultimate humiliation, Soliman was placed on display at the museum, a debased artifact trapped behind glass. As late as 1806, this perverse specter of European primitivism and anti\u2011Black racism was still proudly on display\u2014a literal realization of permanent suspension in a black box. Eventually it was moved to a warehouse, which burned in the October Revolution of 1848.</p><p>The quest for culture and individual identity in the face of such history is an argument without end. Like all truly great arguments, it is a story of ceaseless creativity and reinvention, without which any attempt to understand America is not just incomplete but absurd.</p><hr /><p><em>This essay is adapted from the forthcoming book</em> <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9780593299784\">The Black Box: Writing the Race</a><em>.</em></p>"}], "summary": "In a circumscribed universe, Black Americans have ceaselessly reinvented themselves.", "authors": [{"name": "Henry Louis Gates Jr.", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/henry-louis-gates-jr/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Henry Louis Gates Jr.", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/henry-louis-gates-jr/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/henry-louis-gates-jr/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Henry Louis Gates Jr.", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/uUek-tENiADtOHg49KdY3spC5iE=/media/img/mt/2024/03/Black_Box_Fin/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. 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Sources: Authenticated News / Getty; Cecil Williams / Claflin University / Getty; Jackson State University / Getty.", "title": "The Black Box of Race", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "The Black Box of Race"}, "published": "2024-03-16T07:31:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 11, 31, 0, 5, 76, 0], "updated": "2024-03-16T07:32:55-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 11, 32, 55, 5, 76, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "In a circumscribed universe, Black Americans have ceaselessly reinvented themselves."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/black-box-race-slavery-american-history/677765/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677776", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/putin-successor-russia-election/677776/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p>Not even the most passionate supporters of Vladimir Putin are pretending that the results of this weekend\u2019s election are in doubt: Putin, Russia\u2019s longest-serving leader since Joseph Stalin, is about to embark on his sixth term. And so, with no electoral politics to debate, both <a href=\"https://tsargrad.tv/articles/preemnik-putina-izvesten-lichnaja-smelost-i-zvezdy-na-pogonah-ne-vse_969610?fbclid=IwAR3ndT7T9Qbj774ykDGdqOAjuwQvYV2JBqJL9y0i3YvdDfZ98vv31MEYdag\">pro-Putin</a> and <a href=\"https://meduza.io/episodes/2024/03/11/s-vyborami-prezidenta-vse-yasno-a-chto-s-pravitelstvom-kogo-putin-postavit-vmesto-mishustina-i-zahochet-li-voobsche-menyat-premiera-vo-vremya-voyny\">liberal</a> Kremlinologists in the Russian-language mediasphere have been focusing instead on changes at the very top of Russia\u2019s power pyramid: the new elite that is coming to replace the old Putin cronies, the tensions between the men in military uniforms and those in suits, and the perennial question of who will lead the country in the case of Putin\u2019s sudden death.</p><p>Before the war, perhaps the leading candidate for a successor was Putin\u2019s favorite general and then\u2013deputy head of military intelligence, Aleksey Dyumin, who commanded the Special Operations Forces\u2019 top-secret \u201clittle green men\u201d during the annexation of Crimea. But his train has departed, as Russians say: \u201cDyumin\u2019s name was connected to Wagner, which decreased his chance to become Putin\u2019s successor,\u201d a columnist named Andrey Revnivtsev wrote on Tsargrad, a <a href=\"https://tsargrad.tv/articles/preemnik-putina-izvesten-lichnaja-smelost-i-zvezdy-na-pogonah-ne-vse_969610?fbclid=IwAR38xbsYX6uzl0Ja_nHft5_VloCsxFYrbWEWbQyea1VcqC5ujKQRsSgoDEY\">website</a> popular among military and secret agencies, on Monday. Now, according to Revnivtsev, the favored military candidate is a different general, Andrey Mordvichev, who commanded Russian forces in horrific battles in the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Avidiivka.</p><p>That military sources envision a general at the top, and that they disagree on which one, is not surprising. \u201dThe so-called <em>siloviki</em> from the security elite do not stop eating each other alive only because the war goes on,\u201d Ilya Barabanov, an observer of the Russian military and security cadres, told me.</p><p>Liberal Kremlinologists, however, have been more focused on civilian possibilities. The prime minister is, after all, the president\u2019s legal successor under Russia\u2019s constitution. Putin\u2019s current prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, reportedly has a good public reputation and a competent staff\u2014conditions that could bode ill for him under a jealous president.</p><p>\u201cIf Putin is not paranoid, he would seem definitely paranoid to get rid of the current, solid prime minister, Mishustin, too, only because he is too strong,\u201d Nina Khruscheva, a historian of Russian authoritarianism and propaganda at the New School, told me. And yet, many speculate that Putin will do exactly that. <a href=\"https://meduza.io/episodes/2024/03/11/s-vyborami-prezidenta-vse-yasno-a-chto-s-pravitelstvom-kogo-putin-postavit-vmesto-mishustina-i-zahochet-li-voobsche-menyat-premiera-vo-vremya-voyny\">Some</a> point to Putin\u2019s 41-year-old adviser, Maksim Oreshkin, an economist and a banker, as a possible replacement. According to Alexandra Prokopenko, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, both Oreshkin and Putin\u2019s first deputy chief of staff, Sergei Kiriyenko, once a liberal and now a strong supporter of the war, are angling for the premiership.\u00a0\u00a0</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/russia-2024-rigged-election/677717/?utm_source=feed\">Read: What\u2019s happening in Russia is not an election</a>]</i></p><p>For many analysts, this moment comes with a whiff of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. \u201cOn the eve of Stalin\u2019s funeral, nobody could foresee the end of the regime, the trial and executions of Stalin\u2019s most brutal police chief, Lavrenty Beria, and other KGB members. I would compare the situation today to the bullfight under the carpet in 1952, months before Stalin\u2019s death,\u201d Boris Vishnevsky, an opposition member of the city council in St. Petersburg, told me. \u201cRight now we cannot see who will lead us to changes; we see only all those sworn to stay loyal to Putin. That was the case in 1952 too. But as soon as Stalin fell ill, there were less sinful ones who arrested his most brutal executors.\"</p><p>The fight over who would succeed Stalin occurred after World War II. Putin\u2019s war, however, is still going on, and the Russian president is clearly concerned about maintaining military and political discipline around it. Public attitudes toward Ukraine are in a tangle. Denis Volkov, the director of Russia\u2019s independent polling organization, the Levada Center, told me that more than 70 percent of Russians want a cease-fire, and two-thirds say that the war is simply too costly. And yet, the same polls show that a majority of Russians believe that starting the war was justified and that Russia will ultimately win.</p><p>In a recent address to Parliament, Putin commended veterans of the war in Ukraine as the best candidates for a new elite. \u201cPeople like them will not back down, fail, or be unfaithful,\u201d Putin <a href=\"http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/73585\">said</a>. But although personal loyalty and proof of patriotism carry a particular currency for Putin, even military men can be found wanting: Last year\u2019s coup attempt by the Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin ensnared at least four generals, whom Putin has mostly sent into exile to take over Wagner\u2019s business in Syria. And last April, well before the aborted Wagner coup, Putin <a href=\"https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2023/04/27/poleteli-golovi-z-voenkori-soobschili-o-massovom-uvolnenii-generalov-posle-vizita-putina-na-front-a41426\">dismissed three generals</a> as well as his deputy defense minister, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, after paying a brief visit to the front. The former commander of Russia\u2019s air force, General Sergei Surovikin, whose nickname is Armageddon, was reportedly <a href=\"https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2023/06/28/istochniki-v-minoboroni-soobschayut-ob-areste-generala-surovikina-a47384\">arrested</a> in June\u2014at least, he vanished from public view and was removed as the head of the air force, though his daughter has claimed that \u201cnothing has happened to him.\u201d</p><p>Whether Putin\u2019s successor will be a general or a politician, he will almost certainly not be chosen in an election or even in public view. Alexander Cherkasov, a Nobel Peace Prize\u2013winning human-rights activist, told me that the Kremlin and the Security Council are \u201cthe main black boxes\u201d of the Russian regime\u2014the places where decisions are made, and within which no one can really say who might be willing to tell the truth. Russia\u2019s future will likely be decided within those black boxes, Cherkasov intimated. Only one major new external factor emerged in recent years, the analyst Serguei Parkhomenko told me, and that was \u201cthe rapid rise of Prigozhin, who is dead now.\u201d</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/11/russian-journalists-ukraine-war-wagner-group/676064/?utm_source=feed\">Read: How I lost the Russia that never was</a>]</i></p><p>On Wednesday, just two days before the opening of Russia\u2019s so-called election, Ukrainian drones struck crucial infrastructure in three Russian regions in the hours before dawn. Also during those early-morning hours, Federal Security Service (FSB) agents broke down the doors and searched the houses of dozens of artists in five Russian cities. According to one recent <a href=\"https://anhor.uz/world/repression/\">report</a>, more citizens have been convicted on political charges under Putin than for \u201canti-Sovietism\u201d under Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. Just last month, Putin\u2019s foremost civilian rival, Alexei Navalny, turned up dead in the frigid Siberian prison camp to which he\u2019d been consigned after surviving the Kremlin\u2019s attempt to poison him.</p><p>None of this has made Russia more secure. Rather, the past week\u2019s events have revealed major gaps in Russia\u2019s defenses: Ukrainian tanks invaded the region of Kursk, drones hit two major oil refineries, and a plane crashed. In the past two years of war, Russia has failed to prevent Ukraine from breaching its borders, assaulting its railroads and oil companies, blowing up its bridge to Crimea, and even attacking the Kremlin itself.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/ukraine-drones-long-range-munitions-alternative-kremlin-attack-accusation/673951/?utm_source=feed\">Read: What the drone strikes on the Kremlin reveal about the war in Ukraine</a>]</i></p><p>\u201cLook at the Russian Black Sea fleet. Ukraine has practically destroyed it, and the only response Putin had was his usual: dismiss the fleet commander and appoint someone new,\u201d Olga Romanova, the founder of the humanitarian NGO Russia Behind Bars, told me. The FSB, she said, has merged the division specializing in persecuting dissidents with the one charged with investigating terrorism, to the disadvantage of the latter group.\u00a0\u00a0</p><p>Vishnevsky, the city councilman, and his party, Yabloko, have been writing letters and raising money for political prisoners in Putin\u2019s hometown of St. Petersburg, where activists, artists, and ordinary people with anti-war views regularly awaken to the same blood-freezing knock on the door that Soviet dissidents spoke of in years past.</p><p>\u201cAll the current decision makers have sworn to be faithful to Putin,\u201d Vishnevsky told me, but even they understand \u201cthat they cannot live this way any longer \u2026 Everybody, including me, believes that the changes will take place at the very top by what seems now Putin\u2019s most faithful men. Everybody tries to guess who.\u201d</p><p>He quoted his favorite poet, Osip Mandelstam, who wrote of Stalin and his inner circle:</p><p><em>Around him a rabble of thin-necked henchmen,<br />\nHe plays with the services of these half-men.</em></p><p><em>Some whistle, some miaowing, some sniffling,<br />\nbut he just bangs and pokes.</em></p>"}], "summary": "Who will succeed Russia\u2019s longest-serving ruler since Stalin? Not even the handpicked elite can say.", "authors": [{"name": "Anna Nemtsova", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/anna-nemtsova/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Anna Nemtsova", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/anna-nemtsova/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/anna-nemtsova/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Anna Nemtsova", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/F_ufhHsJCun8fxnz6hnuKNP68ng=/media/img/mt/2024/03/Putin/original.png"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / Getty"}], "credit": "KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / Getty", "title": "Putin\u2019s \u2018Rabble of Thin-Necked Henchmen\u2019", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Putin\u2019s \u2018Rabble of Thin-Necked Henchmen\u2019"}, "published": "2024-03-16T07:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 11, 0, 0, 5, 76, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T13:37:34-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 17, 37, 34, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Who will succeed Russia\u2019s longest-serving ruler since Stalin? Not even the handpicked elite can say."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/putin-successor-russia-election/677776/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677773", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/03/palestinian-food-diplomacy-gaza/677773/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p>The first dinner I ever hosted in the United States was the spontaneous act of a homesick college freshman. I had nowhere to go during spring break, so I cooked <em>maqlubeh</em> (spiced rice, eggplant, and chicken) and, true to my culture, made enough to feed any student left behind in the dorm. For many of my impromptu guests, I was the first and only Palestinian they knew, and they showed a genuine interest in understanding Palestinian history, and even empathy for our occupation and forceful displacement. It was there, far from Jerusalem, where I had grown up\u2014a Palestinian by heritage but an Israeli citizen\u2014that I began to grasp the power of food as a conduit for dialogue. Although I would at times question how effective it was, I retained some version of that belief until October 7.</p><p>In the years after that dinner, I became a <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/02/national-cuisine-paradox/622088/?utm_source=feed\">food writer</a> and, unexpectedly, a culinary ambassador for Palestinian cuisine. My dining gatherings grew in both number and personal meaning; for me, they were a vital source of <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/05/home-cooking-restaurants-meals/673916/?utm_source=feed\">joy and community</a>. Although I might not even have been conscious of it at the time, they were also a way to humanize Palestinians, a people so often discussed in the U.S. as either victims or perpetrators of conflict. Inviting friends from various cultures into my home was in some way an \u201caudition\u201d\u2014as the Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan has <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/opinion/palestine-war-empathy.html\">described it</a>\u2014a chance for some of them to see my people\u2019s humanity.</p><p>The way I thought of it, echoing culinary experts across <a href=\"https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/20/food-diplomacy-countries-identity-culture-marketing-gastrodiplomacy-gastronativism/\">the world</a>, was that if more people experienced authentic hospitality around the table of a Palestinian, then they could not help but empathize with other Palestinians. By getting to know my life story, I hoped, perhaps they could grasp that Palestianians have centuries of ancestry in present-day Israel and periods of relatively peaceful coexistence with Jews, including in Ottoman times and even earlier. They might learn that so many of us simply want to be able to return to or continue living in our land\u2014not under occupation, but with equality and human rights. I thought that the generous and intimate act of sharing food would make it harder to demonize or dismiss us.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/05/home-cooking-restaurants-meals/673916/?utm_source=feed\">Read: What home cooking does that restaurants can\u2019t</a>]</i></p><p>This was, admittedly, what some Palestinian activists might reject as a too-subtle form of political engagement. One reason I felt comfortable in this approach, though, was that growing up as a <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/opinion/palestinians-citizens-israel-gaza.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=c-cb\">Palestinian in Israel</a>, I had internalized a culture of caution and silence. Because our presence is almost always under scrutiny and suspicion (according to a 2016 report from the Pew Research Center, <a href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2016/03/08/israels-religiously-divided-society/\">nearly half of Israeli Jews preferred to have Arabs expelled</a>), many of us have a conditioned sense that we\u2019re guilty until proven innocent and need to keep proving our right to exist in the land our families have inhabited for generations.\u00a0\u00a0</p><p>I had mastered this delicate self-censorship in my home country and continued to present my culture this way in the United States: always careful, always trying to build bridges, always feeling the need to justify and qualify my words. I would see \u201cboth sides\u201d in a conversation even when the power imbalance of occupier versus occupied was obvious. I would be the peacemaker, and downplay my anger at the injustices Palestinians endure, to avoid causing my guests discomfort. Mostly, I stuck to discussing food and culture instead of bleak current affairs, and hoped my cooking and its history would speak for itself.</p><p>At the same time, over the past several years, Palestinian food has <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/t-magazine/palestinian-food.html\">risen</a> in both <a href=\"https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2023/05/31/proudly-palestinian-chefs-tout-their-heritage-as-us-attitudes-change/\">popularity</a> and <a href=\"https://www.bonappetit.com/story/palestinian-chefs-america-talk-identity\">acceptance</a> in the U.S. I have continued to welcome more and more people to my family\u2019s dining table, a generosity inherent to Palestinian culture. Then came the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, where Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry estimated that <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/11/1212458974/israel-revises-death-toll-hamas-attacks-oct-7\">1,200 people</a> were killed and about 240 were kidnapped. That was followed by Israel\u2019s strikes on Gaza, which have killed <a href=\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/03/13/children-killed-gaza-united-nations-wars-worldwide/\">more than 31,000 Palestinians</a>. Even though Israeli officials say that 13,000 Hamas combatants are among the dead, most of those killed have been women and children, according to <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234159514/gaza-death-toll-30000-palestinians-israel-hamas-war\">data gathered by Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry</a>. (A January Oxfam report found this to be a <a href=\"https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam#:~:text=Israel's%20military%20is%20killing%20Palestinians,hostilities%20nears%20its%20100th%20day.\">higher death rate</a> than that of any major conflict in recent history.) At this point I saw how many people were content to savor our food while ignoring my people.</p><p>I\u2019m referring not just to the Biden administration\u2019s <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-gaza-arms-hamas-bypass-congress-1dc77f20aac4a797df6a2338b677da4f#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20For%20the,Gaza%20under%20increasing%20international%20criticism.\">bypassing Congress for emergency arms sales</a> to Israel and the months it spent persistently <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/un-israel-palestinians-gaza-ceasefire-resolution-vote-350c86ef261bf1a00a2515cf22764de5\">vetoing United Nations resolutions</a> demanding a permanent cease-fire. I am talking about the specific abandonment I\u2019ve felt in the food world, where <a href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/28/one-star-ratings-and-threats-how-review-bombing-is-shaping-the-gaza-war\">Palestinian restaurants</a> once loved for their cuisine say they were <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/nyregion/palestinian-restaurant-brooklyn-israel.html\">flooded with one-star reviews</a>. I\u2019m referring to one establishment that sent home employees for <a href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/news/city/local-businesses/gilman-st-philz-coffee-employees-sent-home-for-free-palestine-pins/article_b1ca3008-a137-11ee-b023-67c1a731c576.html\">wearing pins supporting Palestine</a> and another with staff who say they were fired for their advocacy. I am thinking about a food-truck owner who was <a href=\"http://theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/23/new-york-islamophobic-comments-street-vendor-hate-crime\">harassed</a> with racist abuse and another food vendor whose <a href=\"https://ny.eater.com/2023/10/31/23938510/queens-night-market-taste-of-palestine-babas-olives\">signs</a> expressing solidarity with Palestine were removed.</p><p>The shift was also striking on a personal level. Although many people I know marched and protested against the killing and <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide\">starvation</a> of civilians in Gaza, others who had once relished my hospitality and cooking, and had been vocal advocates for the rights of women, immigrants, or Ukrainians\u2014whether on social media, in street protests, or at the ballot box\u2014were now conspicuously silent.</p><p>If hosting and sharing my culture with others through writing, cooking classes, interviews, and lectures was my bid to humanize Palestinians, the aftermath of October 7 clarified its limits. It became painfully clear that the so-called food diplomacy I had been cultivating for years had not worked. The enthusiasm expressed for Palestinian cuisine did not always extend to empathy for the people, or the struggle, behind it. Instead, I realized that many people saw me as an exception to other Palestinians rather than one of them.</p><hr class=\"c-section-divider\" /><p>Perhaps I had been thinking about food wrong. I have always viewed sharing a meal\u2014and sharing stories\u2014as not just demonstrating love but offering a window into a culture, its people, and its history. For Palestinians, in the absence of an independent state and with our national identity constantly questioned, food has also been a pivotal way to claim <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/heres-why-palestinians-object-to-the-term-israeli-food-it-erases-us-from-history/2020/02/14/96974a74-4d25-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html\">agency</a>.</p><p>I had hoped that sharing my food and culture could juxtapose two things for my guests: the vibrancy and humanity of my people as expressed through a rich culinary tradition, and the reality of the ongoing suffering they see on the news. I assumed that witnessing those two extremes\u2014a duality Palestinians have lived with for decades\u2014would foster empathy, at least in times of crisis. In so many cases, that hasn\u2019t happened. In fact, I\u2019ve seen similar scenarios play out in other creative spheres, such as <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/malaysia-pulls-out-frankfurt-book-fair-citing-organisers-pro-israel-stance-2023-10-17/\">literature</a> and <a href=\"https://www.haaretz.com/life/2024-02-28/ty-article-magazine/.premium/when-my-speech-was-called-antisemitic-i-was-shocked/0000018d-efc4-dd8a-a5af-effe1d7c0000\">film</a>, underscoring the limitations of cultural engagement.</p><p>Although I still retain my love of hosting and community, my dining table has become more than just a symbol of Palestinian hospitality. It is certainly not a place where I will self-censor any longer. Recognizing my humanity and that of my people is actually the precursor to us dining together. That doesn\u2019t mean we must agree on every detail of how to resolve the conflict, but it does require sharing some fundamental truths: that Palestinians have a right to self-determination and equality in our ancestral land, and that the ongoing loss of our homes and loved ones is a tragedy that needs to end. Today, each meal at my table is a testament to Palestinian perseverance in the face of such tragedies. It is also a declaration that our culture, and our existence, cannot be extinguished.</p>"}], "summary": "As a Palestinian food writer, I believed culinary exchange could build empathy. 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Source: Getty.", "title": "They Ate at My Table, Then Ignored My People", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "They Ate at My Table, Then Ignored My People"}, "published": "2024-03-16T07:00:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 11, 0, 0, 5, 76, 0], "updated": "2024-03-16T07:01:56-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 11, 1, 56, 5, 76, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "As a Palestinian food writer, I believed culinary exchange could build empathy. In so many cases, that hasn\u2019t happened."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/03/palestinian-food-diplomacy-gaza/677773/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677781", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/03/the-tv-shows-that-dont-solve-their-mysteries/677781/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p><small><i>This is an edition of </i>The Atlantic<i> Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. </i><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/atlantic-daily/?utm_source=feed\"><i>Sign up for it here.</i></a></small></p><p>It\u2019s Friday, and we\u2019ve probably all had enough of political news, so instead I\u2019m going to gripe about the decline of my favorite kind of television: \u201cmystery box\u201d shows that center on a secret or a conspiracy. The conceit has gotten out of control.</p><p>First, here are three new stories from <i>The Atlantic</i>:</p><ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/orthodox-military-israel-netanyahu/677758/?utm_source=feed\">The earthquake that could shatter Netanyahu\u2019s coalition</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/alabama-ivf-ruling-regulation/677747/?utm_source=feed\">The real lessons of the Alabama IVF ruling</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/03/civil-war-movie-review/677759/?utm_source=feed\">A civil-war movie with no one worth cheering</a></li>\n</ul><hr /><p><strong>Show Us the Monster</strong></p><p><small><i>This article contains spoilers for </i>True Detective<i>, </i>Lost<i>, </i>Dark<i>, </i>Jericho<i>, </i>Stranger Things<i>, </i>Timeless<i>, and a few other shows that are so old that you already know how they end.</i></small></p><p>In 1996, the Fox network exploited our worries about the coming of the year 2000 with a show titled <a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115270/\"><i>Millennium</i></a>, and it was, initially, superb. <i>Millennium </i>followed the adventures of a possibly psychic former FBI agent who seemed to be on the trail of a rising tide of mayhem sparked by the approaching new era. But <i>Millennium</i> wasn\u2019t a crime procedural: Something <i>huge </i>was going on in the show, something that involved demons, a shadowy group (maybe Nazis, maybe not) searching for chunks of the cross of Jesus Christ, and deranged killers shouting things like \u201cThe thousand years is <i>over</i>!\u201d</p><p>It was, in short, a \u201cmystery box\u201d show: a series built around a paradox or a secret or an unknown event. I loved it\u2014until it was canceled before its writers ever told us what the hell was really going on.</p><p>Lately, such shows have started to test my patience by stringing me along without explaining very much. The most recent season of <i>True Detective</i> was the last straw.</p><p>I know, I know. Almost everyone loved Jodie Foster and Kali Reis in <i>True Detective</i>, <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/01/true-detective-night-country-review/677112/?utm_source=feed\">and they were great</a>. The show lured us in with a horrifying mystery: a \u201ccorpsicle\u201d of naked, mutilated, frozen bodies in the Alaskan snow. Characters began to see ghosts. The dead spoke to the living. Body parts showed up in a mysterious lab. And after several episodes, we finally learned \u2026</p><p>Nothing. We learned nothing. The frozen guys had been made to strip and go freeze to death at gunpoint <a href=\"https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/true-detective-season-4-ending-who-killed-annie-scientists-1235908415/\">by some local women</a> for a bad thing they had done earlier. The end.</p><p>If you watched the series, you might have been among the many people yelling, \u201cWhat about the tongue on the floor?\u201d I imagine the writers would answer that <i>True Detective </i>is more than a mystery: It\u2019s a character study, a view into the lives of Indigenous women, a meditation on death and darkness and other Deep Questions.</p><p>Yes, yes, that\u2019s all very important. But what about the tongue on the floor?</p><p>This is now the umpteenth time I\u2019ve fallen for a show that promises dark secrets and a big reveal but tells me very little. If you have a monster lurking about, you should <a href=\"https://thedailyjaws.com/blog/jaws-and-jurassic-park-perfecting-the-art-of-showing-by-not-showing\">show us the monster</a>, as the old rule of horror movies once decreed. And if there\u2019s a mythology behind the series, then the writers should keep faith with the viewers and be consistent about it.</p><p>I never liked <a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/\"><i>Lost</i></a>, for example, because I had a sneaking suspicion that a lot of the strange events around the castaways meant exactly nothing. And sure enough, the writers <a href=\"https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/interviews/a26345/lost-creators-interview/\">later admitted</a> that once <i>Lost</i> was picked up as a series, they started just sort of winging it. (One writer <a href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/lost-writer-admits-they-just-made-it-up-as-they-went-along-9977472.html\">put it rather bluntly</a>, according to a friend: \u201cWe literally just think of the weirdest most fucked up thing and write it and we\u2019re never going to pay it off.\u201d)</p><p>Even the venerable classic <i>The X-Files</i> meandered around so much in its own labyrinth that the show eventually released <a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120902/\">a feature film</a> as a kind of explainer. (Yes, the aliens are real and trying to colonize Earth.) More recent shows begin with an intriguing premise and then, in <i>True Detective</i> fashion, drag us into melodrama while forgetting to explain the world around the characters. I tried, for example, to watch <a href=\"https://tv.apple.com/us/show/silo/umc.cmc.3yksgc857px0k0rqe5zd4jice\"><i>Silo</i></a>, about a future in which people live in \u2026 well, a giant silo. By the end of the first season, I was bored out of my mind; oddly enough, I was very curious about <i>why people were living in a silo</i>. (In theory, it\u2019s because the Earth is an environmental disaster\u2014but also, maybe not.)</p><p>The problem of stretching the plot to accommodate another season afflicts shows that would be masterpieces if they were allowed to have a natural ending. The <a href=\"https://dark.netflix.io/en\">German series <i>Dark</i></a>\u2014whose time-travel plot defies a short description\u2014was wonderfully thought-provoking until its third season. I can\u2019t spoil it for you, because I have no idea what happened. Even the terrific British show <a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18347622/\"><i>Bodies</i></a> (which has a nearly perfect exposition of the paradoxes of time travel) couldn\u2019t resist leaving a door open in literally the last 10 seconds of its final episode, a move that upended all the plot resolutions that preceded it.</p><p>I have not forgiven <i>Stranger Things</i>, a show whose first seasons were amazingly good, for pulling this same trick. <i>Stranger Things </i>was an example of how to do mystery-box TV right; it revealed, episode by episode, that a small town in Indiana in the early 1980s was the secret location of a U.S.-government program to use children as astral-projecting spies against the U.S.S.R. The evil nerd scientists, however, also opened a rip into an alternate dimension full of powerful monsters. Oops.</p><p>The local kids who figured this out had to save the world, and they did. Well, except at the very end of its <a href=\"https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/stranger-things-season-4-ending-explained-full-recap-every-easter-egg/\">fourth season</a>, when the world wasn\u2019t really saved, and the finale basically said: <i>To figure all this out, tune in for Season Five, coming in a year or two\u2014or </i><a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/03/14/the-stranger-things-season-5-release-date-is-very-very-far-away/?sh=129a3e9e2f25\"><i>maybe more</i></a><i>!</i> I nearly threw my remote at the television.</p><p>Some of these shows seem to realize rather suddenly that they need to explain a few things and wrap it all up. I was fascinated by <a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805663/\"><i>Jericho</i></a>, about a small town trying to survive after nuclear bombs wiped out 23 American cities. Who did it, and why? We finally get answers in some rushed, we\u2019d-better-clear-up-the-plot episodes. (Turns out it was a cabal within the government, people who \u2026 Oh, who cares.)</p><p>Early pioneers of the genre were more structured. <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/08/the-fugitive-tv-show-series-finale-judgment-anniversary-kimble-one-armed-man\"><i>The Fugitive</i></a> was a mystery box\u2014who really murdered the protagonist\u2019s wife?\u2014and in a season finale that <a href=\"https://screenrant.com/fugitive-tv-show-finale-1967-record-breaking-audience/\">broke viewing records</a> at the time, we got to see the monster, the actual killer, along with a sensible explanation of the plot. In the short-lived 1967 series <a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061265/\"><i>The Invaders</i></a>, the \u201carchitect David Vincent,\u201d in an early-<i>X-Files</i>-type plot, stumbles upon an alien ship, but his battles each week with the Invaders follow a sensible progression, and he actually succeeds in converting others to the truth. Fifty years later, the NBC time-travel show <a href=\"https://www.nbc.com/timeless\"><i>Timeless</i></a> replicated the chase-and-fight pattern as a team of heroes pursued a bad guy with a time machine through history. Why did he do it? <i>Timeless</i>\u2019s <a href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/07/31/timeless-nbc-fans-earn-another-reprieve-finale-movie/869533002/\">finale</a> resolved this and other questions.</p><p>But no show did the mystery box better than the series <a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4643084/\"><i>Counterpart</i></a>,<i> </i>which ran for two seasons on Starz.<i> </i>The short version is that in the late 1980s, East German scientists\u2014this time, the dangerous nerds are Communist brainiacs\u2014accidentally open a passage into a parallel universe, identical to ours in every way up until the two worlds made contact. What follows is some of the most thoughtful and well-conceived television I\u2019ve ever seen; even the smallest details eventually make sense. (I wondered, for example, why <i>their</i> computer monitors were still clunky CRTs and not flat-screens like ours. There\u2019s a reason.)</p><p>When <i>Counterpart </i>ended, it rewarded attentive viewers with both resolutions and a depressing peek at the future of both worlds. It never violated its own internal consistency or made a sucker out of the viewer, and that\u2019s all I ask. We live in a golden age of television, and I love these limited-run offerings. But please, writers\u2014don\u2019t make me feel like the kids in Scotland who showed up for that <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/27/glasgow-willy-wonka-experience-slammed-as-farce-as-tickets-refunded\"><i>Wonka</i> experience</a> and instead found some posters in a warehouse. If you\u2019re going to lead me in with a secret, tell me the secret. Sooner or later, you have to show me the monster.</p><p><b>Related:</b></p><ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2022/05/the-review-severance-apple-tv/629795/?utm_source=feed\">Why the puzzle-box sci-fi of <i>Severance</i> works</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/08/fan-theories-severance-yellowjackets-westworld/671079/?utm_source=feed\">The powerful, unlikely force shaping modern TV</a></li>\n</ul><hr /><p><b>Today\u2019s News</b></p><ol>\n\t<li>A judge <a delay=\"150\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/nyregion/trump-bragg-trial-date-delay.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">delayed Donald Trump\u2019s Manhattan criminal trial</a> until at least mid-April after his lawyers and the district attorney\u2019s office received a large quantity of records. The judge will hold a hearing on March 25 to determine if a further delay is needed.</li>\n\t<li>Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade, who had a relationship with Fani Willis, the lead prosecutor on Trump\u2019s Georgia criminal case, <a href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fani-willis-trump-georgia-rcna139810\">resigned after a judge ruled</a> that Willis could stay on the case if Wade left.</li>\n\t<li>In an interview on Fox News, former Vice President Mike Pence <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/former-vice-president-mike-pence-will-not-endorse-trump-for-president.html\">declined to endorse Donald Trump</a> for president.</li>\n</ol><hr /><p><b>Dispatches</b></p><ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/books-briefing/?utm_source=feed\"><b>The Books Briefing</b></a><b>: </b>Over the past few months, <i>The Atlantic</i> compiled a list of the <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/03/books-briefing-choosing-americas-greatest-novels/677770/?utm_source=feed\">greatest American novels</a>. Gal Beckerman discusses how we did it.</li>\n</ul><p dir=\"ltr\"><em><a href=\"https://link.theatlantic.com/click/29767897.0/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlYXRsYW50aWMuY29tL25ld3NsZXR0ZXJzLz91dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249YXRsYW50aWMtZGFpbHktbmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fY29udGVudD0yMDIyMTEyMQ/61813432e16c7128e42f4628B52865c35\">Explore all of our newsletters here.</a></em></p><hr /><p><strong>Evening Read</strong></p><figure><img alt=\"Photograph of crows landing and perching on electrical equipment at sunset\" height=\"1880\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/img/mt/2024/03/GettyImages_1244930555/original.jpg\" width=\"3342\" />\n<figcaption class=\"caption\">TIZIANA FABI / AFP / Getty</figcaption>\n</figure><p>Crows Are the New Pigeons</p><p><i>By Tove Danovich</i></p><blockquote>\n<p>Every night as dusk falls in Portland, Oregon, the sky fills with birds. While workers make their way from the city center toward their homes, crows leave the suburban lawns where they\u2019ve spent the day picking for grubs to fly downtown. They swirl across the river in large groups, cawing as they go. A community science project recently recorded <a href=\"https://pdxcrowroost.com/\">22,370 crows</a> spread out downtown\u2014about twice as many as the number of people who lay their heads in that neighborhood.</p>\n\n<p>Across North America, crow populations have been declining for decades. But crows appear to be flocking to cities more than ever before.</p>\n</blockquote><p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/03/crows-urban-city-habitat/677766/?utm_source=feed\">Read the full article.</a></p><p><b>More From <em>The Atlantic</em></b></p><ul>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/dc-crime-district-attorney-democracy/677762/?utm_source=feed\">D.C.\u2019s crime problem is a democracy problem.</a></li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/03/black-footed-ferret-vaccine-conservation/677733/?utm_source=feed\">How long should a species stay on life support?</a></li>\n</ul><hr /><p><b>Culture Break</b></p><figure><img alt=\"A young girl runs through a wooded area in a black-and-white photo\" height=\"1762\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/newsletters/2024/03/culture_3_15/original.jpg\" width=\"3132\" />\n<figcaption class=\"caption\">Jesse Lenz</figcaption>\n</figure><p><b>Wonder. </b>Jesse Lenz\u2019s new collection of photographs, <i>The Seraphim</i>, shows the rhythms of life and nature through the <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/jesse-lenz-seraphim-nature-photography/677744/?utm_source=feed\">lens of childhood</a>.</p><p><b>Read. </b>\u201c<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/jared-lemus-saint-dismas/677478/?utm_source=feed\">Saint Dismas</a>,\u201d a short story by Jared Lemus: \u201cWe wanted drivers who were willing to spend money to get dirt off their car but not smart enough to keep us from looking inside.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/free-daily-crossword-puzzle/?utm_source=feed\">Play our daily crossword.</a></p><hr /><p><i>Stephanie Bai contributed to this newsletter.</i></p><p><em>When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting </em>The Atlantic<em>.</em></p>"}], "summary": "<em>True Detective</em> was the last straw: I\u2019m done with the mystery-box genre.", "authors": [{"name": "Tom Nichols", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/tom-nichols/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Tom Nichols", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/tom-nichols/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/tom-nichols/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Tom Nichols", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/xYwpTpueiBoLD1YrIIIxMoRxgwk=/0x45:3400x1958/media/img/mt/2024/03/2WEB012/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy"}], "credit": "PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy", "title": "The TV Shows That Don\u2019t Solve Their Mysteries", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "The TV Shows That Don\u2019t Solve Their Mysteries"}, "published": "2024-03-15T17:33:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 15, 21, 33, 0, 4, 75, 0], "updated": "2024-03-15T17:33:23-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 15, 21, 33, 23, 4, 75, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<em>True Detective</em> was the last straw: I\u2019m done with the mystery-box genre."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/03/the-tv-shows-that-dont-solve-their-mysteries/677781/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-675531", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/donald-trump-legal-cases-charges/675531/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "<p><small><i>Sign up for </i><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/the-decision-a-2024-newsletter/?utm_source=feed\"><i>The Decision</i></a><i>, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage.</i></small></p><p>Not long ago, the idea that a former president\u2014or a major-party presidential nominee\u2014would face serious legal jeopardy was nearly unthinkable. Today, merely keeping track of the many cases against Donald Trump requires a law degree, a great deal of attention, or both.</p><p dir=\"ltr\"><span>In all, Trump faces 91 felony counts across two state courts and two different federal districts, any of which could potentially produce a prison sentence. He has already <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/engoron-trump-355-million-new-york-fraud-case/677491/?utm_source=feed\">lost a civil suit</a> in New York that could hobble his business empire, as well as a pair of large defamation judgments. Meanwhile, he is the leading Republican candidate in the race to become the next president. Though the timelines for many of the cases are now up in the air, he could be in the heat of the campaign at the same time that his legal fate is being decided.</span></p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/judge-rules-trumps-business-empire-committed-fraud/675466/?utm_source=feed\">David A. Graham: The end of Trump Inc.</a>]</i></p><p>Here\u2019s a summary of the major legal cases against Trump, including key dates, an assessment of the gravity of the charges, and expectations about how they could turn out. This guide will be updated regularly as the cases proceed.</p><h4><strong>New York State: Fraud</strong></h4><p>In the fall of 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a civil suit against Trump, his adult sons, and his former aide Allen Weisselberg, alleging a years-long scheme in which Trump fraudulently reported the value of properties in order to either lower his tax bill or improve the terms of his loans, all with an eye toward inflating his net worth.</p><p><strong>When?</strong><br />\n<span>Justice Arthur Engoron <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/engoron-trump-355-million-new-york-fraud-case/677491/?utm_source=feed\">ruled on February 16</a> that Trump must pay $355 million plus interest, the calculated size of his ill-gotten gains from fraud. The judge had previously</span><span> </span><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/judge-rules-trumps-business-empire-committed-fraud/675466/?utm_source=feed\"><span>ruled against Trump and his co-defendants</span></a><span> in late September 2023, concluding that many of the defendants\u2019 claims were \u201cclearly\u201d fraudulent\u2014so clearly that he didn\u2019t need a trial to hear them. </span></p><p><strong>How grave is the allegation? </strong><br />\nFraud is fraud, and in this case, the sum of the fraud stretched into the hundreds of millions\u2014but compared with some of the other legal matters in which Trump is embroiled, this is pretty pedestrian. The case was also civil rather than criminal. But although the stakes are lower for the nation, they remain high for Trump: The size of the penalty appears to be larger than Trump can easily pay, and he also faces a ban on operating his company for three years.</p><p><strong>What happens now?</strong><br />\nTrump has appealed the case. In the meantime, he has until late March to put up <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/trump-financial-legal-troubles/677662/?utm_source=feed\">the cost of the penalty or obtain a bond for it</a>.</p><h4 dir=\"ltr\"><strong><span>Manhattan: Defamation and Sexual Assault</span></strong></h4><p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Although these other cases are all brought by government entities, Trump also faced a pair of defamation suits from the writer E. Jean Carroll, who said that Trump sexually assaulted her in a department-store dressing room in the 1990s. When he denied it, she sued him for defamation and later added a battery claim.</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><span>When?</span></strong><span> </span><br />\n<span>In May 2023, a jury concluded that Trump had sexually assaulted and defamed Carroll, and awarded her $5 million. A second defamation case produced <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/e-jean-carroll-83-million-judgment-trump/677270/?utm_source=feed\">an $83.3 million judgment</a> in January 2024. </span></p><p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><span>How grave was the allegation?</span><span> </span></strong><br />\n<span>Although these cases don\u2019t directly connect to the same fundamental issues of rule of law and democratic governance that some of the criminal cases do, they were a serious matter, and a federal judge\u2019s </span><a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/\"><span>blunt statement</span></a><span> that Trump raped Carroll has gone underappreciated.</span></p><p><strong><span>What happens now?</span><span> </span></strong><br />\nTrump has appealed both cases. He must post the $83.3 million by March 9.\u00a0 During the second trial, he also continued to insult Carroll, which may have courted additional defamation suits.</p><h4><strong>Manhattan: Hush Money</strong></h4><p>In March 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg became the first prosecutor to bring felony charges against Trump, <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/donald-trump-indictment-arraignment-bragg/673621/?utm_source=feed\">alleging</a> that the former president falsified business records as part of a scheme to pay hush money to women who said they had had sexual relationships with Trump.</p><p><strong>When? </strong><br />\nThe case was set to go to trial on March 25, but on March 15, Judge Juan Merchan <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial-delay-8e41f4be00f0420056433d2381189df8\">ordered</a> at a 30-day delay to allow review of documents recently turned over by federal prosecutors.</p><p><strong>How grave is the allegation?</strong><br />\nFalsifying records is a crime, and crime is bad. But many people have analogized this case to Al Capone\u2019s conviction on tax evasion: It\u2019s not that he didn\u2019t deserve it, but it wasn\u2019t really why he was an infamous villain. That this case alleges behavior that didn\u2019t<b><span> </span></b>directly attack elections<span> </span>or put national secrets at risk makes it feel more minor\u2014in part because<span> </span>other cases have set a grossly high standard for what constitutes gravity.</p><p><strong>How plausible is a guilty verdict? </strong><br />\nBragg has overcome challenges under the statute of limitations, and Judge Engoron\u2019s finding that Michael Cohen was a credible witness in the New York State fraud case helps him as well. Though <a href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/trump-criminal-indictment-charges-consequences/673634/?utm_source=feed\">some critics</a> were dismayed that this was the first criminal charge for Trump, it looks stronger on the eve of trial.</p><h4><strong>Department of Justice: Mar-a-Lago Documents</strong></h4><p>Jack Smith, a special counsel in the U.S. Justice Department, has charged Trump with 37 felonies in connection with his removal of documents from the White House when he left office. The charges include willful retention of national-security information, obstruction of justice, withholding of documents, and false statements. Trump took boxes of documents to properties where they were stored haphazardly, but the indictment centers on his refusal to give them back to the government despite repeated requests.</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/trump-indictment/674345/?utm_source=feed\">David A. Graham: This indictment is different</a>]</i></p><p><strong>When? </strong><br />\n<span>Smith filed charges in June 2023. The trial date is not yet set. Smith has most recently proposed a July trial, but in March, </span><span>Judge Aileen Cannon <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/01/judge-cannon-signals-doubts-about-jack-smiths-timeline-for-trump-trial-in-florida-00144449\">seemed skeptical that was feasible</a>. Smith faces a de facto deadline of January 20, 2025, at which point Trump or any Republican president would likely shut down a case.</span></p><p><strong>How grave is the allegation? </strong><br />\nThese are, I have written, <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/trump-indictment-unsealed/674353/?utm_source=feed\">the stupidest crimes imaginable</a>, but they are nevertheless very serious. Protecting the nation\u2019s secrets is one of the greatest responsibilities of any public official with classified clearance, and not only did Trump put these documents at risk, but he also (allegedly) refused to comply with a subpoena, tried to hide the documents, and lied to the government through his attorneys.</p><p><strong>How plausible is a guilty verdict?</strong><br />\nThis may be the most open-and-shut case, and the facts and legal theory here are pretty straightforward. But Smith seems to have drawn a short straw when he was randomly assigned Cannon, a Trump appointee who has sometimes ruled favorably for Trump on procedural matters. Some legal commentators have even accused her of <a href=\"https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/judge-aileen-cannon-trump-classifed-sabotage.html\">\u201csabotaging\u201d</a> the case.</p><h4><strong>Fulton County: Election Subversion</strong></h4><p>In Fulton County, Georgia, which includes most of Atlanta, District Attorney Fani Willis brought a huge racketeering case against Trump and 18 others, alleging a conspiracy that spread across weeks and states with the aim of stealing the 2020 election.</p><p><strong>When? </strong><br />\n<span>Willis obtained the indictment in August 2023. The number of people charged makes the case unwieldy and difficult to track. Several of them, including </span><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/kenneth-chesebro-guilty-plea-trump-fulton-county/675714/?utm_source=feed\"><span>Kenneth Chesebro</span></a><span>, </span><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/sidney-powell-guilty-plea-trump-fulton-county-case/675698/?utm_source=feed\"><span>Sidney Powell</span></a><span>, and Jenna Ellis, struck plea deals in the fall. Willis has </span><a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-trial-willis-b818ebae3ad912b918bc0f7cacdc1900\"><span>proposed</span></a><span> a trial date of August 5, 2024, for the remaining defendants.</span></p><p><strong>How grave is the allegation? </strong><br />\nMore than any other case, <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/trump-georgia-indictment-election/675018/?utm_source=feed\">this one attempts to reckon with the full breadth</a> of the assault on democracy following the 2020 election.</p><p><strong>How plausible is a guilty verdict? </strong><br />\nExpert views differ. This is a huge case for a local prosecutor, even in a county as large as Fulton, to bring. The racketeering law allows Willis to sweep in a great deal of material, and she has some strong evidence\u2014such as a call in which Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to \u201cfind\u201d some 11,000 votes. Three major plea deals from co-defendants may also ease Willis\u2019s path, but getting a jury to convict Trump will still be a challenge. The case has also been hurt by the revelation of a romantic relationship between Willis and an attorney she hired as a special prosecutor. On March 15, Judge Scott McAfee declined to throw out the indictment, but he sharply castigated Willis and said that either she and her office or the special prosecutor must exit the case.</p><h4><strong>Department of Justice: Election Subversion</strong></h4><p>Special Counsel Smith has also charged Trump with four federal felonies in connection with his attempt to remain in power after losing the 2020 election. This case is in court in Washington, D.C.</p><p><strong>When? </strong><br />\n<span>A grand jury </span><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/trump-indicted-january-6-jack-smith/674886/?utm_source=feed\"><span>i</span><span>ndicted</span></a><span> Trump on August 1, 2023. The trial was originally scheduled for March 4 but is now on hold while the Supreme Court hears a case about whether the former president should be immune to prosecution.</span><span> A three-judge panel <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/appeals-court-denies-trump-criminal-immunity/677360/?utm_source=feed\">roundly rejected that claim</a> on February 6, but Trump appealed. The justices will hear the case the week of April 22</span><span>. The window for a trial to occur before the election is narrowing quickly. As with the other DOJ case, time is of the essence for Smith, because Trump or any other Republican president could shut down a case upon taking office in January 2025. </span></p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/trump-indicted-january-6-jack-smith/674886/?utm_source=feed\">David A. Graham: Trump attempted a brazen, dead-serious attack on American democracy</a>]</i></p><p><strong>How grave is the allegation? </strong><br />\nThis case rivals the Fulton County one in importance. It is narrower, focusing just on Trump and a few key elements of the <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/trumps-coup-before-january-6/620998/?utm_source=feed\">paperwork coup</a>, but the symbolic weight of the U.S. Justice Department prosecuting an attempt to subvert the American election system is heavy.</p><p><strong>How plausible is a guilty verdict? </strong><br />\nIt\u2019s very hard to say. Smith avoided some of the more unconventional potential charges, including aiding insurrection, and everyone watched much of the alleged crime unfold in public in real time, but no precedent exists for a case like this, with a defendant like this.</p><hr /><h4><strong><span>Additionally \u2026</span></strong></h4><p dir=\"ltr\"><span>In </span><a href=\"https://www.lawfaremedia.org/current-projects/the-trump-trials/section-3-litigation-tracker\"><span>more than 30 states</span></a><span>, cases were filed over whether Trump should be thrown off the 2024 ballot under a novel legal theory about the Fourteenth Amendment. Proponents, including </span><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/donald-trump-constitutionally-prohibited-presidency/675048/?utm_source=feed\"><span>J. Michael Luttig and Laurence H. Tribe in </span><em><span>The Atlantic</span></em></a><span>, argued that the former president is ineligible to serve again under a </span><a href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/section-3/\"><span>clause</span></a><span> that disqualifies anyone who took an oath defending the Constitution and then subsequently participated in a rebellion or an insurrection. They said that Trump\u2019s attempt to steal the 2020 election and his incitement of the January 6 riot meet the criteria.</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><span>When?</span></strong><br />\n<span>Authorities in several states ruled that Trump should be removed from the ballot, and the former president appealed to the Supreme Court. The justices <a href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf\">ruled unanimously</a> on March 4 that states could not remove Trump from the ballot. The conservative majority (over strenuous liberal objections) also closed the door on a <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/02/democrats-congress-trump-january-6/677545/?utm_source=feed\">post-election disqualification by Congress</a> without specific legislation.</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><span>How grave is the allegation?</span></strong><br />\n<span>In a sense, the claim made here was even graver than the criminal election-subversion cases filed against Trump by the U.S. Department of Justice and in Fulton County, Georgia, because neither of those cases alleges insurrection or rebellion. But the stakes were also much different\u2014rather than criminal conviction, they concern the ability to serve as president.</span></p><p><strong><span>What happens next?</span></strong><br />\nThe question of disqualification appears to now be closed, with Trump set to appear on the ballot in every state.</p>"}], "summary": "Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate\u2019s legal troubles.", "authors": [{"name": "David A. Graham", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-a-graham/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "David A. Graham", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-a-graham/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-a-graham/?utm_source=feed", "author": "David A. Graham", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/AO0m4o8QvcUIUUNv3VFKRb_5EBU=/media/img/mt/2023/10/trump_guide_to_cases/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Brendan McDermid / Getty."}], "credit": "Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Brendan McDermid / Getty.", "title": "The Cases Against Trump: A Guide", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "The Cases Against Trump: A Guide"}, "published": "2024-03-15T17:09:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 15, 21, 9, 0, 4, 75, 0], "updated": "2024-03-15T17:09:39-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 15, 21, 9, 39, 4, 75, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/", "value": "Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate\u2019s legal troubles."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/donald-trump-legal-cases-charges/675531/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}]}


