Eines fällt Neuzuzügern bald einmal auf: das delikate Zwillingsverhältnis zwischen den Nachbarkantonen Ob- und Nidwalden. Eine kleine Episode verdeutlicht die oft zelebrierte Kultkluft: Am Informationsanlass 1988 für die neuen Stanser Mittelschüler stellt der Rektor die Lehrpersonen vor. Bei einem bestimmten Herrn fügt er verschmitzt bei, dieser Lehrer komme zwar aus Obwalden, doch er sei sicher auch ein Mensch.

Die Teile waren früher da als das Ganze

Dem „Ausserwaldner“ Zuhörer war sofort klar: Da gibt es zweierlei Unterwaldner, die von ob dem Wald und jene von nid dem Wald. Der Kernwald, eine Art grüner Röstigraben, trennt die beiden Kantone. Zueinander gehört haben sie nie richtig. Beide sind zwar die Hälften eines Ganzen – mindestens bis zur neuen Bundesverfassung von 1999. Doch von diesem Ganzen weiss man nicht genau, ob es dieses Ganze tatsächlich einmal gegeben hat. Jedenfalls waren die beiden Teile früher da als das Ganze. Doch politisch zwei Hälften sind sie erst seit etwa 1800. Vorher galt Obwalden staatsrechtlich als zwei Drittel des Ganzen und Nidwalden nur als ein Drittel.

Wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben. Der Satz hat Geschichte geschrieben – vielleicht schon 1291. In der urschweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft spielt Unterwalden das Aschenbrödel. Die beiden Talschaften der Engelbergeraa und der Sarneraa waren so etwas wie der nachgeordnete Juniorpartner von Uri und Schwyz. Im Bundesbrief von 1291 kommt allerdings nur Nidwalden vor. Die Rede ist von der „Gemeinschaft der Leute der unteren Talschaft“, also von Nidwalden.

Streit um das Banner am Bundesbriefarchiv Schwyz

Das Siegel dagegen erwähnt beide Täler. Der eingravierte Text spricht wieder von der „Gemeinschaft der Leute von Stans“. Er wurde später ergänzt mit dem Zusatz „et vallis sup[er]ioris“ [„und des oberen Tales“]. Warum es diesen Kontrast zwischen Pergamentstext und Siegel gab, ist bis heute nicht geklärt. In der Geschichtswissenschaft gilt der Text und damit das Bündnis zwischen Uri, Schwyz und Nidwalden. Obwalden kam später dazu.

Das führte 1936 zu einer harschen Intervention der Nidwaldner Regierung in Schwyz. Das Fresko an der Frontfassade des neuen Bundesbriefarchivs zeige einen Unterwaldner Bannerträger mit der Obwaldner Flagge: ein einfacher Schlüssel auf rotweissem Feld. Das sei ein „Verstoss gegen die historische Wahrheit“, beschwerte sich der Regierungsrat und verlangte den Doppelschlüssel im roten Feld. Es gehe um „das Ansehen unseres Kantons“ als Gründer der Eidgenossenschaft. Nach langem Zögern gab Schwyz nach und korrigierte die Fahne. Nidwalden bezahlte 590 Franken, und so prangt bis heute das „richtige“ Wappen am Bundesbriefarchiv.

Nidwalden als halbes Ganzes ist nur ein Drittel wert

Im losen eidgenössischen Bündnisgeflecht galten die beiden Talschaften von Ob- und Nidwalden als ein Ort. Allerdings war diese Einheit eher fiktiv. Doch Uri und Schwyz liessen keine vierte Stimme zu. Das wirkte sich verhängnisvoll aus: Die beiden Orte mussten sich die Standesstimme teilen. Spätestens seit dem 15. Jahrhundert beanspruchte Obwalden aber zwei Drittel der Rechte Unterwaldens. Vermutlich besteht ein Zusammenhang mit der früheren Verwaltungseinheit „Unterwalden“ um 1300. In Nidwalden gab es den Hof Stans, in Obwalden die beiden Klosterhöfe Alpnach und Giswil. Das könnte die ungleichen Rechte erklären. Doch über das Warum gibt keine Quelle präzise Auskunft.

Privilegierte Obwaldner

Nidwalden, die im Bundesbrief zeitlich zuerst genannte Talschaft, galt lediglich als ein Drittel. Nur alle drei Jahre wanderte darum das Landessiegel mit dem Petersschlüssel von Sarnen ins Rathaus Stans und mit ihm das begehrte Landesbanner. Und nur jedes dritte Mal konnten sie den Landvogt in die Gemeinen Herrschaften entsenden. So wollte es das ungleiche Stimmengewicht.

Ein putziger Rest dieser obwaldnerischen Vorrechte war bis 1997 sichtbar. Am Schnitzturm Stansstad, dem alten Wehrturm aus der Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts, war Obwalden immer mit zwei Dritteln beteiligt. Darum zahlte der Kanton für die alten Mauern auch entsprechende Prämien, dies in die Kasse der ehemaligen Nidwaldner Brandversicherung, obwohl alles Brennbare bereits in den Franzosenstürmen 1798 dem Feuer zum Opfer gefallen war.

Die bescheidene Rolle als Unterwaldner Benjamin muss die Nidwaldner geärgert haben. Vergeblich wehrten sie sich, umsonst verwiesen sie auf den Bundesbrief von 1291. Beigelegt wurde der jahrelange Zank nie. Eidgenössische Schiedssprüche anerkannte man schlicht nicht – weder der eine noch der andere Kontrahent.

Alleingelassen im Kampf gegen die Franzosen

Im Streit mit den Standesgenossen von oberhalb des Kernwaldes den Kürzeren zu ziehen, das wirkte sich auf die Volksseele der Nidwaldner aus. Vielleicht lässt sich daraus ein gewisses gereiztes Ressentiment erklären. Mindestens in den Jahrzehnten nach 1798 schwelte dieser grimmige Groll, und die Animosität war wohl mit Händen zu greifen. Die Obwaldner haben – realistisch genug – als einziger Urschweizer Ort die helvetische Einheitsverfassung ohne Widerstand angenommen. Die Nidwaldner verwarfen sie. Der blutige Einmarsch der Franzosen war die Folge.

Lange hat man es in Stans nicht vergessen, dass man im Kampf gegen die französische Okkupation 1798 alleingelassen worden ist – in diesem zwar heroischen, aber letztlich aufreibend aussichtslosen Widerstand.

Gegenseitige Übernamen als Folge des „Franzosenüberfalls“

Dass die Nidwaldner ihren Nachbarn „Tschifeler“ sagen, hängt mit diesem „Franzosenüberfall“ zusammen. Sie fühlten sich verraten, weil die fremden Besatzer von Obwalden her ins Land eingedrungen waren. Bald machte das Gerücht die Runde, die Obwaldner hätten den Franzosen den Weg gezeigt und aus den zerstörten Häusern mit ihren Tragkörben, den „Tschiferen“, Beute nach Hause getragen. Deshalb der Übername „Tschifeler“. Für dieses Gerücht gibt es keinen historischen Beleg.

Die Tschifeler umgekehrt titulierten die Nidwaldner bald darauf als „Reissäckler“. Reissäcklein sind Reiseproviant-Taschen. In Kleinformat waren sie traditioneller Bestandteil der Nidwaldner Tracht und willkommenes Sujet für einen Übernamen.

Unterschiedliche Temperamente

Das subtile Doppelwesen des ehemaligen Kantons Unterwalden zeigt sich auch im Naturell der Leute ob dem Wald und nid dem Wald. Die Obwaldner seien besonnener und nüchterner, sagen Beobachter, die Nidwaldner feuriger und ungestümer. Die einen hätten als Landesheiligen eben Bruder Klaus, den Eremiten und Mystiker aus dem Ranft, die anderen Winkelried, den heroischen Kämpfer von Sempach.

Der erste Unterwaldner Bundesrat werde darum ein Obwaldner; sie seien diplomatischer. So prognostizierte der Nidwaldner Arzt und Schriftsteller Jakob Wyrsch. 14 Jahre später, 1959, wurde der Obwaldner Ludwig von Moos zum Bundesrat gewählt. Die Nidwaldner stellten mit Ständerat Hans Wicki im Dezember 2018 erstmals einen offiziellen Kandidaten, doch sie warten noch heute. 

Vielfältige Lebensrealitäten und Mentalitäten

Die Schweiz – ein Maximum an Komplexität auf einem Minimum an Raum. Ihr Geheimnis: Es kam nie zum letzten Bruch. Das zeigt sich auch in der kleinen Welt von Ob- und Nidwalden. Das Verbindende zwischen den Teilen war stets stärker als das Trennende: im Innern eine gesunde Rivalität und Unabhängigkeit gegenüber dem Nachbarn – nach aussen eine Einheit.

Irgendwann findet jeder und jede mal den Weg zur Buchhandlung Barth. Liegt sie doch zentral mitten im Shop Ville des Zürcher Hauptbahnhofs unweit der Bahnsteige und bietet so Reisenden noch eine letzte Gelegenheit an, sich mit guter Literatur zu sämtlichen Themenbereichen zu versorgen. Darüberhinaus hat sie jeden Tag im Jahr geöffnet und ist so die perfekte Anlaufstelle für diejenigen, die auch an einem Sonntag oder Feiertag, nach aktuellen, anspruchsvollen Büchern suchen.

J.-C. Valsecchi empfiehlt
Der Skandal der Skandale - Die geheime Geschichte des Christentums
von Manfred Lütz

In diesem spannend geschriebenen Buch erzählt Manfred Lütz die Geschichte des Christentums. Er räumt mit vielen Irrtümern und Halbwahrheiten auf. Das Buch befindet sich auf dem aktuellen Stand der Wissenschaft. Sie werden erstaunt sein, was Sie alles über das Christentum erfahren werden.

Verlag Herder, 1. Auflage 2018. Gebunden mit Schutzumschlag, 288 Seiten, ISBN: 978-3-451-37915-4

S. Moor empfiehlt
Fast ein bisschen Frühling von Alex Capus

Capus verwandelt in diesem frühen Meisterwerk die wahre Geschichte eines deutschen Räuberpaares um 1933 zu einer zärtlichen, ungestümen Liebesgeschichte: Hinreißend!

dtv, Taschenbuch, 192 Seiten, ISBN 978-3-423-13167-4

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Heimatschutz unterwegs - Historische Pfade

Der Schweizer Heimatschutz hat eine sorgfältige Auswahl von historischen Wanderrouten zusammengestellt. Die praktischen Blätter mit Beschreibung der Wege und Karten sind ideal zum Mitnehmen für Ihre nächste Wanderung.

Schweizer Heimatschutz, zweisprachig D/F
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Die Zeit erscheint reif für eine neuen ökologischen Untergrund, gerade im Zeichen des Klimawandels. 2017 warnte die Zeitschrift „Foreign Affairs“ im Titel eines Artikels: „Die nächste Welle des Extremismus wird grün sein“. Und auf einmal gewinnt auch wieder ein Mann an nicht geheurer Aktualität, der seit 20 Jahren in einem Hochsicherheitstrakt im US-Bundesstaat Colorado sitzt und eine bessere, von Technologie befreite Welt ausbrütet: Theodore Kaczyn­ski, der „Unabomber“, der zwischen 1978 und 1995 mit selbstgebastelten Briefbomben vor allem Universitätsangehörige und IT-Spezialisten nach dem Zufallsprinzip tötete oder schwer verwundete – dies von der „Zelle“ einer kleinen Waldhütte in der Wildnis von Montana aus. Der hochintelligente Mathematiker kommuniziert heute von seiner Zelle im Hochsicherheitstrakt aus mit Tausenden von Briefpartnern, zumal Philosophieprofessoren, schreibt Bücher („Die industrielle Gesellschaft und ihre Zukunft“, ursprünglich „Unabomber Manifest“, 1995; „Technological Slavery“, 2010) und erfreut sich einer wachsenden Aufmerksamkeit in der Pop-Kultur (Netflix-Serie „Manhunt: Unabomber“, 2017).

Kaczynskis Erbe

Kaczynskis Ideensaat geht heute auf. Zwei Jahrzehnte nach seinem letzten tödlichen Anschlag hat er sich zum heimlichen Guru eines neuen Ökoextremismus gemausert. Bücher und Webzines mit Titeln wie „Gegen die Zivilisation“, „Wilde Kultur“, Blogs wie „The Wild Will Project“ sympathisieren mit Kaczynskis Botschaft. Das Motto der ökoanarchistischen Zeitschrift „Atassa“ lautet: „Heute gibt es Menschen, die im Namen der Wildnis ohne Entschuldigung Gewalt an andern Menschen verüben. Diese Zeitschrift sammelt Texte von Autoren, die damit einverstanden sind. Poesie und Essays, welche die antihumanistische Aktion für die Wildnis zelebrieren.“

Und immer noch detonieren Bomben. Zwar sind militante Aktionen in den USA im letzten Jahrzehnt ausgeblieben, aber Nachahmer findet der Unabomber etwa in Griechenland, wo eine Gruppe mit dem poetischen Namen „Verschwörung der Feuerzellen“ Brief- und Paketbomben an Politiker verschickt; auch Wolfgang Schäuble war ein Adressat, blieb aber verschont. In Mexiko sorgt ein loser Gruppenverband für Bombenstimmung, die ITS („Individualidades Tentiendo a la Salvaje“: „dem Wilden zugeneigte Individuen“). Ein chilenischer Ableger der „dem Wilden Zugeneigten“ schickte im Januar 2017 ein „Geschenk“ an Oscar Landerretche, den Präsidenten der grössten Kupfergesellschaft (er erlitt kleine Verletzungen). Das Kommuniqué lautet in üblicher Verbrämung der Selbstgerechtigkeit: „Der überhebliche Landerretche verdient es, für seine Attacken auf die Erde zu sterben.“ Kaczynski findet auch Aufnahme in literarischen Kreisen. Der Schriftsteller Ricardo Piglia übernahm in seinem Roman „Munk“ das Täterprofil Kaczynskis und sogar Ausschnitte aus seinem „Manifest“. Der Psychiater und Krimiautor Keith Ablow hob in den Fox News den Unabomber in die Liga von Orwells „1984“ und Huxleys „Brave New World“.

Das Manifest

Kaczynski handelte 1995 einen Deal aus, nämlich mit seiner Attentaten aufzuhören, wenn er in der Washington Post ein Manifest veröffentlichen durfte. Schon der erste Satz dieses Manifests hat das Zeug zum Fanal: „Die Folgen der industriellen Revolution haben sich für die Menschheit als eine Katastrophe erwiesen.“ Paragraph 4 zieht daraus die Konsequenzen: „Deshalb treten wir für eine Revolution gegen das industrielle System ein (..) Das Ziel wird nicht darin bestehen, Regierungen zu stürzen, sondern die wirtschaftliche und technologische Basis der gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft zu zerstören.“ Und Paragraph 96 rechtfertigt die Anschläge: „Wenn wir (..) die vorliegende Schrift einem Verleger vorgelegt hätten, wäre sie nicht angenommen worden. (..) Aber selbst wenn diese Schrift viele Leser gefunden hätte, würden die meisten das Gelesene bald vergessen haben, weil ihr Gedächtnis durch die Informationsflut der Massenmedien überladen ist. Damit wir überhaupt eine Chance hatten, unsere Botschaft mit nachhaltigem Eindruck zu veröffentlichen, mussten wir Menschen töten..“ Das „wir“ bezieht sich auf eine fiktive Verschwörergruppe - den „Freedom Club“ - , mit deren Namen Kaczynski seine solitäre Infamie tarnte.

Gegen „das“ System

Am Manifest wurde der traktathafte, nüchterne bis langweilige Stil kritisiert. Das mag zutreffen, aber die argumentative Kraft lebt nicht davon. Tatsächlich schreibt Kaczynski einfach, eingängig, im Stil quasi-mathematischer Endgültigkeit. Er ist ein Revolutionär „more geometrico“. Viele Leser des „Manifests“ bekunden, so etwas wie eine „Erweckungserfahrung“ gemacht zu haben. Auch der Profiler Jim Fitzgerald im Netflix-Film „Manhunt“ erlebt das geradezu infektiöse Ideengut im „Manifest“. Kaczynski nistet sich buchstäblich in ihm ein, transformiert ihn.

Die Lektüre Kaczynkis fordert den Leser heraus, weil er zwischen den Taten und den Gründen für die Taten unterscheiden muss. Leicht unterläuft uns der Fehlschluss: Er ist ein Mörder, und Gedanken von Mördern sind nicht rational. Man muss mit andern Worten den rationalen Kern aus dem angeblich irrationalen biographisch-psychischen Motivgestrüpp herauslösen.

Das Gerüst von Kaczynskis Revolutionsargument gegen „das“ System  ruht auf vier Grundannahmen:

Primitive Gesellschaften entwickelten sich unter Low-Tech-Bedingungen, die so etwas wie den „Naturzustand“ definieren.
Moderne Gesellschaften mit ihrem High-Tech-Standard unterscheiden sich davon radikal. Und es ist gerade dieser Standard, der einen nie dagewesenen Stress auf das Individuum ausübt.
Die Situation ist schlecht, und sie wird sich verschlechtern. Wir werden zu technik-konformen Wesen mutieren, zu entmenschlichten Menschen.
Es gibt keinen Weg, das System zu reformieren, um die negativen Folgen dieser Entmenschlichung zu vermeiden.
Deshalb muss das System abgeschafft werden.

Das neue Unbehagen in der Kultur

Natürlich ist die Logik nicht zwingend. Die Prämissen lassen sich anzweifeln. Vielleicht ist die moderne technisierte Lebensform kein „Abweichung“ von einem wie auch immer gearteten Naturzustand. Vielleicht finden wir Mittel gegen den „Stress“ modernen Lebens. Vielleicht sind Reformen angemessener als eine Revolution. Wahrscheinlich liegt die Kampffront nicht simpel zwischen Natur und Technik. Und sicher „erlöst“ man den Menschen nicht von der entmenschlichenden Technik mit unmenschlichen Taten.

Aber es geht hier auch nicht um die zwingende Beweisführung für die Notwendigkeit einer Revolution. Das Faszinosum an Kaczynski ist, dass  er quasi das neue Unbehagen in der Kultur personifiziert. Er spricht den heimlichen Unabomber in uns allen an. Genau betrachtet, ist also nicht Kaczynski gefährlich, sondern sein Ideenfundus, der auch bei uns im Keller der Psyche lagert. Angst vor den Ideen - das dürfte mit ein Grund dafür sein, dass man ständig die Person Kaczynski diskutiert – den Mörder und angeblichen Soziopathen - , statt die Ideen. Was ironischerweise eine seiner Thesen bestätigt, nämlich dass die mediale Fokussierung auf „Leute“ die beste Ablenkung vom Denken dieser Leute sei. Umso wichtiger ist es, die Ideen auf ein kritisch-bewusstes Niveau zu heben.

Der „Kaczynski-Impuls“

Kaczynski sieht das Problem in aller Schärfe: Wir sind von Natur aus zu „klein“ für die Probleme, die wir uns mit der modernen Technologie eingebrockt haben. Viele, wenn nicht die meisten Menschen in der technischen Zivilisation spüren diese „Kleinheit“, diese Ohnmacht gegenüber den nicht-menschlichen technischen Mächten (selbst wenn sich diese schliesslich immer als menschliche entlarven). Das Gefühl der Überforderung wächst paradoxerweise in proportionalem Mass zur exzessiven Nutzung der neuen Technologien. Eine Umfrage unter 69'000 Amerikanerinnen und Amerikanern im Jahr 2005 hat gezeigt, dass über die Hälfte der Befragten sich als „technologische Pessimisten“ bezeichnen würden; will sagen: sie bekunden eine indifferente bis feindselige Haltung gegenüber den neuen Technologien. Und es ist anzunehmen, dass nicht wenige in den medialisierten Lebenswelten von heute den „Kaczynski-Impuls“ verspüren, diese leise diffuse Verzweiflung, den Point of no Return bereits passiert zu haben und auf eine schöne neue Zukunft technologischer Alternativlosigkeit zuzuhalten. Gut denkbar auch, dass aus einigen Köpfen von anarchischen Jungspunden eine Frustration hochsteigt, die sich leicht als Lunte für einen Kaczynski-Funken eignet. Es gibt zum Beispiel einen Jünger, John Jacobi, der sich als  „Lenin“ Kaczynskis sieht.

„Schlagt zu, wo es schmerzt“

Man kann das „Verdienst“ Kaczynskis darin sehen, dass seine verrenkte Logik uns einen Irrweg zeigt. Aber falsche Schlüsse aus Prämissen bedeuten nicht die Falschheit der Prämissen. Wenn Technik „disruptiv“ ist, unsere Lebensformen tief umwälzt, dann zeigen sich die Symptome drastisch genug in der „Disruption“, der Zerstörung des planetarischen ökologischen Gleichgewichts; aber auch individuell daran, dass wir uns immer mehr zu Techno-Mutanten entwickeln. Wir sind noch kaum in der Lage, uns einen Begriff von der Skala dieser Mutation - sprich Technikabhängigkeit - zu machen. Der Mensch hat die fatale Fähigkeit, Technologien zu schaffen, deren Konsequenzen und Risiken er nicht kennt. Je totaler die Technologien, desto totaler die Konsequenzen und Riskien.

Kaczynski schrieb übrigens sein Manifest zu einer Zeit vor der Allgegenwart des Internets. Und im Gefängnis verfasste er einen taktischen Artikel mit dem Titel „Schlagt zu, wo es schmerzt“. Nun freilich im übertragenen Sinn: Der „Schmerz“ wird den sensiblen Punkten in der Infrastruktur heutigen Lebens zugefügt, in der Elektrizitätsversorgung, in den Kommunikationsnetzen, in den algorithmisch kontrollierten Schaltstellen. Bringe einige vitale Zentren der technisierten Gesellschaft zum Erliegen und diese Kollapse werden wie Epizentren wirken, die ihre Wellen überallhin schicken. Kaczynski, der hochintelligente Mathematiker, hätte das nötige intellektuelle Rüstzeug zu einem brandgefährlichen Software-Saboteur mit sich gebracht, statt „nur“ Paketbomben zu basteln. Aus einem gottverlassenen Waldwinkel heraus lässt sich heute das Netz, also weitgehend unser Leben, lahmlegen. Kaczynski, der Endkämpfer der technischen Zivilisation, sitzt in der Zelle und ist trotzdem mitten unter uns.

Das Thema ist vergiftet. So sehr, dass der Bundesrat das Verhandlungsresultat für ein Rahmenabkommen mit der EU ohne eigene Bewertung in die Vernehmlassung geschickt hat. Er fürchtet die reflexartigen Attacken von links und rechts. Die haben in der Tat nicht auf sich warten lassen. Preisgabe von Souveränität und direkter Demokratie! – tönt es anklagend von der SVP. Und Gewerkschaften samt SP leisten der Blockade der Rechtsnationalen Sukkurs, indem sie jede Verfahrensänderung beim Schutz der Schweizer Löhne vor ausländischen Billiganbietern zum ultimativen No-go erklären.

Beide Seiten können für ihre Abwehrhaltung Gründe nennen. Was sie nicht in Betracht ziehen, ist die schlichte Notwendigkeit einer Verständigung mit der EU. Die Schweiz liegt nun mal mitten in diesem Gebilde, sie ist kulturell und wirtschaftlich mit ihm verflochten und in jeder Hinsicht an sein Wohlergehen gekettet. Zwar ist nicht zu bestreiten, dass einer langfristig tragfähigen Vereinbarung mit der EU erhebliche Hindernisse im Weg stehen. Bloss hebt dies die Notwendigkeit einer Annäherung nicht auf. Verantwortliche Politik muss diese Aufgabe schultern. Aber wie soll das angepackt werden?

Eine gute Europapolitik könnte wie folgt aussehen: Die Schweiz deklariert gegenüber der EU ihr grundsätzliches Interesse an einer Vollmitgliedschaft. Ein erneutes Beitrittsgesuch stellen die Eidgenossen vorderhand nicht, doch sie anerkennen ausdrücklich, dass die EU dem notorisch explosiven Kontinent nicht nur eine lange Zeit des Friedens und Wohlstands verschafft hat, sondern auch zukünftig dazu beitragen kann, beides in Europa zu bewahren. Ausgehend von dieser Sichtweise erklärt die Schweiz ihren Willen, beim historischen Projekt der europäischen Einigung aktiv mitzuwirken. Zu diesem Zweck schlägt sie der EU eine Vorgehensweise vor, die wir hier faute de mieux„gemeinsame Entwicklung“ nennen. Beide Seiten sprechen sich dabei für das langfristige Ziel eines Zusammengehens aus, lassen aber den Ausgang des Prozesses offen.

Was hier „gemeinsame Entwicklung“ genannt wird, fusst auf der Arbeit beider Seiten an Problemen, die sie ohnehin werden lösen müssen: Die EU sucht nach einem Modell unterschiedlicher Grade von Integration, kämpft mit Folgen der Migration, steht wirtschaftlich im globalen Wettbewerb und will ihre Handlungs- und Verteidigungsfähigkeit stärken. Die Schweiz wiederum steht vor der Herausforderung, ihr System der teilweise direkten Demokratie und der fast nur auf inneren Ausgleich ausgerichteten Regierungsform auf die Anforderungen der zunehmend vernetzten Staatenwelt auszurichten. Dies im Zeichen einer „gemeinsamen Entwicklung“ anzugehen bedeutet, dass die Schweiz und die EU die Verhandlungen erklärtermassen vor dem Hintergrund ihrer jeweiligen Reformagenden führen. Aus einem solchen Vorgehen ergibt es sich wie von selbst, Fernziele und einzelne Etappen zu unterscheiden und beides stets im Auge zu behalten. Zudem können die Verhandlungspartner neben den Kernthemen auch Versuchsfelder beackern, auf denen unterschiedliche Formen der Kooperation erprobt und evaluiert werden.

Es wird in der Europapolitik wieder vorwärtsgehen, wenn wir die EU als hoffnungsvolles Generationenprojekt sehen, auf das wir uns mit langem Atem einlassen. Gegenüber notorischen Miesmachern – sie geben bei extremen Rechten und sektiererischen Linken wie auch im Sumpf der Polit-Trolle den Ton an – muss ganz deutlich gemacht werden, dass ein Europa ohne EU ein nicht nur ärmerer, sondern auch gefährlicherer Kontinent wäre. Für die Schweiz gilt es, im Generationenprojekt Europa eine konstruktive Rolle zu übernehmen. So werden wir nicht nur Vorteile für uns herausholen, sondern auch unseren Beitrag für eine europäische Zukunft leisten.

Seit über tausend Jahren beteten hier Mönche, zuerst die Benediktiner, dann die Kartäuser und schliesslich die Zisterzienser. Das Kloster Trisulti (Abbazia di Trisulti) liegt südlich von Rom in einem Eichenwald nahe von Frosinone. Als der Abt und Ordensgründer Benedikt von Norcia (Nursia) nach Cassina wanderte, um dort zu sterben, machte er in Trisulti Halt. Doch seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg hat die Kartause ihre Anziehungskraft verloren. Bis vor kurzem lebte nur noch ein einziger, 83-jähriger Mönch im Kloster. Und einige Katzen.

Jetzt ist auch der 43-jährige Engländer Benjamin Harnwell dort eingezogen. Er ist ein enger Freund und Gesinnungsgenosse von Steve Bannon, dem Guru der amerikanischen Rechten und einstigem Adlatus von Donald Trump.

„Salvini ist der Retter Italiens“

Hier im Apennin, auf 850 Metern Höhe, soll eine europäische Revolution vorbereitet werden. Hier sollen Studenten lernen, wie man einen erfolgreichen populistischen und souveränistischen Kampf führt. Ziel ist es, die Kartause in ein Schulungszentrum für Agitation zu verwandeln. Mit Hilfe von Benjamin Harnwell will Bannon eine „Gladiatorenschule für Kulturkrieger“ aufbauen („gladiator school for culture warriors”).

Vorbild sollen die zurzeit regierenden italienischen Populisten sein. „Salvini ist der Retter Italiens“, sagt Harnwell. Und Bannon ruft bei einem Treffen in Rom aus: „Italien ist im Moment das wichtigste Experiment. Hier beginnt der Umsturz, die Revolution“.

Euroa aufmischen

Die Idee, eine paneuropäische rechtspopulistische Bewegung aufzubauen hatte Salvini schon lange. Und Bannon half da nur allzu gern. In Brüssel hatte er „The Movement“ gegründet. Mit dieser Bewegung will er die europäische Politik radikal aufmischen. Wie sagte er einst: „Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.“

100'000 Euro Jahresmiete

An den Wänden des Klosters Trisulti hängen hundertjährige Bilder. Hier beteten die Mönche nicht nur; sie waren berühmt für ihre Medizin, die sie aus Kräutern der umliegenden Wälder zusammenbrauten. Doch das Kloster, ein nationales italienisches Monument, begann zu zerfallen. Und der italienische Staat hat für Renovationen bekanntlich kein Geld. Da sprang Benjamin Harnwell ein. Mit dem italienischen Kulturministerium schloss er einen 19-jährigen Vertrag. Die Jahresmiete für das Kloster beträgt 100'000 Euro.

Trisulti muss jetzt erst renoviert werden. Es fehlt an allem. Das Dach ist undicht, es gibt keine Badezimmer, keine Küche, keine Internetverbindung. Ende dieses oder zu Beginn des nächsten Jahres soll es bereit für den Unterricht der Gladiatoren sein. Dann sollen hier, wie Steve Bannon sagt, „Agenten des Populismus“ ausgebildet werden. 50 Schlafzimmer für 100 Studenten stehen zur Verfügung. Angeboten werden sollen Kurse in Geschichte, Theologie, Philosophie und Wirtschaft. Und in Agitation, Populismus und Journalismus.

„Der Westen istes  krank“

Benjamin Harnwell ist kein unbeschriebenes Blatt. Er ist Präsident des ultrakatholischen, sehr umstrittenen und polarisierenden Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI). Der Mensch sei ein „Ebenbild Gottes“, heisst es in den Statuten des Instituts. Ziel ist es, „die christlich-jüdischen Werte“ zu fördern. Harnwell hat enge Kontakte zu reaktionären katholischen Kreisen geknüpft. Der Westen sei geschwächt, krank, korrupt, habe sich von den christlich-jüdischen Werten entfernt, sagt Harnwell. Die Wirtschaftseliten seien an allem schuld, betonte Bannon immer wieder. Merkel „ist heute fertig, unglaublich“, sagt er dem Corriere. „Und Macron befindet sich in einer Todesspirale, weil er dem Volk nicht zugehört hat“ – im Gegensatz zu Salvini und Di Maio.

Wer finanziert die Gladiatoren-Schule? Bannon sagt, er habe persönlich Geld sowohl in „The Movement“ als auch in die geplante Agentenschule in Trisulti gesteckt. Wie viel, will er nicht sagen. „Das Geld wird aus Europa und vielleicht auch aus Amerika kommen“, erklärt er dem Corriere. „Es gibt einige konservative Katholiken ...“. Mehr sagte er nicht. Das linksliberale Magazin „L’Espresso“ enthüllte, dass Harnwell unter anderem Geld von Luca Volontè erhalten habe, einem italienischen Politiker mit sehr dubiosen Verbindungen zu Aserbeidschan. Der Linkspolitiker Nicola Fratoianni fragt: „Wer finanziert euch, nehmt ihr Dollar und Rubel?“ Rubel?

„Stop Bannon“

Bevor das Kloster fertig renoviert ist, will Bannon in Rom einen Prototyp seiner Schule testen: Während vier Wochen sollen etwa 25 Studenten in Populismus unterrichtet werden.

Doch Bannon und Hanrwell müssen mit einigen Hindernissen rechnen. Vor dem Kloster haben am Wochenende Hunderte gegen den Plan einer Populistenschule protestiert. „Stop Bannon“, hiess es auf Plakaten. Mauro Bussiglieri, der Bürgermeister von Collepardo, wo sich das Kloster befindet, ist wütend. „Die Bevölkerung versteht nicht, dass Trisulti ein Ort der Agitation werden soll“. Politiker verschiedener Couleur haben sich den Protestierenden angeschlossen. „Wir wehren uns dagegen, dass „hier fanatische Populisten und Integralisten ausgebildet werden“, hiess es.

„Der Mensch ist besessen“

Die bannon’sche Revolte gegen das Establishment zündet nicht so richtig. In den USA ist sein Stern längst verblasst. Selbst Trump hat ihn aussortiert. Deshalb versucht er jetzt seinen Kampf nach Europa zu verlegen. Allerdings mit wenig Echo. Von seinem Brüsseler „Movement“, in dem sich „die Patrioten des Westens mit seinen christlich-jüdischen Wurzeln treffen“ sollen, so Bannon, spricht kaum jemand.

Die Manifestanten, die am vergangenen Wochenende gegen ihn vor der Kartause Trisulti protestierten, hatten wenig schmeichelhafte Worte für ihn übrig. „Der Mensch ist besessen“, „der Mensch ist krank“, „er hat eine tödliche Mission“, „hau ab über den grossen Teich!“.

Kontraproduktiv?

Dazu kommt, dass auch in Italien der unberechenbare Haudegen Donald Trump wenig Sympathien geniesst. Auch wenn der Präsident seinen einstigen Chefstrategen längst fallengelassen hat, gilt Bannon noch immer als ein Trump-Mann. Auch Salvini hat gemerkt, dass ein Schulterschluss mit Bannon eher kontraproduktiv sein könnte. In jüngster Zeit hat er sich nicht mehr mit ihm gezeigt.

Auf Einladung der postfaschistischen italienischen Partei „Fratelli d’Italia“ trat Bannon kürzlich in Rom auf. Für den Anlass war mächtig die Werbetrommel gerührt worden – mit wenig Erfolg. Im Saal befanden sich schliesslich mehr Journalisten als andere Italienerinnen und Italiener.

Struck knüpft an bei den Debatten um den jüngsten "Spiegel"-Skandal, zieht dann aber die Kreise weiter für eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme problematischer Tendenzen, die nicht nur im Journalismus, sondern auch in der Debattenkultur und in der Literatur zu denken geben müssen. Instruktives Beispiel hierfür ist der Fall des Schriftstellers Robert Menasse.

Lesen Sie Lothar Strucks Beitrag hier bei "Medienwoche".

Das Wort Reform ist ein ehrbarer Terminus mit langen lateinischen Wurzeln. Er bedeutet dem Wortsinn nach so viel wie zurück- oder umgestalten bestehender Verhältnisse. Das Wort spielte schon in der römischen Politik eine Rolle. Es erscheint auch in den Paulus-Briefen. Luther, Zwingli und Calvin leiteten mit ihren Reformationen ein neues Zeitalter in der christlichen Welt ein.

Unpräzise Reformrhetorik

Reform ist aber nicht per se gut oder schlecht – es kommt, versteht sich, auf den Inhalt an. In dieser Hinsicht lassen es aber viele Leitartikler, die in unseren Breitengraden nach Reformen rufen, an Präzision fehlen. Man beklagt, nicht ohne alarmistische Töne, den mangelnden Reformwillen in westlichen Wohlstandsgesellschaften. Der Reformdruck steige, gerade in der Schweiz und in den EU-Ländern, heisst es, aber den Politikern fehle dazu der nötige Weitblick, sie starrten nur auf die nächsten Wahlen. Auf was genau sich dieser Reformdruck oder Reformstau bezieht, bleibt häufig im Nebel der Leitartikel-Rhetorik hängen.

Doch man findet unter diesen Reform-Beschwörungen auch konkretere Themenhinweise. Genannt wird etwa in Bezug auf die Schweiz eine dringliche AHV-Sanierung mit höherem Rentenalter, eine international kompatible Reform der Unternehmenssteuer und vor allem natürlich die Klärung des Verhältnisses zum wichtigsten Wirtschaftspartner EU.

Was irritiert bei solchen Erörterungen, ist der Hang vieler Leitartikler und Sonntagsredner, dem Publikum direkt oder indirekt einzureden, die Politiker müssten eigentlich nur mit den Fingern schnippen, um endlich die gewünschten Reformen in die Tat umzusetzen oder zumindest auf den Weg zu bringen. Als ob man nicht wüsste, dass seriöse Politik nach Max Weber «ein langsames Bohren starker Bretter» ist, was selbst bei redlichem Bemühen längst nicht immer die erhofften Resultate hervorbringt.

Putin und Xi als Vorbilder?

AHV-Reform, No Billag, Abzocker-Initiative, Masseneinwanderung, Unternehmenssteuer-Reform, Selbstbestimmungs-Initiative: Ist darüber in der Schweiz in den letzten paar Jahren nicht heftig gestritten und schliesslich abgestimmt worden? Manches wurde abgelehnt, einiges ist angenommen worden. In absehbarer Zeit werden die Stimmbürger wohl auch über den umstrittenen Rahmenvertrag mit der EU entscheiden. Wo sind da die angeblich fehlenden politischen Debatten und was heisst da Reformunfähigkeit?

Ist die Politik schuld, wenn eine Volksmehrheit gelegentlich etwas anderes entscheidet, als die Turbo-Reformer gerne möchten? Müsste man die Demokratie eventuell einschränken, um Reformen im Stil von Xi Jinping oder Wladimir Putin durchdrücken zu können? Oder haben diejenigen, die über angebliche Reformunfähigkeit jammern, andere, bessere Rezepte der Durchsetzbarkeit?

Es ist nicht immer fünf vor zwölf

Wenn ein politisches oder soziales Projekt scheitert oder auf die lange Bank geschoben wird, heisst das ja nicht, dass vernünftige oder sogar bessere Lösungen für einen bestimmten Problemkomplex für immer verbaut sind. Der kluge Denker Peter von Matt hat sich im vergangenen Jahr in einem Beitrag in der NZZ mit der Frage des Zeithorizontes in der Politik auseinandergesetzt. Er erinnerte daran, dass es ein paar hundert Jahre dauerte, bis die oft tief und mitunter sogar kriegerisch zerstrittenen Einzelstaaten der Eidgenossenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert zu einem richtigen Staatswesen zusammenwuchsen. «Die wirklichen Abläufe in der Geschichte», so formulierte von Matt, «geschehen gletscherhaft langsam in der Tiefe.» Die Medien aber könnten davon nicht reden, «sie rotieren rasend schnell zwischen vorgestern und übermorgen».

Mit diesen Bemerkungen soll der Begriff Reform keineswegs grundsätzlich diskreditiert werden. Kluge Reformen sind, auch das lehrt die Geschichte, für die Menschen bekömmlicher als radikale Revolutionen, die allzu häufig in blutige Willkür ausarten und ihre eigenen Kinder fressen. Aber für eine erfolgreiche Reformpolitik sind nicht nur klare inhaltliche Definitionen nötig, sondern auch ein gutes Gespür für den richtigen Zeitpunkt der Entscheidung. Es ist nicht immer fünf vor zwölf, wenn Leitartikel und andere inflationäre Reform-Rhetoriker dies behaupten.

Als am Anfang des Jahres die chinesische Mondsonde Chang’e 4 neben dem Aitken-Krater auf der Rückseite des Mondes landete, wurde das in vielen westlichen Medien als «Machtdemonstration» der chinesischen Regierung kommentiert. Auch die Modernisierung der Armee, Luftwaffe und Navy wird stets im gleichen Kontext interpretiert, genauso wie die Wirtschaftsinitiative der «Neuen Seidenstrasse».

Halbkolonie

China hat seit Beginn der Wirtschaftsreform und Öffnung nach aussen vor vierzig Jahren zwar in einer in der Geschichte nie zuvor beobachteten Geschwindigkeit Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft verändert. Doch über die bestehenden Grenzen hinaus hat das Reich der Mitte nicht expandiert. Ganz im Gegensatz zu den europäischen Kolonialmächten vorab im 19. Jahrhundert und die USA und Japan in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts.

China selbst wurde zur Halbkolonie. Chinesinnen und Chinesen sprechen deshalb noch heute vom «Jahrhundert der Schande», beginnend mit dem ersten Opiumkrieg (1839–42) über die ungleichen Verträge mit den imperialistischen Mächten (zumal Grossbritannien und Japan) bis hin zur Befreiung 1949 durch die Kommunisten nach dem Bürgerkrieg mit den Nationalisten.

Multipolar

Jetzt am Ende des zweiten Jahrzehnts des 20. Jahrhunderts wird der Wettbewerb zwischen der aufstrebenden Grossmacht China und der etablierten Supermacht USA zunehmend thematisiert. Hin und wieder ist gar schon vom «Chinesischen Jahrhundert» die Rede, obwohl doch – wie in dieser Kolumne schon mehrfach erläutert – in der immer komplexer werdenden globalisierten Welt alles auf eine multipolare Welt hindeutet mit Amerika und China im Mittelpunkt. Dabei sind Peking und Washington, wie der Führung beider Mächte wohl bewusst ist, gegenseitig voneinander abhängig.

Imperiale Überdehnung

Kommentatoren und Politiker greifen bei der Einschätzung der neuen geopolitischen Situation stets auf vermeintliche geschichtliche Parallelen zurück. Anfangs dieses Jahrhunderts war der Bezug sehr oft der Untergang des Römischen Reiches. In diesem Zusammenhang wurde meist das 1987 veröffentlichte Buch des britischen Historikers Paul Kennedy «Aufstieg und Fall der grossen Mächte» zitiert. Kennedys These: Aufstieg, Überdehnung, Erschöpfung, Abstieg.

Kennedys Ansatz von der imperialen Überdehnung fand natürlich bei oberflächlicher Betrachtung bei fast allen Grossreichen der Weltgeschichte einige zutreffende Punkte. Doch Imperien wie etwa die zwei Perserreiche, das Reich Alexanders des Grossen, das Reich der Mongolen, das Spanische Kolonialreich, das Chinesische Kaiserreich, das Britische Weltreich oder das Sowjetreich weisen bei genauer Betrachtung weit mehr Unterschiede als Gemeinsamkeiten auf.

«Thukydides-Falle»

Seit Donald Trump zum US-Präsidenten gewählt worden ist, steht – nicht zuletzt auch wegen des Handelskonflikts und der Nordkorea-Frage – wieder die Frage im Raum, ob denn China die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika als Supermacht ablösen werde und ob ein neuer Kalter Krieg bevorstehe. In den letzten zwei, drei Jahren wurden dabei nicht mehr Paul Kennedys historische Thesen bemüht. Vielmehr schwadronierten Leitartikler, Diplomaten und assortierte Pundits mit dem Begriff «Thukydides-Falle», um zeitgeistig die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines möglichen Krieges abzuschätzen.

Thukydides lebte im 5. Jahrhundert vor Beginn unserer Zeitrechnung in Athen. Er war Stratege und Historiker. In seinem unvollendeten Werk «Der Peloponnesische Krieg» schildert er den Konflikt zwischen der aufstrebenden Seemacht Athen und dem mächtigen Sparta. Die Grundthese von Thukydides: «Es war der Aufstieg Athens und die Furcht, die das in Sparta auslöste, was Krieg unvermeidlich machte.» Die «Falle des Thukydides» besagt also im Kern, dass der Aufstieg einer neuen Macht – etwa China – bei der etablierten Macht – etwa den USA – Ängste auslöst, die schliesslich zu Konflikten und unvermeidlich zu Krieg führen.

Falsche Analogie

Der Politikwissenschafter Graham Allison prägte 2012 den Begriff «Thukydides-Falle» und exemplifizierte ihn an der aufsteigenden europäischen Landmacht Deutschland und der globalen Seemacht Grossbritannien zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts und dem daraus folgenden Ersten Weltkrieg. Allison führt für die letzten fünfhundert Jahre 16 Konflikte an, wobei die Thukydides-Falle bei zwölf davon zutreffend gewesen sei.

Bei näherer Betrachtung freilich zeigt sich bei all diesen Konflikten, den deutsch-britischen eingeschlossen, dass der Begriff der Falle nur marginal, wenn überhaupt, zutreffend ist. Es traf weder zu beim Konflikt Spanien–Portugal im 15. Jahrhundert noch in der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Frankreich und Holland im 17. Jahrhundert noch bei der Ablösung Grossbritanniens durch die USA im 20. Jahrhundert. Und schon gar nicht beim Konflikt des Kalten Krieges zwischen den USA und der Sowjetunion in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit der Thukydides-Falle wird die Geschichte missbraucht, Kurz, es handelt sich um eine falsche Analogie.

Das Pulver erfunden

Ist China dabei, Amerika von der Spitze zu verdrängen? Gemach! Die Konfliktmuster haben sich seit Thukydides, also seit zweieinhalbtausend Jahren, grundlegend verändert. Richtig ist, dass China beeindruckend aufgeholt hat. Wirtschaftlich, sozial, in der Erziehung, in der Forschung und vielen weiteren Bereichen. Das Reich der Mitte ist wieder dort, wo es – zwar gegen aussen abgeschlossen und sich selbst genügend – bis zu Beginn der 19. Jahrhunderts schon einmal war. 

Bis zu Beginn der europäischen Weltgeltung im ausgehenden 15. Jahrhundert erreichte China viel und hatte Europa einiges voraus. Der Bronze- und Eisenguss, das Papier, der Buchdruck, der Magnetkompass und das Porzellan sind chinesische Errungenschaften. Kurz, China hat das Pulver erfunden. Nur die für das digitale Zeitalter entscheidende Zahl Null haben nicht die Chinesen, sondern die Araber kreiert.

Einfache Lösungen

Statistisch ausgedrückt, präsentiert sich das moderne, auch durch westliche Technologie erstarkte China so: Vor dreissig Jahren beanspruchten die USA noch 22 Prozent des weltweiten Brutto-Inlandprodukts (BIP), Deutschland 6 Prozent und China 3 Prozent; heute erwirtschaftet China 18 Prozent des weltweiten BIP, die Europäische Union 16 Prozent, die USA 15 Prozent und Deutschland 3 Prozent.   

Die Welt ist heute global vernetzt, hochkomplex strukturiert, militärisch und atomar hoch bewaffnet. Dass die These von der «Thukydides-Falle» so beliebt ist, hängt damit zusammen, dass einfache Lösungen für komplexe Probleme bei Politikern stets gefragt sind. Der linke und rechte Populismus – die junge SP und die alte SVP eingeschlossen – profitieren davon.

Dialog und Kooperation

In einem schwierigen internationalen Umfeld hat Peking eine klare langfristige Strategie, erdacht einst vom grossen Reformer und Revolutionär Deng Xiaoping und fortgesetzt mit dem «Chinesischen Traum» des jetzigen Staats-, Partei- und Militärchefs Xi Jinping. Zur «Thukydides-Falle» hat sich Staatsrat und Ausseminister Wang Yi 2017 geäussert: «China hat das Vertrauen, den historischen Präzedenzfall durch einen verbesserten Dialog und Koordination mit der US-Seite zu vermeiden.»

In  einer komplizierten Welt, so Wang, sei  internationale Kooperation die einzig mögliche Wahl. Wang begründet das weiter damit, dass in einer vernetzten Welt die Interessen der aufstrebenden und der etablierten Mächte zusammenlaufen und damit Konflikte zu nichts als zu einer Verlust-Verlust-Situation führten.

Thukydides im Übersetzungsprogramm

Um falsche historischen Analogien zu vermeiden, könnte nur eines helfen: wieder einmal «Der Peloponnesische Krieg» von Thukydides lesen. Am besten im Original. Doch wer lernt im digitalen Zeitalter noch Altgriechisch, geschweige denn Latein oder gar Deutsch? Übersetzungsprogramme und der Korrektor im Schreibprogramm reichen ja auch.

Also Thukydides einfach in die Internet-Suchmaschine werfen, und schon sind alle Fragen vermeintlich beantwortet. Die Falle schnappt dann tatsächlich zu. Resultat siehe oben, d. h. schiefe, abenteuerliche Vergleiche jenseits seriöser Geschichtskenntnisse. 

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“The New Yorker”: “What Cafés Did for Liberalism” by Adam Gopnik           

“The Washington Post”: “Jamal Kashoggi’s last months as an exile in the long shadow of Saudi Arabia”” by Souad Mekhennet & Greg Miller

“The Washington Post”: “It’s official. We lost the cold war” by Dana Milbank

“The Washington Post”: “I’m a combat veteran. We cannot allow our country to be turned into a war zone” by Tammy Duckworth

“The “Washington Post”: “A child occupies the White House – and the world knows it” by Patty Davies

“The Washington Post”: “What the year’s best photos tell us about 2018”

“The Washington Post”: “’Why has the world abandoned us?’ The tough questions faced by Washington Post foreign correspondents in 2018”

“The Atlantic”: “The Real Roots of American Rage” by Charles Duhigg

“The Atlantic”: “The New Authoritarians Are Waging War on Women” by Peter Beinart

“Poynter”: “The Year in Fact-Checking” by Daniel Funke & Alexios Mantzarlis

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“The Atlantic”: “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

“The New York Times”: “The War on Truth Spreads” by The Editorial Board

“The New York Times”: “A Photographer Goes Missing in China” by Robert Y. Pledge

“The New York Times”: “The Most Powerful Reject in the World” by Frank Bruni

“The New York Times”: “2018: The Year in Climate Change”

“The New York Times”: “How Do You Recover after Millions Watched You Overdose?” by Katherine Q. Seelye, Julie Turkewitz, Jack Healy & Alan Binder

“The New York Times”: “Lens: Documenting the Disappearing Glaciers of Iceland” by Jonathan Blaustein

“The New York Times”: “Five Great Podcasts from 2018”

“The New York Times”: “The Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018” by  Anthony Tommasini, Joshua Barone,Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, David Allen, Seth Colter Walls & Zachery Woolfe

“The New York Times”: “The Woman Who Outruns the Men, 200 Miles at a Time” by Rebecca Byerly & Max Whittaker (photographs)

“The New York Times Magazine”: “A Tragedy in Yemen, Made in America” by Jeffrey E. Stern

“The New York Times Magazine”: “What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of MySpace” by John Herrman

“New York”: “America’s New Religions” by Andrew Sullivan

“The Washington Post”: “Europe: The New Autocrats” by Griff Witte & Michael Robinson Chavez

“The Washington Post”: “Companies in the Cosmos: Gridlock in the Sky” by Chris Davenport, John Muyskens, Youjin Shin & Monica Ulmanu

“The Washington Post”: “The false claims that Trump keeps repeating” by Glenn Kessler & Joe Fox

“The Washington Post”: “Israel strengthens its ties with Europe’s far right” by Ishaan Tharoor

“The Washington Post”: “Yemen: A man-made war paid for by women and children” by Neha Wadekar & Will Swanson and Bett Murphy (videos)

“The Washington Post”: “Living under a time bomb” by Tim Craig (story) & Ricky Cartoti (photos)

“The Washington Post”: “America’s hidden war in Syria” by Liz Sly (story) & Alice Martins (photos)

“The Washington Post”: “Want a great documentary to watch? Try one of these six picked by our foreign correspondents” by Jason Aldag

“The Guardian”: “Podcast: Is the net closing in on Donald Trump?” by Anushka Asthana

“The Guardian”: “Ukraine-Russia tensions reach Greece’s holy Mount Athos” by Shaun Walker

“The Guardian”: “’I felt like an imposter’: a mixed race American in Africa” by Alexander Hurst

“The Guardian”: “Inside the booming business of background music” by Jake Hulyer

“London Review of Books”: “What’s Wrong with Theresa May?” by David Runciman

“The Intercept”: “John Kelly was a Bully, Bigot and Liar for Trump. Goodbye and Good Riddance” by Mehdi Hasan

“Huffington Post”: “I’m still here” by Clancy Martin

“Lapham’s Quarterly”: “Operation Ajax” by Bridey Heing

“National Affairs”: “The Constitution of Knowledge” by Jonathan Rauch

“The Vanity Fair”: “The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg” by Duff McDonald

"Mother Jones”: ”How Facebook became the primary source and destroyer of news” by Monika Bauerlein & Clara Jeffery

“The Atlantic”: ”The World in its Extreme” by William Langewiesche

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"The New York Times”: “Netanyahu’s Obsession with Image May be His Downfall” by David M. Halbfinger

“The New York Times”: “Curtains for the Clintons” by Maureen Dowd

"The New York Times”: “The ‘It’ 80“The s Party Girl Is Now a Defender of the Catholic Faith” by Jason Horowitz

“The New York Times”: “Eritrea Dispatch: A Reclusive Nation Opens Its Doors” by Malin Fezehai

“The New York Times”: “The Race Is on to Protect Data from the Next Leap in Computers. And Chinas Has the Lead” by Cade Metz& Raymond Zhong

“The New York Times”: “Images from the Aftermath of a Rust Belt Police Shooting” by Joe Sexton

"The New York Times”: “The Best Art of 2018” by Roberta Smith, Holland Cotter & Jason  Farago

“The New York Times”: “The Best Movies of 2018” by Manolha Dagis & A.O.Scott

 “The New York Times”: “The Best Classical Music of 2018” by Anthony Tommasini, Zachary Woolfe, Joshua Barone & Seth Colter Wallsssical-music-of-2018

“The New Yorker”: “A Reporter At Large: Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom” by Anal Gopand

“The New Yorker”: “Annals of Technology: The Friendship That Made Google Huge” by James Somers

“The New Yorker”: “Reflections: Why We Sleep, And Why We Often Can’t” by Zoë Heller

“The New York Review of Books”: “Two Roads for the French New Right” by Mark Lilla

“The New York Review of Books”: “Damn It All” by Stephen Greenblatt

“Politico”: “Is History too Kind to George H.W. Bush?” by David Greenberg

“The Intercept”: “Podcast - George W. Bush: The Inconvenient Truth” by Mehdi Hasan & Glen Greenwald

“The Intercept”: “As the Mueller Probe Heats Up, Donald Trump’s Lies Are Giving Way to Truth” by James Risen

“The Washington Post”: “George W. Bush’s touching eulogy for George H.W. Bush, annotated” by Aaron Blake & Bloomberg Government (transcript)

“The Washington Post”: “Why it’s time to give the Soviet Union its due for World War II” by Matthew Lenoe

“The Washington Post”: “Best of Museums 2018: It was a year to pay attention to new voices” by Philip Kennicott

“The Washington Post”: “How democracies slide into authoritarianism” by Charles Edel

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “America’s red-blue split isn’t over ideology or culture. It’s economics” John B. Judis

“The Guardian”: “End of an era: Angela Merkel’s long goodbye”

“The Guardian”: “’’Macron’s arrogance unites us’: on the barricades with France’s gilets jaunes” by Angelique Chrisafis

“The Guardian”: “Why We Stopped Trusting Elites” by William Davies

“The Guardian”: “How the ‘rugby rape trial’ divided Ireland” by Susan McKay

“The Guardian”: “’Hey, that’s our stuff’: Maasai tribespeople tackle Oxford’s River Pitts Museum” by Yohann Koshy

“The Guardian”: “Inside China’s audacious propaganda campaign” by Louisa Lim & Julia Bergin

“The Independent”: “Brexit Britain is facing a deep crisis of self-confidence. It will only end in tears – and rising nationalism” by Patrick Cockburn

“The Independent”: “Spare me America’s tears for Jamal Kashoggi – this excuse for Trump-bashing ignores the CIA’s past crimes” by Robert Fisk

“Breaker”: “Days Four Trapped at Sea with Crypto’s Nouveau Riche” by Laurie Parker

“Reuters”: “Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag” by Philip Wen, Olzhas Auyezov,Thomas Peter (photography), Christian Inton (ilustrations)  & Simon Scarr (graphics)

"Open”: “The Death of a Missionary” by Lendhup G Bhutia

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“The New York Times”: “George H. W. Bush, 41st President Dies at 94” by Adam Nagourney

“The New York Times”: “The Patrician President and the Reporterette: a Screwball Comedy” by Maureen Dowd

“The New York Times”: “In Yemen, Lavish Meals for a Few, Starvation for Many and a Dilemma for Reporters” by Declan Walsh

“The New York Times”: “Can We Stop Suicides?” by Moises Verlasquez-Manoff

“The New York Times”: “In Israel, War Is for the Weak” by Shmuel Rosner

“The New York Times”: “What the Movies Taught Me About Being a Woman” by Manolah Dargis

“The New York Times”: “China Rules: China’s Economy Became No. 1 by Defying No. 2” by Keith Bradsher & Li Yuan

“The New York Times”: “Money and Muscle Pave China’s Way to Power” by Peter S. Goodman, Jane Perlez & Bryan Denton (photographs)

“The New York Times”: “Racing across Antarctica, One Freezing Day at a Time” by Adam Skolnick

“The New York Times”: “A European Goes to Trump's Washington” by Ivan Krastev

“The New York Times”: “The 10 Best Books of 2018” by several authors

“The Times Magazine New York”: “The Insect Apocalypse Is Here” by Brooke Jarvis

“The New Yorker”: “Is the Trump Administration Pivoting the Fight in Syria toward a War in Iran” by Seth Harp

“The New Yorker”: “Reflections: Letter from a Region of My Mind” by James Baldwin

“The Washington Post”: “The Swamp Builders” by Manuel Roig-Franzia

“The Washington Post”: “National Security: The New Arctic Frontier” by Dan Lamothe (story) & Kadir van Lohuizen & Yuri Kozyrev (photos and videos)

“The Washington Post”: “One man spent a decade studying hangovers. He may have found a cure” by Rachel Rosenblit

“The Washington Post”: “Iran’s regime is fighting a losing battle against science” by Jason Rezaian

“Politico Magazine”: “Trump Say Climate Change Isn’t Real. My Trip to the Top of the World Proved Otherwise” by Eric Scigliano

”Politico”: “The foreign media that dare not speak ill of Trump” by Ben Schreckinger

“The Guardian”: “The Long Read: How the murders of two elderly Jewish women shook France” by James McAuley

“The Guardian”: “Four years to go: Qatar on course for its improbable World Cup” by David Corn (story) & Tom Jenkins (photographs)

“The Guardian”: “Portrait of the planet on the verge of climate catastrophe” by Robin McKie

“The Guardian”: “From chaos to punctual in one week” by Zoe Williams

“The Observer”: “’Councils and crooks must feel relaxed: why the loss of local newspapers matters” by Vanessa Thorpe

“London Review of Books”: “The Club and the Mob” by James Meek

"Rolling Stone”: “Who Will Fix Facebook?” by Matt Taibbi

“Motherboard”: “The Internet Needs More Friction” by Justin Kosslyn

“Carnegie Moscow Center”: “What Drives the Russian State?” by Alexander Baunov

“Longform Reprint”: “The Interior Stadium” by Roger Angell

“Five Books”: “The Best Nature Books of 2018” by Charles Foster

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"The Guardian”: “Steve Bannon: I want to drive a stake through the Brussels vampire” by Paul Lewis

"The Guardian”: “Bannon’s far-right European operation undermined by election laws” by Paul Lewis & Jennifer Rankin

“The Guardian”: “TikTok: the Chinese lip-syncing app taking over America” by Luke O’Neil

“The Guardian”: “US media must ‘get smarter’ to tackle Trump, says Hillary Clinton” by Patrick Wintour

“The Guardian”: “Rebuilding Paradise: California town devastated by fire looks towards the future” by Dani Anguiano

“BuzzFeed”: “There’s No Looking Away From This Year’s California Fires” by Matt Honen

“London Review of Books”: “As the Toffs Began to Retreat” by Neil Ascherson

“Outside”: “My Father’s SOS – From the Middle of the Sea” by Ali Carr Troxell

"Wired”: “The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI” by Shaun Raviv

“Lapham’s Quarterly”: “Crossing the Sahara in the Fourteenth Century” by François-Xavier Fauvelle

“The Marshall Project”: “The Gun King” by John H. Richardson

“The New York Times”: “China: The Land That Failed to Fail” by Philip P. Pan (story) & Bryan  Denton (photography)

“The New York Times”: “China Rules; The World, Built by China” by Derek Watkins, K.K. Rebecca & Keith Bradhseer

“The New York Times”: “China Rules: How China Walled off the Internet” by Raymond Zhong

“The New York Times”: “China Rules: The American Dream Is Alive. In China” by Javier C. Hernandez & Quoctrung Bui

“The New York Times”: “In China, a School Trains Boys to Be ‘Real Men’” by Sui-Lee Wee

“The New York Times”: “Why Michelle Obama Is ‘Everything’” by Stacia Brown

“The New York Times”: “Finally, a Machine That Can Finish Your Sentence” by  Cade Mentz

“The New York Times”: “Why I’m Giving £1.8 Billion in College Financial Aid” by Michael Bloomberg

“The New York Times”: “In Pardoning Saudi Arabia, Trump Gives Guidance to Autocrats” by Mark Mazzetti & Ben Hubbard

“The New York Times”: “Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver” by Adam Satariano, Elian Peltier & Dmity Kostyukov (photographs and video)

“The New York Times”: “100 Notable Books of 2018”

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Nancy Pelosi’s Last Battle” by Robert Draper

“The New York Review of Books”: “Opioid Nation” by Marcia Angell

“The Washington Post”: “This is what happens when a stable genius leads a stupid country” by Dana Milbank

“The Washington Post”: “Right to return or time to move on?” by Loveday Morris, Susa Haidamous & Lorenzo Tugnoli (photos)

“The Washington Post”: “Yes, Facebook made mistakes in 2016. But we weren’t the only ones” by Alex Stamos

“The Washington Post”: “Nothing on this page is real: How lies became truth in online America” by Eli Saslow

“The Washington Post”: “Best Books of 2018”

“The Intercept”: “Is It Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of the Internet?” by John Thomason

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“The Guardian”: “Becoming by Michelle Obama review – race, marriage and the ugly side of politics” by Afua Hirsch

“The Guardian”: “Is leaving the White House like taking your bra off after a long day? Michelle Obama answers the questions that matter”

“The Guardian”: “Why is no on talking about the uncounted, suppressed votes in Florida?” by Carol Anderson

“The Guardian”: “The long and winding road to Brexit: How did we get here?” by Kevin Rawlinson

“The Guardian”: “How Sarah Sanders became Trump’s liar-in-chief” by Hadley Freeman

“The Guardian”: “Katharine Viner: ‘The Guardian’s readers funding model is working. It’s inspiring” by Katharine Viner

“The Guardian”: “David Attenborough has betrayed the living world he loves” by George Monbiot

“The Independent”: “This man lost his three daughters in Gaza – but he still has hope” by Robert Fisk

“The Independent”: “Midterms 2018: Inside the Democrats multibillion-dollar campaign – the costliest in history – to seize control of Congress” by Andrew Buncombe

“The Marshall Project”: “My Dog Didn’t Forget Me when I Went to Prison” by Keri Blakinger

“ESPN”: “José Mourinho’s Last Stand” by Sam Borden

“The Volokh Conspiracy”: “In Defense of ‘Designer Babies’” by Ilya Somin

“Literary Hub”: “The Philosophy of the Belly Dancer” by L.L. Wynn

“The Washington Post”: “Opening Our Eyes” by Sebastian Smee

“The Washington Post”: “Donald Trump knows the true meaning of sacrifice” by Dana Milbank

“The Washington Post”: “’ It breaks my heart, but I have to keep going’: The Honduran women forced to leave their homeland” by Duncan Tucker & Louise Tillotson

“The Washington Post”: “Saudi Arabia’s latest account of Kashoggi’s killing I shocking in its audacity” by the Editorial Board

“The Washington Post”: “Immigration worries drove the Brexit vote. Then attitudes changed” by Karla Adam & William Booth

“The Washington Post”: “Detouring” by Andrea Sachs

“The Washington Post”: “Gun Violence in D.C.: Slow Motion Massacre” by Paul Duggan

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “The State of Hate” by David Montgomery

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from Cuba: The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome” by Adam Entous & Jon Lee Andersdon

“The New Yorker”: “Onward and Upward with the Arts: How Podcasts Became a Seductive – and Sometimes Slippery – Mode of Storytelling” by Rebecca Meade

“The New Yorker”: “Hermann Hesse’s Arrested Development” by Adam Kirsch

“The New York Review of Books”: “World War I Relived Day by Day” by Patrick Chovanec

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Crash That Failed” by Robert Kuttner

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Reality of War” by Christopher Clark

“The New York Review of Books”: “A Very Grim Forecast” by Bill McKibben

“The New York Times”: “Russian Disinformation: Operation Infektion” by Adam B. Ellick & Adam Westbrook

“The New York Times”: “Burned-Out Cars, Smoke in the Air, Aerial Assaults, All in California” by Tim Arango

“The New York Times”: “When Paradise Is on Fire” by Sarah Pape

“The New York Times”: “Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis” by Sheera Frankel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg & Jack Nicas

“The New York Times”: “Learning to Attack the Attack the Cyberattackers Can’t Happen Fast Enough” by Alina Tugend

“The New York Times Magazine”: “May A.I. Help You?” by Clive Thompson

"The New York Times Magazine”: “The Human Brain Is a Timer Traveler” by Steven Johnson

"The Atlantic”: “A New Way to be Mad” by Carl Elliott

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“The Guardian”: “Half of white women continue to vote for Trump. What’s wrong with?” by Moira Donegan

“The Guardian”: “Setting sail. One woman’s year alone at sea” by Susan Smillie

“The Guardian: “A tale of blood, betrayal and family bonds. How El Chapo came to trial” by Ed Vullimy

“The Guardian”: “Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK” by Arron Merat

“The Guardian”: “The making of an opioid epidemic” by Chris McGreal

“The Guardian”: “Podcast: Inside the campaign to stop Brexit”

“The Guardian”:  “Everything you should know about air pollution”

“The Observer”: “Super recognizers: the people who never forget a face” by Alex Moshakis

“The Intercept”: “Fox America News Is Poisoning. Rupert Murdoch and His Heirs Should Be Shunned” by Peter Maas

“The Intercept”: “Marie Colvin Dedicated Her Extraordinary Life to Describing ‘What Really Happens in Wars’” by Charles Glass

“The Washington Post”: “The Daily 202: 10 Midterm Takeaways” by James Hohmann

“The Washington Post”: “In revealing new memoir, Michelle Obama candidly shares her story” by Krissa Thompson

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from Washington: ’We’ll Be Further Away as a Country’: Trump, The Midterm Election and Why the Crazy Times May Just Be Beginning” by Susan B. Glasser

“The New Yorker”: “In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing?” by Joshua Rothman

“The New Yorker”: “Is More Democracy Always Better Democracy” by Yascha Mounk

“The New Yorker”: “Why Doctors Hate Their Computers” by Atul Gawande

“The New Yorker”: “Reigns of Terror in America” by Jill Lepore

“The New York Times”: “The Psychology of Anti-Semitism” by Amy Cuddy

“The New York Times”: “The Man Who Showed Us Istanbul” by Orhan Pamuk

“The New York Times”: “A Day on the Road with the Migrant Caravan” by Neil Collier, Emily Rhyne & Ainara Tiefenthäler

“The New York Times”: “Why the Google Walkout Was  a Watershed Moment in Tech” by Farhad

“The New York Times”: “Sundar Pichai of Google: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Problems” by David Gelles

“The New York Times”: “Zurück ins Gleichgewicht” by James G. Robinson

“The New York Times Magazine”: “How U.S. Law Enforcement Underestimated the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It” by Janet Reitman

“The New York Times Magazine”: “What Makes Superstar Conductor Gustavo Dudamel So Good?” by Brian Phillips

“Globe Magazine”: “Losing Laura” by Peter DE Marco

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Sins of Celibacy” by Alexander Stille

“National Geographic”: “How London Became the Center of the World” by Laura Parker (story) & Luca Locatelli (photographs)

“Longreads”: “The Secrets We Keep” by Deena ElGenaidi

“Vice”: “What It‘s Like Knowing You’ll Die of Cancer at 35” by Gideon Jacobs & Lia Kantrowtz (illustration)

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“The Washington Post”: “The slaughter in Pittsburgh was not ‘unimaginable’. It was inevitable”  by Karen Tumulty

“The Washington Post”: “The terrible numbers that grow with each mass shooting” by Bonnie Berkowitz, Denise Lu & Chris Alcantara

“The Washington Post”: “One president’s scary story is a country’s scary world” by Alexandra Petri

“The Washington Post”: “Who is Jair Bolsonaro, the man likely to be Brazil’s next president?” by Anthony Faiola & Marina Lopes

“The New York Times”: “On Gab, an Extremist-Friendly Site, Pittsburg Shooting Suspect Aired His Hatred in Full” by Kevon Roose

“The New York Times”: “Why the Arab World Needs Democracy Now” by Jamal Kashoggi

“The New York Times”: “Shaking My Faith in America” by Howard Fineman

“The New York Times”: “The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War” by Declan Walsh (story) & Tyler Hicks (photographs)

“The New York Times”: “On Photography: Dispatches from a Ruined Paradise” by Teju Cole

“The New York Times”: “A Dark Consensus on Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley” by Nellie Bowles

“The New York Times”: “The Fix for Fake News Isn’t Code. It’s Human” by Regina Rini

“The New York Times”: “24 Hours in America” by The New York Times

“The New York Times”: “Where We Live: A Map of Every Building in America” by Tim Wallace, Derek Watkins & John Schwartz

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science” by Ava Kofman

“The New Yorker”: “Six Glimpses of the Past” by Janet Malcom

“The New Yorker”: “For Jamal Kashoggi, there is no Robert Mueller” by Robin Wright

“The New Yorker”: “Larry Krasner’s Campaign to End Mass Incarceration” by Jennifer Gonnerman

“The New Yorker”: “Birdwatching with the Ravenmaster” by Sarah Larson

“The New York Review of Books”: “Fighting to Vote” by Michael Tomasky

“The New York Review of Books”: “MLK: What We Lost” by Annette Gordon-Reed

“The New York Review of Books”: “History for a Post-Fact America” by Alex Carp

“New York Magazine”: “Powerful Women Talk About Power”  by various authors

“New York Magazine”: “And You Thought Trump Voters Were Mad” by Rebecca Traister

“New York Magazine”: “City of Fear” by the Marshall Project

“The Guardian”: “In the days of Bin Salman and Trump, journalists need readers’ support” by Paul Chadwick

“The Guardian”: “Shrinking the world: why we can’t resist model villages” by Simon Garfield

“The Guardian”: “The lost city of Atlanta” by Nick van Mead

“The Guardian”: “What happened when migrants moved into my family’s Sicilian village?” by Lorenzo Tondo

“The Observer”: “’Edge of the knife’: Trump drags divided ates of America towards his midterm reckoning” by David Smith

“The Atlantic”: “Browsing the Stacks: A Photo Appreciation of  Libraries” by Alan Taylor

“The Atlantic”: “Photos of the Central  American Immigrant Caravan” by Alan Taylor

“The Atlantic”: “What I learned about Life at my 30th College Reunion” by Deborah Copaken

“Atlas Obscura: “The Los Angeles Pet Cemetery” by Melissa Batchelor Warnke

“The Aeon”: “The Elephant as a Person” by Don Ross

“Columbia Journalism Review”: “The Erosion of Hong Kong’s Free Press” by Mary Hui

“Nautilus”: “Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blind Spot” by Tom Vanderbilt & Robin Davey (illustration)

“Quartz”: “Uber’s secret weapons is its team of economists” by Alison Griswold

“Smithsonian”: “How an Astonishing Holocaust Diary Resurfaced in America” by Robin Shulman

“The Intercept”: “Collateral Damage” by Caty Scott-Clark & Murtaza Hussein

“The Intercept”: “Here is a list of Attackers Trump inspired. Cesar Sayoc wasn’t the first – and won’t be the last” by Mehdi Hasan

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“The New York Times”: “Uproar Over Dissent rattles Saudi  Royal Family” by Ben Hubbard & David D. Kirkptrick

“The Independent”: “’ The greatest embarrassment’: Inside the Kingdom, Saudis rattled by handling of Kashoggi case” by Borzou Daragahi

“The New York Times”: “How One Journalist’s Death Provoked a Backlash Thousands Dead in Yemen Couldn’t” by Max Fisher

“The New York Times”: “A President Who Believes He is entitled to His Own Facts” by Maggie Haberman

“The New York Times”: “This Is the Front Line of Saudi Arabia’s Invisible War” by Declan Walsh & Tyler Hicks (video & photographs)

“The New York Times”: “Mount Athos, A Male-Only Holy Retreat, Is Ruffled by Tourists and Russia” by Neil MacFarquhar

“The New York Times”: “Eight Stories of Men’s Regrets” by Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer

“The New York Times”: “Technology: Artificial Intelligence Special Report”

“The New York Times”: “Paul G. Allen, Microsoft’s Co-Founder Is Dead at 65” by Steve Lohr

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Those Who Can’t Forget” by Philippe Montgomery (photographs)

“The New Yorker”: “The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and the Bust” by Nick Paumgarten

“The New Yorker”: “Gandhi for the Post-Truth Age” by Pankaj Mishra

“The New Yorker”: “Sunday Reading: The Reality of Climate Change” by The New Yorker

“The New York Review of Books”:  Engineers: Matters of Tolerance” by James Gleick

“The New York Review of Books”: “Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Would-Be Dictator” by Vincent Bevins

“The Washington Post”: “Jamal Kashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression” by Jamal Kashoggi

“The Washington Post”: “Jamal Kashoggi’s final appeal” by Editorial Board

“The Washington Post”: “This is why so many journalists are at risk today” by Anne Applebaum

“The Washington Post”: “How a change in U.S. abortion policy reverberated around the globe” by Max Bearak & Carol Morello (text) & Carol Van Houten (video and photographs)

“The Washington Post”: “The dark side of American conservatism has taken over” by Max Boot

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “Is There a Middle Path in the Me Too Area?” by Roxanne Roberts

“The Guardian”: “A year after her murder, where is justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia” by Margaret  Atwood

“The Guardian”: “Missing in Syria: Austin Tice’s parents lonely struggle to find their son” by Daniel Gross

“The Guardian”: “’I live in fear’: under Trump, life for America’s immigrants can change in a flash” by Amanda Holpuch

“The Guardian”: “Yemen on the brink of ‘world’s worst famine in 100 Years” if war continues” by Hannah Summers

“The Guardian”: “3’12 desperate journeys: Exposing a week of chaos under Trumps’ zero tolerance” by Olivia Solon, Julie Carrie Wong, Pamela Duncan, Margaret Katcher, Patrick Timmons & Sam Morris

“The Guardian”: “’It’s against the law’: Syrian refugees deported from Turkey back to war” by Shawn Carrié & Asmaa al Omar

“The Guardian”: “I’ve seen the Antarctic’s untouched beauty. There’s still time to protect it” by Javier Bardem

“The Guardian”: “We once marveled at Neil Armstrong. Now space is a playground for the rich” by John Harris

“Texas Monthly”: “The Love Story That Upended the Texas Prison System” by Ethan Watters

“grahamfuller.com”: “The Geopolitics of the Kashoggi murder” by Graham E. Fuller

“The Ezra Klein Show”: “Jay Rosen on media” by Ezra Klein

“Popular Mechanics”: “In Defense of Elon Musk” by Tom Chiarella

“The Atlantic”: “The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains” by Michal Joseph Gross

“The Atlantic”: “Describing Evil before Hitler” by Gavriel Rosenfeld

"The Intercept”: “Why Israel’s – and America’s – legal justifications for assassinations don’t add up” by Murtaza Hussein

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“The New York Times”: “Praying for Kamal Kashoggi” by Thomas L. Friedman

“The New York Times”: “A Deadly Year for Journalists as Risk Shifts to the West” by Megan Specia

“The New York Times”: “Personal Journeys: A New Taste of Marrakesh” by Dan Saltzstein

“The New York Times”: #“This Is 18” by several photographers

“The New York Times”: “Overlooked No More: Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Author, Photographer and ’Ravaged Angel’” by Alicia P.q. Wittmeyer

“The New York Times”: “Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040” by Coral Davenport

“The New York Times”: “Maybe Girls Will Save Us” by Reshma Saujani

“The New York Times”: “Essay: All Those Books You’ve Bought but Haven’t Read? There’s a Word for It” by Kevin Mims

“The New York Times”: “The Trump Rally: A Play in Three Acts” by Katie Rogers

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Democrats Have an Immigration Problem” by Robert Draper

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’” by Jennifer Percy

“The New Yorker”: “One Year of  #MeToo” by David Remnick

“The New Yorker”: “From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories” by Ronan Farrow

“The New Yorker”: “As Jair Bolsanaro Heads for a Second- Round  Vote, Fears Rise Over What’s Next for Brazil” by Jon Lee Anderson

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Suffocation of Democracy” by Christopher R. Browning

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Autocracy App” by Jacob Weisberg

“The Washington Post”: “Jamal Kashoggi’s  long road to the doors of the Saudi Consulate” by David Ignatius

“The Washington Post”: “Will you work for a murderer? That’s a question a host of ex-generals, diplomats and spies will soon face” by Fred Hiatt

“The Washington Post”: “Afghanistan: Kremlin’s Comeback” by Missy Ryan Amie Ferris-Rotman

“The Washington Post”: “The planet is on a fast track to destruction. The media must cover this like it’s the only story that matter” by Margaret Sullivan

“The Atlantic”: “How Will Police Solve Murders on Mars?” by Geoff Manaugh

“The Guardian”: “The Satanic Verses after thirty years” by Kenan Malik

“The Guardian”: “A giant crawling brain: the jaw-dropping world of termites” by Lisa Margonelli

"The Guardian“: „‘Human impulses run riot’: China’s shocking pace of change” by Yu Hua

“London Review of Books”: “Ten Typical Days in Trump’s America” by Eliot Weinberger

“Longreads”: “To Heil, or not to Heil” by Julia Boyd

“Longreads:  “Above it all: How the Supreme Court Got So Supreme” by David A. Kaplan

“Wired”: “Brett Kavanaugh and the Information Terrorists Trying to Reshape America” by Molly McKew

“abacus”: “How WeChat Debunks Rumors” by Xinmei Chen

“GQ”: “The Ghosts of Glaciers” by Sean Flynn

“npr”: “Podcast: The History of Light” by Bill Nordhaus

“Flash Forward”: “Fungus Among Us”

“Nursing Clio”: “Who Is Dead?” by Sarah Swedberg              

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“The Washington Post”:  “The Kavanaugh battle only magnified the nation’s division and may leave lasting scars” by Dan Balz

“The Washington Post”: “Five myths about the 2016 election” by John Sides, Michael Tesler & Lynn Vavreck

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “Will the Democrats wake up before 2020?” by Dan Balz

“The Washington Post”: “Afghanistan: 17 Years of War” by Washington Post Staff

“The Washington Post”: “Voices of African photography: ‘Transforming the image of our continent’” by Olivier Laurent

“The Washington Post”: “Why bad behavior gets a pass at elite institutions” by Sarah Horowitz

“The Washington Post”: “The Vatican worries the church is losing the young -  and abuse is just one factor” by Chico Harlan

“The Washington Post”: “What the (medical) tests don’t show” by Daniel Morgan

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “Meet the most prolific contributor to the English version of Wikipedia” by Stephen Harrison

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from Switzerland: Lessons from the Last Swiss Finishing School” by Alice Gregory

“The New Yorker”: “A Reporter At Large: The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care” by Larissa MacFarquhar

“The New Yorker”: “American Chronicles: Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s Unlikely Path to the Supreme Court” by Jill Lepore

“The New York Times”: “Special Investigation; Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes AS Her Reaped Riches from His Father” by David Barstow, Susanne Craig & Russ Buettner

“The New York Times”: “11 Takeaways form the Times’ Investigation into Trump’s Wealth” by Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig & David Barstow

“The New York Times”: “How Times Journalists Uncovered the Original Source of the President’s Wealth” by Melina Delkic

“The New York Times”: “Everything You Need to Know about the Midterm Elections” by Matt Flegenheimer, Grant Old & Umi Syam

“The New York Times”: “11 Takeaways form the Times’ Investigation into Trump’s Wealth” by Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig & David Barstow

 “The New York Times Magazine”: “The Crisis of Election Security” by Kim Zetter

“The New York Times”: “The American Civil War, Part II” by Thomas L. Friedman

“The Guardian”: “The chosen one? The film claims that claims Trump’s election was an act of God” by Harriet Sherwood

“The Guardian”: “Our cult of personality is leaving real life in the shade” by George Monbiot

“The Guardian”: “Can Beto do it? How Texas holds the key to America’s future” by Ed Pilkington

“The Guardian”: “Yayoi Kusama: the world’s favourite artist?” by Tim Adams

“The Guardian”: “Death of high-profiler Iraqi women spark fear of a conservative backlash” by Martin Chulov

“The Guardian”: “How to be a good man: what I learned from a month of reading feminist classics” by Carl Cederstrøm

“The Guardian”: “The myth of the she-devil; why we judge women criminals more harshly” by Helena Kennedy

“The Observer”: “How we live now: photographs that capture the 21st century” by Tim Adams

“The London Review of Books”: “Diary: Husband Shopping in Beijing“  by Sheng Yun

“The London Review of Books”: “’I didn’t do anything wrong in the first place’” by David Runciman

“1843”: “Brigitte Macron, agent provocatrice” by Sophie Pedder

“The Intercept”: “American Dissident: Noam Chomsky on the State of the Empire” by Intercepted

“War on the Rocks”: “Social Media as War?” by Kori Schake

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“The New York Times”: “Why Trump Will Win a Second Term” by Amy Chozik

“The New York Times”: “Non-Fiction: Is Donald Trump a Fascist?” by Peter Beinart

“The New York Times”: “The Tight Rope of Testifying While Female” by Jessica Bennett

“The New York Times”: “An Injudicious Man, Unfit for the Supreme Court” by Roger Cohen

“The New York Times”: “Women Are Watching” by The Editorial Board

“The New York Times”: “Europe’s Triumphs and Troubles Are Written in Swiss Ice” by Hannah Hoag

“The New York Review of Books”: “Reflections from a Hashtag” by Jian Ghomeshi

“The New York Times Style Magazine”: “Rei Kawakubo Revealed (Sort of)” by Alice Gregory

“The New Yorker”: “The Vexing Analogies of ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’” by Anthony Lane

“The New Yorker”: “How Rudy Giuliani Turned into Trump’s Personal Clown” by Jeffrey Toobin

“The New York Review of Books”: “Imploding with Cool” by Ian Jack

“The Washington Post”: “For two Nebraska women, the Kavanaugh hearings test their sense of the country, of Trump and each other” by Greg Jaffe

“The Washington Post”: “Why senators claim to believe Ford – but still side with Kavanaugh” by Britt Peterson

“The Washington Post”: “HOW DO YOU DARE DO THIS TO BRET KAVANAUGH” by Alexandra Petri

“The Washington Post”: “Kavanaugh is lying. His upbringing explains why” by Shamus Khan

“The Washington Post”: “Celebrating 30 years of photojournalism at Visa pour l’image” by Olivier Laurent

“The Guardian”: “Mommy dearest: a psychiatrist puts Donald Trump on the couch” by David Smith

“The Guardian”: “’She was paid by the Democrats’: Trump fans on Ford and Kavanaugh” by Ben Javcobs

“The Guardian”: “The long read - The death of consensus: how conflict came back in to politics” by Andy Beckett

“The Guardian”: “The long read: Solving the genome puzzle” by Linda Geddes

“The Guardian”: “Strictly analogue: Polaroid’s past, present and future” by Christian Sinibaldi & Mee-Lai Stone

“The Guardian”: “Pride and Prejudice? The Americans who still fly the Confederate flag” by Dana Ladd (story) & Kate Medley (photos)

“The Independent”: “Long Reads: Take my word for it, the English language is facing destruction” by Robert Fisk

“The Independent”: “Every time we witness a genocide we say ‘never again’ –but human nature tells us something different” by Robert Fisk

“London Review of Books”: “Here Was a Plague” by Tom Crewe

“The Intercept”: “What Happened at the Lake” by Jordan Smith

“The Intercept”: “Deconstructed Podcast: Is Ilhan Omar Donald Trump’s Worst Nightmare?”

“Lawfare”: “Imagining on a Federalist Israel: Notes in a Disruptive Phantasy” by Benjam Wittes

"Meduza”: “Like a Day of War“

“The Baffler”: “Self-Invasion and the Invaded Self” by Rochelle Gurstein

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“The New York Times”: “The Plot to Subvert an Election” by Scott Shae & Mark Mazzeti

“The New York Times”: “Ice Surveys and Neckties at Dinner: Life at an Arctic Outpost” by Esther Horvat (photographs) & Henry Fountain (text)

“The New York Times”: “Seven Ways The Village Voice Made New York a Better Place” by John Leland

“The New York Times”: “Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’” by Sheera Frenkel & Mike Isaac

“The New York Times”: “Inside Italy’s Shadow Economy” by Elizabeth Paton & Milena Lazazzera

“The New York Times”: “At War: The Hotel in Afghanistan That Refuses to Close Its Doors” by Andrew Quilty

“The New York Times”: “A Nuclear Bomb Inside the Vatican” by Jennifer Finney Boylan

“The New York Times”: “The Broken Pieces of Middle East Peace” by Thomas L. Friedman

“The New York Times”: “Why Your DNA Is Still Unchartered Territory” by Carl Zimmer

“The New Yorker”: “A Reporter At Large: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s Battering Ram” by Paige Williams

“The New Yorker”: “The Unlikely Endurance of Christian Rock” by Kelefa Sanneh

”The New York Review of Books”: “1968: Aquarius Rising” by Jackson Lears

“The New York Review of Books”: “Missing the Dark Satanic Mills” by Deborah Cohen

“The New York Review of Books”: “Sabra and Shatila: New Revelations” by Seth Anziska

“The Washington Post”: “At CIA’s ‘Russia House’, growing alarm over 2026 election interference” by Greg Miller

“The Washington Post”: “In 2006, she reported her rape. Her hometown turned against her. What do we owe her?” by Elizabeth Bruenig & Gillian Brockell

“The Washington Post”: “What Democratic control of Congress would mean for Trump” by Amber Phillips & Kevin Uhrmacher

“The Washington Post”: “Aibo the robot dog will break your heart with mechanical precision” by Geoffrey A. Fowler

“Washington Post”: “China’s Orwellian tools of high-tech oppression” by The Editorial Board

“The Independent”: “I asked Israel’s only journalist in Palestine to show me something shocking – and this is what I saw” by Robert Fisk

“The Guardian”: “Israelis experience Palestinian home life in virtual reality” by Oliver Holmes

“The Guardian”: “Part one - A very Australian coup: Murdoch, Turnbull and the power of News Corp” by Anne Davis

“The Guardian”: “Part two – Inside the News Corps tribe: how powerful editors shape the news” by Anne Davie

“Esquire”: “Inside the Brilliant Career and the Tragic Death of Javier Valdez” by Ioan Grillo

“The Intercept”: “Government Can Spy on Journalists in the U.S. Using Invasive Foreign Intelligence Process” by Cora Currier

“The Atlantic”: “Why Europe’s Trains Are So Much Better Than America’s” by Ben Adler

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“The Guardian”: “Brexit: The remainers’ biggest problem? The voters have switched off” by Rafael Behr

“The Guardian”: “Do robots dream of Prada? How artificial intelligence is reprogramming fashion” by Jess Cartner-Morley

“The Guardian”: Ten years after the crash: have the lessons of Lehman been learned?” by several authors

“The Guardian”: “’my soul where are you?’: families of Muslims missing in China meet wall of silence” by Lily Kuo

“The Guardian”: “Occupy Venice: we are the alternative to the death of the city” by Giorgio Ghiglione

“The Guardian”: “Swiss town of Vevey enlivened by ambitious arts festival – in pictures” by Guy Lane

“The Guardian”: “Syria conflict: why does Idlib matter and what could happen?” by Martin Chulov

“The Guardian”: “From Orient Express to the Railway Children: top 10 trains in novels” by Sarah Ward

“The Observer”: “Francis Fukuyama: ‘Trump instinctively picks racial themes to drive people on the left crazy” by Tim Adams

“The Independent”: “Even photographs cannot speak of the true history of the Great War” by Robert Fisk

“The Atlantic”: “A Warning form Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come” by Anne Applebaum

“The Atlantic”: “The Most Honest Book about Climate Change Yet” by Nathaniel Rich

“The Washington Post”: “Murder with Impunity: Buried under Bodies” by Kimbriell Kelly, Wesley Lowery, Steven Rich, Salwan Georges (photos) & Dalton Bennet (video)

“The Washington Post”: “Abusive media moguls harmed more than just individual women. They shaped a misogynistic culture” by Margret Sullivan

“The Washington Post”: “Retropod: How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous”

“The Washington Post”: “The shadowy extremist sect plotting to kill intellectuals in India” by Annie Gowen

“The Washington Post”: “He’s one of the only humans at work – and he loves it” by Danielle Paquette

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “An issue of alternative storytelling”

“The New Yorker”: “Profiles: Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebooks before It Breaks Democracy?” by Evan Osnos

“The New Yorker”” “Annals of Entomology: What Termites Can Teach Us” by Amira Srinivasan

“The New Yorker”: “What Can We Expect of Putin When He Is Scared?” by Masha Gessen

“The New York Review of Books”: “The New Passport-Poor” by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Known Known” by Sue Halpern

“The New York Times”: “36 Hours in Lugano” by Andrew Ferren

“The New York Times”: “Corripo - Residents: 12. Average Age: 75. Biggest Challenge: Avoiding Extinction” by Raphael Minder

“The New York Times”: “25 Years after Oslo Accords, Mideast Peace Seems as Remote as Ever” by David M. Halbfinger  & Isabel Kershner

“The New York Times”: “How to End the Cycle of Violence in Chicago” by David L. Kirp

“The New York Times”: “A Spy Story; Sergej Skripal Was a Little Fish. He had a Big Enemy.” By Michael Schwirtz & Ellen Barry

“The New York Times”: “Germany’s Nazi Past Is Still Present” by Jason Stanley

“The New York Times”: “Rich Nations Vowed Billions for Climate Change. Poor Nations Are Waiting” by Mike Ives

“The New York Times”: “Lens: Tenderly Photographing the End of her Father’s Life” by Jonathan Blaustein

“The New York Times Magazine”: “’If This Book Is Not Expressing Everything, What Am I Doing With My Life?’” by Wyatt Mason

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Google Knows Where You Have Been, bur Does It Know Who You Are?” by John Herman

“BloombergOpinion”: “Guangzhou’s 30-year Journey” by Tyler Cowen

“PoliticoMagazine”: “The Big Idea: Speech Can Bury Democracy” by Zeynep Tufekci

“The Baffler”: “Projections of Melania” by Tom Carson

“The Marshall Project”: “A Turbulent Mind” by John J. Lennon & Bill Keller

“Longreads”: “The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume” by Katy Kelleher

“GQ”: “The Poisoning of a Russian Double Agent” by Tom Lamont

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“The New York Times”: “I Am Part of the Resistance inside the Trump Administration” by Anonymous

“The New York Times”: “How the anonymous op-ed came to be” by The New York Times

“The New York Times”: “Genoa’s Bridge Collapse: The Road to Tragedy” by James Glanz, Gaia Pianigiani, Jeremy White & Karthik Patanjali

"The New York Times”: “Is Boycotting Israel ‘Hate’?” by Joseph Levine

“The New York Times”: “Crazy Poor Middle Easterners” by Thomas L. Friedman

“The New York Times”: “Lens: Photographs That Humanize the Immigration Debate” by James Estrin

“The New York Times”: “Even Bears Respect Putin, New Russian State TV Show Declares” by Alex Marshall

“The New York Times”: “Nonfiction: What Are the Biggest Problems Facing Us in the 21st Century?” by Bill Gates

“The New York Times Magazine”: “’Strategy’ May Be more Useful to Pawns than to Kings” by Beverly Gage

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Can Good Teaching Be Taught?” by Sara Mosle

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Teaching in the Age of Shootings” by Jeneen Interlandi

“The New Yorker”: “What Personality Tests Really Deliver” by Louis Menand

“The New Yorker”: “How Rudy Giuliani Turned into Trump’s Personal Clown” by Jeffrey Toobin

“The New Yorker”: “The Life and Arts of Wolfgang Tillmans” by Emily Witt

“New York Magazine”: “2008: 10 Years after the Crash” by Frank Rich

“New York Magazine”: “Trump/Putin: Collusion?” by Jonathan Chait

“The Washington Post”: “Bob Woodward’s new book reveals ‘ a nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency” by Philip Rucker & Robert Costa

“The Washington Post”: “Bob Woodward’s frightening look inside the White House” by Jill Abramson

“The Washington Post”: “Who could have written the ‘resistance’ op-ed?” by Natalie Jennings, Aaron Blake & Kevin Uhrmacher

“The Washington Post”: “Washington feels like the capital of an occupied country” by Anne Applebaum

“The Washington Post”: “Trump’s real problem is that he obstructed justice, and Mueller can prove it. Here’s how” by Barry H. Berke, Noah Bookbinder & Norman Eisen

“The Washington Post”: “Voices of African photography: Reclaiming the black body” by Olivier Laurent

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “How global warming has changed what it’s like to travel to the North Pole” by Kieran Mulvaney

“The Guardian”: “’Palau against China’: the tiny island defying the world’s biggest country” by Kate Lyons

“The Guardian”: “A brief history of backpacking” by Antonia Wilson

“The Guardian”: “The anonymous writer is just another Trump enabler – not a rebel” by Walter Shapiro

“The Guardian”: “Joseph Stiglitz on artificial intelligence: ‘We’re going towards a more divided society’” by Ian Sample

“The Guardian”: “Even as Turkey pulls away, the West must help its people resist” by Elif Shafak

“The Guardian”: “Siberia’s forgotten women – a photo essay” by Oded Wagenstein

“The Guardian”: “Vienna – two hours with a stranger: can these questions open up a city?” by Ella Hunt

“The Observer”: “Don’t panic! Meet the experts with a steady hand when catastrophe strikes” by Candice Pires

“The Observer”: “Decentralization: the next step for the World Wide Web” by Zoë Corbyn

“The Independent”: “The conspiracy theories that might be true and the one that definitely aren’t” by Kim Sengugpta

“The Independent”: “War photographer Paul Conroy on working with Marie Colvin, the formidable journalist killed in Syria” by Stephen Applebaum

“The Intercept”: “Is Nationalization an Answer to Climate Change?” by Kate Aronson

“Foreign Affairs”: “The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis” by Adam Tooze         

“The Atlantic”: “What Was Lost in Brazil’s Devastating Museum Fire” by Ed Jong   

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“The New York Times”: “In Syria, an Ugly Peace is Better than More War” by Jimmy Carter

“The New York Times”: “Steve Jobs’s Daughter Forgives Him. Should We?” by Nellie Bowles

“The New York Times”: “A Look at All the Misconduct in Trump’s Orbit” by Larry Buchanan & Karen Yourish

“The New York Times”: “The U.N.’s Palestinian Refugee Agency: What It Does and Why It Matters” by Rick Gladstone

“The New York Times”: “Iraq’s Forgotten Casualties: Children Orphaned in Battle with ISIS” by Margaret Coker

“The New York Times”: “The Notorious Kimi Raikkonen” by Luke Smith

“The New York Times”: “The Man Who Took on the Pope: The Story Behind the Viagnò Letter” by Jason Horowitz

“The New York Times”: “Putting Their Eggs, and Hopes, on Ice” by Ruth La Ferla

“The New York Times”: “’Overtourism Worries Europe. Hoch Much Did Technology Help Get Us  by Farhad Manjoo

“The New Yorker”: “Annals of the Mind: The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages” by Judith Thurman

“The New Yorker”: “Profiles: Glen Greenwald, The Bane of Their Resistance” by Ian Parker

“The New Yorker”: “Onward and Upward with the Arts: Treasures from the Color Archive” by Simon Schama

“The New Yorker”: “Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History” by Louis Menand

“The New York Review of Books”: “In Kabul, Echoes of Saigon” by Ahmed Rashid

“The Washington Post”: “Overwhelmed Venezuela’s migrant crisis” by Anthony Faiola (story) & GuI Christ (photos)

“The Washington Post”: “Trump complained about his Google results. Good thing he didn’t try that search from Europe” by Rick Noack

“The Washington Post”: “Google’s Assistant is becoming bilingual” by Hayley Tsukayama

“The Washington Post”: “The Twilight and Power of Joan Baez” by David Montgomery (story) & Christie Goodwin (photos)

“The Washington Post”: “The Rise of Burning Man” by Lauren Tierney & Shelly Tan

“The Guardian”: “’We can’t go back’: Syria’s refugees fear for their future after war” by Martin Chulov

“The Guardian”: “Why tourism is killing Barcelona – a photo essay ” by Stephen Burgen (story) & Paola de Grenet (photos)

“The Guardian”: “The Faces of Flint” by Zackary Canepari

“The Guardian”: “The long read: How America’s ‘most reckless’ billionaire created the fracking boom” by Bethany McLean

“The Guardian”: “Philip Pullman: Why we believe in magic” by Philip Pullman

“The Guardian”: “The Rohingya crisis a year on: four generations of one family in life in limbo” by Sally Williams

“The Independent”: “Lebanon is balancing a tightrope – and its position is precarious” by Robert Fisk

“The Independent”: “Why can’t anyone be honest about John McCain’s legacy?” by Holly Baxter

“The London Review of Books”: “The Garments of Terrorism” by Azadeh Moaveni

“Rolling Stone”: “David Foster Wallace on John McCain: ‘The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrubs” by David Foster Wallace

“Runner’s World”: “Bret, Unbroken” by Steve Friedman

“Texas Monthly”: “The Man Who Walked Backward” by Ben Montgomery

“Five Books”: “The Art Market” by Georgina Adams

“Shady Characters”: “Emoji, part 1: in the beginning”

“Boston Review”: “Programming My Child” by David Auerbach

“The Verge”: “Diary of a Concussion” by Elizabeth Lopatto

“Nautilus”: “How to Survive Doomsday” by Michael Hans, Daniel Wolf Savin & Sophia Foster-Dimnio (illustrations)

“The Atlantic”: “Why Technology Favors Tyranny” by Yuval Noah Harari

“The Atlantic”: “Ideas: Slightly More Than 100 Fantastic Articles” by Conor Friedersdorf

“The Intercept”: “America’s War Narrative Focuses on its Heroes and Victims. Afghans and Iraqis Are Brushed Aside” by Peter Maas

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“The New York Times”:  ”John McCain, War Hero, Senator, Presidential Candidate, Dies at 81” by Robert D. McFadden

“The Washington Post”: “John McCain, the irreplaceable American” by The Editorial Board

“Vanity Fair”: “John McCain: Prisoner of Conscience” by Todd S. Purdum

“Vanity Fair”: “John McCain and the Lost Art of Decency” by Todd S. Purdum

“The Washington Post”: “How do write political satire when politics are a farce?” by Armando Iannucci

“The Washington Post”: “By a 3 to 1 margin, Trump supporters embrace his personality over his policies” by Philip Bump

“The Washington Post”: “Bagdad gets its groove back” by Liz Sly (story) & Alice Martins (photographs)

“The Washington Post”: “Elon Musk is the ‘poster boy’ of a culture that celebrates ‘obsessive overwork’” by Jena McGregor

“The Washington Post”: “Not just misleading. Not merely false. A lie” by Glenn Kessler

“The Washington Post”: “I was an Astronaut. We need a Space Force” by Terry Virts

“The New York Times”: “Raising a Child in a Doomed World” by Roy Scranton

“The New York Times”: “A Better Way to Run Schools” by David Leonhardt (story) & William Widmer (photographs)

“The New York Times”: “There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy” by Sherry Turkle

“The New York Times”: “The Impossible Choice My Father Had to Make” by Reyna Grande

“The New York Times”: “Melania Trump Could Be Our Greatest First Lady” by Frank Bruni

“The New York Times”: “Plácido Domingo, Opera Superstar, Achieves the Unthinkable: 150 Roles” by Joshua Barone

“The New York Times”: “Google Tried to Change China. China May End up Changing Google” by Farhad Manjoo

“The New York Times”: “Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Bernstein Symbolized America”  by  Zachary Woolfe

“The New York Times Magazine”: “When the Supreme Court Lurches Right” by Emily Bazelon

“The New York Review of Books”: “’Silence Is Health’: How Totalitarianism Arrives” by Uki Goni

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from Washington: The Danger of President Pence” by Jane Meyer

“The Independent”: “Uri Avnery has died. He was one of my few Middle East heroes” by Robert Fisk

“The Independent”: “Israel is building another 1000 homes on Palestinian land. Where’s the outrage?” by Robert Fisk

“The Guardian”: “In praise of the tram: Britain’s lost network and the transport of the future” by Tash Reith-Banks, Harvey Symons and Glenn Swan

“The Guardian”: “James Bond: all the films – ranked” by Peter Bradshaw

“The Guardian”: “She has a camper truck, he has a private jet – can a Democrat take Montana?” by Kathleen McLaughlin

“The Guardian”: “’A different way of living’: why writers celebrate middle-age” by Lara Feigel

“The Observer”: “Time is running out for the pope to pacify the faithful’s anger” by Harriet Sherwood

“The Observer”: “The wind in my hair. One Iranian woman’s courageous struggle against being forced to wear the hijab” by Joanna Moorhead

“London Review of Books”: “Bibi Goes to Washington” by Adam Shatz

“London Review of Books”: “India: Caste or Class?” by Tariq Ali

“The Intercept”: “Is Donald Trump above the Law?” by James Risen

“The Atlantic”: “Why Trump Supporters Believe He is Not Corrupt” by Peter Beinart

“The Atlantic”: “How This Will End” by Eliot A. Cohen

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“The New York Times”: “A Free Press Needs You” by The Editorial Board

“The Atlantic”: “Why a Free Press Matters” by Dan Rather & Elliot Kirschner

“The Guardian”: “Rukmini Callimachi: the podcasting terror expert getting into the minds of Isis” by Emma Brocke

“The Guardian”: “Sweltering Cities – Halfway to boiling: the city at 50C” by Jonathan Watts &  Ellen Hunt

“The Guardian”: “Sweltering cities – Heat: the next big inequality issue” by Amy Fleming with Ruth Michaelson, Adham Youssef, Oliver Holmes, Carmela Fonbuena & Holly Robertson

“The Guardian”: “The Briefing: Is free trade always the answer?” by Richard Partington

“The Guardian”: “The Long Read - BDS: how a controversial non-violent movement has transformed the Israeli-Palestinian debate” by Nathan Thrall

“The Guardian”: “Eat, sleep and respect the ball: in side Barcelona’s modern La Masia” by Jamie Fahey

“The Observer”: “Paul Nicklen: ‘If we lose the ice, we lose the entire ecosystem’” by Kit Buchan

“The Observer”: “How to handle a troll… and to neuter a sea lion” by Chris Stokel-Walker

“The Independent”: “A US trade war with Turkey over an unknown pastor? Don’t believe it” by Robert Fisk

“The Independent”: “Long Reads - Forgotten women; the conversation of missing or murdered native women is not one North America wants to have – but it must” by Lucy Anna Grey

“The Independent”: “The Book List: What do astronauts read on the International Space Station?” by Alex Johnson

“London Review of Books”: “American Breakdown” by David Bromwich

“The Washington Post”: “The secret app that gives Syrian civilians minutes to escape airstrikes” by Louisa Loveluck

“The Washington Post”: “The scale of the Catholic Church’s criminality still shocks” by The Editorial Board

“The Washington Post”: “’He’s a priest: I trusted him’: One of the 1’000 victims of alleged Pennsylvania clergy abuse speaks out” by Isaac Stanley-Becker

“The Washington Post”: “She works for Trump. He can’t stand him. This is life with Kellyanne and George Conway” by Ben Terris

“The Washington Post”: “I read six sycophantic pro-Trump books – and then I read Omarosa” by Carlos Lozada

“The Washington Post”: “My father, Ronald Reagan, would never have stood for this” by Patti Davis

“The Washington Post”: “The un-celebrity president” by Kevin Sullivan, Mary Jordan & Matt McClain

“The Washington Post”: “The New Canon: the 23 best films of the 2000s” by Ann Hornady

“The Washington Post”: “Kofi Annan’s legacy was complicated by the Rwandan genocide” by Siobhán O’Grady

“The New York Times”: “Kofi Annan, Who Defined the U.N., Dies at 80” by Alan Cowell

“The New York Times”: “The West Hoped for Democracy in Turkey. Erdogan Had Other Ideas” by Peter S. Goodman

“The New York Times”: “Israel, This Is Not Who We Are” by Ronald S. Lauder

“The New York Times”: “Israel Is Proud of Who We Are” by Naftali Bennett

“The New York Times”: “Ikea Arrives in India, Tweaking Its Products but Not Its Vibe” by Vindu Goel

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Unlikely Activists Who Took on Silicon Valley – And Won” by Nicholas Confessore

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Super Bowl of Beekeeping” by Jamie Lowe

“The New York Times”: “60 Times Madonna Changed Our Culture” by The New York Times

“The New York Times”: “The Virtues of Catholic Anger” by James Martin

“The New Yorker”: “A New Citizen Decides to Leave the Tumult of Trump’s America” by Rebecca Mead

“The New York Review of Books”: “V.S. Naipaul, the Poet of the Displaced” by Ian Buruma

”The New York Review of Books”: ”The Big Melt” by Tim Flannery

“The Intercept”: “A Palestinian Bedouin Villages Braces for Forcible Transfer as Israel Seeks to Split the West Bank in Half” by Alice Speri

“The Intercept”: “U.S. Backed Saudi Airstrike on Family with Nine Children Shows ‘Clear Violations’ of the Laws of War” by Iona Craig & Shuaib Almosawa

“Philadelphia”: “How Millennials Killed Mayonnaise” by Sandy Hingston

“Chicago”: “What Trauma Docs Know” by Kim Bellware (interviews) & Amrita Marino (illustrations)

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“The New York Times”: “War Without End” by C.J.Chivers

“The New York Times”: “Why Apple Is the Future of Capitalism” by Mihir A. Desai

“The New York Times”: “You Need Dozens of Companies to Match Apple’s Value” by Jon Huang, Karl Russell & Jack Nicas

“The New York Times”: “Trump’s Nemesis in the Age of Pinocchio” by Roger Cohen

“The New York Times”: “The Iraqi Spy Who Infiltrated ISIS” by Margaret Cooker

“The New York Times”: “The Earth Ablaze” by Don J. Melnick, Mary C. Pearl & Mark A. Cochrane

"The New Yorker”: “The Helsinki Summit and the Awkward Art of Cleaning up Trump’s Messes” by Susan B. Glasser

 “The New Yorker”: “Letter from Amsterdam: How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister” by Patrick Radden Keefe

“The New Yorker”: “Personal History: Private Dreams and Public Ideals in San Francisco” by Nathan Heller

“The New York Review of Books”: “The American Nightmare” by Jason DeParle

“The New York Review of Books”: “The ‘Witch Hunters’” by Tim Weiner

“The Washington Post”: “Dying babies and no doctors: A look inside a Yemeni hospital” by Sudarsan Rghavan

“The Washington Post”: “The rise of downward mobility” by Robert A. Samuelson

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “She made a career of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course” by Libby Copeland

“The Guardian”: “The radical sheriff giving offenders a chance” by Jamiles Lartey

“The Guardian”: “Socialist modernism: remembering the architecture of the eastern bloc” by Naomi Larsson

“The Guardian”: “Who owns the space under cities? Mapping the earth beneath us” by Bradley L. Garrett

“The Guardian”: “Meet Trump’s friend and fixer: David Pecker, the tabloid king” by Lucia Graves

“The Guardian”: “American democracy is in crisis, and it’s not just because of Trump” by Simon Tisdall

“The Guardian”: “’We’re a people destroyed’: why Uighur Muslims in China are living in fear” by Gene A. Bunin

“The Guardian”: “A matter of life and death’: Iranians despair as US sanctions bite” by Saeed Kamali Dehghan

“The Guardian”: “This is what being in love looks like – in pictures” by Stéphanie Rousselle

“The Guardian”: “The Democrats must do more than simply oppose Trump” by Gary Younge

“The Guardian”: “To the ends of the earth: the activists risking their lives to defend the environment” by Jonathan Watts

“The Atlantic”: “What Is It Like to Be a Whale?” by J.B. Mackinnon

“The Atlantic”: “Science: Gossiping Is Good” by Ben Healy

“The Atlantic”: “The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain” by Ben Yagoda

“GQ”: “The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage (in North Korea) by Doug Bock Clark

“Outside”: “Kilian Jornet: Too Good to Be True?” by Nick Hell

“Recode”: “Zuckerberg: The Recode interview” by Kara Swisher

“The Atlantic”: “An Extraordinarily Expensive Way to Fight ISIS” by William Langewiesche

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“The Guardian”: “Why do millions of Chinese people want to be ‘spiritually Finnish’”? by Verna Yu

“The Guardian”: “How democracy failed in Egypt” by Llyod Green

“The Guardian”: “Aggression, abuse and addiction: we need a social media detox” by Jonathan Freedland

“The Guardian”: “The long read – Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth?” by Keith Kahn-Harris

“The Guardian”: “My son, Obama: the al-Qaida leader’s mother speaks for the first time” by Martin Chulov

“The Guardian”: “US Immigration: What happens after Ice tears your family apart?” by Sarah Menkedik

“The Guardian”: “The long read: Why is it so hard to care in age of 24-hour news?” by Elisa Gabbert

“The Guardian”: “Germany’s ‘China city’: how Duisburg became Xi Jinping’s gateway to Europe” by Philip Oltermann

“The Guardian”: “The world’s most beautiful libraries – in pictures”

“The Observer”: “Yuval Noah Harari: ‘The idea of free information is extremely dangerous” by Andrew Anthony

“The Observer”: “Have smartphones killed the art of conversation?” by Nosheen Iqbal

“London Review of Books”: “Greece: When the Fire Comes” by Yannis Baboulias

“The New York Times”: “How Record Heat Wreaked Havoc on Four Continents” by Somini Sengupta, Tiffany May & Zia ur-Rahman

“The New York Times”: “Fighting for Judaism in the Jewish State” by Seth Farber

“The New York Times”: “Work in Progress: The Woman Who Plans to Swim Around the World” by Kaya Laterman

“The New York Times”: “Once Polluted and Reviled, the Chicago River Bounces Back” by Julie Bosman (story) & Alyssa Schukar

“The New York Times”: “How Apple and a Small Band of Firms Dominate the Economy” by Matt Phillips

“The New York Times”: “Airbnb Is the New NATO” by Roger Cohen

“The New York Times”: “The Children at the Trump Rallies” by Damon Winter (text & photographs)

“The New York Times”: “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley” by Kara Swisher

“The New York Times”: “My Kolkata Is Becoming a Climate Casualty” by Somini Sengupta

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change” by Nathaniel Rich (story) & George Steinmetz (photographs and videos)

“The Washington Post”: “Fact Checker: President Trump has made 4’229 false or misleading claims in 558 days” by Glen Kessler, Salvador Rizzo & Meg Kelly

“The Washington Post”: “Life in Iran under sanctions” by Jason Rezaian

“Vanity Fair”: “’He’s Going to Fieldtrip These Guys’: Inside the Trump’s 20202 Wild, Disorganized Attempt to ‘Keep America Great’” by Gabriel Sherman

“Refinery29”: “Gender Nation Glossary” by R29 Editors

“The Anarchist Library”: “How to change the course of human history” by David Graeber & David Wengrow

“The Atavist”: “Axes of Evil” by Josh Dean

“The Intercept”: “How Ahed Tamimi Became the Symbol of Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Oppression” by Alice Speri

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“The New York Times”: “If Comedy Is Making You Feel Bad, You’re Not Paying Attention” by Jason Zinoman

“The New York Times”: “Did Israel Just Stop Trying to Be a Democracy?” by Omri Boehm

“The New York Times”: “How Trump Won Re-election in 2020” by Bret Stephens

“The New York Times”: “Would You Pay $1 Billion for this View?” by Candace Jackson

“The New York Times”: “’They Spit When I Walked in the Streets’: the ‘New Anti-Semitism’ In France” by Adam Nossiter

“The New York Times”: “War Stories We’ve Been Missing for 50 Years” by Raul Roman

“The New York Times”: “The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Next Leader” by Jeffrey Gettleman

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi’s Rise” by Robert F. Worth

“The New York Times Magazine”: “On Photography: How to Photograph Eternity?” by Geoff Dyer

“The New Yorker”: “Theresa May’s Impossible Choice” by Sam Knight

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from Warsaw: Is Poland Retreating from Democracy?” by Elizabeth Zerofsky

“The New Yorker”: “The Man Who Captures Criminals for the D.E.A. by Playing them” by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

“The Washington Post”: “’They thought black soldiers couldn’t fight’” by DeNeen L. Brown

“The Washington Post”: “Climate Change: The sinking state” by Joshua Keating

“The Washington Post”: “Venezuela: From Riches to Rags” by Anthony Faiola (story) & Jani Chikwendiu (photos)

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “The Crane Who Fell in Love with a Human” by Sadie Dingfelder (story) & Lexey Swall (photos) & Laurène Boglio (illustration)

“The Guardian”: “What liberals (still) don’t get wrong about Trump’s support” by Henry Olsen

“The Guardian”: “10 of the best words in the world that don’t translate into English” by Guardian correspondents

“The Guardian”: “The long read: Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet” by Jacob Mikanowski

“The Guardian”: “’I don’t think he misses the White House’: Sean Spicer enjoys his post-Trump period” by David Smith

“The Guardian”: “How to Spend It: The shopping list for the 1%” by Andy Beckett

“The Observer”: “The robot will see you now: could computers take over medicine entirely?” by Tim Adams

“London Review of Books”: “The Impermanence of Importance: Obama” by David Runciman

“London Review of Books”: “The Seducer: Charles de Gaulle” by Ferdinand Mount

“Rolling Stone”: “How to Survive America’s Kill List” by Matt Taibbi

“Rolling Stone”: “The Hidden World of the Amazon” by Phoebe Neidl

“City Journal”: “Lagos – Hope and Warning” by Armin Rosen

“The Scholar’s Stage”: “What Cyber-Wars Will Look Like”

“Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists”: “Putin: The one-man show the West doesn’t understand” by Fiona Hill

“Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy”: “Artificial Intelligence”

“Columbia Journalism Review”: “Who suffers when local news disappears” by Kyle Pope

“GQ”: “Kidnapped by Pirates” by Michael Scott Moore

“The Intercept”: “U.S, Secret Wars in Africa Rage on, Despite Talk of Downsizing” by Nick Turse

“National Geographic”: “While We Sleep” by Michael Finkel (story) & Magnus Wenman (photos)

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“The Guardian”: “The staggering rise of India’s super-rich” by James Crabtree

“The Guardian”: “The long read: The ugly scandal that cancelled the Nobel prize” by Andrew Brown

“The Guardian”: “’My brain feels like it’s been punched’: the intolerable rise of perfectionism” by Paula Cocozza

“The Guardian”: “Budding business: how cannabis could transform Lebanon” by Richard Hall

“The Guardian”: “Hong Kong: the city still shaped by feng shui” by Matthew Keegan

“The Guardian”: “’Desperate to find a way out’: Iran edges towards precipice” by Saeed Khamali Dehghan

“The Guardian”: “The World Cup colour chart – a photographic journey” by Jonny Weeks

“The Observer”: “Mobile phones and cancer – the full picture” by David Robert Grimes

“The Observer”: “Arrests and intimidations fuel fears of ‘dirty’ election in Pakistan” by Imran Khan

“The Observer”: “How landmark buildings became weapons in an new Gulf war” by Rowan Moore

“The Washington Post”: “The growing Trump-Putin kompromat question” by Aaron Blake

“The Washington Post”: “It’s not wrong to compare Trump’s America to the Holocaust. Here’s why.” by Waitman Wade Beorn

“The Washington Post”: “How the Obamas managed to become invisible in Washington” by Roxanne Roberts

“The Washington Post”: “North Korea has 2,6 million ‘modern slaves, new report estimates” by Adam Taylor

“The Washington Post”: “Judgement Days: God, Trump and the meaning of morality” by Stephanie McCrummen (story) & Michael S. Williamson (photos)

“The Washington Post”: “The surreal world” by Julia Joffe

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “The next generation of Republicans: Do they stand with Trump?” by Eliza Gray

“The New York Times”: “Why Won’t Donald Trump Speak for America?” by The Editorial Board

“The New York Times”: “For Putin the Summit He Has Dreamed of for 18 Years” by Andrew Higgins & Steven Erlanger

“The New York Times”: “Hamas and Israel Are in a Perilous Circle. Is War a Miscalculation Away?” by Isabel Kershner

”The New York Times”: “How Israel, in the Dark of Night, Stole Iran’s Nuclear Secrets” by David E. Sanger & Ronen Bergman

“The New York Times”: “Looking Through the Eyes of China’s Surveillance State” by Paul Mozur

“The New York Times”: “Where a Taboo Is Leading to the Deaths of Young Girls” by Jeffrey Gettleman

“The New York Times”: “Climate Change Is Killing the Cedars of Lebanon” by Anne Barnard & Josh Haner

“The New York Times”: “Take a Walk in the Woods. Doctor’s Orders” by Amitha Kalaichandran M.D.

“The New York Times”: “Psychology Itself Is Under Scrutiny” by Benedict Carey

“The New York Times Magazine”: “George Soros Bet Big on Liberal Democracy. Now He Fears He Is Losing” by Michael Steinberger

“New York Magazine”: “The Last Person on Earth” by Melissa Fay Green

“New York Magazine”: “Where Is Barack Obama?” by Michael Debenedetti

“aeon”: “When the Self Slips” by Anna Ciaunica & Jane Charlton

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“The New York Times”: “These Women Were Told not to Play Soccer. Instead They Formed a Team” by Shannon Sims (text) & Nichole Sobecki (photographs)

“The New York Times”: “Have the Tech Companies Grown Too Powerful. That’s an Easy One” by John Herrman

“The New York Times”: “A Migrant Child’s Day in Detention” by Dan Barry, Miriam Jordan, Annie Correal & Manny Fernandez

“The New York Times”: “’Still Can’t Believe It Worked’: The Story of the Thailand Cave Rescue” by Hanneh Beech, Richard C. Paddock & Mukita

“The New York Times”: “Freed from Thai Cave, Boys May Still Face Health Problems” by Richard C. Paddock & Mike Ives

“The New York Times”: “Three Books Consider What Happens When the Robots Take Over” by Ina Fried

“The New York Times”: “Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras” by Pail Mozur

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Fast and Furious Michael Avenatti” by Matthew Shaer

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Her Husband Was a Princeton Graduate Student. Then He Was Taken Prisoner in Iran” by Laura Secor

“T Magazine”: “9 Reads Almost As Satisfying As Taking a Vacation”

“The New Yorker”: “The Maps of Israeli Settlements That Shocked Barack Obama” by Adam Entous

“The Washington Post”: “’Time is running out’: Inside then treacherous rescue of boys trapped in a Thai cave” by Shibani Mahtani, Steve Hendrix & Timothy McLaughlin

“The Washington Post”: “Can truth survive the president? An honest investigation” by Carlos Lozada

“The Washington Post”: “Five myths about the Supreme Court” by Jeffrey Segal

“The Washington Post”: “The current border crisis has been a year in the making. A prologue in photographs” by Salwan Georges

“The Guardian”: “Has Greece finally escaped the grip of catastrophe?” by Helena Smith

“The Guardian”: “The death of truth” by Michiko Kakutani

“The Guardian”: “The Long Read: How to get away with financial fraud” by Dan Davies

“The Guardian”: “Nevis: The world’s most secretive island” by Oliver Bullough

“The Observer”: “Stolen Beaches” by Neil Tweedie

“The Observer”: “Ethiopia hails its charismatic young leader as peacemaker” by Jason Burke

“London Review of Books”: “Purges and Paranoia: Erdogan’s ‘new’ Turkey” by Ella George

“Fortune”: “The Battler for China” by Adam Lashinsky

“The Monthly”: “The endless reign of Rupert Murdoch” by Richard Cooke

“Forbes”: “The Nutella Billionaires” by Noah Kirsh

“The Atlantic”: “Two Strangers Met On a Plane – and the Internet Ruined It” by Megan Garber

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“The Guardian”: “Best summer books 2018 as picked by writers – part one”

“The Guardian”: “Best summer books 2018 as picked by writers and cultural figures – part two”

“The Guardian”: “The long read: The George Soros philosophy – and its fatal flaw” by Daniel Bessner

“The Guardian”: “Democrats must fight Trump’s supreme court pick tooth and nail” by Jill Abramsom

“The Guardian”: “The anti-abortion conservative quietly guiding Trump’s supreme court pick” by Jon Swaine

“The Guardian”: “’I don’t want ships to kill me’: Marseille fights cruise liner pollution” by Angelique Chrisafis

“The Observer”: “Why science breeds a culture of sexism” by David Barry & Nicola Davis

“The Observer”: “Claude Lanzmann, the man who told the Shoah” by Agnès Poirier

“The Observer”: “Can Facebook clean up its act?” by Alex Hern

“The Independent”: “Catastrophic drought threatens Iraq as major dams in surrounding countries cut off water to its great rivers” by Patrick Cockburn

“The Independent”: “Iraq isn’t as dangerous as it was – but many still live in fear” by Patrick Cockburn

“The Intercept”: “Our Country, Our Stories – In New Memoirs, Syrian Describe Life – and Death – in Wartime” by Maryam Saleh

“The Intercept”: “Democracy Dies in the Blinding Light of Day” by Murtaza Hussain

“The Washington Post”: “What’s it like to be trapped in a cave” by Laura Demarest

“The Washington Post”: “The top 15 Democratic presidential candidates for 2020, ranked” by Aaron Blake

“The Washington Post”: “A Defiant Al-Qaeda” by Sudarsan Raghavan

“The New York Times”: “ISIS May Be Waning, but Global Threats of Terrorism Continue to Spread” by Eric Schmitt

“The New York Times”: “Venezuela Dispatch: How to Survive When Money Is Worthless” by Nicholas Casey & Brent McDonald

“The New York Times”: “Why Merkel Must Go” by Bret Stephens

“The New York Times”: “The Lure of the Surfing Life” by Kathleen O’Brian

“The New York Times”: “This Italian Town Once Welcomed Migrants. Now It’s a Symbol for Right-Wing Politics” by Jason Horowitz

“The New York Times”: “For Whom the Trump Trolls” by Maureen Dowd

“The New York Times”: “’Hope Is a Powerful Weapon.’ Unpublished Mandela Prison Letters” by The Editors

“The New York Times”: “What Mandela Lost” by Tayari Jones

ESPN: “Mission Accomplished” by Tonya Malinowski

“Nautilus”: “Biology: The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo-Climber” by J.B. MacKinnon (story) & Jimmy Chin (photographs)

“Raiot”: “In What Language Does Rain Fall?” by Arundhati Roy

“Vanity Fair”: “’I was Devastated’: Tim Berners-Lee, the Man who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets” by Katrina Brooker

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“The New York Times”: “In Volgograd, It’s Stalin Who Lurks on the Sidelines” by Sarah Lyall (story) & Maxim Babenko (photographs)
 

“The New York Times”: “Dutch Lawmakers Approve Partial Ban On Burqas and Niqabs” by Christine Hauser & Liam Stack
 

“The New York Times”: “Open Waters?” by Christopher Clarey (story) & Maud Bernos (photographs)
 

“The New York Times”: “Elated vs. Scared: Americans Are Divided on Justice Kennedy’s Retirement” by Richard Fausset, Drah Stockman & José A. Del Real

“The New York Times Magazine”: “A Spymaster Steps Out of the Shadows” by Matthias Schwartz
 

“The New York Times Magazine”: “On Photography: Take a Photo Here” by Teju Cole
 

“The New York Times Magazine”: “How one Conservative Think Tank Is Stocking Trump’s government” by Jonathan
 

“The New Yorker”: “A Reporter At Large: The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger” by Brooke Jarvis
 

“The New Yorker”: “Annals of Medicine: The Neuroscience of Pain” by Nicola Twilley
 

“The New Yorker”: “A Reporter At Large: A New Revolution in Mexico” by Jon Lee Anderson
 

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from London: “The Reputation-Laundering Firm That Ruined Its Own Reputation” by Ed Caesar
 

“New York Magazine”: “This Is What a Nuclear Bomb Looks Like” by Alex Wellerstein & Ferris Jabr
 

“The New York Review of Books”: “Tipping the Scales” by Noah Feldman

“The New York Review of Books”: “Ruanda: A Deathly Hush” by Helen Epstein

“The Washington Post”: “Justice Kennedy’s retirement leaves the future of U.S. constitutional law entirely up for grabs” by Jack Goldsmith

“The Washington Post”: “Trump’s America does not care” by Robert Kagan

“The Washington Post”: “Russia: The Early Chapters” by Carlos Lozado

“The Washington Post”: “Does the West actually face a migration crisis?” by Ishaan Tharoor

“The Washington Post”: “A Yemeni toddler fought for his life while adults battled each other” by Sudarsan Raghavan

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “The Exiles” by Britt Peterson (story) & Kate Warren (photographs)

“The Guardian”: “’I love football -  it’s the opposite of science: contradictory, primitive, emotional’” by Jorge Valdano

“The Guardian”: “Our world is disappearing before our eyes. We have to save it” by George Monbiot

“The Guardian”: “The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown” by Elizabeth C Economy

“The Guardian”: “As Israelis, we call on the world to intervene on the behalf of the Palestinians” by Ilana Hammerman & David Harel

“The Guardian”: “Hillary Clinton: ‘What is more uncivil than taking children away?’” by Decca Aitkenhead

“The Independent”: “The ‘ultimate deal’ Jared Kushner is proposing for Palestine is delusional” by Robert Fisk

“The Independent”: “I spoke to Palestinians who still hold the keys to the homes they fled” by Robert Fisk

“London Review of Books”: “Ten Years after the Crash” by John Lanchester

“The Times Literary Supplement”: “Bloody Games” by Arkady Ostrovsky

“The Intercept”: “Seymour Hersh’s new memoir is a fascinating, flabbergasting masterpiece” by Jon Schwarz

“The Intercept”: “A short history of U.S. bombing of civilian facilities” by Jon Schwarz

“The Intercept”: “The War in Yemen: She named her child ‘Enough’” by Alex Potter

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“The New York Times”: “The Power of Gianni Infantino” by Tariq Panja

“The New York Times”: “Atrocities Under Kim Jong-un: Indoctrination, Prison Gulags, Executions” by Maya Salam &  Matthew Haag

“The New York Times”: “Schools’s Closed in Wisconsin, Forever” by Julie Bosman

“The New York Times”: “How to Lose the Midterms and to Re-Elect Trump” by Frank Bruni

“The New York Times”: “Click ‘Delete’ to Save Your Soul” by Franklin Foer

“The New York Times”: “Night Falls on News Carriers” by Peter Funt

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Wounds of the Drone Warrior” by Eyal Press

“The New Yorker”: “Donald Trump’s New World Order” by Adam Entous

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from the Faroe Islands: Koks, the World’s Most Remote Food Destination” by Rebecca Mead

“New York Magazine”: “The Internet Apologizes” by Noah Kulwin

“The New York Review of Books”: “It Can Happen Here” by Cass R. Sunstein

“The New York Review of Books”: “World Cup 2018: Hope Wins” by Joshua Jelly-Shapiro

“The Washington Post”: “Finally, a president with the guts to stand up to Canada” by Dana Milbank

“The Washington Post”: “What does the Trump-Kim summit mean? Not a damned thing” by Daniel D. Drezner

“The Washington Post”: “Can Trump command political support without real progress on trade and N. Korea” by Dan Balz

“The Washington Post”: “Yemen: Running on empty” by Sudarsan Raghavan (text) & Lorenzo Tugnoli (photos)

“The Washington Post”: “Five reasons the crisis in Yemen matters” by Alan Sipress, Laris Karklis & Tim Meko

“The Washington Post”: “’America is better than this’” by Kristine Philipps

“The Atlantic”: “Images from Ramadan 2018” by Alan Taylor

“The Guardian”: “The Long Read: How Russia won the World Cup” by Ken Bensinger

“The Guardian”: “Now we know the outrageous scale of the Trumps’ White House dividend” by Jill Abramson

“The Guardian”: “Life inside North Korea: the power of Juche explained – video” by The Guardian

“The Guardian”: “The long read: How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top arts forgery detective” by Samanth Subramanian

“The Guardian”: “Virtual truth: face to face with immersive documentaries” by Shehani Fernando

“The Guardian”: “Arundhati Roy: ’The point of the writer is to be unpopular’” by Tim Lewis

“The Observer”: “The Saud Arabian women driving forward” by Emma Graham Harrison

“London Review of Books”: “The Politics of Now: The Last World Cup” by David Runciman

“London Review of Books”: “The Wrong Human Rights” by Pankaj Mishra

“the PARIS REVIEW”: “Forty-Five Things I learned in the Gulag” by  Varlam Shamalov

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“The Guardian”: “We want to thrill to the beautiful game, but Fifa’s World Cup is toxic” by Nick Cohen

“The Guardian”: “Your complete guide to 736 players at the 2018 World Cup”

“The Guardian”: “The ling read: Five Myths about the refugee crisis” by Daniel Trillin

“The Guardian”: “How #MeToo revealed the central rift within feminism today” by Moira Donegan

“The Observer”: “Inside North Korea: a pastel fairyland built to forget” by Oliver Wainwright

“The Independent”: “Lebanon’s mountains are being wiped off the map. But does anyone care?” by Robert Fisk

“The Independent”: “Syria’s new housing law will displace tens of thousands of refugees” by Robert Fisk

“The Atlantic”: “Has the Western world started shunning America?” by Krishnadev Calamur

“The Atlantic”: “The Antidote to Trump Is Decency” by David Frum

“The Washington Post”: “Soccer is the perfect cosmopolitan antidote to Donald Trump” by Andres Martinez

“The Washington Post”: “Under attack, billionaire George Soros vows to redouble his efforts” by Michael Kranish

“The Washington Post”: “In Iceland, World Cup players aren’t gods. Their neighbors” by Chuck Culpepper

“The Washington Post”: “Summit will test Trump’s ability move beyond disruption” Dan Balz

“The New Yorker: “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Come s to Terms with Global Fame” by Larissa MacFarquhar

“The New Yorker”: “Truth, Lies and Literature” by Salman Rushdie

“The New Yorker”: “Annals of Gastronomy: Don’t Eat Before Reading This” by Anthony Bourdain

“New York Magazine”: “Read This Story and Get Happier” by Adam Sternbergh

“New York Magazine”: “What Sy Hersh Knows” by Christian Lorentzen

“Columbia Journalism Review”: “Seymour Hersh and the stories he doesn’t tell” by Elon Green

“The New York Review of Books”: “Islam’s New ‘Native Informers” by Nesrine Malik

“The New York Review of Books”: “Trump’s North Korean Nuclear Theatrics” by Robert E. Kelly

“The New York Times”: “Kim Jong-Un’s Image Shift: Form Nuclear Madman to Skillful Leader” by Choe Sang-Hun

“The New York Times”: “The Book Review Podcast: Michael Pollan on Drugs”

“The New York Times”: “In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice” by Coral Davenport

“The New York Times”: “The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet” by Sheila Marikar

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“The New York Times”: “Rohingya: Race Against the Rains” by Ben C. Solomon

“The New York Times”: “Never Mind the News-Media. Politicians Test Direct-to-Voter Messaging” by Sydney Ember

“The New York Times”: “What Comes Next for Italy?” by Beppe Servergnini

“The New York Times”: “A Drink in a Bar, a Dip in the Tigris: Mosul Returns to Life” by Ivor Prickett (photographs & text)

“The New York Times”: “Pursuits: Colliders, Sundials and Wonder: When Science Is Your Destination” by Peter Kujawinski

“The New York Times”: “Using Medicine and Science to Improve the Quality of Life” by several authors

“The New York Times”: “In the Dance Lab With Martha Graham” by Gia Kourlas

“The New York Times”: “Taking on Climate Change” by Tatjana Schlossberg

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Blood Will Tell, Part 2” by Pamela Colloff

“The New Yorker”: "Letter from the U.K.: Britain Considers Life without Its Russian Oligarchs” by Sam Knight

“The New Yorker”: “Photo Booth: A Record of Syrian monuments before ISIS” by John Gendall

“The New Yorker”: “Parenting: Mum’s the Word” by Rivka Galchen

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Digital Powerhouse” by Jacob Weisberg

“The Washington Post”: “Trump’s not a liar. He’s a madman” by Dana Milbank

“The Washington Post”: “Elon Musk wants to fix media distrust with a dopey rating system. There’s a better way” by Margaret Sullivan

“The Washington Post”: “1968: The Year America unraveled” by Marc Fisher

“The Washington Post”: “America has a massive truck driver shortage. Here’s why few want a $ 80’000 job” by Heather Long

“The Washington Post”: “Saudi Arabia’s reformers now face a terrible choice” by Jamal Kashoggi

“The Guardian”: “Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia” by Andrew Roth (text) & Dmitri Beliakov (photographs)

“The Guardian”: “The long read: The financial scandal no one is talking about” by Richard Brooks

“The Guardian”: “Colombia discovers the art of keeping young people off the streets” by Steven Grattan

“London Review of Books”: “The (Grenfell) Tower” by Andrew O’Hagan

“London Review of Books”: “Too Few to Mention” by David Runciman

“The Times Literary Supplement”: “Don’t tell Congress” by Seymour Hersh

“Longreads”: “The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers” by Kim Wall & Mansi Choksi

“Longreads”: “Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story” by Christie Watson

“Pew Research Center: “What Unites and Divides America” by  Kim Parker, Juliane Menasce Horowitz, Anna Brown, Ricard Fry, D’Vera Cohn & Ruth Igielnik

“Nautilus”: “What Is It Like to be a Dolphin?” by Maggie Ryan Sandford

“ejectionsite”: “Back in the Saddle” by Tech. Sgt. Timothy P. Barela(text) & Master Sgr.Dave Nolan (photographs)

“U.S. News”: “John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account” by John S. McCain

“National Geographic”: “Drowning in Plastic” by Laura Parker (text) & Randy Olson (photos)

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“The Guardian”: “The fall of ‘Italy’s Stalingrad”: symbol of left wages war on migrants and poor” by Giorgio Ghiglione

“The Guardian”: “Marawi one year after the battle: a ghost town still haunted by the fear of Isis” by Carmela Fonbuena

“The Guardian”: “Chelsea Clinton: ‘I’ve vitriol flung at me for as long as I can remember’” by Decca Aitkenhead

“The Guardian”: “Nuzzle a panda, kiss a lioness: Jane Goodall takes us on her wildest adventure yet” by Steve Rose

“The Guardian”: “The trouble with charitable billionaires” by Carl Rhodes & Peter Bloom

“The Guardian”: “’A ticket to the next life’: The lavish Buddhist dog funerals of Bangkok” by Hannah Ellis Petersen

“The Observer”: “Is the Earth Flat? Meet the people questioning science” by Alex Moshakis

“The Observer”: “The 10 hottest film of summer 2018” by Mark Kermode, Wendy Idle, Guy Lodge, Jonathan Romney & Simran Hans

“The Observer”: “Look into my eyes: one woman’s journey from coma to consciousness” by Joanna Moorhead

“The Independent”: Socotra island: The Unesco-protected ‘Jewel of Arabia’ vanishing amid Yemen’s civil war” by Betahn McKernan & Lucy Towers

“London Review of Books”: “The Drift towards War” by Adam Shatz

“The Atlantic”: “The Pearl of Lao Tzu” by Michael LaPointe

“The Atlantic”: “The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy” by Matthew Stewart

“The Washington Post”: “The Banana States of America” by Dana Milbank

“The Washington Post”: “1968: The year women refused to stay silent, tossed their bras and redefined politics” by Karen Heller

“The Washington Post”: “A photographer tries to answer ‘What makes a family click? What holds a family together?’” by Nathaniel Grann (photos) & Kenneth Dickerman (writer)

“The Washington Post”: “The 39 Books We’Re Talking About This Summer” by Book World Editors

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “Locked and Loaded for the Lord” by Tom Dunkel (story) & Brian Anselm (photos)

“The New York Times”: “Donald Trump’s Guide to Presidential Etiquette” by The Editorial Board

“The New York Times”: “Turkey: In the Kingdom of Men” by Dalia Mortada & Nicole Tung

“The New York Times”: “On Photography: What Does It Mean to Look at This?” by Teju Cole

“The New York Times”: “How Venezuela’s President Keeps His Grip on a Shattered Country” by Meredith Kohut

“The New York Times”: “She Married 3 Brothers in Family Torn by War” by Ron Nordland

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Risky Business of Speaking for President Trump” by Marc Leibovich

“The New York Times Magazine”: “At War: Letters from the Children of Fallen Service Members to the Parents They Lost” by Mitty Mirrer

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Blood Will Tell - Part 1” by Pamela Colloff

“T Magazine”: “Old Books, New Thoughts” by Philip Roth, Lydia Davis, Robert A. Caro, George Saunders, Marilynne Robinson, Jennifer Egan & Junot Díaz

“The Intercept”: “Iraqi Documents: Protection or Plunder?” by Maryam, Saleh

“Rolling Stone”: “An Open Letter to Gina Haspel from Someone Who Was Physically Tortured” by Theo Padnos

“Zenith”: “Karl Marx oder Karl May” by Thomas Kramer

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“The New York Times”: “Tom Wolfe, Author of ‘’The Right Stuff’ and ‘Bonfire of Vanities’, Dies’ by Deirdre Carmody & William Grimes

“The New York Times”: “Tom Wolfe’s Other Legacy” by Guy Trebay

„The New York Times“: „As Israel Celebrates Dream of Independence, Many See Nightmare Taking Shape” by David Halbfinger

“The New York Times”: “China’s Last Cave Dwellers Fight to Keep Their Underground Homes” by Brian Denton (text and photographs)

“The New York Times”: “Iran’s Foes See Opportunity as Deal Ends. Others See a Risk of War” by Ben Hubbard

“The New York Times”: “U.S. Embassy Opens in Jerusalem: 9 Things to Know about the City” by Isabel Kershner

“The New York Times”: “Israel Needs to Protect its Borders. By Whatever means Necessary” by Shmuel Rosner

“The New York Times”: “A Child of Gaza Dies. A Symbol Is Born. The Arguing Begins” by Declan Walsh

“The New York Times”: “This Is School in the U.S. Now” by James Poniewozik

“The New York Times”: “Why Traditional TV Is in Trouble” by Sapna Maheshwari & John Koblin

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Trying to Put a Value in The Doctor-Patient Relationship” by Kim Tingley & Weronika Gesicka (photo illusttrations)

“The New York Times Magazine”: “How Tech Can Turn Doctors into Clerical Workers” by Abraham Verghese

“The New Yorker”: “The Political Scene: Trump vs. the ‘Deep State’” by Evan Osnos

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from California: A Vintner’s Quest to Create a Truly American Wine” by Adam Gopnik

“The New York Review of Books”: “The New Europeans” by Christopher de Bellaigue

“The New York Review of Books”: “Ratfucked Again” by Michael Tomasky

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Afro-Pessimist Temptation” by Darryll Pinckeny

“The Washington Post”: “The high price of feminism in the ‘new’ Saudi Arabia” by Loveday Morris

“The Washington Post”: “How to tell when criticism of Israel is actually ant-Semitism” by Jill Jacob

“The Washington Post”: “In Jerusalem, it’s the Trump team vs. reality” by Kathleen Parker

“The Washington Post”: “’A Day of gas’ inside a Gaza ambulance” by Loveday Morris

“The Washington Post”: “Saving Africa’s wildlife” by Kevin Sieff & Adriane Onahesian (photos)

“The Guardian”: “Why are we living in an age of anger?” by Zoe Williams

“The Guardian”: “The Long Read: A suicide in Gaza” by Sarah Helm

“The Guardian”: “Jarvis Cocker: How Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test changed my life” by Jarvis Cocker

“The Observer”: “Russia uncovered: writers on the World Cup host nation” by Andrew, Roth, Rowan Moore, Kilian Fox, Viv Groskop, Mark Galeotti, Aleksey Kovalev

“The Observer”: “The fight to define the very essence of Israel” by Bernard Avishai

"The Independent”: “Jordan’s Palestinian refugee camps” by Paddy Dowling

“London Review of Books”: “Turkey: Purges and Paranoia” by Ella George

“London Review of Books”: “The Two-State Solution: An Autopsy” by Henry Siegman

“Esquire”: “A Brief History of Price Harry’s Military Career” by Luke O’Neil

“Time”: “How Baby Boomers Broke America” by Steven Brill

“Longreads”: “When the Movies Went West” by Gary Krist

“The Atlantic”: “How the Enlightenment Ends” by Henry A. Kissinger

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“The Guardian”: “The rise of the pointless job” by David Graeber

“The Guardian”: “Europe must make Trump pay for wrecking the Iran nuclear deal” by Simon Tisdall

“The Guardian”: “Iranian hardliners rejoice over US exit form nuclear deal” by Saeed  Kamali Dehghan

“The Guardian”: “Harlem’s renaissance: how art, food and history are shaping its latest revolution” by Diana Hubbell

“The Guardian”: “’Stubbornly fighting for life’: how Arthur Koestler reported the birth of Israel” by Oliver Holmes

“The Guardian”: “Seven decades of struggle: how one Palestinians village’s story captures pains of `Nakba’” by Oliver Holmes & Diego Gutiérrez

“The Guardian”: “Refugee odyssey: photographing Mexico’s Viacrucis Migrante” by Edgar Garrido & Matt Fidler (production)

“The Guardian”: “White House won’t rule out banning the press for ‘negative coverage’” by David Smith

“The Guardian”: “The rise of Donald Glover: how he captured America” by Katie Bain

“The Guardian”: “Never-ending nightmares: why feminist nightmares must stop torturing women” by Sarah Ditum

“The Guardian”: “Keeping a free and a fair press is one of the defining political issues of our age” by Emily Bell

“The Observer”: “Interview- Ronan Farrow. Woody, Weinstein and Me” by Andrew Anthony

“The Independent”: “All sides of the complex battle in the Middle East are concerned” by Robert Fisk

“The Independent”: “Once the Syrian war is over, Qatar could become an empire once more” by Robert Fisk

“The New York Times”: “What Sanctions Mean to Iranians” by Amir Ahmadi Arian & Rahman Bouzari

“The New York Times”: “From Ice Cube to Black Cube” by Maureen Dowd

“The New York Times”: “Turkey’s Independent Newspaper Voice perseveres With a Smile” by Carlotta Gall

“The New York Times”: “You Can’t Separate Money from Culture” by Andrew J. Cherlin

“The New York Times”: “San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble” by Thomas Fuller, Anjali Singhvi & Josh Williams

“The New York Times”: “A Road Map to Shopping like a Royal” by Amy Tara Koch

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.- Russian Imbroglio” by Keith Gessen

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Children of the Opioid Epidemic” by Jennifer Egan

“The York Review of Books”: “Big Brother Goes Digital” by Simon Head

“The Washington Post”: “Portraits of the ‘fading American Dream’” by Niko J. Kallianiontis (photos) & Kenneth Dickerman (text)

“The Washington Post”: “Why would a Swiss health-care company pay Michael Cohen $ 1,2 million? Look at drug prices” by David Van Drehle

“The Washington Post”: “Putin needed an American enemy. He picked me.” by Michal Faul

“The Washington Post”: “The shape of the political sex scandal has shifted. What does it take to kill a career these days?” by Marc Fisher

“Vanity Fair”: “How Evil Is Silicon Valley?” by Nick Bilton

“Granta”: “Palmyra” by Charles Glass (story) & Don McCullin (photos)

“Herald”: “Railway Failures” by Sher Ali Kahn

“Scroll.in”: “What makes a translation great?” by Katy Derbyshire
 

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“AFP”: “When Hope is Gone” by Shah Marai

“The Atlantic”: “Remembering Photojournalist Shah Marai” by AFP

“The Atlantic”: “Artificial Intelligence Is Cracking Open the Vatican’s Secret Archives” by Sam Kean

“The Atlantic”: “The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete” by James Somers

“The New York Times”: “Michelle Wolf Did What Comedians Are Supposed to Do” by Adrian Conover

“The New York Times”: “’Here Is the Graveyard of ISIS’. Garbage Men Collect Remains” by Ivor Prickett (photographs & text)

“The New York Times”: “Chasing the Ghosts of Benghazi” by Declan Walsh

“The New York Times”: “Tech Companies Feel the Squeeze as Xi Jinping Tightens His Grip” by Raymond Zhong & Paul Masur

“The New York Times”: “Everyone You Know Someday Will Die” compiled by Kathleen O’Brian

“The New York Times  Magazine”: “The Billion-DollarBank Job” by Joshua Hammer & Francesco Francavilla (illustrations)

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Pain Hustlers” by Evan Hughes & Francesco Francavilla (illustrations)

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Baby-Formula Crime Ring” by Chris Pomorski & Francesco Francavilla (illustrations)

“The New York Times Magazine”: “What New York Was Like in the Early 80s – Hour by Hour” as told to Caroline Bankoff, Heather Corcoran, Nancy Haas & M.H. Miller

“New York”: “Will there always be an England?” by Andrew Sullivan

“The New Yorker”: “The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back” by Nicholas Schmidle

“The New Yorker”: “Personal History - Cairo: A Type of Love Story” by Peter Hessler

“The New Yorker”: “A Reporter At Large: A Voyage along Trump’s Wall” by Nick Paumgarten

“The New Yorker”: “A Reporter At Large: The Spy Who Came Home” by Ben Taub

The New York Review of Books”: “Animal Liberation” by Peter Singer

“The Washington Post”: “Canon Fodder” by Viet Thanh Nguyen

“The Washington Post”: “This week proved God exists, and he has a wicked sense of humor” by Dana Milbank

“The Washington Post”: “World-Class Heritage Here in the U.S.” by Andrea Sachs

“The Washington Post”: “The crisis in local journalism has become a crisis in democracy” by Steven Waldman & Charles Sennott

“The Washington Post Magazine”: “Wake up and Dream” by Robin Givhan (story) & Juco (photos)

“Longreads”: “As Innocuous as Plant No.1” by William Vollman

“GQ”: “The Killers of Kiev” by Joshua Hammer

“The Marshall Project”: “A Judge on Execution Day” by Mike Lynch

“Texas Monthly”: “The Doting Father Who Robbed Armored Cars” by Skip Hollandsworth

“Politico”: “The Most Prestigious Slog in Washington” by Michael Calderone

“Smithsonian”: “The Man Who Saved Havana” by Tony Perottet

“Nautilus”: “Where Your Childhood Memories Went” by Ferris Jabr

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“The Washington Post”: “Koreans on both sides of the divide dare to be optimistic” by Anna Fifield

“The Washington Post”: “Michelle Wolf’s full speech at the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner” by Michelle Wolf

“The Washington Post”: “Behind bloody Gaza clashes, economic misery and piles of debt” by Loveday Morris & Hazem Balousha

“The Washington Post”: “Gaza: Blasted Limbs, Broken Dreams” Erin Cunningham & Hazem Balousha & Wissam Nassar (photos) & Mohammed Khalil (video)

“The Washington Post”: “The shadow war between Israel and Iran takes center stage” by Ishaan Tharoor

“The Washington Post”: “Regrets of an ISIS midwife” by Tamer El-Gobashy (story) & Alice Martin (photos)

“The New York Times”: “How Trumps Mixed Signals Complicate America’s Role in the World” by Max Fisher

“The New York Times”: “Why Trump Supporters Don’t Mind His Lies” by Daniel A. Effron

“The New York Times”: “Gaza: The Lesser Child of Israel’s Occupation” by Gideon Levy

“The New York Times”: “The Empire Haunts Britain” by Alex Von Tunzelmann

“The New York Times”: “To Change a Country, Change Its Trains” by Roger Zoellner

“The New York Times”: “How Oman’s Rocks Could Help Save the Planet” by Henry Fountain

“The New York Times”: “The Most Unpopular Dog in Germany” by Firoozeh Dumas

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Can Dirt Save the Earth?” by Moises Velasquez Manoff

“The New York Times Magazine”: “What Refugees Face on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route” by Seema Jilani

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from Tokyo: Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry” by Elif Batuman

“The New Yorker”: “McMaster and Commander” by Patrick Radden Keefe

“The New York Review of Books”: “Why Trump is Winning and the Press Is Losing” by Jay Rosen

“The New York Review of Books”: “1968: Power to the Imagination” by Daniel Cohn-Bendit & Claus Leggewie

“The Atlantic”: “The Reinvention of America” by James Fallows

“The Atlantic”: “How to Fix the US-Presidency” by John Dickerson

“The Atlantic”: “The Era of Fake Video Begins” by Franklin Foer

“The Guardian”: “’It’s not a done deal’: inside the battle to stop Brexit” by Dorian Lynskey

“The Guardian”: “The rise of Russia’s neo-Nazi football hooligans” by Simon Parkin

“The Guardian”: “With 250 babies born each minute, how many people can the Earth sustain?” by Lucy Lamble

 “The Guardian”: “Bezos’ s empire: how Amazon became the world’s biggest retailer” by Josh Holder & Alex Hern

“The Guardian”: “Jeff Bezos v. the world: why all companies fear ‘death by Amazon’” by Olivia Solon & Julia Carrie Wong

“Politico Magazine”: “My Dearest Fidel” by Peter Kornrbluth

“Politico”: “The Puzzle od Sarah Huckabee Sanders” by Jason Schwartz

“GQ”: “The Excessive Vision of Donatella Versace” by Molly Young (story) & Elitaveta Porodina (photographs)

“Deadspin”: “The Ridiculous Saga of Lance Armstrong” by Patrick Redford

“BloombergBusinessweek”: “The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color” by Zach Schonbrunn

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“The Guardian”: “’A political volcano just erupted’: is the US on the brink of the next Watergate?” by Stanley Cloud

“The Guardian”: “End of the American dream? The dark history of ‘America first’” by Sarah Churchwell

“The Guardian”: “America is plagued by experts without expertise” by Michael Massing

“The Guardian”: “Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out” by Yanis Varoufakis

“The Guardian”: “Israel celebrates but is war with Iran looming?” by Simon Tisdall

“The Guardian”: “Britain, headquarters of fraud” by Oliver Bullough

“The Guardian”: “The ‘deep state’ is real. But are its leaks against Trump justified?” by Jack Goldsmith

“The Guardian”: “Fake it, till you make it: meet the wolves of Instagram” by Symeon Brown

“The Guardian”: “A bomb silenced Daphne Caruana Galizia. But he investigation lives on” by Juliette Garside

 “The Guardian”: “How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley” by Corey Pein

“The Guardian”: “After 60 Years, Kendrick Lamar has brilliantly brought pop to the Pulitzers” by Alexis Petridis

“The Guardian”: “After 60 Years, Kendrick Lamar has brilliantly brought pop to the Pulitzers” by Alexis Petridis

“The Independent”: “The search for truth in the rubble of Douma – one doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack” by Robert Fisk

“London Review of Books”: “How to Start a War” by Isabel Hull

“The Washington Post”: “Barbara Bush, matriarch of American political dynasty, dies at 92” by Lois Romano

“The Washington Post”: “’Civilization’ Is the most ambitious story on art ever told on Television” by Sebastian Smee

“The Washington Post”: “Trump’s ‘fake news’ mantra becomes an effective weapon – against America” by Dana Milbank

“The Washington Post”: “There are many ways for democracy to fail” by Anne Applebaum

“The Washington Post”: “Too many men” by Simon Denyer, Annie Gowen & Jasu Hu (illustrations)

“The Washington Post”: “How France wants to reform Islam” by James McAuley

“The Washington Post”: “Why Europe, not Congress, will rein in big tech” by Michael Birnbaum & Tony Romm

“The New York Times”: “Indian Girls Learn to Fight Back” by Maria Abi-Habib

“The New York Times”: “What the Rape and Murder of a Child Reveals about Modi’s India” by Mitali Saran

“The New York Times”: “The Luckiest Jews in History” by Shmuel Rosner

“The New York Times”: “The Insanity at the Gaza Fence” by Roger Cohen

“The New York Times”: “Hillary Clinton: ‘They were never going to let me be president’” by Amy Chozik

“The New York Times”: “Why men quit and women don’t” by Lindsay Crouse

“The New York Times”: “Where Facebook Rumors Fuel a Thirst for Revenge” by Amanda Taub & Max Fischer

“The New York Times”: “Baffled by Bitcoin? How Crypto-Currency Works” by Drew Jordan & Sarah Stein Kerr

“The New York Times”: “’They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich off Corruption” by Nori Onishi & Selam Gebrekidan

“National Geographic”: “Race Is a Made-Up Label” by Elizabeth Kolbert & Robin Hammond (photographs)

“The New Inquiry”: “Like a Dog” by Jacob Bacharach

“Literary Hub”: “Barbara Ehrenreich: Why I’m  Giving Up on Preventive Care” by Barbara Ehrenreich

"Wired”: “Symphony of the Seas” by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

“BuzzFeed”: ”Learning to Report: A Tractor in Every Pot” by Ben Smith

“GQ”: “A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof” by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

“The Pulitzer Center”: “The Placebo Effect” by Erik Vance

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“The New York Times”: “’Mission Accomplished’: But What Was the Mission?” by Peter Baker

“The New York Times”: “A Hard Lesson in Syria: Assad Can Still Gas His Own People” by David Sanger & Ben Hubbard

“The New York Times”: “What’s It Like to Endure Aerial Attacks” by David Botti

“The New York Times”: “Israel’s Violent Response to Nonviolent Pro tests” by the Editorial Board

“The New York Times”: “Hamas Sees Protests as Peaceful – and as a Deadly Weapon” by David M. Halbfinger

“The New York Times”: “5 New York Times Writers on What They Got Right and Wrong in the Early ‘80s” edited by Kate Guadagnino & Thessaly La Force

“The New York Times”: “I Downloaded the Information Facebook Has on Me. Yikes” by Brain X. Chen

“The New York Times”: “Facebook is Complicated. That Shouldn’t Stop Lawmakers” by Kevin Roose

"The New York Times”: “The Law is Coming, Mr. Trump” by The Editorial Board

“The New York Times”: “Scared by the News? Take the Long View: Progress Gets Overlooked” by David Bornstein

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Why America’s Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis” by Linda Villarosa

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Post-Campaign Campaign of Donald Trump” by Charles Homans

 “The New Yorker”: “Personal History: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma” by Junot Diaz

“The New Yorker”: “A Sideline Wall Street Legend Bets on Bitcoin” by Gary Shteyngart

“New York Magazine”: “Corruption, not Russia, Is Trump’s Greatest Political Liability” by Jonathan Chait

“New York Magazine”: “How to Raise a Boy” by William Leitch

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Smartphone War” by Lindsey Hilsum

”The New York Review of Books”: “Homo Orbanicus” by Jan-Werner Müller

“The Washington Post”: “Zuckerberg barely talked about Facebook’s biggest global problem” by Adam Taylor

“The Washington Post”: “Documentary: How Parkland journalism students covered the shooting they survived and the friends they lost” by Whitney Shefte & Alice Li

”The Washington Post Magazine”: “The Vindication of Dennis Kucinich” by David Montgomery (story) & Marvin Joseph

“The Guardian”: “Good news at last: the world isn’t as horrific as you think” by Hans Rosling

 “The Guardian”: “The murder that shook Iceland” by Xan Rice

“The Guardian”: “Perfect crimes: why thrillers are leaving other books for dead” by Henry Sutton

“The Guardian”: “World Cup stunning moments: The Battle of Santiago” by Simon Burnton

“The Guardian”: “’The wars will never stop’ – millions flee bloodshed as Congo falls apart” by Jason Burke

“The Guardian”: “Paul Ehrlich: ’Collapse of civilization is near certainty within decades’” by Damian Carrington

“The Intercept”: “Puerto Rico: The Battle for Paradise” by Naomi Klein (text) & Lauren Freeny (video)

“The Intercept”: “When Soldiers Patrol the Border, Civilians Get Killed” by Ryan Devereaux
 

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“The Guardian”: “Martin Luther King: how a rebel leader was lost to history” by Gary Younge

“The Guardian”: “The Panel: What would Martin Luther King’s dream be in 2018?”

“The Guardian”: “Found in translation: how British filmmakers are capturing America” by Guy Lodge

“The Guardian”: “The demise of the nation state” by Rana Dasgupta

“The Guardian”: “From Circe to Clinton: why powerful women are cast as witches” by Madeline Miller

“The Guardian”: “Christopher Wylie: why I broke the Facebook story and what should happen now” by Christopher Wylie

“The Guardian”: “Almost all violent extremists share one thing: their gender” by Michael Kimmel

“The Guardian”: “Can It Happen Here? Review: urgent studies in rise of authoritarian America” by Charles Kaiser

“The Guardian”: “How babies learn – and why robots can’t compete” by Alex Beard

“The Guardian”: “Oligarchs hide billions in shell companies. Here’s  how  we stop them” by Frederik Obermaier & Bastian Obermayer

“The Observer”: “’These are people with nothing to lose’. Inside Gaza” by Donald Macintyre

“The Observer”: “Our man in Havana: music, mojitos and swearing in Spanish” by Ruaridh Nicoll

“The Observer”: “Unraveling the mysteries of the brains: Suzanne O’Sullivan, neuro detective” by Rachel Cooke

“London Review of Books”: “Survivors of Syrian Wars” by Patrick Cockburn

“New Statesman”: “1968” by John Gray

“The Atlantic”: “Saudi Crown Prince”: ‘Iran’s Supreme Leader ‘Makes Hitler look Good’’” by Jeffrey Goldberg

“The Washington Post”: “Caught in Congo’s Tides of War” by Max Bearak, Andrew Renneisen (photography) & Asaph Kasujja (drone footage)

“The Washington Post”: “How Trump is transforming himself into the greatest president ever” by Dana Milbank

“The Washington Post”: “Conspiracy videos? Fake News? Enter Wikipedia, the good cop of the Internet” by Noam Cohen

“The Washington Post”: “A planned space hotel hopes to receive guests by 2022 – for a cost of almost $ 800’000 a night” by Marwa Eltagouri

“The New York Times”: “How Democracy Became the Enemy” by Roger Cohen

“The New York Times”: “The ISIS Files” by Rukmini Callimachi

“The New York Times”: “Vietnam ‘67: A Pale Smoke” by David Gerstel

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Gun Culture Is My Culture. And I Fear for What It Has Become” by David Joy

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Case of Hong Kong’s  Missing Booksellers” by Alex W. Palmer

“The New Yorker”: “A Saudi Prince’s Quest to Remake the Middle East” by Dexter Filkins

“The New Yorker”: “Onward and Upward with the Arts: An Activist-Filmmaker Tackles Patriarchy in Pakistan” by Alexis Okeowo

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from Silicon Valley: At Uber, a New C.E.O. Shifts Gears” by Sheela Kolhatkar

"The New York Review of Books”: “If Trump Blows up the Deal, Iran Gets the Bomb” by Jeremy Bernstein

“The New York Review of Books”: “Knifed with a Smile” by Carl Elliott

“Tablet”: “Arthur Koestler’s  Stunning Portrait of the Criminal Inside Us All” by Alexander Aciman

“Lapham’s Quarterly”: “The Triumph of Philanthropy” by Scott Sherman

“Rolling Stone”: “The Legacy of the Iraq War” by Matt Taibbi

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“The New York Times”: “How Islamism Drives Muslims to Convert” by Mustafa Aykol

“The New York Times”: “Greece’s Islands of Despair” by Mauricio Lima (photographs) &Iliana Magra (text)

“The New York Times”: “Where Fear and Hope Collide, Images form Mexican Border, and Beyond” by Azam Ahmed

“The New York Times”: “Rome, Seen through the Eyes of Flavius Josephus” by David Laskin

“The New York Times”: “Some Reflections on Journalism” by Roger Cohen

“The New York Times”: “Havana’s Symphony of Sound” by Reif Larsen

“The New York Times”: “Google Researchers Learn How Machines Learn” by Cade Metz

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Can Jim Mattis Hold the Line in Trump’s War Cabinet?” by Robert F. Worth

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Is the Next Nobel Laurate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town” by Mark Binelli

“The New York Review of Books”: “Caesar Bloody Caesar” by Josephine Quinn

“The New York Review of Books”: “Kenneth Clarke: The Connoisseur” by Richard Dorment

“The Washington Post”: “50 years ago some called D.C. ‘the colored man’s paradise’. Then it erupted” by Michael E. Ruane

“The Washington Post”: “For Israel, there’s little political cost to killing Palestinians” by Ishaan Tharoor

“The Washington Post”: “I went to Alaska to see the northern lights. In the daytime, I saw much more” by Andrea Sachs (story) & Katherine Frey (photographs)

“The Washington Post”: “Comedies: ‘As if’” by Stephanie Merry

“The Guardian”: “Are you ready? These are all the date Facebook and Google have on you” by Dylan Curran

“The Guardian”: “Two minutes to midnight: did the U.S. miss its chance to stop North Korea’s nuclear program” by Julian Borger

“The Guardian”: “Civilizations by David Olasuga review – a riposte to European superiority” by Faramerz Dabhoiwala

“The Guardian”: “Yemen is entering its fourth year of war – when will it end?” by Hind Abbas

“The Guardian”: “Turkey: ‘Why we are paying the rent for a million Syrian refugees?” by Hannah Summers

“The Guardian”: “Jesse Jackson o Martin Luther King’s assassination : ‘It redefined America’” by David Smith

“The Guardian”: “The unstoppable rise of Veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream” by Dan Hancox

“The Observer”: “I went to death row for 28 year through no fault of my own” by Chris McGreal

“London Review of Books”:  “Facebook: Why the Outrage?” by William Davies

“The New Republic”: “Zimbabwe: After the Strongman” by Karan Mahajan & Jeffrey Smith (illustrations)

“Tablet”: “Anatomy of a Pogrom” by Steven J. Zipperstein

“Jacobin”: “China’s One-Man Show” by Isabel Hilton

“Edge”: “We Are Here to Create: A Conversation with Kai Fu-Lee”

“Literary Hub”: “Inside the Gulags of the Soviet Union” my Masha Gessen

 “Irish Times”: “David Petraeus on ‘The Art of War’” by David Petraeus

“The Atlantic”: “Twenty Years of Viagra” by Megan Garber

“The Atlantic”: “When Guilt Is Good” by Libby Copeland

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“The New York Times”: “Marc Zuckerberg’s Reckoning: ‘This Is a Major Trust Issue’” by Kevin Roose & Sheera Frankel

“The New York Times”: “Facebook’s Surveillance Machine” by Zeyneb Tufekci

“The New York Times”: “Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country” by Sinan Antoon

“The New York Times: “The Vietnam War Is Over. The Bombs Remain” by Ariel Garkinkel

“The New York Times”: “Why I Stay in Gaza” by Atef Abu Saif

“The New York Times”: “Trump Hacked the Media Right Before Our Eyes” by Ross Douthat

“The New York Times”: “Visual Investigation: How the Las Vegas Gunman Planned a Massacre” by Malachy Brownr, Natalie Reneau , Adam Goldman & Drew Jordan

“The New York Times”: “Augmented Reality: David Bowie in Three Dimensions” by the Culture, Design & Graphics Team, written by Melena Ryzik

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Why Would Anyone Kayak Across the Ocean – at 70?” by Elizabeth Weil (text) & Joakim Eskilosen (photographs)

“The New York Times Magazine”: “On the Road with the World’s Greatest Hitchhiker” by Wes Enzinna

“The New Yorker”: “How to Fix Facebook” by Adrian Chen, Nathan Heller, Andrew Marantz & Anna Wiener

“New York Magazine”: “Whatever Facebook Has Done Wrong to the U.S., It’s Done Worse to Developing Countries” by Brian Feldman

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Music of the Beatles” by Ned Rorem

“The New York Review of Books”: ”Beware the Big Five” by Tamsin Shaw

“The New York Review of Books”: “Bang for the Buck” by Adam Hochschild

“The Washington Post”: “No, billionaires won’t save us. That’s a myth that links Zuckerberg and Trump” by Margaret Sullivan

“The Washington Post”: “How Trumpism has come to define the Republican Party” by Ashley Parker

“The Washington Post”: “Typos, spelling mistakes are common in the Trump White House” by David Nakamura

“The Washington Post”: “Picturing the March for Our Lives”

“The Atlantic”: “The Last Temptation” by Michael Gerson

“The Atlantic”: “The Nancy Pelosi Problem” by Peter Beinart

“The Guardian”: “’I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data whistleblower” by Carole Cadwalladr

“The Guardian”: “Leaked: Cambridge Analytica’s blueprint for Trump victory” by Paul Lewis & Paul Hilder

“The Guardian”: “’Facebook data is for sale all over the world’” by Steve Bannon

“The Guardian”: “Gangster’s paradise: how organised crime took over Russia” by Mark Galeotti’

“The Guardian”: “The radical otherness of birds” by Jonathan Franzen

“The Guardian”: “’On the damage technology is doing to democracy’” by James Harding

“The Guardian”: “’Cows carry flesh, but they carry personality, too’: the hard lessons of farming” by John Connell

“The Observer”: “The dark truth about chocolate” by Nic Fleming

“The Observer”: “Interview with Ian Buruma: ‘Fascist rhetoric is creeping back into the mainstream’” by Rachel Cook

“London Review of Books”: “Can History Help?” by Linda Colley

“The Intercept”: “The CBS Interview with Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman Was a Crime against Journalism” by Medi Hasan

“The Intercept”: “How the New York Times Is Making War with Iran More Likely” by Robert Wright

“The Creative Independent”: “On Collecting Memories” by Adam Gopnik

“DukeToday”: “False Memories” Felipe de Brigard

“BuzzFeed”: “The Asset” by Anthony Cormier & Jason Leopold

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“The Guardian”: “The Cambridge Analytica Files”

“The Guardian”: “The crisis in modern masculinity” by Pankaj Mishra

“The Guardian”: “The Sunday Essay: Are we prepared for the looming epidemic threat?” by Jonathan Quick

“The Guardian”: “How National Geographic acknowledged its racist past”

“The Guardian”: “What if other world leaders followed the Obamas into TV? Just imagine…” by Stuart Heritage

“London Review of Books”: “The Chinese Typewriter” by Jamie Fisher

“The Atlantic”: “How to Lose Your Job from Sexual Harassment in 33 Easy Steps” by Deborah Copaken

“The Atlantic”: “Photos of the 2018 Winter Paralympics”

“The Washington Post”: “If America fails its people again, what will the catastrophe look like?” by Philipp Kennicott

“The Washington Post”: “Nigeria: Relic or Reformer” by Kevon Sieff (text) & jane Hahn (photographs)

“The Washington Post”: “Why India’s modern women say it’s a ‘burden’ to be female” by Vidhi Doshi

“The New Yorker”: “Reddit and the Quest to Detoxify the Internet” by Andrew Marantz

“The New Yorker”: “Portfolio - Coming Up Roses: The Flowers That Make Chanel No.5” by Pari Dukovic

“The New Yorker”: “Donald Trump and the Stress Test of Liberal Democracy” by David Remnick

“The New Yorker”: “Reporter At Large: The Story of a Trans Woman’s Face” by Rebecca Mead

“The New York Times”: “Stephen Hawking Taught Us a Lot about How to Live” by Dennis Overbye

“The New York Times”: “Stephen Hawking’s Beautiful Mind” by Dennis Overbye

“The New York Times”: “A Culture That Helps Keep Away Boys from Fighting” by Sergey Ponomarev (photographs & text)

“The New York Times”: “Why Gun Culture Is so Strong in Rural America” by Robert Leonard

“The New York Times”: “The Truth Behind My Lai” by Robert J. Levesque

“The New York Times”: “Rising Seas Threaten the Ancient Monuments of Easter Island” by Nicholas Casey & Josh Haner (photographs and video)

“The New York Times”: “A #MeToo Moment for Egypt? Maybe” by Mona Eltahawy

“The New York Times”: “Saudis Said to Use Coercion and Abuse to Seize Billions” by Ben Hubbard, David B. Kirkpatrick, Kate Kelly & Mark Mazzetti

“The New York Times”: “Hotter, Drier, Hungrier: How Global Warming Punishes the World’s Poorest” by Somini Sengupta

“The New York Times”: “Bringing the Sistine Chapel to Life, with the Vatican’s Blessing” by Elizabetta Polovedo

“The New York Times”: “Can Donald Trump Be Impeached?” by Andrew Sullivan

“The New York Times Magazine”: “How a Ransom for Royal Falconers Reshaped the Middle East” by Robert F. Worth

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?” by Leslie Jamison

“The Outline”: “What Science Is Like in North Korea” by Andrada Fiscutean

“Discover Society”: “Dying in a hospital setting: It’s complicated” by Marian Krawczyk

“Rolling Stone”: “Fat Leonard’s Crimes on the High Seas” by Jesse Hyde

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“The New York Times”: “Only a Few Have Met Kim. Here’s What They Say” by Megan Specia

“The New York Times”: “Russia Banned My Movie. Hold Your Applause” by Armand Yannucci

“The New York Times”: “Trump’s World and the Retreat of Shame” by Roger Cohen

“The New York Times”: “Bannon’s New Goal: Training Populists in Europe in His Image” by Jason Horowitz

“The New York Times”: “Where’s Harvey?” by Amy Chozik

“The New York Times”: “For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned” by Farhad  Manjoo

“The New York Times”: “Behind the Selfie” by Jennifer Finney Boylan

“The New York Times”: “Technology: Here Come the Fake Videos” by Kevin Roose

“The New York Times”: “Books by Women: The New Vanguard” by Dwight Garner, Parus Seghal & Jennifer Szalai

“The New York Times”: “15 Remarkable Women We Overlooked in Our Obituaries” by Amisha Padnani & Jessica Bennett

“The New Yorker”: “A Reporter At Large: Christopher Steele, the Man behind the Trump Dossier” by Jane Meyer

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from Ningxia: Can Wine Transform China’s Countryside?” by Jiayang Fan

“The New Yorker”: “Comment: The Gun-Control Debate after Parkland” by Margaret Talbot

“New York Magazine”: “Anita Hill: Do You Believe Her Now?” by Jill Abramson

“The Washington Post”: “Young Russians are Vladimir Putin’s biggest fans” by Anton Troianovski

“The Washington Post”: “The future of Israel’s ‘dreamers’” by Loveday Morris (story) & Corinna Kern

“The Washington Post”: “The dark roots of AIPAC, ‘America’s Pro-Israel Lobby’” by Doug Rossinow

“The Washington Post”: “Puerto Rican artists: Working with Dark Light” by Samuel Granados & Kevin Schaul

“The Guardian”: “Feminists have slowly shifted power. There’s no going back” by Rebecca Solnit

“The Guardian”: “Leading feminists on why Time’s Up and MeToo mean there’s no going back” by Alexandra Topping

“The Guardian”: “Why the left’s hellish vision is so ruinous” by Andrew Hindmoor

“The Guardian”: “How Ferrante’s neighbourhood tells a of Italy’s transformed politics” by Angela Giuffrida

“The Guardian”: “The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American Dream was dead’”  by  Dorian Linskey

“FiveThirtyEight”: “A Chat: Why Does Everyone Hate the Media?”

“Politico”: “View: Europe’s (not so) free press” by Jean-Paul Marthoz

 “The Intercept”: “Oil and Water – Standing Rock and the New War on Native Americans”

“Vanity Fair”: “Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from the ‘House of Gaslight’ in the Age of #MeToo” by Monica Lewisnky

“Hakai”: “Hawai’i’s last outlaw hippies” by Brendan Borrell

 “1843”: “Nathan Myhrvold, Myth Buster” by Alex Renton

“The Atlantic”: “Google’s Guinea-Pig City” by Molly Sauter

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“The Guardian”: “Shock the System” by Yascha Mounk

“The Guardian”: “Is the British establishment finally finished?” by Aeron Davis

“The Guardian”: “Roads to nowhere: how infrastructure built on American inequality” by Johnny Miller

“The Guardian”: “Absolute hell. The toxic outposts where Mumbai’s protests are ‘sent to die’” by Puja Changoiwala

“The Guardian”: “Have we reached peak English in the world?” by Nicholas Ostler

“The Guardian”: “In the land of the pure” by Mohsin Hamid

“The Observer”: “Why is the world at war?” by Jason Burke

“The Independent”: “Human rights abuses, questionable sponsors and Trump: how geopolitics are becoming the worrying root of football” by Miguel Delaney

“Reuters”: “Venezuela: A journey on a caravan of misery” by Alexandra Ulmer (story) & Carlos Garcia Rawlins (photographs)

“New Humanist”: “Interview with Steven Pinker: ‘Solutions exist’” by J.P. O’Malley

“The Atlantic”: “The ‘CNN Effect’ Dies in Syria” by Uri Friedman

“The Atlantic”: “The World’s Most Difficult Mountain May Soon Be Fully Conquered” by Margaret Grebowicz

“The Washington Post”: “In 406 days, President Trump has made 4’236 false or misleading claims” by Fact Checker

“The Washington Post”: “Why a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians is closer than you think” by Ami Ayalon, Gilead Sher & Orni Petruschka

“The Washington Post”: “Israel’s battle between religious and secular Jews escalates with ban on Saturday shopping” by Ruth Eglash

“The Washington Post”: “The world’s efforts to slow climate change are not working” by Brady Dennis & Chris Mooney

“The Washington Post”: “A Florida provocateur has his day before the U.S. Supreme Court – again” by Robert Barnes

“Washingtonian”: “The Spy Who Changed His Mind” by Jason Fagone

“The New York Times”: “Why We Should Learn to Say ‘Heimat’” by Jochen Bittner

“The New York Times”: “Is Bitcoin a Waste of Electricity, or Something Worse?” by Bynjamin Appelbaum

“The New York Times”: “Women in Cryptocurrencies Push Back Against ‘Blockchain Bros’” by Nellie Bowles

“The New York Times”: “How to Buy a Gun in 15 Countries” by Audrey Carlsen & Sahil Chinoy

“The New York Times”: “They Died Near the Border. Arts Students Hope to Bring them Back” by Patricia Leigh Brown

“The New York Times”: “The Bowie You’ve Never Seen” by Melena Ryzik

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Can Venezuela Be Saved?” by Wil S. Hylton

“The New York Times Magazine”: “What Is the Perfect Color Worth?” by Bruce Falconer

“New York Magazine”: “The Poison We Pick” by Andrew Sullivan

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from Medellín: The Afterlife of Pablo Escobar” by Jon Lee Anderson

“The New York Review of Books”: “A Mozart Player Gives Himself Advice” by Alfred Brendel

“Columbia Journalism Review”: “A portrait of Trump’s mental state by photo-journalists” by Michael Shaw

 “The Lily”: “Melinda Gates: ‘Every life has equal value” by the Lily News

 “Trade & Blog”: “Switzerland: How to Run a Referendum” by Peter Ungphakorn

“ProPublica”: “The Sound and the Fury: Inside the Mystery of the Havana Embassy” by Tim Golden & Sebastian Rotella

“The Conversation”: “What did Jesus wear?” by Joan Taylor

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“The Washington Post”: “Journalism is a risky business” by Jason Rezaian

“The Washington Post”: “The desperate images form one of Syria’s bloodiest days in Ghoutta” by Olivier Laurent & Louisa Loveluck

“The Washington Post”: “The Tet Offensive: 50 years later, photographs and memories still haunt war photographer Don McCullin” by Don McCullin

“The Washington Post”: “How fentanyl became the deadly street drug haunting America” by Katie Zezima & Kolin Pope

“The Washington Post”: “Billy Graham, charismatic evangelist with worldwide following, dies at 99” by Bart Barnes

“The Washington Post”: “How Billy Graham-inspired mega-churches are taking over the world” by Rick Noack

“The Washington Post”: “In laws, rhetoric and acts of violence, Europe is rewriting dark chapters of its past” by Griff Witte, James McAuley & Luisa Beck

“The New York Times”: “Bitcoin Thieves Threaten Real Violence for Virtual Currencies” by Nathaniel Popper

“The New York Times”: “How Unwitting Americans Were Deceived by Russian Trolls” by Scott Shane

“The New York Times”: “Inside the Russian Troll Factory: Zombies and a Breakneck Pace” by Neil McFarquhar

“The New York Times”: “’An Endless War’ Why 4 U.S. Soldiers Died in a Remote African Desert” by Rukmini Callimachi, Helen Cooper, Eric Schmitt, Alan Binder & Thomas Gibbons-Neff

“The New York Times”: “Rescuing Migrants Fleeing through the Frozen Alps” by Elian Peltier & Eloise Stark

“The New York Times”: “Seven Years Old and Kicked out of Beijing” by Javier C. Hernández

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Case Against Google” by Charles Duhigg

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Why ‘Black Panther Is a Defining Moment for Black America” by Carvell Wallace

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature – and a Writer of Our Moment” by Marcela Valdes

“The New York Review of Books”: “A Glimmer of Justice” by Aryeh Neier

“The New York Review of Books”: “Italy: ‘Whoever wins, won’t govern” by Tim Parks

“The Intercept”: “Failed Attempt to Smear Jeremy Corbyn Reveals Waning Power of British Tabloids” by Robert Mackey

“The Intercept”: “Intercepted Podcast: RussiaMania – Glenn Greenwald vs. James Risen”

“The Guardian”: “’No jerks allowed’: the egalitarianism behind Norway’s winter wonderland” by Sean Ingle

“The Guardian”: “’We can change this reality’: the women sharing news of war in Ghouta” by Emma Graham-Harrison

“The Guardian”: “The fascist movement that has brought back Mussolini to the mainstream” by Tobias Jones

“The Guardian”: “Meet the Sacklers: the family feuding over blame for the opioid crisis” by Joanna Walters

“The Guardian”: “Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand” by Mark O’Connell

“The Guardian”: “Mormons want to save the Republican Party’s soul. But is it too late?” by J Oliver Conroy

“The Guardian”: “Not the end of the world: the return of Dubai’s ultimate folly” by Oliver Wainwright

“The Guardian”: “’Equality won’t happen by itself’: how Iceland got tough on the gender pay gap” by Jon Henley

“The Guardian”: “Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet?” by Andrew Dickson

“The Observer”: “The epic failure of our age: how the West let down Syria” by Simon Tisdall

“The Independent”: “Western howls over the Ghouta siege ring hollow we aren’t likely to do anything to save civilians” by Robert Fisk

“The Atlantic”: “Benjamin Netanyahu’s Dangerous Obsession with the Media” by Amir Tibon

“BuzzFeed”: “Infocalypse Now” by Charlie Warzel

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“The New York Times”: “Inside a 3-Year Russian Campaign to Influence U.S. Voters” by Scott Shane & Mark Mazetti

“The New York Times”: “Meet the Troll Boss Who’s Close to Putin” by Neil Mc Farquhar

“The New York Times”: “Indictment Makes Trump’s Hoax Claim Harder to Sell” by Mark Landler & Michael D. Shear

“The New York Times”: “Six Minutes of Death and Chaos at a Florida School” by Richard Fausset, Serge F. Kovaleski & Patricia Mazzei

“The New York Times”: “The Truth About the Florida School Shooting” by David Leonhardt

“The New York Times”: “The Names and Faces of the Florida School Shooting Victims” by Jess Bidgood, Amy Harmon, Mitch Smith & Maya Salam

“The New York Times”: “Meet America’s Syrian Allies Who Helped Defeat ISIS” by Rod Nordland

“The New York Times”: “Kosovo Finds Little to Celebrate After 10 Years of Independence” by Andrew Testa (story & photographs)

“The New York Times”: “An Elite South African Who Vows to Fight for the Ordinary Citizen” by Norimitsu Onishi

“The New York Times”: “South Africa’s President Zuma Leaves Behind a Broken Democracy” by The Editorial Board

“The New York Times Magazine”: “A Literary Road Trip into the Heart of Russia” by Karl Ove Knausgaard

“The New Yorker”: “A Reckoning with Women Awaits Trump” by David Remnick

“The New York Review of Books”: “Who Killed More: Hitler, Stalin or Mao?” by Jan Johnson

”The New York Review of Books”: “The Heart of Conrad” by Calm Tóibín

“The Washington Post”: “Trump’s Russia Hoax turns out to be real” by Philipp Rucker

“The Washington Post”: “A former Russian troll speaks: ‘It was like being in Orwell’s world’” by Anton Troianovski

“The Atlantic”: “How to Talk Like Trump” by Kurt Andersen

“The Atlantic”: “Humorless Politicians Are the Most Dangerous” by Armando Iannucci

“The Guardian”: “Kosovo at 10: Challenges overshadow independence celebrations” by Andrew MacDowell

“The Guardian”: “’Unspeakable numbers’: 10’000 civilians killed or injured in Afghanistan in 2017” by Haroon Janjua

“The Guardian”: “America’s top feminist lawyer. Gloria Allred: ‘Men who have been wrongdoers are living in fear’” by Lucy Rocker

“The Guardian”: “The brutal world of sheep fighting: the illegal sport beloved by Algeria’s angry young men” by Hannah Rae Armstrong

“The Guardian”: “Safe, happy and free: does Finland have all the answers?” by Jon Henley

“The Guardian”: “The media exaggerates negative news. The distortion has consequences” by Steven Pinker

“The Guardian”: “America’s dark underbelly: I watched the rise of white nationalisms” by Vegas Tenold

“The Independent”: “War in 140 characters: How social media has transformed the nature of conflict” by David Patrikarakos

“The Independent”: “In the cases of two separate holocausts, Israel and Poland find it difficult to acknowledge the facts of history” by Robert Fisk

“The Observer”: “Pope Francis wowed the world, but, five years on, is in troubled waters” by Catherine Pepinster

“Columbia Journalism Review”: “One Dangerous Year” by Christie Chisholm

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“The New York Times”: “This Is Peak Olympics” by Stuart A. Thompson & Jessia Ma

“The New York Times”: “A United Korean Flag Can’t Hide Deep Divisions” by Deborah Acosta, Margaret Cheatham Williams & Alexandra Garcia

“The New York Times”: “As West Fears the Growth of Autocrats, Hungary Shows What’s Possible” by Patrick Kingsley

“The New York Times”: “It’s Time for Mahmoud Abbas to Go” by Roger Cohen

“The New York Times”: “Living Abroad Taught Me to Love America” by Janine di Giovanni

“The New York Times”: “Welcome to the Post-Text Future” by Farhad Manjoo (State of the Internet)

“The New York Times”: “Why Is the Syrian War Still Raging?” by Ben Hubbard & Jugal K. Patel

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Rise of China and the Fall of the ‘Free- Trade’ Myth” by Pankaj Mishra

“The New York Times Magazine”: “When You’re a Digital Nomad, the World Is Your Office” by Kyle Chayka

“The New Yorker”: “A Reporter At Large: The White Darkness” by David Grann

“The New Yorker”: “Annals of Technology: Why Paper Jams Persist” by Joshua Rothman

“The New Yorker”: “State of the Resistance” by Jelani  Cobb

“New York Magazine”: “An Updated Guide to the Culture of Intoxicants” by Lauren Levin

“New York Magazine”: “Fashion Has an Image Problem” by Stella Bugbee

“New York Magazine”: “The Other Women’s March on Washington” by Rebecca Traister

“The New York Review of Books”: “Toughing It Out in Cairo” by Jasmine El Rashidi

“The New York Review of Books”: “Facebook’s Fake News Fix” by Sue Halpern

“The Atlantic”: “China Loves Trump” by Benjamin Carlson

“The Atlantic”: “The Real Bias at the FBI” by David A. Graham

“The Atlantic”: “The Man Who Saw Inside Himself” by Mark Bowden

“The Atlantic”: “Who Murdered Malta’s Most Famous Journalist?” by Rachel Donadio

“The Guardian”: “’The training stays with you’: the elite Mexican soldiers recruited by the cartels” by Falko Ernst

“The Guardian”: “My romantic holiday’: the good, the bad and the calamitous”

“The Observer”: “The Observer view on the future of space travel” (Editorial)

“Politico”: “The Coming Wars” by Bruno Maçães

“Politico Magazine”: “The Secret to Henry Kissinger’s Success” by Niall Ferguson

“Outside”: “How to Survive 75 Hours Alone in the Ocean” by Alex Hutchinson

“Outside”: “The Lost Art of Growing Old” by Bill Donahue

“Atavist”: “Losing Conner’s Mind” by Amitha Kalainchandran

“Wired”: “It’s the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech” by Zeynep Tufekci

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“The Washington Post”: “Trump calls for unity, pushes GOP agenda in State of the Union speech” by Karen Tumulty & Philip Rucker

“The Washington Post”: “A Misleading State of the Union” by The Editorial Board

“The Washington Post”: “Fact checking the 2018 State of the Union speech” by Glen Kessler, Salvador Rizzo & Meg Kelly

“The Washington Post”: “Democrats to Trump: not good enough” by David Weigel

“The Washington Post”: “Hillary Clinton’s fatal flaw” by Christine Emba, Ruth Marcus & Alyssa Rosenberg

“The New York Times”: “Trump Can See an Improved Economy, but Not Himself” by Peter Baker

“The New York Times”: “What President Trump Doesn’t Get about the State of the Union” by The Editorial Board

“The New York Times”: “Trump’s Volk und Vaterland” by Roger Cohen

“The New York Times”: “The 426 People, Places and Things Donald Trump  Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List” by Jasmine C. Lee & Kevin Quealy

“The New York Times”: “Haiti: The Heroes of Burial Road” by Catherine Porter & Daniel Berehulak (photos and video)

“The New York Times”: “Running Dry in Cape Town” by Dianne Kane

“The New York Times”: “A Dangerous Course Israel Should Avoid” by Danny Yatom & Ammon Reshef

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Olympics Issue: The Frist African Team to Compete in Bobsled” as told by Jaime Low & Benjamin Lowy (photos)

“The New Yorker”: “Annals of Medicine: What Does It Mean to Die?” by Rachel Aviv

“The New Yorker”:  “On Not Becoming My Father” by Michael Chabon

“The New Yorker”: “The Trippy, High-Speed World of Drone Racing” by Ian Frazier

“The New York Review of Books”: “Art in Free Fall” by David Salle

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Great British Empire Debate” by Kenan Malik

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Worst of the Worst” by Michael Tomasky

“The Guardian”: “Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies – what digital money really means for our future” by Alex Hern

“The Guardian”: “The bureaucracy of evil: how Isis ran a city” by Gaith Abdul-Ahad

The Guardian”: “How the people of Mosul subverted Isis’ ‘apartheid’” by Gaith Abdul-Ahad

“The Guardian”: “’His death kills me each day’ – Mosul residents return home – to what?” by Mona Mahmood

“The Guardian”: “How the Mafias infiltrated Italy’s asylum system” by Barbie Latza Nadeau

“The Guardian”: “Robots will take our jobs. We’d better plan now, before it’s too late” by Larry Elliott

“The Observer”: “The search for the perfect painkiller” by Nic Fleming

“The Independent”: “Can vodou succeed where Western medicine fails?” by Julia Buckely

 “The Independent”: “Inside Afrin, the true victims of Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria are revealed” by Robert Fisk

“The Independent”: “Fake news: How going viral feeds the murky monster of truth” by David Barnett

“London Review of Books”: “Useful Only for Scrap Paper: Michelangelo’s Drawings” by Charles Hope

“Rolling Stone”: “How the GOP Rigs Elections” by Ari Berman

“National Geographic”: “They are watching you – and everything else on the planet” by Robert Draper

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“The New York Times”: “Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It” by Declan Walsh & Tomas Munita

“The New York Times”: “To Rid the Taj Mahal of its Grime, India Prescribes a Mud Bath” by Kai Schultz

“The New York Times”: “The Follower Factory” by Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris & Mark Hansen

“The New York Times”: “Why Is Hollywood so Liberal?” by Neil Gross

“The New York Times”: “More than 160 Women say, Larry Nassar sexually abused them. Here are his accusers in their own words” by Carla Correa & Meghan Louttit

“The New York Times”: “Is There Something Wrong with Democracy?” by Max Fisher & Amanda Taub

“The New York Times”: “Fighting Climate Change? We’re Not Even Landing a Punch” by Eduardo Porter

“The New York Times Magazine”: “How Arafat Eluded Israel’s Assassination Machine” by Ronen Bergman

“The New Yorker”: “Onward and Upward with the Arts: Using Comedy to Strengthen Nigeria’s Democracy” by Adrian Chen

“The New Yorker”: “A Reporter at Large: A Prison Film Made in Prison” by Nick Paumgarten

“The New Yorker”: “The Political Scene: Jared Kushner Is China’s Trump Card” by Adam Entous & Evan Osnos

“New York Magazine”: “The Geeks of Wall Street” by Michelle Celarier

“New York Magazine”: “The Excesses of #MeToo” by Andrew Sullivan

“The New York Review of Books”: “Female Trouble” by Annette Gordon-Reed

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Bitter Secret of ‘Wormwood’” by Tamsin Shaw

“The New York Review of Books”: “Lebanon: About to Blow?” by Janine di Giovanni

“The New York Review of Books”: “Controlling the Chief” by Charlie Savage

The Washington Post”: “’I sit here and people just start to talk: How Michael Wolff wrote ‘Fire and Fury’” by Jonathan Capehart

“The Washington Post”: “The secret history of America’s ailing presidents and the doctors who covered up for them” by Monica Hesse

“The Washington Post”: “Inside the secret, sinister and very illegal cabal trying to destroy Trump” by Dana Milbank

“The Washington Post”: “Welcome to the golden age of conservative magazines” by T.A. Frank

“The Guardian”: “’Never get high on your own supply - why social media bosses don’t use social media” by Alex Hern

“The Guardian”: “The kill chain: inside the unit that tracks targets for US drone wars” by Roy Wenzel

“The Guardian”: “We will get him’: the long hunt for Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi” by Martin Chulov

“The Guardian”: “Young Tunisians know 2011 changed nothing: the revolution goes on” by Ghassen Ben Khelifa & Hamza Hamouchene

“The Guardian”: “The Long Read: How a new technology is changing the lives of people who cannot speak” by Jordan Kisner

“The Guardian”: “Satellite Eye on Earth. November and December 2017 – in pictures”

“The Observer”: “Dazzled by Detroit: how Motown got its groove back” by Aaron Millar

“The Atlantic”: “Can the Earth Feed 10 Billion People?” by Charles C. Mann

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“The Guardian”: “The Trump test: are you fit to be US president?” by Anna Livsey

“The Guardian”: “’Is whistleblowing worth prison or a life in exile?’: Edward Snowden talks to Daniel Ellsberg” by Ewen MacAskill, Edward Snowden & Daniel Ellsberg

“The Guardian”: “Aden in the spotlight: war-torn city tries to dust itself off” by Phil Hoad

“The Guardian”: “Assault is not a feeling. The Aziz Ansari story shows why language matters” by Tiffany Wright

“The Guardian”: “Mythconceptions – 10 things from history everybody gets wrong” by Rebecca Rideal

“The Guardian”: “Trapped in Yemen: one man’s astonishing fight to get home to America” by Dave Eggers

“The Guardian”: “The Promise: One year after a county flipped for Trump, support has been lost – but isn’t gone” by Tom McCarthy

“The Guardian”: “Beyond the wire: the refugees of Manus Island”

“The Guardian”: “Post work. The radical idea of a world without jobs” by Andy Beckett

“The Guardian”: “Melania Trump: Seldom seen, rarely heard” by Lucia Graves

“The Observer”: “Zadie Smith: ‘I have a very messy and chaotic mind”

“The Observer”: “Anger that drove the Arab spring is flaring again” by Emma Grahm-Harrison

“London Review of Books”: “The Spanish Flu: The Untreatable” by Gavin Francis

“The Atlantic”: “Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost” by Emma Green

“The Washington Post”: “Mr. President, stop attacking the press” by John McCain

“The Washington Post”: “The coldest village on earth” by Eli Rosenberg

“The Washington Post”: “Is Trump’s doctor okay?” by Dana Milbank

“The Washington Post”: “What 7 Post photographers discovered after having 102 conversations with people in all 50 states plus D.C.” by Karly Domb Sadof,  Mary Anne Golon & Wendy Galieta

“The Washington Post”: “Book review: American democracy is on a break: welcome to ‘Trumpocracy’”by Carlos Lozada

“The Washington Post”: “What Unites Us?” by Ann Gerhart

“The New York Times”: “Letters: ‘Vison, Chutzpah and Some Testosterone’”

“The New York Times”: “What We Can Learn from S-Hole Countries” by Nicholas Kristof

“The New York Times”: “The 747 Had a Great Run. But Farewell Doesn’t Mean the End” by Zach Wichter & Dustin Chamber (photographs)

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble” by Steven Johnson

“The New York Times Magazine”: “I Used to Insist I Didn’t Get Angry. Not Anymore – On Female Rage” by Leslie Jamison

“The New York Times”: “Keep Our Mountains Free. And Dangerous” by Francis Sanzaro

“The New York Times”: “How the Other Half Lives in Iran” by Shahram Khosravi

“The New Yorker”: “World War Three, by Mistake” by Eric Schlosser

“The New Yorker”: “Dept. of Foreign Policy: How the U.S. Is Making the War in Yemen Worse” by Nicolas Niarchos

“The New Yorker”: “Letter from Calabria: The Woman Who Took on the Mafia” by Alex Perry

“The New York Review of Books”: “The Nuclear Worrier” by Thomas Powers

“Rolling Stone”: “Death of the American Trucker” by Tim Dickinson

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“The Guardian”: “India has 600 million young people – and they’re set to change our world” by Ian Jack

“The Guardian”: “Super Wealth: When will we see the world’s first trillionaire?” by Tom Campbell

“The Guardian”: “We laugh at Russian propaganda, but Hollywood history is just as fake” by Simon Jenknis

“The Guardian”: “California in revolt: how the progressive state plans to foil the Trump by Sam Levin

“The Guardian”: “Victor Orban’s reckless football obsession” by David Goldblatt & Daniel Nolan

“The Observer”: “’Peter Preston believed that journalism should try to make the world a better place’” by Roger Alton

“The New Yorker”: “A Reporter At Large: “When Deportation Is a Death Sentence” by Sarah Stillman

“The New Yorker”: “Modern Times: The Psychology of Inequality” by Elizabeth Kolbert

“New York Magazine”: “Maria’s Bodies” by Mattathias Schwartz (story) & Matt Black (photographs)

“New York Magazine”: “’The World’s Biggest Terrorist Has a Pikachu Bedspread” by Kerry Howley (story) & Mike McQuade (illustration)

“The New York Review of Books”: “Homeless in Gaza” by Sarah Helms

“The New York Review of Books”: “Bitcoin Mania” by Sue Halpern

“FiveBooks”: “The Best Nature Writing of 2017” by Charles Foster

“Outside”: “Red Daw in in Lapland” by David Wolman

“Smithsonian.com”: “The Extraordinary Life of Nikola Tesla” by Richard Gunderman

“ProPublica”: “Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection” by Kiera Feldman

“Literary Hub: “The Largest Leak in History” by Jeffrey Himmelman

“Mosaic”: “Something in the Water” by Joshua Sokol

“Verso”: “The Communist hypothesis” by Alain Badiou & Laurent Joffrin

“War on the Rocks”: “How to Organize a Military Coup” by Danny Orbach

“the PARIS REVIEW”: “Jack Kerouac, The Art of Fiction No. 41” interviewed by Ted Berriogan

“The New York Times”: “In My Chronic Illness, I Found a Deeper Meaning” by Elliot Kukla

“The New York Times”: “Where Women Can Make Movies? The Middle East” by Nana Asfour

“The New York Times Magazine”: “Learning How to Fool Our Algorithmic Spies” by John Herman

“The New York Times”: “Mr. Amazon Steps Out” by Nick Wingfield & Nellie Bowles

“The New York Times”: “Donald Trump Flushes Away America’s Reputation” by the Editorial Board

“The New York Times”: “How Democracies Perish” by David Brooks

“The New York Times”: “52 Places to Go to in 2018”

“The New York Times Magazine”: “The Mystery of the Exiled Billionaire Whistle-Blower” by Lauren Hilgers

“The Washington Post”: “Being a mother in Hawaii during 38 minutes of nuclear fear” by Allison Wallis

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“HuffPost”: “The Wildest Moments from ‘Fire and Fury’, the Trump book everyone is talking about” by Marina Fang, Sara Boboltz & Chris D’Angelo

“New York Magazine”: “Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President” by Michael Wolff & Jeffrey Smith (illustrations)

“The New York Times”: “Michael Wolff, From Local Media Scourge to National Newsmaker” by Michael S. Grynbaum

“The New York Times”: “Everyone in Trumpworld Knows He’s an Idiot” by Michelle Goldberg

“The New York Times”: “Why Iran Is Protesting” by Amir Ahmadi Arian

“The New York Times”: “A Chinese Empire Reborn” by Edward Wong

“The New York Times”: “If No One Owns the Moon, Can Anyone Make Money Up There?” by Kenneth Chang

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“The New York Review of Books”: “Murderous Majorities” by Mukul Kesavan

“The New York Review of Books”: “God’s Oppressed Children” by Pankaj Mishra

“The Washington Post”: “Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Russia Mania, covfefe, and the Category 5 weirdness of 2017” by Dave Barry

“The Washington Post”: “Winner and losers from 2017, the year in politics” by Aaron Blake

“The Washington Post”: “A once trendy Rio slum is now ‘at war’” by Anthony Faiola & Anna Jean Keiser

“The Intercept”: “The Biggest Secret: My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror” by James Risen

“The Intercept”: “All the New Unfit to Print: James Risen on his Battles with Bush, Obama, and the New York Times” by James Risen

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“The Independent”: “The Middle East in 2018” by Patrick Cockburn

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“The Atlantic”: “What Putin Really Wants” by Julia Joffe

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“The New York Times”: “Editors Speak: A Reading List 2017” by David Leonhardt

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“The New York Times”: “Iran’s and Saudi’s Latest Power Struggle: Expanding Rights for Women” by Anne Barnard & Thomas Erdbrink

“The New York Times”: “At His Own Wake, Celebrating Life, and the Gift of Death” by Leslye Davis

“The New York Times”: “An Israel of Pride and Shame” by Roger Cohen

“The Washington Post”: “10 ways tech will shape your life in 2018, for better and worse” by George F. Fowler

“The Washington Post”: “A Second Revolution in Iran? Not yet” by Maziar Bahari

“The Washington Post”: “To beat Trump, you have to learn to think like his supporters” by Andres Miguel Rondon

“The Guardian”: “Trump’s progress report: his impact so far and what to watch for next year” by David Smith

“The Guardian”: “How I became Christian again: the long journey to find my faith once more” by Bryan Mealer

“The Observer”: “Laughing parrots, backflipping robots and savior viruses: Science stories of 2017”

The Independent”: “Twenty extraordinary women who changed the world in 2017” by Harriet Marsden

“Literary Review”: “Gorbachev: The Last Comrade” by Robert Service

“Verso”: “The Communist hypothesis” by Alain Badiou & Laurent Joffrin

“Emergency Physicians Monthly”: “How One Las Vegas ED Saved Hundreds of Lives After the Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History” by Kevin Menes MD, Judith Tintinally MD, Ms & Logan Plaster

“American Affairs”: “The New Class War” by Michael Lind

“Atlas Obscura”: “To be a bee” by Natasha Frost

“History Today”: “Murder at the Vatican” by Catherine Fletcher

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“Vox”: “Talking Policy with Paul Krugman” by Ezra Klein

Die Beziehungen zwischen Italien und Frankreich waren schon lange belastet. Italien hat gegenüber dem grossen Nachbarn im Nordwesten einen eigentlichen Komplex entwickelt. Nicht von ungefähr: In der grossen internationalen Diplomatie und Politik spielt Italien nur eine Statistenrolle – im Gegensatz zur „Grande Nation“, die sich gerne aufplustert. Während Jahrzehnten war Französisch die Sprache der Diplomatie und der Gebildeten. Wer spricht schon Italienisch?

Seit seinem Machtantritt im Frühjahr hetzt Italiens starker Mann, Matteo Salvini, gegen das offizielle Frankreich. Dass er die Häfen für Migranten aus Nordafrika schloss, hat in Paris heftige Reaktionen ausgelöst – die wiederum mit sehr bösen Worten aus Rom quittiert wurden. Am Montag unterstützte Salvini die französische Gelbestenbewegung, Macron regiere „gegen das Volk“, sagte  der Lega-Chef.

Runder Jahrestag

Die Abneigung gegenüber Frankreich macht sich nun die populistische italienische Regierung weiter medienwirksam zu Nutze. Exerziert wird der Schlagabtausch an einem der ganz Grossen des Abendlandes. Es geht um Leonardo da Vinci, der am 2. Mai 1519 – also vor 500 Jahren – starb. Ein runder Jahrestag, der natürlich gefeiert werden soll.

Beginnen wir von vorn: Auch wenn viele Italiener die Franzosen nicht mögen, so gab es doch – vor allem auf kulturellem Gebiet – immer wieder enge Beziehungen.

Leonardo für Raffael, Raffael für Leonardo

Vor allem der frühere italienische Kulturminister, der Sozialdemokrat Dario Franceschini, pflegte ausgezeichnete Kontakte mit Frankreich.

2007 schloss er mit Paris ein Abkommen. Dieses sieht vor, dass Italien im Hinblick auf die Leonardo-Festivitäten dem Louvre einige Bilder des grossen Universalgelehrten ausleiht, und zwar für eine Ausstellung, die im Herbst eröffnet werden soll.

Im Gegenzug verpflichtet sich Frankreich, den Italienern ein Jahr später unter die Arme zu greifen. Dann wird der 500. Todestag eines anderen Renaissance-Giganten gefeiert. Am 6. April 1520 starb Raffael (Raffaello Sanzio d’Urbino) in Rom. Aus Anlass dieses Jahrestages plant Italien in den Scuderie del Quirinale in Rom (gegenüber dem Quirinal-Palast) eine grosse Ausstellung. Der Louvre verpflichtet sich, den Italienern seine Raffael-Bilder zur Verfügung zu stellen.

„Ein Verrat an Italien“

Doch dann kamen in Italien die Populisten an die Macht. Und jetzt könnte alles ganz anders werden.

Als erste meldete sich Lucia Borgonzoni zu Wort. Sie gehört Salvinis Lega an und ist Unterstaatssekretärin im Kulturministerium. Sie bezeichnet das von Dario Franceschini ausgehandelte Abkommen als „unglaublich“ und will es neu verhandeln. „Leonardo ist Italiener“, sagte sie dem „Corriere della sera“. „Er ist nur in Frankreich gestorben.“

Dass Italien dem Louvre die Leonardo-Bilder zur Verfügung stellen müsse, sei „unannehmbar“, „ein Verrat an Italien“ und verstosse „gegen das nationale Interesse“. Italien werde gezwungen, im grossen Leonardo-Jahr eine Nebenrolle zu spielen. „Die Franzosen können nicht alles haben“, betont sie.

Applaus der Lega

Dass Frankreich im Gegenzug den Italienern einige Raffael-Bilder zur Verfügung stellen muss, wiege den Verlust nicht auf, den Italien im Leonardo-Jahr erleide. Vor allem auch deshalb nicht, sagt die Unterstaatssekretärin, „weil sich die meisten wichtigen Raffael-Bilder bereits in Italien befinden“.

Lucia Borgonzonis Attacke auf Frankreich wird von vielen Lega-Anhängern mit Applaus bedacht. Auch in den sozialen Medien erhält sie viel Unterstützung. Immer wieder heisst es: „Leonardo gehört uns.“

Die populistische Regierung betont, die Vorgänger-Regierungen hätten die Interessen Italiens mit Füssen getreten. Jetzt wolle man dieses Unrecht wiedergutmachen. Der „Fall Leonardo“ eignet sich gut, diese Italia-first-Politik zu untermauern. Und Frankreich empfiehlt sich bestens als Sündenbock.

Italien hätte Zeit gehabt

Leonardo, 1452 in Vinci bei Florenz geboren, arbeitete in Florenz, Rom und Mailand. 1516, drei Jahre vor seinem Tod, wanderte er – umworben vom französischen Hof – nach Frankreich aus. In seinem Gepäck befanden sich viele seiner berühmtesten Bilder, unter anderem „Mona Lisa“, „Johannes“ und „Anna selbdritt“. Diese Werke gelangten dann in den Louvre. Dort hofft man nun, dass die guten Beziehungen zwischen den Museumsdirektoren die politischen Attacken der Populisten überleben.

Frankreich betont, dass der Louvre seine Leonardo-Ausstellung bewusst auf den Herbst angesetzt hat. Italien hätte also Zeit gehabt, im Frühjahr (Leonardo starb im Mai) eine Ausstellung zu organisieren.

Profilierungssucht?

Darauf geht Salvini nicht ein. Er lässt keine Gelegenheit aus, um Frankreich und vor allem seinen Präsidenten („Macron ist scheinheilig“) anzuschwärzen. Die Attacken seiner Unterstaatssekretärin im Kulturministerium kommen ihm gelegen – oder wurden gar von ihm initiiert.

Etwas ist seltsam: Der italienische Kulturminister Alberto Bonisoli schwieg bisher. Er, der Nachfolger von Dario Franceschini, gehört nicht der Lega an, sondern den Cinque Stelle. Lucia Borgonzoni, die an der „Accademia delle Belle Arti“ in Bologna doktorierte, war bisher kaum aufgefallen. Jetzt, so vermuten sowohl italienische als auch französische Kreise, will sie sich mit ihrer Attacke auf Frankreich profilieren und bei Salvini einschmeicheln.

Es geschieht viel auf dem Rücken des toskanischen Uomo universale.

Je n’y ai jamais rien compris parce que la réalité ne corrobore pas ces intentions belliqueuses, économiquement parlant. Et j’en veux pour preuve l’évolution du négoce du gaz entre la Russie et l’Europe. Elle n’a jamais été aussi intense! «Les exportations de gaz russe vers l’Europe ont atteint un nouveau record en 2018 malgré les tensions diplomatiques et la volonté de l’Union européenne de réduire sa dépendance à la Russie», indique le groupe russe Gazprom. Cette nouvelle AFP date du 28 décembre dernier, je l’ai lue à Budapest. J’espère que la presse helvétique l’a relayée également.

Sur le plan énergétique, à tout le moins, la réthorique guerrière enclenchée par Washington et Bruxelles ne se traduit pas par des faits sur le terrain. D’abord parce que la dépendance européenne du gaz russe ne décline pas. Elle ne fait que s’accroître, au contraire. Plus du tiers du gaz naturel importé de ce côté de l’Oural vient de Russie. Et cette tendance n’est pas près de s’inverser avec la construction de deux méga-gazoducs, Nord Stream et TurkStream, qui relient, tout en évitant l’Ukraine et la Pologne, l’ancien empire de Pierre le Grand aux marches de l’ex-royaume de Charlemagne.

Les deux projets sont très avancés. Le Danemark se tâte encore pour savoir s’il ne devrait pas jouer l’empêcheur de tourner en rond en mettant son veto au passage du gazoduc dans ses eaux territoriales. Mais le pays de la Petite Sirène semble bien isolé. Osera-t-il braver les intérêts de l’Allemagne? Révélateur est le fait que même Washington ne s’oppose pas à Nord Stream. Quant à TurkStream qui, comme son nom l’évoque, résulte d’une alliance entre MM. Poutine et Erdogan, ce ne sont pas moins de 12 Etats européens et proche-orientaux qui sont concernés, à leur avantage comme à leurs dépens. Certains se regardent en chiens de faïence, pour ne citer que la Turquie et la Syrie face à Israël, l’initiateur d’un projet concurrent encore balbutiant, Eastmed.

Avec le pétrole, le gaz est la première ressource en devises de la Russie. S’en prendre aux flux des gazoducs est-ouest reviendrait à porter un coup très grave à l’économie de ce pays. Apparemment personne ne le souhaite vraiment, à commencer par M. Trump. Le jeu des sanctions est donc du grand bluff destiné à amuser la galerie.

Interdits de séjour au Forum économique, trois oligarques russes ne rigolent pas du tout, eux. Moscou ayant affiché sa solidarité, la Russie boycottera le prochain Davos. Le monde à l’envers! Mais surtout la preuve que le rendez-vous annuel dans la station grisonne – le contribuable suisse y contribue à hauteur de plusieurs dizaines de millions de francs – est la chasse gardée de l’Amérique.