Following Israel's attack on Iran's consulate in Syria, Iranian forces have seized an "Israeli-linked" container ship near the Strait of Hormuz. / Al Jazeera See also: "The conventional wisdom in Washington and elsewhere has often held that Iran has become contained, even isolated.
Bird flu outbreaks typically go away after culling poultry, but over the past three years the virus hasn't died down, and in fact is increasing. / WIRED Moira Donegan: How society's failure to help an obvious victim of domestic violence led to Nicole Brown's death.
The February heatwave in West Africa was made 10 times more likely by climate change. / CarbonBrief British farmers say this year's record rainfall suggests an ongoing emergency. / The Guardian A round-up of superlatives, senior yearbook style, for "the most surprising, actionable, and fun solutions" to
"If the global south exists, then who leads it?" From 2000 to 2021, China funded more than 20,000 infrastructure projects across 165 countries. / The Economist Ed Conway: Elon Musk isn't going to be the Henry Ford of the electric car—China is. / Material World Jon
Over the weekend, Iran seemed to float a way to stop the Gaza genocide and a regional war. / Forever Wars From February: Gaza and the dilemmas of genocide scholars. / Al Jazeera The Moscow terror attack causes a backlash against labor migrants in Russia. / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace See also:
Israel regroups its army to move into Rafah. A round-up of statistics from a devastating six months. / The Associated Press, Al Jazeera Pankaj Mishra: The more remote the Shoah has grown, the more fiercely its memory has been possessed by Jewish Americans. / The London Review of Books Who is
Hi. Due to the work required this month to produce the Tournament of Books, we're going to take a week off and nap. See you April 8. With the Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich now detained in Russia for a year, other journalists explain how they
At least 32,490 Palestinians have been killed and 74,889 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. / Al Jazeera Right-wing Israelis question whether the country relies too much on the United States. / The Wall Street Journal [+] Dominic Tierney: Israelis are likely to look back on the
Ukraine says a third of all Russian warships in the Black Sea have been sunk or disabled. / Semafor The ship that hit the Baltimore Key Bridge was involved in a collision while leaving Antwerp, Belgium, in 2016. / The Guardian See also: "The Baltimore bridge collapse is only the latest—
A bridge in Baltimore collapses after being hit by a large container ship. / The Wall Street Journal [+] The rate at which Gaza has reached its depth of food insecurity is "practically unheard of" in the 21st century. / Vox Despite some 667,000 people experiencing "catastrophic" levels
