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An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays and informative analysis run daily. http://lnk.bio/newlinesmag
From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social archives: A small Alawite village straddling the disputed boundaries of Lebanon, Israel and Syria has become a political football, largely due to lines drawn a century ago on a colonial map.
How a Line on a Map Fanned the Flames of a Middle Eastern Conflict
The residents of the village of Ghajar, contested between Syria, Lebanon and Israel, are victims of a colonial cartographic error
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Chicago has reinvented itself before — from frontier outpost to industrial powerhouse. Now it hopes to become the capital of the quantum economy. What does its history tell us about the city's future?
The Tumultuous History Behind Chicago’s Transformation Into a Quantum Metropolis
From Indian Country to skyscrapers and data centers, the city has always been a site of dramatic social collisions and environmental ruptures
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“The second Trump administration has abruptly ended TPS for Haiti and has plunged communities across the nation into a state of fear, anxiety and despair.” | Lesley Joseph
A Haitian American Reflects on the Future
The Trump administration is ending the program that allowed many from the Caribbean country to live and work in the US, and the change will be felt throughout American society
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The collapse of the de facto Saudi-Houthi truce in July 2026 has reopened a question about whether Riyadh's decade-long reliance on the internationally recognized Yemeni government still serves its interests.
Is It Time for Saudi Arabia To Find New Yemeni Allies?
A renewed Houthi escalation has revived Gulf arguments that Riyadh should shift its backing from the internationally recognized government to the separatist Southern Transitional Council
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“The incoming prosecutor will inherit a court caught between the demand for accountability from victims around the world and the political forces determined to limit its reach.” | @kayliwewe.bsky.social
The Impossible Job Facing the ICC’s Next Prosecutor
The International Criminal Court’s new leader will inherit an institution caught between delivering justice and the pressures exerted by powerful governments
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NEW: The ICC is searching for a new chief prosecutor at a defining moment. As @kayliwewe.bsky.social writes in @newlinesmag.bsky.social, the new leader will inherit major cases, political pressure and questions over whether the court can regain trust. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...
The Impossible Job Facing the ICC’s Next Prosecutor
The International Criminal Court’s new leader will inherit an institution caught between delivering justice and the pressures exerted by powerful governments
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NEW: For over a decade, Haitians have built lives in the U.S. As the Trump administration ends their temporary protected status, the Haitian-American writer Lesley Joseph reflects on what it means for his family and people, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/a-h...
A Haitian American Reflects on the Future
The Trump administration is ending the program that allowed many from the Caribbean country to live and work in the US, and the change will be felt throughout American society
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Progressives and centrists are locked in one of the year's most closely watched Democratic primaries. Reporting from Michigan, @dannypostel.bsky.social found a race defined not only by ideology, but by fierce debates over Gaza, identity and political representation. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ce...
Centrists and Progressives Clash in Michigan’s High-Stakes US Senate Primary
The race between public health official Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and four-term Rep. Haley Stevens is a microcosm of the struggle for the future of the Democratic Party
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WATCH: Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary has become a national test of where the party goes next. @dannypostel.bsky.social examines his recent article on the race between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens. f.mtr.cool/zjsanuyfqu
High Stakes in Michigan
Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary has become a national test of ...
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Why did a migration crisis in Ceuta quickly become a battleground for Israel, Morocco, Spain and Europe's far right? @chriselkholy.bsky.social looks at how one small enclave became a window into a new Mediterranean order. f.mtr.cool/vdgdtdsggi
What the Ceuta Crisis Reveals About the New Mediterranean Order
What the Ceuta Crisis Reveals About the New Mediterranean Order
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Economic collapse, mass smoking and worsening air pollution have combined to give Lebanon — a country once known as the region's leader in healthcare – the fastest-growing cancer burden anywhere.
Lebanon’s Rapidly Rising Cancer Rates
The country was once a beacon of healthcare in the region, but high numbers of smokers, economic collapse and Israeli bombs are worsening outcomes
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Israel’s veteran security establishment is terrified that settler violence will spark a third intifada, and has now appealed to Donald Trump to pressure Netanyahu over the issue.
Former Israeli Security Leaders Ask Trump To Help Rein in West Bank Settlers
Israel’s veteran security establishment is terrified that settler violence will spark a third intifada, and has now appealed to Donald Trump to pressure Netanyahu over the issue.
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From memes and pop culture to slogans on the street, a new language of protest is challenging India’s old codes of restraint and respect, writes @surbhigupta.bsky.social .
How India’s Gen Z Made Profanity Political
From memes and pop culture to slogans on the street, a new language of protest is challenging India’s old codes of restraint and respect
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“For displaced women living with HIV — already at the margins after years of insurgent violence and sexual abuse — the collapse of care has hit particularly hard, turning a manageable condition into a looming death sentence.”
The ‘Zero’ People Who Died After USAID Was Dismantled
Both Elon Musk and Marco Rubio claim that no one has lost their life as a result of aid cuts. New Lines went to northeastern Nigeria to test that claim
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“As I worked on this story, I came to understand that the war has not only transformed weddings in Gaza. It has transformed people’s relationship with time itself.”
How War Has Redefined Marriage in Gaza
Celebrating the bond between two lives is a declaration that life itself, however diminished, is still worth living
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Israel’s veteran security establishment is terrified that settler violence will spark a third intifada, and has now appealed to Donald Trump to pressure Netanyahu over the issue. My latest for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/running-note...
Former Israeli Security Leaders Ask Trump To Help Rein in West Bank Settlers
Israel’s veteran security establishment is terrified that settler violence will spark a third intifada, and has now appealed to Donald Trump to pressure Netanyahu over the issue.
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Chicago went from a frontier outpost to a modern metropolis, and is now the nerve center of the emerging “quantum prairie” economy. In this essay for @newlinesmag.bsky.social, Benjamin Ortiz explores what the city’s tumultuous past might tell us about its future. newlinesmag.com/essays/the-t...
The Tumultuous History Behind Chicago’s Transformation Into a Quantum Metropolis
From Indian Country to skyscrapers and data centers, the city has always been a site of dramatic social collisions and environmental ruptures
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Michigan's U.S. Senate primary race between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is a microcosm of the struggle between progressives and centrists for the future of the Democratic Party. Our Politics Editor @dannypostel.bsky.social reports from the ground. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ce...
Centrists and Progressives Clash in Michigan’s High-Stakes US Senate Primary
The race between public health official Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and four-term Rep. Haley Stevens is a microcosm of the struggle for the future of the Democratic Party
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🎧NEW: Young states are born resembling protection rackets, argues Ryan Gingeras. He joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.social on The Lede to discuss what mafias from the United States to Lebanon and Tokyo reveal about the origins and limits of the nation-state, and his new book, "Mafia: A Global History."
How Crime Built the Modern World
The historian Ryan Gingeras discusses the making of mafias from Sicily to Shanghai, what criminal networks reveal about hidden power, and his new book, “Mafia: A Global History.”
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NEW: Elon Musk insists that “zero” people died as a result of USAID’s dismantling. For @newlinesmag.bsky.social Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi met families in Nigeria who tell another story: loved ones, once stable on U.S.-funded HIV drugs, now in declining health, with some dying.
The ‘Zero’ People Who Died After USAID Was Dismantled
Both Elon Musk and Marco Rubio claim that no one has lost their life as a result of aid cuts. New Lines went to northeastern Nigeria to test that claim
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Did you know we have an award-winning weekly podcast called The Lede? Recent episodes have explored Iran’s uncertain future after war, how disease outbreaks become geopolitical crises, the hidden politics of the World Cup, and the unresolved questions shaping American democracy.
Podcast Archives
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“Nobody from that ecosystem is in any position to take a moral stand on abusive language. They created this culture.” How India’s Gen Z made profanity political, by @bysurbugupta: f.mtr.cool/tfhuflcfct
How India’s Gen Z Made Profanity Political
From memes and pop culture to slogans on the street, a new language of protest is challenging India’s old codes of restraint and respect
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“This summer, millions of Tunisians have faced regular power blackouts, as the grid, which has not had its capacity increased in the last five years, struggles to keep up with demand.”
Amid Blackouts and Price Hikes, Tunisians Take to the Streets
Neither the physical nor political heat from the weekend will be enough to topple the president, but the protests show that, although Tunisians may be exhausted, their revolutionary flame has not been entirely snuffed out.
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"It became so bad that at one point I had to go to her house and give her the insulin shot by force. She resisted and truly believed she was fine." How an Egyptian doctor's fad diet turned deadly across the Arab world:
How an Egyptian Doctor's Fad Diet Turned Deadly
A former anesthesiologist wrapped his ‘tayibbat’ program in Quranic language and told diabetics to abandon insulin and eat sugar, leading to hospital admissions and deaths across the Arab world
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From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social archives: The climate crisis isn’t just changing the frequency of disasters, but how societies prepare for them. On Greece’s Evia island, wildfires reveal a stark future: https://f.mtr.cool/rmxkbkxqbu
“The problem isn’t just these recent attacks on the fishers’ docks. The problem is that when there’s a war, the sea becomes unsafe, and the number of days when you can go out to fish drops dramatically.”
WATCH: A Turkish comedian’s 90-minute set lampooning the nation’s political class, religious factions and nationalist fervor led to his arrest. @kliwewe reviews the case, and the wider debate it has sparked about the boundaries of expression.
Turkey's Most Dangerous Comedian
A Turkish comedian’s 90-minute set lampooning the nation’s political class, religious factions and nationalist fervor has landed him at the center of a state...
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NEW: As the war nears the end of its third year, many in Gaza are marrying without waiting for peace, reshaping traditions of celebration and mourning as they struggle to hold on to life, writes Athar Abu Samra in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...
How War Has Redefined Marriage in Gaza
Celebrating the bond between two lives is a declaration that life itself, however diminished, is still worth living
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NEW: Israel’s veteran security establishment is terrified that settler violence will spark a third intifada, and has now appealed to Donald Trump to pressure Netanyahu over the issue, writes @lisang.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/running-note...
Former Israeli Security Leaders Ask Trump To Help Rein in West Bank Settlers
Israel’s veteran security establishment is terrified that settler violence will spark a third intifada, and has now appealed to Donald Trump to pressure Netanyahu over the issue.
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Editor’s Pick: Lebanon is facing one of the fastest rises in cancer rates anywhere in the world, as its health system struggles with a toxic mix of pollution, economic collapse and the effects of war. f.mtr.cool/tqmjrbwexb
Lebanon’s Rapidly Rising Cancer Rates
The country was once a beacon of healthcare in the region, but high numbers of smokers, economic collapse and Israeli bombs are worsening outcomes
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