New episode dropped 🫳 a throwback to when Daniel Perell and I got to pick Natalie Samarasinghe’s brain on the theory of change around #SummitoftheFuture 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts Coalition for the UN We Need GGIN Stimson Center Baha'i International Community #OurCommonFuture

Tech CEOs are already arguing that concerns about #AI’s impact on #elections were overblown. Hang on, says Suzanne Nossel – it’s way too early to be sure, as #SocialMedia’s evolving effects showed: #democracy #ArtificialIntelligence justsecurity.org/99069/artifici…

Our 9/19 issue is now online, with Anahid Nersessian on Rachel Kushner, Ben Tarnoff on Silicon Valley’s Trump bloc, David Shulman on Israel and the ICJ, Fintan O'Toole on Kamala Harris, Rumaan Alam on Victor LaValle, Lynn Hunt on Fareed Zakaria, and much more. go.nybooks.com/3Mr8yhc

How Ideas from Early India Transformed the World- Curtain-raiser for The Golden Road The Observer "In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’ about how much Indian thought formed the foundations of our world theguardian.com/world/article/…

At last! A level-headed piece on immigration. Many thanks to Jonathan Portes theguardian.com/books/article/…

BREAKING - Lebanon's former central bank governor Riad Salameh arrested after being interrogated by judge over alleged corruption scheme - senior judicial source Reuters

Wrote about the great Joseph O’Neill and Godwin, a workplace novel about the kinds of everyday political breakdown that sabotage progress: nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Putin received a warm welcome to Mongolia today, despite an ICC arrest warrant. Dmytro Kuleba: "[Ukraine] sent a very clear message ahead of the visit. It was ignored.... Mongolia decided to blatantly violate its obligations under the Rome Statute.”

Genuinely one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen

David Cameron sat on advice that there was breach of law in Gaza, officials say dlvr.it/TCmy71

This short Al Jazeera documentary, following a photo journalist as he tries cover the protests taking place in Dhaka #Bangladesh on the day before Sheikh Hasina leaves the country, is riveting and takes you into the heart of the protests, by Elizabeth D. Costa youtube.com/watch?v=LqCkSr…

Israel's operation in the West Bank must end immediately. 33 Palestinians have been killed in the last week; 130 injured; civilian infrastructure destroyed. Hospitals are besieged. People are running low on food & water. Catastrophe is unfolding, unnoticed by the world. 1/2

Why is generative AI a threat to democracy, and what's intimacy got to do with it? Read an excerpt from 'Nexus' in today's The New York Times, ahead of the book's publication next week: nyti.ms/3ZuHgOL. #NexusBook

Instead of ensuring the integrity of the Oct 6 ballot, #Tunisia's electoral commission is paving the way for Kais Saied's second term. Holding elections amid such repression makes a mockery of Tunisians’ right to participate in free & fair elections Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2024/09/0…

Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? theguardian.com/technology/art…

On the Netanyahu map 🇮🇱 has already annexed all of the West Bank. His approach to international law is obviously no different from Putin’s. bbc.com/news/articles/…

The #ICC Prosecutor, Karim A. A. Khan KC, sat down with Nick Robinson for a wide-ranging interview that lasted nearly an hour. It is well worth a listen! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

No words.

I took Scott's seminar in college. A towering intellect, soft-spoken, wise, brimming with empathy. His skepticism of power was only eclipsed by his love of humanity. RIP thenation.com/article/societ…

Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring Pratap Bhanu Mehta in conversation with editor Kanishk Tharoor: foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/can-i…