Google is rolling out AI-generated answers that displace links to human-written websites. wapo.st/3yi6bcE

Over the past 25 years, there’s been a steep decline in people belonging to any type of church, synagogue or mosque.

But what is lost as people drift from religion?

Kate Cohen, Shadi Hamid and @PerryBaconJr discuss on the latest #ImpromptuPodcast : wapo.st/4b8mkQj

Surprisingly lucid article in The Economist: 'The liberal international order is slowly coming apart. Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible.'
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The irony is that, as they themselves describe in the article, the US is largely the prime culprit in the…

Pro-Israel counterprotestors started tearing down UCLA encampment barriers and screamed 'Second nakba!' referring to the mass displacement & dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Per Los Angeles Times Safi Nazzal on the scene with another video:

Next week, Columbia University, which has banned reporters from its campus, is scheduled to announce this year’s winners of one of the most prestigious prizes in journalism.

NYT: 'The espionage cases in Britain and Germany, the first of their kind in two countries that once cultivated warm relations with Beijing, served as eye-catching exclamation points in Europe’s long, often anguished breakup with China.'
nytimes.com/2024/04/27/wor…

So I helped do a thing and rank the 50 best Arabic pop songs of the 21st century for Rolling Stone.

By far the coolest, funnest, and most challenging thing I’ve ever worked on. A labor of love went into this, and it’s an honor. rollingstone.com/music/music-li…

Incredible, incredible story Los Angeles Times — beautifully told, both through words, and a grandfather's meticulous notebooks, rediscovered: How a migrant farmworker built generational wealth, penny by penny latimes.com/world-nation/s…

'The primary findings of the task force’s report were that Israel’s actions in Gaza involve a 'systematic disregard for fundamental principles of international law''

forbes.com/sites/williamh…

First time I've been able to depict migration by world region at the US-Mexico border. Here are Border Patrol migrant apprehensions 2014-December 2023.

What was a 97% Mexico-Central America population is now 52%.

1 in 8 of migrants in Q1 2024 came from outside this hemisphere.

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

Visual evidence and internal communications show that before the strike on World Central Kitchen, multiple aid operations and local staff shelters in Gaza had come under Israeli fire — even after the I.D.F. was notified of the locations and logged them as humanitarian sites.…

The number was revised closer to 300 bodies. If Israel and Egypt let the int’l press in you’d have throngs of TV reporters tonight doing live shots on the edge of this mass grave. cnn.com/middleeast/liv…

I wrote for TIME about people who regret having children

I've often been told that such regret isn’t possible; for this piece, I interviewed parents who love their kids & who, if they could turn back time, might not choose to be parents again

Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency UNRWA are members of terrorist organisations, an independent review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said.

The Colonna report, which was commissioned…

This is undoubtedly the best analysis I've heard to date of the Iran strike on Israel. It's long-ish (about 10 minutes) but absolutely worth listening to.

The man speaking is Chas Freeman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and, very relevant to the topic, former US…

Edmundo Gonzalez, Venezuela's low-profile and last-minute opposition candidate reut.rs/4d0gGBn

“As much as it may be wished for, Washington is unlikely to provide the decisive leadership or the leverage needed to push through a lasting Israeli-Palestinian settlement. It will be up to the Middle East’s own leaders and diplomats to take charge.”
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Presidente de Ecuador se queda sin mayoría en el Congreso por asalto a la Embajada de México

El partido Acción Democrática Nacional, de Daniel Noboa, perdió el apoyo de Revolución Ciudadana en la Asamblea Nacional de Ecuador, con lo que pierde la mayoría. ow.ly/2Cpu50R9ToB

I'm in Gaza with my charity INARA. As we were leaving one cluster of tents a woman came up and said “My son keeps screaming and shaking uncontrollably. It started when he saw his sister’s head blown off”.