On February 14, 1979 a largely overlooked news story flashed briefly across the wires–about a shootout in a hotel in Kabul. As it turned out, what happened there had enormous implications for the world. At the time though, the story was nudged off the front pages by events happening elsewhere… more>>
- "There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars." — Jack Kerouac
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
BBC In Our Time
The Guardian- Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
- ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law
- Isaias strengthens to become first Atlantic hurricane of 2026 season
- Egyptian journalists plan weekend protest over detention of six colleagues
- Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island
- California coastal homes battered and bruised after weekend of intense waves and flooding
- UK asks Interpol to reject Argentina’s ‘politically motivated’ requests for Falklands oil arrests
- How a scandal engulfing Brazil’s top court could return the Bolsonaros to power
- Latin American organised crime ‘may operate in 16 European countries’
- Hurricane Simon and Tropical Storm Rachel kill five people on Mexico’s Pacific coast
Talking Points Memo- Zacharia Claim About Chinese Bar Exam Probably False
- Kim Guilfoyle Accepts Her Trump World Dethroning
- This Week on the Polltober Show: Does Republicans’ Huge Cash Advantage Matter?
- LOLWUT?: New Press Secretary Moochspan Edition
- It’s All Happening Right Before Our Eyes
- A Ballroom Donor, a Sanctions Waiver, $201 Million in Public Money: The Mystery of Konstantin Sokolov
- Three Weeks Out, Democrats’ Chances of a Legislative Majority Seem to be Growing
- Hundreds of Judges Found Trump’s Mass Detention Scheme Unlawful. Will the Supreme Court?
- Dominance Politics, Elite Gatekeeping and Jon Ossoff
- Some are Using Trump’s Healthcare Checks to Support Charities — and Dem Candidates
The Intercept- An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued.
- Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progressive Dem: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
- ICE Raid on Ilhan Omar Shows How Dangerous Two Years of Flailing Trump Could Get
- Susan Collins-Aligned Super PAC Buys Attack Ads in Portland... Oregon
- Pentagon Finally Counts an Iran War Death — Six Months Late
- Trump Wanted Minneapolis 15 Case to Be Another Prairieland. Instead, Twin Cities Rallied Behind Anti-ICE Activists.
- A C-Section in Shackles: A Palestinian Woman’s Harrowing Birth in Israeli Detention
- ICE Shooting in NYC Inflames Mamdani’s Policing Problem
- Where Are the Iran War Protests?
- Prediction Markets Have a Lock on the Midterms
France24- Arsenal thrash Lille as Atletico Madrid beat Manchester United
- Pope Leo has cancerous growth removed in lung operation
- China is bringing car production to EU
- Supermarket fridge hacking attacks due to lack of basic cybersecurity measures, expert says
- Supermarket fridge hacking attacks due to lack of basic cybersecurity measures, expert says
- Have Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres hit Russian online disinformation?
- 🔴 Surgery on Pope Leo's cancerous lung nodule went well, Vatican says
- Former gang leader sentenced to minimum 40 years for Tupac killing
- Trump asks Greece ambassador to resign amid ethics scandal
- Kabila launches new coalition with M23
Media Matters For America- Nick Fuentes: “Feminism must be eradicated. They cannot have the same rights. ... Shouldn't even be educated. Shouldn't have the same opportunities in the workforce.”
- Fox host Brian Kilmeade: "No doubt" that Trump's money for Russian oil is "going to be used to help kill innocent Ukrainians"
- Newsmax host on Fort Hood shooter's execution: "Livestream it. I don't care if my tax dollars go to advertising it and playing it during the next Super Bowl."
- Megyn Kelly calls podcaster Alex Cooper "a slut with zero values"
- What is Joe Rogan saying about elections ahead of the midterms?
- Fox host Charles Payne offers young Americans advice for affording the American dream: Skip parties, don't have a pet, take a staycation instead of a vacation
- Podcast Wars: “Traitor” Tucker Carlson, “evil” Candace Owens, and “pathetic” Nick Fuentes
- Even some of Megyn Kelly's callers are fed up with her
- Anti-Indian racism has been surging in right-wing media
- Right-wing media and election deniers have cheered the idea of seizing ballots and election equipment
Currently Reading
Recently Read- Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee
- The Making of the English Working Class
- Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961
- Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
- Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
- The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
- The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts
- The Vietnam Trauma in American Foreign Policy: 1945-75 by Kattenburg, Paul M. (1980) Paperback
- Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
- American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division