Politics

Robert Kraft Drew a Line in a Week. Josh Shapiro Has Had a Year.

Earlier this month, Macklemore walked onto the stage at MetLife Stadium in a keffiyeh, told 80,000 people to say “Free Palestine,” accused Israel of apartheid and genocide, and performed “Hind’s Hall” while images from Gaza played on the screens behind him. Within roughly a week he was off Ed Sheeran’s tour. Robert Kraft confirmed that Macklemore had been barred from Gillette Stadium, pointing to those performances and to a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery. The rapper has since claimed that stadium owners gave Sheeran an ultimatum.

Give Stewart her guns and Bannon his vote: The case for federal expungement

The Justice Department’s new rule reviving a process for restoring certain rights to people with nonviolent felony convictions rightly recognizes that, instead of lifetime scarlet letters, we must narrowly tailor the collateral consequences of a conviction. Starting Monday, Americans with a nonviolent federal conviction can avail themselves of this process. Although the Second Amendment is at issue, the principle it illustrates is far broader: People who have served their time in prison and demonstrated years of law-abiding conduct deserve a real path back to full citizenship. To fully deliver on this principle, legislation going well beyond this rule change will be necessary.

Threats intensify against Israeli directors of Gaza documentary NAZA

Rights groups express support for directors of Guardian-produced film facing threats from Israeli ministers and far-right activists

Saudi Arabia accuses Houthis of launching attacks on Mecca

Saudi Arabia claimed that the Houthis, an Iranian-backed terrorist group, targeted Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, in an airstrike on Tuesday.

The ‘Ossoff angle’: media-savvy senator borrows from Obama as 2028 chatter builds

Pictures of Georgia Democrat looking into middle distance proliferate – and social media skills have boosted his profile

Trump EPA’s arguments for letting power plants spew unlimited pollution ‘dead wrong’

Claims that dismantling pollution rules will lower energy bills and have little climate impact are far from convincing

EU wants Canada to be its first associate member

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that the 27-nation bloc wants Canada as its first associate member, a new effort to strengthen ties between the two as relations with the United States sour.

At least 20 killed after Israeli-hit building in Gaza City collapses

Rescue workers say search for dozens of people hampered by lack of heavy machinery

ICE raids forever changed the work of these gun violence prevention workers: ‘The panic is still there’

Gun violence-prevention programs are another casualty of Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown

Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead

The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance

Venezuela's People Problem

A state that spent decades alienating its professional class has lost the capacity to govern.

Cuba’s Old Economic Model Is ‘Exhausted’

A top Havana diplomat says the country is changing. But will it be enough to satisfy President Trump?