NEW: Just 17% of Arab Americans say they will vote for Biden in 2024, according to a new
@AAIUSA
poll—a staggering drop from 59% in 2020.
“This is the most dramatic shift over the shortest period of time that I’ve ever seen,”
@jjz1600
tells
@TIME
.
Indian immigration authorities have prevented
@RanaAyyub
from boarding her flight to London, where she was due to speak about the the threats and intimidation facing journalists today.
In doing so, they aren’t silencing her. Rather, they are proving her point:
I was stopped today at the Indian immigration while I was about to board my flight to London to deliver my speech on the intimidation of journalists with
@ICFJ
. I was to travel to Italy right after to deliver the keynote address at the
@journalismfest
on the Indian democracy
The fight to save Uighur culture is well underway in the diaspora—and it's being led by chefs, poets, singers, filmmakers, language teachers, and musicians.
My latest:
Last month,
@TIME
interviewed renowned Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer about how Gazan society was responding to the war. He had a lot to say and said he planned to write on the topic.
But he never got the chance. Last week, he was killed in an airstrike.
Vivian Silver, the 74-year-old Israeli peace activist thought to be among the hostages, is now confirmed to have been killed in the Oct. 7 attacks.
Here’s what her friend
@JohnLyndon_
said about her:
@AAIUSA
@jjz1600
@TIME
The damage isn’t limited to Biden: Just 23% of Arab Americans surveyed identified with the Democratic Party—the first time a majority did not claim to prefer the Democrats since
@AAIUSA
began tracking party identification in 1996.
Protest movements that have high levels of women participation tend to be more successful than those that don't.
Here's what that means for Iran, with smart insights from
@z_marks
,
@MonaTajali
, and
@haghighatjoo
:
Jacinda Ardern showed the world how leading a country through a global health crisis is done. Today, New Zealanders rewarded her with a historic majority.
But if succeeding in the face of the pandemic is hard, dealing with its aftermath could be harder:
As I wrote last year,
@RanaAyyub
represents many of the identities that are no longer tolerated in Modi's India today. Hers is a story of what her country is becoming, and of what it stands to lose:
Angela Merkel's rigor in collating information, her honesty in stating what is not yet known, and her composure are paying off.
@sasmiller
looks at Germany's scientist in chief:
By taking a tougher line on the unvaccinated, world leaders may be courting an energetic new voter base: the vaccinated, and ever more impatient, majority.
My latest:
NATO members in Eastern Europe are invoking Article 4 of the alliance's founding treaty, which allows members to hold consultations when they feel their territorial integrity is under threat.
This piece helps to explain why 👇
What will Luxembourg's foreign minister, who called Trump a "pyromaniac," do with the hour that he was meant to be spending with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today?
"Maybe ride a bike."
Should Finland join NATO? Eva poll:
Yes 60% (+34)
No 19% (-21)
It’s the highest level of support for NATO membership since Eva began polling opinion on the subject in 1998.
"Israel is always in the position where it gets to set all the terms in this - do Palestinian people not have a right to self-determination on their terms?"
@lewis_goodall
sits down with Israeli spokesperson
@EylonALevy
.
Listen on
@GlobalPlayer
To speak with
@RanaAyyub
, as I recently did, is to get a glimpse of what it means to be a journalist in a country that’s in democratic freefall.
Hers is a story of what India is becoming, and of what it stands to lose:
ahem *taps mic*
Some news: After six unforgettable years
@TheAtlantic
, I'm thrilled to be joining
@TIME
next month as a staff writer covering foreign affairs with an emphasis on the future of democracies and rising authoritarianism around the globe. I can't wait to get started!
The U.S. has officially declared China's repression of the Uighurs a genocide. My piece from October looks at how those in the diaspora are fighting back:
"Until this week ... no U.S. administration had actually set out to destroy America’s international broadcasters or remove their independence. But now, finally, one has."
Read
@anneapplebaum
:
One of the most striking things about the
#Belarusprotests
has been the outsize role of women. I wrote about how their impact is emblematic of a broader trend:
A new word is defining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Washington—one that U.S. policy observers say reflects a progressive push to focus on human rights.
My latest:
"His image has been totally destroyed,"
@Billbrowder
tells
@TIME
of Russia's Vladimir Putin in the aftermath of the failed Wagner mutiny.
"Putin look like a truly weak leader in a country where weakness is despised."
It’s official: President Biden has signed the spending bill, thus banning all U.S. funding to UNRWA until March 2025.
Meanwhile, a man-made famine looms over Gaza.
The U.S. is set to ban funding to UNRWA, the main aid agency in Gaza, until March 2025.
“Such an outcome will make it harder for UNRWA to assist starving Gazans,” UNRWA spox
@JulietteTouma
tells TIME, “and potentially further weaken regional stability.”
I spoke with Indian Muslims and Christians about life under Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist rule.
As they see it, “the unmaking of secular India is a betrayal.”
My latest:
"People will not be able to return to [their] previous life as if nothing has happened,”
@Tsihanouskaya
told me. “It just can’t happen.”
My interview with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on the future of the Belarusian prodemocracy movement:
"[T]he chamber of horrors the country now finds itself in was not caused by any one man, or any single government,"
@VidyaKrishnan
writes in
@TheAtlantic
. "It is the greatest moral failure of our generation."
“It’s more than cosmetic, but it’s not much more,”
@general_ben
tells
@TIME
of the new NATO-Ukraine council. When it comes to Ukraine and Europe’s long-term security, “Nothing short of NATO membership is going to suffice.”
"Putin is now embracing a Russian tradition of paranoia … that sees Moscow as both a savior of other nations and a victim of great conspiracies, in which Russia is both strong enough to be feared and weak enough to be threatened," writes
@RadioFreeTom
.
If today’s polls were tomorrow’s election results, Keir Starmer would be the U.K.’s next prime minister.
In his first major interview with foreign media, the Labour Party leader lays out his plan to win power—and fix Britain.
My profile for
@TIME
:
Belarus renounced its non-nuclear status over the weekend, paving the way for Moscow to place its nuclear weapons there. Russian troops are already set to remain on Belarusian territory indefinitely.
I wrote about why it matters:
“In the New York Times, less than 2 percent of the nearly 2,500 opinion pieces that discussed Palestinians since 1970 were actually written by Palestinians. In the Washington Post, the average was just 1 percent.”
"Raw and unfiltered, their coverage offers a rare glimpse into life in Gaza that numbers alone—17,000 dead, 100,000 buildings destroyed, 1.9 million displaced—simply can’t capture."
My latest on Gaza's journalists:
The disparity between vaccine-rich countries and the rest of the world is growing. But make no mistake: India's problem is the world's problem.
My latest:
Writing in
@nytimes
, *the* Ben and Jerry address the meltdown over Ben & Jerry’s.
“In our view, ending the sales of ice cream in the occupied territories is one of the most important decisions the company has made in its 43-year history.”
For England, soccer represents one of the few outlets to express its nationalism. I wrote about how this England team has laid out its own vision of Englishness—one that is compassionate, inclusive, and unapologetically progressive.
Some very good news: After several dangerous attempts to get to the Kabul airport, Habib and his family are finally on a plane to safety.
"He is coming home," texted his brother Saboor, who has spent several years trying to save Habib from the Taliban.
Doing the bare minimum to stand up for human rights isn’t an Olympic sport. But if it were, one thing is certain: When it comes to the plight of the Uyghurs, majority-Muslim countries wouldn't even make the podium.
In light of China's election to the UN Human Rights Council yesterday, here's my feature on the human-rights abuses in Xinjiang and the Uighurs who are fighting to protect their culture from the diaspora:
Putin showed his willingness to deploy scorched-earth tactics in Syria and Chechnya. That those same tactics are now being deployed in Ukraine is no accident.
As
@OzKaterji
told me, “It’s a deliberate, cynical strategy.”
Shireen Abu Akleh's family has called on
@POTUS
to meet with them during his upcoming visit to Jerusalem.
“You administration’s engagement has served to whitewash Shireen’s killing and perpetuate impunity … It is as if you expect the world and us to now just move on.”
This morning, our family sent this letter to
@POTUS
demanding that he meet with us during his upcoming trip to the region. We deserve accountability.
#JusticeForShireen
While much of the world remains under lockdown, one European country is seeing life slowly return to its usual rhythm.
Hint: Its leaders are following their own advice.
I had the pleasure of working on this feature about the fight to save Uighur culture in the diaspora—an effort that is being led by chefs, poets, singers, language teachers, and musicians:
Today, Dearborn, MI, becomes the first U.S. city to offer Eid al-Fitr as a paid holiday for its employees. I spoke with the city's mayor,
@AHammoudMI
, on the decision and the importance of local inclusivity.
Re-upping
@TIME
's recent piece featuring the voices of nine Palestinians in Gaza. At a time when the world can no longer get through to them, their words are worth reading:
"There is no way to overstate the significance of this moment, no way to ignore the power of the message that these events send to both the friends and the enemies of democracy, everywhere." --
@anneapplebaum
Narendra Modi’s government has a track record for dismissing those who protest against its policies as being "anti-national."
I wrote about why this strategy is failing against the farmers' protest:
"We would never be free from the guilt of our survival."
If you read one thing today, let it be Uyghur poet
@HamutTahir
's haunting tale about escaping genocide in Xinjiang (introduction and translation by
@jlfreeman6
). You won't be able to forget it:
"Each violation of our Constitution and our civic peace gets absorbed, rationalized, and accepted by people who once upon a time knew better. If ... Trump wins a second term, these people may well accept even worse."
Don't miss
@anneapplebaum
's latest:
“Soccer is nothing without the fans who sustain it. It is nothing without those for whom these stadiums are holy spaces.”
Read
@ClintSmithIII
on why watching Euro 2020 has been a beautiful, and at times terrifying, reminder of the sport's power:
"I see no preparedness, no coordinated top-down leadership of the sort we’ve enjoyed in Europe. I see only empty posturing, the sad spectacle of the president refusing to wear a mask, just to own the libs. What an astonishing self-inflicted wound."
Grateful to be included in this excellent report by
@mehdirhasan
(though I must confess that I'm an American, not a Brit!)
While it wasn't the result they wanted, this England team has done their country proud in more ways than one. Roll on, World Cup 2022!
"Today this England team has made Englishness and patriotism itself an idea not that some of us are ashamed of but that all of us can be proud. And, y'know, we'll win the next one. I still believe!"
My
@MSNBC
commentary on an inclusive England team:
"In moments of direct confrontation, Trump refuses to state clearly that he condemns white supremacy," writes
@emmaogreen
. "White nationalists notice, and remember."
It just dawned on me that I hit my four-year Atlantic-versary last month and ... didn't even notice? Time flies when you're having fun (even if 2020 does a poor job of capturing it) 🎉
Below, in his own words, is what Alareer said about Palestinian society, its resilience in the face of destruction, and his enduring belief in the spirit of generosity, even in the darkest of moments.
ahem *taps mic*
Some news: After six unforgettable years
@TheAtlantic
, I'm thrilled to be joining
@TIME
next month as a staff writer covering foreign affairs with an emphasis on the future of democracies and rising authoritarianism around the globe. I can't wait to get started!
Samira Ahmed has won her sex discrimination equal pay case against BBC.
It's a good time to reread
@helenlewis
on the importance of transparency in closing the gender pay gap:
"The notion of a Biden presidency simply does not provoke the visceral rage that Clinton and Obama did—not in Trump, and not in his supporters." --
@AdamSerwer
"When your birthplace is out of reach or your identity is questioned, a food heritage sometimes feels like all you have. But these cuisines ... also connect us to a wider, interdependent world."
Loved this from
@reem_kassis
:
A team with immigrant roots, advocating for progressive causes, and playing in dream stadiums:
@ClintSmithIII
on why he’s backing England in the Euro 2020 final on Sunday.
In the space of a month, Russia has effectively managed to transform a former Soviet state into an extension of Russian territory, in the full view of the United States and Europe, without firing a single shot.
I'm talking not about Ukraine, but Belarus:
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: After a tumultuous period of political instability, Britain is once again poised to get a new leader. This time, that leader is Rishi Sunak.
Here's what you need to know about Britain's first leader of color👇
As the world's eyes remain on Gaza, the situation in the West Bank (where at least 95 people have been killed) and East Jerusalem (where authorities are cracking down on any expression of Palestinian solidarity) is worsening.
My latest in
@TIME
👇
As the indispensable commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Quds Force, "Iran and its partners will feel his loss greatly," writes
@ExumAM
.
"This doesn’t mean war, it will not lead to war, and it doesn’t risk war. None of that. It is war."
I've been a Frasier fan for most of my life, and yet I'm only *just* learning that its creators never cast anyone to play Maris because the jokes about her appearance "made it logistically impossible for a human woman to portray her."
Hong Kong's leaders are blatantly rewriting history, writes
@TMclaughlin3
.
"Yet even if no one is convinced, the propaganda itself is the point, a show of the state’s ability to lie, and face no consequence."
Today marks my three-year anniversary of moving to London! Still as enamored with this city as the day I arrived. *Still* can't confidently pronounce Marylebone on the first try. Maybe next year (probably not)
Fun fact: Britain's private schools are called "public schools," in recognition of their public benefit (since they were founded as charities). But some folks are beginning to question whether these institutions really do serve the public.
I took a look:
If Europe's mainstream parties take away anything from the last week's political crisis in Germany, it ought to be this:
The only way to avoid working with the extreme right is to seek out new partners on the left—such as the Greens:
Israel has been accused of using white phosphorus munitions in Gaza and Lebanon. I spoke with
@hrw
's
@OmarSShakir
about how they verified the allegations, the effect white phosphorus has, and what its use means for the millions of people living in Gaza 👇
I moved out of a house share (my first London home!) and into my very own flat this weekend, and the best part might be having an oven knob that allows me to actually read the temperature!!!
Small victories are truly the best victories
America's "special relationship" with Israel has, for the foreseeable future, come to an end. And, as
@djrothkopf
convincingly argues here, U.S. leaders share the blame.
There's a generation of young Afghans that has known Afghanistan only under the protection of NATO forces. I wrote about how they won't easily revert to the pre-2001 status quo:
Which world leaders have gained the most from Trump’s presidency—and who stands to have the most to lose should this term be his last?
My roundup, feat. 🇧🇷🇭🇺🇮🇳🇵🇭:
Dearborn, Michigan, is the first U.S. city to make Eid al-Fitr a paid holiday for its employees.
I spoke with Mayor
@AHammoudMI
about the decision and how local leaders can model greater inclusivity 👇