Politics & Activism

In September 2024, Canadian influencer Lauren Southern suddenly found herself in the eye of a media storm, accused of spreading Russian propaganda. The US government had just alleged that the founders of the startup she’d been making videos for - Tenet Media - were working with Russian state media, in a $10 million Kremlin-backed operation. What exactly did Russia want with a group of YouTubers? And did they succeed? Who knew what was allegedly going on within Tenet Media, and when? And what does all of this say about where everyone gets their information?

Globally famous and yet universally misunderstood – these are the complex and utterly engrossing stories of Britain's royal women behind the public façade. Saints or sinners? Perfect princesses or difficult duchesses? Monarchy’s saviours or its destroyers? They rank among the world’s most...

Working her way up from gruelling bootcamp training to leading a drug interdiction operation seizing €700 million of cocaine from a yacht off the Kerry coast, she was a leader among men and rose to every challenge. Developing a love of the sea, Gleeson learned that to be at one with it required agility, and a willingness to change, to go with the wind – not against it. These lessons prepared her for operating without a life raft when her personal life threw her the greatest challenge of all.

An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history Offa ruled the Mercian heartland of the west midlands from 757 to 796. But while Alfred the Great and his dynasty are seen as agents of a new beginning that...

He was the seventeenth son of a slave wife. By fifty-four, he had killed three thousand Americans on a clear blue Tuesday morning and changed the trajectory of the twenty-first century. You think you know the story of Osama bin Laden. The cave. The fatwa. The towers. The SEAL raid. You don't.

Among the figures of early Roman history, few stand out quite like Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a man who to his contemporaries stood as the very image of the Roman Vir Bous (the Good Man). His life, whether viewed through the lens of ancient writers or treated as something of a foundational myth, has shaped Western thought surrounding civic duty and the restraint of power for more than 2,000 years.

In this “unjustly neglected” masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery. This fortieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by critic James Wolcott and an afterword by the author...

The fascinating story of Prince William's American ancestors, and how this often-rebellious lineage will help shape the future King of Great Britain. In this fresh and perspective-shifting narrative, American Crown is an absorbing blend of American history and royal biography that brings to life...

Inflation rages. Crime is rising. Abortion rights take center stage at the Supreme Court. China poses an existential threat. Black lives are under attack. The president battles the press as he seeks to subvert not just the political order but the rule of law itself. This is the Summer of '71—a...

Am Tag seines Erscheinens führte »Unorthodox« schlagartig die Bestsellerliste der New York Times an und war sofort ausverkauft. Wenige Monate später durchbrach die Auflage die Millionengrenze. In der chassidischen Satmar-Gemeinde in Williamsburg, New York, herrschen die strengsten Regeln einer ultraorthodoxen jüdischen Gruppe weltweit. Deborah Feldman führt uns bis an die Grenzen des Erträglichen, wenn sie von der strikten Unterwerfung unter die strengen Lebensgesetze erzählt, von Ausgrenzung, Armut, von der Unterdrückung der Frau, von ihrer Zwangsehe.

Enes Kanter Freedom ist der geborene Basketball-Star. Aber er opfert seine Karriere, als er merkt, dass seine Stimme die Kraft hat, Menschenrechtsverstöße in aller Welt zu beenden. In the Name of Freedom erzählt die Geschichte, wie aus Enes Kanter, einem türkischen Jungen mit einem Traum, Enes Freedom wurde, ein amerikanischer Staatsbürger, Friedensnobelpreis-Kandidat und vehementer Fürsprecher für Menschenrechte – und es berichtet von dem hohen persönlichen Preis, den er für seinen Aktivismus bezahlen musste.

Arsinoé, Jeanne, Marie-Caroline, Hélène, Irène… Ces prénoms ne nous évoquent presque rien. Pourtant, ce sont les sœurs de Cléopâtre, Catherine d'Aragon, Marie-Antoinette, Sissi et de la tsarine Alexandra. Qui sont ces femmes issues de la même éducation, la même enfance et du même contexte social que les princesses les plus fantasmées de la culture populaire ? Qu'est-ce qui a différé pour qu'elles soient ainsi « éclipsées » ?

Друзья и враги за глаза называют Мухаммеда ибн Салмана Аль Сауда просто MBS. Наследному принцу Саудовской Аравии не исполнилось и сорока, но его уже считают одним из наиболее влиятельных и противоречивых политиков в мире. Принц обаятелен, хитер и умеет рисковать, он тщательно следит за своей репутацией, ценит преданных союзников и общается на равных с политиками Запада и Востока. За короткий срок он одержал победу в дворцовых интригах, либерализовал строгие нормы общественного поведения и объявил масштабную программу реформ, призванных снизить зависимость страны от нефтяных доходов.

First published as opinion pieces, the essays in Divining Duterte provide contemporaneous commentaries on the context, course and consequences of the policies Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte pursued after his 2016 election.Duterte became the first president in seventy years to come from...

When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. broke from the Democratic Party and joined forces with Donald Trump, it shocked the political establishment and ignited a movement no one saw coming. Out of that moment came MAHA—Make America Healthy Again—a bipartisan revolution uniting farmers and homesteaders, conservatives and progressives, skeptics and visionaries around a shared mission: healthier food, stronger communities, and freedom from the grip of Big Pharma and Big Ag.

An inspiring true story about an American attorney and his client confronting prejudice and persecution in a prison outside the law, as one fights for the other’s freedom, and the other fights for his life. “We’ll be watching,” the sergeant said, pointing at a video monitor inside Camp...

2022年7月８日、選挙演説中に凶弾に倒れ、非業の死を遂げた安倍元首相の肉声。なぜ、憲政史上最長の政権は実現したのか。 第１次政権のあっけない崩壊の後に確信したこと、米中露との駆け引き、政権を倒しに来る霞が関、党内外の反対勢力との暗闘……。

Lidia Rauch was born at the crossroads of South Africa's past and present – the granddaughter of one of apartheid's longest-serving ministers, raised in a world constructed for her comfort, yet called to reckon with its cost. Her story moves between privilege and pain: from a childhood marked by fracture, to a career within the machinery of government, to the long, uneasy road of reckoning with what it means to be white, Afrikaans, and free in a country still carrying the weight of its past.

Samra Kljajic erzählt die wahre Geschichte von Königinnen und Mätressen, von Kurtisanen und Konkubinen. Eine neue Perspektive auf die Femme fatale jenseits von Skandal und Verführung. Historische Perspektiven auf weibliche Macht: Selbstbestimmung und Einfluss in einer von Männern dominierten Welt.

After Trump: The Republican Party’s Next Chapter The Key to the Post-Trump World Lies in the Life, Thought, and Rise of Vice President JD Vance Who is JD Vance? And why does it matter? Before 2016, JD Vance was virtually unknown. A poor kid from a troubled family in Middletown, Ohio, he was...