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When Is a Revolution Actually Over?
1+ hour, 39+ min ago (112+ words) Writer Robin Yassin-Kassab joins Faisal Al Yafai to discuss why the Syrian revolution succeeded where others failed, and what the new state has and hasn't reckoned with one year on...
How Armed Groups in Colombia Use Social Media To Recruit Children
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (1714+ words) In one video, a man dives to the ground as gunfire cracks through the air. In another, a drone rises slowly upward, explosives dangling underneath. In a third, a young man stands amid dense jungle, dressed in camouflage and brandishing…...
UFOs Are Going Mainstream
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (671+ words) Among the promised reports on the horizon "in the next 30 days or so" are ones titled "Syrian UAP Instant Acceleration" and "UFOs in Formation Over Persian Gulf," according to Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who is part of…...
How To Lose a Prime Minister in Two Years
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (762+ words) New Lines Magazine How To Lose a Prime Minister in Two Years Is it election time already? The minutiae and arcane details of British political life are a regular source of confusion, within and without the British Isles. Why, on…...
The Origin Stories of Bosnian Tattoos Are Only Skin-Deep
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (1694+ words) New Lines Magazine The Origin Stories of Bosnian Tattoos Are Only Skin-Deep A nationalistic bent has accompanied a revival of the markings, along with apocryphal tales that they kept Catholic maidens safe from Ottoman overlords Mara sits at an outdoor…...
Eurovision's Missing Arab Entries
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (285+ words) The controversy around Israel's participation isn't new. In fact, it stems from a wider and older problem " one that predates the Gaza war by decades and goes beyond affecting potential members with tricky statehoods, such as Palestine. Seven Arab countries…...
Hasan Piker's Take on China May Matter More Than His Views on Israel
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (677+ words) After nearly a decade of marathon streaming " seven to eight hours a day, seven days a week " this year Hasan Piker, hailed as "one of the most influential left-wing commentators in America," has been spending less time in his home…...
Is Dubai the New Israeli Dream?
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (1275+ words) New Lines Magazine Is Dubai the New Israeli Dream? Does Israel aspire to be like Dubai? This is the contention of an Israeli journalist who reported on the sudden and rapid increase in the presence of unskilled workers from South…...
Drones Are Reshaping Sudan's Civil War
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (1389+ words) A brilliant orange sun sank behind spiny hills, turning the sky lavender and then gray. Baballa Hassan watched it go, sitting on a concrete ledge outside his hospital room in the town of Kauda, deep in Sudan's Nuba Mountains. The…...
Egypt's Family Law Reforms Expose the Limits of Sectarian Citizenship
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (244+ words) The proposed reforms emerged after years of public pressure, along with renewed scrutiny following the suicide of Egyptian mother Passant Soliman, whose livestreams describing her custody struggles sparked sympathy and outrage online." In Egypt, Muslims follow Islamic-based family laws, while…...