Monday, September 7, 2026
ArchiveFar-right AfD wins key German state election but falls just short of majority
First far-right state victory in postwar Germany. The AfD took Saxony-Anhalt while Merz's CDU collapsed to its worst result ever — and Elon Musk got a thank-you shoutout from the stage.
9/11 at Twenty-Five
Lepore was lecturing on Andrew Jackson when the towers fell. Twenty-five years later, she traces the grief, wars, and political furies that followed into the architecture of the country we live in now.
Groupwork completes "world-first" high-rise held up by stone exoskeleton
A thousand tons of volcanic rock, no steel frame, ten storeys tall. Groupwork's Petra Heights in north London is the first high-rise held up entirely by a stone exoskeleton — and it's already standing.
The Emerging U.S.-China Détente
You rarely hear the Chinese side of U.S.-China strategy argued in English by someone inside the system. Da Wei, a Tsinghua professor, makes the case that a confident Beijing and a pragmatic Washington can coexist.
Inside The Rise of Germany's New Far-Right
Callaghan does what he does best: walks into rallies and living rooms with a camera and lets people talk. The field interviews with AfD supporters land differently today than they did yesterday.