Tuesday, October 27, 2026
ArchiveUS forces accused of ‘weaponising’ Somalia’s floods by trapping women and children in the path of El Niño
Airstrikes pushed families toward a rising river, and the Guardian found the women standing waist-deep in it. Whether the flooding is a tactic or a byproduct is the question Washington hasn't answered.
Nate Silver Predicts a ‘Momentous’ Midterm
Silver thinks the Senate is live, and that if the polls hold it ends the Trump era outright. A week out, this is the forecast everyone else will spend the weekend arguing with.
Unfriendly Exchange
A routine NATO exercise in 1983 may have convinced Moscow a first strike was underway. Lewis sorts the evidence from the mythology and finds the margin was thinner than the debunkers allow.
Mysterious flickering brain signals could help to unlock secrets of consciousness
Monkey brains flip about fifteen times a second between the pattern for 'aware of it' and the pattern for 'not.' Awareness, on this evidence, blinks rather than holds steady.
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
A filmmaker gathered the last of the Harlem Renaissance in Duke Ellington's living room, rolled tape, and then the footage vanished into a vault for fifty years. It's out now.