Semafor • Dec 16, 2025
Abu Dhabi top financial hub in the Gulf, new ranking finds
A new index of competitiveness from NYU Abu Dhabi’s Stern School of Business placed Abu Dhabi in 12th place, ahead of Dubai, Riyadh, and Doha.
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Semafor • Dec 16, 2025
Expat hiring boom sees Saudi remittances surge
As the kingdom’s foreign workforce has swelled, outbound remittances have risen to the highest levels on record, government figures show.
Mother Jones • Dec 16, 2025
“I’ve Never Seen So Many Police Cars”
On a dark November evening, I find myself outside a unit at a garden-style apartment complex in Memphis, its parking lot alight in flashing blues and reds. The police are here—about a dozen cars—responding to reports of a violent crime. I’m accompanied by Mauricio Calvo, a 50-year-old local whose friend Diego lives here. Calvo knocks. […]
Zeteo • Dec 16, 2025
When Will America’s Ritual Child Sacrifice End?
US lawmakers shrug off yet another school shooting, a deranged Donald Trump doubles down on smearing the late Rob Reiner, and MTG is getting hitched.
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I've Had It Podcast • Dec 16, 2025
All the President's Morons
Semafor • Dec 16, 2025
Spate of violent attacks sparks fears of Islamic State revival
The Islamic State group is a shadow of its mid-2010s heyday but remains a threat, The Telegraph reported.
Semafor • Dec 16, 2025
US, European officials offer Ukraine NATO-like security guarantees
The issue of security guarantees had been a major hurdle blocking the path to a Ukraine-Russia peace deal.
Semafor • Dec 16, 2025
Venezuela conflict looms as US strikes more boats in Pacific
The latest strikes represent an escalation in the White House’s campaign on what it alleges are boats operated by drug traffickers.
Mother Jones • Dec 16, 2025
The 24 Best Books We Read in 2025
Nonfiction What if we had international law—a rules-based order that bound every country, big or small, rich or poor, to shared standards? I was taught that those were American questions, sparked mainly by the world wars. They are indeed, the historian Greg Grandin argues in America, América—encompassing the entire North and South American continents. Within […]
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Trump’s Greenland ambitions could wreck 20th-century alliances that helped build the modern world order
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Paving military roads, Israel prepares permanent control of West Bank camps
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An ultrathin coating for electronics looked like a miracle insulator − but a hidden leak fooled researchers for over a decade
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Are there thunderstorms on Mars? A planetary scientist explains the red planet’s dry, dusty storms
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For 80 years, the president’s party has almost always lost House seats in midterm elections, a pattern that makes the 2026 congressional outlook clear
The Conversation •
Chavismo has adapted before – but can Venezuela’s leftist ideology become US friendly and survive?
The Conversation •
Coretta Scott King: After MLK’s Murder, She Took the Mic and Took on the War
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Coretta Scott King Publicly Opposed Vietnam War Before MLK — and Urged Him to Follow
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Erased by NBC: How Legacy Media Ignores Independent Reporting
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