Henry Kissinger, War Criminal—Still at Large at 100 (The Nation)
“Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, is being destroyed in a fight to the death between two venal, brutal generals. This is a war of choice; allowing it to happen was a failure of international diplomacy.” (Alex de Waal)
"Sources tell MEE that an array of local and regional actors, including the Wagner Group, Chad and CAR, are all involved as fighting gets worse in Darfur" (Middle East Eye)
The vulture fund that picked American newspapers apart has a new target (CJR)
“Disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz, who is suing over campaign of falsehoods, says ‘if Fox isn’t brought to account, it will not stop.'" (The Guardian)
“New data shows racial disparities exist in home appraisals in every major US metropolitan area, with the difference in some places exceeding $1 million.” (Bloomberg)
“Economically, India has enjoyed an average of 5.5 percent annual growth between 2002 and 2022, with Morgan Stanley predicting that its GDP could more than double from $3.5 trillion today to upward of $7.5 trillion by 2031.” (The Diplomat)
Who Is Leonard Leo’s Mysterious Dark Money King? (Nina Burleigh)
Appreciating: Finding Your Roots. (The Corsair)
Is Fox News Losing Its Grip on the GOP Base? (Brian Stelter)
Should the U.S. ban bank short selling? (semafor)
Why 1-54 is the Season's Most Exciting Art Fair (Avenue)
Once Renegade Vice Anxiously Awaits Its Private Equity Overlords (Joe Pompeo)
“Seven homeless men have come forward to say they were part of a group of men recruited at a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter to act as veterans that had been displaced from a Newburgh hotel in order for a non-profit organization to perpetrate a fraud on the public.” (MidHudson News)
“‘It’s Painful to Watch’: Rep. Ro Khanna Calls on Dianne Feinstein to Resign ‘For Her Own Dignity’ and ‘Legacy’” (Mediaite)
“After recently rediscovering a 900-year-old scrap of paper once housed in the Cairo Geniza, researchers believe that famed Jewish philosopher Maimonides jotted himself down a tri-lingual vocabulary crib sheet.” (Times of Israel)
“John Boyd Rivers says he was misled by an election official who urged him to vote for the first time in 2020. Now he’s been found guilty of voter fraud.” (The Guardian)
“Parlaying your way into Paul’s Casablanca is chess, not checkers. Use the right opening gambit with the doorman followed by a smart sequence of pawn moves (a smile, a wave, a look of overpowering respect), and he may just let you get past the list.” (Annie Armstrong)
“America’s youngest adult generations had been integral to the 2018 blue wave. Millennials saw their turnout rate surge from 22 percent in the 2014 midterm to 42 percent four years later. In 2018, the oldest zoomers became eligible to vote in a midterm for the first time. And they cast ballots at a higher rate than millennials or Gen-Xers had in their respective first midterms.” (Eric Levitz)
The Case Against Casey DeSantis. Really? (Joan Walsh)