On August 1st, 2025, Alexandre de Moraes, Vice President of the Brazilian Supreme Court, awoke to find his visa revoked, his assets frozen, and his family and holding company targeted by similar sanctions.
“I don’t think there’s been a time in my life where people were more openly afraid to express themselves.” Jimmy Hatch, a former Navy SEAL, reflects. “It breaks my heart.”
When I set out to create this piece, I thought I would be writing about the development of extreme air sports in a small region in the southern State of Mexico. Only after I started conversing with the pilots and locals did I realize I was actually writing a love story.
On June 24th, 2022, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of a Mississippi state health officer. With the decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, decades of constitutional protection for abortion rights vanished.
What should have been a two-hour drive stretched into twenty. Families pressed their heads against their car windows, watching their homeland slip further away as they fled Artsakh for Armenia.
“If I were mayor,” Mamdani promised, “halal would be eight bucks again.”
The lights are off. You are cuddled under your favorite blanket, and the brilliant glow from your laptop screen illuminates your dimly lit room. Your heart rate quickens and your eyes stay fastened to the scene as you watch the protagonist run through the woods—gasping for air as her flashlight struggles to emit a splinter of light. Yet, something about the movie feels more than mere fiction. Horror is more than vampire and voodoo; it is often regarded as political.
A 39 percentage point difference. This was the eye-widening statistic that The New York Times reported in its August 2024 poll, finding that 18 to 29-year-old women preferred President Joe Biden by 28 points, whereas young men of this age supported President Donald Trump by 11 points.
