The Pope Summoned Bishops for an Unprecedented Global Meeting on the Sex Abuse Scandal
Franco Origlia/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Pope Francis announced Wednesday that he would convene a global meetings of bishops next year to discuss the clergy sexual abuse crisis that has engulfed the Catholic Church and strengthened the partisan divide between bishops loyal to Francis and his conservative critics. The…
Australia Just Killed Off Another Prime Minister in Its Endless Showdown Over Climate Policy
A live-feed from the Australian parliament.Camay Sungu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Among the many reasons Americans love Australia, the main one is that even though there is no language barrier, it’s so intensely… foreign. They don’t really get it. Fair enough. There’s that whole parliamentary thing, cute but disgruntled marsupials, all the things that can…
70 Years Ago, America Restored Democracy to Germany. Now Germany Wants to Return the Favor.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, in MunichSebastian Widmann/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump pulls two Starburst candies out of his suit jacket pocket and throws them on the table in the direction of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Here, Angela,” he says, “don’t say I never give you…
A Top Trump Fundraiser Is Reportedly Under Investigation
Alex J. Berliner/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Prominent Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy is under investigation by the Justice Department, which is seeking to determine if he sought money from foreign officials in exchange for influencing Trump administration policy, the Washington Post reported Friday evening. One key question investigators are asking…
Argentina’s Senate Votes to Reject Legal Abortion
Supporters of legal abortion comfort each other after senators rejected the bill.Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a highly anticipated vote, Argentinian senators early Thursday rejected a bill that would have legalized abortion for pregnancies no further along than 14 weeks. The vote, which followed 16 hours of…
Susan Meiselas’ Work Has Changed How We Think About Photojournalism. Her Retrospective Actually Does It Justice.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was fitting that not long before the opening of her major retrospective at the San Francisco MoMA this summer, Susan Meiselas was back in Nicaragua, making photos. Her coverage of the Nicaraguan revolution 40 years ago helped launch her career; now, at the opening…