For decades, the IRS has been required to audit every sitting president annually; a critical safeguard to ensure no president has a secret financial stake in betting against the American people they swore to serve. Every president accepted those audits without question. - Until now.

Hundreds of people in Ireland are calling for justice after the death of a Congolese man restrained by security guards in Dublin. Here are some things to know about the incident.

‘Refusing help to a friend who has betrayed us does not entail an assumption that he is ultimately responsible for his character. It is just a natural consequence of his destruction of our friendship.’ Thomas Nagel on T.M. Scanlon’s moral philosophy. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Adam Kadlac, author of The Magic Kingdom and the Meaning of Life, in the LA Times: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Wonderful! Thomas Nagel in the LRB on T.M. Scanlon's new book: I’m not sorry www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Iran war helps BP double profits to nearly $3.2bn in the first three months of 2026! While ordinary people pay huge price hikes at the pumps. “Ministers must take steps to halt unfettered profiteering now while there is still time to stop it hurting working people” urges @unitesharon.bsky.social

The Gibert group of French booksellers is set to ask the Paris economic activities tribunal to place it in receivership, as it moves its focus to selling second--hand books 👇 #BookSky

Congratulations to @stephenking.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor!👍 (Novels/Novellas: Approximately 65 to 67 Non-fiction books: 5 books. Short Stories: Over 200 Pseudonyms: 7 novels were published as Richard Bachman. Frequency: He has published at least one book almost every year since 1974)

To date, €33m in redress payments have been made to survivors, the money was provided by the Irish government, the religious orders have for the most part declined to contribute. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Republicans silent as Democrats call on US cabinet to oust Trump over Iran www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then Pope Leo asked to meet www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

As a business founder and as a man, I regret the decades I spent confined by masculinity.Far from being a weakness, emotional literacy – kindness, openness, empathy, compassion – makes us so much stronger. | Guy Singh-Watson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘The careful selection process employed in the days of Operation Wrath of God is a distant memory; victims in the tens of thousands have been selected and located with the aid of AI systems.’ Andrew Cockburn on Mossad’s assassination strategy and its legacy. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? | Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

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The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*

Where to even begin.

. @janecaro.bsky.social on why she withdrew from the Adelaide Writers' Week #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

"I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide writers’ week" Louise Adler ✊ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade

Trump administration unleashes torrent of untruths after woman shot dead by ICE

Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?

Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos | Aditya Chakrabortty

There goes the ‘special relationship’. Colonialism 2.0

Trump’s focus on Venezuelan oil reinforces claim action was never about ‘war on drugs’

Delighted and grateful that the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute included my book in its 2025 must reads gdi.ch/en/publicati...

“The reality is that America is in breach of the United Nations charter,” he added. “It has committed the crime of aggression, which the court at Nuremberg described as the worst crime of all.”

‘Like Mark Antony minus the toga and brains, he struts and preens, cries havoc! and lets slip the dogs of war. ‘