Douglas Herbert

NOT lost in translation. #Canada #Trump

Lula’s wide margin of victory in #Brazil’s election will make it harder for Bolsonaro Jr. to challenge the result, which he is already rejecting. In the U.S., fears are growing in many quarters that #Trump will do the same and cry foul if he loses.

For many, this augurs ill for the #midterms. But perhaps more worrying, for millions of American voters there is nothing to see here. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

The EU has awarded this year’s #Sakharov human rights prize to the International Criminal Court. The European parliament’s speaker cited the #ICC’s important work in “upholding international #law and #justice”. #humanrights

The Far Right has weaponized the violent street #protests in #France, and across #Europe, The Guardian reports. Marine Le Pen, who already enjoyed a commanding lead in the polls prior to Oct. 17, has gotten a further boost from the recent unrest. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

That all-important thing called context. It immunizes us against algorithm-driven sensationalism and clickbait. #NYTimes

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The Daily followed a young Iowa farmer to find out whether he may be about to do the once-unthinkable - and vote for a non- #Republican on November 3. This is important reporting, on a human level, of a kind that #AI could never do. #NYTimes #midterms podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/t...

For those who don’t get to see it in cinemas, Katharine Viner, The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, says the paper will stream #NAZA for free in late November.

FT: “With progress on the battlefield deadlocked in Ukraine and #Russia’s economy struggling, the #Kremlin has ordered an expansion of sabotage and “hybrid” operations in #Europe as it seeks to fatally weaken support for Kyiv in the coming months.” www.ft.com/content/5da2...

Cartoon by Bill Bramhall.

Russia’s lack of transparency about what caused the death of a young woman who worked in an anti- #plague research facility in Siberia is fanning rumors and conspiracies. It’s also giving rise to grifters flogging bogus plague remedies. www.afp.com/en/unproven-...

Sulzberger’s appeal on behalf of quality #journalism at 14’45” is what I’ve been waiting to hear from the boss of a major news outlet: podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/t...

A remarkable example of visual storytelling on a subject few of us, I suspect, knew anything about. Thank you, #BBC. #Afghanistan #water www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Energy analysts mostly agree that European nations’ decision to release #diesel from strategic reserves will have little Impact. The move smacks of a cave-in to #Trump, who called it a “great thing”. He needs lower prices at the pump to boost #Republicans’ chances of keeping control of Congress.

Clever headline in the French daily, Libération - a reference to Jean-Marie Le Pen’s infamous quip that the Nazi gas chambers were a “detail” in WWII history. That was before France’s far-right National Front party rebranded itself as the National Rally.

Active-assailant insurance, brought to you by the ravages of relentless gun violence in the United States. www.ft.com/content/5ad7...

From The #NYTimes: When #Trump met with # Xi in the Oval Office, the WH « allowed a limited number of photojournalists, but no print reporters, to attend. During the event, Mr. Trump made a remark about how the Chinese had the friendliest #press corps, according to photographers who were present. »

The Economist with the U.S. #midterms caveat piece: “Republican chances to hold the chamber [the House of Representatives] are at 10% and not 1% for plausible reasons. And Americans have seen Mr #Trump’s Houdini act before.”

Happy 175th (and one day) anniversary to the #NYTimes, my lifelong lodestar. It’s why I got into #journalism. And it’s why I’ve stayed in this profession through all its iterations, keeping me honest - or striving to be honest - in a field where ethics vary wildly. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...

Some important resources in the ongoing fight against 911 conspiracy theories. False narratives, those refuted by facts, delegitimize democratic government and demonize innocent groups, James Lindsay, of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes. www.cfr.org/articles/ten...

Vladimir #Putin was the first foreign leader to call George W. Bush on the day of the 9/11 attacks. According to recently declassified transcripts, he told the U.S. president, referring to the attackers: “We need to destroy them like rats, or buy them off.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The #NYTimes’s Adam Kushner on “a weird summer for the #Pentagon”. #Hegseth

The #NYTimes does a deep dive on the questions raised by a “presidential ruse”. #journalism #journalisticethics www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/i...

The #NYTimes: “President #Trump’s Air Force One subterfuge…pales in comparison to the secrecy surrounding President Vladimir V. #Putin…whose activity is shrouded in so much mystery that journalists have tried to track it by assessing the wilting of his office plants.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/w...

“ #Greenland Energy has retained Phil McGraw, better known as Dr Phil, a prominent rightwing former chatshow host who served on #Trump’s religious freedom commission, to make a documentary series that will ‘capture the mission of these modern-day wildcatters’.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The “miracle” of #Krasnoyarsk. #Putin makes an impromptu appearance in the Siberian city - and suddenly there is gas at the pump and prices fall! #petrol #Russia www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Democrats are about twice as likely as Republicans to say learning a language other than English is important. Do you think learning a second language is important? 💬

The “New-Yorkification” of US #newspapers: “By 2025, 1 out of every 12 U.S. newspaper jobs (8.3%) was based in #Manhattan. What was once one of America’s least centralized industries is increasingly squeezed into a few square miles of Midtown.” www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/u-s-...

“Commander in Cheat?”. (via The Associated Press) #Trump #golf apnews.com/article/c0bf...

Badly needed perspective from The #NYTimes that lays bare, in a stark way, the dramatically shifting attitudes towards #migrants in Europe in just over a decade. #immigration #farright www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/w...

The Trump administration has assessed that the Pentagon's drug interdiction program, which has now produced enormous casualty numbers, is having no affect on the actual interdiction of drugs from Latin America to the US. Its purpose is pure entertainment value, apparently.

Journalism is all about great #storytelling - capturing the human experience in all its multi-faceted complexity. This #NYTimes account of an extended #NorthKorean family’s flight to freedom is a masterclass in its genre. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...

Poynter’s senior #media writer, Tom Jones, asks: “Should networks turn over airtime for #Trump to push unproven claims of a rigged election from six years ago? Should they give him free rein on the air to continue peddling #misinformation about election results that he has never accepted?”

Environmentalists are calling this “the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century”. #NYTimes #environment www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

If anyone’s come across a better editorial cartoon at the juncture of the #WorldCup and #geopolitics, I’d love to see it.

Following reports that the US ambassador ordered Belgian police to remove two journalists from the massive "🇺🇸Freedom 250" event in Cinquantenaire Park on Sunday, now there are reports that the enormous fireworks display there damaged the historic buildings in the park.

“…few far-right voices aligned with Mr. #Trump have criticized him over the scale of his personal haul, reported this week, or the conflict inherent in his status as a major #cryptocurrency industry operator and its top policymaker.” (#NYTimes) #ConflictOfInterest www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...

“The sweltering night-time temperatures currently harming people’s sleep are about 100 times more likely today than in 2003.” (The Guardian) #climatechange #heatwave www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The #Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment.” (Financial Times) #Hegseth www.ft.com/content/b293...

The Guardian reports: “A generation of young Britons who were locked out of the 2016 #EU referendum because of their age now believe that #Brexit has failed, with a majority demanding a fresh vote to rejoin the EU, exclusive polling shows.” #GenZ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The “unquiet American”, indeed. The NYTimes reports on the serial offensive behavior that has made Charles Kushner, #Trump’s son-in-law and the ambassador to France, a pariah here in #Paris. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/w...

A moving tribute to Barack #Obama’s legacy, leavened with hope for the future, by Michelle Obama - with a tearful Barack looking on. The highlight of the week, and perhaps the year, so far. #MichelleObama www.google.com/search?q=pbs...

“I don’t believe in building #libraries or museums. It’s most likely going to be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force One in the lobby.” - Donald #Trump, in March, on the proposal for a $1 billion, 50-floor Miami skyscraper, with gold statues of himself.

An AI-generated tongue-in-cheek photo posted on the X platform shows “the Oval Office after Trump’s return from Versailles”.

French #newspapers (in stark contrast to quality American news outlets that take pains to wall off fact from opinion) aren’t shy about proclaiming their political orientation. It’s part of #France’s journalistic culture and, in the case of left-leaning Libération, makes for some great headlines.

NYTimes Opinion Columnist Michelle Goldberg nails it in her factually airtight style. “…the confluence of America’s failure in #Iran and #Trump’s Temu colosseum should paint a clear picture of decadence, rot and weakness trying to conceal itself behind macho kitsch.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

One U.S.-based political commentator said #Trump’s “carnival of violence” on the South Lawn of the White House epitomizes the “chaos” and “self-serving” of the president’s second term. MS Now digs deeper into what critics see as a cesspool of presidential #corruption. #UFC www.ms.now/news/trump-u...

Ahead of next week’s G7 summit in Evian, Pierre Haski discusses a new study among 15 #European countries showing a total collapse in Europeans’ perception of the U.S. as an “ally”. Perhaps not surprising, but clearly an appalling own goal by the U.S. under #Trump. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...