The Big Read
Hong Kong’s Bookstore Raids Produce a Literary Resistance Campaign in Taiwan
Five booksellers were arrested on the Book Fair's opening day; a detainee's T-shirt became a slogan across the strait, and the book the raid targeted went to the top of Taiwan's charts.

Briefings · 3 min read
Venice Turns Media Power and Political History Into Its Headline Attractions
The 83rd festival opens with Danny Boyle's account of Murdoch buying The Sun and runs to a four-hour Musk portrait — a slate that reads like an audit of who owns the public story.

Briefings · 2 min read
Congress Puts the Smithsonian’s Version of American History on Trial
A House subcommittee spent two hours examining whether the National Museum of American History is rewriting the past. The last such trial, over the Enola Gay, ended with the history removed.

Briefings · 3 min read
The House Bundles War Funding, Farm Relief and Voting Restrictions Into One Package
A 216–214 vote sends $95 billion toward the Pentagon, tariff-hit farmers and proof-of-citizenship voting rules in a single reconciliation vehicle — war finance and election law traveling as one partisan package.

Briefings · 3 min read
