How FIFA’s climate solution has turned into ‘water-gate’

When the United States takes the pitch against Australia this afternoon, millions of soccer fans will tune in. Anyone who hasn’t watched a match since the last World Cup will notice something new: players stopping midway through each half to drink some water.

The Performative Ceasefire in Gaza

As Iran–U. S. reach a deal, Tariq Kenney-Shawa and Jonah Valdez discuss what’s happened since Israel’s October 2025 “pseudo-ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip.

FBI Tried to Flip Anti-ICE Protesters Into Informants

“They were asking me to inform, ” said a protester, one of dozens contacted by the FBI, who was arrested while playing the cello at ICE’s Delaney Hall.

Variations on Broken Eggs

In April 1951 Randall Jarrell sent a short poem titled “A War” to his friend Robert Lowell: There set out, slowly, for a Different World, At four, on

Is New England’s new hydropower transmission line paying off?

The flow has been stop and go for the first few months, but the line shows plenty of potential to boost Massachusetts’ renewable energy supply.

Efforts to save kelp forests from ocean warming are ramping up

Scientists are working to bolster heat-stressed kelp by attacking the urchins that prey on them and transplanting hardier kelp varieties.

The Surprising Reaction Inside Iran to Its War Victory

Despite extracting extraordinary concessions, the reaction inside Iran isn’t entirely jubilant. Past betrayals are too recent to forget.

Trump-Loving Crypto Super PAC Finally Backs a Democrat: Ritchie Torres

Ritchie Torres, the only Democrat boosted by cash from the conservative Fellowship PAC, has no serious competition in his House race.