MARCH 30. 2026

Trump Claims ‘Great Progress’ in Iran Peace Talks

At the same time, the White House has threatened to obliterate Tehran’s energy sector if a deal isn’t reached soon.

What Would We All Say If Iran Razed MIT Because of Military-Related Research?

Israel and the U. S. are destroying universities in Iran that have ties to military research, but scores of U. S. and Israeli schools do it.

Fierce optimism

Open access // by Benoît Bréville

The Houthis Are Now in the War—But How Deep?

Iran’s Yemeni proxy group could make a bad energy market catastrophic if it targets the Red Sea.

Trump’s Secret Wars on the World Keep Expanding

Our analysis reveals that the “peace” president has embroiled the U. S. in more than 20 military interventions, armed conflicts, and wars.

Iran War Shatters South Asians’ Gulf Dreams

Migrants are seeing flights and jobs vanish.

Trump Is Losing the War in Iran

One month in, the Islamic Republic is winning merely by surviving.

Taking the Battle for Human Attention Seriously

The battle for human attention has become the defining geopolitical and democratic contest of the digital age.

Putin’s Persian Problem

Don’t overthink it. The Iran war is bad for Russia.

The Iran War Has Escaped Its Authors

Escalation is already shattering Washington’s illusion of control.

A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.

At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

Your ‘widely recyclable’ Starbucks cup is still trash

A new label promises single-use cups are recyclable. But that doesn't mean they actually get recycled.

With its new farm bill, Florida’s climate fight just hit a tractor-sized roadblock

The sweeping new law enshrines farmers' use of gas-powered equipment and weakens protections for conservation lands, locking the state's climate-battered ag sector into fossil fuel dependence.

‘Unconditional Surrender’ Is Always an Illusion

An American myth reemerges for the Iran war.

Wartime Budgets Are an X-Ray of Presidential Priorities

By choosing escalation in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson’s plan to fund both guns and butter unraveled.

MARCH 29. 2026

Intimate Difference

Christine Smallwood on being the younger child, the loneliness of contemporary fiction, and feminist psychoanalysis

‘We’re harvesting the sun’: A huge solar project grows in California

A sweeping plan to build 21 gigawatts of solar plus batteries on 136,000 acres could be a lifeline for Central Valley farmers facing devastating water shortages.

‘Tell Me Your Worst’

The Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck told her models to stay silent and look away from her while she worked. She would not tolerate conversation or a

MARCH 28. 2026

DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator

Staffers from DOGE are revamping rules in ways to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry.