MARCH 6. 2026

Dems Need to Wise Up: ICE Is a Threat to Our Elections

DHS has built a national police force with massive surveillance capabilities — which it could use to interfere with our elections.

The Lie of ‘Preventive’ War

In January, during a lengthy New York Times interview with President Donald Trump, one of the paper’s reporters asked him whether he saw “any checks” to

Iran’s Wartime Leader Isn’t a Dealmaker

Ali Larijani has a pragmatic temperament—but a worldview shaped by the system he now leads.

China Won’t Play Security Patron for Iran

Beijing doesn’t want to imitate the United States’ alliance obligations.

Chile Bids Goodbye to Boric

The outgoing president created a new blueprint for the Latin American left.

Friedrich Merz Gets Real

Germany’s chancellor is dragging his country into a new era. Will Germans go along?

Trump’s War to Nowhere

Intercept senior editor Ali Gharib discusses the human and political toll of the Israel–U. S. war on Iran with Séamus Malekafzali.

ProPublica Wins Lawsuit Over Access to Court Records in U. S. Navy Cases

A judge ruled that the Navy’s long-standing policy to withhold records from its criminal trials violated the First Amendment.

Why thinning a forest could get you more drinking water

Scientists have shown how actively managing forests to prevent wildfires can boost the snowpack, a critical source of water in the West.

The Iran war is driving up energy prices. These companies are profiting.

Fighting in the Middle East had limted the flow of oil and gas, bringing higher bills for consumers and windfalls for fossil fuel companies.

Rain, rain go away

Severe weather swings leave families battling floods and farmers facing bad year.

Andrew O’Hagan: Stay Classy

With some people, money and sex are the only truths. It’s the ultimate delinquency to believe that gratification. ..

Nicholas Spice: Butter wouldn’t melt

Schubert’s​ imagination was unusually literary. Words released music in him: poems about desire, love, loss, ...

Stefan Collini: Capital Brandy

For much of the second half of his life, T. S. Eliot was a man on the run, retreating to actual or symbolic boltholes, ...

Sheila Fitzpatrick: Apocalypse Forgotten

The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ‘. ..

Ian Patterson: Actual Outer Margins

Once at a gate with cherries. Know this quickly buried nowor less to file history brief stuffed full of pen force, the timeit takes to various accounts echoing in my library to ensurepassage broke. ..

Steven Shapin: Heart, Head, Life, Fate

The hand is an organ through which we know about the world, and in its expressive mode it helps others know something. ..

William Davies: Short Cuts

Despite the misinformation and alienation that have led so many citizens to regard democracy in general with despair or. ..

Joanna Biggs: Bleeding in the Dishes

Solvej Balle’s serial novel takes the idea of repetition and uses it to make these ancient, impossible problems of. ..

Daniella Shreir: My Mother’s Prison

Although she often responded to questions with anecdotes and talked about the role of chance and the necessity of. ..