AUGUST 5. 2026
Pretoria’s influence across Africa may be waning following widespread xenophobic attacks.
The region has become ground zero for protests against poor governance.
Missed opportunities and strategic blunders have plagued Riyadh.
Harkening back to colonial massacres, Trump abandons the premise of proportionality for butchery in Iran and beyond.
New research is helping biologists understand how an overlooked aspect of coral physiology may affect their fate under climate change.
Washington has a long record of fighting the wrong war for the wrong objective.
On my last visit to Tripoli, this past June, the city often felt as if it had left the protracted conflicts of Libya’s post-Qaddafi era behind. At night,
The Fed chair “is really rolling the dice” while holding out against interest rate hikes, one expert said.
Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens — despite a record-setting $60 million in outside spending in her favor.
In their willingness to blame Spain, European leaders have shown they cannot be trusted on collective security.
On whale song, loneliness, and connection
A conversation about how to envision and work toward a better future with Christopher Nye and Philip Francis
In "Land Less" — the Third-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — filmmaker Alexi Liotti follows the activists fighting a bill that would transfer thousands of acres of Alaskan rainforest to five Native corporations, opening the land to logging.
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s review of the Democratic Senate candidate’s residency records found that he may have voted in up to five elections using an address where he no longer lived.
After our tests showed many yards still contain toxic lead after remediation, the city’s response to residents has been inconsistent. Some received additional testing and cleanup, while others were denied.
While “smoke taint” from last month’s hazy skies isn’t an immediate threat, it comes on the heels of a growing season already fraught with climate extremes.
As climate change primes the Pacific Northwest to burn, hundreds in Washington state's second-biggest city lose their homes.
Opponents are hopeful that a recent ruling by the court to vacate a key permit could eventually shut down the pipeline altogether.
A 'ministry of peace' should be established in Britain - and in every country in the world.
The world’s rice bowl takes a hit.