FEBRUARY 23. 2026

Electric buses are passing a brutal cold-weather test in Wisconsin

Madison is proving electric buses can run through cold winters, providing a blueprint for zero-emissions transit in other frigid locales.

Why a Club of Six Nations Is Both Europe’s Best Hope and Its Greatest Risk

A German proposal to unite the EU's six largest countries confronts a Union paralysed by the dominance of its smallest members.

That Ceaușescu moment

The British government has come down hard on climate protesters, but juries are finding the courage to uphold justice again.

Trump’s Midterm Threats Recall a Bleak Chapter in American History

Illiberalism has been part of the national culture since the founding.

FEBRUARY 22. 2026

Timekeepers

Brazil’s military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 1985, retaliated fiercely against whoever contested its monopoly over the country’s public

Scientists have found another alarming pattern in wildfires

Around the world, the conditions that brew massive blazes are. ..syncing up?

The Victims Who Fought Back

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

FEBRUARY 21. 2026

Home Free

“Every writer, sooner or later, must face the fact that our characters are taken directly from our own lives, so there will be friends, relatives, and acquaintances who are going to feel like they’ve been pushed under the bus. ”

‘A different set of rules’: Thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations

Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.

Team USA is proving that world-class skiing doesn’t require PFAS wax

Team U. S. A. reflects on competing in the first Olympics following an international ban on waxes containing "forever chemicals. "

FEBRUARY 20. 2026

Trump’s Tariff Fight Isn’t Over Yet

The U. S. president plans to issue 10 percent global duties under a different authority after the Supreme Court ruled that his IEEPA tariffs were unlawful.

Trump’s Economy, One Year Later

How tariffs, immigration crackdowns, and corruption have shaped the U. S.

Can Europe Ever Thrive Again?

The continent’s survival isn’t a question. The brightness of its future very much is.

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark.

Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, brain swelling and other serious complications.

Import the War, Export the Border

If we are to avoid the worst possible outcomes of this conjuncture, we need an electoral left willing to countenance the collapse of liberalism and to be honest about the need to deconstruct our overseas empire.

China’s Afghan Gold Rush Is Turning Deadly

The Taliban government can’t protect Chinese miners from local hostility.

A Blockbuster Captures Japan’s Identity Crisis

“Kokuho” offers an artful meditation on a country in flux.

What a Gripping BBC Drama Gets Wrong About Tehran Prison Life

A former hostage of the Iranian regime reviews a series based on the story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

The Men Who Sold the World

Social disaster is becoming increasingly affordable. On February 12 the Trump administration rescinded the Endangerment Finding, a 2009 EPA determination

Trump’s Tariffs Are Unlawful, Supreme Court Rules

But it’s unclear what happens to the tens of billions of dollars already taken from U. S. businesses.