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A rare supermajority grants the Japanese prime minister a sweeping mandate to enact economic and defense reforms.

Without the treaty, nuclear forces will become hard to verify and harder to trust.

Russia continues to bomb Ukraine’s fossil-fueled power plants, leaving much of the nation shivering during a brutal winter. But Ukraine’s new emphasis on developing decentralized power — from solar panels to wind turbines — is advancing an unexpected green energy transition.

Despite a landslide victory, questions remain over the prime minister’s popularity and her fiscal plans.

In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

A former Biden national security adviser hoping to unseat Mike Lawler consulted for two defense tech firms that partner with Palantir.

A contested idea has seen many alleged deaths.

Reporting from Uganda, The Intercept saw how Trump’s effort to slash foreign aid is encouraging the transmission of HIV.

The delusion of invulnerability tempts leaders to take risks.

China’s leader has created a system of permanent insecurity.

How to present history was also a roiling debate during the bicentennial.

Using old records, scientists created a new dataset on ice cover since 1897. It's already being used to study a declining fish species.

The great powers have competing theories of victory; Britain's path leads inevitably to alignment with Europe.

Animal testing protest ban is a defeat for animals, humans - and science.

Europe's industrial policy risks becoming a corporate giveaway unless strict social and environmental conditions are attached.

Hari Kunzru on psychogeography, the politics of trespass, and the hidden tombs of New York

What to know as the Winter Games kick off.

With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.

Alma Guillermoprieto has spent her nearly fifty-year career writing about America—North and South, from New York to Argentina. From her earliest essay in

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really matters.