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Gov. Mike Kehoe says “out-of-state special interests” are influencing citizen-led efforts to amend the state constitution. His own ballot measure, a push to eliminate the state income tax, has received $1.9M from a mysterious Delaware nonprofit.

Climate breakdown and the rise of flooding as a financial asset class.

Indigenous lands are crucial for climate mitigation and resilience. Research shows their health is a direct result of Indigenous stewardship.

Energy is Putin’s strongest card in a fuel-hungry region.

Claire Valdez and Brad Lander won their primaries Tuesday night, sending a sign of strength for an NYC left led by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Denying that history could have been otherwise or making conquest subject to some unwritten statute of limitations are both ways of cloaking not just the US’s imperial past but its continuation into the present, with or without Kalaallit Nunaat. Buying Greenland was more than a threat to NATO, it was a threat to make American empire visible again.

What happened: The European Union hosted five representatives of the Taliban in Brussels to discuss potential deportations of Afghan nationals.

A 17-year-old British schoolboy was sanctioned by the Kremlin for uncovering how Russia evades Western sanctions using cryptocurrency. “I was sat at t

After a pandemic dip, the average EU life expectancy has reached a record high of 81.5 years – but this figure hides a lot of different inequalities.

But competing assertions have Gulf nations worried that the agreement won’t last.

Tacitly or openly, officials and observers on all sides of the deal—even those who otherwise seem to inhabit different universes—acknowledge that the US has lost the war. And should the war resume, as Israel hopes, the US will lose again. “You can’t kill your way out of . . . every national security problem”; but you can sure as hell die trying.

In a civil case stemming from a joint ProPublica-Sahan Journal investigation, a home seller has been found liable in a ploy that targeted East African Muslims in Minneapolis, marketing deceptive real estate deals as “sharia compliant. ”

Xi has spent billions of dollars trying to turn Beijing into a soccer powerhouse.

Anti-ICE activists received lengthy prison terms — including a 100-year sentence — in the first major trial of the NSPM-7 era.

On the promise and possibility of green spaces

We want to hear from the officials and workers who help people navigate SNAP and Medicaid, because no one knows these programs better.

As humanitarian funding collapses, the global system for dealing with refugees is coming apart at the seams.

It is a persistent wonder of the Internet that so much can, at times, be built from so little. A simple doorway opens to a vast labyrinth, assembled by

An ugly chapter of World War II history is straining relations between Warsaw and Kyiv.

Though marketed as clean energy, industrial pellet plants are driving deforestation, worsening floods, and polluting rural counties.