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Lawmakers gave specific orders to Trump officials on foreign aid spending, but officials have refused to follow many of them — likely in violation of the law, experts say. In doing so, they’re escalating a constitutional crisis.

As opposition mounts, some experts wonder how long AI infrastructure can steer clear of the partisanship that defines U. S. politics.

The New Orleans Land Bridge protects New Orleans from storm surge. Like much of Louisiana's coast, it's disappearing at a rapid rate.

As the administration dismantles guardrails for industrial fishing, it's also threatening critical marine ecosystems that are sacred to Indigenous Pacific peoples.

Some of the basic functions of presidential libraries are fading.

You may remember the US National Security Strategy from December 2025. It laid bare its vision for Europe, which it sees as a continent under threat o

In Ortona dei Marsi, over 1,000 metres up in Italy’s Apennine mountains, fewer than 400 people live across ten settlements. Their closest neighbours a

Arriving in Dublin by ferry, you might expect a breath of fresh sea air. You’d be getting something else. Dublin’s ferry port is the most polluted in

In the “At the Galleries” column from our June 25, 2026, issue, Lovia Gyarkye writes about an exhibition of work by the British artist Lynette

Scientists are working to bolster heat-stressed kelp by attacking the urchins that prey on them and transplanting hardier kelp varieties.

Despite extracting extraordinary concessions, the reaction inside Iran isn’t entirely jubilant. Past betrayals are too recent to forget.

The flow has been stop and go for the first few months, but the line shows plenty of potential to boost Massachusetts’ renewable energy supply.

In April 1951 Randall Jarrell sent a short poem titled “A War” to his friend Robert Lowell: There set out, slowly, for a Different World, At four, on

“They were asking me to inform, ” said a protester, one of dozens contacted by the FBI, who was arrested while playing the cello at ICE’s Delaney Hall.

Dalton Eatherly already faced charges stemming from a racist stream at a Nashville restaurant before a courthouse shooting.

Brazil wants regulation. Argentina rejects it.

The government can execute war criminals or get full international support—but not both.

How other countries and their citizens helped the United States live up to its ideals.

As Iran–U. S. reach a deal, Tariq Kenney-Shawa and Jonah Valdez discuss what’s happened since Israel’s October 2025 “pseudo-ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip.

Ritchie Torres, the only Democrat boosted by cash from the conservative Fellowship PAC, has no serious competition in his House race.