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The Maine Wire presents itself as a plucky upstart fighting for the common Mainer, but it’s fueled by powerful right-wing money men.

The U. S. defense secretary is using the military to promote Christian nationalism, experts say.

The U. S. president has a history of following other world leaders—or his gut—instead of his own intelligence officers and experts.

Trump’s Iran policy might undermine his one successful peace accord.

Margeaux Walter unsettles the tropes of environmental photography

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of the costs to states. Arizona’s swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply and caused nearly half of recipients to lose benefits.

Jem Bendell predicted that society would collapse because of climate change. Then he tried to get on with his life.

Trump’s court losses give the industry a chance to get back on stable footing.

Universal free public transport in Montpellier, France, a runaway success.

The announcement came less than two hours before Trump’s deadline was set to expire.

Trump invoked the Woman, Life, Freedom movement to justify the Iran war. Iranian American women like Rep. Yassamin Ansari rejected the idea.

Ma Xingrui is the latest official ensnared by anti-corruption purges.

T-minus four hours until either Tehran accepts a cease-fire deal or the United States attacks Iran’s civilian infrastructure.

Baghdad doesn’t control much of its own territory.

“What President Trump is describing as the destruction of ‘a whole civilization’ would be a war crime, plain and simple. ”

A serendipitous conversation about poetry and craft

Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is a reminder of how everything is fair game in an era of great-power competition.

The destruction of infrastructure is killing ordinary people.

A weaker, angrier, more suspicious regime with a less cautious supreme leader and leverage over Hormuz. What could go wrong?

By channeling the Delphic spirits of his mentors, Lerner manages to avoid heavy-handed commentary in favor of stranger pursuits: finding the sense and nonsense in natural speech; intersplicing shards of citation and quotation; and contesting the very concept of a stable narratorial voice.