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Xenophobia in Africa’s southernmost nation will have vast implications.

Would even extraterrestrials inspire humanity to unite these days?

A new censorship law restricts what Russians were ever allowed to have sung, written, or published.

The president’s turn to imperial civilizationalism is destroying what it claims to defend.

A new book shows the uses and limits of microhistories in understanding the past.

The economic effects of the Iran war are straining a key Republican constituency ahead of midterm elections.

Spurred by The Intercept's reporting, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse calls out DHS for ICE recruiting materials celebrated by white nationalists.

The soon-to-be trillionaire’s politics undermine his own business as a government contractor.

The ongoing war has revealed vulnerabilities that could prove far more dangerous in a conflict over Taiwan.

Washington is contemplating the one thing that could rally Lebanese around Hezbollah.

Spencer Pratt’s pratfall in LA, Graham Platner’s victory, prediction markets, and other takeaways from the California and Maine primary elections.

With progress in Ukraine grinding to a halt, Moscow could seek disruption off the battlefield.

After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives, ” he wrote.

Kenyan McDuffie says DC needs teen curfews. Janeese Lewis George argues that's playing into the Trump administration's hand.

Most Democrats and moderate Republicans agree that global warming is increasing the cost of living, a new survey shows.

The fight over an abandoned railway in Queens reflects a national debate over whether unused track should become parks or transit lines.

This story is made possible through a partnership between Grist and The Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first independent, nonprofit newsroom focused on investigations and feature stories. Applause echoed through the halls of the Gage County courthouse.

After years of planning, negotiations, implementation, and controversy, the EU’s new migration rules enter into application today , making th

The Manhattan Project, which built the atomic bomb, transmuted pure theory into mass slaughter, and it changed. ..

Gorky was the designated mourner for a vanished moment in Russian culture. He wanted socialism or democracy but he no. ..