metazine

The Tour de France is in full swing, and it's hot. Really hot. Global warming has been pushing temperatures up across France, where they've been unusu

It may seem counterintuitive, but an electric car can come in handy during a blackout. Remember the one in Spain and Portugal from last year? People w

The report comes amid growing U. S. efforts to overturn Cuba’s government.

Where is the joy? Where is the pride in ChatGPT or Claude? AI stinks of the living dead.

The move could increase pressure on already-strained global energy markets.

Iran's strikes caused dozens of casualties and the first deaths in action since the ceasefire collapsed, a U. S. official said.

Hormuz is a sign of worse things to come.

A town ninety miles north of the Arctic Circle does not need two city halls, two high schools, and two fire stations. To establish a new city, the old one must die, and this project to destroy and rebuild central Kiruna—known as the “urban” or “social transformation”—has now been ongoing for more than two decades.

Syria’s Druze are trapped between Israeli protection and Damascus’s rule.

Extremophiles that thrive in the most unforgiving environments aren’t just biological curiosities. Understanding their resilience has many implications for us.

France and Germany again locked into military rivalry is bad news for the rest of Europe.

The world’s great powers are engaging a new battleground in their search for critical minerals.

They see Big Tech as having eroded commonality: the common good, the social fabric, the institutions of collective interest.

In Budapest, Magyar took back the flag — and showed Europe how to beat the far right.

A new bill aims to stop the United States from “funding abuse. ”

Keir Starmer allowed his country to be humiliated by Washington. Burnham should learn from his mistakes.

How a Gen Z-led protest movement in Albania is calling out corruption and global oligarchy.

“Democracy is a very old institution, ” explains the Democratic National Committee’s autopsy of the 2024 election, belatedly released in May. “And yet what

As ProPublica and the Minnesota Star Tribune investigated child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, reporters found a common theme: children who were victims of sexual misconduct going on to repeat the behavior.

In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.