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Mark Carney’s tour of the Indo-Pacific this week is a rousing show of defiance, but it may have unintended effects.

The Bad River Band is fighting to stop Line 5 and protect its watershed. Meanwhile, local sheriffs are already tallying the cost of riot gear.

Cocoa-growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, forced to drink water from unsafe ditches and streams.

At first I am afraid to enter the library. I have arrived at the US Department of Justice website because my attention got snagged by a random post on

A 'Draghi light' agenda of deregulation risks social repression — but a bolder path rooted in Europe's social democratic tradition offers a credible alternative.

Environmentalists are challenging the EPA’s repeal of the “endangerment finding, ” which empowered it to regulate greenhouse gases. Whether or not the action holds up in court, now is the time to develop climate strategies that can be pursued when the political balance shifts.

After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and into less-developed areas.

Now, even if the webpages come down again, the data can remain public.

The risk is even higher for crews that travel in from cooler climates.

Chronic uncertainty does not mobilise democratic publics — it paralyses them, and that paralysis is itself a tool of power.

We need to pay attention to interconnectedness, shared memory and common humanity.

Indonesia’s president offers to facilitate negotiations after U. S. and Israeli strikes.

The White House is discovering that Iran and Israel have a higher tolerance for pain, according to Mideast expert Vali Nasr.

All three countries are preparing to potentially wage weeks of conflict—or more.

Top Democrats close to AIPAC stick to criticizing Trump’s process failures — but primary candidates are calling for a referendum on the war itself.

As ever, the horrors Trump embodies implicate more than just his singular odious person. His “habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world”—in David Frum’s formulation over the weekend—is hardly a tendency idiosyncratically restricted to our forty-sixth president. It’s a core feature of the office, especially after decades of bipartisan fealty to the all-rationalizing theory of the unitary executive. No matter how crude or clumsy Trump may be in forcing his will upon the world, his grandiose and murderous entitlement is directly continuous with his predecessors’.

A divided opposition faces a long road ahead.

Why the country’s vaunted network of regional militias has mostly stayed quiet.

“This is not a so-called regime change war, ” Hegseth said.

The Iran war shows that Trump is loving his military interventions — but they are regime adjustments, not regime-change wars.