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The lack of a counterweight encourages intervention and overreach.

They should reclaim key parts of Joe Biden’s record, rather than run from it.

Amoco, now part of BP, never cleaned up after its failed oil prospecting mission. Rural Kenyans are suing for a right to a clean environment.

We’ve been reporting on cybersecurity for years. As President Donald Trump and his Cabinet say artificial intelligence will transform the nation, the messaging isn’t new. It follows a familiar pattern.

As backlash grows, a nationwide search is underway for solutions to the AI energy crunch.

Across Asia and Africa, the cooking gas shortage is emptying menus, driving people to coal and wood, and fueling a booming black market.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has left thousands of Indian sailors at risk.

The war in Iran has all the elements of a Greek tragedy.

An earlier spring affects when migratory birds arrive, leaves emerge, and fruit ripens — among plants and animals that determine ecosystem health.

“Difficile est saturam non scribere: if you’re paying attention to present conditions, it’s difficult not to write satire, ” writes Aaron

Europe’s poorer nations and citizens are climbing the income ladder — and the data show the Union is more cohesive than its critics claim.

In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

By making the case that the war with Iran is a holy crusade, the evangelicals around the president are making it impossible to end.

The White House wants to portray Iran’s military as defeated, but U. S. intelligence shows otherwise.

Certain outcomes to the U. S. war in Iran now seem more likely than ever.

Vince Gilligan’s “Pluribus” asks whether an AI-led society would really be that bad.

Former FM’s terms for ending the war leave out the states that absorbed the most damage.

An undercover journalist travels the Volga to catch a glimpse of life under Putin.

Plus, more international fiction releases in April.