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Beijing is an unentangled superpower—but one with key interests at stake.

Most U. S. citizens were not warned to leave the region before the United States and Israel launched the war on Iran.

As chaos spreads from Iran, global shipping is buckling under the strain.

Inexperienced and overextended, Trump’s envoys have failed on three fronts.

Israel’s plan to strike Iran would put American lives at risk, Rubio said. Rather than confronting Israel, the U. S. joined their war.

In response to Trump’s strikes, European leaders have created an alternate reality to escape their hypocrisy.

The war on Iran sounds the death knell for the old-school idea of “you break it, you own it. ”

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.

A conversation about Black sovereignty, legacy, and land ownership

With Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN could be the next media property slated for a right-wing turn.

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.