MAY 22. 2026

California Teacher Previously Fired for Sexual Harassment Is No Longer in the Classroom After New Complaints

A KQED-ProPublica report revealed how Redwood City teacher Jason Agan was allowed to keep his credentials despite being deemed “unfit to teach. ” Now he’s been replaced by a substitute for the remainder of the school year.

AIPAC, AI, Crypto and Gambling Are Hiding Their Big Election Spends

Intercept staffers break down the latest election news and the front groups fueling the midterms.

Corporate Interests Paid for Haley Stevens' Trip to Portugal — and Her Campaign Ads

Center Forward sent Stevens and her mom to a banking and crypto conference. Two years later, it's spending millions on ads in Michigan.

Louisiana’s Tough-on-Crime Policies Stand to Cost Taxpayers Millions More for Years to Come

The governor’s office has dismissed experts’ concerns that his criminal justice rollbacks could swell the prison population and plunge the state into financial disaster. We analyzed how his policies have already begun to impact the state.

Why hybrids — not EVs — are winning over US consumers

High gas prices are driving EV growth in other parts of the world — but American drivers are favoring hybrids.

In a rare show of global unity, countries adopt landmark climate ruling

About six years ago, law students at the University of the South Pacific convinced the government of the small island nation of Vanuatu to take the harms wrought by climate change all the way to the International Court of Justice, the world’s highest legal authority.

Climate defeatism and moral abdication

From COP to cope: A review of Professor Clive Hamilton's 'Negotiating The End of the World', from Polity.

How the West Misreads Modi’s Success

India may be less liberal now, but it remains democratic.

Why the Quad Was Doomed From the Start

The Philippines has replaced India in Washington’s security calculus on China.

What the energy shock is doing to the EU economy

High energy prices caused by the US-Israel war on Iran will rein in EU economic growth this year and bring a slide in the jobless rate, the European C

French cinema rails against growing far-right grip

Beyond the glamour, the Cannes Film Festival is also a political stage, and this year is no exception. On the eve of the festival's opening ceremony l

Fuel sold as “green” in Europe may be linked to Amazon deforestation

A US supplier of “green fuels” to the EU has imported animal fats from cattle raised on illegally deforested Amazonian land, our investigation in part

Deborah Friedell: ‘Gavin, Gavin, we love you! ’

Gavin Newsom describes himself as an ‘accidental politician’. Mayor Brown anointed him as his preferred successor, ...

Malcolm Petrie: You can’t satisfy everyone

It looks like​ Britain’s long-standing electoral duopoly is coming to an end. Even though Labour won a huge majority in the 2024 general election, the combined vote share of the two main. ..

David Runciman: Trivial Pursuits

Any scoring system can be abused once it gets captured. But the fact remains that a scoring system can also be the most. ..

James Meek: Short Cuts

It might be wise not to be too optimistic about Andy Burnham bringing miracles of delivery, and focus instead on his. ..

Stefan Collini: Squadrons of Pigs

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and. ..

Greg Afinogenov: Slavdom

Unlike 20th-century communism or fascism, contemporary Russian ideology does not have a clearly articulated manifesto or. ..

Malcolm Gaskill: Dangerously Scary

Eighty years on, Dead of Night stands as an astute meditation on repression and madness. Time, however, has dulled the. ..

Rory Scothorne: Capture the Flag

Some Labour MPs​ always had their doubts about the 1998 Scotland Act. According to Tom Harris, former Labour MP for Glasgow South, there was a joke in the Commons tearoom: ‘Line 1, between. ..