MAY 16. 2026

Wild blueberry farms across Maine suffer as climate change upends growing seasons

Like lobster rolls, wild blueberries are iconic in Maine. But heat and drought have set the plants back to a point where many small farmers are struggling against reduced yields and increased costs for mulch and irrigation.

A “Scheme” Against Dobbs: SCOTUS Dissent Hints at Next Phase of Abortion Rights Fight

Justice Clarence Thomas argues the Comstock Act, passed in 1873, prohibits the mailing of abortion medication.

MAY 15. 2026

Internal Pentagon Report Reveals Hegseth Is Willfully Putting Civilians in Danger

A damning Department of War report finds that the Pentagon didn’t fully implement any required civilian harm mitigation measures.

CDC Didn’t Tell New York About Resident on Hantavirus-Plagued Cruise

There’s no indication that the New Yorker was returning to the U. S. But public health experts said the city and state still should have been informed.

CIA Director Ratcliffe’s Trip to Havana

The United States is offering to turn Cuba’s lights back on—for a price.

A ‘Lord of the Flies’ for Our Time

This is the perfect project for the creator of ‘Adolescence. ’

The 156,000 and the 1.4 Billion

What Curaçao figured out about World Cup soccer that India still hasn’t.

War Is an International Crime. Why Does It Go Unpunished?

A sweeping legal history reveals how the international community failed to live up to the promises of Nuremberg.

I Was the Russian Commander in a War Game. This Is How I Defeated NATO.

Decision paralysis and divisions among alliance members were easy to exploit.

The Trump-Xi Summit Was Remarkably Banal

A more confident China is happy to downplay presidential visits.

There Is A Soul, But Not A Transcendent One

Consciousness is not the “hard problem” that philosophers say it is.

The Bureaucratic Tax on Africa Policy

How Washington bargains away its Africa strategy to other regions.

The Forty-Year Gap Between Europe’s Equality Law And Its Practice

European law forces 40 per cent gender balance on listed boardrooms but exempts the cabinets that actually wield public power.

Hungary’s Power Shift Opens Door for EU Sanctions on Israel

Freed from Viktor Orban’s veto, the bloc should expand its actions against Israeli encroachment in the West Bank.

Trump’s Lebanon Negotiations Are Breaking the Country

Rather than acting as a good-faith mediator, Trump is humiliating the Lebanese government.

Argentina Has Milei Malaise

As wages in the country slump, so do the libertarian leader’s ratings.

“We Will Find You and We Will Kill You”

The Trump administration’s new counterterrorism strategy turns its political enemies into enemies of the state.

How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk

The Intercept annotated the “2026 Counterterrorism Strategy” document to show how the U. S. government is bringing its war on terror home.

Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?

Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U. S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace, ” he says.

In a Private Meeting, Colorado Marijuana Regulators Acknowledge the Extent of Illegal Hemp Sales

Their remarks confirm testing done by The Denver Gazette and ProPublica, which found signs of hemp in marijuana vapes sold at dispensaries. One regulator said the extent of suspicious transactions would “explode your minds. ”