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The Tehran regime is more hard-line than ever—and has nothing left to lose.

In Love, two women fight until they understand their fighting as a pretense to touch. The fighting is a kind of intimacy, an annual rite of slapping,

The transition from small hunter-gatherer societies into complex civilizations gave rise to the first Axial Age. Today, the planetary polycrisis of climate chaos, mass migration, increasing warfare and transformative AI represents a rupture of comparable magnitude.

Claims of cracks in the regime overlook the Russian leader’s mastery of dictatorship.

The secretary of state may face an uphill battle during his visit to New Delhi this month.

Math teacher Jason Agan was deemed “unfit to teach. ” But the finding was never made public. This is how the state allowed him — and dozens of other educators found to have committed sexual harassment or misconduct — to keep their credentials.

U. S. media outlets were crucial in helping Israel sell the Gaza genocide to the American public.

If you have experience with the state’s opaque teacher disciplinary process, KQED and ProPublica want to hear from you.

Experts say extreme weather is boosting the odds that the pathogens carried by rodents will spill over into human populations.

As eyewitnesses fade and the far right reframes liberation as defeat, EU institutions must answer with policy.

Brecht to the future: a review of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertold Brecht, directed by Seán Linnen for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

A coordinated response from the grouping did not emerge from its Cebu summit.

Back then, political will existed to meet tragedy with law.

A legal disciplinary panel won’t disclose any details about its inquiry into John Sarcone, a Trump loyalist in New York.

The Kremlin is gaining billions in additional oil revenue.

Around 20,500 minors have been kidnapped since war broke out in February 2022.

The controversial event and the NYPD’s response to resulting protests present a test for Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

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The Hormuz crisis is hitting diesel even harder than crude.

Facing U. S. troop withdrawal, the continent’s leaders feel less alarmed and better prepared.