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Grievances with the Lebanese state, not sectarian loyalty, are driving popular support for the group retaining its guns.

Western-dominated insurance premiums can choke off Beijing’s oil supplies more effectively than warships can.

Trump should push for zero enrichment in perpetuity as part of any deal with Tehran.

Western assessments miss how economic ties have quietly advanced reconciliation.

Without clear definitions, governance is impossible.

Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.

The department didn’t audit thousands of stops made by its Community Response Team, which has a history of unconstitutional policing and has drawn hundreds of civilian complaints. ProPublica previously found the unit sidestepped oversight.

It’s time to rethink top-down attempts at environmental progress.

This year's Carnival resulted in a record 1.4 tons of beads, beer cans, and other trash. It's the weight of more than 1 million king cakes.

Spain’s heretical VAT cut tames inflation—a model for Europe as Trump’s tariffs and Middle East shocks bite.

Climate funding given by Britain to Brazil comes with ambition but with less clear impacts for communities, forests and emissions.

Concerns over water access are poised to consume summer in the US, as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River threaten to boil over.

“Most memoirists Botox out their own imperfections, but celebrity ghostwriters tend to do the full facelift. ”

While the Trump administration is directing hundreds of millions of dollars to coal projects, miners in Appalachia are suffering from a resurgence of black lung disease. But industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust.

The Justice Department is now treating evading a records request as a crime, a stunning act of hypocrisy from the Trump administration.

Global market shocks spark calls for a regional power grid and emergency fuel stockpile.

How a headstrong field biologist helped birth the worldwide conservation movement.

An expert in diplomatic gift-giving describes the use and abuse of official presents.

What the latest Orwell adaptation says about our politics.

Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are tamping down on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s donations, acting as the government’s de facto censors.