MAY 8. 2026

Puerto Rico Lawmakers Call for Investigation Into Alleged Drugs-for-Votes Scheme After ProPublica Report

One said the territory’s House has “an inescapable duty to investigate” after the ProPublica report revealed how federal prosecutors had been told to stop looking into whether the scheme was linked to the island's newly elected governor.

Tennessee GOP Moves to Decimate Black Voting Power After Supreme Court’s Blessing of Jim Crow

With the Supreme Court blessing racial gerrymandering, Tennessee’s GOP rushed to eliminate the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

Trump’s Tariffs Just Got Struck Down in Court—Again

Courts keep taking a skeptical view of the executive branch’s overreach.

Virtual Civil Society Is Coming To China

Teacher Li, a new species of dissident, is paving the way.

The Surprisingly Normal Streets of Tehran

U. S. and Israeli attacks on Iran have led regular people to rally around the flag—for now.

Amid Hantavirus Panic, the Ivermectin Super Fans Are Back

Those who cheered ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, are now making unsubstantiated claims about its use against hantavirus.

China Is Transforming Brazil’s Car Market

BYD’s landmark sales fuel debate over working conditions and the country’s relationship with China.

The Supreme Court Ends Multiracial Democracy as We Know It

Journalist Ari Berman and Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson on the right’s “power grab” in the South.

Hasan Piker Is the Democrats’ New Man on the Trail, Whether They Like It or Not

Insurgent candidates like Cori Bush are tapping the popular streamer as a campaign surrogate — but they still face an uphill battle to winning.

Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.

In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more.

The solution to urban heat is much, much simpler than you think

Scientists have discovered technology with a remarkable ability to prevent extreme heat in cities. It's called a tree.

Trump is trying to kill a carbon tax on global shipping. He may not succeed.

The U. S. has threatened countries supporting the tax with visa restrictions, tariffs, and port fees. A slim majority of nations still back it.

Aden: a city in the crater

Aden’s volcanic origins, imperial encounters and contemporary environmental struggles.

John Lanchester: Squillions

If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property. ..

Tom Stevenson: We were doing well when I left

Many of those who had been involved in the war’s inception saw the chaotic Nato withdrawal in August 2021 as a. ..

Tarn MacArthur: The Clearance of Aoineadh Mòr, 1824

The people of Unnimore thought that ‘flitting’ would not come upon them while they lived. As long as they paid the rent, and that was not difficult to do, anxiety did not come near. ..

Diarmaid MacCulloch: Fighting Monks

‘Westerners’ have told themselves a story of their past dominated by a fluke in human history: the rise of a single. ..

Thomas Nagel: I’m not sorry

Whether the causal order of nature is deterministic or partly random, people do not create themselves. So how can it. ..

Becca Rothfeld: Mourning the Houseplant

Walls of various kinds are present in almost all of Marlen Haushofer’s writing. They are a means of both entrapment. ..

Emily Berry: Summons from a Witch

Lynette Roberts loved obscure words and was not shy about using them. Over the course of two pages, I had to look up ‘. ..