APRIL 2. 2026

The State vs. the Emma Goldman Book Club

The prosecutorial strategy is a puerile one: completely overwhelm the jury with unrelated images of leftist protest—for ten full days! —and then hope for guilt by association.

America’s War Machine Runs on Tungsten—and It Could Run Out

U. S. operations in Iran risk draining limited U. S. stocks.

U. K. Hosts Coalition Talks to Reopen Hormuz—Without the U. S.

Trump has demanded that other countries bear the responsibility of “taking” the strait.

Will the Iran War Evaporate the Gulf’s AI Oasis?

The Iran war has punctured—though not completely popped—the region’s tech bubble.

The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund Leads Cohort Fighting Trump’s Unconstitutional Media Attacks

A cohort of 42 media and press freedom advocates, led by The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, filed an amicus brief opposing Trump's attempts to censor the press.

The Next Global Food Crisis Has Already Begun

Blocked fertilizer shipments plus La Niña spell trouble for farmers around the world.

U. S. -South Korea Relations Are at Breaking Point

he Iran war has confirmed how little Washington cares for its ally’s welfare.

How Hezbollah Stands to Benefit From an Israeli Invasion

A renewed occupation could play to the guerrilla group’s strengths.

Why Protecting Flowering Plants Is Crucial to Our Future

In his latest book, biologist David George Haskell describes flowering plants as “world creators. ” In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains how they spurred the evolution of new ecosystems and what flowering plants can teach us about survival on a warming planet.

Outsource AI Risk to the Right People

Nuclear history shows the importance of keeping skeptics in the room when thinking about safety.

Bernie Sanders Backs Claire Valdez in NYC House Race Dividing Left and Progressives

Sanders waded into the New York City race by backing the socialist candidate over Antonio Reynoso to replace Nydia Velázquez.

Four Decades of Data Reveal a European Workforce Transformed Beyond Recognition

Eurofound’s 2024 working conditions survey charts how digitalisation, demography, and climate change have reshaped European labour over 35 years.

Europe Absorbs Orbán’s Playbook Even as Hungary May Reject It

As Hungary nears a pivotal vote, Russian operatives and an entrenched power network cloud the path to democratic change.

Heaven’s Elegist

Alfred Tennyson's poetry addressed the central anxiety of his day: how to live in a world where scientific discoveries were slowly replacing religious faith.

World of His Fathers

Nicholas Lemann’s Returning traces his Louisiana family’s gradual distancing across generations from its Jewish faith and his own efforts to reembrace it.

The Aging Class

Retirement, like so much of the American economy, is a broken system that benefits private interests and exploits the most vulnerable people.

‘A Vast Symphony of Stone’

In his renovation of Notre-Dame, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc projected his own Romantic vision of the Middle Ages onto the Gothic cathedral.

Living Through the Civil War

George Templeton Strong’s diaries provide the North’s best record of daily passions and woes during its struggle against the South.

The Throwaway Planet

Three books raise political and moral questions about human consumption—and the value we place on those who clean up the waste.

The Painter’s Shadow World

Morgan Meis’s Three Paintings Trilogy is the most exciting new writing about the visual arts to appear in a generation.