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Reporting from Uganda, The Intercept saw how Trump’s effort to slash foreign aid is encouraging the transmission of HIV.

The delusion of invulnerability tempts leaders to take risks.

China’s leader has created a system of permanent insecurity.

How to present history was also a roiling debate during the bicentennial.

Using old records, scientists created a new dataset on ice cover since 1897. It's already being used to study a declining fish species.

The great powers have competing theories of victory; Britain's path leads inevitably to alignment with Europe.

Animal testing protest ban is a defeat for animals, humans - and science.

Europe's industrial policy risks becoming a corporate giveaway unless strict social and environmental conditions are attached.

Hari Kunzru on psychogeography, the politics of trespass, and the hidden tombs of New York

What to know as the Winter Games kick off.

With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.

Alma Guillermoprieto has spent her nearly fifty-year career writing about America—North and South, from New York to Argentina. From her earliest essay in

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really matters.

A few years ago, in the early summer of 2019, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared on its website that it “unequivocally rejects efforts

Billionaires like Bezos have no real use for the free press, particularly when it runs the risk of alienating Donald Trump.

Workers at Bath Iron Works, a shipbuilding company, showed no interest in hearing Pete Hegseth speak. So they were offered overtime.

Returning Indigenous land won't destroy civilization, it could save it.

The top U. S. military commander in the Middle East joined the negotiations for the first time.

The top U. S. military commander in the Middle East joined the negotiations for the first time.

London won the spoils of war from France—and lost the United States.