MAY 18. 2026

There Is a Solution to the Global Health Care Crisis

Cuts in foreign aid have been devastating. Countries have a window to step in and craft plans for success.

Targeted Infrastructure Spending Slows AfD Gains In Germany’s Industrial Heartlands

Targeted infrastructure spending dampens AfD vote growth in Germany’s transition-pressured regions, but innovation funding still bypasses them.

MAY 17. 2026

Solar installations 'through the roof'

British Government data show that 27,607 solar arrays were added in March, bringing the total to more than two million installations.

Jolly Jingoism

Nat Segnit on theme-park propaganda, the international appetite for jingoism, and a hypothetical Winston Churchill musical

Chevron wants a school district tax break for a data center power plant

The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions in Texas, even as state lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers.

MAY 16. 2026

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

As President Trump’s erratic negotiations with Iran drag on and oil prices continue to rise, the United States’ ostensible ethical justification for the

Opera in Ragged Times

During the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s second presidency, while he was devastating American society with mass deportations and shredding the

Wild blueberry farms across Maine suffer as climate change upends growing seasons

Like lobster rolls, wild blueberries are iconic in Maine. But heat and drought have set the plants back to a point where many small farmers are struggling against reduced yields and increased costs for mulch and irrigation.

A “Scheme” Against Dobbs: SCOTUS Dissent Hints at Next Phase of Abortion Rights Fight

Justice Clarence Thomas argues the Comstock Act, passed in 1873, prohibits the mailing of abortion medication.

MAY 15. 2026

Internal Pentagon Report Reveals Hegseth Is Willfully Putting Civilians in Danger

A damning Department of War report finds that the Pentagon didn’t fully implement any required civilian harm mitigation measures.

CDC Didn’t Tell New York About Resident on Hantavirus-Plagued Cruise

There’s no indication that the New Yorker was returning to the U. S. But public health experts said the city and state still should have been informed.

CIA Director Ratcliffe’s Trip to Havana

The United States is offering to turn Cuba’s lights back on—for a price.

A ‘Lord of the Flies’ for Our Time

This is the perfect project for the creator of ‘Adolescence. ’

The 156,000 and the 1.4 Billion

What Curaçao figured out about World Cup soccer that India still hasn’t.

War Is an International Crime. Why Does It Go Unpunished?

A sweeping legal history reveals how the international community failed to live up to the promises of Nuremberg.

I Was the Russian Commander in a War Game. This Is How I Defeated NATO.

Decision paralysis and divisions among alliance members were easy to exploit.

The Trump-Xi Summit Was Remarkably Banal

A more confident China is happy to downplay presidential visits.

There Is A Soul, But Not A Transcendent One

Consciousness is not the “hard problem” that philosophers say it is.

The Bureaucratic Tax on Africa Policy

How Washington bargains away its Africa strategy to other regions.

The Forty-Year Gap Between Europe’s Equality Law And Its Practice

European law forces 40 per cent gender balance on listed boardrooms but exempts the cabinets that actually wield public power.