APRIL 28. 2026

He Died in a Florida Jail. The Company in Charge Should Have Sent Him to the Hospital, Experts Say.

Most of the state’s jails have stopped contracting with Armor Health companies, which have been sued repeatedly for subpar care. Only one jail, where Brian Tracey died, still uses a company affiliated with Armor.

He’s the only lead tester in this contaminated neighborhood. He graduates next month.

The lack of inexpensive and comprehensive toxics testing has created a fragile public safety net in polluted towns across the country.

This Supreme Court ‘victory’ for oil giants is not what it seems

A recent ruling puts $745 million to restore Louisiana's coastline in doubt. But the effort to get Chevron to pay is far from over.

Who Decided to Indict Kilmar Abrego Garcia Over a Years-Old Traffic Stop?

A DOJ prosecutor insists he charged Abrego based strictly on evidence of human smuggling. A federal judge seems skeptical.

China’s Overcapacity Problem Is Europe’s Problem Too — But Not in the Way You Might Think

As Beijing acknowledges its own overcapacity problem, new research reveals a more complex and more enduring threat to European manufacturing.

I liberated a lobster and got crushed

How common wildlife myths were weaponised to crush a small act of resistance.

Latin America’s Anti-Women Movement Is Spreading

Chile's president José Antonio Kast is following the regressive examples set elsewhere in the region.

Ryan Gosling's flight of fancy

Project Hail Mary is the antinomy of Alien.

What Congress Could Do to Stop the War

Republicans are declining to use their power of the purse.

The Iran War Is Tearing Trump’s Coalition Apart

MAGA is not necessarily the same thing as America First.

APRIL 27. 2026

The U. S. Shouldn’t Rule the Seas Forever

Why the United States can no longer guarantee freedom of navigation—and why it doesn’t need to.

Just another day

Open access // by Benoît Bréville

Iran Offers to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz

But only if the United States postpones nuclear talks and lifts its own naval blockade.

How Trump’s America Produces Normie Assassins

The only extremism would-be assassins like suspect Cole Tomas Allen share is an extreme response to Trump’s deranging politics.

Nearly two decades after landmark Indigenous rights declaration, countries still aren’t complying

At the UN, global leaders say governments must stop talking and start implementing protections they adopted.

Beijing Is Using Influencers to Burnish Its Image

“Chinamaxxing” has become an online phenomenon.

Israel and Syria’s Shared Fight Against Hezbollah

Washington should help the two estranged neighbors cooperate against a common enemy.

What Five Decades of Summits Reveal About U. S. -China Relations

The real test for the Trump-Xi meeting will come afterwards.

Escaping the Hormuz Trap

The 70-year history of oil transit crises suggests engineering will prove more effective than diplomacy.

Meet the Mayor of a Tiny Texas Town Who Wants to Limit How Cities Can Govern

A push to restrict local governments’ ability to decide how they spend their money and which policies they can adopt is having downstream effects in tiny towns and big cities like Dallas.