JANUARY 29. 2026
“All the evidence points to a permanent U. S. military presence, ” one expert said.
North Omaha residents, health experts, and two of the utility’s board members aren’t buying it.
A redrawing of maps in Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere might serve U. S. interests.
A report from the Congressional Budget Office reveals the immense expenses of the Trump administration’s military occupations.
Sycophancy and ideology have replaced realistic assessments of dangers.
Germany and Poland can be the continent’s future—but can’t manage their politics today.
A brief history of how Saudi and Emirati grand strategies diverged.
Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.
Just ask the threecorner milkvetch. The rare plant is thriving at a solar farm near Las Vegas, perhaps because the panels slow evaporation.
A new report argues that English-only climate science and disaster alerts are excluding most of the world, and putting Indigenous communities at greater risk.
Trump said that coal needed better public relations. Then Coalie, the mascot of an obscure federal office, showed up.
As empires grab resources and discard international law, the EU must forge a new social federalism—or become a vassal.
The British government’s own security experts join the dots between nature loss, security and the wellbeing of society.
Current trendlines point to more U. S. military engagement in the region, not less.
JANUARY 28. 2026
Woody Guthrie wrote the tune “Deportee ” about the same 1948 plane crash ICE is memorializing today.
Maher Tarabishi was the caregiver for his son Wael, whose condition deteriorated after his father’s arrest. ICE denied Tarabishi’s funeral request.
Senators attacked the Trump administration’s justification for Maduro’s capture.
Aging infrastructure is to blame for Winter Storm Fern’s weather outages — and for recent price spikes.
Foreign countries appear worried that the United States’ immigration crackdown could have spillover effects.
A franchising model has led to “inspired” rather than “directed” attacks.