APRIL 27. 2026

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.

Meet the Four Democrats Who’ll Decide If Trump Gets His Domestic Spying Law

Reps. Golden, Gottheimer, Suozzi, and Gluesenkamp Perez have bucked their own party on giving Trump controversial domestic spying powers.

The Hormuz Hit to Helium

The Iran war is choking off a critical input for chipmaking and AI infrastructure.

Some Connecticut Towing Companies Are Ignoring New Law Aimed at Helping Low-Income Residents

A new state law required most involuntary tows from apartments to be triggered by specific complaints. But residents say companies continue to patrol public housing and low-income apartment complexes and tow cars for minor violations.

The world is getting too hot to feed itself

A new UN report maps how extreme heat is tearing through every layer of the global food system — and mostly overlooks the people at the heart of it

The huge, untapped potential of planting rooftop gardens in cities

To adapt to a rapidly warming world, metropolises are looking to green roofs, which boost biodiversity and reduce temperatures and flooding.

Michigan wins key legal battle over Line 5 pipeline

Michigan’s decades-long fight to shut down the Line 5 pipeline will be heard in state court after the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the dispute belongs there, clearing the way for judges to weigh whether the aging oil pipeline can continue crossing the Straits of Mackinac.

Hungary After Orbán: Why Tisza’s “New Hungary” May Leave Workers Behind

Hungary’s new government promises to restore rule of law — but not labour rights.

Ofcom 'investing climate denial'

UK regulator responds to complaints of ‘dangerous climate lies’ broadcast by TalkTV and TalkRadio.

Ofcom 'investigating climate denial'

UK regulator responds to complaints of ‘dangerous climate lies’ broadcast by TalkTV and TalkRadio.

APRIL 26. 2026

How New Mexico is ‘building a forest’ by solving a seedling shortage

A Q&A with the New Mexico Reforestation Center director about what it takes to replant a burn scar post-wildfire.

Vengeance Is Theirs

As if to counterweight the gentle, tender-hearted Shakespeare of the film Hamnet, now the brutal and bloody Titus Andronicus has arrived in New York, in

CIA Ran MK-ULTRA Experiments on Prisoners of War in U. S. Custody, Declassified Docs Confirm

For the first time, declassified documents confirm the CIA carried out tests on North Korean POWs and planned for much more invasive experimentation.

APRIL 25. 2026

We Goofed

Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New Haven, Connecticut, is a temple. Although the Beinecke is cuboid it has the atmosphere

Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns

The American Lung Association report comes amid Trump EPA’s expansive rollback of environmental protections.

APRIL 24. 2026

U. S. Floats Punishing NATO Members for Refusing to Join Iran War

An internal Pentagon email suggests suspending Spain from the alliance and reviewing Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands.

The Planet Is Doing Better Than You Think

Apocalyptic headlines overlook conservation and biodiversity successes.

Hoaxes Keep Escaping Containment

A delusional U. S. president is helping thin the line between fiction and reality.