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The shipping industry is responsible for 3 percent of global climate emissions. The Trump administration and the Iran war are complicating efforts to clean it up.

President Trump could come to represent the restrained, reasonable wing of the GOP.

The moratorium is the first of its type to pass a legislative chamber, but about a dozen other states have pending proposals.

Small liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The

There’s a divide between those seeking to end all U. S. weapons deals with Israel and those who want to allow some exceptions.

At the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics, held simultaneously at venues in Milan, Cortina, Livigno, and Predazzo, the notion of the games as an occasion

Earlier this spring, Lauren Kane journeyed up to the Cloisters—the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s outpost on the northern tip of Manhattan, which houses

Indigenous leaders, traditional communities and researchers are resisting development in the Amazon rainforest that could push its ecosystems past irreversible tipping points.

Scientists have uncovered a “blind spot” in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. Across much of the world, sea levels are higher than previously assumed and land is sinking faster.

A long-shot primary opponent to Maxine Waters, the scourge of crypto, got over two-thirds of her contributions from crypto industry figures.

The war-torn country wants to reconstruct in a way that is environmentally, socially, and geopolitically more sustainable.

But it’s unclear whether the strategic waterway is really open without conditions.

Our fixation with defining the emerging global order hides the true complexity of our neo-medieval moment.

In the last years of his life my father wrote a memoir. Born in 1916 in Munich to Bohemian parents—his father Jewish, his mother not—he had spent his

Patrick Radden Keefe’s “London Falling” is a mystery that turns into a tragedy.

The conflict is wreaking havoc on an obscure sector that is more important than you’d think.

Why exports of illegally sourced gold are gaining on drugs in funding the continent’s illicit economy.

It fills the vacuum left by an unimaginative political class.

In Lebanon, an unprecedented campaign of DNA tests is being used to identify mangled bodies left trapped under rubble by Israel’s blitz.

The two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths.