JANUARY 13. 2026

'Focus on the richest polluters'

The super-rich are disproportionately responsible for driving the climate crisis - Oxfam.

JANUARY 12. 2026

Bill Ackman Gave $10,000 to Jonathan Ross GoFundMe Created by User Linked to Nazi Salute Image

Bill Ackman gave $10,000 to a GoFundMe for ICE killer Jonathon Ross that was started by a man whose account who posted Nazi imagery online.

Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Putting Data Centers in Space?

Space is cold and has abundant solar energy — the very things data centers need. Experts tell us it’s not that simple.

Why Social Democrats Must Stop Defending and Start Transforming

The centre-left's defensive crouch has made it look like a guardian of an unfair status quo—radical reformism offers escape.

Locked out of nature

Why England’s countryside remains off-limits - and the movement fighting to open it up for everyone.

Sea Star Murder Mystery: What’s Killing a Key Ocean Species?

Billions of sea stars, victims of a deadly wasting illness, have perished over the last decade, imperiling marine ecosystems and spurring a global hunt for a biological or environmental culprit. Recently, researchers identified a likely suspect, but the case is far from closed.

JANUARY 11. 2026

Word Collision

Richard E. Maltby Jr. on his fifty years of writing puzzles for Harper’s Magazine, his side hustle as a musical lyricist and Tony Award–winning director, and the crossword’s place in contemporary American culture

Trump’s EPA could limit its own ability to use new science to strengthen air pollution rules

In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rules more than once when new science shows unacceptable health risks.

“They Could See My Color”: Minneapolis Uber Driver Speaks Out on Why Border Patrol Accosted Him

Ahmed Bin Hassan, a Somali American Uber driver in Minneapolis, was defiant as masked Border Patrol agents harangued him about his accent.

Failed U. S. Military Effort in Africa is on the Chopping Block

As Trump focuses the military on the Western Hemisphere, AFRICOM and other foreign commands could be consolidated.

JANUARY 10. 2026

Community Poetry

In her poem “The Swan, No. 20 (Hilma af Klint)” from the Review’s October 23, 2025, issue, Victoria Chang delineates the line of beauty (a word that

How community solar turned a Superfund site into savings in Illinois

A new 9.1-MW solar array will help residents of Waukegan, Illinois, reduce energy bills. State incentives for low-income solar made the project possible.

Americans Are Sick and Tired of Pointless Wars

Americans have lived through enough wars to know that being skeptical of U. S. foreign policy doesn't make you an enemy sympathizer.

JANUARY 9. 2026

We Asked for ICE Bodycam Footage. DHS Claims They Don’t Have It.

The Secret Service also said it had no records of its request to raise the water level of a river for JD Vance’s kayaking trip.

Mobile homes already have huge utility bills. Congress may make it worse.

With its latest vote, Congress may end up making mobile homes even less energy-efficient.

Greg Grandin on Trump’s “Universal Police Warrant”

Historian Greg Grandin, Maureen Tkacik, and Jessica Washington discuss U. S. attacks on Venezuela and Trump’s rehabilitation of the Monroe Doctrine.

How Chevron played the long game in Venezuela

Chevron met with Trump and spent millions lobbying him to continue operating in Venezuela. Now it is uniquely positioned to profit from that.

The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land.

After the tribe sued to stop an immigration detention center, the White House vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded Miccosukee land and environmental stewardship.

Border Patrol Agents Shot Two People in Portland During Immigration Stop

The shooting came just one day after an ICE agent in Minneapolis shot and killed Renee Nicole Good.

Tom Stevenson: Climbing the Ziggurat

China, which in the post-Cold War period was viewed as either lunch for American capital or an irredeemable dungeon, has. ..