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The prosecutorial strategy is a puerile one: completely overwhelm the jury with unrelated images of leftist protest—for ten full days! —and then hope for guilt by association.

U. S. operations in Iran risk draining limited U. S. stocks.

Trump has demanded that other countries bear the responsibility of “taking” the strait.

The Iran war has punctured—though not completely popped—the region’s tech bubble.

A cohort of 42 media and press freedom advocates, led by The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, filed an amicus brief opposing Trump's attempts to censor the press.

Blocked fertilizer shipments plus La Niña spell trouble for farmers around the world.

he Iran war has confirmed how little Washington cares for its ally’s welfare.

A renewed occupation could play to the guerrilla group’s strengths.

In his latest book, biologist David George Haskell describes flowering plants as “world creators. ” In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains how they spurred the evolution of new ecosystems and what flowering plants can teach us about survival on a warming planet.

Nuclear history shows the importance of keeping skeptics in the room when thinking about safety.

Sanders waded into the New York City race by backing the socialist candidate over Antonio Reynoso to replace Nydia Velázquez.

Eurofound’s 2024 working conditions survey charts how digitalisation, demography, and climate change have reshaped European labour over 35 years.

As Hungary nears a pivotal vote, Russian operatives and an entrenched power network cloud the path to democratic change.

In Domenico Starnone’s The Old Man by the Sea, an elderly writer looks back across a life in which he has always sought distance and control rather than passion.

Two writers from different parts and traditions of the island argue with each other and themselves about the advantages and disadvantages of Irish unification.

For two novels that address the escalating violence, rampant corruption, and class resentment poisoning our society, Lee Clay Johnson’s Bloodline and Carl Hiaasen’s Fever Beach are also surprisingly funny.

In James Vanderbilt’s film Nuremberg, about the trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the questioning of Russell Crowe’s all too charming Hermann Göring becomes a moment of invented high drama.

Two consummate Virginia Woolf scholars have added more than 1,400 letters to the corpus. On show are charm, careful condolence, generosity, candor about her reading and writing, and a belief that “communication is health. ”

Morgan Meis’s Three Paintings Trilogy is the most exciting new writing about the visual arts to appear in a generation.

Three books raise political and moral questions about human consumption—and the value we place on those who clean up the waste.