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Oil and gas industry seized on war in Ukraine to water...

A new report details the PR and lobbying blitz from fossil fuel companies in the early days of the Russian invasion that aimed at benefiting oil and gas interests, while offering little for the current crisis.

The Ukraine war’s collateral damage

Is the health of an overheating world at stake?

Ukraine

The significance of Ukraine’s struggle certainly doesn’t lie in educating Americans, but perhaps it is finally making us reckon with the costs of war, as we’ve needed to do for so long.

‘Poison for the people’—how an exiled activist is countering Russia’s propaganda...

Environmental activist Evgeniya Chirikova once helped save a forest in Moscow. Now she’s trying to give voice to Russian activists and journalists resisting Putin’s regime.

The US nuked two cities in WWII and has threatened to...

The threats have indeed been made, and they could potentially be more than bluffs.  

The last good guys?

Why in this century has America, the “leader of the free world” (as we used to say in the days of the first Cold War), also become the leader in promoting global warfare?

The economic consequences of the war

The war’s potential long-term economic effects in and beyond Ukraine haven’t attracted nearly as much attention, for understandable reasons.

The economic consequences of the war

Ukraine’s economic losses and the outside assistance that country will need ever to achieve anything resembling what once passed for normal are staggering.

The civilian deaths you haven’t heard about

The casualties of America's never-ending global war on terror.

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Disgust greets White House correspondents’ dinner as Israel kills journalists in Gaza

Amid laughter and applause at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, protests outside highlight the stark contrast with the dire situation facing journalists in Gaza.

Violent arrest of Emory Professor spotlights brutality of police crackdown on campus protests

Emory University incident raises alarms: Academic community questions police response to peaceful campus protests amid growing national debate on academic freedom and civil liberties.

U.S. State Department memo exposes Israeli misuse of American military aid in Gaza

Leaked memo reveals doubts over Israeli compliance with international law in use of U.S. military aid in Gaza, sparking calls for policy reevaluation.

How banks and investors are fueling a global biodiversity crisis

Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation.

Supreme urgency tests Trump’s claim to immunity amid election countdown

Legal experts and democracy advocates push for a swift Supreme Court decision on Trump’s immunity claims, highlighting potential consequences for presidential accountability.