How to understand Xi Jingping: as the builder of "a high-tech apparatus of incentives and coercion" designed to maintain party control. / The Economist After a turbulent week for UK markets, some see British Prime Minister Liz Truss causing a political earthquake. / The Guardian Unrelated/related: What's
The weather phenomenon La Niña has formed for the third consecutive year in the Pacific. / BBC News What La Niña is, how it forms, and why it poses a $1 trillion problem for homes and businesses. / Bloomberg The White House wants to develop 15 gigawatts of new floating offshore wind
The cost of grains and oils has returned to a level last seen before Russia invaded Ukraine. / The Economist Meanwhile, French supermarkets and gas stations freeze prices for the next few months. / CNN See also: A bull rampages through a bank in Israel. / The Times of Israel In the UK,
Texas Governor Abbott cancels his appearance at today’s NRA meeting in Houston. / CNN More than a quarter of a million people died in Somalia's 2011 famine, most of them children. This year is looking to be the same. / Reuters The Supreme Court blocks a request from Louisiana
US President Biden holds a meeting in Warsaw with Ukrainian foreign and defense ministers. Meanwhile, Russia scales back its war goals. / BBC News, Reuters Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, Ukraine's top rock star, is performing in bomb shelters and stations filled with refugees. / The Guardian Ideally, the war in Ukraine unleashes
Russian advances in Ukraine grind to a halt in some areas, with Ukrainian forces holding out in several cities. / BBC News Gay Ukranian soldiers discuss fighting in part from a fear of "Russian repression." / Openly "If plan A doesn't work, and it hasn't,
A trio of drone incidents amplifies concerns that Russia's war may spill over into NATO countries, if unintentionally. / CNN Russia's attacks on Ukraine's hospitals are part of "a terrible wartime tradition." / Goats and Soda In countries friendly toward Putin, some people think
Peace talks between Ukraine and Russia appear to be progressing. Meanwhile, Russia bombs a theater. / The Associated Press Dave Pell: "You gotta love the members who stood behind Trump when he blackmailed Zelensky on the topic of Ukraine defense weapons and who are standing for Zelensky and democracy today.
An oral history of March 11, 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic "seemed to crystallize in the national consciousness." / WIRED Only two percent of Americans now live in counties with high Covid-19 levels. / Reuters Moscow wants to seize assets from businesses that have stopped operating in Russia. Its foreign
Eight experts in public health discuss whether the pandemic is behind us. “For many in the United States: Probably.” / Vox Rachel Cohrs: Ending the pandemic is going to be a huge headache for the entire health care system. / STAT Russian attacks besiege key cities around Ukraine as war refugees hit
Earth just had the hottest May on record, with 2020 on track to be one of the top 10 warmest years, alarming climate scientists. Restoring summer tourism isn’t just an economic necessity for Europe, but also a cultural one. A large group of infectious disease experts publish an open
What to watch for as the House of Representatives prepares to vote on two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. Boeing says it will suspend production of its flawed 737 Max jetliner in January. The $50 billion merger of Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot will create the world’s fourth-largest auto
The Washington Post makes the Mueller Report available as a six-part illustrated series drawn by Jan Feindt. The Democrats prepare their impeachment report while Republicans insist Trump did nothing wrong. What does chaos look like for Democrats this winter? Iowa to Buttigieg, New Hampshire to Warren, South Carolina to Biden,
A new UN report finds the world further off course than ever from averting climate catastrophe. Mass protests in Iran leave 731 banks and 140 government sites torched. Protesters in Iraq block roads with burning tires. Heavy snows, hurricane-force winds, and a “bomb cyclone” disrupt Thanksgiving travel around the US.
Carbon dioxide hit its highest levels in human history this weekend. Also, it was 84 degrees near the Arctic Ocean. Thirty-seven years ago, Exxon scientists described all the horrors we’re facing now thanks to rising emissions. A retired naval officer just made the deepest dive ever inside a submarine.
