Archives for February 2026

A new US war on Iran would be a cynical and catastrophic escalation of the crisis already swallowing its people

Working for a Nuclear-Free Future, or 85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just moved its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to nuclear midnight, four seconds closer than ever before.

Trump now has a similar choice, of whether he wants to spend trillions of dollars on a Napoleonic gamble in Iran.

One of the two posters depicted, in green, red and black, the phrase “Palestine, from the river to the sea”

The latest cabinet measures extend Israeli civilian administrative reach into areas previously reserved for Palestinian governance.

44% of the new car market in Turkiye is now battery electric or plug-in hybrid! That is more than California

Location, contact networks, patterns of communication, and group affiliations make it possible to map the social life of an entire people

Trump ran his second candidacy in 2024 on the all-too-bluntly apocalyptic slogan drill, baby, drill us into a literal hell on earth.

Climate change is at least somewhat implicated in the social dislocations that fuel terrorism in Somalia