Iran's informal alliances seem stronger than America's formal ones

Iran and Russia, neither of which have formal alliances, continue both to receive support from their partners and, despite suffering major economic damage, to provide military aid to those in…

Real estate has no place in US synagogues — especially when it's Palestinian land

What is a synagogue when it’s not serving as a place of worship, a house of study, or a community center?  One answer comes from American supporters of the Israeli government’s expansionist policies. For…

How Democrats can tackle affordability without breaking the budget

The goal should be to keep inflation near the Fed’s 2 percent target and to pursue policies that support growth of household income.

Scammers are open for business. Washington isn't.

As a multi-billion dollar criminal scam industry grows, experts urge the federal government to prioritize international enforcement, institutional information sharing, and corporate accountability.

McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine

Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools There are many parallels between the first McCarthy era, roughly 1946…

Will Burnham fix our barbaric prisons – or cave to rightwing populism? The answer is a tragedy | Simon Jenkins

England and Wales’s prisons are overcrowded, drug-infested and barbaric. Labour has halted a once-in-a-generation effort to change that sorry state Andy Burnham’s “pausing” of the Starmer government’s prisoner release scheme…

I’m a Haitian TPS holder. 350,000 of us hold our breath as Congress decides our future | Josiane Valsaint

Temporary protected status allowed me to rebuild my life. Now thousands like me help keep this country running Right now, across the country, there are more than 330,000 Haitians collectively…

A World Cup with no participants – it could be Gianni Infantino’s boldest move yet | Marina Hyde

You’ve got to admire the Fifa president’s chutzpah in trying to flog off football’s greatest prize. If only Uefa wasn’t being so pesky about it all Imagine a plan so…

Sydney, you were a dream of warmth and ease. When I returned to wintry Melbourne, time collapsed – and the city was still romantic

A few years after graduating, I moved north and got lucky. It was like riding a smooth, perfect wave that would never hit the shore I went to a wedding…

Chinese military researchers tap US AI models to train defense systems

Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China’s defense capabilities, according to a…