I Changed My Mind About Small-Dollar Campaign Donors

Colorado’s rural Fourth Congressional District is Republican territory. In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried it by 18 percentage points. Yet Eileen Laubacher, a former Navy rear admiral running…

Introducing How to Touch Grass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB_gpziat0w Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts A common piece of advice for those who are chronically online is to “go touch grass.”…

UEFA issues blistering statement over FIFA's Folarin Balogun's decision

European soccer’s governing body issued a blistering statement on Monday after FIFA suspended the red card ban issued to USA World Cup star Folarin Balogun. UEFA said FIFA’s decision to…

My nine-year-old son Mohammad, killed by Israeli soldiers, is not just another number | Alia Abdel Majid Al-Hallaq

Mohammad was shot after going to play football – and we joined the 54 families in the occupied West Bank whose children were killed by Israel in 2025 alone My…

The new Isa rules melt my brain: but that’s not even the worst thing about these changes for first-time buyers | Jason Okundaye

Quite aside from all the convolutions, it’s clear the government is ignorant of the reality for young people like me hoping to get on the property ladder I need to…

Here is a police statement: we are not woke or anti-woke, or fighting a culture war. We just strive to be fair | Matt Jukes

As a review highlights leadership deficiencies, we see the need for improvement. But being dragged into polarised debates doesn’t help Matt Jukes is deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police ‘Nepotism…

Unwelcome and undue: Trump’s red-card intervention hurts the US’s World Cup more than it helps | Pablo Iglesias Maurer

In pushing Fifa to reverse Folarin Balogun’s suspension, the president did the most American thing possible: assert unasked-for power to get his way The story of Garrincha’s red card in…

Trump is a danger to US democracy. But the resistance is working | Kenneth Roth

The president has made dangerous inroads in his push toward autocracy. Yet the prospects for his success are dimming How do we commemorate America’s democracy as Donald Trump undermines it?…

Taiwan needs a ‘hornet’s nest’ of drones to deter conflict, US diplomat says

Taiwan needs a “hornet’s nest” of drones to help deter conflict and provide security, the top U.S. diplomat to the democratically governed island said on Thursday. The United States, Taiwan’s…

Europeans to fill almost all gaps left by US in NATO defense plans, source says

European NATO allies have largely filled the gaps left by the United States in the alliance’s defense plans, NATO’s top commander said on Thursday, adding the bloc was looking at…