The Children of the Green Transition: A Generation Erased by the World's Most Ignored Crisis
19 million children out of school. Child soldiers. Mercury poisoning. Sudan is producing the largest lost generation since Cambodia — and the world barely notices. Part 4 of a six-part investigation.
40 Senate Democrats Just Voted to Block Arms to Israel. Four Years Ago, It Was 15.
Forty Senate Democrats voted this week to block arms sales to Israel — up from fifteen a year ago. The Pew data behind that jump tells a story about structural collapse, not a political moment.
Conflict Minerals Explained: What They Are, Where They Come From, and Why They Matter
The tin in your phone's solder, the tantalum in its capacitors, the tungsten in its vibration motor, the gold on its connectors — all four can be traced to conflict zones where armed groups profit from extraction. Here is what conflict minerals are and why they matter.
The Strait of Hormuz Is Closed in All But Name — and Washington Has No Way to Reopen It
Nearly 20,000 mariners are stranded in the Persian Gulf as Iran asserts toll control over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump's demand they stop reveals Washington has no enforcement mechanism short of resuming a war it already agreed to pause.
UN Warns Drone Warfare in Sudan Killed 200+ in a Week as Underreported Conflict Escalates
The UN reports that drone strikes in Sudan have killed more than 200 people in just over a week, marking a deadly escalation in a conflict that has displaced 10 million people while receiving minimal international attention.
WHO Halts Gaza Medical Evacuations After Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Contractor Driving the Route
The WHO suspended all medical evacuations from Gaza after Israeli troops killed a Palestinian contractor driving an approved evacuation route. With an estimated 20,000 patients awaiting transfer, the suspension is not a pause — it is a collapse of the last medical lifeline out of the territory.
Vance Flew to Budapest to Campaign for Orbán. That Should Terrify Every U.S. Ally.
JD Vance flew to Budapest three days before Hungary's election to endorse Viktor Orbán and attack the EU. The Trump administration just told the world it will intervene in allied democracies — openly, on camera — and it will back the authoritarians.
Starmer Turns to Brussels as Washington Demands a War Partner the UK Won't Be
Keir Starmer's push for closer EU ties is being sold as pragmatic statecraft. It is also the most direct public rejection of American war leadership from a major US ally since the conflict began.
Pentagon Confirms AI Selected First 1,000 Targets in Iran War — Algorithmic Warfare Now Drives U.S. Military Strikes
A senior Pentagon official confirmed that artificial intelligence systems selected the first 1,000 targets struck in Iran, marking the first time the U.S. military has publicly acknowledged AI-driven target selection at this scale.
Doctors Without Borders: Sexual Violence Is 'Defining Feature' of Sudan's War
A new Doctors Without Borders report documents sexual violence as the 'defining feature' of Sudan's civil war, with survivors detailing systematic assault as a weapon of territorial control.
USAID Dismantled a Global Health Infrastructure That Took 20 Years to Build. The People Dying Are Not American.
Former USAID official Nicholas Enrich watched the Trump administration and DOGE dismantle two decades of global health infrastructure. His eyewitness account documents not waste elimination, but the deliberate destruction of systems — from PEPFAR supply chains to disease surveillance networks — whos
What Is IEEPA? The Emergency Law Behind Tariffs and Iran Sanctions
Signed in 1977 to constrain presidential power, IEEPA has been invoked 77 times to freeze assets, impose sanctions, and — until the Supreme Court said no — levy tariffs. Here is how the most powerful economic weapon in the president's arsenal actually works.
2028 Democratic Hopefuls Are Denouncing AIPAC in Public. Their Party Is Still Cashing Its Checks.
Democratic presidential hopefuls are racing to reject AIPAC's brand. Down-ballot, the party's financial relationship with the lobby is intact — and the lobby knows exactly where its leverage actually lives.
Gonzales and Swalwell Exit Congress the Same Day. The Ethics System That Should Have Stopped Them Did Nothing.
Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell leave Congress the same day — one after admitting an affair with a staffer who died by suicide, one after a years-long ethics probe. Neither faced a formal sanction. That's not accountability. That's the system working exactly as designed.
Is the Iran War Legal? The AUMF and War Powers Debate Explained
Congress never authorized the Iran war. Trump cited Article II. The War Powers Resolution failed three times. Here is what the law says, what the president claims, and why it matters.
The DOJ Is Building a Case Against John Brennan. The Pattern of Targeting Trump's Critics Is Now Undeniable.
The House Intelligence Committee has handed DOJ documents involving former CIA Director John Brennan — the latest move in a documented pattern of deploying federal prosecutorial power against Trump's perceived critics.
State Department Can't Evacuate Americans From Iran War Zone. The Workforce That Would Have Done It Was Fired.
Foreign service officers fired in Elon Musk's workforce purge warn the State Department can no longer evacuate Americans stranded in the Iran conflict. The cuts didn't happen in a vacuum — they happened months before a war broke out in the region.
Thousands of Alaska Voters Could Lose Their Ballots to a Supreme Court Ruling. Rural and Indigenous Communities Would Pay First.
A Supreme Court ruling on mail ballot grace periods could disenfranchise thousands of Alaskan voters — and the communities most exposed are rural and Indigenous, the ones the postal system has always served worst.
The Iran Blockade Is a Sales Strategy. The War Was Always About Energy Markets.
President Trump is pairing his Iran blockade with a sales pitch: Countries squeezed by the Strait of Hormuz — especially China — should buy more oil from the U.S. instead. Why it matters: The U.S. rise to become the world's largest oil and gas producer — and largest exporter of liquefied natural gas
500 Million Americans' Social Security Records Were Handed to DOGE. No Law Authorized It.
The Trump administration transferred Social Security records covering 500 million Americans to Elon Musk's DOGE operation. No statute authorized it, no public notice was filed, and the transfer cannot be undone.
ICE Shot a Man Six Times, Then Called Him a Gang Member. The Label Came After the Bullets.
Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez was shot more than six times by ICE agents during a traffic stop. The gang member label, his attorney says, came after the bullets — not before them.
Leonard Leo Is Funding a Local News Site That Targets Maine's Somali Community
The Maine Wire presents itself as grassroots local journalism. Leonard Leo's donor network bankrolls it — and it has spent years targeting Maine's Somali community. The Intercept's reporting exposes a template for converting megadonor money into local ethnic hostility.
When a President Admits His War Is Illegal, the Constitution Already Lost
Trump admits he won't call Iran a 'war' because Congress would need to approve it — exposing how executive power has rendered constitutional checks meaningless.
Democrats Are Preparing for 2028 Without Understanding Why They Lost the Working Class
Party strategists worry about winning without Trump on the ballot — but refuse to confront their decades-long abandonment of labor and working families.
Black and Indigenous Communities Are Buying Land Back — and Building Something the Market Can't Evict
From California to Alabama, people of color are building communal spaces rooted in care and tradition Zappa Montag steps outside his home to a thicket of redwoods, Pacific madrones and oak trees. Dozens of fruit trees dot the 76 hectares (189 acres), along with a large garden replete with squash, cu
Red and Blue States Are Blocking AI Datacenters. Big Tech Has No Answer for What Comes Next.
From Texas Republicans to California teachers, communities across the U.S. are organizing against an unregulated AI datacenter boom — and the bipartisan coalition forming around local water, power, and autonomy is one the industry wasn't built to handle.
Texas Prosecutors Used a Black Teenager's Rap Lyrics to Sentence Him to Death. He's Been on Death Row for 16 Years.
James Broadnax has spent more than 16 years on Texas death row after prosecutors used his rap lyrics to prove 'future dangerousness.' The practice has a name, a pattern, and an almost exclusively Black target list.
Gun Violence Prevention Workers Were Cutting Shootings in Oakland. The Federal Cuts Just Ended That.
Community organizations in Oakland's Latino neighborhoods built hospital-based violence intervention programs with documented results. Federal funding cuts are now forcing them to scale back — a policy choice whose consequences are not speculative.
Billionaire Wealth Hits Record Highs. Ten States Are Organizing to Tax It.
As federal social spending shrinks and war budgets grow, residents in at least 10 states are organizing ballot campaigns and legislative pushes to tax billionaire wealth for schools, hospitals, and food programs. They're routing around Congress because Congress won't act.
$400 Billion Climate Program Survives Despite Claims It Was Gutted. The Money Is Still Flowing.
The White House declared it had dismantled a $400 billion clean energy loan program. But the Inflation Reduction Act was designed to survive political attacks — and billions in funding are still flowing to renewable projects.
Tech Giants Built Their Empires on Adult Content. Now They're Abandoning the Industry That Made Them Rich.
OpenAI's retreat from adult content follows a century-old pattern: tech companies exploit sex work for innovation, then abandon the industry for respectability while keeping the profits.
Alabama Lets Coal Industry Regulate Itself Two Years After Mine Explosion Killed Resident
Two years after a fatal mine explosion, Alabama's coal safety commission is now chaired by a coal executive. Residents call it regulatory capture with a body count.
A Synthetic Opioid Designed to Evade Drug Laws Just Hit American Streets. Cychlorphine Is the Drug War's Latest Creation.
The emergence of cychlorphine proves prohibition doesn't stop drug use — it forces underground chemists to create increasingly dangerous compounds that evade each new restriction.
A Jury Just Called Live Nation a Monopoly. The Real Question Is Whether the Punishment Will Cost More Than the Crime.
A jury found Live Nation ran an illegal monopoly and overcharged fans. Now comes the harder part — the history of antitrust enforcement suggests the verdict may be the easy step.
100 Baidu Robotaxis Froze Simultaneously in a Chinese City. The Industry Called This Progress.
More than 100 Baidu robotaxis stopped working simultaneously on public roads, and the company said nothing. The malfunction is less alarming than the accountability gap it exposed.
OpenAI Secured Pentagon Deal While CEO Claimed He Was 'Saving' Anthropic From Government Retaliation
Internal messages reveal how OpenAI's CEO positioned himself as trying to 'save' Anthropic while securing the military contract his rival had just lost over ethical objections to weapons work.
Private Credit Industry Holds $1.7 Trillion in Risky Loans. Regulators Have Almost No Way to See Inside.
The private credit industry manages $1.7 trillion in high-risk corporate loans with almost no regulatory oversight. Now defaults are rising, and financial watchdogs lack the legal tools to prevent a systemic crisis.
F1 Cancels Gulf Races Over Iran Conflict — But Still Races in Countries at War With Yemen
Formula 1 cancels races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia over Middle East tensions, but both countries have been bombing Yemen for years without F1 batting an eye.
Oil Markets Defy Presidential Threats as Iran's Stranglehold on Global Energy Tightens
Despite Trump's military threats and reserve releases, oil surged to $106 as Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz proves more powerful than presidential interventions.