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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Twenty percent of the world's oil passes through a gap narrower than the English Channel. Iran has blocked it. The U.S. just declared a naval blockade. Here is everything you need to understand about the most important waterway on Earth.
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
Justice Sotomayor called AI prediction of Supreme Court rulings 'a very bad thing.' She's right — but the real problem isn't that the court is predictable. It's what that predictability proves about whether law or ideology is driving the decisions.
Who profits from Sudan's conflict — and why voluntary frameworks, veto power, and supply chain opacity are features of the system, not failures. Part 3 of a six-part investigation.
Environmental racism describes how pollution and toxic waste are systematically concentrated in Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities — a pattern created by policy, not accident.
From the EU's AI Act to China's algorithmic controls, governments worldwide are racing to regulate artificial intelligence. Here's where AI regulation stands in 2025—and what's coming next.
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.
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.
A New York Times investigation by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reveals that Trump was the most hawkish voice in his own administration on Iran — overruling his CIA director, his vice president, and the Joint Chiefs to launch a war on a gut feeling.