In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a settlement on the shore of a sulfurous volcanic lake. The lake’s vast deposits of salt were famed across the region, drawing traders and making Katwe a desired prize.
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Several cities across India saw temperatures top 40° Celsius, or 104° Fahrenheit, this past week, with some areas exceeding 46°C (114.8°F). Delhi experienced a heat wave for three consecutive days, recording its warmest April night in three years, with temperatures 5-6°C (9-10.8°F) above normal for the period.
In late 2024, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to cut subsidies, the Government of Pakistan began dismantling the Minimum Support Price (MSP) mechanism for wheat—a longstanding policy that had provided a critical financial safety net for millions of farmers.
Few people working in wildlife conservation in the 1980s could have imagined a future where breeding wolf packs roam the Netherlands and Denmark — but this is now part of Europe’s new reality. Over the last 30 to 40 years, European wildlife has undergone a dramatic transformation.
Anticircumvention laws, included in trade deals to protect US companies’ rent extraction schemes, stop us from fixing or improving our own devices — from phones and tractors to insulin pumps. Repealing them will save billions and hit Trump’s donor class.
The Rise of a Post-Soviet Oligarch After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Georgia entered a period of widespread privatization and economic liberalization. The Soviet command economy was dismantled, and state holdings were sold for pennies.
The national political situation is impacting local politics in Detroit, shifting the upcoming Mayoral elections to the right. We need class independent politics to fight this right-wing drift in Detroit and across the nation.
Republicans are citing a supposed epidemic of young men opting out of work as a rationale for cutting Medicaid. But the data shows that only a small percentage of young men are absent from the labor force in a long-term way.