New Future

Before Oct. 7, the kingdom was reshaping public opinion to support a peace deal. Gaza upended this strategy — forcing MbS to recalibrate.

Every year, the U. S. National Civilian Community Corps, better known as AmeriCorps NCCC, organizes teams of volunteers to help communities across the U. S. with environmental work, including habitat restoration, emergency response and wildfire mitigation. It’s also the latest federal agency on the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) chopping block.

In July 2024, a heat wave swept through the San Francisco Bay Area in the U. S. The surrounding metropolitan area, home to more than 7.5 million people, is known for its mild weather. Only about half of the area’s homes have air-conditioning, according to 2023 census data, compared with more than 90% across the country.

In northeastern California, the Upper Pit River undulates through evergreen forests, wet meadows and rugged mountains. It’s part of the snow-fed headwaters of the Sacramento River, the largest river in the state.

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, was as much a tireless advocate for nature as he was the poor and marginalized the world over. While his death leaves a vacuum of moral environmental leadership within the globe’s largest religion, the words of Francis still echo through tropical rainforests and grasslands, across rivers and oceans.

Starbucks has defended its little-known Swiss subsidiary handling its ethical coffee sourcing after a critical report accused it of “major global tax avoidance. ” The report, released by the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR), accuses the Lausanne-based Starbucks Coffee Trading Company, or SCTC, of helping the café giant move about $1.

After the bloody repression of the Indonesian left in the 1960s, Suharto’s regime wrote it out of the history books. Indonesian communists played a crucial role in developing national consciousness among workers and peasants against Dutch colonial rule.

Experts say the training reinforced a police culture that treats Palestinians and their supporters with suspicion and brutality.

Labour’s ‘biggest fraud crackdown in a generation’ involves using artificial intelligence to surveil Britain’s most vulnerable people, while letting the rich and powerful do as they please.

You’ve been saving for retirement. But Wall Street has been using your savings to erode union strength, inflate asset prices, and consolidate its control over the economy.

Long seen as a neutral player in global affairs, Zambia’s foreign policy is shifting under new pressures—from Western donors, Chinese investment, and its own strategic ambitions.

As American unions denounce Donald Trump’s deportation of Kilmar Abrego García to El Salvador, it’s worth recalling when US labor used its collective power to resist repression in that country in the 1980s.

New research reveals Amazon executives’ huge windfalls from the last big tax reform.

Ryan Coogler’s vampires-n-blues thriller Sinners is everything Hollywood tells us the masses don’t want: Set a hundred years in the past, it’s not a sequel, reboot, or adaptation of anything. And yet it’s a smash hit with moviegoers.

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the twilight of their lives, the world’s oldest creatures carry the weight of wisdom, experience, and resilience.

Peasant food production systems are essentially collective, whether family or community-based, and they rely on the commons. This "commons" does not refer only to farm work: it is also linked to community structures of care, leisure, and social relations.

Tax cuts for the rich have been the glue holding the American right together for decades. But as Republican voters’ skepticism of this strategy grows, some GOP lawmakers are considering the unthinkable: proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy.

This violence is not incidental, it is structural. Palestinian farmers are not seen as individuals violating regulations, but as geographical obstacles to be removed.

Pope Francis was well known for his environmental activism. Time called him the “Climate Pope” for his prominent role in the global climate movement. He consistently talked about the consequences of human action on the planet and described the destruction of the environment as a “structural sin, ” calling on people to act with urgency.

Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the global trade regime are chaotic and uncoordinated. As economist Ha-Joon Chang tells Jacobin, Trump has failed to see that the cause of the US’s relative decline is its own domestic capitalist class.