SEPTEMBER 11. 2025
The American economy seems headed in the opposite direction of the “golden age” Donald Trump promised in his inaugural address.
The remaining rural postal network serves as a living map of relationships, historical narratives and landscapes across the Midwest. Rural communities rely on the post office for more than just mail: it is a critical space for community news—both by word of mouth in the conversational space of the counter—and through bulletin boards.
More than 50 years after Augusto Pinochet’s coup, apologists for its neoliberal dictatorship are close to taking office. But Communist Jeannette Jara could block them from taking power.
Britain’s trade unions have narrowly passed a historic motion to prioritise “wages not weapons”, suggesting the movement may be ready to renegotiate its commitment to the defence sector. Polly Smythe reports from TUC congress.
Scientists studying the world’s largest river turtles, a South American species that grows to a length of nearly a meter, or 3 feet, have found the largest nesting aggregation ever recorded.
Experimental climate interventions in the world’s oceans are moving ahead in a regulatory vacuum, raising concerns among scientists about potential risks, Mongabay staff writer Edward Carver reported. The projects, known as marine-climate interventions, aim to tackle global warming or help people and ocean life adapt to climate change.
In this episode, Nate is joined by physicist Anastassia Makarieva about the critical yet often overlooked role forests play in maintaining ecological balance and climate stability.
Floating power plants from Turkey promise to solve blackouts in the Global South. But easy fixes come with political risks.
Researchers in agriculture, forestry, and horticulture bank pollen for some species, but the strategy has been largely overlooked for wild plants. Wolkis sees it as an exciting possibility for conserving the genetic biodiversity of exceptional species with little need for extra infrastructure investment.
Diver and artisanal fisherman Daniel Caniullán recalls with frustration the day he went to collect shellfish from a natural bank in northern Chile, only to find hundreds of the plumose anemones covering the seabed. “I found an anemone plague where there used to be locos .
The gorilla should have vanished. In the late 1980s, the mountain gorilla clung to survival in the misted borderlands of Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Poaching, snares, and civil conflict made extinction feel like a timetable.
Despite increasing automation, there are still occupations in which human interaction is a central component: those focused on connective labor. Yet capital’s drive to maximize control of the labor process is threatening to degrade these important jobs.
Despite her anti-Trump posturing, New York governor Kathy Hochul is hardly a paragon of progressivism. But winning her over on at least some key issues is crucial for a socialist mayoralty’s success. Does the Left have any leverage over Hochul?
GALLE, Sri Lanka — The hog deer is Sri Lanka’s rarest and most elusive deer, and was thought to be extinct a few decades ago. Classified as critically endangered within the nation, it now survives only in fragmented patches along the island’s southwestern coastal belt, making it a species of urgent conservation concern.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk threatens to embolden the far right and provide Donald Trump with a pretext for crushing dissent. Escalating political violence corrodes democratic norms and poses a unique threat to the Left.
The fallout from Angela Rayner’s resignation last week is threatening to fatally undermine the Starmer government — as a power-crazed McSweenyite rump battles spiralling chaos, and Labour's deep bond with the unions comes under existential threat.
In 2019, researchers surveying the seafloor off the coast of California came upon three unusual species of small fishes with large heads: one with bumpy pink skin, and the other two both black in color. The team collected the fish using underwater research vehicles and later analyzed their DNA and bodies.
The ruling class is no longer even pretending to justify its own laws through consistent use ~ Rob Ray ~ One of the silly things about the recent political “debate” over how poor old teen-bullying 57-year-old Graham Linehan got arrested for doing nothing wrong except advising people to beat up trans folk—has been a
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has set up a new authority to build a massive seawall along the north coast of Java, a project aimed at shielding millions of residents from flooding and sinking land, but observers reject it as a true solution while highlighting risks, elite bias and lack of consultation. The president on Aug.