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Democracy Now!
- Ahead of Hungary Election, JD Vance Campaigns with Orbán in Show of Support for Far Right in Europe
Amid strains in U.S.-European relations, the Trump administration has worked to strengthen ties with Hungary and its far-right leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is facing his biggest challenge in 16 years. With just days to go before parliamentary elections, Orbán’s Fidesz party is trailing the center-right pro-EU Tisza party led by Péter Magyar. U.S. Vice President JD Vance traveled to Budapest this week and appeared alongside Orbán to openly campaign for his reelection. “This election is really crucial, not just for Hungary, but for the international right wing,” says Kim Lane Scheppele, professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University. “There’s been a lot of American signaling that the U.S. […]
- Will the U.S. and Europe Break Up? Trump Says He May Pull Out of NATO as Iran War Criticism Mounts
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has deepened rifts with several European countries. The Spanish government has been most outspoken in its opposition to the war, and U.S. allies like Germany and the United Kingdom have voiced some criticism while providing logistical support for the assault on Iran. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has tried to smooth over differences and placate President Trump, even as he has mused about pulling the U.S. out of the military alliance and renewed his threats to seize Greenland. “If there’s one thing that actually one can say about President Trump, it’s that he’s been very consistent in his total disdain for Europe and for NATO,” says Nathalie Tocci, an international affairs scholar based in Madrid, […]
- "10 Minutes of Terror": Lebanon Death Toll Tops 300 from Israel's "Black Wednesday" Attack
As the United States and Iran prepare to hold talks in Pakistan aimed at ending the war, Israel is continuing to bomb Lebanon, where the death toll from Wednesday’s massive wave of attacks has topped 300. “It was 10 minutes of terror, a day that the Lebanese are calling Black Wednesday,” says Lebanese Australian journalist Rania Abouzeid, speaking with Democracy Now! from Beirut. “It was hard to tell what was blowing up where, because those hundred or so attacks were all happening simultaneously.” Israel and the U.S. have claimed the Iran ceasefire deal struck this week does not include Lebanon, contradicting Iran’s position. Abouzeid says direct talks between Israel and Lebanon are very “divisive” as many Lebanese fear […]
- Headlines for April 10, 2026
Death Toll from Israel’s “Black Wednesday” Attack on Lebanon Tops 300, Iran Warns Israeli Attacks on Lebanon Could Destroy Ceasefire Deal and Diplomacy with U.S., House GOP Blocks Democratic Effort to Force Vote on Iran War Powers Resolution, Israel Approves 34 Settler Outposts Amid Continuing Settler Violence in Occupied West Bank, 9-Year-Old Palestinian Girl Shot Dead in Front of Classmates in Gaza’s Beit Lahia, Federal Court Blasts Pentagon for Ignoring Prior Order to Restore Reporters’ Access, Federal Judge Postpones Cancellation of Protected Status for Ethiopian Immigrants, U.N. Warns Nearly 1,000 Asylum Seekers Have Died Attempting to Cross Mediterranean in 2026, Melania Trump Denies Past Ties with Jeffrey Epstein in […]
- Can Gulf States Rely on U.S. Security Guarantees? How the War Empowers Iran & Remakes the Region
As Iran destroyed energy facilities and infrastructure in all six of its Persian Gulf neighbors and blocks their shipments of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf states — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates — are reevaluating their strategic alliances with the United States. We speak to Yasmine Farouk, the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula project director at the International Crisis Group, about where else the Arab Gulf is looking toward in Asia and Europe to diversify its defense relationships, and what exactly the war has put at risk in the region. “Let’s remember the ceasefire came at a moment when energy infrastructures, desalination, power plants, nuclear plants could have been in the […]
Anthropocene
- The Future of the Grid Could Be Parked in Your Driveway
A growing fleet of electric vehicles could unlock a cheaper, cleaner alternative to fossil-fuel power plants—without building new infrastructure.
- An Act of God. Payable Upon Impact.
Parametric insurance, once a niche tool for property owners, is now underwriting coral reefs. It’s efficient, innovative—and unsettling.
The Guardian
- Manhattan DA’s office to investigate Eric Swalwell over sexual assault allegations
Democratic representative has denied accusations from former staffer as he faces calls to drop bid for governor The Manhattan district attorney’s office said on Saturday that it is investigating a sexual assault allegation against Eric Swalwell, a Democratic congressman from California running to be the state’s governor, who on Friday denied claims by an unnamed woman that he sexually assaulted her twice.Confirmation of an investigation came after the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Friday that a woman who previously worked in Swalwell’s district office accused him of two nonconsensual sexual encounters. Continue reading...
- Pope says ‘enough of war’ and decries ‘delusion of omnipotence’ at peace vigil
Leo’s comments did not directly mention war in Iran but read as his strongest condemnation of the conflict yetPope Leo XIV stepped into the international political arena at evening prayers in St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on Saturday, saying prayer for peace is “a bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive.”The first US-born pope said: “Even the holy Name of God, the God of life, is being dragged into discourses of death.” Continue reading...
- US state department revokes green cards of three Iranian nationals it links to regime
Three arrested by federal agents had family ties to Iranian military general, regime spokesperson or security chiefUnited States federal agents arrested three Iranian nationals – including the son of a revolutionary at the center of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis – after the US state department terminated their green cards, the department announced on Saturday.State department officials revoked the green card status of Seyed Eissa Hashemi, whose mother was an Iranian revolutionary who served as the spokesperson for Iran’s regime during the hostage crisis that defined the late Jimmy Carter’s presidency. The state department also revoked the green card – or legal permanent resident – statuses of Hashemi’s wife and son. Continue […]
- Louisiana Republicans move to eliminate court office won by exonerated man
After Calvin Duncan served 28 years for a murder he didn’t commit, he won an election to serve as criminal court clerk. But now the office might be shut downA man imprisoned for nearly 30 years before being exonerated won a landmark election in New Orleans promising to fix a judicial system that failed him. Now, Louisiana’s governor, Jeff Landry, and the Republican-controlled state legislature are racing to eliminate his job before he can be sworn in.Calvin Duncan won 68% of the vote last November to become the Orleans parish clerk of criminal court after pledging to reform the justice system based on his own experience fighting to access court records while in maximum security prison. Continue reading...
- ‘We feel this incredible tension at all times’: what happened to small-town USA when extremists moved in
In his new book, Michael Edison Hayden captures the bitter saga between the founders of far-right publication VDare and the residents of a West Virginia townIn 2020, residents of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, learned that a mysterious couple from New York had bought a historic local building known as “the castle”, which the newcomers planned to use as a headquarters and conference space for their non-profit organization. A bitter saga followed – one that the journalist Michael Edison Hayden writes about in his new book, Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town.The couple in question were Peter and Lydia Brimelow, whose online publication VDare was named for Virginia Dare, the first English child […]
Aeon
- Patterns without desires
The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them?- by Noah CharneyRead on Aeon
The Conversation
- 4 ways the war in Iran has weakened the United States in the great power game
China and Russia view the latest Washington intervention in the Middle East as a further decline of the United States’ global power.
- Artemis II crew used modern photography to tell the visual story of their lunar journey – and update some classic Apollo images
A space historian explains how the Artemis II crew reimagined some Apollo-era photos and found spectacular new angles.
- Artemis II moonshot reflects a spacefaring vision present in Jules Verne’s 19th-century novel
Going to the Moon isn’t just about science. Novelist Jules Verne predicted some of the societal ramifications modern lunar missions are creating today.
- US ceasefire with Iran: What’s next? A former diplomat explains 3 possible scenarios
Both countries seem tired of the costs of war and ongoing risks, but successful negotiations will have to overcome deep distrust by both sides.
- In his efforts to remake federal architecture, Trump repudiates the ‘republican ideals’ that have long informed it
US presidents haven’t usually sought to impress their own architectural tastes – much less their names while in office – on national monuments.
Inter Press Service
- Israeli Strikes Across Iran and Lebanon Raise Concerns of Broader Regional Instability
The past several weeks have marked a significant escalation in hostilities across the Middle East, with tensions rising among Israel, Lebanon, Iran, and the United States following large-scale exchanges of bombardment. Recent statements from U.S. President Donald Trump, including threats of extensive destruction in Iran, have further inflamed regional tensions and complicated ongoing diplomatic efforts.
- Will Sierra Leone’s Democracy Make Room for Persons with Disabilities?
As Sierra Leone prepares for its next national election in 2028, political parties across the country have begun setting strategies and preparing to select their candidates. However, persons with disabilities say they remain poorly represented and are calling on political parties to nominate them as candidates ahead of the election. Samuel Alpha Sesay, a person
- Unexpected Ally Stepping Up Against Sexual Assault in Kenyan Slums: Landlord
Trigger warning: This article discusses child rape. Their quiet latent power comes from being ever-present eyes and ears on the ground. As they move around their compounds, collecting rent and checking on anywhere from 10 to 20 houses occupied by as many as 200 people, they see and hear things. They say not everyone knows
Sludge
- AI Super PACs Are Unleashing Millions to Tilt Primaries in Their Favor
So far, the industry groups have won nearly all the races they’ve thrown their money at, helping to advance allies who could help shape AI legislation in the next Congress.
Grist
- Oil companies accused of massive accounting fraud in New Mexico
A lawsuit claims ExxonMobil and others underreported debts by $194 million, calling it “a playbook” for how companies dump old wells and expenses on states.
- How the Trump administration’s climate math doesn’t add up
There's an old argument that protecting the environment hurts the economy. It's wrong for a lot of reasons.
- The skylines of the future will be made of wood
Laminated timber is more environmentally friendly than steel, and perfectly safe for constructing tall buildings.
Labor Notes
- A Lack of Democracy in the United Farm Workers Gave Chavez Immunity
In 2011 Frank Bardacke published an 800-page history of the Farm Workers union: Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. It opened many eyes to the reasons the UFW became a shadow of its former self. Bardacke starts the book with an epigraph, a quote from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “O what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down...”
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