Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Spock, and the Strange Afterlife of Stoicism

Why do I walk?

Why do we walk?

In an economy built on distraction, finishing a book has become an act of intellectual independence.

Climate experts say it demonstrates the need to ‘take climate change seriously and learn from what is happening around the world’

Why record heat still struggles to be recognised as a warning

How Europe's carbon market became one of the most important experiments in the fight against climate change.

Why I have no intention of replacing work with a full time schedule of leisure activities.

The web was designed for people. Today, machines are its dominant inhabitants.

Why the greatest danger posed by offensive art is not that it exists, but that we fail to recognise what it is teaching us.

The UN issues alerts. Humanity responds with déjà vu.

How a dispute over tap water in Italy exposed the commodification of necessity

Guernica and the limits of outrage in the twenty-first century

Mexico and the European Union signed a long-stalled free trade ‌agreement on Friday as they seek to decrease dependence on the U.S. and partially insulate themselves from U.S. President Donald Trump's...

Bill Winters faced backlash over remarks about some of near 8,000 staff set to lose roles to AI

From artificial eggshells to engineered species, biotechnology is beginning to challenge one of nature’s oldest finalities.

Zohran Mamdani and the return of municipal governance as everyday reform

What the absence of women from the world’s most powerful rooms reveals about the true architecture of modern power

Sometimes a margin as small as five votes is enough to change the entire direction of a community.

How an oil blowout off the California coast did what no politician intended: change the nation's conscience

When frustration reached its breaking point and cleared the ground for a different kind of post-COP climate diplomacy.

Europe's southern edge reveals how fragile media independence can be

Chernobyl, 1986 — when an invisible cloud made every ordinary act a calculation of risk.

How data centres quietly became one of the largest and least discussed forces reshaping global electricity demand

As fossil fuel prices soar ‘the era of clean energy security must come of age’, energy secretary will say

How men with weapons rediscovered Saint Augustine and forgot everything he meant.

How ambition, drought, and bad decisions buried the Great Plains in dust

Nuclear power’s return in an age of crisis and demand

How Heat, Drought, and Fire Are Changing the Shape of the American Landscape

Rethinking intelligence, society, and survival in a fractured age

How One Man's Action-Movie Foreign Policy Could Trigger a Triple Crisis

How dependence on oil keeps modern economies tied to instability they cannot control

Donald Trump faces mounting political pressure as his war with Iran drives up petrol prices across America, threatening Republican prospects in the midterm elections.

An Ancient Monster and the Conflicts We Cannot Win by Force Alone

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent says White House is prepared to tolerate the trade to avoid supply shortages

The absurd logic of Britain’s electricity market means cheap renewable power still produces expensive electricity

How humanity is exhausting the planet’s water reserves while arguing about everything else

PM says his country will not be complicit in growing conflict in Middle East ‘simply out of fear of reprisals from someone’

Guano, global inequality, and the long history of shifting environmental costs from centres of power to distant and expendable regions

I recently spent several weeks in Greece.

World Report 2026, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.

State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations

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Rare metals, global power, and the invisible human cost of the digital age