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If the first meeting between the Biden administration and Chinese officials last week underscored anything, it’s that the US and China are unlikely to be friendly in the years toContinue readingDon’t expect the US and China to be friendly anytime soon

North Korea tested its first missiles since President Joe Biden took office, launching two short-range projectiles last weekend off the country’s west coast and into the adjoining Yellow Sea. ButContinue readingNorth Korea tested missiles again. It’s not as scary as it sounds.

A massive container ship stuck sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal has been blocking one of the world’s busiest waterways for over 24 hours, disrupting global trade and launching a tidalContinue readingA massive ship is stuck in the Suez Canal, disrupting trade and inspiring hilarious memes

Tania Aubid began her hunger strike on Valentine’s Day. “Valentine’s Day is about love and having that love for your partner — but for me to have the love, IContinue readingThe Indigenous-led fight to stop the Line 3 oil pipeline expansion in Minnesota, explained

North Korea’s second missile test in a week is increasing the pressure on President Joe Biden to respond, inching the nuclear-armed state further up the administration’s long list of globalContinue readingWhy North Korea is ramping up missile tests again

“In Guam, even the dead are dying,” Chamorro author and activist Julian Aguon writes in his new book The Properties of Perpetual Light. Aguon, a human rights lawyer and founderContinue readingThe generational grief of colonization

President Joe Biden all but said during his first formal press conference on Thursday that the United States would likely extend its 20-year military campaign in Afghanistan for at leastContinue readingBiden’s stated rationale for extending America’s war in Afghanistan is weak

As the world careens toward a climate catastrophe, the biggest banks in the world are still financing fossil fuels in the trillions of dollars. That’s according to a recently releasedContinue readingThe world’s biggest banks have pumped trillions into fossil fuel projects in the past 5 years

The Biden administration has officially committed to Covax, the global effort to fund and deliver Covid-19 vaccines around the world, including to lower-income countries. The administration will commit $4 billionContinue readingWhy Biden’s pledge of $4 billion to help vaccinate the world isn’t enough

Myanmar saw its largest nationwide protests since the military coup earlier this month, with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating in the streets and businesses shutting down across the country.Continue readingMyanmar’s pro-democracy protest movement is strengthening