As Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in recent months, the deployment of fiber-optic drones has proven devastatingly effective. The drones use hair-thin cables to maintain direct connections with operators, making them highly resistant to electronic jamming and essential to...

Anna Sanding and her coworkers knew they had straightforward language in their contract with Long Beach Medical Center: It said that they would earn at least 30 percent above the state’s minimum wage. ...

The narrative surrounding the Ukraine war often marks its beginning on February 24, 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion. But the rivalries and political decisions that brought the two countries into conflict stretch back centuries. The start of the Cold War, meanwhile, was the...

The 2026 midterm elections have been the most expensive in history, with more than $11 billion being spent on political ads. While Democratic candidates have outraised Republicans in individual donations by appealing directly to voters, Republicans have received the lion’s share of money from...

Yemen’s civil war reignited in early October, as Saudi Arabia brought in Turkish and Pakistani military support to fight the Houthi rebels, who have governed much of northern Yemen as a de facto authority and waged a guerrilla war in the country since...

Asia has seen a surge of “Gen Z protests,” led by a generation tired of accepting the status quo and increasingly using social media to drive change in deeply entrenched political systems. In India, protests over the education system helped force the education minister’s resignation...

Davion Johnson long realized that they and their colleagues deserved higher pay, fairer treatment, and greater respect at the Corning plant in Hemlock, Michigan. ...

The Path From Survival to Citizenship Access to food, stable housing, healthcare, and socioeconomic security shapes more than daily life. Material insecurity can also limit the time, attention, and stability people need to follow public issues, evaluate candidates, organize, and vote. Research on scarcity and political...

A recent New York Times editorial by Tim Wu, a former antitrust adviser for the Biden administration, caught my eye for the criticism it leveled at Democrats for making affordability a central issue ahead of the midterm elections. Wu contends that the party needs...

Just weeks before its scheduled November IPO, Anthropic is facing growing attention over the potential dangers of its technology. The resignation of former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon on September 8, who wrote on X that AI could “kill us all by the end...