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Democrats’ chances of gaining control of Congress at US midterms depend on Iran war
18+ min ago (1098+ words) In Nate Silver’s forecast model, Democrats are more likely than not to gain control of the US federal Senate at November 3 midterm elections, and strongly favoured to gain control of the House of Representatives. Donald Trump’s net approval is close…...
Australia must double down to meet our climate targets. Our new study shows how
6+ hour, 4+ min ago (387+ words) Global warming is set to surpass the 1.5°C limit if governments worldwide fail to act....
Sharing non‑consensual ‘deepfake’ porn in Canada is now a crime. The law still fails the victims
14+ hour, 4+ min ago (946+ words) In June 2026, the Canadian government passed a groundbreaking reform of the Criminal Code — the Protecting Victims Act (Bill C-16). This strengthened protections against gender-based violence and, for the first time, made it a crime to share sexual “deepfakes” of a…...
New world map makes Africa look bigger: what’s the fuss about? Cartographers explain
19+ hour, 21+ min ago (570+ words) We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to explain what’s going on. A cartographer’s job is to choose from the hundreds of different map projections, and consider where…...
How Gloria Steinem shaped — and sometimes over-shadowed — global feminism
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (1100+ words) Ten years ago, I had the honour of meeting Gloria Steinem. It was International Women’s Day 2016: Donald Trump was a joke that would supposedly never happen and #MeToo was still two years away. Yet, the clouds were gathering. Being in…...
How Iran draws citizens into political surveillance
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (929+ words) From 1960, Cuba’s leaders organised local committees to monitor political dissent. And informant culture is so embedded in everyday Iranian life that there are common Persian terms to describe it. A mokhber or khabarchin is an informant and a zirabzan secretly…...
Hormuz crisis has forced Japan into rethinking – and domesticating – its energy security needs
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (1106+ words) Japan’s Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu phoned his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, on Sept. 8, 2026, to express concern over the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz. It was reportedly the ninth such phone call between the pair since March. Tokyo’s…...
Why the Trump administration’s bid to end diversity efforts at nonprofit schools is likely to get tied up in court
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (1113+ words) The Trump administration wants to strip all nonprofit colleges, universities and private K-12 schools of their tax-exempt status if any of their programs designed to help students uses race as a criterion for eligibility. This change is included in a rule…...
Why did MPs vote to reject the assisted dying bill – and what happens now?
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (784+ words) MPs at Westminster have voted to reject the assisted dying bill, in a significant blow to those campaigning to change the law – 11 years to the day after MPs rejected a previous attempt. Had it passed, the bill would have made…...
A Swedish ghost story
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (732+ words) Ghosts in Sweden? It sounds strange to place the supernatural in a country of health-conscious, pragmatic engineers. But even though Swedes readily accept modernity, their popular culture hints at something else. From the outside, Sweden appears to be a secular…...