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World roundup: June 6 2025

Foreign Exchanges

Sebastião Salgado: Capturing Humanity in Pictures

Real News Network

I Was an Undocumented Texas College Student. I’m Not Going Anywhere—and Neither Is Our Movement.

Musk’s Deadliest Legacy

Foreign Policy In Focus

Biden Administration Liars Need to be Punished

Waters of Geopolitics: Why Is the Indus River System So Violently Contested?

Foreign Policy In Focus

Why Is Trump Suddenly Sidelining Israel?

Chartbook 388: Trump v. Musk - Alien v. Predator or "death march" into a political vacuum?

Knocking Down the Pillars of Democracy

Reduced sampling for Consumer Price Index estimates

Top Links 761 The limits of China's domestic market. Gold digging in Syria. African drone poliferation & the making of Balamory.

Wake Up and Smell the Corruption

Krugman Wonks Out

Steve Bannon: Nationalize SpaceX

An "abundance" theory of power

2025.23: What Nike Learned About E-Commerce

Magnus Carlsen chess match against the wisdom of crowds ends in a draw

World roundup: June 5 2025

Foreign Exchanges

In Blue Cities, Abundance Will Require Fighting Labor Unions

Inventory of Homes for Sale in Biggest California Markets Suddenly Piles Up to Highest in Years: Demand Has Collapsed

Canceled Climate Grants Would Have Cut Pollution While Boosting Production, Jobs at Two Alabama Ironworks

Inside Climate News

The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again

Youth climate activists won lawsuits in Montana and Hawai‘i. Now they’re targeting Trump.

In Haifa, where ‘coexistence’ requires silence about Israel’s war crimes

Pennsylvania Has Failed Environmental Justice Communities for Years. A New Bill Could Change That.

Capital and Main

People Using Apps Like iNaturalist and Merlin Are Helping Fuel Scientific Discovery

Inside Climate News

UN Scientists Propose a Plan to Meet Global Demand for Critical Minerals

Inside Climate News

Raising the Tipped Minimum Wage Does Not Harm the Restaurant Industry

Before Attacking Each Other, Musk and Trump Struck Blows Against Veterans, Children, the Hungry and the Sick

Capital and Main

Excluding Federal Government Jobs, Payrolls Grow by 161,000 in May, Wages Jump, Despite All Moaning and Groaning

Trump Could Use Sacred Native Land for a Monument to… Columbus

Trump Won Big in Kentucky. Medicaid Cuts Could Hit It Hard.

Capital and Main

What defunding public media would mean for the West

High Country News

Democrats Hate Their Own Party. The People Can Take It Back.