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Photo by Chris Boland on Unsplash Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday is dead by his own hand. It seems that a lifetime of lies, once they caught up with him, was too much for him to handle. The disgrace was more...

News

U.S. oil companies dominating the shale patch are planning to trim their spending plans and instead take advantage of higher international oil prices to reduce debt and boost shareholder returns. This is bad news for production growth. Bloomberg reported earlier...

News

The rise of automation, AI, and electric trucks can fundamentally change the freight transportation industry in the United States, leading to a revolution in transport fuel demand. Various vehicle and technology companies and U.S. cities and states have launched in...

News

Strategic shortfalls? Maybe in getting cobalt out of the Congo or rare earth powders from China or natural gas from Russia or oil from the Persian Gulf? Or maybe something closer to home. Thanks to climate change (yes, just say...

News

On Sunday, President Donald Trump abruptly announced that he had directed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” major U.S.-South Korea military drills that began this week. In a post on Truth Social, Trump provided several reasons why: the exercises are too “costly,”...

South-korea, Korean-peninsula, U-s-military

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how...

Members, The Ukraine Compass

Carbon capture is still debated as if technical performance were the decisive question. Can a solvent remove carbon dioxide from flue gas? Can the CO2 be compressed, transported and injected underground? Will the storage remain secure? These questions matter, but...

News

Heatwaves not only affect the poor much more than the rich, they also contribute to widening inequality between the classes. Miqdad Asaria is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Policy at LSE and co-director of the MSc in Health...

Climate Crisis, Inequality, Article

A portrait of life under genocide. Hossam Shaker is a journalist and an author who has extensively covered the topic of migration in Europe. Cross-posted from Middl e East Eye Life under genocide has its familiar daily rituals. A discerning eye detects latent...

Geopolitics, Article, Gaza

The Information Controls Research Program (ICRP) (formerly known as the “Information Controls Fellowship Program) from the Open Technology Fund (OTF) supports applied research into how authoritarian governments in the most repressive information environments are restricting the free flow of information,...

News

This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : New York just gave Elon Musk the keys to your money . 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - Can a DSA candidate pull off...

Lever Daily

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Francis Beaudette, former commanding general of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, joins Ryan to discuss how his family history, service, and books shaped his path into and time in the Army. Together, they talk through his...

Podcasts, War On The Rocks

Chevron has announced a new oil and gas condensate discovery offshore Angola, hitting more than 2,000 feet of hydrocarbons in a Block 0 exploration well that could be tied directly into the company’s existing production infrastructure in the country. The...

News

AI was everywhere at DAC 2026, so I stopped by the booth of Rise Design Automation to chat with Ellie Burns to hear what’s new this year. Ellie shared that Rise DA has added a new AI-powered flow to go...

EDA, Rise Design Automation, Allan Klinck

Libya’s electricity grid suffered another major collapse on Monday, knocking power plants offline across western, central and southern parts of the country, shutting down the Great Man-Made River water system, fueling widespread public anger in a country already divided between...

News

The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. Millions are in hiding. Those who have escaped Ukraine are fanned out across Europe, clinging to low-paying jobs and temporary housing. But Europe’s leaders are impatient with them. The...

Column, Courts & Law, Europe

When President Vladimir Putin sent his forces into Ukraine, the Kremlin appeared to be betting on a familiar axiom of European security: sheer Russian mass, backed by vast Soviet-era stockpiles and nuclear power, would overwhelm resistance. More than four years...

News

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . Darya Minovi was mapping pollution from medical sterilization plants across the country when many of the communities she was speaking to began asking the same...

Courts & Law, Environment, Health & Wellness

As he was leaving office in 2017, President Barack Obama urged Americans concerned about where their country was headed to act. “If something needs fixing, then lace up your shoes and do some organizing,” he said in Time magazine ....

Activism, Column, Media

Grid constraints and rising coal-fired power generation in China led to soaring curtailment rates of solar and wind power generation in the first half of the year. China curtailed as much as 360 terawatt-hours (TWh) of solar and wind generation...

News

The images of chaos and confusion went global on social media within minutes: an estimated 70,000 Moroccans rushed the shores of Spain’s North African enclave Ceuta, climbing through holes in the chain-link fence and swimming around the barriers jutting into...

Courts & Law, Europe, Immigration

Strain of virus with no vaccine has potential to overrun response impeded by conflict and misinformation Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are losing their battle to contain the country’s deadliest Ebola outbreak . DRC’s health ministry declared an...

Ebola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda

Rising energy prices are poised to send UK inflation rearing back up, as economists warn that the summer boost to the economy could be fleeting. The rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation is tipped to rise to 2.9 per...

News

Digital lending has made it easier for consumers to explore financial products online. Borrowers can now research lenders, check requirements, upload documents, and apply using a phone or computer. However, having more options can also make it harder to decide...

Finance, Economics, loans

Participants in traditional dress take part in a cultural welcome at the UNCCD COP17 venue in Ulaanbaatar on Aug. 17, 2026, highlighting the cultural diversity of communities whose livelihoods are closely linked to rangelands. Credit: UN photo By Kizito Makoye DAR ES...

Biodiversity, Combating Desertification and Drought, Development & Aid

In geopolitics, words do matter, and sometimes a deletion says a lot more than a thousand-page defense white paper. The Pentagon’s recent move to quietly strip the word “Indo” from the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, reverting to its Cold War-era title...

War & Peace, India, Indo-Pacific

China began the third quarter with weaker-than-expected key economic indicators, raising additional concerns about the health of its economy and its demand for crude oil in the coming months. Retail sales increased by just 0.6% in July from a year...

News

Federal Troops Regain Control Somali federal forces pushed opposition fighters out of Baidoa on Monday after hours of intense fighting in one of the country’s largest cities, residents told Reuters. The clashes left a number of people dead and marked...

World News, Military, Security

A cryptocurrency company backed by U.S. President Donald Trump is collaborating with a Hong Kong based venture that provides access to artificial intelligence models developed by Chinese companies facing U.S. national security restrictions. WorldClaw offers access to 90 AI models...

Americas, Artificial Intelligence, Finance

U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Jared Kushner met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday as Washington sought to revive its stalled Gaza peace plan, a day after Kushner held a rare meeting with Hamas representatives in Cairo....

World News, Gaza War, Humanitarian Crisis

As you read this article on your computer or smartphone, you are almost certainly using open-source technology in some way. It forms the foundation of the global digital economy, from operating systems and web servers to databases and encryption protocols....

Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Block 2

West Africa’s cocoa industry is struggling to comply with new European Union anti-deforestation rules, raising concerns about supply disruptions and higher costs for chocolate makers. The EU law, known as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), will require importers to prove...

Climate & Sustainability, Africa, Climate Crisis

Amna Idres Musa Mahamod leads the Al-Wifag Women’s Association in Toker, Sudan. Photographed for the Through Her Lens: Women Rising for Peace Exhibition . Credit: UN Women/Mona Elfateh By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17 2026 (IPS) Women-led and women’s rights organizations (WLOs) in...

Active Citizens, Aid, Armed Conflicts

Emerging from the chaos of supplying the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, the War Department sought to foster domestic production of standardized muskets. Out of this industrial project arose an invention that laid the foundation for automation and...

Arsenal of Innovation, Cogs of War, Military History

One of the first tasks of Whitehall’s mandarins – the permanent government – is to indoctrinate a new prime minister in the need for official secrecy, especially around the intelligence agencies. Andy Burnham should be more sceptical judging by his comments...

Archive, Intelligence, Secrecy

India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has secured a license from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control to return to Venezuela, Indian media have reported. India’s largest oil and gas company has a 40% stake in the San Cristobal...

News

Taiwan is set to increase defence spending by 16% next year, taking its proposed military budget above T$1 trillion ($31.40 billion) for the first time as the island faces growing military and political pressure from China. President Lai Ching-te said...

World News, Defense, Security

The Financial Times has run a striking assessment: Pakistan, it argues, has become an emerging “hinge power” – a state whose simultaneous ties to Washington, Beijing, the Gulf and Tehran let it broker where others can only choose sides. The...

South Asia, Block 3, Foreign investment in Pakistan
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