Ryan Whalen
September 7, 2026The story of a Medieval European plague is coming into focus through historic manuscripts, but not in the way you might think. Instead of providing mere historical accounts, the animal skins from which these Medieval volumes are constructed provide genetic evidence for reconstructing the 3,500-year story of the sheepox virus (SPPV), which decimated European livestock.
At 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, Canada hit $28 billion worth of U.S. imports with new dollar-for-dollar tariffs.
Canadian businesses are opening Tuesday for the first time under the federal government's new dollar-for-dollar tariffs on $28 billion worth of U.S. imports. As many owners brace for higher costs and supply-chain issues, experts say consumers may not notice much impact.
Hundreds of goods are set to be hit with counter-duties, roughly equal to the value of Canadian goods that fall under the scope of Trump’s own tariffs.
The bombs are falling on tankers now, and International Trade is taking the hit. So, who benefits if the global economy becomes more fragmented?
What is this battlefield coming to? Tankers have now become retaliatory targets. That goes far beyond the Strait of Hormuz. A missile fired at a tanker does not stop when the smoke clears. It travels through people's grief, to begin with, and also through insurance rates, freight costs, oil prices, factory costs, and supermarket shelves, before it reaches your living room. Brent is already approaching $100 a barrel, diesel prices have reached record highs, and shipping through Hormuz has fallen sharply as operators reassess the risk. This is the domino effect of modern war: attack a ship, disrupt a route, raise the cost of moving energy, raise the cost of moving everything else. But there is a larger question here. What happens to globalization when the world's most important trade routes become potential battlefields? And who benefits from the world this war is creating?
September 6, 2026, 12:59 pm CET
By Sebastian Starcevic
BRUSSELS — A German startup successfully sent a rocket into orbit, marking a major milestone for Europe’s push to develop its own commercial space-launch industry.
Full SummaryA new NBC News Decision Desk poll shows President Donald Trump's approval among Republican voters has fallen sharply, with strong approval dropping from 52% to 41% and overall approval hitting a record low of 36% as the 2026 midterm elections approach.
President Donald Trump's support among Republican voters dropped in a new poll less than two months from November's crucial midterm elections.
PIERRE DAMAS BEL CAME TO THE UNITED STATES legally, using the Biden-era CBP One app that allowed migrants to request asylum upon arrival. A temporary protected status (TPS) recipient from Haiti, he migrated in 2024 at the age of 18, joining his parents who had fled the violence-torn country.
Interview with Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama tells Jacobin that decades of suspicion of the state, from both the Left and the Right, helped produce America’s current crisis
Interview by John-Baptiste Oduor
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama wrote a sweeping philosophical polemic in which he argued that liberal democratic capitalism was the only viable economic and political system. Countries would either converge on its model or drift into dysfunction. What prevented states and individuals from accepting this fate was a fear of being the Last Man, a Nietzschean term for the individual living without ideas worth dying for. A world in which liberal democracy was triumphant was, Fukuyama argued in “The End of History?,” one without the tragedy and pathos of the era of great ideologies — safe but boring.
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