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A police officer in Ipswich, Mass., wears a WatchGuard body camera on July 29, 2020. Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

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Why ICE’s body camera policies make the videos unlikely to improve accountability and transparency

Staff Writer - February 24, 2026

Coast Guardsmen stand in front of two truckloads of liquor seized on April 14, 1931, after a battle between three policemen and several alcohol smugglers near Falmouth, Mass. AP Photo

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Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s

U.S. Border Patrol agents stand guard at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 8, 2026. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

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I’m a former FBI agent who studies policing, and here’s how federal agents in Minneapolis are undermining basic law enforcement principles

In Detroit, Mich., volunteers with the Detroit People’s Assembly put together whistle kits designed to alert the community when immigration agents are nearby. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Military

Anti-ICE protesters are following same nonviolent playbook used by people in war zones across the world to fight threats to their communities

Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a fire in a house after it was hit by a Russian drone on Jan. 15, 2026. Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images

Military

Russia’s drone pipeline: How Iran helps Moscow produce an ever-evolving unmanned fleet

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the village of Teir Debba in southern Lebanon on Nov. 6, 2025. AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatar

Military

A year on, the Israeli-Lebanese ceasefire looks increasingly fragile − could...

Staff Writer - November 27, 2025

There are certain situations in which the military should not fall in line. Bo Zaunders/Corbis Documentary via Getty Images

Military

Just follow orders or obey the law? What US troops told...

Staff Writer - November 22, 2025

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota speaks at an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oct. 7, 2025. AP Photo/Allison Robbert

Military

A brief history of congressional oversight, from Revolutionary War financing to...

Staff Writer - November 6, 2025

A map prepared by the Defense Department in 1962 shows potential ranges of Soviet ballistic missiles from Cuba. Department of Defense Cuban Missile Crisis briefing materials/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

Military

The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during...

Staff Writer - October 26, 2025

Demonstrators in Portland, Ore., protest on Oct. 4, 2025, against President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy the National Guard to the city. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Military

Trump’s National Guard deployments reignite 200-year-old legal debate over state vs....

Staff Writer - October 21, 2025

Donald Trump addresses European leaders on Aug. 18, 2025. The White House

Military

When it comes to Ukraine peace negotiations, it’s all over the map

Staff Writer - October 21, 2025

The USS Sampson docks at the Amador International Cruise Terminal in Panama City on Sept. 2, 2025. Daniel Gonzalez/Anadolu via Getty Images

Military

Gunboat diplomacy: How classic naval coercion has evolved into hybrid warfare...

Staff Writer - October 20, 2025

In a 2024 exhibition game at Manzanar, players – many of them descendants of internment camp detainees – donned custom 1940s-style uniforms. Aaron Rapoport, CC BY-SA

Military

Baseball returns to a Japanese American detention camp after a historic...

Staff Writer - October 18, 2025

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Rising global temperatures are increasing the risk of heat stroke on hot days, among many other human harms. Ronda Churchill/AFP via Getty Images

Environment

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...

Staff Writer - February 12, 2026

Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Portland cement, widely used for concrete, is responsible for about 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Photovs/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Polymers from earth can make cement more climate-friendly

February 12, 2026

There is still a great deal unknown about RNA and its modifications. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome −...

February 10, 2026

A farmer near Quemado, Texas, prepares to take hay to cattle amid the drought in June 2022. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Sixth year of drought in Texas and Oklahoma leaves ranchers bracing...

February 9, 2026

A baby orangutan was seized by Thai police in an anti-trafficking operation in May 2025. Thai police Central Investigation Bureau via AP

New technologies are stepping up the global fight against wildlife trafficking

February 8, 2026