Promises and protests at the G7 in Cornwall – photo essay

With more than 6,000 police deployed to Cornwall for the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, there…

Texas Dems amp up voting rights pressure with D.C. blitz

Texas Democrats who killed a Republican elections bill with a dramatic state legislative walkout last month…

House GOP prays Trump can kick his habit of 2020 grievances

Donald Trump just can’t seem to quit 2020. That means Republicans can’t either. The former president…

‘Poor Chuck’: Schumer confronts midyear mess

Senate Democrats are publicly divided over infrastructure strategy. The caucus’ most conservative senator openly rebelled against…

A bird costs less than a pint: welcome to Britain’s poultry capital

Growing up on the family farm in rural Herefordshire, Richard Corbett’s fondest memories are of tinkering…

Plastic rafting: the invasive species hitching a ride on ocean litter

Japan’s 2011 tsunami was catastrophic, killing nearly 16,000 people, destroying homes and infrastructure, and sweeping an…

Illegal sewage discharge in English rivers 10 times higher than official data suggests

Water companies are being allowed to unlawfully discharge raw sewage into rivers at a scale at…

Plastic rafting: the invasive species hitching a ride on ocean litter

There is now so much ocean plastic that it has become a route for invasive species,…

Country diary: a coral form with a fondness for dry stone walls

Above a stone retaining wall at the front of my flower border, I grow mounds of…

Why Bernie’s not sweating White House’s infrastructure dance with GOP

As liberals increasingly rebuke President Joe Biden for his ongoing negotiations with a bipartisan group of…