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Letter from Czechia: Motorheads Against Brussels

Christopher Lord / Truthdig Feb 12, 2026 A strange new far-right party has entered the government, threatening the EU’s environmental agenda and sparking the biggest demonstrations since the Velvet Revolution. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Politics

Trump vs. His China Hawks

Connor Echols / Responsible Statecraft Feb 12, 2026 The president ushered in a bipartisan push for confrontation with Beijing in his first term. Is he now trying to usher it out? Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Military

Last Treaty Curbing US, Russian Nuclear Weapons Has Collapsed

Pavel Devyatkin / Responsible Statecraft Feb 5, 2026 With New START gone as of Feb. 5, the world has lost the last legal check on the U.S.' and Russia’s nuclear arsenals. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Americas

US Tightens Blockade Against Cuba

Manolo De Los Santos / Peoples Dispatch Feb 3, 2026 On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security, expanding tariffs on countries that sell oil to Cuba. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Immigration

Appeals Court: Administration Illegally Stripped Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans

Alexandra Martinez / Prism Feb 3, 2026 The decision comes as advocates say the justification for the Jan. 3 military action contradicts the claim that Venezuela is safe enough to end TPS. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Global Voices

La fantasía Bitcóin en El Salvador mientras los trabajadores pierden sus empleos

Suchit Chávez / Truthdig Feb 2, 2026 Una élite económica emergente y respaldada por el gobierno está consolidando su poder: forjando su propio paraíso cripto. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Global Voices

Bitcoin Country

Suchit Chávez / Truthdig Feb 2, 2026 In El Salvador, a government-backed economic elite is consolidating power and forging its own crypto paradise while workers struggle. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Middle East

The U.S. Plan for Gaza Has Nothing in It for Palestinians

Qassam Muaddi / Mondoweiss Jan 30, 2026 The future being laid out for the people of Gaza is a highly surveilled dystopia of industrial complexes and luxury resorts where there were once homes, farms and communities. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Activism

Greenland’s Inuit Have Spent Decades Fighting for Self-Determination

Susan A. Kaplan, Genevieve LeMoine / The Conversation Jan 30, 2026 Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Opinion

‘We Need to Work This Out’

Matt Bivens / Truthdig Jan 23, 2026 Recently declassified Bush-Putin transcripts are a timely reminder of the enduring urgency of pulling back from the nuclear brink. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

World

Thinking About the Carney Doctrine

Luke Savage / Truthdig Jan 23, 2026 At Davos, did the Canadian prime minister evoke a new progressive internationalism — or a new conservative realpolitik? Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

TD Original

Surrounded and Abandoned, Rojava Faces Slaughter

Matt Broomfield / Truthdig Jan 22, 2026 The U.S. terminates its decade-old relationship with Syria’s secular, feminist, Kurdish forces, leaving them once again to face an Islamist assault. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )