Commentary
Pieces

How the EU's top court is standing up to Budapest on LGBTI rights
Some court rulings fade after a few weeks of headlines, and others become permanent reference points. The judgment handed down on April

Claude Science, Anthropic's risky bet ahead of its IPO
On June 30, 2026, Anthropic unveiled Claude Science, a digital workspace built for researchers, preconfigured with more than 60 scientific databases spanning

At Beauval Zoo, Some Thirty Animal Births Light Up the Summer
In the heart of the Loir-et-Cher region, the Beauval ZooPark is living through a summer birth rate that recalls why this park

The Brain Circuit Behind Deep Sleep's Body Repair Finally Decoded
A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, working with colleagues at Stanford, has mapped a previously poorly understood neural

Denmark hands Ukraine another 590 million euros, and shifts the game
On June 30, 2026, Denmark announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth roughly 4.4 billion Danish kroner, close to 590

Todd Blanche Won't Unseal 2.5 Million Pages of Epstein Files
There are moments when American justice stops negotiating with the executive branch, and this week is one of them. Federal judgeEmmet Sullivan

Common Stroke Type Had the Wrong Culprit for Decades
For decades, medicine explained a common type of stroke, lacunar stroke, through a single, well-known cause: the buildup of fatty plaques that

Is AI Really Destroying Jobs? A Major Study Says Otherwise
For two years now, a dominant narrative has taken hold of public debate: artificial intelligence is supposedly destroying jobs on a massive

After the Hague Win, Trump Returns to Ankara to Force NATO to Deliver
American president Donald Trump flies out this Monday evening for Ankara, site of the annual NATO summit, with a crystal-clear objective: force