The Wrong Kind of Winter
CLIMATE · LOCAL
May 13, 2026
What this fall’s super El
Niño could mean for New
England and Eastern
Canada—a season where
everything costs more to
fix The tide doesn’t have
to roar into Portsmouth to
make its point. Some…
mornings it just arrives a little too high, stays a little too
long, and pushes through a piece of infrastructure that was built
for a different version of winter. A storm drain that used to…
Nuclear to Mars
TECH
May 13, 2026
NASA’s shift from explosive
thrust to continuous power—and
what it makes possible
The checklist sits on a second
monitor, half-hidden behind a…
The Map, the Notice, and the
Gate
VOTING RIGHTS · IMMIGRATION
April 30, 2026
The Court narrows Black
political power. The
administration moves to strip
protection from Haitians and
Syrians. White South Africans
are invited in. The old order
has learned paperwork.
Rose-Thamar Joseph stood
outside the Supreme Court…
Rose-Thamar Joseph stood
outside the Supreme Court with…
The Indictment Effect
LAW AND COURTS · POLITICAL POWER
April 29, 2026
How legal exposure is reshaping
decisions across politics and
civil society The envelope was
heavier than it needed to be,
thick cream stock with a return
address that looked routine
enough to ignore, which is why
he left it on the corner…
The envelope was heavier than
it needed to be, thick cream
stock with a return address
that looked routine enough to
ignore, which is why he left it
on the corner of the kitchen
table while the coffee machine
finished its slow grind and the…
The Brains We Left Behind
LABOR · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
April 28, 2026
For a century, we rewarded one
kind of mind. The next economy
may reward the ones we left
behind. At 2:17 a.m., the
emergency department at
Portsmouth Regional Hospital
slipped into that narrow…
The Shot
CAMPAIGNS · POLITICAL POWER
April 27, 2026
By the time we see what
happened, we’ve already decided
what it means. I didn’t hear
the shot as a shot. What I saw
first was the reaction. It came
through the television during
the Correspondents’ Dinner…
An Ordinary Night
WAR AND SECURITY · UKRAINE
April 26, 2026
What a single message from Kyiv
reveals about how this war is
really being fought The message
came in just after dawn. “Two
people died, 15 people were
injured. Unfortunately, this is
an ordinary night in Ukraine.”
Svetlanka in Kyiv sent…
The message came in just after
dawn.
“Two people died, 15 people
were injured. Unfortunately,
this is an ordinary night in…
The Power of the Gatekeeper
WAR AND SECURITY · IRAN
April 23, 2026
How war in the Middle East is
quietly increasing Turkey’s
leverage at home and abroad The
fluorescent lights inside the
Istanbul courthouse hummed
faintly as lawyers carried
thick binders across the
polished floor. A clerk began
reading…
The fluorescent lights inside
the Istanbul courthouse hummed
faintly as lawyers carried
thick binders across the…