On 25 January 2019 a tailings dam collapsed at Brumadinho, Brazil, killing 272 people. Nearly eight years on, no court has decided whether anyone is guilty. The first article in a ten-part investigation into ecocide asks whether the gravest destruction of nature should be a crime, and how far the law has come.
Toxic masculinity has become a slogan, an insult and a tripwire. This Dossier strips the phrase back to its evidence: which norms harm, who pays, and why condemnation alone cannot compete with the grievance machine.
Christianity commands love, including love of enemies, and forgiveness without limit. Then it says none of this can be done by effort alone. From the Good Samaritan to a Charleston courtroom, an essay on a command that follows a gift
The satellites have named the mountain — the same massif that destroyed Langtang village in 2015. K.J. Parker sorts a month of evidence into fact, inference, contested and speculation, states the Langtang hypothesis, and sets out how it could actually be tested
An AI sandbox breach exposed a new risk: powerful agents can turn tools and permissions into action, leaving guardrail-bound defenders at a disadvantage.
The Permian competition tightens: pruning, agentic browsers, and the energy bill becomes law.
February 2026 doesn’t feel like a month of flashy invention. It feels...