A Montclair councilman was found liable for sexual harassment. He refuses to resign
A judge found Montclair Councilman Ben Lopez civilly liable for sexual harassment this week for subjecting two current male city...
Trump’s Agriculture Bailout Is Alienating His MAHA Base
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At a White House roundtable last...
The Race to Build the World’s Best Friend
When OpenAI released the pioneering artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT in late 2022, no one at the company expected much. Prior...
Yes, your anger and forgiveness can coexist
Open almost any conversation about wrongdoing in America, and the idea of forgiveness will not be far behind. It’s one...
Was 2025 the End of ‘Teflon Trump’?
As a tumultuous year comes to an end, the New York Times Opinion politics writer Michelle Cottle talks to the...
How Trump convinced me on the Senate filibuster
At least two Republican senators who resisted nuking the Senate filibuster in 2025 might take a different tack in 2026....
I was over 300 pounds in high school. Then, college life pushed me to lose over a third of my body weight.
The author lost weight in college. Courtesy of Dan PetetskyI was over 300 pounds in high school, and I carried...
Social media users in the Central Valley are freaking out about unusual fog, and what might be in it
A 400-mile blanket of fog has socked in California’s Central Valley for weeks. Scientists and meteorologists say the conditions for...
How to Master the Treadmill
It’s easy to dislike the treadmill. The lack of scenery and variety has led some exercisers to nickname it the...
NASA Says It’s Just Gonna Stare Into Cosmic Voids for a While
With NASA’s operations under existential threat from the Trump administration, maybe it’s not surprising that the agency will be taking...
