The exploding costs of fighting US wildfires
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration....
The next redistricting war will be even harder for Democrats
Just as the redistricting wars were coming to a close, the Supreme Court blew up the entire landscape with a...
The FBI investigates a journalist
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5 ways the Iran standoff could end
Despite the US and Iran exchanging fire and new missile attacks aimed at the United Arab Emirates this week, the...
The backlash to Billie Eilish’s vegan comments explains a lot about the American left (and everyone else)
Last week, in a video interview with Elle magazine, the pop star Billie Eilish was asked the following question: “What’s...
Anthropic owes authors $1.5B for pirating work — but the claims process is a Kafkaesque mess
Earlier this year, the author Maureen Johnson was fighting with Anthropic. Specifically, she was wrestling with the Anthropic copyright settlement...
How a “super El Niño” could create record-breaking warming
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration....
What Trump’s ballroom could cost you
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A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off
The Electoral College — our nation’s bizarre system that hands a few narrowly-divided states the privilege to choose our presidents...
Trump eyes a new construction project
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Why teens in DC and elsewhere are staging “takeovers”
This spring, videos of teenagers gathering in massive crowds in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Jacksonville, and other cities...
The Supreme Court gets thrown back into the abortion wars
On Friday evening, the far-right United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit attempted to cut off access to...
These tropical forests are critically important. Why is this religious sect cutting them down?
Over the last few decades, wildfires, farmers, and cattle ranchers have razed millions of acres of tropical forests across the...
These tropical forests are critically important. Why is this religious sect cutting them down?
Over the last few decades, wildfires, farmers, and cattle ranchers have razed millions of acres of tropical forests across the...
What should liberals do when an assassin sounds like them?
Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the attempted White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, is unusual among attempted assassins — in...
