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A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Recent attacks on US...
This story is part of the Life After Roe package, appearing this week, which looks at the surprising resilience of the abortion access movement in the...
After a week of intensifying public pressure and reporting from Cornell’s independent daily newspaper, prosecutors in New York have reopened a...
President Donald Trump has become the subject of bipartisan pushback after another taxpayer-funded television ad aired during at least two Sunday NFL...
On Sunday afternoon, Ireland is set to play a soccer match against Israel amid widespread public calls and protests in the country to boycott the game...
OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of incidents where their advanced models bypassed monitors and guardrails,...
This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a modern five-story building in...
A new report by the American Federation of Government Workers has documented a staggering level of staff attrition at the Centers for Disease Control...
Joe Lonsdale, a cofounder of weapons-tech company Palantir, shared some of his thoughts on America’s AI-assisted warfare at a Reuters-hosted event...
Last year, arts organizations and cultural institutions across the US received an alarming message: Their federal grants had been canceled. The...
Since Wednesday, the federal government has been airing a taxpayer-funded political advertisement on channels like Fox News promoting the virtues of...
Update, September 25: In an emailed response (PDF) to Tebow’s announcement that he planned to pause his relationship with Life Surge, the...
We’ve been hearing a great deal recently about the specter of AI-driven human extinction. Maybe our misplaced trust in AI intelligence will set off...
By 6 p.m. Sunday, the union had already run out of the colorful pins representing each bargaining unit—all 7,000 of them—as people kept coming up...
The Supreme Court cleared the way on Friday for the Trump administration to use a controversial government program in its aggressive search for...
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 450,000 people are...
In the early months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the streets of New York were filled with protests. Hundreds of people were arrested, bridges and...
A few days ago, an X user called роман—which is Russian for the name “Roman”—posted a purported Mother Jones video that reported that the...
President Trump’s mindset when it comes to the Kennedy Center is that of an authoritarian toddler: If he can’t have the toys he wants, he’ll try...
Brandon Thomas DiSabatino is used to receiving unusual emails. DiSabatino is a poet, author, playwright, and the owner of Conveyor Belt Books, a rare...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday directly linked the climate crisis to everyday issues facing New Yorkers, including commutes and...
Earlier this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission quietly published a proposal to rescind a long-standing anti-corruption measure that...
“I am the code.” So said President Trump to the first architect working on the new White House ballroom being built on the ruins of the...
The Trump administration is removing about 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act coverage, Vice President JD Vance and Centers for Medicare &...
Something strange occurred recently: The stock price of Donald Trump’s beleaguered media company shot up. What happened? While the cause isn’t...
First Lady Melania Trump appeared on Fox and Friends on Wednesday to defend her husband’s second term despite his abysmal approval rating stemming,...
When Louisiana authorities tried to extradite a California doctor last winter for sending abortion pills to women in their state, Gov. Gavin Newsom...
President Donald Trump’s second term has often felt like an exercise in mass distraction. As soon as he’s directing people to pay attention to one...
The Trump administration says it plans to shut down Freedom 250, the quasi-private organization it used to take over the country’s 250th anniversary...
President Trump’s rambling, combative speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly saw him return to his most serious quagmire yet—the...
In recent weeks, a fresh crop of people connected to the artificial intelligence industry have emerged to warn that AI is possibly going to kill us...
A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and...
This story was originally co-published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For 38 years, Josh Armes...
President Donald Trump, who loves a media hit, may no longer get his moments of glory on television after major news networks ABC, CBS, Fox News, and...
Ed Sheeran opened his Philadelphia show Saturday night by admitting to “making mistakes”—maybe not quite the apology some people were hoping...
President Donald Trump said that he plans to make his proposed 250-foot arch in Washington, DC, a “top grade military complex” that holds large...
The top Democrats on the House and Senate foreign affairs committees this week announced their intent to block a $2.8 billion sale of 60,000 one-ton...
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States has reached an agreement with Denmark and Greenland to give the US “permanent...
This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As a child in the 1950s and ’60s,...
After Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie had her IUD removed, she was surprised to find that she felt happier and calmer than she had in years....
I grew up in a highly insular environment, never knowing—let alone interacting with—the outside world, in part due to my family’s history with...
More US military personnel have reportedly died during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has shared publicly, the latest and most serious...
Donald Trump has in lurched, in short order, from would-be savior to abductor of the Kennedy Center, replacing vows to restore the facility’s...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Firefighters battling enormous...
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Microplastics act like a...
In July, Meta published a press release saying that it would issue $2 million worth of grants to 30 organizations that would test ways its AI glasses...
“It’s a milestone deal in making the Western Hemisphere the center of the global energy system,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on...
More than 60 percent of Americans believe it’s at least moderately likely that artificial intelligence will kill us all, according to a Politico...
Last month, Cory Mills’ career in Congress imploded when the Florida Republican lost his primary by 13 points. Now part of a weapons facility...