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Remembering Eunice Foote, the suffragette-scientist who prophesied climate change
Dawn Starin
Not until 2011 was Foote's 19th-century scientific contribution realized and pieced together by historians
Why California’s wildfires keep getting worse
Nicole Karlis
A century of fire suppression and encroaching human development has doomed the state to a vicious cycle
Birth of a nation: The unexpected past, the unknown future
Tom Engelhardt
No matter the bad news of this moment, who knows what our world might really look like 20 years from now?
The partisan pandemic: Do we now live in alternative realities?
Andrea Robbett, Peter Hans Matthews
Despite partisan affiliation, American voters tend to share views on common facts about the world
Wildfires, coronavirus collide in California to create a “perfect storm”
Nicole Karlis
"Exhausted" doctors face respiratory hospitalizations, displaced people, and a raging pandemic
Biden isn’t a progressive. The question is how far can he be pushed?
William Rivers Pitt
A Biden administration would have to be pushed, and pushed hard, by progressive activists from day one
The awakening of the American white mind
Randall Horton
I am an outlier in higher ed: a Black professor, who's been to prison, teaching many white criminal justice majors
CDC warned the public against wearing valved facemasks — while recommending them to health workers
Frederick Clarkson, Jonathan Hutson
The public guideline to avoid valved masks may have something to do with the airline industry’s influence
Democrats wage legal offensive to kick Green Party candidates off ballot in high-profile Texas races
Patrick Svitek
The Democrats are largely targeting Green Party candidates because they have not paid filing fees
Kamala Harris’ big night: Democrats foreground “women’s issues” as urgent, universal concerns
Amanda Marcotte
On convention's third night, women's issues—immigration, climate change, child care, gun violence—took center stage
Why COVID deniers and climate skeptics paint scientists as alarmist
Kate Yoder
Donald Trump — and ardent science deniers — use words like "alarmist" to characterize top disease experts
Trump dropped into Iowa — and didn’t even try to understand the devastation
Jeff Biggers
The climate crisis is hitting the heartland hard — but Republicans just want to force our kids into COVID schools
Democratic insider Simon Rosenberg: Trump is “being coached by Putin” to seize power
Chauncey DeVega
Longtime strategist defends the "most successful center-left party" in the world — and says it can finish Trump
What happens if Biden wins?
Andrew Bacevich
How exactly should President Biden go about making his mark?
Solar panels are starting to die. What will we do with the megatons of toxic trash?
Maddie Stone
Most solar manufacturers claim their panels will last for about 25 years
Our “happy gloom”: Living a good life in a dying world
Curtis White
In a world wracked by pandemic and imperialism, turning to nihilism or despair is a dead end
Trump’s EPA pushes through “mind-bogglingly stupid” rollback of methane emissions rules
Jessica Corbett
Twenty-five percent of the human-caused warming over the past 20 years is due to methane
Why I’m OK with my kids “falling behind” in school during the pandemic
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Even with our many privileges, the meritocracy is still a sham. Basic needs are taking priority over acing the SATs
As the pandemic has made clear, America has no welfare state — but we sure have a warfare state
David Masciotra
Other advanced nations have largely controlled the pandemic. Then again, they don't spend $700 billion on war
The world is drowning in used face masks. We should turn them into fuel
Joseph Winters
Experts say PPE should be liquefied into "renewable" fossil fuels and burned
Obama endorses Susan Collins’ Democratic challenger as new poll shows her trailing in close race
Igor Derysh
Collins' approval and favorable ratings are underwater as she heads into the toughest race of her career
Is the U.S. a failed state in 2020? Experts’ answers range from “maybe” to “hell, yes”
Matthew Rozsa
A massive economic collapse, a pandemic and a democratic crisis — on top of massive inequality. It's not great
Are we witnessing the final collapse of “objective” political reporting? Let’s hope so
Dan Froomkin
Elite newsroom rationales for phony objectivity began to crumble long before Trump. But now there's no excuse
The second pandemic: Pollution
François Jarrige, Thomas Le Roux
The response to the pandemic has shown humans can mobilize to fight comparable public health crises
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