Former US President Donald Trump arrives at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on August 24, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesNew York’s attorney general wants a speedy ruling in the case over Trump’s business dealings. New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a speedy judgment against former President Donald Trump for allegedly inflating his net worth by billions of dollars to fraudulently secure favorable loan and insurance terms... Read more ›
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Bull sharks off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida. | Brent Durand/Getty ImagesSharks have clever ways of surviving extreme hurricanes like Idalia. Hurricane Idalia pummeled Florida on Wednesday morning as it made landfall as a powerful Category 3 storm. Idalia, now a tropical storm off the coast of South Carolina, flooded homes and highways, downed power lines, blew out windows, and has so far been linked to at least one... Read more ›
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Federal law requires all research in federally funded laboratories to use only marijuana from a single facility located in Oxford, Mississippi. | Brad Horrigan/Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service/Getty ImagesA potential policy change could have big benefits for marijuana businesses. The Department of Health and Human Services has now recommended that marijuana be classified as a lower-risk drug, a change that could have a major impact on how the cannabis industry operates,... Read more ›
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Getty Images/iStockphoto“Agricultural exceptionalism,” explained. If you were to guess America’s biggest source of water pollution, chemical factories or oil refineries might come to mind. But it’s actually farms — especially those raising cows, pigs, and chickens. The billions of animals farmed each year in the US for food generate nearly 2.5 billion pounds of waste every day — around twice as much as people do — yet none of it... Read more ›
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A sign disparaging Bud Light beer is seen along a country road on April 21, 2023, in Arco, Idaho. | Natalie Behring/Getty ImagesFrom Bud Light to Target, right-wing anger at “woke capitalism” is scaring corporate America. The general rule about consumer boycotts is that they rarely work, at least in terms of taking a real bite out of a company’s bottom line. Take some recent examples. Plenty of coffee drinkers... Read more ›
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The driving psychological theory to explain how the public thinks about climate change is under revision. Climate change concern has moved from the periphery to the core. | Getty ImagesA climate psychologist explains how we’ve moved beyond hope, anger, and complacency toward something more promising. Our actions today will determine just how bad climate change will become. But which emotions best drive a person to become politically active? Hope? Anger?... Read more ›
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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) reached out to help Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after McConnell froze and stopped talking at the microphones during a news conference after a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans at the US Capitol on July 26, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWhat happens if Mitch McConnell has to retire? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to experience another health episode during a news... Read more ›
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VoxSohrab Ahmari explains why precarity is breaking our politics. One of the most interesting — and confusing — features of American politics over the last decade or so has been the shifting ideological landscape. Donald Trump was a disaster in almost every sense, but one potentially useful thing he did was shatter the stale consensus in Washington. For decades, the Republican Party was an incoherent mix of laissez-faire economics and... Read more ›
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Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pauses during a break in the first debate of the GOP primary season hosted by Fox News at the Fiserv Forum on August 23, 2023, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | Win McNamee/Getty ImagesCan the weakened presidential candidate weather crises at home? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s chances at the 2024 Republican presidential nomination may be slipping away. Once the favorite to take down Donald Trump,... Read more ›
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A Miami-Dade County mosquito control inspector uses larvicide granules on plants where water has pooled in August 2016, in Miami Beach, Florida. | Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesAmericans shouldn’t take a malaria-free future for granted. Over the last few months, nine people in the US (seven in Florida, one in Texas, and, in late August, one in Maryland) have acquired malaria within the country’s borders. That’s pretty uncommon — at least, in... Read more ›
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards testifies before the Senate Budget Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 26, 2023, in Washington, DC. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesEven traditionally wet states are experiencing unprecedented wildfires. An unprecedented series of wildfires is burning in Louisiana, making it the latest state to navigate a major natural disaster in recent months. Wildfires — though they take place in the state annually — aren’t... Read more ›
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The weeklong festival in the Black Rock Desert produces about 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide. | Jordan England-Nelson/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty ImagesBuilding a temporary city of 80,000 people in the desert is actually bad for the planet. Sunday was not a fun day for the thousands of people on their way to Burning Man. In the days leading up to the bacchanal, traffic is typically a nightmare on... Read more ›
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Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWhat “Eris” and “Fornax” tell us about the future of the pandemic. In the latest data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Covid-19 hospitalizations rose 18.8 percent between August 13 and August 19. Overall, they have been increasing since July 1. And in the last week, there was a 19 percent increase in locations reporting their highest levels of SARS-CoV-2 ever in sewage wastewater... Read more ›
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The federal government has announced the 10 medications that will be included in the first round of drug price negotiations. | Getty ImagesMedicare is finally negotiating prescription drug prices — and patients stand to save a lot of money. More than a decade after Democrats first ran on the proposal, Medicare is finally set to start negotiating prices for certain prescription drugs. This week, the federal government announced the 10... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty ImagesAmericans are lonelier than ever. Here’s an idea. Here is a list of clubs I am currently part of: the Difficult Book Book Club, where we read 90 pages per week of a very long and/or complex book and then meet up at a bar to discuss (so far we’ve read all of Infinite Jest and about one-third of The Power Broker, currently accepting recs for book... Read more ›
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Hurricane Idalia made landfall on the west coast of Florida on Wednesday morning. | National Hurricane CenterSeveral factors put Idalia on track to rival damage from previous deadly hurricanes. Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida on Wednesday morning as a dangerous Category 3 storm with wind speeds of 125 miles per hour. Meteorologists are projecting severe impacts along Florida’s Gulf Coast: storm surges of up to 16 feet, several inches... Read more ›
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A man views rifles for sale in Carpentersville, Illinois. | John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty ImagesThe factors that lead to tragedies like the UNC-Chapel Hill shooting are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law. A grad student accused of shooting and killing a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on August 28 has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder and possessing a... Read more ›
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A Palestinian woman stands near an Israeli army checkpoint on October 13, 2021, near Bait A’wa village on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Hebron. | Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty ImagesWith “Sorry, Mohammad,” Ben-Gvir goes viral. The State of Israel has occupied the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem since the 1967 war. The Palestinians living in those territories quite simply do not have... Read more ›
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Hurricane Idalia is expected to make landfall on the west coast of Florida on Wednesday morning. | National Hurricane CenterSeveral factors put Idalia on track to rival damage from previous deadly hurricanes. Hurricane Idalia is now barreling toward Florida’s west coast, where it’s expected to make landfall Wednesday morning as a Category 3 storm. Meteorologists are projecting severe impacts in Tampa and other cities in northwest Florida: storm surges of... Read more ›
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Vox; Associated Press; Getty ImagesThe GOP field is growing slightly less crowded as Trump maintains his dominance. Donald Trump remains the favorite of GOP primary voters. But that hasn’t stopped another 14 candidates from jumping into the race for the Republican nomination in the hopes that they can dethrone him — or at least interview for a position in the next administration. The former president, who announced his candidacy in... Read more ›
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