Enhanced geothermal is a hot technology in 2026 and the recent initial public offering (IPO) of enhanced geothermal start-up Fervo is a big reason why. The IPO drove a lot of media attention and hype ...

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

A Brazilian company owned by Mubadala Capital plans to make sustainable aviation fuel out of macauba fruit, which grows on palm trees.

The race to build the most advanced artificial intelligence continues to dominate the headlines. On this week’s On the Media, who does this new technology actually serve? Plus, how ev...

How to deny the multi-billion dollar online scam industry its victims

How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself

Say my house burns down under mysterious circumstances (grease fire in the living room?), and police charge my neighbor with arson. It would look awfully suspicious if I then bankrolled my neighbor’s ...

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On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...

The New York Times recently profiled Harold Hamm, Continental CEO Resources chairman emeritus and noted how Hamm is advising Trump to go all in on fossil fuels. This should surprise no one as Harold H...

The wealth of the ultra-rich is undergoing a historic surge. This is the key takeaway of the third major report of the World Inequality Lab co-directed by French economist Thomas Piketty, which emphas...

In this Earth Day special, we sit down with Mark Campanale, founder of Carbon Tracker and ask, are we witnessing the beginning of the end for fossil fuels?

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

News Podcast · It’s often thought of as a promise that was never kept. But “40 acres and a mule” was more than that. It was real. 40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood governm...

The latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli.