We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.

Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have threatened to wildfire disaster aid from California. What recourse does the state have if they do?

Numerous state and local governments argue oil and gas companies deliberately hid the environmental impacts of fossil fuels. They're seeking damages.

Alexander Smirnov may not be a household name, but his prison sentence represents a stunning fiasco for some prominent Republicans in Congress.

As the far-right justice faces yet another controversy, he doesn’t exactly have a deep reservoir of credibility he can turn to in response.

Mark Zuckerberg announced this week the end of Meta's program with third-party fact-checkers, accusing them of "censorship" and "political bias." Instead, Zuckerberg says Meta’s platforms will shift to community notes, a system similar to platform X. But fact-checkers are pushing back, calling Zuckerberg’s move a transparent attempt to curry favor with the incoming Trump administration at the expense of truth. While community notes may offer some transparency, critics argue it can't keep up with the volume of misinformation. Aaron Sharockman of PolitiFact says that fact-checking isn’t about censorship, but about adding context to misleading content. He also cautions against following Elon Musk’s lead, noting that when the site “removed all these restrictions, a large percentage of their advertisers left.” Chris Richmond, CEO of Snopes, questions the timing of Zuckerberg's decision, saying, "If Kamala Harris had won, would Zuckerberg be making these same moves now?"

American dystopian classic “Fahrenheit 451” by the late Ray Bradbury encapsulates the dark realities of a society without books, intellectual curiosity, or critical thinking. “Fahrenheit 451” tells the story of Guy Montag, a fireman, whose job is to destroy the most dangerous item in their government-controlled society: books. It is a novel that pushes us, as readers, to consider our lives and our role in society. This is a novel that warns us of what our world would look like under total government control, softened by excess media consumption. The author of another celebrated dystopian classic, “The Giver”, and friend of the Velshi Banned Book Club, the legendary Lois Lowry and Jason Stanley, Yale University philosophy professor, author, and fascism expert joined us to discuss the late Bradbury’s magnum opus. The novel shows you “different ways you could have lived, different ways society could have gone,” says Stanley. Lowry agrees, “that's how we learn.”

More than 100k Californians lost their home insurance in the last 5 years. Many of them now rely on “last resort” policies. But the L.A. fires may push CA’s insurance industry to its breaking point. And the insurance crisis is “the canary in the coalmine” for climate change, according to CA’s former insurance commissioner, Dave Jones.