Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

What if 50 years from now, having destroyed the habitat for the creatures around us, we are plagued by an inconsolable loneliness?

The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.

A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world. Click to read Lucid, by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscriber...

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

Everyone remembers Liam Ramos.

A year on from the purge, with thousands of jobs cut and billions in foreign aid lost, a former leader reflects on the sorry saga – and why it would never happen to Nasa

And the city’s faithful are coming together in opposition.

A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.

Decision to rescind ‘roadless rule’ opens more than 45m acres of national forests to roads, drilling and logging

Or will they recognize that most of us were mad as hell and refused to take it?

The Trump administration has deported thousands of immigrants to countries where they have no ties. Dozens were on the latest flight, to the Central African Republic.

As the Russo-Ukrainian war continues, Ukrainian mushroom scientists struggle in their quotidian work.

At least a half-dozen federal agencies have taken action against the state that has led the nation in environmental protections.

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The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.

Our annual recommendations offer ways to recharge, make the most of the season, and come back ready to fight for progress.

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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By eliminating the longstanding definition of a single word — “harm” — the Trump administration has gutted habitat protections for all endangered species. Urge Democratic leaders in Congress to do eve...

Last week, Heather Cox Richardson shared my essay on Trump’s use of the “communist” frame to demonize his political opponents. Here’s what she wrote: Yesterday President Donald J. Trump, Secretary of...

Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.

Kyiv will not let empathy vanish

News organizations need to expose Trump’s nefarious motives

Following Guerrero’s death, the second immigrant to be killed by ICE officers during a traffic stop in a week, DHS put a pause on traffic stop enforcement. But Trump quickly ordered the department to ...

**We know that Trump and his Big Lie cronies are plotting to do everything they can to undermine our elections in 2026.** Whether it’s trying to end mail-in voting, targeting registration programs, bl...

His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.

“It’s important to use ‘communist’ this way as a slur.”