Since the advent of nuclear energy and weapons, scientists and governments alike have been made aware of the dangers of radiation. Extreme exposure over a short period of time can cause acute radiatio...

USDA officials swore they weren’t gutting the Forest Service. Then a federal court pried loose the plan the department spent a year hiding, and the plan proves the agency lied.

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This essay was originally published in The Free Press on September 14, 2025.

The Trump administration is evicting America's national mammal from public grasslands to make room for more subsidized cows.

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Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

The opinion may become the Roberts Court’s most influential statement on how to prevent the steady accretion of executive power.

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It's possible to both condemn the bigotry of the right and reject the excesses of activists.

Why some on the right want to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War

Since October 2023, Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed nearly 200 journalists. But the targeting of media predates the current conflict.

The suit leans into the far-right conspiracy theory that the prosecutions under the Biden administration were politically motivated.

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

US officials and global governments reassess risks after discovering undocumented hardware in Chinese-made inverters and batteries capable of bypassing firewalls.

American Rivers is today, naming the Mississippi River as America’s Most Endangered River® of 2025. At a time when extreme weather is driving more frequent and devastating floods, hundreds of layoffs ...

“Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American public,” Brendan Carr claims.

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The Seattle Times traveled the vast expanse of the Columbia Basin to tell the story of a new mining boom.

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