16+ hour, 27+ min ago   (964+ words) By Jacqueline Peel and Wesley Morgan For over a decade, the world has been trying to limit global warming to 1.5°C. That’s no longer possible, according to a new United Nations report. We will likely pass 1.5°C in 2030. That’s not…...

22+ hour, 57+ min ago   (1241+ words) Just when you thought state politics could not possibly get sleazier, Hope Florida comes roaring back from the dead, putrid yet powerful, casting a light on the breathtaking arrogance and corruption of Florida’s government. Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General James…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (417+ words) Latino advocacy groups and voting rights organizations Thursday filed a suit in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s policy of allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to enter polling locations in certain circumstances to conduct immigration enforcement during the…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (682+ words) On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks strode into the United States Senate chamber and beat Sen. Charles Sumner unconscious with a cane. Brooks, a South Carolina congressman, was retaliating for a speech Sumner had given condemning slavery and personally insulting a relative…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (342+ words) Nearly half of Americans want unions to be more powerful, in a showing of labor support that’s at an all-time high in the last 25 years, according to a new poll by Gallup. The poll said 47% wanted unions to have more…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (1122+ words) As local and national news outlets continue to disappear across the U.S., I’d always thought that the military newspaper Stars and Stripes offered one model for a partial solution: government financial support. But this approach only works if those who believe…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1268+ words) Candidates affiliated with Democratic Socialists of America, an organization well to the left of the Democratic Party, have scored wins in several of the party’s competitive primaries. It’s very likely that they will win House seats in the November 2026 elections…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (862+ words) The ongoing economic spat between Canada and the United States took a strange turn after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order “renaming” Lake Ontario as Lake America. The lake is the second body of water to be renamed by…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1082+ words) By Ann E. Carlson Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1678+ words) Every third morning Soumia Bensalah was roused before the break of dawn. Pulled from her cell, shackled hand and foot, she was herded onto a bus and driven over Tampa Bay from the Pinellas County Jail to a cramped hold…...