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Earth Day 1970, 20 million people participated
Podcast

Why The ‘No Kings’ March Won’t Change Anything — Until It Does

Jeff Schechtman 10/17/25

Millions may march this weekend. Some will go home thinking it didn’t matter. Here’s why they’re wrong — and right.

John Bolton, CPAC, 2018
Government Integrity

The Bolton Indictment: More of the Same, but Also Something New

Klaus Marre 10/16/25
Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Bill Gates
Business US Politics

Our Craven Country: Why Corporations Keep Bowing to Trump

Neal Gabler 10/16/25
JD Vance, blaming the left, Charlie Kirk assisination
US Politics

Dissecting JD Vance’s Curious Defense of Appalling Young Republican Group Chat

Klaus Marre 10/16/25
Chicago, No Kings, march, June 14, 2025
Rights & Liberties US Politics

On No Kings Day, Why Protest Matters

Daniel Malmer 10/16/25

Deep Dives

Peter Thiel, Antichrist, The Devil, Greta Thunberg

The Church of Silicon: Peter Thiel’s Gospel of Unfettered Power

Russ Baker
Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, generals, admirals, flag officers

What Would Happen if the Generals Refused to Follow Orders?

Russ Baker
Pete Hegseth, Haranguing, Military Leaders

Two Key Takeaways From Quantico

William T. Dowell
Donald Trump and Erika Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump, James Comey

Kimmel’s Return: A Good Bad Week to Find Our Secret Weapon

Jonathan D. Simon

Economy

Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Bill Gates
Business

Our Craven Country: Why Corporations Keep Bowing to Trump

Neal Gabler 10/16/25

Permission to dispense entirely with morality is worth, to these moguls, more than its weight in gold.

Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, CMA CGM Brazil
Economy

IMF Predicts Slowdown as Trump’s Tariffs & Volatility Impact the Global Economy

Klaus Marre 10/14/25
Farmworkers, pick strawberries, Fort Valley, GA
Immigration Labor

Trump Administration Identifies Huge Threat to Affordable Food Supply: Itself

Klaus Marre 10/14/25

International

sign, Tel Aviv, Cyrus The Great Is Alive
International

After Gaza Hostage Release, What’s Next for Donald Trump and the Middle East?

William T. Dowell
Donald Trump, announcing, Gaza, peace plan
International

Triumphant Trump Basks in Deserved Accolades in the Middle East

Klaus Marre
President Xi Jinping, Rwanda
Economy

Trump Reignites Trade War with China

Klaus Marre
UN delegates, celebrate, Paris Agreement, Climate Change Conference, 2015
Environment

10 Years After Paris Agreement, Countries Are Still Missing Climate Deadlines

Naveena Sadasivam

Justice

Chicago, No Kings, march, June 14, 2025
Rights & Liberties

On No Kings Day, Why Protest Matters

Daniel Malmer

When millions gather and demonstrate, it becomes part of the narrative, helps build a movement, and is a great antidote for those feelings of futility.

No Kings Day, sign, Kings don't belong in America.
Rights & Liberties US Politics

Republicans Are Terrified of the ‘No Kings’ Mass Protest

Klaus Marre 10/15/25
ICE raid, apartment, Chicago
Rights & Liberties US Politics

Fascism Now: Regime’s Blackhawk Helicopter Descends on Chicago Apartment Complex

Lucian K. Truscott IV 10/04/25

Culture

Pope Leo XIV, leads, traditional, Wednesday General Audience
Culture

The Pope Has Entered the Chat

Klaus Marre
Global Climate Action Summit, protest, San Francisco
Culture

The ‘Silent Majority’ Who Care About the Climate Crisis

Danielle Renwick
Robert Redford, interviewed, WTTC Americas Summit, 2012, Mexico
Culture

What Robert Redford Taught Us

Neal Gabler
Cartoon, Evolution, American Heroes
Cartoon

Gravest American Hero

Ted Rall

Health & Medicine

Donald Trump, deployment, National Guard, Washington, DC
Health & Medicine

The Media Should Be Much More Curious About Trump’s Health

Klaus Marre 09/07/25

Conspiracy theories that Donald Trump had died aside, the White House press corps has to do a much better job of covering the president’s apparent decline… and his mental health.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, exercising, Pentagon Athletic Center
Health & Medicine

RFK Jr. Is a One-Trick Pony

Paul Offit 08/26/25
Medicaid, SoonerCare, TennCare, CardinalCare, MassHealth, BadgerCare+, Apple Health,
Health & Medicine US Politics

Medicaid: Millions Have It, and Don’t Even Know It

Sean Ogden 07/12/25

Immigration

Farmworkers, pick strawberries, Fort Valley, GA
Immigration

Trump Administration Identifies Huge Threat to Affordable Food Supply: Itself

Klaus Marre
Anti-ICE Protest, USCIS, IL
Immigration

If Only Masked ICE Goons Were the (Main) Problem

Klaus Marre
ICE Agents, Kristi Noem, Los Angeles, CA
Immigration

We Know What ICE Does on Camera, but What Happens When Nobody Is Watching?

Klaus Marre
Stephen Miller, State Dining Room, White House
Courts

Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Indiscriminate Arrests of Brown People in LA

Klaus Marre

Environment

UN delegates, celebrate, Paris Agreement, Climate Change Conference, 2015
Environment International

10 Years After Paris Agreement, Countries Are Still Missing Climate Deadlines

Naveena Sadasivam 10/09/25

Meanwhile, emissions have continued to rise since the landmark treaty was signed.

Destruction in Gaza
Environment International

At Least Let Us Tell Our Stories

Mohammed Al-Sawwaf 10/08/25
Oil and gas industry, pushing fossil fuels, arms race
Environment Technology

No, the US Doesn’t Need Fossil Fuels to Win ‘an AI Arms Race’ Against China

Joe Fassler 10/02/25
Global Climate Action Summit, protest, San Francisco
Culture Environment

The ‘Silent Majority’ Who Care About the Climate Crisis

Danielle Renwick 09/30/25
Nylah Toussaint, daughters, sugarcane field
Environment

Exxon’s CO2 Pipeline Passes Too Close to Homes and Businesses, Louisianans Say

Delaney Nolan, Emily Sanders 09/25/25

Podcast

Earth Day 1970, 20 million people participated

Why The ‘No Kings’ March Won’t Change Anything — Until It Does

Jeff Schechtman
Main Street, job market, Wall Street

The Economy May Be Our Last Guardrail

Jeff Schechtman
Jane Goodall, lecture, Reasons for Hope

Ahead of Her Time: My Timeless Conversation With Jane Goodall 27 Years Ago

Jeff Schechtman
Globalization, what went wrong, Jenga game

Globalization and Its Discontents: How the World’s Greatest Bet Went Wrong

Jeff Schechtman

Cartoon

Donald Trump, message, Pam Bondi

Tweeted From the Heavens

Jon Richards
cartoon, Democrats, messaging, feckless

DNC Ennui

Ted Rall
Stephen Miller, Matthew 25, parable of the sheep and the goats. The Least of These

The Trump Administration Misuses Christianity to Promote an Agenda of Hate

DonkeyHotey

Editors' Picks

climate crisis, global warming, renewable energy, solar power grants canceled, states sue EPA

North Carolina and 22 States Sue EPA for Canceled Solar Energy Grants Worth $7B

Whowhatwhy Editors
tech, Microsoft, Windows 10, security, end of life, free updates for a year

Windows 10 Support Has Ended, But Here’s How to Get an Extra Year for Free

Whowhatwhy Editors
science, nature, flora, U.S. Northeast, fall foliage, drought effects

Drought Mutes Fall Foliage Season, But Pockets of Brilliant Color Remain

Whowhatwhy Editors
science, space, satellites, communication, unencrypted data, eavesdropping vulnerability, study

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets

Whowhatwhy Editors
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