Hamburgers and Beyond: Climate Change and the Taste Test
Reading Time: 4 minutes Can a new range of plant-based burgers tempt skeptical meat-eaters?
Sharks Swimming Farther North: Another Sign of Global Warming
Reading Time: 4 minutes As climate change heats up our oceans, the warm water is having an impact on where sharks congregate in the summer.
Kobach Asked ICE to Investigate Nebraska Housing Applicants
Reading Time: 6 minutes Anti-immigrant hardliner Kris Kobach sent a list of Nebraska residents to ICE to see if they were undocumented. He’s calling this story “fake news.”
Fox News Has a Curious Definition of ‘All-American’
Reading Time: 6 minutes Fox News uses the term “All-American” to describe its summer concert series. But the overwhelming majority of performers are white. Just what does “All-American” mean to the conservative news channel?
There Is Nothing ‘Organic’ About Animal Cruelty
Reading Time: 4 minutes An undercover investigation into an “organic” Texas dairy found horrific examples of livestock abuse. Now two nonprofits are demanding accountability and change.
FL Dems Call for Gun Control Session Following El Paso Shooting
Reading Time: 5 minutes In Florida, Democrats hope that — in response to the El Paso massacre — people will be fed up with mass shootings and demand gun control.
Into the Weeds of Roundup: Monsanto and the Public’s Right To Know
Reading Time: 5 minutes A chemical company facing lawsuits sought to block an investigation of its internal documents. What were they hiding?
Schooling America on Impeachment
Reading Time: 5 minutes A group of legal activists believes that Americans would be more willing to embrace the idea of removing President Donald Trump from office if they understood the impeachment process better.
Progressive Insurgents Make Impeachment a Primary Issue
Reading Time: 9 minutes Democrats have been talking about impeachment all year, but is it starting to divide them? Ask progressive insurgents launching primary campaigns.
US Anti-Drug Initiatives in Afghan: Another Dubious Expense
Reading Time: 3 minutes The US has spent millions of dollars on drug treatment programs in Afghanistan. For what? The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction tried to answer that question but did not find a good answer.
Are Budget Cuts Jeopardizing Nuclear Safety?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The agency tasked with keeping Americans safe from nuclear disasters, as a result of budget cuts, is considering reducing the number of safety inspections at nuclear power plants. Scientists think this is a terrible idea.
Black Votes Matter — Especially in Florida
Reading Time: 11 minutes How to prevent over half a million nonviolent ex-felons, most of whom are black, from voting? Let us count the ways.
Indigenous Tribe Halts Oil Drilling in Amazon — for Now
Reading Time: 3 minutes An indigenous tribe in Peru has gotten a Chile-based oil company to withdraw its plans to drill in their mountain region. But will their victory be short-lived?
Study Claims Science Nonprofit Serves as Lobbyist for Food Industry
Reading Time: 5 minutes Is an organization that says it promotes science and public health actually lobbying on behalf of the food industry? A new study suggests it is.
Study Destroys Myth of Uneducated Immigrants
Reading Time: 4 minutes America’s newest arrivals bring degrees, job skills, and fluency in English, a new study shows.
Blue States Are Banding Together to Sidestep the Electoral College
Reading Time: 9 minutes As the 2020 campaign gets closer, political divisions are likely to be reflected in the debate over the National Popular Vote Compact, falling along predictable party lines.