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Environment Ukraine

Locusts and Landmines Threaten Ukraine’s Farmland

Ruchi Kumar 12/11/25

Ecosystems have also come under threat from toxic plants whose spread has been difficult to control during the Russian invasion.

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Courts

Judge Orders Trump to Relinquish Control of CA National Guard

Klaus Marre 12/10/25
Friction, match, spark
Culture Technology

The Great Un-Humaning: What We Lose When Everything’s Easy

Jill Filipovic 12/10/25
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US Politics

Republicans Have to Figure Out How Willing They Are to Cover Up a Murder

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Environment

Dismantling the Endangered Species Act Will Hurt a Lot More Than Just Wildlife

Sophie Hurwitz, Matt Simon 12/09/25

Deep Dives

Trump Tower, Epstein

Stumper: Why Was Jeffrey Epstein Obsessed With Donald Trump Back in 2011?

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Shutdown Post-Mortem: Straightening Out the Democrats’ Circular Firing Squad

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Virginia Roberts Giuffre, David Boies, Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein: Dirty Secrets Emerge From a Painful Book — and the Powerful Squirm

Russ Baker
Peter Thiel, Antichrist, The Devil, Greta Thunberg

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

Russ Baker

International

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Environment

Locusts and Landmines Threaten Ukraine’s Farmland

Ruchi Kumar

Ecosystems have also come under threat from toxic plants whose spread has been difficult to control during the Russian invasion.

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International

Saudi Arabia Emerging as a Global Powerhouse

James M. Dorsey 12/06/25
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International

Trump Wins Consolation Peace Prize Created to Stop Him From Ruining World Cup

Klaus Marre 12/05/25

Economy

Brooke Rollins, Turning Point USA
Economy

Trump Announces Bailout for Farmers Hurt by Trump

Klaus Marre
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Economy

Trump Inadvertently Admits That US Businesses Pay for His Tariffs

Klaus Marre
Donald Trump, Numbers, Trillions, Fake
Economy

If Trump Has Raked in Trillions, Where Is the Money?

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

Our Craven Country: Why Corporations Keep Bowing to Trump

Neal Gabler

Justice

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Courts

Judge Orders Trump to Relinquish Control of CA National Guard

Klaus Marre 12/10/25

Stating that Donald Trump wants a “blank check” instead of checks and balances, a federal judge on Wednesday ordered the president to return control of the California National Guard to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

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Opinion Rights & Liberties

Heroes and Villains — History Will Be the Ultimate Judge of Trump and MAGA

Klaus Marre 12/07/25
Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller
Opinion Rights & Liberties

Stephen Miller and Fox News Try to Sell Americans on War Crimes

Klaus Marre 12/04/25

Environment

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Environment

Locusts and Landmines Threaten Ukraine’s Farmland

Ruchi Kumar
Polar bear, watches, US Coast Guard Cutter
Environment

Dismantling the Endangered Species Act Will Hurt a Lot More Than Just Wildlife

Sophie Hurwitz, Matt Simon
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Environment

California Endures Whipsaw Climate Extremes as Federal Support Withers

Aaron Cantú
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Environment

How to Make Data Centers Less Thirsty

Naveena Sadasivam

Ukraine

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Environment

Locusts and Landmines Threaten Ukraine’s Farmland

Ruchi Kumar 12/11/25

Ecosystems have also come under threat from toxic plants whose spread has been difficult to control during the Russian invasion.

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International Ukraine

Who Is Steve Witkoff, and Why Is He in Charge of Negotiating Ukraine’s Future?

Craig Unger 11/26/25
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Ukraine

Tom Mutch’s ‘The Dogs of Mariupol’

William T. Dowell 10/04/25

Health & Medicine

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Environment

On a Sweltering Planet, ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Puts Kids’ Health at Risk

Lisa Patel, Grace Wickerson
Rick Scott, 2021 Student Action Summit
Health & Medicine

Trump’s Secret Super-Duper Health Care Plan Takes Shape

Klaus Marre
Russell Vought, Adolf Eichmann, accountants
Health & Medicine

The Death of Public Health: The Senseless Wholesale Axing of Vital CDC Offices

Angela Rasmussen
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Health & Medicine

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

Klaus Marre

Culture

Friction, match, spark
Culture Technology

The Great Un-Humaning: What We Lose When Everything’s Easy

Jill Filipovic 12/10/25

Avoiding friction — by expelling people who are different, by outsourcing creativity and connection to AI — feels easier. It actually makes life worse.

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Culture

When Birds Move as One — and We Struggle To

Russ Baker 12/01/25
Petit Désert, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, 1920
Art

ARS POETICA: A Conversation

Gerald Jonas 11/30/25
Dixie Fire, Northern California
Culture Environment

What Catastrophes Get Our Attention, and Why It Matters

Kedrick James and Derek Gladwin 11/27/25
San Francisco, Poet
Culture

What Comes of Saying Hello: The Beauty and Bounty of Talking to Strangers

Russ Baker 11/24/25

Podcast

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What If the America We Think We Live in Never Existed?

Jeff Schechtman
How to, talk, family, during the holidays

Eat, Don’t Talk: Why You Did Not Win That Thanksgiving Argument

Jeff Schechtman
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Who’s Building Our Tech Future? Innovation Without a North Star

Jeff Schechtman
ICE, Chicago

What’s Really Happening in Latino Communities

Jeff Schechtman

Cartoon

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A Big Fish Story

Jon Richards
Donald Trump, Moron Doctrine, Venezuela

Donald Trump Is America’s First Pirate President

DonkeyHotey
Ai art, Black Friday Sale, AI Generative Video Software, Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.

Saturday Hashtag: #NewRealityDiscount

Sean Ogden

Editors' Picks

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Federal Judge Strikes Down President’s Ban on Wind Energy Projects

Whowhatwhy Editors
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The Strongest Spiderweb on Earth Is Spun Only by Females

Whowhatwhy Editors
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FBI Flags Rising Holiday Scams Spreading Across Email, Social, and Web

Whowhatwhy Editors
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Rare White Iberian Lynx Captured on Film by Amateur Photographer

Whowhatwhy Editors
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