
Supreme Court Denies Exxon Request to Get Rid of Citizen Lawsuits
The oil major’s bid was one of several fossil fuel industry efforts to get a Supreme Court shield from accountability.
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The oil major’s bid was one of several fossil fuel industry efforts to get a Supreme Court shield from accountability.
The FBI sent out a memo on Sunday night debunking a couple of conspiracy theories popular with the MAGA crowd. Some right-wing influencers are already pushing back.
If you understand what the plan is this week on tariffs, then you’re way ahead of the Trump administration.
Criticizing government officials for the decisions they make and policies for which they advocate is always fair game. Shaming the victims of disasters for their political affiliation never is.
A masterstroke of branding in the Orwellian tradition.
While much of the damage that the GOP megabill does will be delayed, turning ICE into a Gestapo-like internal police force is going to happen right away. How much of that are Americans going to put up with?
More than any other individual, Chief Justice Roberts has paved the way for the resurgence of racism in America.
After Donald Trump made yet another antisemitic comment, the silence from Republicans is deafening.
Even the Gestapo and the Nazi Brownshirts showed their faces.
Tales and wisdom from three foreign correspondents who covered conflicts across decades, when journalism drove the global narrative.
Donald Trump’s megabill is so big and all-encompassing that we should know fairly quickly whether it leads to a boom or a bust. And no president and his party have ever owned a law so thoroughly.
In a new court filing, the attorneys of Kilmar Abrego Garcia allege that he was tortured while in El Salvador and detail a harrowing ordeal that reveals the cruelty of Donald Trump’s deportation program.
The president’s blatant corruption makes all of his predecessors look better by comparison.
What if a few moderate Republicans stood up and left their party? A bold move could weaken Trump and help democracy and the planet.
Republicans are loving “Alligator Alcatraz,” a detention camp that reflects how they feel about immigrants.
Donald Trump is so routinely crazy and corrupt that he has gotten the media to not pay attention anymore when he does things that would doom any other politician.
He claims nobody has been treated as badly as he is, but Vlad and Bibi come close.
Movers and shakers are doing their thing. Can you feel the earth move under your feet?
More evidence has been revealed that the Trump administration’s indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is, at best, shady.
Republicans once again abandoned their stated principles to give Donald Trump a major victory.
Republicans have spent decades trying to scare Americans into believing that socialism is just around the corner. Under Donald Trump, parts of it are now here.
The danger of cultural misinterpretation, when what you say isn’t what they hear, and vice versa.
Be All the Fake Cop You Can Be — As a Private Contractor Deputy
A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.
Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren reveals the “original sin” and decades-long miscalculation that led to this moment — and what comes next.
It’s tough to say when Americans will finally be sufficiently fed up with the excesses of unrestrained capitalism… but this weekend would be a good time.
Without realizing it, Pete Hegseth told us something important about Donald Trump’s mental health.
Karl Rove was wrong: Creating your own reality is not just dangerous; it’s ultimately futile.
Experts say there’s “no substitute” for the Bird Banding Laboratory or the Breeding Bird Survey, which help reveal the health and status of avian populations across the country.
The Democratic primary for New York mayor offers lessons that have nothing to do with apparent winner Zohran Mamdani’s specific policies, and everything with the type of candidate he is.
Even on a day in which he celebrated a genuine success, Donald Trump can’t help being totally weird.
We begin with bombs and end with tubas.
Kat Cammack doesn’t blame the Republicans who passed the six-week abortion limit for throwing her miscarriage treatment into legal limbo — she blames the left for talking about it too much.
With his attack on Iran Saturday night, Donald Trump dragged the US to the verge of a war he has no authority to declare.
Donald Trump is plunging the country, and the world, from one crisis to the next, and his cabinet, which was chosen for reasons unrelated to competence, is ill-equipped to handle any of them.
Dictators can only do their evil deeds if they can count on enough henchmen to do their bidding. But what happens if they stop going along to end up on the right side of history?
Many are called, few are chosen … to be secret deportation gestapo.
Protesting is more than hitting the streets with a sign. Be safe, be prepared, be helpful every day, not just one.
Peter Thiel’s Palantir epitomizes the potential perversion of miraculous technology to nefarious purposes.
Despite global chaos, America’s economy shows puzzling resilience in the face of emerging capital flight, dangerous policy uncertainty, and spiraling debt.
Iran is offering some pretty flimsy excuses to explain how dozens of people were injured in a missile attack that hit a hospital… and Israel is not buying them.
Dark money groups with ties to oil and gas are behind a legislative campaign to thwart local energy transitions.
To get more Americans to pay attention to how the Trump administration is trying to turn the US into a police state, the media needs to do a better job of describing the actions of masked ICE goons.
It would be deja vu, except that Bush, Powell, and Rumsfeld were arguably sane.