In Arizona, the Thermostat Is Driving Voters to the Polls
Record heat, two rate hikes, and a data center boom have turned utility bills — not climate — into the state’s most volatile issue.
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Record heat, two rate hikes, and a data center boom have turned utility bills — not climate — into the state’s most volatile issue.
Chad’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court is the latest evidence that the US is engineering an influence campaign to undermine the court that prosecutes the kind of crimes Donald Trump keeps threatening Iran with.
How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased.
Middle schoolers in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge were old enough to realize what was happening around them but too young to do anything about it. Many of their teachers stepped up to support them.
Getting closer to the rot
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Returning to the scene of some of the crimes. But only some.
The pressure is on for the many the people who now need to explain why their earlier versions of events are incomplete.
The rabbit hole goes sideways.
The dean of UC Berkeley’s Law School looks at how the courts have prioritized criminal control over civil rights for suspects and defendants.
Ten specific actions that must be taken IMMEDIATELY.
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