Annie Waldman

The dread now transcends democracy,/ But what survives kakistocracy?

A multimillion-dollar contribution from Reynolds American was disclosed days before tobacco executives met with President Trump and less than a week before federal regulators issued guidance that could expand flavored vape sales and benefit major cigarette manufacturers.

Legal advocates and public defenders say a detained woman spent more than 24 hours in custody before giving birth on a courtroom bench in handcuffs, exposing what protesters describe as dangerous and degrading conditions in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

It’s difficult not to see the renewed imprisonment of Alex Saab as a disappointing capitulation to U.S. coercion after so many of us fought for his freedom, but we cannot forget the task at hand.

The administration says easing restrictions on hydrofluorocarbons will lower costs for consumers, but economists, climate experts, and even refrigeration industry leaders warn the move may do little to reduce grocery prices while slowing efforts to curb some of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases.