University of Toronto students score a win for the climate—and campus protests more broadly
“This victory shows students have the ability to enact institutional change."
10,000 gallons of oil spills into Chile’s pristine Patagonia
"These are home to some of the largest coastal colonies of marine mammals and birds anywhere."
Social Security benefits rise 3.6 percent in 2027 as inflation accelerates
The increase, the largest since 2023, arrives alongside a projected $6.60 rise in the Medicare Part B premium and a debate over how the adjustment is calculated.
The student-built website that keeps government climate data safe
Since Trump’s election, scientists have been scrambling to save climate change data sets. And one Michigan graduate student thought the more copies, the better.
CEOs are getting richer. Everyone else is falling behind.
At the 100 largest low-wage corporations, the average CEO now makes 632 times more than a typical worker.
On the road from protest to power: A rising tide
The “political establishment” is going to have a much harder time using its financial and institutional muscle to relegate this new generation of thoughtful, strategic and energized grassroots candidates.
ACLU calls for investigation into police detaining ex-Marine moving into his home
After a police officer held a Marine veteran at gunpoint and handcuffed him while moving into his own house, the Kansas chapter...
Think grocery prices are high now? Just wait.
We can’t afford to let another supermarket giant gobble up an even bigger piece of the American pie.
Climate change is too serious for political labels
When we talk about the Green New Deal, let’s forget the labels and talk about how to mount an effort up to the existential challenges of our time.
The triumphant politics of surfaces, blockading real knowledge, feeding victimhood, outlawry and corruption
The Trump mania for gold-veneer, pompous arches or mammoth ballrooms speaks to his surface obsession, with crass showiness allergic to democratic values, nailed with this brilliant take-down “Trump’s Dictator Chic.”