Sunday, November 15, 2026
The Ambassador Bridge connects Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Ontario. Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why the Trade War with Canada Amounts to Self-Sabotage

The economies of both countries are so intertwined that everyone will suffer.

This mental health awareness month

Simple actions in the present make it more likely that such services will be launched in the future.

In an unequal America, empathy, not just housing, has become too pricey

Empathy for the plight of the homeless, meanwhile, is withering away, particularly among society’s most fortunate, as the social distance between that top and the rest of society widens.

‘We’re feeding the kids’: Minnesota House passes universal school meals bill

"We give every kid in our school a desk. There are lots of kids out there that can afford to buy a desk, but they get a desk because they go to school," said the Democratic author of the bill, pushing back against GOP means-testing canards.

Trump’s EPA weakens climate super pollutant rules while claiming grocery savings

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.

Indonesia announces conversion of oil palm plantations into forests to combat deforestation

The government said the conversion will happen on lands that are designated as forest.
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On Asia trip, Trump met by protests calling on US to open diplomatic relations...

Professor Bruce Cumings, who just returned from Seoul, South Korea, talks about Trump and how upon his arrival he was met with protests.

As January 6 hearings begin, poll finds many conservatives with open minds

Younger Republicans, and Republican women, are not Trump cultists.

Trump plans to decimate Bears Ears National Monument this Monday

Trump plans to shrink Bears Ears monument from more than one million acres to 200,000 acres, with similar cuts to the Grand Staircase-Escalante.

Pentagon: Climate change is real and a ‘national security issue’

"The half-baked DOD report on #climatechange released this week is inadequate and demonstrates a continued unwillingness to seriously recognize and address the threat that climate change poses to our national security."