Trump and the art of the no deal
Touting his “extraordinary” ability to negotiate, but so far, Trump has shown he can’t make a deal.
Imagine you are a poor nation, trapped by debt and strangled by climate change—what...
Climate change, debt, and development have a caustic relationship, hindering economic justice and national advancement, but solutions exist.
We don’t have to choose between nuclear madmen
We can make a difference -- maybe even the difference -- to avert global nuclear annihilation.
How Trump betrayed workers by gutting the Inflation Reduction Act
Community leaders united behind the initiative. And then Donald Trump stabbed them all in the back.
Fossil fuel divestment debates on campus spotlight the societal role of colleges and universities
Divestment debates are forcing colleges and universities to reconsider how to contribute to a more resilient and sustainable future.
Ocean warming study so distressing, some scientists didn’t even want to talk about it
Researchers examining the ocean off the east coast of North America found that the water's surface was 13.8°C, or 14.8°F, hotter than the average temperature between 1981 and 2011.
Judge blocks Trump attempt to defund Planned Parenthood clinics serving Medicaid patients
A federal court injunction halts a Trump-backed law that would have cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, threatening care for over a million patients nationwide.
Searching for integrity in Trumplandia
We've been suckered with this tax holiday scam before.
Effort to give oil companies $97 million tax break in Louisiana halted
The original version of the bill introduced by Rep. Phillip DeVillier this spring would have cost the state $97 million over the next five years.
The troubling rise of vaccine nationalism
“No one should be blocked from getting a life-saving vaccine because of the country they live in or the amount of money in their pocket."