Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Amazon, and America’s real divide

What does Amazon’s decisions have to do with America’s political tumult? Turns out, quite a lot.

Native leadership for the US Department of the Interior

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez called it a “truly a historic and unprecedented day for all Indigenous people.”

The Democratic Party’s anti-Bernie elites have a huge stake in blaming Russia

Top party officials seem bent on returning to a kind of pre-Bernie-campaign doldrums.

After ‘mind-blowing’ September, 2023 set to be hottest tear on record: EU Climate Agency

The European climate agency said Thursday that last month was the warmest September on record globally and "the most anomalous warm month of any year" in its dataset going back to 1940.

On seeking asylum and refuge

How to do so in a hostile United States.

Privacy advocates decry EU’s failure to fully address surveillance concerns in landmark legislation

Privacy groups have expressed disappointment, labeling the Act a 'missed opportunity' for not including a complete ban on live facial recognition.

Burgeoning hydrogen industry draws $41 million in federal lobbying from fossil fuel companies

Fossil fuel companies, which have promoted hydrogen as a catch-all solution to climate change, rank among the top spenders and outnumber clients from every industry.

Reconciling profit and morality

Many companies, big and small, in the food economy are blazing a different path through Wall Street’s jungle of greed, demonstrating that money and morality can be compatible.

To avoid Armageddon, don’t modernize missiles — eliminate them

If reducing the dangers of nuclear war is a goal, the top priority should be to remove the triad’s ground-based leg—not modernize it.

Trump’s lament: ‘And now, the end is near, and so I face the final...

It’s even more evidence that America badly needs a president who can keep his head on straight.