Friday, September 25, 2026

Tag: United States

60 million U.S. residents face triple digit temperatures this week

We plan our days around getting from one air-conditioned place to another.”

Imperial detritus

Henry Luce's dream comes undone.

5 ways we need to improve health care accessibility for vulnerable...

The United States is a study in health care inequality.

How could the U.S. help to bring peace to Ukraine?

Policy decisions by the United States will have a critical impact on whether there will soon be peace in Ukraine, or only a much longer and bloodier war.

As US squanders $728.5 billion/ yr on Pentagon, China captures 65%...

The US Republican Party and their plus-one, Sen. Joe Manchin, are preventing the US from becoming the dominant automaker in the world in this decade by consistently shooting down the green energy and transportation provisions.

US investment firms prop up ad revenue for Russian propaganda sites

“Investors need to also think through how their money is being used, where that money is being invested, and how they can contribute to isolating Russia and Russian companies.”

The United States is exceptional

But not in the ways any of us should want.

All American presidents have lied – the question is why and...

If presidents must sometimes lie to defend important political values, then, it seems as though the good president must be both able to lie and able to lie well.

Tax-dodging billionaire dynasties could cost US $8.4 trillion

Over the next few decades, the richest American families could avoid paying about $8.4 trillion in taxes, or more than four times...

500K jobs lost, starvation looms as US holds Afghan funds hostage

As a report published Wednesday revealed the loss of over 500,000 jobs since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan last August, critics...

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The Charles R. Huntley Generating Station in Tonawanda, New York. Photo: Andre Carrotflower / CC BY-SA 4.0

EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue

The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
The lobby of the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Photo: Daderot (public domain)

7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike

A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
A patient exam room at a U.S. urgent care clinic. Photo: Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage

Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Demonstrators protest ICE conduct in Minneapolis. Photo: Fibonacci Blue / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run

DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.