It’s been a brutal month for journalism. How many times have I written that sentence now, and how many more times will I need to write it? Enough that I wasn’t going to write it again, despite the headlines about an “extinction-level event” for our profession. But as the immortal xkcd reminds us, you must […]
Ahead of this year’s presidential election, our team is putting together a series of articles on how third parties and independents have shaped American history. This forthcoming package will examine how alternative candidates such as Jill Stein, Cornel West, RFK Jr, or perhaps even a No Labels-backed contender could shape 2024. So we want to […]
Ahead of this year’s presidential election, our team is putting together a series of articles on how third parties and independents have shaped American history. This forthcoming package will examine how alternative candidates such as Jill Stein, Cornel West, RFK Jr, or perhaps even a No Labels–backed contender could shape 2024. So we want to […]
In the throes of the pandemic, Darcy Pollard’s first full-time job was pulling long hours on the digital team of the Biden-Harris 2020 campaign. From her childhood bedroom in Maryland, Pollard monitored where on the web the campaign’s ads popped up in order to ensure Biden’s ad dollars were being spent wisely. At the time, […]
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. To get to the Super Bowl on time, Taylor Swift took a private jet from Tokyo to Los Angeles and then hustled to Las Vegas. The carbon removal company Spiritus estimated that her journey of roughly 5,500 miles produced about 40 […]
The farm bill is one of the most important but least understood pieces of US legislation, and it’s overdue for renewal. But Congress couldn’t pass a new version in the fall, reflecting partisan dysfunction and also a contentious debate about what the bill ought to be—a debate that has become ensnared in the nation’s culture […]
On September 5, 1977, a 1,800-pound, ladle-shaped spacecraft named Voyager 1 took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, bound for the edge of our solar system. After about two months, it passed Mars’ orbit. Within two years, it made it to Jupiter, and almost two years after that, Saturn. On Valentine’s […]
On Tuesday, Democrat Tom Suozzi was elected to replace indicted former GOP Rep. George Santos of New York in a special House election widely viewed as a bellwether contest ahead of the presidential election. Suozzi, who represented New York’s 3rd Congressional District for three terms before stepping down in 2022 to run for governor of the state, […]
After failing to muster enough votes last week, House Republicans can now say they got nothing done and approved two articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Democrats and constitutional law experts have decried the proceedings, which charge Mayorkas with “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and “breach of public trust,” […]
A Kentucky Republican politician made an audacious claim on the first day of Black History Month, according to a local report: her white father, she said, was a slave. State Rep. Jennifer Decker made the comments, first reported by the Louisville Courier Journal, while speaking to a local chapter of the NAACP on Feb. 1 […]