Category: North America

This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Public participation is a hallmark of environmental regulation, embedded in every […]

President Donald Trump took his midterm push to deep-red Northern Kentucky on Saturday. Video from inside the arena showed plenty of empty seats. Nandita Bose, […]

Critics raised “red flags” after the U.S. Capitol Police gave just one day’s notice of a Sunday “training exercise” at the U.S. Capitol featuring “low-flying […]

Conservatives have long pitched their project as a return to normalcy, a way to set right a world that’s gone off its axis. In theory, […]

This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Shefali and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Republicans […]

The DOJ press release notably comes right before this year’s UN General Assembly. Every year dozens of public activities take place that could be described […]

This article was previously published as part of The Reconstruction Papers. The entire book is available in print and as a PDF. Get the complete […]

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” — attributed to Joseph Stalin If the Trump administration fails to stop Democrats […]

Another campaign finance deadline has come and gone, and the big news is… there’s not much news. Well, not much new news, anyway. For the […]

The Trump administration’s “unprecedented” escalation in its campaign to exert more control over the midterms is part of a grander scheme to create a contingency […]

The husband of a U.S. service member killed in an Iranian strike earlier this year confronted Vice President JD Vance with a call for accountability, […]

Craig Unit 1, a coal-fired power plant distinguished by tall exhaust smokestacks that rise above a rolling landscape in northwestern Colorado, was scheduled to close […]

Kamora Greggs returned to her college campus with voting on her mind. She’d just visited her home in Jackson, Mississippi, about three hours away, when […]

Donald Trump can’t stop talking about Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. The Republican incumbent, who polls show is trailing former Sen. Sherrod Brown, has drawn the […]

Republicans who will be leaving office at the end of the current Congress still have a ton of power. The power of outgoing Republicans will […]

NA On October 4, I published a post on “Libertarianism and Democracy,” critiquing political philosopher Matt Zwolinski’s earlier Liberalism.Org article on the same topic. Earlier […]

Truthdig lost a beloved contributor and friend last week when Jim Knipfel died at his home in Wisconsin following a yearlong illness. He was 61.  […]

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A community solar project built for New Orleans’ oldest historically Black Catholic […]

President Donald Trump has spent years calling his opponents crooked, stupid and criminal. His niece, Mary Trump, says those insults tell you more about him […]