Category: North America

This story is a partnership with Drilled, an independent global newsroom focused on multimedia climate accountability reporting. Reporting for this story was funded in part […]

We’re already well into the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, and storm trackers are closely watching what forms near Cape Verde, off the west coast of […]

If there’s one thing MAGA males believe deep in their bones, it’s that “real” men eat a lot of beef. Multiple members of Donald Trump’s […]

A document dump to a right-wing website exposed a secret and controversial hire made by the Trump administration, according to a new report. Hidden metadata […]

Autism researchers, advocacy groups and scientific organizations are sounding alarms over a 336-page federal research roadmap crafted by advisers handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F. […]

Towards the beginning of the 1974 movie Blazing Saddles, Sheriff Bart, confronted by hostile but not especially bright townspeople, takes himself hostage to make his […]

This year’s election season has already been entertaining and promises to be more so — provided we don’t burn the country to the ground in […]

Just one month after Donald Trump boarded Marine One and headed off to exile at Mar-a-Lago in January 2021, a symbolic coda to his career […]

This article was originally published at Barn Raiser Media. Americans’ celebration of 250 years of independence invites reflection on the Declaration of Independence and its values […]

Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the […]

Now that the August primary is safely in the rear-view, the rest of the November ballot is rounding into shape. Actual winners earned their spots […]

Both Republicans and Democrats are rallying behind economic fixes that poll well but collapse catastrophically once they hit the real world, a columnist warned. In […]

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman revealed the mood inside the White House amid President Donald Trump’s frustration. During a Thursday appearance on CNN, Haberman […]

A free press has always come at a price.  Free and open public spheres are always unpleasant, frequently abusive, and chock-full of all sorts of […]

This article was previously published as part of The Reconstruction Papers. The entire book is available in print and as a PDF. In 1973, Arthur […]

To fully stop this racist demonization and attacks, we have to fight to abolish ICE once and for all and win full rights for all […]

The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. By late 2022, Ukraine had rallied, with Western backing, and Russia’s invasion had […]

A Florida grand jury has found that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration misappropriated millions of dollars in taxpayer funds that were marked to help children […]

Amid an ongoing trade war with Canada, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” despite the fact […]