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The world’s biggest climate conference kicked off today in Antalya, Turkey, a country known for growing political repression. Under an unusual compromise, Turkey is hosting, but Australia’s government will preside over negotiations among more than 190…

Eastern Kentucky Democrats used to brag that when the 1972 results came in, Richard Nixon had won nearly everywhere except for Massachusetts and Floyd County. It’s been a long, long way down for Appalachian and rural Democrats since then. On Tuesday—as…

In 2021, Kate Dineen was standing in her kitchen in Boston when her doctor told her over Zoom that her son had experienced a catastrophic stroke in utero. There was only a 50 percent chance the baby would survive after birth, with zero chance of a healthy…

Just as day follows night and spring follows winter, one of the most inevitable occurrences in American life has begun again: Donald Trump is baselessly complaining about voter fraud following an election he did not win. After a strangely muted early reaction,…

How will Stephen Miller, the public face of some of President Donald Trump’s cruelest policies, operate in his new role as White House chief of staff? One likely clue is in Miller’s apparent obsession with the mobster characters in movies such as…

Now that the most historic midterm election in memory is almost over, some of the more mundane, and yet potentially significant, issues in the new political landscape are emerging. One of them—far less dramatic than a Blue Texas, the first Black woman…

Two days after Election Day, Laura Loomer, a conspiracy theorist and proud Islamophobe who has served as one of President Donald Trump’s most fervent and influential backers, was in a reflective mood. “I just need to step back, recharge, refocus, and be…

For a few very strange days this week, President Trump didn’t publicly acknowledge the Republican Party’s catastrophic losses in the midterm elections. Instead, the day after the election, he took journalists on a surprise tour of his under-construction…

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It is part of a series The Dream That Oil Built, which explores the connections between climate change, fossil fuels, and the American Dream.​…

President Donald Trump wants Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White to be the White House press secretary, he announced Saturday. “The Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United…