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For kids like me, who grew up in the 1960s and ’70s, comics were a big deal. Our media landscape otherwise consisted mainly of books and records, commercial radio, and, in my family’s case, a small black-and-white TV with a coat hanger antenna that got…

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bird populations across North America are falling most quickly in areas where they are most abundant, according to new research,…

On April 28, lawyer Paul O’Dwyer opened his email inbox to find some good news. A New York City immigration judge had approved the asylum application for one of his clients. But the immigration court email also contained an attachment O’Dwyer hadn’t seen…

For years, I’ve heard the familiar refrain: “America should be run like a business.” First, it came from the young Republicans at my small, conservative, undergraduate institution, advocating for Mitt Romney in 2012. More recently, it has become a…

Staff at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Department of Energy division that guides public and private research and development involving renewable energy and energy efficiency, were blindsided with a round of layoffs on Monday morning.…

After years of progress in reducing the number of babies that succumb to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the National Institutes of Health has terminated its participation in the Safe to Sleep program, STAT News reported last week. The program encouraged…

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Tucked inside the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s far South Side, there’s a yellow brick wall filled with hundreds of…

This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. On January 10, 2025, President Trump released an “ethics agreement” detailing how he would handle his personal business interests while…

Much has been written about the cruel, and often unconstitutional, onslaught of executive orders that has come to define President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office. But somewhat lost in the discourse is the brazen stupidity, a stunning randomness with…

It all started with Richard Nixon. It was the summer of 1974, and Watergate was closing in on his presidency. A grand jury had subpoenaed secret recordings of Nixon and his aides that would show the president had been involved in the criminal conspiracy. A…