Back in 2009, I called for Elizabeth Warren to run for president. I may have been the first media figure to do so. This was early in the Obama presidency, when he was beginning to renege on some of his progressive campaign promises (closing Gitmo, drug re-importation, etc.), but more …
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In early February, the Supreme Court issued its first ruling on abortion rights since Brett Kavanaugh cried and fussed and angry-white-maled his way onto the bench, solidifying a conservative majority that many opined would quickly reverse 40 years of reproductive freedom. On its surface, the February ruling was benign: With …
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Nancy Pelosi must be sick of talking about it. Alas, if she were only blessed with a president whose actions wouldn’t provoke the question! However, the Speaker of the House has been stuck with possibly the worst commander-in-chief in American history: a man whose campaign and associates are under constant …
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This is the ninth dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who will be investigating the effect of climate change on Thwaites glacier. At about 5 a.m. last Tuesday morning, at latitude 74 degrees 57.4 S and longitude 106 12.8 W on the remote coast of West Antarctica, Thwaites glacier …
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