When the Supreme Court opens its new term on October 5th, the first case it will hear is one with potentially sweeping consequences for the future of climate accountability in America. Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County sits…
A Diplomatic Protest Rooted in a Broader Offensive Against Critical Reporting Israel’s Consul General in New York, Ofir Akunis, announced Friday that he had ordered the cancellation of all New York Times subscriptions held by staff at the Israeli Consulate…
The Trump administration has renewed its legally dubious effort to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, sending her a letter threatening dismissal over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud — allegations that legal experts and available evidence…
A Crisis That Refuses to Wait Climate change does not pause for political convenience. It does not negotiate with ideologues, defer to fossil fuel lobbyists, or disappear when a government stops measuring it. The physical reality of a warming planet…
The tankers keep moving — for now. But for how long, and under whose rules, is precisely what diplomats in Tehran, Muscat, and Washington have been racing to settle. Iran and Oman are on the verge of finalizing a shipping…
Senator Susan Collins of Maine announced Tuesday that she will vote against President Donald Trump’s nomination of Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, making her the first Senate Republican to publicly oppose the pick and leaving Blanche with almost…
Airstrikes Continue Despite Hamas Agreement and International Pressure The Board of Peace is confronting open defiance from Israel as its peace framework for Gaza stalls on the ground — with Israeli airstrikes continuing to pound the devastated strip even after…
A Democratic official is avoiding her own party’s convention — and her reasons demand serious attention. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, the first Jewish person ever elected to that office in the state, has announced she will not attend the…
A Real-Time Attack on Critical Infrastructure Water systems in at least seven states have been compromised in a coordinated cyberattack attributed to Iran, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow warned Monday — and the timing is no coincidence. The Trump administration has spent…
A Nation Baking: South Korea’s Record-Breaking Heat At 1:26 in the afternoon on Sunday, a thermometer in the southeastern South Korean city of Yangsan climbed to 42.5 degrees Celsius — 108.5 degrees Fahrenheit — and kept going. That single reading,…