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The Bible Says So…or Does It?

Dan McClellan has spent much of his life learning—and relearning—what the Bible and its authors were trying to tell us. But the years he spent in graduate school studying Hebrew texts, Near Eastern cultures, and the concept of deity taught him something else: The way scholars talk about the Bible is much different from how […]


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Trump’s EPA Moves to Kill “Holy Grail” of Climate Regulations

On Tuesday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposal to rescind the agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” a critical Obama-era scientific decision about the human health costs of greenhouse gases that allows the EPA to regulate emissions. As I reported last week: On paper, the endangerment finding states that greenhouse gases like methane and […]


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“This is Trump’s Famine”: How the US Is Complicit in Gaza’s Suffering

After nearly two years of war between Israel and Hamas, Gaza is on the brink of mass starvation. Children are dying. Aid workers and doctors push through their own hunger to try to save lives. Journalists are too weak to document the unfolding horrors. There is not enough food or medical supplies entering to protect […]


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Why Is Gov. Gavin Newsom Blocking Rooftop Solar in California?

By any measure, California’s green energy transition has been a wild success. Two-thirds of its energy needs are now met by a mixture of renewables like wind and solar, alongside nuclear and geothermal, while the national average is 20 percent. In the last two decades, the state’s green energy output has grown by 43 percent, […]


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Rooftop Solar Is a Miracle. Why Are We Killing It With Red Tape?

Earlier this summer, Tara McDermott, who’s in charge of policy communications for a New York state solar developer called EmPower Solar, was telling me a woeful tale a lot like others I’d been hearing lately. A customer whom I’ll call Pam had tried to put solar panels on top of her home in Mount Vernon […]


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The Surgery That Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Women’s Health Care

For decades, the default feminist position on hysterectomy has been skepticism—and with good reason: The history of gynecology is replete with stories of unethical doctors and gruesome experimentation, of deeply ingrained misogyny and horrific racism. But when Hunter College medical sociologist Andréa Becker started doing research on hysterectomies in 2019, she discovered that many women […]


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What To Do, and Not Do, During a Heat Wave

This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Earth has never been so hot. Millions of people, amounting to nearly half the country, across the Southeast, Midwest, and Northeast are under heat alerts. Outside of the United States, an early heat wave in India and Pakistan saw temperatures reaching 120 degrees Fahrenheit. […]


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Voters Can’t Sue for Disability Discrimination, Court Rules

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that private citizens have no standing to sue for disability-based violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the landmark federal legislation which protects, among other things, the right to voting assistance for disabled people and voters with low English literacy. The Eighth Circuit’s jurisdiction covers Arkansas, […]


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A Non-Exhaustive Timeline of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s War on Vaccines

Long before he became secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services under President Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was laying the groundwork for his war on vaccines. As the head of the anti-vaccine nonprofit Children’s Health Defense, Kennedy amplified once-fringe conspiracies about vaccine safety and joined a larger crusade against the Vaccine […]


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“They Look Very Hungry” and a Familiar American Excuse

As excruciating reports of unmitigated disaster and starving Gazans, including infants and babies, continue to pour in, President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to recognize reality. “That’s real starvation stuff,” Trump told reporters. “I see it. You can’t fake that.” When asked if he agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extraordinary claim that there […]


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Trump Is Making Thousands of Rule-Abiding Immigrants Undocumented

Nathaly Maestre has tried to follow her doctors’ instructions to the letter. Her obstetrician and perinatologist were clear: At 40, eight months into a high-risk pregnancy, and after a miscarriage last year, she has to avoid unnecessary stress. But that has become impossible. In May, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration […]


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Why Your Energy Bill Keeps Going Up

This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Americans are paying more for electricity, and those prices are set to rise even further. In almost all parts of the country, the amount people pay for electricity on their power bills—the retail price—has risen faster than the rate of […]


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