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The AI Industry’s Moment of Gloom, Doom, and Profit 

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On Saturday, the United States and Israeli governments unleashed stealth bombers, drones, and missiles on Iran, citing a rationale of preventing Iran from developing and deploying catastrophic nuclear weapons.   “The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else.” “They’ve rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we […]

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Trump’s Economy Is Hurting Americans — and Setting Us Up for Long-Term Collapse

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Trump boasts of a booming economy. He’s dead wrong. A year into Trump 2.0, the affordability crisis is worse than ever.

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Trump’s Pre-State of the Union Polling Numbers Among the Worst He’s Ever Had

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Trump receives negative marks on the economy, foreign policy matters, his handling of immigration, and more.

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Trump’s Climate Repeal Will Kill America’s Transition From Gas Guzzlers to EVs

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding on the dangers of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is aiming to take out many federal actions on climate change in one blast. The first impact of this deregulatory […]

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Grassroots Organizers in Wisconsin Offer Blueprint for Beating Back Data Centers

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Private equity firms are investing heavily in new AI data centers, but local communities are finding ways to fight back.

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Their Courses Were No Longer Relevant, so These Economics Students Went to Work

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University walked out of their introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and limited view” that perpetuated “a problematic and inefficient system of […]

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The United States Sacrificed $35 Billion in Clean Energy Projects Last Year

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For more than a decade, the clean energy economy has been on a steep growth trajectory. Companies have poured billions of dollars into battery manufacturing, solar and wind generation, and electric vehicle plants in the US, as solar costs fell sharply and […]

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These Haitian Meatpacking Workers Face Deportation. They Voted to Strike Anyway.

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This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them. But despite these threats, the largely immigrant union workers at a JBS beef plant […]

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Trump Has Betrayed the People of Coal Country. They Love Him Anyway.

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Christy Ratliff is sitting in a folding chair in a public school gym in Grundy, Virginia, waiting for her number to be called. She arrived at 4 a.m. on this October Saturday to secure her position in line to have eight teeth pulled. Genetic gum disease, she explains, has left most of them rotten or […]

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