How the geography of climate damage could make the politics less polarizing

“As a new Congress and the 2020 presidential election cycle gear up, much of Washington is likely to focus on topics where political polarization is...”

WHAT THE DATA SHOW To get this kind of granular look at the politics of climate impacts we turned to the county-based assessments emerging from the Climate Impact Lab. These quantifications offer the most detailed calculations available on the economic costs of future climate change through the...

There’s a Vanishing Resource We’re Not Talking About

“Humans are losing our cultural diversity even faster than we’re destroying the planet. Yet that diversity could be key to surviving environmental...”

Within 100 years, many of our cities will become uninhabitable, submerged under oceans or deadly hot. Food will be more difficult to grow. Storms will become more violent. The gentle planet we’ve known will be no more. That’s hard to wrap one’s brain around. Some turn to faith, others despair....

New report implicates a Republican senator in a potential criminal cover-up as his shady campaign dealings are probed

“Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has been under investigation by the Missouri Secretary of State for allegations that he illegally used taxpayer resources...”

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has been under investigation by the Missouri Secretary of State for allegations that he illegally used taxpayer resources while he was state attorney general to support his Senate campaign. The allegations followed reports that he had farmed out his office to private...

Trump Makes Misleading (= Lies) Border Wall Claims Before and After Meeting With Democrats

“The wall is the biggest sticking point between the president and Democrats. President Trump wants funding for it in spending bills that must pass...”

Both before and after a meeting on Tuesday with Representative Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leaders in Congress, President Trump pushed a false narrative about the progress of a new wall along the country’s southwest border. The wall — and funding for it — is the...

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“NYU psychiatry professor: Donald Trump must hurt others in order to prove his superiority. It isn't working.”

Donald Trump held the American people hostage for 35 days in a vain attempt to extort billions of dollars from Congress for his pointless wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. This is the longest shutdown of the federal government in our nation’s history. Estimates suggest that Trump’s stunt cost...

Meet Another Religious Health System Restricting Reproductive Care

“Seventh-day Adventist Church policy opposes abortion, assisted suicide, and the "homosexual lifestyle," but approves of contraception,...”

Rewire.News has reported extensively on the spread of Catholic hospitals, which restrict access to abortion, sterilization, and most contraception, and account for one in six acute-care beds in the United States. But Seventh-day Adventist facilities, which have their own rules on reproductive...

America, the Leaderless

“The United States is in the middle of a perfect storm without a captain steering the ship.”

The U.S. government has been shut down for over a month. It is the longest government shutdown in the history of this country, with more than 800,000 government workers furloughed and impending threats of a strike by the Association of Flight Attendants and Transportation Security Administration...

The Department of Education’s proposed sexual harassment rules: Looking beyond the rhetoric

“” DeVos announced that the “era of rule by letters is over.” From now on, she vowed, the department would use the notice-and-comment rulemaking...”

In November of last year, the U.S. Department of Education released its long-awaited proposed regulations on sexual harassment. More than a year earlier, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos had withdrawn the Obama administration’s controversial Title IX guidelines and promised to develop a...

Fox News’ Sean Hannity appears to have acted on directives from newly revealed Stone-WikiLeaks emails

“Fox News host Sean Hannity appears to have acted on directives from emails between President Donald Trump’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone...”

Fox News host Sean Hannity appears to have acted on directives from emails between President Donald Trump’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone and an intermediary who claimed to have communicated with WikiLeaks. On Twitter, author Kurt Eichenwald points out that, among the details in the...

Here’s why Pence is just as unfit to be president as Trump

“His delusional, dead-on-arrival speech about ISIS certainly suggests it... In the last two years, the press has spilled a Niagara of ink to...”

In the last two years, the press has spilled a Niagara of ink to describe President Donald Trump’s lies, flipflops, personal weirdness, and sheer unsuitability for office. As for Vice President Michael Richard Pence, despite his hectoring insistence on being the chosen instrument of the...