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Getting the Message Elected officials ducking difficult questions is hardly a new phenomenon. But Republican representatives are now actively avoiding not only difficult questions but any direct...

Climate and migration (October 2024)

Sins of Emission When Donald Trump talks about immigrants, he regularly misrepresents both who they are and how they fit into our economy. But his unrelenting attention on them has brought the...

A home-insurance crisis (June 2024)

An Uninsurable Future? In 2023, two out of every three American homes were underinsured. Nationally, “insurers paid out more in claims than they received in premiums”...

Climate accountability (March 2024)

‘Birth Doesn’t Wait’ At the beginning of Israel’s invasion of Gaza, the world had its eyes on dozens of premature newborns in the NICU at Al-Shifa hospital. The babies were crowded...

Fossil fuels at COP28 (January 2024)

‘The World Needs Blessings’ On December 18, the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) issued the doctrinal declaration Fiducia supplicans, granting priests permission to bless...

Flooding in Libya (October 2023)

Autoworkers Stand Up On November 12, 1936, three welders at a General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, sat down on the job. They were protesting deadly working conditions,...

Climate victory in Montana (September 2023)

A Patriarch Flees Baghdad In a move that has sent shockwaves throughout Christian communities in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, Cardinal Louis Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church,...

'The Craic Was Mighty' (July 2023)

‘The Craic Was Mighty’ ISABELLA SIMON The accordion player next to me has handed off his instrument and he’s step dancing on the pub floor, soles smacking heavily on the downbeats. It’s a...

The end of Title 42 (June 2023)

Should Feinstein Step Down? California Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein turns ninety in June. As the years have added up, her age has increasingly been a topic of general discussion, noted...

Colorado River Negotiations (May 2023)

Running Dry Deadline after deadline has passed, but the seven states that draw their water from the Colorado River system have yet to agree on the cuts required to save the...

Jake Bittle (April 2023)

INTERVIEW Where Will They Go? An interview with Jake Bittle Jake Bittle is a staff writer at Grist who covers climate change. His new book is The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the...

Santiago Ramos (March 2023)

After the Earthquakes It was 4:15 on a Monday morning when the ground started moving, and “the [bell] tower was shaking, and some pieces fell.” Suddenly awake and in shock, Giacomo Pizzi, an NGO...

The right to repair (February 2023)

Another Nigerian Martyr In the early morning hours of Sunday, January 15, a group of armed bandits forced their way into the parish rectory of SS. Peter and Paul Parish in the...

The protests in Iran (November 2022)

Rail Strike Looms, Again On September 15, the Biden administration helped broker a deal between freight-rail carriers and the twelve unions that represent American rail workers. Touted as averting...

The Inflation Reduction Act (September 2022)

The Inflation Reduction Act Passing any significant climate, health-care, or tax legislation seemed impossible a month ago, frustrating and worrying Democrats, whose razor-thin...

West Virginia v. EPA (July 2022)

An Extraordinary Case On June 30, the Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia v. EPA that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot compel states to regulate their emissions through...

Anti-trans legislation (June 2022)

The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh Local Christian leaders didn’t mince words following the killing of veteran reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on...

â€˜Forever chemicalsâ€™ (March 2022)

‘Forever Chemicals’ Since the new year, elevated levels of toxic chemicals have been found in beef sold to schools in Michigan, in the drinking water of several New Hampshire...

Seeking asylum (November 2021)

The Antisocial Network I n terms of measurable damage to Facebook, the revelations of whistleblower Frances Haugen probably did less than the global outage it suffered around the same time she...

Eliminating emissions (September 2021)

Eliminating Emissions It is no longer politically popular to pretend, despite decades of evidence to the contrary, that global warming is a hoax or a phenomenon unconnected to human...

Curbing carbon (July 2021)

No More Blank Checks On June 17, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF). Forty-nine Republicans joined all...

The Chauvin conviction (May 2021)

COMMENT Violence in Tigray For the past six months, a humanitarian crisis has been unfolding in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. What began as a dispute between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front...

Myanmar's coup (April 2021)

Biden & the Border J ust two months after the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S.-Mexico border is again at the center of national attention. Whether you call it a “surge” or a “crisis,”...

Rallying around Navalny (March 2021)

COMMENT Hope for Yemen The civil war in Yemen is currently the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe. A hundred thousand Yemenis have died, more than 8 million are displaced, and 80 percent of...

A failed auction (February 2021)

COMMENT Wa mock's Way Faith was a defining feature of the Georgia special-election campaign that helped give Democrats control of Congress and the White House for the first time since 2011. The...

Christmas Critics (December 2019)

Isabella Simon I moved to New York City this summer, and despite growing up in another big city (Chicago), my new home has sometimes felt isolating and exhausting. It's difficult to navigate a...

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