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Michigan Republican Party Chair Calls State Leaders “Witches”

Published 2021-03-27 13:52:42 UTC

A Deadly Day in Myanmar’s Bloody Coup

Published 2021-03-27 16:27:37 UTC

Uptick in COVID-19 Cases Alarms Officials

Published 2021-03-27 18:26:47 UTC

Watch: Sen. Lindsay Graham Admits Parts of Georgia’s Voter Restrictions Are Ludicrous

Published 2021-03-28 16:56:18 UTC

These Carbon-Belching Zombie Fires Just Wouldn’t Die—Until Now

Published 2021-03-28 10:00:41 UTC

Dr. Fauci Would Really Like You to Stay Home for Spring Break

Published 2021-03-28 18:23:11 UTC

Dr. Deborah Birx Is Finally Opening Up About Trump’s “Very Uncomfortable” Treatment of Her

Published 2021-03-28 19:47:15 UTC

Latest Must-Have for America’s Ultra-Billionaires: A Plan to Save Humanity

Published 2021-03-29 10:00:54 UTC

President Biden’s Trustbusters Aren’t Just Experts on Tech. They Know About Big Ag.

Published 2021-03-29 10:00:08 UTC

The Worst People Keep Stealing the Language of Black Struggle

Published 2021-03-29 17:16:56 UTC

Arkansas Just Banned Lifesaving Care for Trans Kids

Published 2021-03-30 00:50:06 UTC

Inside the Community Patrols in San Francisco’s Chinatown

Published 2021-03-30 10:00:43 UTC

One Man’s Quest to Crack the Modern Anti-Immigrant Movement—by Unsealing Its Architect’s Papers

Published 2021-03-30 10:00:34 UTC

Banning Pandemic Water Shutoffs Could Have Saved Thousands in US

Published 2021-03-30 10:00:27 UTC

COVID-19 Is Surging Again in Some Places. Here’s What That Means.

Published 2021-03-30 17:08:52 UTC

Young Witnesses Give Heartbreaking Testimony at Derek Chauvin’s Murder Trial

Published 2021-03-30 19:11:39 UTC

Cops Wouldn’t Let an Off-Duty Firefighter Save George Floyd, a Witness Testifies

Published 2021-03-30 22:53:01 UTC

Hope and Fear: Inside the Race between Vaccines and Variants

Published 2021-03-31 10:00:59 UTC

The Best Way to Protect Abortion Rights Right Now Is to End a Racist, Classist, Federal Budget Amendment

Published 2021-03-31 10:00:36 UTC

This Lawyer Went After Chevron. Now He’s 600 Days Into House Arrest.

Published 2021-03-31 10:00:27 UTC

“VC Lives Matter”: Silicon Valley Investors Want to Oust San Francisco’s Reformist DA

Published 2021-03-31 10:00:21 UTC

In Brazil, We Thought We Had Been Through the Worst. Somehow the Worst Is Yet to Come.

Published 2021-03-31 10:00:20 UTC

Matt Gaetz, Reportedly Investigated for Sexual Relationship With Minor, Implodes on Tucker Carlson

Published 2021-03-31 12:27:13 UTC

Why a Protest Leader in Myanmar Is Reluctantly Giving Up Nonviolence and Preparing for Combat

Published 2021-03-31 16:51:50 UTC

A Growing Website Visualizes and Archives Every Music Genre in the World (or Tries To)

Published 2021-03-31 18:56:51 UTC

Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is Much More Than That. But Does It Go Far Enough?

Published 2021-03-31 19:44:48 UTC

Biden’s Big Jobs Plan Is Really a Climate Bill. But It Left Out Farming.

Published 2021-04-01 00:00:48 UTC

Oil-Exporting Nations Warned to Diversify Industries—or Face Civil Unrest

Published 2021-04-01 10:00:41 UTC

The Myth of the Supernegro Comes to Derek Chauvin’s Defense

Published 2021-04-01 10:00:20 UTC

361 Voter Suppression Bills Have Already Been Introduced This Year

Published 2021-04-01 15:14:49 UTC

A New Online Film Festival Seeks Solutions to Injustice Globally

Published 2021-04-01 19:16:37 UTC

Remembering Robert Hershon, Poet of the “Mimeo Revolution”

Published 2021-04-01 23:12:13 UTC

No, Eric Greitens Was Never “Exonerated” of Sexual Misconduct

Published 2021-04-02 10:00:51 UTC

Can America’s Problems Be Fixed By a President Who Loves Jon Meacham?

Published 2021-04-02 10:00:33 UTC

Everything You Need to Know About “Vaccine Passports”

Published 2021-04-02 10:00:30 UTC

Green Investing Is “Definitely Not” Going to Save Our Behinds

Published 2021-04-02 10:00:22 UTC

Despite All the Fake Meat, Americans Are Still Gobbling Up the Real Stuff

Published 2021-04-02 10:00:08 UTC

Republicans Sure Seem Happy to Ditch Matt Gaetz

Published 2021-04-02 13:50:14 UTC

A Medic at the Myanmar Protests: “We Don’t Count the Dead.”

Published 2021-04-02 14:54:07 UTC

US Capitol on Lockdown Due to Security Threat

Published 2021-04-02 17:53:15 UTC

This Audio Clip of John Boehner Telling Ted Cruz to “Go Fuck” Himself Is Really Delightful

Published 2021-04-02 17:58:59 UTC

“Totally Unnecessary”: Veteran Police Officer Denounces Derek Chauvin’s Use of Force

Published 2021-04-02 21:59:04 UTC

Trump’s Labor Secretary Runs Right Back to the Anti-Labor Law Firm He Came From

Published 2021-04-02 23:31:01 UTC

Republicans Rush to Cancel Baseball

Published 2021-04-03 14:50:27 UTC

Biden Wants $10 Billion for a Climate Army. That Isn’t Nearly Enough.

Published 2021-04-03 10:00:07 UTC

Chicago Police Rolled Out a Cover-Up After Killing a 13-Year-Old Latino Boy

Published 2021-04-03 18:32:42 UTC

“A Scam”: New Report Details How Trump Campaign Bilked Millions from Supporters

Published 2021-04-03 20:40:05 UTC

As Corporate America Comes Out For Voting Rights, Where’s Next?

Published 2021-04-03 21:59:04 UTC

Stream “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)” If You’re a “Good” Christian

Published 2021-04-04 10:00:33 UTC

Something Every Frequent Flier Should Know: You’re a “Super-Emitter”

Published 2021-04-04 10:00:13 UTC

“You Need Water to Live”: Pete Buttigieg Explains Infrastructure to Republicans

Published 2021-04-04 16:48:07 UTC

Pope Francis Criticizes “Scandalous” Military Spending During Pandemic

Published 2021-04-04 18:45:05 UTC

Bernie Sanders Says Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Doesn’t Go Far Enough on Climate

Published 2021-04-04 20:09:12 UTC

Despite Pledge to Reduce Emissions, China Is Bingeing on Coal

Published 2021-04-05 10:00:46 UTC

“Taxpayer Dollars”: The Origins of Austerity’s Racist Catchphrase

Published 2021-04-05 10:00:07 UTC

False Barriers: These Things Should Not Prevent You From Getting a COVID Vaccine

Published 2021-04-06 10:00:38 UTC

Fossil-Fuel Firms Reaped Billions in COVID Tax Breaks—Then Laid Off Thousands of Workers

Published 2021-04-06 10:00:15 UTC

This Former Trump Official Was Just Banned From Federal Office for Violating the Hatch Act

Published 2021-04-06 17:05:58 UTC

Don’t Listen to the GOP: Colorado May Stink at Baseball, But it Wins on Voting

Published 2021-04-06 22:13:19 UTC

The TikTok Trend That Has Immigration Lawyers Worried

Published 2021-04-07 10:00:40 UTC

JPMorgan Secretly Emailed the Trump Administration About Bailing Out the Oil Industry

Published 2021-04-07 10:00:36 UTC

Lady Bird Johnson Was a Falcon of a First Lady

Published 2021-04-07 10:00:34 UTC

Cuomo’s Turn to the Left Is Only Proving He Was The Problem

Published 2021-04-07 14:06:40 UTC

Trump Breaks His Silence to Give the Weakest Possible Defense of Matt Gaetz

Published 2021-04-07 15:58:44 UTC

John Boehner Should Just Shut the #&%! Up

Published 2021-04-07 18:25:37 UTC

Republicans Double Down on Trump’s Deceptive Fundraising Trick

Published 2021-04-07 19:18:57 UTC

Will the Public Ever Get a Full Accounting of Trump’s Disastrous COVID Response?

Published 2021-04-08 10:27:31 UTC

Trump Put a Right-Wing Radio Host in Charge of a National Park. Emails Show the Chaos That Ensued.

Published 2021-04-08 10:00:21 UTC

Can a Pipeline Firm Defy a Governor’s Orders? Gretchen Whitmer Is About to Find Out.

Published 2021-04-08 10:00:10 UTC

Republicans Say Georgia Law Wasn’t Design to Suppress Voting. Don’t Believe Them.

Published 2021-04-08 10:00:05 UTC

HIV Is On the Loose In West Virginia, and so Is a Moral Panic About Needle Exchanges

Published 2021-04-08 10:00:02 UTC

Even If Alabama Workers Vote for a Union, Amazon Still Has the Power to Thwart It

Published 2021-04-08 10:00:00 UTC

Facebook Says it Takes Down Hate Speech. A New Lawsuit Says They’re Lying.

Published 2021-04-08 15:01:41 UTC

How HBO Helped the Guy Hosting QAnon Dodge a Serious Accusation

Published 2021-04-08 15:40:35 UTC

One Important Lesson from the HIV Epidemic: Optimism Is a Powerful Public Health Weapon

Published 2021-04-08 17:04:33 UTC

US Gun Violence Is an “International Embarrassment,” Biden Says

Published 2021-04-08 18:12:09 UTC

Yesterday Was World Health Day. Here Are 3 Unconventional Recharge Health Tips.

Published 2021-04-08 18:40:41 UTC

Facebook Let Trump Lie America Into an Insurrection. Will It Stop Other Leaders from Doing Worse?

Published 2021-04-09 10:01:47 UTC

So Far Biden Is Taking Right-Wing Extremism Seriously. But Actually Fixing the Problem Will Be a Lot Harder.

Published 2021-04-09 10:00:57 UTC

The Most Important Pandemic Industry You’ve Never Thought Of

Published 2021-04-09 10:00:50 UTC

EPA Chief Michael Regan Relishes “Clean Slate” After Years of Trump Chaos

Published 2021-04-09 10:00:45 UTC

What We Should Talk About When We Talk About Root Causes of Migration

Published 2021-04-09 10:00:20 UTC

After Mass Shootings, NRA Leader Regularly Hid Out on Yachts Out of Fear for His Safety

Published 2021-04-09 12:26:15 UTC

An Ex-Google Lobbyist Who Backed Jim Jordan Is Leading Big Tech’s Bid to Court the Left

Published 2021-04-09 15:46:30 UTC

Progressives Are Already Pissed About Joe Biden’s Defense Budget

Published 2021-04-09 17:01:47 UTC

Alabama Vote Is the Latest in a Long String of Labor Defeats in the South

Published 2021-04-09 18:39:12 UTC

What the Derek Chauvin Trial Tells Us About Police Use of Force

Published 2021-04-09 19:43:36 UTC

The House Ethics Committee Is Investigating Matt Gaetz

Published 2021-04-09 22:25:57 UTC

Matt Gaetz, Spreader of Wild Conspiracy Theories, Now Says He’s the Victim of Them

Published 2021-04-10 14:32:44 UTC

Narwhal Tusks Have a Tale to Tell, and Not a Good One

Published 2021-04-10 10:00:58 UTC

Tucker Carlson Defends the Racist “White Replacement Theory”

Published 2021-04-10 15:48:39 UTC

Video: Cops Draw Guns on a Black Army Officer, Pepper Spray Him, Force Him to the Ground

Published 2021-04-10 17:38:27 UTC

Maryland Legislators Override a Veto to Usher in Sweeping Police Reform

Published 2021-04-11 16:20:54 UTC

“Someone Decided It Was Okay to Poison Us”

Published 2021-04-11 10:00:37 UTC

GOP Donors Flock to Mar-a-Lago to Hear Trump Lie About the 2020 Election

Published 2021-04-11 17:01:16 UTC

Don’t Look Now, But Over a Third of People in the US Have Gotten a Coronavirus Shot

Published 2021-04-11 18:47:30 UTC

In the Middle of an HIV Crisis, West Virginia Advances New Limits to Clean Needle Access

Published 2021-04-11 21:07:14 UTC

Ocean Warming Is Making Equatorial Waters Uninhabitable

Published 2021-04-12 10:00:23 UTC

A Year Later, It’s Still Impossible to Tell How Many Food Workers Are Contracting COVID-19