Compound Observer

This Real-Life Mockingjay Mimics Shrieking Infants, Power Drills, and Fire Alarms

Published 2021-09-04 10:00:28 UTC

Lauren Boebert’s Path to Reelection May Be Getting Harder

Published 2021-09-04 16:31:41 UTC

The Drug War’s Deepest Failure: Making Users the Enemy

Published 2021-09-05 10:00:24 UTC

A Texas Judge Temporarily Halted Abortion Ban Enforcement. That Won’t Stop the GOP in Other States.

Published 2021-09-05 17:11:43 UTC

Ida’s Aftermath Show Just How Risky Petrochemical Production Is in a Hurricane Zone

Published 2021-09-05 17:30:51 UTC

Facebook’s AI Seems to Have a Racism Problem

Published 2021-09-05 19:12:16 UTC

As COVID Surges, We’re Not in the Endgame, We’re Mired in Uncertainty

Published 2021-09-05 22:06:48 UTC

Three Ways to Prevent Our Next Massive Power Failure

Published 2021-09-06 10:00:30 UTC

Be Your Own Boss: More Co-op Businesses Are Returning Workers’ Power

Published 2021-09-06 10:00:15 UTC

Can Big Banks Be Trusted to Fulfill Their Climate Pledges?

Published 2021-09-07 10:00:08 UTC

“I Want to Make the Company Work for Me”: What Co-op Power Looks Like

Published 2021-09-07 18:33:02 UTC

We’re Spending Peanuts on a Problem More Deadly Than Malaria

Published 2021-09-08 10:00:07 UTC

Indigenous Hip-Hop Star J25 is the First Native Woman Inducted Into the Recording Academy

Published 2021-09-08 18:51:02 UTC

Vast Majority of Fossil Fuels “Must Stay in Ground” to Avert Catastrophe

Published 2021-09-09 10:00:58 UTC

How the Pandemic Prepared Texas Abortion Networks for the Worst

Published 2021-09-09 10:00:44 UTC

The Best Holocaust Movie You Haven’t Been Able to See—Yet

Published 2021-09-09 10:00:07 UTC

9/11: When Pop Culture Went Into Patriotic Overdrive

Published 2021-09-09 13:33:34 UTC

The Texas Abortion Law Makes a Mockery of the Legal System

Published 2021-09-09 13:31:58 UTC

Take a Look in the Mirror: The Horror of the New “Candyman” Is Complicity

Published 2021-09-09 14:07:51 UTC

The Proud Boys Say They Aren’t Coming. DC Is Bracing for Violence, Anyway.

Published 2021-09-09 14:45:48 UTC

The Fight Over the “Ground Zero Mosque” Was a Grim Preview of the Trump Era

Published 2021-09-09 18:01:11 UTC

Artists in Louisiana Mobilize on Instagram for On-the-Ground Hurricane Relief

Published 2021-09-09 18:55:43 UTC

Justice Department Launches Lawsuit to Fight Texas Abortion Ban

Published 2021-09-09 19:08:24 UTC

FBI Seizes Oath Keeper Lawyer’s Phone in “Seditious Conspiracy” Investigation

Published 2021-09-09 20:08:13 UTC

Hurricane Ida Left a Huge Water Crisis in Her Wake

Published 2021-09-10 10:00:47 UTC

Inside the Wild, Twitter-Fueled Race to Airlift Dogs From Afghanistan

Published 2021-09-10 10:00:44 UTC

It’s Not Too Late to Learn the Lessons We Didn’t Learn From 9/11

Published 2021-09-10 10:00:42 UTC

Biden Criticizes GOP Governors for Being “So Cavalier” About Covid-19

Published 2021-09-10 16:26:05 UTC

Take a Minute for 40 Things That Have Actually Gotten Better

Published 2021-09-10 17:29:13 UTC

New Poll Shows California Voters Want to Keep Gov. Gavin Newsom

Published 2021-09-10 19:19:49 UTC

California to Become First State to Ban Nonconsensual Condom Removal—or “Stealthing”

Published 2021-09-10 22:37:11 UTC

The Weather Feels the Same

Published 2021-09-11 13:06:53 UTC

The Messy Truth About Carbon Footprints

Published 2021-09-11 10:00:08 UTC

Biden Calls for Unity in 9/11 Remembrance Video

Published 2021-09-11 15:45:13 UTC

As the US Fled Kabul, Its Final Airstrike May Have Targeted an Innocent Man

Published 2021-09-11 20:41:54 UTC

Justice Breyer: “I Don’t Intend to Die on the Court”

Published 2021-09-12 14:54:11 UTC

These Purple-Urchin Slayers Are Trying to Save Pacific Kelp Forests

Published 2021-09-12 10:00:59 UTC

Pro-Trump Doctors Invoke Civil Rights in Bid to Overturn New York’s Vaccine Mandate

Published 2021-09-12 21:23:53 UTC

59 Percent of Republicans Say It’s Important to Believe Trump Won the Election

Published 2021-09-12 21:59:32 UTC

Amy Coney Barrett and Mitch McConnell Want You to Believe the Unbelievable

Published 2021-09-13 17:07:20 UTC

A Cheap, Low-Tech Method That Could Slash Farm Carbon Emissions

Published 2021-09-13 10:00:49 UTC

A Bright Light in COVID News: Vaccine Approval Could Be Near for 5- to 11-Year-Olds

Published 2021-09-13 19:15:14 UTC

How Lin Wood and His QAnon Fans Tried to Force a Hospital to Use Ivermectin

Published 2021-09-13 19:24:43 UTC

Republicans Haven’t Raised Much Money in Their Push to Recall Gavin Newsom

Published 2021-09-13 20:14:34 UTC

Ask Beto O’Rourke Your Questions About the Fight to Protect Voting Rights

Published 2021-09-13 20:51:30 UTC

Steve Bannon’s Billionaire Benefactor Was Just Fined $539 Million

Published 2021-09-13 22:27:00 UTC

Bad Bosses

Published 2021-09-14 10:01:32 UTC

I Worked as a Mail Carrier. My Boss Accused Me of “Malicious Compliance.”

Published 2021-09-14 10:00:59 UTC

The Nonprofit Boss Who Had a “Special Hatred for Women of Color”

Published 2021-09-14 10:00:55 UTC

I Worked at a Prison. My Boss Stalked Me to Prove I Wasn’t Injured.

Published 2021-09-14 10:00:51 UTC

I Did Social Media for a Baseball Team. My Boss Was Worried I’d Sleep With the Players.

Published 2021-09-14 10:00:50 UTC

There’s a Phrase We Use About the Bosses at the Bureau of Prisons: “F Up, Move Up”

Published 2021-09-14 10:00:43 UTC

I Worked at a Labor Union. My Bosses Ran It Like a Cult.

Published 2021-09-14 10:00:40 UTC

My Boss at Google Said I Got Too “Emotional” About Trump’s Idea for a Muslim Registry

Published 2021-09-14 10:00:40 UTC

My Boss in Silicon Valley Thought It Was Okay to Stick His Hand Down My Pants

Published 2021-09-14 10:00:38 UTC

The Strip Club Boss Who Said: “Dancers Are Like Cockroaches. They’re Drawn to the Sugar.”

Published 2021-09-14 10:00:33 UTC

Democrats Just Introduced a New Voting Rights Bill. It’s Going Nowhere If They Don’t Reform the Filibuster

Published 2021-09-14 15:02:00 UTC

California’s Recall Election Rules Are Dumb. BoJack Horseman Offers a Better Option.

Published 2021-09-14 19:52:25 UTC

The California Recall Effort Has Failed

Published 2021-09-15 03:59:26 UTC

Anxious About Climate, 4 in 10 Young People Are Wary of Having Kids

Published 2021-09-15 10:00:59 UTC

Biden Just Threw a Bone to Big Almond

Published 2021-09-15 10:00:15 UTC

The Extreme Right’s Favorite Web Provider Just Got Hacked

Published 2021-09-15 16:02:34 UTC

After Shuttering for Almost Two Years, the Village Vanguard Reopens to Live Audiences

Published 2021-09-15 18:22:44 UTC

McKayla Maroney’s Powerful Testimony to Congress Shows the Uphill Battle Survivors Face

Published 2021-09-15 22:28:42 UTC

Black Men Are Pushed to Pursue Sports. Why Not Medicine?

Published 2021-09-16 10:00:10 UTC

Vaccine Protests Prove the Only Personal Liberties Cops Care About Are Their Own

Published 2021-09-16 17:52:27 UTC

A Last Laugh: Norm Macdonald Eulogizes Norm Macdonald

Published 2021-09-16 18:08:05 UTC

The High Human Cost of America’s Cheap Sugar

Published 2021-09-17 10:01:25 UTC

The Man Behind Saturday’s Pro-Trump Rally Once Praised a Far-Right Assassin

Published 2021-09-17 10:00:35 UTC

Residents of Western States Face a Dry, Dangerous, Underinsured Future

Published 2021-09-17 10:00:23 UTC

Report: Facebook’s Own Research Confirms It Is a Hotbed of Vaccine Denial

Published 2021-09-17 14:48:51 UTC

A Migrant Camp in Texas Has Republicans Warning of a New Great Replacement

Published 2021-09-17 16:31:06 UTC

While Trump Diehards Celebrate the Capitol Rioters, Anti-Vaxxers Are Gathering Around the Globe

Published 2021-09-17 22:00:37 UTC

Extremism Experts Say the Media Is Overhyping Potential Violence at Tomorrow’s “Justice for J6” Rally

Published 2021-09-17 22:52:44 UTC

US and Europe Pledge to Slash Methane Emissions by 30 Percent

Published 2021-09-18 10:00:51 UTC

Biden Decides Haitian Migrants at US-Mexico Border Will Promptly Be Sent Home

Published 2021-09-18 16:17:27 UTC

Exhausted Restaurant Workers Now Face the Risk of Vicious Anti-Vaxxers

Published 2021-09-18 17:53:31 UTC

Conservative Baptist Pastor Sees “No Credible Religious Argument” Against Vaccines

Published 2021-09-18 21:33:54 UTC

Your Favorite Toilet Paper May Be Making Climate Change Worse

Published 2021-09-19 10:00:30 UTC

Most Americans Support Vaccine and Mask Mandates, Fox News Poll Finds

Published 2021-09-19 17:32:53 UTC

FDA Panel Decision on COVID Boosters “Not the End of the Story,” Fauci Says

Published 2021-09-19 20:38:45 UTC

How Finance Firms Rig the Tax Code From Within

Published 2021-09-19 23:06:34 UTC

A Wildly Popular App for Churches Is Now an Antivax Hotbed

Published 2021-09-20 11:13:28 UTC

“Climate Change Disinformation Is Spreading Rapidly” on Facebook

Published 2021-09-20 10:00:13 UTC

Dems Can’t Agree on How to Keep Racism Out of the Biggest Climate Jobs Program in History

Published 2021-09-20 10:00:06 UTC

Bad News for Trump: Court Hearing Suggests the NY Probe of His Business Is Expanding

Published 2021-09-20 22:29:57 UTC

Wolf-Killing Campaigns in Idaho and Montana May Just Have Backfired

Published 2021-09-21 10:00:13 UTC

Texas Republicans Just Passed a Slew of Extreme Laws. Now They’ll Gerrymander to Stay in Power.

Published 2021-09-21 12:55:21 UTC

The Durham Indictment Fuels the Real Russia Hoax

Published 2021-09-21 18:12:50 UTC

The Founders of Stop AAPI Hate’s Anti-Violence App Make Time’s 100 Most Influential List

Published 2021-09-21 19:35:36 UTC

Kyrsten Sinema Is Threatening to Derail Democrats’ Agenda. Again.

Published 2021-09-21 19:51:35 UTC

Trump Packed a Federal Land Agency Off to Colorado. Biden Is Bringing it Home.

Published 2021-09-22 10:00:18 UTC

In California’s Water Wars, Nuts Are Edging Out People

Published 2021-09-22 10:00:48 UTC

Beto O’Rourke Says It’s “No Secret” He’s Thinking of Running for Governor: It’s All About Voting Rights

Published 2021-09-22 23:04:03 UTC

Babies Ingesting High Levels of Microplastics, Alarming Research Finds

Published 2021-09-23 10:00:56 UTC

“Birthday Under a Canopy”: A Climate Wish From MoJo’s Production Director

Published 2021-09-23 10:00:45 UTC

The Afghanistan War Is Over. But the Defense Budget Is Still About to Go Up.

Published 2021-09-23 10:00:32 UTC

Anti-Vaccine Zealots Pose a Threat to Canada’s Democracy, Too

Published 2021-09-23 10:00:06 UTC

The US Special Envoy for Haiti Just Resigned Over the “Inhumane” Treatment of Haitian Migrants

Published 2021-09-23 13:59:08 UTC

K Street Firm Finally Cuts Ties With Saudi Office Implicated in Khashoggi Murder

Published 2021-09-23 19:04:23 UTC

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