The White House sides with Israel's ground assault of Lebanon while much of the world calls for a ceasefire. / Al Jazeera Iran is said to be preparing to launch a ballistic-missile attack. / The Wall Street Journal [+] A long profile of Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose new book criticizes
The death toll from Hurricane Helene has now reached 91 as Asheville, isolated by floods, struggles to get supplies airlifted to emergency workers. / Associated Press Every time a climate disaster like Helene happens, insurance companies gouge customers, who complain to politicians, who claim climate disasters rarely happen. / How Things Work
Nearly four million homes and businesses in the South are without power as Helene makes landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Florida. / Associated Press Conservative purists may hope a Trump defeat will end Trumpism, but the GOP is likely to remain ruled "by, and for reactionary business interests
More than four million people have been affected by floods across six countries in western and central Africa. / CBC Heavy rainfall caused parts of the Saraha Desert to turn green. / NASA Earth Observatory New analysis suggests that one in seven scientific papers is at least partly fake. / Retraction Watch A
Hezbollah launches its first long-range missile at Tel Aviv. / CNN Was Israel's detonation of the pagers an act of terrorism? "To kill civilians in a mass operation that entails their deaths is neither a tragedy nor an accident." / Zeteo American religious conservatives are working with
Tens of thousands of people in Lebanon have fled their homes since Monday amid Israeli air strikes. / France24 Murders in the United States dropped 11.6 percent from 2022 to 2023, the largest single-year decline in the last 20 years. / NBC News A white paper finds that female politicians,
Citing issues during the primary season, election officials are raising concerns about the US Postal Service's readiness to handle mail-in ballots in November. / NPR In 2017, Cards Against Humanity bought land in Texas at the Mexico border to protest Trump's wall. Now it's
Trump's proposed tax plan is like 2017 but more, and research confirms those gains in fact never trickled down beyond the wealthiest individuals and corporations. / Rolling Stone See also: Explainers on how Trump's tariffs would distribute wealth upward and how his backwards plan to lower grocery
A group of former Donald Trump advisers have helped to build a pro-Russia website that frequently spreads debunked conspiracy theories. / The Guardian A little more than half of Trump supporters say they believe his lies about Haitian immigrants eating pets. / The Washington Post [+] See also: "How the Trump
This year marks the centennial of the abolition of the Caliphate, or the "successorship" to the Prophet Muhammad. / Law & Liberty A brief history of the decades-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah/Iran. / Al Jazeera Who are the best bureaucrats in the United States? There's
