Hurricane Florence, still a Category 4, is expected to slow down at the coast of the Carolinas through at least Saturday, increasing the likelihood of dangerous flooding. This seems unnecessary, but: a fact-check of Trump's claim that "Puerto Rico was an incredible, unsung success." A
Bracing for an increasingly dangerous Hurricane Florence, more than a million people may face mandatory evacuation in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. If public housing is the physical manifestation of a hope for social progress, that hope has its own historical twist in the United States. Nine of the
Please note: We’re taking next week off, and we’ll back on Monday, Sept. 10. See you then! Half a million people have been killed in Syria's seven-year war. Signs suggest a massive final battle is coming. Immigration officials say that birth certificates aren't
Canada and the US inch closer to a NAFTA 2.0 deal for Trump’s Friday deadline. For what it’s worth, the Friday deadline isn’t actually real. Thanks to Trump, teenagers appear to be more interested in current events, but also more skeptical of the press. Sixty percent
Bipartisan members of Congressencourage the president to impose sanctions on Beijing for incarcerating millions of Uyghur Muslims in “training centers.” The White House has reportedlycreateda secret task force to sabotage public support for marijuana. More evidence that Trump may have obstructed justice: disclosures about the White House doing nothing about
California’s Assembly passes a bill requiring 100% of the state’s electricity to come from carbon-free sources by 2045. A federal court rules that North Carolina Republicans illegally gerrymandered their congressional districts. Southern senators resist renaming a federal building for McCain. It currently honors a senator who led
Trump and Mexico reach a deal on NAFTA, now re-dubbed the US Mexico Trade Agreement, putting pressure on Canada. Voters head to the polls in Florida, Arizona, and Oklahoma to pick general election candidates. Taiwan, oddly enough, has become a pioneer in digital democracy with a crowdsourcing platform called
Across North America, prisoners are striking over treatment and forced labor that amounts to modern slavery. Since 2010, at least 404 people with mental illness have died in US jails—which are now "default treatment centers." The US Dept. of Education is considering exploiting federal student health and
Hurricane Lane has weakened, but it’s still expected to be hazardous in Hawaii over the next couple of days. A week of chaos continues in Australia’s government. It’s nothing new: The past decade has been marked “by a series of leadership coups.” President Trump’s smash-mouth
Trump's tweet about the murder of South African farmers—which are at a 20-year low—and land expropriation is a popular conspiracy theory among white nationalists who want to push the threat of "white genocide." The close of trading in New York yesterday officially marked
