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Ripe corn, on the stalk, in the field
Environment

More Crops Grown for Fuel and Livestock Feed Than for People, New Study Finds

Gaea Cabico 04/23/26

Cutting back on beef and biofuels could help improve food security and mitigate climate emissions.

Berehove, Western Ukraine, Hungarian community
Ukraine

Viktor Orbán’s Defeat in Recent Elections Divides Ukraine’s Hungarian Minority

Joseph Roche, Iryna Matviyishyn 04/22/26
Pro-redistricting, anti-redistricting, signs, Virginia
Elections

Virginia Voters Give Democrats a Big Win in Redistricting Fight

Klaus Marre 04/22/26
Honey Bee, collecting pollen
Environment

Insects Are Disappearing — Here’s How to Help

Melissa Gaskill 04/22/26
Donald Trump, Medal of Honor, ceremony, 2026
Journalism & Media

Trump Makes Up Inflation Numbers and the Media Just Shrugs

Klaus Marre 04/22/26

Deep Dives

Anthropic Claude Mythos

Claude AI: Gods and Monsters

Russ Baker
Taxes, tax revolt, withhold taxes, Trump, protest

My Decision: No More Tax Money for Trump’s Madness

Jonathan D. Simon
Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Safe Task Force, Roundtable, Making America Safe Again, Tennessee Air National Guard Base

Donald Agonistes: Pulling the MAGA Temple Down on Himself

Russ Baker
Russ Baker, Michael Cohen, NYC

Planning for Life After Trump, However We Manage to Get There

Russ Baker

Journalism & Media

Donald Trump, Medal of Honor, ceremony, 2026
Journalism & Media

Trump Makes Up Inflation Numbers and the Media Just Shrugs

Klaus Marre 04/22/26

With more than two-thirds of Americans disapproving of the job he is doing to bring down prices, Donald Trump turned to one of his favorite strategies: gaslighting voters.

Mike Lee, GOP, fundraiser
Elections Journalism & Media

Congressional Reporters Are Failing Democracy (Again)

Klaus Marre 03/23/26
FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr, Advisory Committee, meeting
Iran Journalism & Media

Trump Allies Demand Compliant Pro-War State Media

Klaus Marre 03/14/26

Epstein

Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton
Epstein

Politics Is Always Downstream of Sex

Jeff Schechtman
Eyes on Epstein, Part 4, Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump
Epstein

Eyes on Epstein: The Story Keeps Moving up the Ladder

Troy Barile-Simleness
Jared Kushner, ceremony, US Embassy, Jerusalem
Epstein

The Epstein Accords, Part 2: Jared and the Road to Tehran

Nina Burleigh, Katie Chenoweth
Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald J. Trump, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, sign, Abraham Accords
Epstein

The Epstein Accords, Part 1: The Road to Riyadh

Nina Burleigh, Katie Chenoweth

Environment

Ripe corn, on the stalk, in the field
Environment

More Crops Grown for Fuel and Livestock Feed Than for People, New Study Finds

Gaea Cabico 04/23/26

Cutting back on beef and biofuels could help improve food security and mitigate climate emissions.

Honey Bee, collecting pollen
Environment

Insects Are Disappearing — Here’s How to Help

Melissa Gaskill 04/22/26
Moose Creek Fire, Denali National Park, AK, 2015
Environment

Alaska’s Wildfires Heat the Planet, but Canada’s Cool It

Saugat Bolakhe 04/21/26

Ukraine

Berehove, Western Ukraine, Hungarian community
Ukraine

Viktor Orbán’s Defeat in Recent Elections Divides Ukraine’s Hungarian Minority

Joseph Roche, Iryna Matviyishyn
Kvertus KVS 6+, anti-drone rifle, Ukraine, military
Iran

The War With Iran Opens New Market Possibilities for Ukraine’s Drone Technology

Peyman Pejman
Three ice fishermen, frozen, Dnipro River, Kyiv
Ukraine

Kyiv Fights the Cold With Emergency Shelters and Hard-Earned Fortitude

Joseph Roche
Soldiers, small farmhouse, Ukraine
Ukraine

Trump’s Unpredictability and Pro-Kremlin Sympathies Rattle Nerves in Ukraine

Joseph Roche

Iran

380th Expeditionary Maintenance Group, KC-10 Extender, Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates
Iran

Playing Bluff Poker on a Knife’s Edge

James M. Dorsey 04/21/26

Who will blink first?

Donald Trump, Addresses, Nation
Iran

Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Shutdown Highlights the Worth of Trump’s Proclamations

Klaus Marre 04/18/26
Donald Trump, Fort Bragg, NC
Iran

Giddy Trump Celebrates Opening of Strait of Hormuz

Klaus Marre 04/17/26

Technology

Electric vehicle, charger, Fort Collins, CO
Environment

How EVs Could Solve a Problem With America’s Rickety Grid

Matt Simon
US Capitol, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, Meta Platforms, Anthropic, Microsoft, Apple
Culture

AI: The Myth of Inevitability, the Folly of Denial

Jeff Schechtman
The Thinker, Cleveland Museum of Art
Culture

God Damn AI

Jonathan D. Simon
Donald Trump, signs, executive, AI Summit
Opinion

Artificial Intelligence Combined With Human Stupidity Is a Recipe for Disaster

Klaus Marre

Elections

Pro-redistricting, anti-redistricting, signs, Virginia
Elections

Virginia Voters Give Democrats a Big Win in Redistricting Fight

Klaus Marre 04/22/26

Donald Trump reaped what he sowed Tuesday night as Virginians handed him a painful defeat in the gerrymandering war the president declared last year.

Texas For Trump, flag
Elections

Trump Gives Democrats a Texas-Sized Gift

Klaus Marre 04/14/26
iktor Orbán, meeting, European Council, Brussels
Elections International

Hungary’s Orbán Gets the Boot, America Gets a Lesson for the Midterms

Klaus Marre 04/12/26
Vote Drop Box, Vote-By-Mail, 2006
Courts Elections

Trump Tries Another Blatantly Unconstitutional Midterm-Rigging Scheme

Klaus Marre 04/01/26
Mike Lee, GOP, fundraiser
Elections Journalism & Media

Congressional Reporters Are Failing Democracy (Again)

Klaus Marre 03/23/26

Podcast

Map of the world, Robinson projection, Europe, Middle East.

Iran, Hungary, Ukraine: The World Is Running on Legacy Software

Jeff Schechtman
AI, Sergey Brin, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis.

AI Is All Humans, All the Way Down

Jeff Schechtman
Smoking, cigarette, social media, company logos

Social Media Had Gun-Level Immunity. That Just Ended

Jeff Schechtman
Billboard, Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba Khamenei

Inside the Black Box: The Questions No One Is Asking About Iran

Jeff Schechtman

Cartoon

Donald Trump, Iran, Deal, Kash Patel, Supreme Court

The Golden Age

Jon Richards
Donald Trump, Jesus Christ, loser, cross, Christian

Donald Trump Knows More About Jesus Christ Than Anyone, Even the Pope

DonkeyHotey
Donald Trump, insane, impeach, 25th Amendment , death, illness

Welcome to Crazytown

Ted Rall

Editors' Picks

climate crisis, Earth Day, planet care, community events, everyday acts of green

Every Day is Earth Day: 50 Easy Ways to Help the Planet

Whowhatwhy Editors
U.S. labor, rideshare giants, Uber, Lyft, drivers, soaring fuel costs, workers' dilemma

Uber and Lyft Drivers Reeling as Fuel Prices Soar

Whowhatwhy Editors
science, Earth, ozone layer depletion, recovery, Montreal Protocol, industrial chemicals, MIT finding

Hidden Problem May Slow Ozone Layer Recovery

Whowhatwhy Editors
science, nature, biodiversity, Australia, private protection, growing network

Protecting Australia’s Biodiversity Is Getting Personal

Whowhatwhy Editors
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