This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the dollar value of lives saved and hospital visits avoided by air pollution regulations. Instead, the agency […]

The Iranian regime is terrible. What comes next might be worse.

Captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is many things. He’s a dictator who has violently suppressed opposition and rigged elections in his favor. He’s an inept, bumbling leader who turned his once prosperous, oil-rich nation into a pariah state. And he’s an alleged drug trafficker who has allowed corruption and graft to run rampant throughout his government. 

The Iowa–New Hampshire duopoly is gone. Now Democrats are trying to hammer out a new early-state lineup that will shape the presidential race.

How can I know what I think, until I see what I say?” (E. M. Forster). How much of your writing surprises you? When I write, I think more clearly and more slowly. This sometimes takes me to unexpected turns and ideas. I love these moments – when I realize that I have written something […]

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A demonstrator blinded by a less lethal munition during an anti-ICE protest outside the federal building in Santa Ana late last week is speaking out about the harrowing ordeal. Kaden Rummler, 21, a self-described leftist and member of an activist group called “Dare to Struggle,” was participating in the Jan. 9 protest sparked by the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis at the hands of […]

A community is working to help a mother and her two children after her husband was detained by federal immigration agents in Pico Rivera. On the morning of Jan. 10, Ademir Ramas, 40, went to his landscaping job in Pico Rivera, but never returned home. Surveillance video in the area appears to show the moment […]

One of the oddest occurrences in the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein imbroglio was the trip that Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, took in July to Tallahassee, Florida, to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year sentence for procuring underage girls, some as young as 14, for Epstein to sexually abuse. […]

A widower is suing McDonald’s after his wife was killed by a “known vagrant” approaching vehicles in the drive-thru lane of a Boyle Heights location nearly two years ago, the lawsuit claims. Filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last week, the suit alleges that on March 9, 2024, Jose Juan Rangel and his wife, Maria Vargas Luna, were in the drive thru of a McDonald’s in the 200 […]

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) decried Republican efforts to discredit medication abortion in an interview Wednesday with Mother Jones, saying that “the only reason they’re going after mifepristone is because it is the way most women get their abortive care.” Mifepristone is one of the pills used in medication abortion, which in 2023 accounted for 63 […]