This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Experts and members of the public on Tuesday voiced overwhelming opposition to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to rescind its key greenhouse gas “endangerment finding” and vehicle emissions standards. That pushback came during the first of four scheduled public […]

This story was produced in partnership with CBS News. A South Texas woman who was arrested on murder charges in 2022 after using medication to terminate her pregnancy has alleged new details about her case against a local sheriff and prosecutors, claiming they violated her constitutional rights. Her August 12 court filing comes as the […]

Housing challenges are real and persistent, and the same struggles are faced in every corner of New York. That makes it all the more important for local governments to step up with real solutions rather than excuses. As Westchester county executive, I work directly on this issue every day. In Westchester, we are not stuck and are moving forward with bold initiatives. We are actively building, preserving and planning housing, and we are seeing results.

Dear Eric: As a Spanish-American, my ancestors from Spain have resided in the United States since long before the first Thanksgiving. When one acquaintance inquired about my origin, I assumed he meant the city I recently relocated from. He clarified by asking if I was from Guatemala. In a social context, that question is exclusively […]

Nicola Barker is the kind of novelist to arouse a baffled envy in the reader: at the freedoms she affords herself, within parameters that appear to exist, but whose precise nature and location remain unclear. Her fourteenth novel, TonyInterruptor, opens in an experimental jazz club in “a moderately affluent southern English cathedral town” that seems […]

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C. D. Rose’s latest novel is a surreal joyride through the world of the experimental installation artist Sigismunda Conrad and her exhibition “We Live Here Now”, which closes abruptly when it causes staff and visitors to disappear without trace. Things get stranger following Conrad’s disappearance and the weird experiences of the crew who worked on […]

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When Nicholas is fifteen, he begins to experience an unusual awareness of “the weirdness of my face and skull being a thing that had somehow trapped this thinking- looking that was thinking this very thought that was burrowing out of my head”. This sensation first occurs in his geometry class, and by the third occasion […]

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If I claimed that Owen Flanagan’s What Is It Like to Be an Addict? was the best book ever written about addiction, I’d be obliged to enter various caveats. I have not read all books about addiction (though I hesitate to admit that to TLS readers). Some of the unread are probably very bad, but […]

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