The Commerce Department released data on consumption and prices for the month of February today, and the picture is not good. Consumption is slowing and inflation is rising. Also, spending on health ...

As a human rights activist, Angélica Macario was used to the hubbub and noise of protests and to seeing her people take their ...

The NRC record tells a different story. In 2025, the NRC published an Environmental Assessment and within weeks issued a Finding of No Significant Impact, allowing the agency to avoid preparing a full ...

Toxic haze over the Salton Sea. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Southern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake ...

“I call up France, Macron – whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw.” It is not the first time that Donald Trump has resorted to this kind of language. But ...

I traveled to Cuba this month. As a Cuban American, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from my roots. For much of my life, Cuba existed as a distant story, a place I ...

For years California teachers unions have sought to coordinate the expirations of our contracts and unite to strengthen our bargaining position. California teachers unions’ “We Can’t Wait” campaign ...

At some point—and I can’t quite say when—it has become harder, at least from this side of the Atlantic, to separate our image of Donald Trump from the United States itself. The two have begun to blur ...

JD Vance on UFOs: “I don’t think they’re aliens; I think they’re demons.” Anaïs Nin: “We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.” We don’t see the world (or the phenomenon) as it is — we ...

“Everybody seems to think that we are skunks, saber-rattlers, and warmongers.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower, responding to the global outrage after the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll, ...

On March 13th, buried in the New York Times’s coverage of the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict was a headline that would have been easy to miss amid the din of war coverage: “As El Niño Simmers, Scientists ...