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Media

Right-Wing Sleuths Find the L.A. Fires Culprit: Wokeness

Ari Paul / FAIR Jan 16, 2025 The coverage demonstrates once again that the W-word can be used to blame literally anything in MAGA world. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Environment

The Climate Benefits of NYC’s Hard-Won Congestion Pricing Plan

Frida Garza / Grist Jan 16, 2025 Driving into lower Manhattan is now more expensive, but the toll promises cleaner air, safer streets and improved subways. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

TD Column

Garlanded with Failure

Bill Blum / Truthdig Jan 16, 2025 History will not remember the outgoing attorney general kindly. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Opinion

A Record Beyond Spin

Michael Arria / Mondoweiss Jan 15, 2025 Biden administration officials are attempting to put a positive gloss on their foreign policy legacy. But that legacy is, and will remain, one of genocide. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

The ‘Uber Model’ Comes for Nursing

Aastha Uprety / Inequality.org Jan 15, 2025 On-demand nursing endangers workers and patients alike, a new report finds. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Military

The Return of Senator Strangelove

William D. Hartung / TomDispatch Jan 15, 2025 The Arizona maven has turned his dogged defense of the nuclear industrial complex into a lucrative career. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Courts & Law

Voters Backed Abortion Rights but State Judges Have Final Say

Bram Sable-Smith, Katheryn Houghton / KFF Health News Jan 14, 2025 Successful November ballot measures protecting the right to an abortion may be in jeopardy in states with conservative judges. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Interview

What It’s Like To Be an Incarcerated Firefighter

Natalia Mesa / High Country News Jan 14, 2025 Eddie Herrera Jr., who started working as a firefighter while incarcerated, talks about the job and how he sees what’s happening in Los Angeles. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

TD Original

Punching Down to Silence the Radical Left

Michael Kwet / Truthdig Jan 13, 2025 The Stop Terror-Financing bill would strangle nonprofits on the political and financial edge. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Europe

Jean-Marie Le Pen: The Life and Death of a Nazi

John Mullen / Green Left Jan 13, 2025 Since the 1950s, he was France's foremost fascist and reveled in the controversy he could instigate merely by expressing his unapologetic opinion. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Politics

Of the Plutocrats, by the Plutocrats, and for the Plutocrats

Sam Pizzigati / Inequality.org Jan 13, 2025 On the eve of the second Trump administration, America’s super rich have never been so conspicuous about running the show. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Los Angeles

Killing California for a Snack

Yasha Levine / Truthdig Jan 11, 2025 A pistachio-farming couple from Beverly Hills have become the face of an ecocidal terraforming program that turned L.A. into a matchbox. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )