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Search ArticlesAOC for President — or the Senate?
Speculation that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will run for president has been growing louder. Much of the buzz has been effusive, as in The Guardian’s assessment that “it is hard to imagine anyone who better personifies a rebuke of the octogenarian Trump and his nativist ‘Make America great again’ (Maga) movement” than the 36-year-old congresswoman from New York.
Consider the Tilapia
In the early 2000s, research carried out by biologist Lynne Sneddon revealed a striking pattern. Rainbow trout injected with a weak acid in their lips rubbed their mouths against the tank, rocked from side to side, and ignored food they would normally snap up. But when the fish were given morphine, they mostly went back to behaving as usual. The finding cracked open a long-standing assumption, both in science and in society, that fish cannot feel pain.
The Atlanta Model for Building Sanctuary
Atlanta community organizer Bassey Etuk opened a community defense workshop in June with a stark observation, and heads nodded around the crowded room. “Atlanta was a sanctuary city until the governor of Georgia made it illegal in 2009. Now Atlanta is Cop City,” he said. From California to Kenya, whenever I say I’m based in Atlanta, people immediately bring up Cop City, the police training facility that sparked years of protest and major campaigns to prevent it from being built on public land.
Inside the Struggle to Dismantle America’s Greenhouse Gas Data
This story is originally published by DeSmog in partnership with the National Security Archive. When the Trump administration announced plans last year to repeal the federal government’s greenhouse gas reporting system, rather than celebrate, many oil and gas companies publicly urged the Environmental Protection Agency to preserve it. But for more than a year, behind closed doors, the fossil fuel industry has been pushing to weaken one of the reporting program’s most consequential elements.
What Are the Chances: The Unlikely Mainstreaming of Prediction Markets
The prediction markets were nearly certain: Francesca Hong would win Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor on Aug. 11. Polymarket put the upstart’s chances at 96%; Kalshi was only slightly less sure at 95.5%. Then the votes came in. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley defeated Hong by nearly 4,000 votes.
The Democratic Healthcare Hoax
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack. Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and fielded a question about “Medicare for All” from host Kristen Welker, who among other things noted his co-sponsorship of Medicare for All legislation from 2013 to 2021. Here’s the rest of their exchange: Jeffries: Well, listen, these are all conversations that the House Democratic Caucus is going to have to have.
Colombia and Israel’s Cynical Disaster Diplomacy
On the morning of Aug. 10, a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia, leaving nearly 300 people dead, 4,000 injured and potentially thousands more missing by the latest count. The crisis created an early test for new far-right President Abelardo de la Espriella, who was inaugurated days before.
ICE Facility Replacement
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Trump Demands Name on Sand Castle
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RFK Jr. Vaccine Distrust
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