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Jason Aldean performs onstage at Nissan Stadium on June 9th, 2016, in Nashville, Tennessee.

News in Brief

‘There Seems to Be a Target on the Back on the Live Music Community’: A Terrorism Insurance Salesman Explains Why America’s Artists Are So Frightened

Lockton Companies Vice President John Tomlinson sells terrorism insurance to the stars. Business is booming.

Emily Moon

President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos listens during a parent-teacher conference at the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 14th, 2017.

Education

Assessing Betsy DeVos’ Rollback on Disability Rights

Ten months in, the damage that DeVos is doing to America's most vulnerable is becoming clear.

David M. Perry

Meteorologist Kait Parker debunks a Breitbart News story in December of 2016.

Environment

Why The Weather Channel Decided to Take on Climate Skeptics

The network has been celebrated for trumpeting climate-change evidence and the ongoing crisis in Puerto Rico. According to weather.com's editor-in-chief, its direction isn't political.

Katie Kilkenny

A monarch butterfly hangs from its cocoon.

Environment

The Butterfly Effect

Southern California's Ellwood Mesa, with nearly 80 acres of protected eucalyptus forest, is a refuge for the vanishing western monarch butterflies during the winter months. But the state's most recent drought has left the future of the forest in jeopardy.

Kate Wheeling

Social Justice

Can Underground Psychedelic Therapy Ever Go Mainstream?

The work of a large network of underground therapists has laid the basis for current FDA-regulated research into hallucinogenic therapy. Now they want to take that work mainstream.

Margaret Katcher

People place candles and flowers for the victims of Alvaro Obregon 286 on October 15th, 2017.

Social Justice

How Mexico City Residents Used Social Media in the Wake of the Earthquake to Debunk Fact From Fiction

After witnessing the rampant spread of misinformation in the wake of the September 19th earthquake, a group of Mexico City residents worked diligently to discredit false claims.

Madeleine Wattenbarger