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Flags of Convenience: Trump’s Secretary of Transportation’s Major Conflict of Interest
Elaine Chao’s family owns ships flagged abroad, a way to avoid U.S. taxes and higher labor costs. But…
How Useful Are Campaign Post-Mortems?
We tend to focus on the bad moments when looking back at a losing campaign and ignore them…
Obama’s Final Press Conference of 2016: This Is Not the Resistance You Were Looking for
The president’s base wanted fiery words and an explicit rebuke of Donald Trump. Instead, they got a lot…
The Great Barrier Reef Just Suffered Its Worst Coral Die-Off on Record
In the northern region of the Great Barrier Reef, about 67 percent of the corals have died over…
Could Overturning 185 Years of Precedent Let Donald Trump Keep His Businesses?
Another view of the clause in the Constitution regarding payments from foreign countries would let Trump off the…
Giraffes Are Facing a Silent Extinction
The giraffe’s place on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List has jumped two spots…
The EPA’s Latest Report Finds Fracking to Be a Threat to U.S. Water Supplies
The EPA’s finding, endorsed by environmentalists, comes as the Trump administration prepares to rethink regulation of the gas…
Donald Trump’s Showdown With the Department of Energy Is a Sign of Things to Come
The federal government is about to lose a ton of institutional memory. By Jared Keller (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty…
The EPA Finally Confirmed That Fracking Is Terrible for Drinking Water
But is the agency’s new report too little, too late? By Jared Keller (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images) After…