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A coal truck transports coal in Price, Utah.

Environment

Trump’s New Clean Energy Rule Is a Last-Ditch Effort to Save the Coal Industry

The Trump administration's replacement for Obama's signature climate rule is meant to be a lifeline for the nation's coal-fired power plants, but it may be too late.

Kate Wheeling

News in Brief

What Hawaii Gets Right About Prescription Medication

Medicare patients in the state appear to be much less likely to overuse problematic prescription drugs, including opioid pain medications and antibiotics, than people in the mainland United States.

Charles Ornstein & Ryann Grochowski Jones

Environment

Senate Fails to Overturn Obama-Era Methane Regulation

The regulation is expected to save taxpayers $330 million a year.

Kate Wheeling

Barack Obama at the Islamic Society of Baltimore on February 3rd, 2016.

News in Brief

Being Black and Watching Obama From Abroad

Celebrating one of Barack Obama's greatest feats: making the color of American citizenship less white.

Brandon Tensley

Environment

Five Things President Obama Could Do to Help the Arctic—Ground Zero for Climate Change

A should-do list for the president's three-day trip to Alaska.

Alisa Opar

News in Brief

Politicians Gonna Politic

Is there something to the idea that a politician who no longer faces re-election is free to pursue new policy solutions without needing to kowtow to special interests?

Seth Masket

News in Brief

Obama Promised to Divulge More on Drones 6 Months Ago: Here’s What We Still Don’t Know

Who can be targeted, what's the precise legal rationale behind strikes, does the U.S. compensate for civilian casualties, and other questions we still have about America's ongoing drone war.

Cora Currier

Social Justice

Is It Wrong to Comment on the Appearance of Professional Women?

President Nixon got himself into a bit of hot water when he commented on Helen Thomas' slacks. But 40 years later we're still making the same mistakes.

Miranda Weinberg