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An inside look at the vision and strategy behind Extinction Rebellion D.C.’s campaign that is blocking $12 billion in new fossil fuel infrastructure.

Most prisons have no real plan for how to deal with the kind of misery climate change inflicts—and will inflict—on incarcerated people.

“Monopolies not only have economic power, but use that power to buy political power,” she tells The Lever’s David Sirota.

Trump Tells Supporters No Need to Vote in the Future

Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was Trinity, the first, test-run atomic explosion in the New Mexican desert. The fallout is still with us, literally and figuratively, 79 years later. This is the story of Trinity, based on declassified documents.

With thousands of faculty and students likely killed and campuses destroyed, Palestinian universities in the Strip are barely surviving Israel’s scholasticide.

Vaccines have saved many tens of millions of lives in the last 50 years. Nevertheless, misinformation leads many people to reject or be denied their benefits. These are some of the top false vaccine stories purveyed by RFK Jr and similar 'skeptics.'

The GOP’s far-right infotainers have become a critical GOP power center that its aspiring politicians must court if they wish to rise within the party ranks. That's a problem for the GOP.

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