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I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture Is Toxic.

There are better ways of doing social justice work. Ms. Ross, an expert on women’s issues, racism and human rights, is a founder of the reproductive justice theory.

How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life

“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

Opinion: Trump’s mismanagement of the economy is monumental

NEW YORK (Project Syndicate) — In the new world wrought by President Donald Trump, where one shock follows another, there is never time to think through fully the implications of the events with which we are bombarded.

House Republican Mass Shooting Strategy Revealed In Leaked Memo: Blame the Left, Minimize White Supremacy Role

A recently leaked memo from House Republicans shows that the GOP is urging its politicians to blame recent mass shootings on the left, while downplaying the role of white supremacy.

'Bolton Is Desperate to Start a War': US Issues Warrant to Seize Iranian Oil Tanker

Hours after the Gibraltar Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's effort to stop the release of an Iranian oil tanker seized by the U.K.

Why this Never Trump ex-Republican will vote for almost any 2020 Democratic nominee

I don’t care if Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a mendacious Massachusetts liberal. She could tell me that she’s going to make me wear waffles as underpants and I’ll vote for her. I don’t care if Sen. Kamala Harris is an opportunistic California prosecutor who wants to relitigate busing.

The Next Recession Is Going to Be Brutal

Market-watchers enjoying their first sip of coffee around 6 a.m. might have done a spit-take.

Court Upholds North Dakota Law Stripping Voting Rights From Native Americans

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a law that strips nearly 10 percent of all voting-age Native Americans living in North Dakota of their right to vote.

Trump’s U.N. ambassador confronts ethics questions over climate change

President Donald Trump’s new ambassador to the United Nations will decide whether to recuse herself from issues involving fossil fuels on a case-by-case basis after a recent briefing with ethics lawyers, State Department officials said.

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How a huge forest of extinct trees sparked transformation of life on Earth

If you were to step back in time some 365 million years, you might see a landscape more akin to the wilder shores of science fiction than earthly reality. Imagine a forest made up only of one kind of tree.

Trump Asks Supreme Court to OK Firing Workers for Being Trans

For the second time in a week, the Trump administration has attempted to erode workplace protections for LGBTQ+ employees.

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Two proposals on home lead safety leaves solutions in the air for City of Toledo

TOLEDO, Ohio — City Council and the Mayor's Office are only one floor apart at One Government Center but Councilman Larry Sykes believes the city should be making changes now when it comes to lead safe homes. However the mayor's office wants to wait until after a pending lawsuit is over.

The West Is Trading Water for Cash. The Water Is Running Out

When it comes to global warming’s one-two punch of inundation and drought, the presence of too much water has had the most impact on U.S. agriculture this year, with farmers in the Midwest swamped by flooding throughout the Mississippi Basin.

How the Texas Rangers murdered hundreds of Mexicans on the border in 1915

As the U.S. reels from two devastating mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio this week, descendants of a terrible 1915 massacre where Texas Rangers slaughtered hundreds of Mexicans and Mexican Americans along the border are warning that history is repeating itself.

How global warming in Siberia is unearthing animals frozen for thousands of years

The lab assistant reaches into the freezer and lifts out a football-size object in a tattered plastic grocery bag, unwrapping its muddy covering and placing it on a wooden table. It is the severed head of a wolf. The animal, with bared teeth and mottled fur, appears ready to lunge.

Supreme Court sets Oct. 8 to hear whether workers can be fired for being LGBT

The Supreme Court has set Oct. 8 for oral arguments in the Title VII cases. (Blade file photo by Michael Key)The U.S. Supreme Court has designed Oct.

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Why Your Brain Can’t Process Climate Change

IDEAS Bryan Walsh is a contributor to TIME. Previously, he was TIME’s International Editor, its energy and environmental correspondent and was the Tokyo bureau chief in 2006 and 2007. He lives in New York.

Fox News Host Expresses Frustration That Young Americans Believe in Climate Change

Fox News co-host Pete Hegseth criticized 2020 presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for being concerned about climate change, lamenting the fact that "young kids voting" are worried about the global threat.

Donald Trump’s Politics of Hate Began With a “Cynical and Evil” GOP Memo

Donald Trump’s outburst of nativistic racism—viscerally and putridly displayed by his “go back” tweet-attack on four congresswomen of color, and the subsequent and shocking (even for Trump) “send her back” rally in North Carolina on Wednesday night—has been a clarifying moment.

Trump’s State-by-State Approval Ratings Should Scare the MAGA Out of Him

There has been a lot of discussion in political circles about Donald Trump’s job-approval ratings, what they portend, and Trump’s Electoral College strategy for 2020, which doesn’t necessarily require a popular-vote plurality.

The Right-Wing American Love Affair With One of the Most Disturbing Serial Killers

There’s a direct link between a sociopathic killer in 1927 and the GOP’s willingness to embrace a sociopathic president like Trump. That link runs through the work of Ayn Rand.

Data and map released by Lucas County and Toledo show nutrient hot spots that feed algal blooms

TOLEDO, Ohio — The city of Toledo and Lucas County on Monday released data that pinpoints the origins of the nutrients that feed the algal blooms in Lake Erie. The Nutrient Source Inventory began nearly three years ago by the Lucas County Sustainability Commission.

Trump’s Deficit Economy

Economists have repeatedly tried to explain to Donald Trump that trade agreements may affect which countries the US buys from and sells to, but not the magnitude of the overall deficit. But, as usual, Trump believes what he wants to believe, leaving those who can least afford it to pay the price.

Arctic wildfires spew soot and smoke cloud bigger than EU

The normally frozen region, which is a crucial part of the planet’s cooling system, is spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and worsening the manmade climate disruption that created the tinderbox conditions.

Trump administration announces new immigration rules that would deny people visas for being poor

The Trump administration has unveiled new rules that could deny visas and permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of people for being too poor.

Denver’s City Council, Led by Democratic Socialist, Stuns For-Profit Prison Operators by Nuking Contracts

Two for-profit prison companies have lost major contracts in Denver over their work in immigrant detention, as backlash to President Donald Trump’s immigration policy continues to mount. The stunning $10.

The ideology of postmodernism is to present all existing injustice as an effect of discrimination; Robert Pfaller tells ILNA

The ruling ideology since the fall of the Berlin Wall, or even earlier, is postmodernism.

My Neighbors are Voting for Trump and It's Not Because They're Rednecks

It’s not because they’re stupid rednecks. Voting for Trump is about being part of a large reality show. Really.

A new, huge review of gun research has bad news for the NRA

For decades, the federal government, with the support of the National Rifle Association, has made it very difficult to answer a question at the heart of American public health and safety: Does gun control work?

Alaska's hottest month portends transformation into 'unfrozen state'

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - July 2019 now stands as Alaska’s hottest month on record, the latest benchmark in a long-term warming trend with ominous repercussions ranging from rapidly vanishing summer sea ice and melting glaciers to raging wildfires and deadly chaos for marine life.

Climate Scientists Say We Have 18 Months To Save The Planet

It wasn't so long ago that the governments of the world assured us that we had until 2030 to cut carbon emissions, leading us all to believe we still had a bit of time up our sleeves to save the planet.

Trump said people with mental illness should be 'involuntarily confined' if necessary to prevent mass shootings, despite research showing a lack of connection between mental illness and gun violence

President Donald Trump said Monday he believed that people with mental illness should be "involuntarily confined" in order to prevent mass shootings, despite research showing that people with mental illness are responsible for a tiny percentage of gun violence.

Trump, Tax Cuts and Terrorism

Why do Republicans enable right-wing extremism? Why has the Republican Party become a systematic enabler of terrorism?

FBI agents are reluctant to pursue white nationalist extremists because they don't want to target Trump's base, former counterterrorism official says

FBI agents are hesitant to investigate white nationalist extremists because they don't want to be seen as pursuing investigations against President Donald Trump's base, a former FBI counterterrorism agent told The Washington Post.

The Second Amendment has failed America

Enough. No more. Stop. The gun massacres in America are now coming so quickly, one after another, that it's impossible to process our grief and anger before the next one occurs. There is a sickness in our land, and it cries out for an immediate, righteous, and even radical response.

The White House Blocked My Report on Climate Change and National Security

Politics intruded on science and intelligence. That’s why I quit my job as an analyst for the State Department. Dr. Schoonover was a senior analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the State Department.

Trump Gives Pen to Dow Chemical CEO After Signing Executive Order to Eliminate Regulations

President Donald Trump has signed another executive order aimed at eliminating regulations that he claims are damaging to the U.S. economy, but some worry that the measure will roll back critical environmental protections.

Siberian Wildfires and Heatwaves in Alaska: How the Arctic Is Nearing a Point of No Return

Many of the globe’s far northern regions have been experiencing extreme weather events over the past two months.

Those 'rat infested' places in Baltimore? They're owned by Trump's son-in-law

President Donald Trump tweeted out a storm of attacks against Rep. Elijah Cummings, calling him "racist" and his district a "rodent infested mess." USA TODAY

Greenland Is Melting Away Before Our Eyes

Amid an ongoing heat wave, new data show the Greenland ice sheet is in the middle of its biggest melt season in recorded history. It’s the latest worrying signal climate change is accelerating far beyond the worst fears of even climate scientists.

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