Americans might expect both sides to put forward their best, brightest and most electorally compelling candidates to try to win. But thanks to polarization and negative partisanship, it isn’t always so.

Human Rights & Justice

Justice for the Groveland Four: Florida’s Legislature Let Something Good Slip Through

Florida's small, but significant, gesture to the Groveland Boys and their families is a positive step in a state that struggles to confront the past.

Climate & Environment

How Trump’s EPA Is Limiting Its Own Ability to Protect Public Health Far Into the Future

The Trump administration is trying to tie the hands of future administrations when it comes to regulating pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions.

Progress & Solutions

What a Geothermal Company’s IPO Just Taught Us About the Future of Food

It may sound counterintuitive but Fervo Energy's super hot IPO this week is actually a canary in the opportunity coal mine for food's future.

Opinions & Commentary

We Can See Trump’s Reflection in the Reflecting Pool

The Reflecting Pool debacle is not an aberration, and sadly, it is not going to be the curtain call for our lame duck wannabe dictator.

Fact Heroes

Be Like President Zelenskyy, Don’t Bow to the Bully Messiah

If there’s one truth about bullies, which President Zelenskyy reminded us of with precise clarity, it’s that they’re absolutely terrified of resistance.

Quick Facts

Border Patrol Is Targeting Legal Immigrants Using a 1940 Law in Southern Arizona

The Trump administration has escalated enforcement tactics against legal immigrants using a decades-old law initially designed to track non-citizens.

Racism (Us vs Them)

Juneteenth, Jim Crow and the Fight of One Black Texas Family to Make Freedom Real

Texas history is both the story of people who dedicated their lives to the work of advancing freedom and the story of powerful people and forces that stood against it.

Money Over People

AI Is Running the Global Gig Economy. Governments Must Respond to Protect Gig Workers.

This is about more than how companies that use gig workers operate. It is about whether labor law can keep pace with the way companies now organize labor.

Larry's Observations

Memorial Day Blues

This is not a day of celebration but a day of expressing grief and sorrow, a day to ruminate about the horrors of war and give thanks to the brave and willing.

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