There are all kinds of impurities from industrial activities like manufacturing and transportation that can poison the air. The smallest seem to be the most sinister.
Particles called PM2.5, which come from burning fossil fuels, in...
Quartz
The Kavanaugh Senate confirmation fight is actually the first race of the midterms
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a US Supreme Court justice should be a shoe-in, but lobbying groups are still spending millions trying to convince American voters to support or oppose him.
The Senate remains controlled by the Republicans, who hold a 51-49 margin as...
The rolling protests during Kavanaugh’s Senate hearing were carefully organized and will continue all week
About 30 people, most of them women, were arrested during Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation on Tuesday morning after shouting slogans and criticism at ruffled senators from the public gallery.
“Kavanaugh can’t be trusted,” yelled one pr...
How Trump built an invisible wall around America
Thanks to a whirlwind of executive orders, policy adjustments, and subtle bureaucratic changes, US immigration policy is looking more and more like the xenophobic 1920s. Back then, the US barred Asians, as well as Italians, Greeks, and people from Eastern Europe. This ti...
Maternal death rates are a key indicator of why the state of female health in the US is so terrible
No rich country has a rate of maternal death (and near-deaths) comparably high to the US. The blame has been placed largely on how the US treats pregnancy and related emergency issues, but new data on deaths across the US (pdf) released by the country’s Centers fo...
John McCain helped build a country that no longer exists
Arizona senator John McCain—scion of Navy brass, flyboy turned Vietnam war hero and tireless defender of American global leadership—died on Saturday (August 25) after a year of t...
After John McCain’s death, the White House flag is flying at full mast
The American flag atop the White House was flying on the top of its mast on Monday morning after the death of Arizona senator John McCain, putting the presidential residence at odds with many other federal buildings in the United States.
The senator died on Aug. 2...
The White House plan: Just keep putting Trump on stage
Hours after Donald Trump’s onetime personal lawyer admitted he was pushed by his client to break the law and his 2016 campaign chairman was found guilty of tax and bank fraud, the president too...
Even with five conservative judges, it won’t be so easy to take away abortion rights
With Brett Kavanaugh as Donald Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court justice, reproductive rights advocates are concerned that America might soon overturn Roe v. Wade, opening the way for conservative states to ban abortion.
Kavanaugh’s voting history suggests he would be willing to...
