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Democrats Are Shockingly Unprepared to Fight Climate Change
There’s no magic bill waiting in the wings—and no quick path to arriving at one.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Senate Democrats Call for Investigation of Pruitt's Unusual Raises
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Tom Carper question whether Pruitt or one of his aides abused special hiring powers granted by the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters What Motivated the YouTube Shooter?
The suspect, Nasim Aghdam, was driven by animus toward the video site’s policies.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides
The embattled EPA chief used an obscure provision last month to increase the salaries of a pair of staffers by tens of thousands of dollars.
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Paul Sakuma / AP Facebook's Ideological Imperialism
Andrew Bosworth’s memo may seem insidious, but its logic used to be very popular.
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Reuters / Getty / The Atlantic / Thanh ... A Generation Under Siege
On a cold spring day, hundreds of thousands of adults stood and listened to children—under attack, and unwilling to wait any longer for solutions.
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Albert Gea / Reuters Uber’s Collision, Facebook’s Disgrace
In just 36 hours, two nightmares unfolded for American tech companies. Here’s what they have in common.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Can Anyone Unseat Mark Zuckerberg?
Facebook’s chief executive flailed in his first public interviews since the Cambridge Analytica story broke. Will it matter?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Why Are There Suddenly So Many Nor'Easters?
I asked the guy who wrote the textbook about them.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters The Cambridge Analytica Scandal, in 3 Paragraphs
What it means for Facebook, for President Trump’s world, and for every American
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Daniel Lombroso / The Atlantic YouTube Removes the 'Hail, Trump' Video From Search
It said The Atlantic’s footage, which captured alt-right members giving Nazi salutes, was “borderline content” under its hate-speech policy. It restored the video after being questioned on Monday.
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Krista Trinder Canadian Amateurs Discovered a New Type of Aurora
It’s named Steve.
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Andrew Aitchison / Pictures Ltd. / Corbis / ... Why It’s Okay to Call It ‘Fake News’
“We can’t shy away from phrases because they’ve been somehow weaponized.”
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Krista Kennell / Stone / Catwalker / Shutterstock ... The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News
Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter, penetrating further, faster, and deeper into the social network than accurate information.
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David Ryder / Reuters Maybe Blue States Won’t Take Serious Action on Climate Change
An important carbon-tax proposal dies in the Washington statehouse.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters They're Here to Fix Climate Change! They’re College Republicans.
"A lot of young conservatives are frustrated by the false choice between no climate action and a big government regulatory scheme."
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Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Parts of the Arctic Spiked to 45 Degrees Above Normal
Meanwhile, Europe is bitterly cold.
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Shutterstock / Thanh Do / The Atlantic The Air Pollutants in Your Medicine Cabinet
A new study finds that many household goods degrade air quality more than once thought.
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Issei Kato / Reuters So Is It Spring Yet?
Three ways of thinking (scientifically) about the East Coast’s ridiculous heat
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Thom Baur / AP The Righteous Anger of the Parkland Shooting’s Teen Survivors
Students have mourned and rallied the public after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High that left 17 dead.
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Dominic Favre / AP To Survive, These Animals Must Lose Their Camouflage
How can the snowshoe hare and Arctic fox thrive in a climate-changed world, where there’s less snow to blend in with?
