Open Thread

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Picture yourself in a windswept forest. Leaves are rustling and trunks are creaking as trees sway to and fro. This oscillation might seem precarious, but it’s actually an ancient adaptation: If pines and firs and all the others were perfectly stiff, a […]

The Court's 1963 ruling in Bantam Books v. Sullivan is freshly relevant in light of recent efforts to restrict speech through government intimidation.

Tens of millions of dollars are being funneled into different sides of a high-profile redistricting referendum in Virginia as voters consider a new congressional map that could net Democrats as many as four seats ahead of the November midterm elections.  The state is holding a referendum on Tuesday, where Democratic lawmakers are asking voters if they can temporarily...

While headlines scream about U.S. diplomatic collapse, the Pentagon regularly sponsors multinational military exercises across the globe in which collectively dozens of countries participate. Jordan, for example, hosts the annual Eager Lion exercises. After the 1978 Camp David Accords, the United States and Egypt began annual Bright Star exercises in Egypt. Morocco will soon begin […]