Pennsylvania's measles outbreak has passed 1,000 cases — the worst in three decades — as New York declares a statewide emergency. The person most responsible for federal vaccine policy spent decades building the conditions that made both possible.
A Blue Cross Blue Shield analysis found that AI-powered billing tools drove $942 million in additional healthcare costs by flagging diagnoses with no corresponding treatment. The technology isn't making care more efficient — it's making billing more profitable.
A landmark UN report confirms the 1.5°C Paris target is no longer preventable. Its actual argument — the one being missed — is that every five years of delay now raises the peak temperature by at least a tenth of a degree. That's not a reason for despair. It's a price tag on inaction.
The Roadless Area Conservation Rule has protected 45 million acres of national forest from logging and road construction since 2001. Its repeal would threaten the drinking water of 60 million Americans and accelerate the extinction of 400 species — and the timber industry has been waiting 24 years f
Dozens of police officers have been accused of using Flock Safety's 80,000-camera surveillance network to track ex-partners and harass civilians. The company marketed the system as a crime-fighting tool — and left the keys entirely in police hands.
UEFA and CONCACAF have moved into open, public questioning of FIFA's leadership after Infantino's private equity plan collapsed — the most significant challenge to football's autocratic governance model in years.
Willie Nelson's stand against an AI data center in Abbott, Texas, is drawing national attention — but the real story is how Big Tech uses state tax incentives to turn water-stressed rural communities into infrastructure sacrifice zones.
More than 11,500 people across nine states have been sickened in the largest known cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history. The FDA rule designed to catch contamination like this faster was delayed by the previous administration — after produce industry lobbying.
The U.S. has recorded more measles cases in seven months of 2026 than in all of 2025. The outbreak map traces directly to states that adopted RFK Jr.'s vaccine policies — and the federal apparatus that would normally respond has been restructured by the same ideological network that produced the cri
The Trump administration has spent $3.825 billion in taxpayer money propping up coal plants the market had already condemned — and working Americans are paying higher energy bills to cover the debt.
Meta says users can opt out of its new AI image generation feature, which draws on public Instagram profile pictures. The opt-out arrives after the data is already scraped — which is exactly how the system was designed to work.
Armed, masked agents swept through Los Angeles last summer and took people away. The official story ended there. For three families, it never did — and their accounts reveal a human cost that compounds long after the vans leave.
A Harris Poll finds 95% of Americans recognize an affordability crisis — and two-thirds, including nearly half of Republican voters, doubt the administration will fix it. The gap between lived economic reality and political leadership is no longer a perception problem. It's a policy choice.
The DEA is emergency-scheduling a kratom compound as Schedule I — the same category as heroin. The pharmaceutical opioids that created the crisis kratom was filling face no equivalent action. That asymmetry is not accidental.
The NRC is proposing to eliminate the ALARA principle — the decades-old requirement that nuclear plants keep radiation exposure as low as reasonably achievable. The nuclear industry has lobbied for this for years. The people who will absorb the residual risk live in fence-line communities with no lo
The ocean has absorbed 90% of the excess heat humanity has generated since industrialization. In 2025, marine heatwave days tripled compared to the early 1990s. The buffer that bought us time is failing — and the communities paying the price are the ones least responsible for creating the crisis.