Weak La Niña follows potent El Niño
A year ago, the equatorial Pacific was pulsing with heat, due to one of the most intense El Niños on record. But the current La Niña has been relatively quiet.
Why Democrats need to speak with one voice on Obamacare
When one side speaks in unison, the point coming from that side is solidified. When comments from the other side are scattershot, they get lost.
Forget ‘imperial’ California: Donald Trump only won the Electoral College thanks to Appalachia
Trump’s narrow victory in enough states to win the Electoral College despite losing the national popular vote has sparked a firestorm of debate over that institution.
Senate Confirmation Hearings to Begin Without All Background Checks
As Senate Republicans embark on a flurry of confirmation hearings this week, several of Donald J. Trump’s appointees have yet to complete the background checks and ethics clearances customarily required before the Senate begins to consider cabinet-level nominees.
Republicans Prepare Efforts To Defund Planned Parenthood
Republicans are once again threatening to defund Planned Parenthood. They’ve tried and failed before, but they could have new momentum this time around with control of the House, Senate and the White House.
Republicans Would Repeal Obamacare In Precisely The Way They Accuse Democrats Of Enacting It
Secret negotiating, misrepresentation and a rush to judgment — yep, it’s all there.
How to Fight Food Waste With Food Waste
Apeel Sciences uses what might otherwise be trash to make a second skin for fragile fruit and vegetable products.
House Republicans to Gut Ethics Watchdog
Drain the … womp womp!
Four Cabinet nominations that could blow up in Donald Trump’s face
It would only take a handful of GOP turncoats to torpedo some controversial nods.
Rex Tillerson Supposedly Shifted Exxon Mobil’s Climate Position. Except He Really Didn’t.
The oil giant’s transformation on global warming was more rhetorical than anything else.
