Far-right extremists have nothing to complain about as Trump has embraced their agenda

Far-right extremists have nothing to complain about as Trump has embraced their agenda

The New York Times reports: During President Trump’s first turn in the White House, right-wing extremists like the Proud Boys were on the streets, weekend after weekend, raising their voices — and oftentimes their fists — about issues such as immigration, the squelching of conservative speech and the removal of Confederate-era statues. But in the first seven months of Mr. Trump’s second term, there has been a conspicuous absence of far-right demonstrations. And that, some leaders of the movement say,…

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The new American inequality separating those who can or cannot escape from insufferable heat

The new American inequality separating those who can or cannot escape from insufferable heat

Jeff Goodell writes: Summer is not what it used to be. On a hot August day, an outdoor concert can feel like a picnic in Death Valley. A trip to Disney World is a roller-coaster ride through unshaded hell. The Beach Boys’ “All Summer Long” sounds like a love letter from another planet. In the hottest regions of the country, such as Texas, where I live, the climate crisis is not only changing our world; it is also dividing it….

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From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes – and we will all feel them

From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes – and we will all feel them

By Nerilie Abram, Australian National University; Ariaan Purich, Monash University; Felicity McCormack, Monash University; Jan Strugnell, James Cook University, and Matthew England, UNSW Sydney Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is shrinking rapidly, the floating glaciers known as ice shelves are melting faster, the ice sheets carpeting the continent are approaching tipping points and vital ocean currents…

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Trump’s Epstein problem is real: New poll shows many in base disapprove of handling of files, some having second thoughts about electing him

Trump’s Epstein problem is real: New poll shows many in base disapprove of handling of files, some having second thoughts about electing him

Pollsters found that 47% of 2024 Trump voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the Epstein controversy. These supporters are at a rally in Doral, Fla., on July 9, 2024. Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images By Tatishe Nteta, UMass Amherst; Adam Eichen, UMass Amherst; Alexander Theodoridis, UMass Amherst; Jesse Rhodes, UMass Amherst, and Raymond La Raja, UMass Amherst Has President Donald Trump survived the latest and most serious firestorm of controversy over the Epstein scandal? Or has the Trump administration’s handling…

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In Trump’s America, child sex predators go free but children whose lives could be saved are kept out

In Trump’s America, child sex predators go free but children whose lives could be saved are kept out

Axios reports: MAGA is pushing the Trump administration to explain why an Israeli official who was arrested in an undercover child sex sting in Nevada was allowed to leave the U.S. after posting bail. Why it matters: The outrage marks the latest fissure between Israel and MAGA, which already faces a generational divide over how much the U.S. should support Israel amid the war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Driving the news: Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a senior Israeli cybersecurity official, was arrested during an undercover operation in…

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Poll indicates Trump’s ICE raids are backfiring in California — even among Republicans

Poll indicates Trump’s ICE raids are backfiring in California — even among Republicans

Politico reports: Donald Trump’s immigration raids may be backfiring in California, even among Republicans and independents who otherwise support tougher border security, according to a new poll from POLITICO and its partners. Nearly three-quarters of registered voters in the state — including roughly half of Republicans — said removing millions of undocumented immigrants from the workforce would hurt California’s economy, the latest POLITICO-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab poll found. And roughly 80 percent of voters, including a majority of Republicans, said undocumented…

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How deceit, delusion, and the inexorable pull of the past killed the two-state solution

How deceit, delusion, and the inexorable pull of the past killed the two-state solution

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley write: The war that has engulfed Israel, the Gaza Strip, and well beyond since October 7, 2023, has confronted the world with much on which it had never set eyes before. In scope and brutality, Hamas’s assault on Israelis exceeded any prior Palestinian act. Israel’s military attacks and forced starvation in Gaza are an onslaught governed by unusual rules, in which the death of Palestinian fighters seems like collateral damage, while the widespread, indiscriminate slaughter…

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The United States is no longer a reliable, predictable place to do business

The United States is no longer a reliable, predictable place to do business

The New York Times reports: Through recessions, wars, financial crises and political turmoil, the U.S. economy has maintained its reputation as the safest place in the world for investors to put their money and for entrepreneurs to build their businesses. That has given the United States a nearly incalculable economic advantage, allowing it to borrow more cheaply, grow more quickly and emerge from downturns more successfully than nearly any of its global peers. President Trump may be chipping away at…

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Federal Judge orders Florida to tear down Alligator Alcatraz within 60 days

Federal Judge orders Florida to tear down Alligator Alcatraz within 60 days

Mother Jones reports: A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days. Two weeks after US District Judge Kathleen Williams, an Obama appointee, ordered a temporary pause on any new construction at Alligator Alcatraz, in response to a suit by environmental groups, she has now ordered the dismantling of equipment at…

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The Trump regime’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet

The Trump regime’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet

Lois Parshley writes: In the fall of 1925, agronomist Trofim Lysenko arrived on the dusty plains of what is now Azerbaijan, hoping to keep cows from starving to death over the winter. The young scientist, who learned to read as a teenager during the Russian Revolution, dismissed the rapidly advancing field of genetics. He believed nature could be bent to human will. Lysenko denounced the idea that genes pass traits down as a “degradation of bourgeois culture,” and couldn’t understand…

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Israeli army database indicates at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians

Israeli army database indicates at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians

+972 reports: Data from an internal Israeli intelligence database indicates that at least 83 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s onslaught on Gaza were civilians, an investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal. Figures obtained from the classified database — which records the deaths of militants from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) — contradict by a huge margin the public statements of Israeli army and government officials throughout the war, which have generally claimed a…

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Trump’s takeover of D.C. is authoritarian power grab that Democrats are failing to resist

Trump’s takeover of D.C. is authoritarian power grab that Democrats are failing to resist

Monica Potts writes: The military parade in June was just practice, it turns out. For more than a week, the nation has watched federal officers and even camouflaged troops patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C., causing increasing amounts of violence and mayhem. Videos of agents pulling a delivery driver off his moped and stopping to lecture a Black man smoking a cigarette on his own stoop have gone viral, while Republican governors from West Virginia, Ohio, South Carolina, Mississippi, and…

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The Orwellian nature of Trump’s push for ‘Americanism’ at the Smithsonian

The Orwellian nature of Trump’s push for ‘Americanism’ at the Smithsonian

Erasing history is a deeply Orwellian thing to do. Elen11, iStock/Getty Images Plus By Laura Beers, American University When people use the term “Orwellian,” it’s not a good sign. It usually characterizes an action, an individual or a society that is suppressing freedom, particularly the freedom of expression. It can also describe something perverted by tyrannical power. It’s a term used primarily to describe the present, but whose implications inevitably connect to both the future and the past. In his…

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Ukraine: All the Russians need to do is go home

Ukraine: All the Russians need to do is go home

Olga Rudenko writes: Vladimir Putin looked like he loved every minute of it. Mr. Putin, the president of Russia, the man who has proclaimed that my country shouldn’t exist — that it’s a historical mistake, to be fixed by Russian soldiers — was welcomed effusively to Alaska by the president of the United States. Mr. Putin exited his plane and diplomatic isolation and walked a red carpet like an honored guest. His smile was triumphant. Was it confidence that he…

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