The death toll continues to rise from the fire that has ravaged the island of Maui in Hawaii. More than 90 deaths have been recorded so far, but the number is almost certain to rise. The fire is the worst so far in modern U.S. history, worse than the 2018 Camp fire in...
As winter began in late 2022, Adrienne Smith of the Easterwood neighborhood in West Baltimore had her gas service turned off, leaving her family without heat, hot water, or a functional stove. Smith had refused access to Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) when the...
After six months of demonstrations in which tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in opposition, the right-wing Netanyahu government has finally succeeded in passing its proposed reform to the country’s court system. The courts, under the new legislation...
Christopher Nolan’s latest film has been a box office hit, an adaptation of the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Prometheus, written by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin. Oppenheimer provides a perspective on the intertwined technical, political, and moral...
The so-called capitalist transition to green energy has a problem: it isn’t profitable to produce cobalt, a key element in the construction of lithium-ion batteries. Most of the world’s cobalt production is currently in China, which has large reserves of the metal....
