Dave Levitan - Gravity Is Gone

Chuck Schumer sitting at a table in the White House, gesticulating, with John Thune and Mike Johnson next to him and a "Trump 2028" hat on the table

'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave

"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."

Staffers hand Lyndon Johnson documents inside the Oval Office

This Whole Thing Really Snuck Up On Us

Looking back, and ahead, on the anniversary of a White House warning.

Structures are flattened and in pieces as a man walks through the rubble

The Long Tail of Hurricane Death Will Be Even Longer in Jamaica

A growing body of research has demonstrated that hits from tropical cyclones leave more than just damaged rooftops in their wake, in fact raising mortality rates through a likely wide variety of mechanisms for years.

A dry and cracked landscape with some grasses to the right

A Climate-Centric Analysis of the Latest Left-Punching Screed

The fact is, more people care about this than the authors suggest. More people will care even more as the years pass because the problem is not only not going away but actively getting worse.

Letting Silicon Valley Geoengineer the Atmosphere Will End Badly

We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.

A hole in the side of the East Wing of the White House

What Is the Biggest Hole Trump Has Ripped in the Walls?

A reasonable accounting of the major policies enacted in one way or another in the nine months of the Trump administration resembles, essentially, a series of weeping voids in the sides of various figurative edifices, now given corporeal form within view of the Treasury building.

Protesters carry signs reading things like "Fascism Stinks," "No Kings," and "Make Good Trouble"

'I Wanted My Body to Be Counted': Furloughed Federal Employees Join Enormous Day of Protest

"I can't just sit back and watch things fall apart."

Multiple black smoke plumes are seen in the distance across open water

Fossil Fuel Boosters Will Keep Trying to Speak Their Version of the Future Into Existence

The lemonade stand owner releasing a report on the increasing demand for lemonade is, at best, wishful thinking, and at worst, active market manipulation.

Trees are seen at night with an orange glow and smoke behind them.

Climate Tipping Points Don't Face in Just One Direction

Some of the scariest climate thresholds are approaching fast. But so are some potential ways out.

OMB Director Russell Vought at the White House press podium with raised hands in the foregroun

Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired

Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."

Some troops stand with shields and masks in Portland while a person in an inflatable frog costume thrusts at them.

Portland Is Burning on the Only Screens That Matter

It has long been convenient for people opposed to any given protest movement to characterize it as being far more violent and lawless than it actually is. It's just that usually we can be relatively sure that the people doing the characterizing know that they are lying.

A vast solar power plant with panels stretching to the horizon

The (Rest of the) World is Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind

For the first time, renewable energy generated more electricity globally than coal. We're not going back.