With its new farm bill, Florida’s climate fight just hit a tractor-sized roadblock

The sweeping new law enshrines farmers' use of gas-powered equipment and weakens protections for conservation lands, locking the state's climate-battered ag sector into fossil fuel dependence.

‘We’re harvesting the sun’: A huge solar project grows in California

A sweeping plan to build 21 gigawatts of solar plus batteries on 136,000 acres could be a lifeline for Central Valley farmers facing devastating water shortages.

A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.

At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

Trump’s Secret Wars on the World Keep Expanding

Our analysis reveals that the “peace” president has embroiled the U. S. in more than 20 military interventions, armed conflicts, and wars.

Taking the Battle for Human Attention Seriously

The battle for human attention has become the defining geopolitical and democratic contest of the digital age.

DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator

Staffers from DOGE are revamping rules in ways to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry.

Your ‘widely recyclable’ Starbucks cup is still trash

A new label promises single-use cups are recyclable. But that doesn't mean they actually get recycled.

Wartime Budgets Are an X-Ray of Presidential Priorities

By choosing escalation in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson’s plan to fund both guns and butter unraveled.