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Adams will be remembered for his petty corruption, his self-mythologizing, and his ignominious dealmaking with the Trump White House; but he should also be remembered as the mayor who got New Yorkers to stop tossing giant bags of trash onto city sidewalks as if there were no alternative. You can laugh at a New York mayor who walks into a press conference wheeling out a trash can, beaming as if he invented the contraption, while “Empire State of Mind” blares triumphantly in the background. But truly, Adams’s proclaimed “trash revolution” represented a tremendous advance over abysmal past practice.

So, in the cramped airplane’s limited sightlines, I looked for clues about whether these were just regular Midwestern dads, like me, flying for work, or whether they were regular Midwestern dads, flying for work, to terrorize and disappear people. How would I know the difference?

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Justice Democrats is endorsing Claire Valdez, a socialist with the backing of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and UAW President Shawn Fain.

Europe's leading public intellectual offers a flawed, Eurocentric reading of US politics that obscures more than it reveals.

Wildfires destroyed 13,000 homes 12 months ago. In Los Angeles County, just seven have been rebuilt.

The federal government is openly embracing white nationalist online content — including in a recent recruitment post.

New York AG Letitia James shut down the pro-Israel group Betar U. S. for biased harassment and violence against Arabs, Muslims, and others.

It’s not clear how many Iranians inside Iran support former crown prince Reza Pahlavi — but he’s definitely Israel’s favorite.

In July 1987 the Hajj ceremony in Mecca turned into a bloodbath. Shia pilgrims, mostly Iranians, staged a protest, chanting against America, Israel, and

Complaints about civilians killed or injured in the U. S. attack on Venezuela are instead being handled by the Pentagon directly.

Joseph E. Stiglitz thinks the rest of the world should plan for the worst and pursue a policy of containment of the US.

The British Government has launched a consultation for banning the use of cages for laying hens.

Amid changing political headwinds, the moratorium on soy-driven deforestation is in danger. What now?

The federal program shut down before Biden left office, but a handful of state efforts are carrying on — with a lower profile.

The U. S. House voted to cut millions promised for the work this year. The Senate will vote this week, as advocates and some lawmakers push back.

The super-rich are disproportionately responsible for driving the climate crisis - Oxfam.

Bill Ackman gave $10,000 to a GoFundMe for ICE killer Jonathon Ross that was started by a man whose account who posted Nazi imagery online.

Space is cold and has abundant solar energy — the very things data centers need. Experts tell us it’s not that simple.