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The big banks are not taking a rare legislative defeat lying down.
Days after President Obama signed into law a highway package that finally ended an egregious, 100-year-old subsidy for big banks, two of Wall […]

ON DECEMBER 8, the state of Georgia carried out its fifth and final execution of the year, killing 47-year-old Brian Keith Terrell by lethal injection for a 1992 murder. It was a fight over money, the state said. […]

A group formed this year by executives and lobbyists for the defense contracting industry is taking credit for “driving the national debate on foreign policy during the 2016 presidential election,” and in partic […]

On Tuesday, as the sun rose in Paris, a delegation of indigenous people from Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorean Amazon, set out in a handmade, wooden canoe along the Villette Canal. The Kichwa people of Sarayaku have […]

Leading glaciologist Jason Box was an expert witness in a mock trial of Exxon held at COP21, which examined how the oil giant concealed its own findings dating back to the 1970s that fossil fuels cause global […]

Broadcasting from COP21, where 200 nations are in the final stretch of negotiations aimed at reaching an accord to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change, we speak with a scientist who has spent the […]

While in attendance at the U.N. climate summit, Lord Nicholas Stern, the prominent British climate economist and former chief economist of the World Bank, weighs in on Republican presidential candidate Donald […]

In 2006, Lord Nicholas Stern, the prominent British climate economist and former chief economist of the World Bank, published a pioneering report, “The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.” We speak to […]

The United States will allow the words “loss and damage” in the Paris accords only if it is agreed that the U.S. is not liable for paying for it. “Loss and damage” refers to compensation for countries already […]

“What we’re dealing with is a death by a thousand cuts,” says North Dakota indigenous leader Kandi Mossett of the impact of the booming fracking and oil-drilling industry in her home state. “We’ve had violence aga […]

Talks at the U.N. climate summit in Paris have been extended into the weekend as representatives from nearly 200 nations work to finalize a global accord. A new draft text includes the voluntary target of limiting […]

U.N. Climate Talks Extended; Draft Includes Voluntary 1.5-Degree TargetSyrian Opposition Agrees to Regime Talks, Demands Assad’s DepartureIraq Claims Progress in Ramadi; U.S. Says Strikes Kill 3 ISIL […]

In an unusually direct attack on online privacy and free speech, the ruling regime of Kazakhstan appears to have mandated the country’s telecommunications operators to intercept citizens’ Internet traffic using a […]

Digital analyzer. IMSI catcher. Stingray. Triggerfish. Dirt box. Cell-site simulator. The list of aliases used by the devices that masquerade as a cell phone tower, trick your phone into connecting with them, and […]

WHEN YOUNOUS CHEKKOURI was released from Guantánamo this September, his 13 years of imprisonment did not end.
Despite assurances from the State Department to his lawyers that his native Morocco would not detain o […]

A RIGHT-WING BLOG called “Pajamas Media” published an article on November 24 claiming that Saadiq Long, a Muslim American veteran of the U.S. Air Force, was arrested in Turkey for being an ISIS operative. Writ […]

“How does a country negotiate its own perceived demise? This may be the most pertinent question to consider when pondering the role of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations 21st Conference of Parties in Paris,” […]

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced plans to double the funding that the United States provides to help developing countries adapt to climate change to around $860 million a year. Critics […]

Representatives from nearly 200 nations are in the final stretch of negotiations at the U.N. climate summit in Paris. The text has nearly 100 outstanding points of disagreement that still need to be resolved. One […]

It’s the final stretch of negotiations at the United Nations climate change summit, COP21, as representatives from nearly 200 countries attempt to reach a final deal before the weekend. A draft text released W […]