With California suffering another devastating wildfire year, more people are wondering about whether and how global warming is contributing. A climate scientist explains. By Kevin Trenberth.

The 33-year-old policy adviser has made unprecedented power grabs as he seeks to slash immigration to America. By Nahal Toosi.

Bank of America has been accused of asking citizenship questions and for proof of residency, then freezing customers’ accounts after failing to properly recognize their current residency status. By Rob Wile.

If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out. By David S. Glosser.

Deutsche Welle Documentary

Six photographers went out into remote regions around the world where indigenous communities are waging unseen battles against governments and commercial interests to remain on their ancestral land. Here's what they found.

Hemp was harvested on George Washington's historic estate, Mount Vernon, on Wednesday for the first time in centuries. By Aris Folley.

Journalists and politicians venerating John McCain’s civility and decency have a short memory. By Branko Marcetic.

"We now have two large camps, pitted against each other, who have starkly different conceptions of what their societies are and where they need to head. In a very real sense, these two camps no longer speak the same language. There has been a rupture, and they can find no common ground." By Johnathan Cook.

Lifting Up A Bloodstained, Lying, Venal Servant of Capitalist Empire. By Bruce Dixon.

Where the Koch brothers see government tyranny, most Americans see common-sense solutions to basic problems, it turns out. Nick Surgey, Zaid Jilani.

Some doctors support single-payer health care — even if that means a lower salary. By Dylan Scot.

George Pyle, the editorial page editor of The Salt Lake Tribune, doesn’t think of himself as a socialist because it sounds like being social.

Analysis of five body camera models marketed to police departments details vulnerabilities could let a hacker manipulate footage. By Lily Hay Newman.

"It was not very hard" to get the spending bill through Congress, Trump said. And he's definitely right about that. By Eric Boehm.

Rahe Clancy thought the NSA had become too corporate. So he wrote an agitated series of missives — for the agency. By Peter Maass.

Ten years after the American economy nearly pitched itself into the abyss, financial elites are again banking on ignorance and incompetence. By Chris Lehmann.

A federal court will be scrutinizing one of the National Security Agency’s worst spying programs on Monday. The case has the potential to restore crucial privacy protections for the millions of Americans who use the internet to communicate with family, friends, and others overseas.

The Russian public was quiet about Manafort and Cohen, but in the halls of power, debate about Trump’s usefulness rages. By Alexander Gabuev.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is already making big moves to honor his re-election commitment to defend the country from the impact of American sanctions.

It's common among a certain group of historians to call the 20th century "the American century," named for the political superpower that dominated it. Americans especially revel in the phrase... By Gaius Publius.

Ten years after Wall Street’s doomsday, how the financial meltdown broke the modern world and left us living in this one.

A fun new way to do crime...for summer! By Christopher Matthews.

Federal authorities halted work on the massive Mountain Valley Pipeline this month after an appeals court ruled that federal agencies neglected to follow environmental protections. By Kate Mishkin, Beena Raghavendran, Ken Ward Jr.

Ideas like Medicare for All are written off as fantasy thinking by the same people who support virtually unlimited military spending. By Lindsay Koshgarian.

Lawmakers push for ‘constitutional convention’ to restrict federal government – and it’s not as far fetched as it sounds. By Jamiles Lartey.

The Hawaii congresswoman is backed by Bernie Sanders, but her controversial opinions have some progressives miffed. By Sabrina Siddiqui.

Her new bill would compel corporations to dump “maximizing shareholder value” and put worker representatives on their boards. By Harold Meyerson.

If every major country on earth can guarantee healthcare to all and achieve better health outcomes, while spending substantially less per capita than we do, it is absurd for anyone to suggest that the United States of America cannot do the same... Let's be clear. The American people are increasingly tired of a healthcare system that works for Wall Street investors, insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry—but ignores their needs. By Bernie Sanders.

By denying access to its critics, Israel is turning its back on Jewish Americans. Peter Beinart’s detention at Ben Gurion Airport should be a wake-up call. By Sofie Werthan.

The United States has spent far more time obscuring its role in the Saudi-led war in Yemen than in explaining any rationale for it. By Micah Zenko.

Europe needs to set up payment systems independent of the United States if it wants to save the nuclear deal between Iran and major powers that was abandoned by President Donald Trump, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said.

The buzz is that “we” have to “take back” the House and Senate in the November midterm elections. By Roger Harris.

By detaining me, the Israeli government reminded us that if we want to be proud of our future, we’ll have to fight for it. By Peter Beinart.

Valorizing an ex-CIA director and bashing Trump obscures what is truly ominous. By Stephen F. Cohen.