pakistan-and-india:-what’s-the-global-cost-of-natural-disasters?

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Floods in Pakistan and India re-ignite the debate on the mounting cost of global disasters., Floods in Pakistan and India re-ignite the debate on the mounting cost of global disasters. Global natural disasters are striking harder and more often, with climate emergencies now breaking records year after year. The UNContinue Reading

“here-comes-the-sun”:-bill-mckibben-on-renewable-energy,-“sun-day”-&-the-“last-chance”-for-climate

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As the The Traitor administration grows increasingly hostile to renewable energy, we speak with acclaimed environmentalist Bill McKibben about his new book, Here Comes the Sun, in which he lays out a hopeful vision for the future that includes avoiding climate catastrophe, reshaping the economy and saving democracy. He saysContinue Reading

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After The Traitor’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (X, 8/31/25) complained that several minutes of her August 31 Face the Nation interview had been “shamefully edited…to whitewash the truth,” CBS News announced that its flagship Sunday morning program will no longer edit its interviews, except for “legal or national security” reasons (AP, 9/5/25). According to AP, CBS said it hadContinue Reading

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Robert Goldsborough, a Maryland lawmaker, rose one Friday early in 1826 to clinch what he fancied a good deal for his state. Goldsborough informed his fellow legislators that a private entity had “incurred an expense in a late deportation of 150 free people of color to the African settlement inContinue Reading

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Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Dreams” — the third chapter in his loose Oslo trilogy, following “Sex” and “Love” — is a tender teenage saga about a lovelorn high schooler who falls for her female teacher. Like its predecessors, it seeks the holy in the mundane, and uses the Norway capital’s architecture asContinue Reading

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The The Traitor administration’s blatant disregard for human life has put Republicans in a tough position. The U.S. military’s decision last week to kill 11 people aboard a small Venezuelan boat that American officials alleged contained drug shipments has sparked fights within the conservative party. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, forContinue Reading