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Microsoft could be the next Big Tech antitrust target

VON Lauren Feiner

Over the past several years, Microsoft has largely managed to withstand populist calls to break up Big Tech while peers faced sweeping lawsuits. But a probe by the Federal Trade Commission suggests that grace period could be nearing an end.

Environmentalists Turn Out in Force to Oppose Trump Coal Ash Rollbacks

VON Arcelia Martin

Proposed new regulations from the EPA would loosen requirements for protecting groundwater near power plants where the toxic residue from burning coal is stored. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin calls the changes “commonsense” moves to maintain American energy dominance.

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Aren’t Billionaires People, Too? Yes, but…

VON Katrina vanden Heuvel

When ordinary Americans are forced to skip meals to afford healthcare, it’s vital that the Democratic Party resist retreating from small “d” populist policies.

Fuhrman Left His Mark on Media

VON Ari Paul

After Mark Fuhrman became a symbol of a divided America, it's quite telling that the disgraced cop later found a landing place on Fox News.

Do We Live in the Age of “Hyperpolitics”?

VON Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

A conversation with the historian Anton Jäger about political polarization, the stagnation of the West, the collapse of mass politics in the 20. century.

Why Kate Marvel left NASA

VON Emily Atkin

The prominent climate scientist explains how pronouns have become more important than the planet at the nation's space agency.

How America’s Courts Fell for a Con Man

VON Henry Fernandez

In her new book, Catch the Devil , reporter Pamela Colloff traces the life and crimes of a mendacious jailhouse informant and exposes the systems that allowed him to walk free.

American Communists Did a Lot Right and a Lot Wrong

VON David Duhalde

Members of the Communist Party USA in its heyday were much more complicated than the stereotypes of them, shaped so strongly by rabid anti-communism, in our country’s imagination. Today’s socialists should closely examine their track record.

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Go Pound Sand!

VON Mike Laws

Local journalists feel the doors closing to public officials who “are taking their cue from President Trump. ”