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The climate crisis has been keeping Jane Fonda up at night. “I was so angry, it was hard to go to sleep,” she says. “We are being killed with cancer, heart diseases, because of the burning of fossil fuel,” Fonda presses. “We have the solution to the climate crisis, why …

In the spring of 2022, Chloe Joy Sexton’s mother died after a years-long battle with brain cancer. The loss came during what was already a trying period in Sexton’s life. She’d recently given birth herself, and had been fired from her job after getting pregnant. Now, at 27 years old, …

You may not know Simon Rosenberg by name. But if you listened to Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, you have a sense of his influence. “You’re gonna have a hard time believing this, but so help me, I triple-checked it,” Clinton told a raucous crowd in Chicago. …

Conservative Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley claimed Friday he opposes a “nationwide ban” on abortion, before immediately saying he wants to see “reasonable federal restrictions.” One such federal restriction, he said during a Missouri Senate candidate debate on Friday, should be “when the baby is capable of feeling pain” — a …

SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — Before Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and other prominent conservatives started talking about their city, the volunteers and leadership at St. Vincent de Paul — a Catholic social services nonprofit serving the broader community and Haitian immigrants — never felt the need for the state’s Department of Public …

This story was published in partnership with the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out. Watch a video version here and subscribe to the show on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. IT WAS THE SPRING of 2014, and Chuck Sonntag just had his left leg amputated. The rare …

Former President Donald Trump can’t stop touting his 2017 “Trump tax cuts” as his signature economic achievement, claiming vast benefits delivered to average Americans. He’s pledged to both continue and expand the cuts if elected president. But new research shared exclusively with Rolling Stone and extensive existing studies reveal Trump’s …

Florida health officials issued new guidance about abortion on Thursday, threatening to take “regulatory action” against doctors who delay in providing emergency medical care to pregnant patients, as providers say the state’s abortion ban has doctors afraid to do their jobs and is putting patients at risk. “They know their …

Amid a brazen, state-sanctioned disinformation campaign against a ballot measure to restore abortion rights in Florida — including visits to voters’ homes by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ election goon squad — doctors say the state’s ban is putting their patients’ lives at risk, forcing them to confront unfathomably dark medical …

R ight around noon on Oct. 10, 2019, just outside Pecos, Texas, in the Permian oil patch, Jeff Springman bends down to the desert floor, grabs some dirt, tosses it in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. At this site there are a total of seven …