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Thirty-six years ago, the American journalist Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature, the first mass-market book about climate change. The book warned, from the perspective of a lover of nature, about the dangers posed by a warming planet: “Changes in our world which can affect us can happen in …

This story is being published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. In the weeks since President Donald Trump targeted American cities for “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in history” and deployed U.S. troops to the streets of Los Angeles, federal and local law enforcement officers have …

Senators could vote on a bill as soon as today to allow members of Congress and their staff to demand that websites take down information about their houses and details about their travel. Watchdogs and media advocates have objected to the member security legislation and similar measures in the past, …

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, content creator, lawyer, and TikTok journalist Aaron Parnas sat with one of his closest friends, Sam Schmir, in Parnas’s living room. Until January, Schmir did digital strategy at the White House, and had texted earlier that it was a “slow news day” — a seemingly …

Although Elon Musk’s quixotic purchase of Twitter, which he redubbed X, seems to have played a significant role in giving him full and unfettered access to the gears of government, one right-wing rich guy’s purchase of a media company did not result in his desired electoral outcome last year. Putative …

Democrats’ convention in Chicago undoubtedly provided a contrast of sorts with the nominating convention I had covered in Milwaukee the month prior, where Donald Trump and his champagne-vomit-belching cultists were promising — in their own pornographically violent words — a version of Homer Simpson’s line about how his “campaign is …

On the night of April 3, 2015, Shiori Itō, an intern at Thomson Reuters, met Noriyuki Yamaguchi at a restaurant under the guise of a job interview. Yamaguchi, then the Washington bureau chief of Tokyo Broadcasting System and a personal friend (and biographer) of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was a …

HBO CEO Casey Bloys apologized Thursday to a room of journalists following a Rolling Stone report that he instructed staffers to create fake social media accounts to troll TV critics who gave poor reviews to HBO shows. During a press event Thursday to unveil HBO and Max’s programming slate for …

The California State Legislature wrapped up its work. It passed several bills that will drastically reshape our state and country. The California Journalism Protection Act was not among them. This is a missed opportunity. In a world that once celebrated the internet’s promise of connectivity, shared experiences and equal access …

The London tabloid world has traditionally been a sort of journalism Bizarro World, where entrapment is standard practice and news is manufactured on a profit-driven whim, often at the expense of innocent victims. For two decades, Mazher Mahmood strode over this ethics-starved world like a corrupt colossus, enabled by his …