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1 month ago | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Miles Doyle |Isabella Simon |Bernard G. Prusak |Dominic Preziosi
Article The clock is ticking, and the American public is sending a message that they want someone to do something. Getting the Message Article Cutting and Undercutting Lee Zeldin’s agenda at the EPA matches the Trump administration’s broader approach: kneecap the government, and then complain that it doesn’t run well. Article More, or Else Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson offer a vision of a progressive future in which Democrats stop getting in their own way.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |Peter Quinn |George Scialabba
When Donald Trump talks about immigrants, he regularly misrepresents both who they are and how they fit into our economy. But his unrelenting attention on them has brought the issue of immigration, a matter of legitimate concern, to the forefront of the national political conversation. Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris administration has responded to the surge in migration by increasing funding for enforcement at the southern border.
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May 29, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |Gareth Dale |Alice McDermott |Phil Christman
In 2023, two out of every three American homes were underinsured. Nationally, “insurers paid out more in claims than they received in premiums” over the past decade, according to the New York Times. Taken together, these statistics illuminate the problem at the heart of the home-insurance industry: the cost of damage is higher than homeowners or insurers can afford. It wasn’t always this way.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |César J. Baldelomar |Brad East |Paul Baumann
Pundits, politicians, and writers on the Right have long sought to undermine the credibility of climate science, but a recent court ruling has finally held two of them accountable for crossing the line from questioning the science to defaming the scientist behind it.
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |Matt McManus |Marcia Chatelain |Brad East
Big questions loomed over this year’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai: Would fossil fuels and their role in climate change be included in a final COP statement for the first time? How strong would the language be? And what would the document ask of wealthy nations? From the start, climate advocates faced strong headwinds.
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Dec 3, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |Matt McManus |Marcia Chatelain |Brad East
Every year, environmental extremes reach new levels. If there was a record for the greatest number of climate records broken in one year—the highest land and sea temperatures, lowest Arctic ice levels, most wildfire damage, greatest sea-level rise—2023 would win it easily.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |Mollie Wilson O’Reilly |Daniele Palmer |Santiago Ramos
“There are bodies everywhere,” said one CNN correspondent. Another described how, “looking into the sea, what we see is people’s lives…. Door frames, windows, furniture, clothes, cars.” The reports came from Derna, in eastern Libya, where torrential rains led to the collapse of two dams on September 11 and washed a quarter of the city out into the Mediterranean Sea. The Libyan Red Crescent initially estimated the death toll could surpass ten thousand.
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Aug 26, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |Randy R. Potts |Jacqui Oesterblad |Nolen Gertz
Home to some of the largest and most beloved national parks in the country, Montana is known for its natural beauty and access to the outdoors.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |Peter Quinn |Alexander Stern |George Scialabba
The accordion player next to me has handed off his instrument and he’s step dancing on the pub floor, soles smacking heavily on the downbeats. It’s a Thursday night session in Manhattan’s East Village where musicians of all ability levels come to share traditional Irish music. I’ve never heard this particular tune before, but as the third repetition plays out, I’m playing along on my fiddle, picking up on its basic shape.
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May 31, 2023 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Isabella Simon |James T. Kloppenberg |John Slattery |Karen Kilby
Migrants waiting near the U.S. border wall are battered by dust and high winds near El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2023 (OSV News photo/Reuters). With the May 11 expiration of the national health emergency related to the pandemic, the use of Title 42 as an immigration-enforcement tool also came to an end.
