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May 18, 2016

It’s Been the Hottest Month on Record, for a Full Year NowApril was the hottest April in recorded history. March was the hottest March. Ditto for February – and each of the nine preceding months.

By Eric Levitz

the national interest May 16, 2016

President Obama Is Now His Own Anger TranslatorA brutal, unfiltered smackdown of Senator Snowball.

By Jonathan Chait

May 11, 2016

Facebook Needs to Grow UpFacebook wants all of the power, but none of the responsibility.

By Brian Feldman

May 4, 2016

Donald Trump Is Our First Facebook CandidateHe speaks like we post.

By Brian Feldman

from the archives May 4, 2016

Revisiting the Last Great Debate Over Skyscraper ShadowsAnother tall building, another fight over a share of light.

By Christopher Bonanos

May 3, 2016

The Secret Behind Facebook’s Trending Topics BarThe deadpan summaries are written by people acting as algorithms.

By Brian Feldman

nerd prom May 1, 2016

What You Missed At Obama’s Mic-Drop White House Correspondents’ DinnerJokes about the GOP, Trump, racism, and how old Bernie Sanders is, plus Don Lemon flipping the bird and a literal mic drop from the president of the United States.

By Chas Danner

Apr. 26, 2016

Trump’s Biggest Con: The Nominating System Is Rigged!He has convinced a critical mass of GOP voters that following the rules would be an anti-democratic travesty.

By Ed Kilgore

Apr. 22, 2016

New Evidence on How Dinosaurs Went ExtinctA recent study from the National Academy of Sciences posits dinosaurs may have been on the decline for a while.

By Adam Banicki and Cait Munro

fox news news Apr. 21, 2016

Fox News Shake-up Throws Roger Ailes Succession Race Into DisarrayMichael Clemente, seen as a leading contender to replace the Fox News chief, was moved to a new division.

By Gabriel Sherman

power Apr. 15, 2016

What Megyn Kelly’s Meeting With Donald Trump Says About the Future of Fox NewsUltimately, the network can’t afford to lose her.

By Gabriel Sherman

Apr. 12, 2016

80 Million Reasons BuzzFeed Had to Halve Its Revenue Projections for 2016“Omg” and “wtf.”

By Max Read

the national interest Mar. 31, 2016

Antarctic Study: GOP Would Trigger CatastropheThe Republican plan to melt Antarctica would be even worse than we thought.

By Jonathan Chait

Mar. 22, 2016

New Paper Suggests Catastrophic Climate Shifts May Be Decades AwayIf climate scientist James Hansen’s new study is right, the Paris climate accord won’t save our coastal cities.

By Eric Levitz

fox news Mar. 19, 2016

Fox News Slams Trump After New Attack on KellyThe war is heating up again following Trump’s call for a boycott of Kelly’s show.

By Chas Danner

Mar. 18, 2016

Big Oil Is Scared of Trump for Terrible Reasons“Would he take a carbon tax as part of a tax reform deal? Of course, because he cares about tax reform.”

By Eric Levitz

the national interest Mar. 14, 2016

Climate Change and Conservative Brain DeathMarco Rubio embodies a brain-dead party Establishment that deserves to perish.

By Jonathan Chait

Mar. 14, 2016

James Bennet Moves to Times Editorial PageA replacement editor has yet to be named.

By Samuel Lieberman

breitbart.com Mar. 12, 2016

Turmoil Continues at Breitbart Over Response to Alleged Assault of ReporterMichelle Fields isn’t the only person at the website who’s disappointed with how they’ve responded to her claim that she was assaulted by Donald Trump’s campaign manager.

By Chas Danner

Mar. 11, 2016

Will ‘Trumpism’ Take Over the GOP?Trump isn’t saying much of substance right now. But that doesn’t mean an infrastructure might not pop up to help him fill in the blanks.

By Ed Kilgore

Mar. 8, 2016

Florida Mayors Demand Climate-Change Questions at Miami Primary DebatesA bipartisan coalition of Florida mayors really doesn’t want to see the ocean swallow their cities.

By Eric Levitz

Mar. 8, 2016

The Sad History of Modern Stop-the-Putative-Nominee CabalsThere have been several “anybody but ____” efforts in living memory to deny a presidential nomination front-runner the prize. But they’ve all failed.

By Ed Kilgore

Mar. 3, 2016

Climate Change Could Kill Half a Million by 2050The world will have less to eat.

By Claire Landsbaum

Mar. 2, 2016

Did Donald Trump Break Political Journalism?Or maybe he’s its savior.

By Ed Kilgore

the urbanist Feb. 26, 2016

These Are the Cities Within New York CityPart industrial park, part adult playground.

By Emily Nonko

Feb. 25, 2016

Whom Will You Blame for President Trump?A list of potential scapegoats for when the White House gets a gaudy, gold-plated makeover.

By Eric Levitz

early and often Feb. 22, 2016

Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly Are Getting Along Tolerating Each OtherHe’s not participating in her special, but he was nice about it.

By Margaret Hartmann

Feb. 22, 2016

Sea Levels Are Rising at Their Fastest Rate in 28 CenturiesThe oceans are rising faster than at any time since before the Assyrian Empire, and it’s all our fault, scientists reported on Monday.

By Eric Levitz

Feb. 17, 2016

Yahoo Searched for Ways to Cut Costs — Layoffs Were the Top ResultThat search engine you sometimes use by accident just fired a bunch of people at digital magazines you don’t read.

By Eric Levitz

Feb. 10, 2016

Marco Rubio Admits the Liberal Media Had a Point About His Awful DebateRubio admitted that impersonating a robot obsessed with Glenn Beck was not a good debate strategy.

By Eric Levitz

media Feb. 9, 2016

GOP Settles in for a Long Campaign With TrumpHis success has stirred confusion throughout Fox and ignited a war between Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly.

By Gabriel Sherman

the national interest Feb. 9, 2016

Supreme Court Halts Obama Power PlanThe presidential election might determine the fate of the planet. No pressure.

By Jonathan Chait

Feb. 2, 2016

Bernie Sanders Won Iowa Because the Media Says He DidThe only thing truly at stake in Iowa is the media narrative it generates.

By Eric Levitz

Jan. 28, 2016

Rupert Murdoch Is Leaving Roger Ailes Alone to Handle the Trump CrisisThe Fox News honcho fully owns the debacle.

By Gabriel Sherman

early and often Jan. 27, 2016

Why Is Trump Boycotting the Fox News Debate?He may have been trying to prep for a lackluster debate performance, but now he’s accusing the network of being childish.

By Margaret Hartmann and Jaime Fuller

media Jan. 27, 2016

Trump’s Debate Boycott Throws Fox News Into ChaosIt’s risky for both sides, but Trump has already scored a historic victory against the network.

By Gabriel Sherman

ink-stained wretches Jan. 26, 2016

How the New York Daily News Became Twitter’s TabloidThe paper is reinventing the attention-grabbing, old-school front page as an agenda-setter on social media. But can that be a business model?

By Sridhar Pappu

cityscape Jan. 24, 2016