1. Worldwide Carbon Emissions Projected to Rise Again This YearTurns out we hadn’t seen the peak yet.
    By Benjamin Hart
  2. Roy Moore Threatens to Sue Washington Post for Sexual-Misconduct ReportHe did not offer any timeframe for taking legal action, saying, “We’ve still got investigations going on.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  3. media
    Trump Denies He Has Interfered in AT&T–Time Warner MergerBut much of this story still doesn’t add up.
    By Chas Danner
  4. media
    Report: Radhika Jones Expected to Be Named Next Editor of Vanity FairThe 44-year-old is currently the editorial director of the New York Times’ book department.
    By Chas Danner
  5. media
    How the Roy Moore Allegations Were Covered on the RightSome outlets ignored the story, others saw a left-wing conspiracy, and a Fox News guest claimed many accusers are just out to make money.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  7. Syria Leaves U.S. As Complete Outlier on Paris Climate DealWhen you’ve lost Bashar al-Assad …
    By Benjamin Hart
  8. New Govt. Climate Report Says Earth Is Getting Hotter and Humans Are to BlameThe Trump administration has a few people who disagree.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  9. Gothamist and DNAinfo Shuttered a Week After Vote to UnionizeThe decision to kill the sites will put 115 journalists out of jobs.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  10. New Republic Publisher Hamilton Fish Takes Leave Pending Harassment ProbeSeveral staffers raised concerns about “interactions between Ham Fish and a number of women employees,” according to magazine owner Win McCormack.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  11. EPA Prevents Scientists From Speaking About Climate Change at ConferenceEPA head Scott Pruitt is a climate change skeptic.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  12. history
    Classified JFK Files Will Be Released Next Week As Required by LawA small number of documents may still be omitted or redacted, however.
    By Chas Danner
  13. select all
    Why Is It So Hard for Women to Find Safe Spaces Online?A crowd-sourced list accusing dozens of men of assault and harassment raises larger questions.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  14. NBC Under Fire for Passing on Harvey Weinstein ExposéNBC says that despite months of reporting, Ronan Farrow’s story wasn’t publishable. Others claim network executives were dragging their feet.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  15. climate change
    This Isn’t ‘the New Normal’ for Climate Change — That Will Be WorseThe wildfires raging in California, the hurricanes that battered the United States: they are only the beginning of what is to come.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  16. Scott Pruitt Announces Attempt to Repeal Obama’s Clean Power PlanWhether he’ll be successful is another matter.
    By Benjamin Hart
  17. Trump: The Senate Should Investigate Media Companies That I Don’t LikeThe president’s authoritarian streak is showing.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  18. media
    Preet Bharara Is Now in the Trump-Opposition BusinessThe prosecutor and his entrepreneur brother are trying to build a media empire for the resistance era. First step: a podcast.
    By Andrew Rice
  19. rip
    S.I. Newhouse, Legendary Condé Nast Publisher, Dies at 89Another end of an era in publishing.
    By Benjamin Hart
  20. How Climate Change Is Creating More Powerful HurricanesThe looming threat of warming oceans is becoming hard to ignore.
    By Granger Willson, David Wallace-Wells, Madison Mills, and Samantha Lee
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    Why Trump Hate and Russian Ads Are Good for FacebookIn the long term, Trump’s insults and Democrats’ demands will be good for the social-media company.
    By Brian Feldman
  22. obits
    Playboy Founder Hugh Hefner Dead at 91He launched the magazine that helped kick off the sexual revolution and fashioned himself into one of the movement’s icons.
    By Margaret Hartmann
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    Happy Egg-Shirt DayToday’s the day.
    By Brian Feldman
  24. media
    CNN Hires Preet Bharara, the Former Federal Prosecutor Fired by TrumpNow you can literally “stay tuned.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  25. The Climate May Be Changing More Slowly Than We’d ThoughtNew data suggests that if humanity gets its act together, we might still be able to cap warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.
    By Eric Levitz
  26. Ignore Trump’s Words on Climate and the Paris Treaty — Look at What He’s DoingHe has figured out there’s a strategic advantage in appearing open-minded.
    By Heather Hurlburt
  27. extreme weather
    Hurricane Jose May Brush Northeast, New Storm Threatens Irma-Devastated IslandsThis year’s overactive hurricane season isn’t finished.
    By Chas Danner
  28. climate change
    Will Irma Finally Change the Way We Talk About Climate?This summer’s outbreak of extreme weather should force everyone to see climate change for what it is and what it does.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  29. A Brief History of North Korea in 3 Minutes▶️ A condensed history of the troubled nation, from the Japanese annexation in 1910 to present day.
    By Granger Willson
  30. media
    New York Daily News Sold to Publisher TroncThe company, which was formerly known as Tribune Publishing, also owns the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  31. More Zoning Wouldn’t Have Protected Houston, But Less Sprawl Would Have HelpedHouston is famous for its hostility to land-use planning. That’s less of a problem than simply too much growth and ever-more frequent storms.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. tomorrow
    The Specter of Climate Change Hangs Over Hurricane HarveyThese once-in-a-generation storms will become more frequent, and more expensive.
    By David Wallace-Wells
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    NIH Website Scrubs Mention of Climate ChangeThe word “change” is vanishing from the site.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  34. Exxon Misled the Public About Climate Change for 40 Years, Study SaysIn its internal papers, the company treated climate change as a reality. In its advertisements, it promoted doubt.
    By Eric Levitz
  35. ESPN Removes Announcer Robert Lee From UVA Game Because of His NameThe network didn’t want Robert Lee, the college-football play-by-play guy, to remind anyone of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  36. Trump’s Rehash of His Charlottesville Remarks Was Deceitful and Self-DestructiveNobody was surprised the president cut loose at a rally in Phoenix. But he showed he can’t drop his losing argument.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. politics
    Trump Administration Disbands Climate-Change Advisory PanelYet more evidence that the White House is uninterested in acknowledging or planning for the threat of climate change.
    By Chas Danner
  38. the national interest
    How Democrats Can Get Trump to Enact a Carbon TaxThe carbon tax actually stands a better chance of happening now than ever before.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. Why Did Bannon Bash His Colleagues, and Trump’s Policy, to a Liberal Journalist?Supposedly he thought the conversation was off the record — but is Trump’s embattled chief strategist really that naive?
    By Margaret Hartmann
  40. charlottesville
    Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Claiming ‘No Difference’ Between Lee and Washington“Both saved America.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  41. media
    Mike Cernovich Pivots From Pizzagate to Not-So-Fake NewsThe alt-right favorite is distancing himself from Trump and rebranding as a journalist — “because it really triggers people.”
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  42. Climate-Change Study Leaked Over Fears That Trump Will Suppress ItThe extensive report, which concludes that human activity is driving climate change, is awaiting final approval by the administration.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  43. Trump White House Says U.S. Will Join Climate Talks, Despite Leaving Paris DealThe administration reiterated its commitment to exiting the Paris deal on Friday — unless the agreement’s terms become “more favorable” to the U.S.
    By Eric Levitz
  44. The Best Quotes From Trump’s Embarrassing Unpublished WSJ InterviewThe newspaper didn’t release the full transcript of this curious conversation with Trump, so Politico did.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  45. profile
    Joe and Mika (and Donald): A Beltway Love StoryJoe, Mika, and their star-crossed relationship with the president.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  46. climate change
    The Uninhabitable Earth, Annotated EditionThe facts, research, and science behind the climate-change article that explored our planet’s worst-case scenarios.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  47. Climate Scientist James Hansen: ‘The Planet Could Become Ungovernable’ “The progress we’ve had over the last centuries, more people having a higher standard of living — that’s going to go in the other direction.”
    By David Wallace-Wells
  48. Trillion-Ton Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctic Ice ShelfThe development suggests that the entire ice shelf may eventually collapse, leaving glaciers free to drift off of land and raise sea levels.
    By Eric Levitz
  49. select all
    Media Now Is Donald Trump Jr. Scooping the Press on His Own Incriminating EmailThat’s just how it works.
    By Brian Feldman
  50. Scientist Michael Mann on ‘Low-Probability But Catastrophic’ Climate ScenariosAn unedited Q&A with the prominent climatologist, who took issue with New York’s latest cover story for being overly “doomist.”
    By David Wallace-Wells
  51. The Man Who Coined ‘Global Warming’ on the Worst-Case Scenario for Earth“We’re going to have to do something that we probably never dreamed we’d do.”
    By David Wallace-Wells
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