1. 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
  2. EPA Prevents Scientists From Speaking About Climate Change at ConferenceEPA head Scott Pruitt is a climate change skeptic.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  3. 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
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    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
  5. 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
  7. 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
  8. Scott Pruitt Announces Attempt to Repeal Obama’s Clean Power PlanWhether he’ll be successful is another matter.
    By Benjamin Hart
  9. Trump: The Senate Should Investigate Media Companies That I Don’t LikeThe president’s authoritarian streak is showing.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  10. 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
  11. rip
    S.I. Newhouse, Legendary Condé Nast Publisher, Dies at 89Another end of an era in publishing.
    By Benjamin Hart
  12. 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
  14. 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
  16. media
    CNN Hires Preet Bharara, the Former Federal Prosecutor Fired by TrumpNow you can literally “stay tuned.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. extreme weather
    Hurricane Jose May Brush Northeast, New Storm Threatens Irma-Devastated IslandsThis year’s overactive hurricane season isn’t finished.
    By Chas Danner
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. charlottesville
    Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Claiming ‘No Difference’ Between Lee and Washington“Both saved America.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. profile
    Joe and Mika (and Donald): A Beltway Love StoryJoe, Mika, and their star-crossed relationship with the president.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
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    Media Now Is Donald Trump Jr. Scooping the Press on His Own Incriminating EmailThat’s just how it works.
    By Brian Feldman
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. climate change
    When Will the Planet Be Too Hot for Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine.Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they’re not being cautious, fear could be our future.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  45. The Next Multi-Million-Dollar Special Election Is in SeattleMoney and partisan passions are pouring into a special-election contest in Washington that will determine control of the state Senate.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. What Really Happened Between Trump, Morning Joe, and the National EnquirerThe high-stakes tabloid showdown brokered by Jared Kushner.
    By Gabriel Sherman
  47. media
    White House Reimagines Press Briefing As Opportunity to Scold JournalistsJudging by today’s performance, they’re still interested in holding live daily briefings — if the press is in the hot seat.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  48. Forests and Oceans Seem to Be Absorbing Less Carbon Than They Used ToMeanwhile, coal production is on the rise.
    By Eric Levitz
  49. What Is the Doomsday Clock, and What Makes It Tick?▶️ After the election of Donald Trump, the 70-year-old clock has been set at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight.
    By Jared T. Miller
  50. media
    Reporters Say Jon Ossoff and Karen Handel Banned Them From Campaign EventsOn the eve of Georgia’s special election, two journalists claim the campaigns denied them access, hours after they published unflattering stories.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  51. media
    Megyn Kelly’s Alex Jones Interview Was Less Controversial Than ExpectedCritics said the edited version offered a decent overview of the Infowars host but still had journalistic shortcomings.
    By Margaret Hartmann
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