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Compared to past funding fights, there is little urgency or real effort to end this one.

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration has repeatedly blamed offshore wind farms for whale deaths, contrary to scientific evidence. Now the administration is quietly abandoning key research programs meant to protect marine mammals living in an increasingly busy ocean. The New England Aquarium […]

The fight over soon-to-expire enhanced credits has shut down the government.

Crypto CEOs have met with senators in an effort to salvage bipartisan talks.

Corruption in American politics rarely looks like a suitcase of cash anymore (although it still sometimes happens the old-fashioned way). It’s subtler and more pervasive—a system so omnipresent we hardly notice we’re inside it. To understand how we got here, Current Affairs spoke with David Sirota, an award-winning journalist and founder of The Lever: an entirely reader-supported investigative outlet. 

The restrictions, aimed at pressuring the Kremlin over the war in Ukraine, mark a major change in Washington’s policy.

The attack on public schools has only accelerated under Trump 2.0.

Ordering your next ShackBurger could now lock you into corporations’ favorite private justice system.