Antibiotic Resistance

The drugs that transformed 20th-century medicine are failing faster than we're replacing them — and routine surgery is among the things at risk.

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Antibiotic Resistance

The drugs that transformed 20th-century medicine are failing faster than we're replacing them — and routine surgery is among the things at risk.

Science

GMOs

What the scientific consensus actually says about genetically modified food — and why the public debate has so little to do with it.

Science

Methane

The overlooked greenhouse gas that is warming the planet roughly 80 times faster than CO2 in the near term — and whose sources are lying about how much they emit.

Science

Microplastics

Plastic particles are now in human blood, breast milk, placentas, and Arctic ice — and we don't yet know what that means for health.

Science

Nuclear Energy

The one large-scale low-carbon power source that terrifies people — and whether the fear has been proportionate to the evidence.

Science

The Ozone Layer

The clearest environmental success story in history — a global crisis identified by science, met with international cooperation, and actually solved.

Science

PFAS / Forever Chemicals

Synthetic compounds engineered to be chemically indestructible are now in the blood of virtually every person on Earth — and the companies that made them knew.

Science

Kessler Syndrome

The debris problem that could lock us out of space forever.

Science

Climate Change

The most thoroughly documented phenomenon in the history of science is also the most politically contested — and the gap between what we know and what we've done about it may define the century.

Politics

Citizens United

The Supreme Court case that decided money is speech and corporations are people — and transformed American elections overnight.

Politics

Communism

The theory that has never been fully implemented, the experiments conducted in its name that killed millions, and why the gap between those two facts matters.

Politics

Dark Money

Political spending that cannot be traced to its source — and the legal infrastructure that makes untraceable spending possible.

Politics

The Filibuster

A Senate procedure that began as a delay tactic and became an effective veto on any legislation that can't find 60 votes — a threshold the Constitution never requires.

Politics

Oligarchy

Rule by the few — not as a slur, but as a measurable description of how concentrated wealth distorts political power.

Politics

Qualified Immunity

A legal doctrine invented by the Supreme Court — not Congress — that makes it nearly impossible to sue police officers who violate constitutional rights.

Politics