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What Climate Scientists Are Saying About This Catastrophic Summer

“The community hasn’t done as good of a job projecting how bad climate impacts would be at 1.2 degrees Celsius,” one scientist said.

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Think You Know More About the 2020 Olympics Than Slate’s Sports Editor? Find Out With This Special News Quiz.

Ray Hamel

July 21, 2021 5:55 AM

Sentencing the Capitol Rioters

What Next July 21, 2021 5:00 AM

Will Bickering About Scheduling Kill the Senate Infrastructure Deal?

Jim Newell

July 20, 2021 5:27 PM

The Tough New COVID Rules That Could Determine the Future of France

Robert Zaretsky

July 20, 2021 4:24 PM

Democrats Are Still Battling Themselves on Court Reform

Dahlia Lithwick

July 20, 2021 3:31 PM

I Waited Outside a Tennessee Vaccine Clinic to Learn Why People Were Finally Getting the Shot

Dan Kois

July 20, 2021 3:00 PM

Too Many Democrats Don’t Realize Voter Suppression Laws Are a Threat to Their Power

Dahlia Lithwick

July 20, 2021 2:42 PM

How Vaccine Hesitancy Turned Into Vaccine Hostility

Mary Harris

July 20, 2021 1:27 PM

Jeff Bezos Successfully Blasts Himself Into Space

Elliot Hannon

July 20, 2021 10:22 AM

Twitter Temporarily Suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for Spreading Coronavirus Nonsense

Elliot Hannon

July 20, 2021 8:44 AM

The Right-Wing War on Vaccines

What Next July 20, 2021 5:00 AM

Biden Just Explained Why His Version of Capitalism Is Better Than the GOP’s

William Saletan

July 19, 2021 9:26 PM

The National Security Disaster You Probably Missed Last Week

Fred Kaplan

July 19, 2021 2:46 PM

If History Proves Anything, It’s That We Don’t Know How Long Stephen Breyer Will Serve

William M. Treanor

July 19, 2021 1:54 PM

Homeless New Yorkers Don’t Want to Go Back to Normal

Mary Harris

July 19, 2021 1:40 PM

The Haiti Assassination Marks the Age of Cheap and Available Mercenaries

Joshua Keating

July 19, 2021 11:17 AM

The Unhoused Don’t Want to “Go Back to Normal”

What Next July 19, 2021 5:00 AM

Pegasus: Investigation Reveals Spyware Used to Hack Journalists, Activists Around the World

Daniel Politi

July 18, 2021 10:33 PM

Coco Gauff Out of Olympics After Positive COVID-19 Test as Cases in Athletes’ Village Grow

Daniel Politi

July 18, 2021 7:51 PM

UK’s Boris Johnson Does U-Turn, Goes Into Isolation After COVID Contact

Daniel Politi

July 18, 2021 6:39 PM

What Climate Scientists Are Saying About This Catastrophic Summer

Fox News Could Be Sued if Its Anti-Vax Statements Caused People to Die

Mississippi Asks the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade

Donald Trump Is Keeping the Money

Think You’re Smarter Than Will Saletan? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

We Are All Our Own Militia Now

Congress Goes Gambit-Crazy

Can Democrat Chris Jones Beat a Huckabee—and History—to Win in Arkansas?

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