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Media Mentions
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Recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings allowing starkly partisan voting maps to be used in the November midterm elections crucial to Donald Trump’s presidency highlight how…
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Trump Erased a Bedrock Climate Rule. Here Come the Lawsuits.
February 17, 2026
When the Trump administration erased one of the nation’s bedrock scientific principles on climate change this week, it set up a legal battle that’s all…
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Rich World’s Growing Civil Unrest Has an Insurance Sting
February 17, 2026
A category of insurance risk that hardly existed a little over a decade ago has morphed into a meaningful source of losses for the industry.
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What I saw in Durham County courts and why it haunts me
February 17, 2026
An op-ed by Jacob Chin: For a parent, nothing is more terrifying than the thought of your child being ripped from your arms. This is…
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Senate data-center costs bill ignites debate over consequences
February 17, 2026
A new Senate bill that would ensure the cost of data centers’ energy use isn’t passed on to consumers is stirring up plenty of debate…
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Grok Fakes Are Digital Assault. Make Them a Crime
February 13, 2026
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The horrifying episode in which Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted millions of sexualized images of real people, including…
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A look at false claims made by the Trump administration as it revokes a key scientific finding
February 13, 2026
President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked the 2009 endangerment finding, which has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions…
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Trump orders Pentagon to buy coal power as the polluting fuel struggles to survive
February 13, 2026
President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to purchase more coal-based electricity, drawing the U.S. military into his campaign to subsidize a heavily polluting fossil fuel…
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‘We Will See Them in Court’: Environmental Lawyers Vow to Challenge Trump’s Repeal of Key Climate Finding
February 13, 2026
The Trump administration moved today to overturn a key legal foundation of the federal government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases. In a press conference at…
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As electricity costs rise, everyone wants data centers to pick up their tab. But how?
February 13, 2026
As outrage spreads over energy-hungry data centers, politicians from President Donald Trump to local lawmakers have found rare bipartisan agreement over insisting that tech companies…
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In Defense of Fakes
February 12, 2026
The simplest way to create a great work of art is to copy one. Copies, fakes, dupes, replicas, bootlegs, pastiches, forgeries, facsimiles — these have…
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The E.P.A. Is Barreling Toward a Supreme Court Climate Showdown
February 11, 2026
It is often said in Washington that Donald Trump’s advisers, cabinet members and allies are playing to an audience of one: the president. But Lee…
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Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
February 10, 2026
In the summer of 2022, Democrats in Congress were racing to pass the biggest climate law in the country’s history and President Joseph R. Biden…
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More pollution and higher energy costs: critics condemn Trump’s anti-environment agenda
February 10, 2026
Donald Trump’s aggressive drive to boost fossil fuels, including dirty coal, coupled with his administration’s moves to roll back wind and solar power, face mounting…
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New foreign aid rules will threaten lives
February 10, 2026
An op-ed co-written by Alicia Ely Yamin: On Jan. 23, Vice President JD Vance launched the Trump administration’s new plan to “promote families and human…
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What a Comparison With Roosevelt Reveals About Trump
February 6, 2026
An op-ed by Jack Goldsmith and Samuel Moyn: A little more than a year into President Trump’s second term, his executive power grabs have been…
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ICE Isn’t Just Breaking the Law. It’s Trying to Rewrite It
February 6, 2026
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: In an outrageous expansion of its authority, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now authorizing its agents to arrest anyone they…
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How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive
February 6, 2026
In November of 2024, two weeks after voters returned President Donald Trump to office, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. summoned employees of the U.S.