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The feigned gladiatorial confrontations CNN hyped in its promotion and then attempted to foment during the actual event serve no one. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
Direct your artillery at the real enemy, not each other.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Millions of Americans are still suffering the consequences of the 2013 Supreme Court decision that loosened restrictions of the Voting Rights Act, allowing states with long histories of voter discrimination to purge voters from their rolls without federal oversight.


Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Nuclear experts and peace advocates on Friday shared their heightened concerns about a new arms race as the Trump administration officially withdrew from a landmark treaty with Russia that was signed by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Senate Republicans will stop at nothing to stack the courts with partisan judges who will push their radical agenda through at any cost."


A large handmade sign erected along a highway in Dixon, New Mexico, urges that President Donald Trump be impeached.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"That's momentum. We must keep it up."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Three children who died between December and May exhibited sign of influenza, doctors say



by Julia Conley, staff writer
After two Democratic candidates in this week's presidential primary debates called for an end to government subsidies for fossil fuel companies, a new study revealed that even reducing the subsidies—as the world's wealthiest countries pledged to a decade ago—would kickstart "clean energy revolution."


Greenland's southwestern coastline

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The heat wave that smashed records in Europe last week has now reached Greenland, where it is causing the world's second-largest ice sheet to endure one of its most exteme melting events ever documented, leading experts to express fresh concerns about what the global climate crisis will mean for future sea level rise.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Voters and advocacy organizations alike expressed dismay Wednesday after the second round of Democratic primary debates kicked off with CNN asking few or no questions about two of the issues Americans say they care about most as they weigh who they'll vote for in 2020—the climate and women's rights.


Sailor Boris Herrmann (L) with Svante Thunberg, father of Greta, and Greta Thunberg (R). (Photo: Birte Lorenzen)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Swedish climate activist will begin two-week journey aboard fossil fuel-free sailing yacht in mid-August.

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