Kate Aronoff

The president has​ a powerful wild card for sticking it to Musk​. Wouldn’t it be great if he used it?

The Trump administration is ​c​utting funding for a controversial green technology that won the support of fossil fuel executives and congressional Republicans.

To model risk, insurance companies rely on climate data gathered by the federal government. The Trump administration is decimating the agencies collecting it. Guess who will pay?

As we approach a summer that may be among the hottest on record, Republicans are trying to cut programs that help the poor and the elderly stay cool—and stay alive.

The GOP engineered a complicated maneuver to stop letting California set its own vehicle emissions standards. The consequences could reach far beyond air quality.

Nearly three-quarters of investments spurred on by the IRA have flowed to states that voted for Trump. We’ll soon see how committed Republicans are to snatching from their own constituents.

David Richardson’s book is loosely based on his experiences fighting in Iraq. It suggests we have a pompous, self-aggrandizing womanizer heading emergency management.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other artificial-intelligence executives are vague about what AI can do for the government. They’re very specific about what the government can do for them.

D​OGE’s ​a​ttacks on the administrative state​ threaten to undermine ​essential ​data gathering across a vast​ array of fields, from economics to the environment.

The wildly popular president of Mexico is advancing industrial policies that resemble Joe Biden’s, but they’re premised on a totally different theory of politics.

The administration is denying recovery funding and slashing money for preparedness. With hurricane season approaching, the results could be catastrophic.

Low oil prices, tariffs, and other pro-drilling policies could wreck the oil industry far faster than the Democratic policies Trump loves to complain about.

Large numbers of people currently get their information from nontraditional media sources. The information they’re getting about climate change isn’t very good.

For better and often for worse, the U.S.-led IMF and World Bank have dominated the post–World War II international economy. Project 2025 and the Trump administration could change that.

A judge has now ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze billions in Inflation Reduction Act funding. But the White House’s lawless targeting of enemies may prove tough to stop.

Just say “China,” and everyone except AOC suddenly supports massive data center build-outs that will torch the planet.

It’s not just the Trump administration. Bankers, centrist Democrats, and others are embracing the idea that climate targets were never realistic—and that we should now prepare, ruthlessly, for a new future.

The president claims the measures will help autoworkers. But experts say that’s far from certain—and that they could tank the industry instead.

Supposedly, this is all going to revive domestic manufacturing. But the evidence for that is slim, and it wouldn’t happen overnight—especially not without other policies.

ICE’s detention of a Washington state union organizer, alongside other threats to activists, raises the question of how far the Trump team will go to stifle dissent.