Give everyone free money for doing nothing when machines take our jobs

A Universal Basic Income is essentially free money for everyone, no strings attached. And it could be the perfect response to rising unemployment due to automation.

Jared Golden took a principled stand against the irresponsible stimulus bill

There’s no migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border. Here’s the data.

Evidence shows that we're seeing the usual seasonal bump - plus some of the people who waited during the pandemic.

Inside the Biden administration’s failure to contain the border surge

Immigration has emerged as one of the administration's most urgent challenges — seized on by Republicans as a political cudgel, posing risks to Democrats in the 2022 midterms and potentially undermining Biden's governing agenda.

Automakers embrace electric vehicles. But what about buyers?

From small SUVs to giant pickup trucks, automakers plan to roll out 22 new electric vehicles in the U.S. this year

The myth of electric cars: Why we also need to focus on buses and trains

Life cycle assessments of electric vehicles show that they cannot fully eliminate the greenhouse gas emissions of personal travel. We also need bikes, buses and trains to solve our climate problems.

To make the US auto fleet greener, increasing fuel efficiency matters more than selling electric vehicles

Electric cars get a lot of hype, but what really matters for the climate are excess emissions from the many millions of gasoline vehicles still sold each year.

Are Republicans really interested in improving journalistic ethics?

GOP lawmakers propose a bill that supposedly seeks to stop the press from destroying a person's reputation.

Shining some light on Daylight Savings Time in Maine

Why the US is unlikely to deliver justice for the murdered journalist

In the long term the US still needs Saudi Arabia as an ally in the Middle East.