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A new poll finds that Biden’s approval rating is 61 percent, the highest rating a president has received since 2009.

After decades of cowering under the yoke of bipartisanship, Democrats finally showed a willingness to flex their power.

Analysis: The new president has framed the challenge of global heating as an opportunity for US jobs, saying: ‘We have to be bold’

Joe Biden isn’t wasting time. On his first day in office, the newly inaugurated US president signed 17 executive actions. It’s not unprecedented for world leaders to get to work on day one, but the number of directives on Biden’s desk is much higher than usual. It took his recent predecessors weeks to sign 17 executive orders. Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton signed four executive orders or memos on their first day—combined.

The woman at the center of the landmark 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade case ruling legalizing abortion has revealed she was later paid by the anti-abortion movement to become a prominent Christian anti-choice activist. The late Norma McCorvey is seen in a new documentary making what she describes as a deathbed confession. She says, “I was the big fish. I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money, and they’d put me out in front of the cameras and tell me what to say. That’s what I’d say. It was all an act. I did it well, too. I am a good actress.” The film ”AKA Jane Roe” reveals McCorvey received at least $450,000 in gifts from the anti-abortion movement.

Addressing climate change is a big enough idea to revive the economy.

Crude prices could go negative while Alberta's deficit is expected to triple. All this while the province battles a virus that officials expect could kill between 400 and 3,100 Albertans by the end of summer.

Obama ordered more ventilators, but corporate profit motives derailed the effort, leaving us unprepared for COVID-19.

The president was aware of the danger from the coronavirus – but a lack of leadership has created an emergency of epic proportions

In fealty to US foreign policy, Mexico has long refused to recognize Palestinian statehood. Last week, that finally changed, with AMLO’s government officially acknowledging Palestinian statehood and establishing a full embassy in Mexico City.

The government is trying to wish away problems such as flooding by doing nothing. It’s incompetence by design, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

A majority of the justices appeared convinced that government officials should be able to try to persuade private companies, whether news organizations or tech platforms, not to publish information so long as the requests are not backed by coercive threats.

In an interview with Trevor Noah, the Microsoft co-founder explained that he began reading about health, education and climate change after stepping back from the company in 2008.

Why the American dream is dying in 2023

What is the ex-President of Brazil doing in Florida with his country—and his own legal future—enmeshed in turmoil?

The court is breaking with precedent, procedure and prudence to achieve the ultra-conservative majority’s policy preferences

An increasingly autocratic government is making bad decisions

Spotify's Swedish cofounder and CEO has announced three rounds of layoffs this year so far.

If Trump wins, extremists in and out of government would immediately be empowered to carry out their far right agenda.

On Jordan Peterson's Right-Wing International

Dispatches from a workshop at Boom Festival 2023

Renewable power on course to shatter more records as countries around the world speed up deployment - News from the International Energy Agency

Despite conservative memes and calls for boycotts of companies like Carhartt and Budweiser after LGBTQ campaigns, they're more profitable than ever.

It's white identity politics.

Oxfam report showing vast increase in the wealth of the world’s richest calls for ‘fair taxation’ to reduce amount of inequality.