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This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The climate didn’t get much attention in this year’s debates, but Tuesday’s election will still have major consequences for the fight...

In a sometimes nasty second presidential debate, there were again several calls by the candidates for fact-checkers to referee competing statements, which we are happy to oblige. But even when Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton weren...

Our compendium of entries form the political, economic, and environmental realms opens with a spine-chiller from The Independent: Scientists talk of ‘pandemic potential’ after first confirmed human death from new strain of bird flu Chinese...

Summary Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are worlds apart in their stances on human-caused climate change. Trump has repeatedly expressed doubt in the science behind climate change, and his policy proposals reflect that doubt. Clinton, on the other...

An eighth-grade dropout who became a billionaire by investing in casinos and Hollywood film studios; the executive who led Goldman, Sachs Co.’s international growth in the 1970s and ’80s; and Saudi Arabia’s monarch for the past decade, who kept Arab...