North Carolina Was Set Up for Disaster
The climate deck is so stacked now that even places that seem safe are witnessing dangerous impacts.
The climate deck is so stacked now that even places that seem safe are witnessing dangerous impacts.
More than 1 million Americans are still without electricity. EV owners are using their cars to keep the lights on.
Images from the past weekend showing some of the devastation in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee
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From my front porch, the river banks of North Carolina’s mountains held. But not from his.
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In the years I worked for him, Jimmy Carter was always the same: disciplined, funny, enormously intelligent, and deeply spiritual.
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Oliver Wendell Holmes made the analogy during a controversial Supreme Court case that was overturned more than 40 years ago.
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As the Nazis performed executions deep in the Lithuanian woods, one local man took detailed, dispassionate notes. He was unwittingly creating one of the most unusual documents in history.
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