The hidden dynamic that’s transformed our politics—and will loom large in the 2020 election

In Santa Cruz, an unauthorized graduate student strike threatens to spill into its second week, with no clear resolution in sight.

Anna Wiener’s memoir captures the psychic burden of the tech worker.

Low pay, soaring rents, and cities littered with e-scooters. Welcome to the future.

Republican politicians don't think climate change is real. Democrats don't have that excuse.

California’s Katie Porter studied under Elizabeth Warren. Now she’s going viral by schooling Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?

Climate change is accelerating the spread of lethal algal blooms in American waterways—with devastating results for humans and animals alike.

More than 50,000 Americans unwittingly live within 650 feet of natural gas wells, which are poorly regulated and can leak or explode.

Kristy Frazier has spent most of her life in a nature-lover's paradise. She never imagined it would one day turn into hell.

Climate change is making weather more extreme, and these two veteran photojournalists were on the frontlines in 2018.

Wildfire fatalities are now on par with mass shooting deaths in the state.

His tweet about California's wildfires wasn't just wrong. It was heartless.

How a different type of American liberalism could lead the party to victory

The case against employers asking what you made at your last job

Trump's FEMA wasn't ready for last year's record-breaking hurricane season, and it wants the public to know that it's not ready for another one.

To defend against extreme weather, U.S. cities must accept that survival means change—to the economy and also to the country's conception of itself.

Female candidates are turning gender and motherhood into political assets in the midterms.

Reformer district attorneys are changing criminal justice in ways legislatures can’t.

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.