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Steam and pollution emerge from a coal-fired power plant in Wyoming. The Environmental Protection Agency under President Trump is taking a new approach to regulating air pollution. In a reversal from previous policy, the EPA will not put a dollar value on potential health benefits from regulations. Critics say that could make it easier to roll back regulations. J. David Ake/AP hide caption toggle caption J. David Ake/AP For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has assigned a dollar value to the lives saved and the health problems avoided through many of its environmental regulations. Now, that has changed. The EPA…

Books & the Arts / January 13, 2026 How has the idea of revolution changed? A new history examines the long history of a radical and sometimes conservative concept. Ad Policy The storming of the Bastille.(Getty) This article appears in the February 2026 issue. Here’s a puzzle: Must revolution always mean change? Does it require innovation, or can it bring back what is old? If it does not bring novelty but simply restores the past, is it truly a revolution at all? In his insightful new book, The Revolution to Come, Dan Edelstein offers some surprising answers to these…

President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House on January 9, 2026 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images President Trump heads to Michigan Tuesday hoping to refocus attention on the economy as his party faces headwinds with voters heading into the November midterm elections. He will be speaking at the Detroit Economic Club and visit a vehicle manufacturing plant in Dearborn that makes F-150 trucks, the White House says. It will be Trump’s first domestic trip since a slew of international news – capturing Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro; threatening military…

Politics / January 12, 2026 To defend the indefensible, the right is going after white women as race traitors. Ad Policy Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on January 8, 2026.(Alex Wong / Getty Images) The killing of 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis last Wednesday has shocked the world and become a political nightmare for the Trump administration. The proper response to this horrific killing would be an independent and transparent investigation. Instead, the Trump administration has…

Politics / January 12, 2026 The Massachusetts senator argues that, in order to prevail in the midterms, the party needs to recover its populist roots—and fighting spirit. Ad Policy Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) addresses a rally against the Republican spending bill in May. (Jemal Countess / Getty Images for Families Over Billionaires) This is the full text of a speech Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered to The National Press Club on January 12, 2026. This is a dangerous moment for America and for the world. A global contest is escalating between democratic institutions governed by the rule of law and lawless…

Activism / January 12, 2026 Last year, the sports industry remained quiet in the face of Trump’s violent racism. Now with the killing of Renee Good, it may be waking up to the dangers of this administration. Ad Policy Minnesota Frost and Seattle Torrent take part in a moment of silence for Renee Good at Grand Casino Arena on January 11, 2026, in St Paul, Minnesota.(Steven Garcia / Getty Images) After an ICE officer in Minneapolis shot Renee Good in the face, killing the legal observer and mother of three, the Minnesota Timberwolves organization called for a moment of silence…

President Trump has restated his intent to “take over” Greenland. NPR’s A Martinez speaks to Rebecca Pincus of the Foreign Policy Research Institute about why Greenland is so important. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: President Trump keeps saying that he wants the U.S. to take over Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory that’s part of the kingdom of Denmark. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet with Danish officials this week. So what’s the Trump administration’s strategy behind all of this? Rebecca Pincus is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. She studies Arctic security and…

Politics / January 12, 2026 An otherwise inert opposition party may well clean up on Donald Trump’s destructive and hubristic governing record. Ad Policy Congressional leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer exit a press conference last week.(Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images) Ten months is an eternity in political time, but from today’s vantage point, Democrats have to feel pretty good about their chances of delivering an electoral shellacking to President Donald Trump and his congressional allies in November. To be clear, this has very little to do with any change in the campaign strategy, policy thinking, or moral imagination of…

Marrying a roommate for insurance? Some Americans are making big leaps to manage the cost of health care. Anton Pentegov/iStockphoto/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anton Pentegov/iStockphoto/Getty Images When he stops to think about it, Mathew says, his situation feels kind of ridiculous. “I find myself in the middle of some sort of rom-com plot,” he says. “For me to be able to see my doctor to tend to my autoimmune disease, I had to marry my best friend — it’s like some weird twisted plot of Will and Grace.” Mathew asked NPR not to use his full name because…

Thousands of people participate in a protest against the policies, both foreign and domestic, of the Trump administration on Sunday in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images People took to the streets in cities across the country this weekend to protest the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics following the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer last week. At least 1,000 events across the U.S. were planned for Saturday and Sunday, according to Indivisible, a progressive grassroots…