US tornadoes: Death toll grows as extreme storms ravage several states
One family in a badly hit town “prayed and said goodbye to each other” as a tornado hit.
Sarah Polley told to return Oscar in ‘cruel’ April Fools’ prank
The film-maker, who won an Oscar for Women Talking, got a letter asking her to “mail it back”.
Anger and anxiety – inside pro-Trump online networks
Donald Trump called on his supporters to protest about his indictment – so how are they responding?
Fentanyl – a killer drug’s trail of destruction
“In the last couple of years, there have been so many people that died that we couldn’t keep up if we did autopsies for all of those people,” says the…
Links 4/2/2023 | naked capitalism
What is a group of pandas called? It’s surprisingly complicated ZME Science The Imperial Fed Phenomenal World Helen Keller Was One of the Great American Socialists Jacobin Climate/Environment How do…
The Non-Profit Industrial Complex Helps Keep the Student Loan Debt Crisis Going | naked capitalism
In some of the latest news on the student loan debt crisis, the pause in federal student loan payments that has been in effect since March 2020 may soon come…
Opinion | The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism
Semiconductors are a national security priority. The high cost of building them here has become a national security liability. This reasoning was persuasive enough that the CHIPS Act passed with…
The Sunday Read: ‘A Sandwich Shop, a Tent City and an American Crisis’
Joe Faillace, 69, has been running the sandwich shop Old Station Subs alongside his wife, Debbie, for the last four decades. But as an epidemic of unsheltered homelessness began to…
KHN: $50 Billion in Opioid Settlement Cash Is on the Way. We’re Tracking How It’s Spent. | naked capitalism
Conor here: As far as I can tell, no one from Purdue Pharma, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, McKesson, Johnson & Johnson, or any of the other distributors have gone to jail…
Democrats Run on Abortion, Even for Offices With Little Say on the Issue
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Eric Genrich is running a full-throated campaign in support of abortion rights, reminding voters of his position at every turn and hammering his anti-abortion opponent in…