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FAIRFAX, Iowa—Nearly 50 people gathered at the American Legion Post on a July evening to learn about a proposed natural gas plant less than three miles from town. Seated in folding chairs, they pulled out their phones and typed responses to a simple question: How are you feeling? The words “angry,” “disgusted” and “scared” flashed […]

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . Now that solar has become America’s  go-to choice for new power plants , the pressure is on to assemble a fully domestic supply chain for the technology. Data from the latest  Clean Investment Monitor shows that this onshoring process is well underway.…

Alan made mistakes, and he said so. But the mistakes Macnair lists are mostly not his.

This timely book is ultimately a call for professional journalists to step up and produce public-facing media, writes Darcy White

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Republicans in Florida narrowly held off a nationwide repudiation Tuesday of their party and President Donald Trump, eking out slim victories in statewide races. But the GOP failed to flip congressional seats Democrats held and lost seats in the Legislature. Voters elected Republican Byron Donalds as governor over Democrat David Jolly by a margin of […]

Democrats' historic wins in Tuesday’s midterm elections will give them control of Congress and a  chance to combat the Trump administration’s anti-climate agenda, but the president’s  veto power will limit their options.  At the state level, however, Democrats’ victories offer immediate opportunities to advance clean…

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California Governor Newsom announced today via open letter that he has decided to commute all death sentences in the state to life without the possibility of parole. This historic action will save more than 500 lives, shut down the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere, and reduce the United States death row population by […]

In 2008, Barack Obama won a landslide victory and enormous mandate, only to quickly squander it. Today the Democratic establishment is far more delegitimized, and the Left is far stronger. History doesn’t have to repeat itself.

The United Auto Workers backed Abdul El-Sayed in a close Senate primary, then mobilized members across Michigan. Its sights are set on the next fight with the Big Three.

PHOENIX—Two years after President Donald Trump won Arizona with 52 percent of the vote, Democrats are poised to win a trifecta in the state House, Senate and governor’s office, and could potentially win every statewide elected position. The battleground state’s blue wave could fundamentally alter how it responds to increasingly deadly heat and persistent drought […]

The takeaways from the midterms are clear: no amount of billionaire spending could overcome the fact that Donald Trump’s dominance is coming to a close, the Left has much more room to grow, and we have entered a period of new possibility in US politics.

Pro-worker policy isn’t just about the government improving labor standards. Zohran Mamdani’s administration could empower workers to shape and enforce standards by training and organizing each other.

This is  California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Thursday via Substack. Hello, everyone! We’ve got a lot of postelection news to cover this week. But I want to start with another hugely important issue, one that poses an…

The defining feature of Israeli “democracy,” including its elections last week, is its operation according to a Jewish supremacist logic, intensifying the discrimination, oppression, apartheid, mass violence, and genocide against Palestinians.

The offshore wind farm Revolution Wind is completely up and running — despite the Trump administration’s repeated and ongoing efforts to halt development of the $6.2 billion project. On Thursday, the Danish energy giant Ørsted said its 704-megawatt wind farm near Connecticut and Rhode Island began “generating up to…

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Rural Texas shifted sharply Democratic in the 2026 election, with Democratic gains particularly pronounced in the Rio Grande Valley and along the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated Republican Governor Greg Abbott in the gubernatorial contest, while Democrat James Talarico won the U.S. Senate race against Republican Ken Paxton. Both victories marked significant gains for […]

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Before Tuesday’s election, Republicans held more governorships and state legislative seats than Democrats, along with an advantage in state trifectas—unified control of the governor’s office and both chambers of the legislature. That advantage has disappeared, clearing the path for more climate and clean energy legislation, according to analysts and advocates. Democrats swept the vast majority […]