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Save this story for later. George Floyd Square, the intersection in Minneapolis where Floyd died, last May, features a mural that says “You Changed the World, George.” And, in the eleven months since Floyd’s agonizing death, captured on video, we have seen changes ranging from mercenary corporate endorsements of the phrase “Black Lives Matter” to personal reckonings with the role of race in American society as well as substantial legislative and policy changes regarding policing. But for Floyd’s death, New York City would likely not have unsealed the disciplinary...

Is the President’s do-nothing approach to the pandemic finally becoming a threat to his political future?

Save this story for later. In a few months, a small British financial think tank will mark the tenth anniversary of the publication of a landmark research report that helped launch the global fossil-fuel-divestment movement. As that celebration takes place, another seminal report—this one obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the world’s largest investment house—closes the loop on one of the key arguments of that decade-long fight. It definitively shows that the firms that joined that divestment effort have profited not only morally but also financially. The original report...

Save this story for later. “Dawaee”—“thanks”—began the official message from the Pueblo of Acoma at the news on Monday that Deb Haaland, the congresswoman from New Mexico, had been confirmed as the Secretary of the Interior, becoming the first Native American ever appointed to a Cabinet position. Holly Cook Macarro, the chairwoman of the American Indian Graduate Center, reached for a Chippewa word from her Red Lake Nation, in northern Minnesota: “Gichi-ogimaakwe” was the right name for Haaland, she told the Washington  Post. “The highes...

Why did we ever find all of this so amusing?