Jury selection is now underway in Los Angeles County Superior Court for what plaintiffs’ attorneys are calling the first major bellwether trial over whether leading social-media platforms—Instagram (Meta), TikTok, YouTube (Google), and Snapchat (Snap)—were engineered to be addictive to minors in ways that foreseeably harmed teens. The case is explicitly …

Twenty years ago, An Inconvenient Truth debuted at the Sundance Film Festival to a standing ovation. Released theatrically in 2006, the documentary—fronted by former Vice President Al Gore—became a cultural milestone. It helped propel climate change from a technical scientific debate into a dominant political and media narrative, shaping public …

There is a taboo in polite American conversation: America as empire. Going to college during the War on Terror, partly out of contrarian instinct and partly to get a rise out of others, I began deploying my best neo-con arguments to anyone who would listen to my pro-Iraq War arguments. …

What began earlier this week as a call for a statewide “Day of Truth and Freedom” has materialized into one of the largest coordinated acts of public protest in Minnesota in years — with thousands of residents marching through downtown Minneapolis, hundreds of businesses shuttering operations, and arrests made during …

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a sweeping new round of sanctions Friday targeting nine vessels and their owners linked to Iran’s so-called “shadow fleet” — a covert maritime network used to export Iranian crude oil and petroleum products to global markets. The move is …