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Articles by Dave Levitan
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trump-administration Trump Administration Reluctantly Learns That Government Does Some Important Stuff
By Dave Levitan June 6, 2025 | 1:03pm
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congress, trump-administration Can You Enjoy Things and Also Worry, or Are You Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy?
By Dave Levitan June 6, 2025 | 9:26am
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sports Top 5 Commercials in the 2025 NBA Playoffs That Will Murder Me, Personally
By Dave Levitan June 2, 2025 | 11:00am
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trump-administration, climate Which Part of the Manufacturing Boom Is $14 Billion in Canceled Clean Energy Investment?
By Dave Levitan May 29, 2025 | 11:01am
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climate Swiss Glacier Collapse Buries Entire Town Just Days After Evacuation
By Dave Levitan May 29, 2025 | 8:03am
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healthcare, trump-administration, technology Analysis of 'DieselGate' Impacts in the UK and EU Puts Some Numbers on What Regulation Enforcement Can Actually Do
By Dave Levitan May 28, 2025 | 12:21pm
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climate WMO: Hot Planet Getting Hotter
By Dave Levitan May 28, 2025 | 8:56am
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healthcare, trump-administration Who Needs Advisory Committees When You're Sure You Know Everything?
By Dave Levitan May 27, 2025 | 2:04pm
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trump-administration, climate How Many People Will Trump's Energy 'Emergency' Kill?
By Dave Levitan May 27, 2025 | 9:14am
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trumpland Let's All Lose Our Minds, Trump 'Swing' Voter Focus Group Version
By Dave Levitan May 23, 2025 | 1:13pm
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trump-administration Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over 'Clear Retaliation' Move to Revoke Enrollment of Foreign Students
By Dave Levitan May 23, 2025 | 9:15am
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trump-administration With Deeply Unhinged Announcement, Trump, Noem Stop Harvard From Enrolling International Students
By Dave Levitan May 22, 2025 | 2:32pm
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healthcare, trump-administration The Anti-Vaccine Administration is Making Its Mark
By Dave Levitan May 22, 2025 | 10:14am
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climate Even the Ambitious Climate Targets Will Cause Ice Loss 'Well Beyond the Limits of Adaptation'
By Dave Levitan May 21, 2025 | 2:49pm
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trump-administration Trump Wants 25 National Cancer Institutes' Worth of Golden Dome Missile Defense Spending
By Dave Levitan May 21, 2025 | 10:04am
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sports The NBA Has Entered Its Parity Era, For Better or Worse
By Dave Levitan May 20, 2025 | 12:28pm
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trump-administration, climate Stalled Offshore Wind Farm Gets a Reprieve Thanks to Wink-Wink Oil and Gas Deal
By Dave Levitan May 20, 2025 | 8:28am
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trump-administration, international-affairs Trump Enters 119th Day of Ending War in Ukraine on Day One
By Dave Levitan May 19, 2025 | 12:49pm
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congress, healthcare, trump-administration 'It Can Always Get Dumber' Budget Bill Advances Out of Committee
By Dave Levitan May 19, 2025 | 8:26am
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trump-administration Some of the Totally Normal Things I Do While Covering the Trump Administration
By Dave Levitan May 16, 2025 | 1:15pm
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climate, international-affairs Have China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Peaked?
By Dave Levitan May 16, 2025 | 9:08am
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trump-administration, climate 'Preparing' for Hurricane Season the Trump Way
By Dave Levitan May 15, 2025 | 9:47am
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healthcare, trump-administration RFK Jr. Says We Should All Ignore His Medical Advice
By Dave Levitan May 14, 2025 | 12:41pm
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climate City of Boulder Can Sue Big Oil, State Supreme Court Rules
By Dave Levitan May 14, 2025 | 10:06am
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trump-administration, climate Farmers Win Climate Data Victory in USDA Lawsuit
By Dave Levitan May 13, 2025 | 1:51pm
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trump-administration, climate Republicans Want to Undo the Actual Energy Boom
By Dave Levitan May 13, 2025 | 9:50am
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sports Is This the Weirdest NBA Playoffs Ever?
By Dave Levitan May 12, 2025 | 1:32pm
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trump-administration To Raise This Many Questions, It Sure Would Be Nice to Have Some Sort of Giant Free Aircraft
By Dave Levitan May 12, 2025 | 8:00am
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immigration, trump-administration Judge Orders Release of Rümeysa Öztürk, Who Was Kidnapped for Writing an Op-Ed
By Dave Levitan May 9, 2025 | 12:50pm
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trump-administration, climate NOAA Will Stop Tracking Billion-Dollar Disasters, Thereby Ending Them Entirely
By Dave Levitan May 9, 2025 | 8:34am
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trump-administration Head of FEMA Fired, Probably For Saying FEMA Should Exist
By Dave Levitan May 8, 2025 | 1:36pm
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trump-administration Expect Chaos as EPA Undertakes Its Anti-Science Reorganization
By Dave Levitan May 8, 2025 | 9:22am
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trump-administration Which Cabinet Secretary Will Kill the Most People?
By Dave Levitan May 7, 2025 | 10:39am
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trump-administration, climate Help the EPA Out With Some Math, Is a 350-1 Return on Investment Good?
By Dave Levitan May 6, 2025 | 2:31pm
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sports One Simple Fix to NBA Overtime Rules
By Dave Levitan May 6, 2025 | 11:36am
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trump-administration Does Trump Want to Reopen Alcatraz and Tariff Foreign Movies or Did He Just Watch 'The Rock' This Weekend
By Dave Levitan May 5, 2025 | 2:01pm
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trump-administration, international-affairs Europe Launches No-Brainer Scientist Poaching Operation
By Dave Levitan May 5, 2025 | 9:34am
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climate It's Not Just the Heat
By Dave Levitan May 2, 2025 | 1:55pm
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trump-administration, climate Big Oil May Be Rethinking Its Choice of Friends
By Dave Levitan May 2, 2025 | 9:59am
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trump-administration In Wake of SignalGate, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz Claims First Spot Under the Bus
By Dave Levitan May 1, 2025 | 1:11pm
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trump-administration Musk Denies WSJ Report That Tesla Is Getting Really Sick of His Bullshit
By Dave Levitan May 1, 2025 | 9:54am
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trump-administration AG Pam Bondi Murders Math in Praise of Trump
By Dave Levitan April 30, 2025 | 2:11pm
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trump-administration Study: Cuts to Science Funding Will Yield Great Recession-Level Economic Hit
By Dave Levitan April 30, 2025 | 9:29am
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trump-administration, climate Administration's Head-In-Sand Policy Cemented With Firing of Hundreds of National Climate Assessment Authors
By Dave Levitan April 29, 2025 | 3:22pm
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trump-administration National Cancer Institute Apparently Shouldn't Bother With All That Pesky Science
By Dave Levitan April 29, 2025 | 10:33am
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international-affairs Someone Shut the Lights Off On the Entire Iberian Peninsula
By Dave Levitan April 28, 2025 | 1:04pm
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trump-administration It Is All Very Unpopular
By Dave Levitan April 28, 2025 | 9:58am
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trump-administration NOAA Will Help Rip Up the Deep Sea Floor
By Dave Levitan April 25, 2025 | 1:41pm
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trump-administration, climate Who Needs the Office of Global Change When You Can Pretend Nothing is Changing?
By Dave Levitan April 25, 2025 | 10:26am
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congress, trump-administration You'll Never Guess Which Party in Government Uses Science More
By Dave Levitan April 24, 2025 | 3:32pm
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trump-administration, climate Trump to Fast-Track Fossil Fuel Permitting in the Name of a Fake 'Emergency'
By Dave Levitan April 24, 2025 | 8:56am
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trump-administration, climate W. Va. Governor Thanks Trump for FEMA Denial, Will Appeal Decision
By Dave Levitan April 23, 2025 | 2:02pm
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climate The Pine Barrens Are On Fire
By Dave Levitan April 23, 2025 | 8:48am
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trump-administration Anti-Regulation EPA Head Wants Us All to Have a Happy Earth Day
By Dave Levitan April 22, 2025 | 2:28pm
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trump-administration 'Taking the Side of Cancer': The War on Medical Research Is Being Fought Through Contracts
By Dave Levitan April 22, 2025 | 9:14am
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trump-administration Who Will Be the Second Trump Cabinet Member to Go?
By Dave Levitan April 21, 2025 | 2:10pm
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trump-administration Pete Hegseth Just Loves Texting War Plans To People Who Shouldn't See Them
By Dave Levitan April 21, 2025 | 9:57am
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trump-administration, climate Trump Administration Putting Enormous, Oily Thumb On Offshore Energy Scale
By Dave Levitan April 18, 2025 | 2:31pm
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sports A Definitive Entertainment Value Ranking of Round One NBA Playoff Series
By Dave Levitan April 18, 2025 | 9:26am
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trump-administration, climate 47 Coal Companies Granted Permission to Keep Poisoning People
By Dave Levitan April 17, 2025 | 1:47pm
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climate Arsenic and Old Rice: Climate Change Will Make Staple Food More Dangerous
By Dave Levitan April 17, 2025 | 9:35am
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trump-administration, climate With Order to Unfreeze Climate and Infrastructure Billions, Trump Gets Another Shot at Defying the Courts
By Dave Levitan April 16, 2025 | 2:04pm
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trump-administration, climate EPA Demands Info From Scuzzy Solar Geoengineering Startup
By Dave Levitan April 16, 2025 | 10:09am
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trump-administration Vague, Tepid Signs of a Thaw at the National Institutes of Health
By Dave Levitan April 15, 2025 | 2:53pm
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trump-administration Headlines About DOGE Ranked According to an Ultra-Scientific 'How Is This Real' Scale
By Dave Levitan April 15, 2025 | 9:14am
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trump-administration Regime Claims the Pipeline to El Salvador Only Runs in One Direction
By Dave Levitan April 14, 2025 | 9:26am
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trump-administration, climate Trump Wants to Kill Science at NOAA and NASA
By Dave Levitan April 11, 2025 | 12:31pm
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sports The NBA's Western Conference Is a Glorious Mess
By Dave Levitan April 11, 2025 | 9:41am
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trump-administration Marco Rubio Tells Court He Can Deport People For Their Beliefs Alone
By Dave Levitan April 10, 2025 | 2:58pm
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climate Oil Pipeline in North Dakota Does What Oil Pipelines Do
By Dave Levitan April 10, 2025 | 10:29am
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trump-administration Pentagon Press Releases Are Windows Into Some Overmatched Children's Souls
By Dave Levitan April 9, 2025 | 3:12pm
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trump-administration, climate Another Billionaire Set to Join Team Trump as NASA Administrator
By Dave Levitan April 9, 2025 | 10:06am
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trump-administration, climate Trump Tries to Weekend-At-Bernie's the Coal Industry
By Dave Levitan April 8, 2025 | 1:40pm
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climate Clean Energy Set a New Mark for Electricity Generation in 2024
By Dave Levitan April 8, 2025 | 9:10am
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supreme-court, trump-administration Trump Administration Asks SCOTUS to Make Its Disappearances Legal
By Dave Levitan April 7, 2025 | 1:48pm
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trump-administration In an Environment of Fear, Federal Employees Join Massive Protests Anyway
By Dave Levitan April 7, 2025 | 9:37am
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trump-administration, climate 'Hostile Takeover': DOGE and Howard Lutnick Are Destroying NOAA
By Dave Levitan April 4, 2025 | 12:31pm
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trump-administration, climate Wildfire Smoke Makes Mental Health Conditions Worse Too
By Dave Levitan April 4, 2025 | 10:15am
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trump-administration, economy Headlines About Trump's Economy-Destroying Tariffs, Ranked
By Dave Levitan April 3, 2025 | 11:13am
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climate Study: Worst-Case Warming Will Decimate Global GDP, Because Impacts Don't Stop at Borders
By Dave Levitan April 2, 2025 | 12:01pm
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elections Democrats Win in Wisconsin, Lose Less Badly in Florida
By Dave Levitan April 2, 2025 | 8:51am
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climate It Rains Harder Now
By Dave Levitan April 1, 2025 | 2:38pm
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trump-administration 'Bloodbath' at NIH and Elsewhere at HHS Begins
By Dave Levitan April 1, 2025 | 9:10am
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trump-administration, international-affairs USAID Cuts Probably Killed People in Myanmar
By Dave Levitan March 31, 2025 | 1:23pm
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international-affairs Conservative Politician Faces Consequence
By Dave Levitan March 31, 2025 | 8:44am
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trump-administration Law Firm: 'This Agreement With a Dictator Does Not Change Who We Are'
By Dave Levitan March 28, 2025 | 2:43pm
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trump-administration Keep Burning the Dirtiest Stuff at Your Power Plant With This One Neat Trick
By Dave Levitan March 28, 2025 | 9:21am
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trump-administration Marco Rubio Invokes Little-Known 'Ruckus' Rule to Justify Unconstitutional Disappearances
By Dave Levitan March 27, 2025 | 2:52pm
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trump-administration RFK Jr. Announces 10,000-Person Firing Spree at HHS
By Dave Levitan March 27, 2025 | 9:57am
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trump-administration Masked Thugs Kidnap Another Student Off the Street
By Dave Levitan March 26, 2025 | 2:12pm
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trump-administration Can Detailed, To-The-Minute Timelines With Specific Missile and Fighter Jet Types Really Be Called 'Plans' Anyway
By Dave Levitan March 26, 2025 | 9:52am
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supreme-court, climate Supreme Court Denies Appeal in Youth-Led Climate Change Case, Ending Decade-Long Saga
By Dave Levitan March 25, 2025 | 2:32pm
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trump-administration There Are Two Ways to Break the Government
By Dave Levitan March 25, 2025 | 9:22am
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trump-administration The Pentagon, Fresh Off Sending Yemen War Plans to a Journalist By Accident, Wants to Stop the Leaks
By Dave Levitan March 24, 2025 | 1:36pm
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climate Faster Warming, Slower Progress: Two New Reports Paint a Grim Climate Picture
By Dave Levitan March 24, 2025 | 9:20am
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climate Climate Change is Suffocating the World's Lakes
By Dave Levitan March 21, 2025 | 1:24pm
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trump-administration Area President Celebrates Anniversary of Anti-Monarchy Speech
By Dave Levitan March 21, 2025 | 8:45am
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trump-administration RFK Jr. Begins Remaking NIH
By Dave Levitan March 20, 2025 | 12:26pm
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climate Greenpeace Owes an Oil Pipeline Company More Than Half a Billion Dollars
By Dave Levitan March 20, 2025 | 9:41am
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trump-administration 'I Am In Fear': The Assault on Government is Chilling Federal Employees' Speech
By Dave Levitan March 19, 2025 | 2:07pm
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trump-administration, climate 'Distress Signals': WMO Report Demonstrates the Bad Timing of Trump's Climate Pullback
By Dave Levitan March 19, 2025 | 9:20am
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trump-administration At Home and In International Airspace, the Trump Administration Is Accelerating Toward Outright Dictatorship
By Dave Levitan March 18, 2025 | 11:44am
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trump-administration, climate The EPA Is Removing Science From Its Equation
By Dave Levitan March 18, 2025 | 8:17am
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trump-administration NIH, Other Agencies Obey Court Order to Rehire Some Fired Employees, Sort Of
By Dave Levitan March 17, 2025 | 1:09pm
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trump-administration, climate The Middle of the Country Is Ready to Burn
By Dave Levitan March 17, 2025 | 8:27am
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trump-administration, climate What Trump Wants to Do to Climate and Energy is Deeply Unpopular
By Dave Levitan March 14, 2025 | 10:26am
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congress, trump-administration 'If You Don't Fight, You Can't Win': Federal Employees Want Chuck Schumer and the Democrats to Grow a Spine
By Dave Levitan March 13, 2025 | 8:30pm
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trump-administration 'It Was A Sham': Federal Judge Orders Agencies to Reinstate Thousands of Fired Federal Employees
By Dave Levitan March 13, 2025 | 3:57pm