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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken a first step towards weakening the 1973 Endangered Species Act.

The new regulations will make it much easier to remove species from the Endangered Species list, and current wildlife on the threatened species list (one step down from En...

New efforts by President Trump and his staff to question or undermine the established science of climate change have created a widening rift between the White House on one side, and scientific facts, government agencies, and some leading figures in the president’s own party on the other. Th...

The full role of white women in slavery has long been one of the “slave trade’s best-kept secrets.” “They Were Her Property,” a taut and cogent corrective, by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

By Steve Lohr

February 22, 2019

Euan Robertson started his job with New York City’s economic development team at an ominous moment. It was Monday, Sept. 15, 2008, the day Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and ignited the financial crisis.

Mr. Robertson made ...