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TL;DR: Norway subsidised electric cars a lot, that money went to the rich more than the poor, and left them with less money to spend on transit which delivers better outcomes for cities.

Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.

I’ve been really enjoying this podcast. Really interesting topics and well produced episodes. These are the seasons so far:...

It’s a bedbug’s world now. We’re just sleeping in it.

Biden is skeptical that a border wall works. He’s still building a new one.

As tourism returns to Maui, those displaced by this year’s deadly fires face losing their homes again.

The IDF has launched retaliatory strikes after scores of Israeli citizens are dead and hundreds wounded.

Two of the most partisan judges in the country handed down an order last week that is hard to explain as anything other than an attempt to preserve Republican control of the US House of Representatives. The voting rights plaintiffs in this case, known as In re: Jeff Landry, already filed an emergency application in the Supreme...

Not all heroes wear capes. Some are crabs.

The United States’s Chemical Warfare Service readied hundreds of thousands of mortar shells and artillery rounds filled with mustard gas in the 1940s. During the Cold War, even more lethal chemical weapons followed: artillery and rockets filled with VX and GB, better known as Sarin, nerve agents that, with as little as a few...

The Federal Trade Commission, led by longtime Amazon critic Lina Khan, finally makes its move.

Delay, deflect, downplay, and other ways fossil fuel companies block climate action.