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Supreme Court

A vaccine protest in 2021.

COVID vaccines went ‘on trial.’ Are routine childhood vaccine mandates at risk?

By James G. Hodge, Jr., Jennifer L. Piatt, Erica N. White, Leila F. Barraza | Biosecurity

power plant reflected in water at night

The Supreme Court hasn’t killed the Biden administration’s climate agenda, but its latest decision casts a shadow

By Max Sarinsky | Climate Change, Opinion

Red elephant and blue donkey with a picture of Earth from space

The Supreme Court’s EPA ruling enables a free-riding global pariah—unless Americans reach pro-climate consensus

By Robert Socolow | Analysis, Climate Change

The US Supreme Court building.

The Supreme Court’s EPA decision heralds a broad assault on democracy

By Adam Sobel | Analysis, Climate Change, Opinion

Good, bad, ugly, relieved: Reactions to the Supreme Court decision on the EPA and climate change

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Climate Change

smokestacks and red sky

Supreme Court rules against EPA’s power to fight climate change

By Oliver Milman | Climate Change

What does RBG’s death mean for climate change?

By Zoya Teirstein | Climate Change

Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Facebook removes pro-Soleimani Instagram content, calling it support for terrorism. Laurence Tribe says FB has it wrong

By Matt Field | Technology and Security

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photos by Joe Ravi CC SA-BY 3.0 and Morio CC SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Do social media bots have a right to free speech?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

A rally outside the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on October 29 was one of many across the country to show support for a federal climate lawsuit brought by 21 youth. Credit: Peg Hunter

Landmark climate trial is on again

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, What We’re Reading