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A woman is shown leaning her head back slightly with a protective mask pulled down and a health care worker reaches out with a swab.

Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the coronavirus pandemic

COVID-19

After the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars undermining climate science, it’s easy to see how epidemiology came next.

US President Donald Trump is shown standing at a podium at the center of a joint session of Congress.

In political speech to Congress, Trump makes case for re-election

Trump administration
Rush Limbaugh with Donald Trump

The power of conservative talk radio

Politics
“I don't want to have to do this,” Victoria Barrett says. “It's just I feel like it obviously needs to be done. It's frustrating... Sometimes I feel like people my age are fighting the hardest when we didn't even start this in the first place."

This 18-year-old from New York is suing the Trump administration over climate change

Global Politics

Friday Follow: Super Tuesday, al-Awlaki Defense, Rush Limbaugh and the Contraceptive Debate

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Takeouts: Citadel bankruptcy, NFL, listeners on student loans

Arts, Culture & Media

Money Takeout: New York Times business and finance reporter Louise Story reports on the bankruptcy filing of Citadel Broadcasting Company – the third largest radio group in the country and the home of popular syndicated programs from Don Imus and Rush Limbaugh, among others. Sports Takeout: Ibrahim Abdul-Matin recaps the weekend’s NFL action, which leaves […]

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Politics and strange bedfellows in upstate New York

Global Politics

It is voting day across the country, but a surprising amount of national attention has been focused on a special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. We talk to North Country Public Radio reporter Brian Mann, live from a polling station.

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