August 2022 Impact Articles
- Scientists are going to launch a space balloon to sweep for alien particles
- California’s power grid could have a major meltdown this week
- The Justice Department just owned Trump in a court filing
- “Zombie ice” near Greenland is a catastrophe waiting to happen
- Mississippi’s capital is officially out of safe water
- Relic Watch: A running list of stuff exposed by our drying bodies of water
- Trump’s big idea to restore democracy: “Have a new election, immediately!”
- The monsoon destruction in Pakistan right now is climate inequality laid bare
- Conservatives are big mad the military might have to quit preying on broke kids
- How to sell your own data — and why you might want to
- 5 good news stories about climate change
- The Biden administration just took a big step to protect DACA
- The biggest political controversy right now is state fair season
- The Intermountain coal plant in Utah could be the first to convert to hydrogen energy
- Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps getting swatted . . . sort of
- Conservatives are trying really hard to spin student debt relief as a bad thing
- The Yangtze River is drying up in China — revealing 600-year-old Buddhist statues in the process
- It’s far from perfect, but Biden’s student debt relief plan is a big deal
- Republican candidate for governor Scott Jensen is proud of his wildly offensive Holocaust analogy, actually
- The government has now recovered more than 300 classified documents from Trump at Mar-a-Lago
- 5 climate lawsuits that shaped the current movement
- This poll perfectly captures the Republican Party’s Trump problem
- Leonard Leo, the worst GOP operative you’ve never heard of, is about to become the one you can’t ignore
- Utah’s trans athlete ban has officially opened the door to state-sponsored harassment
- The Kemp's ridley turtle is making a comeback in the Chandeleur Islands
- 3 Arkansas cops have been suspended for horrifying police brutality caught on tape
- What is going on with Dr. Oz’s Pennsylvania Senate campaign?
- Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg just pleaded to a bunch of crimes
- Dr. Oz is extremely defensive about his “properties”
- Elon Musk was partying with Kevin McCarthy this week
- Madison Cawthorn may have lost more than $500,000 in his failed re-election bid
- Weird how Trump is apparently having a hard time finding lawyers
- How young creatives in Kyiv are adapting to their wartime reality
- A federal court ruled that gender dysphoria is a protected disability
- Liz Cheney lost her primary, but don't cry for her
- This live-cam of bears fishing in Alaska will make you whole
- California is due for a “megaflood,” per a new study
- What's in the Inflation Reduction Act?
- This poll explains why climate change makes us feel so helpless
- Rudy Giuliani is under criminal investigation for election interference in Georgia
- 'Ring Nation' will be a TV show made from Amazon Ring doorbell footage
- Watch this extremely painful CNN interview with Andrew Yang about the Forward Party
- For Black Jews, policing synagogues will never be the solution
- Climate change keeps showing us where the bodies are buried
- Um, was Trump hoarding “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons”?
- Merrick Garland’s press conference on the Trump FBI search could’ve been a email
- Five years later, Charlottesville is still reckoning with the Unite the Right rally
- The Right Stuff wants to be Hinge for the unhinged right
- Beto O’Rourke put a “motherf--ker” who laughed at school shootings in his place
- What happened to Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue?
- Charlottesville ignited a terrifying new era of white nationalism in America
- How Charlottesville transformed the Republican Party
- Between the raid and his taxes and his deposition, Trump is having a rough week
- Photos from MAGA protests after the FBI's Mar-a-Lago search
- The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, and Trump and his backers are calling for war
- Two of Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers were just sentenced to life in prison
- Trump reportedly wished American generals were more like Nazis
- Senate Democrats just passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest climate change bill in U.S. history
- Fox News is on board with ayahuasca now, apparently
- Is Elon Musk a bot?
- The DOJ charged four cops involved in Breonna Taylor’s death
- A Russian court just sentenced WNBA superstar Brittney Griner to nearly 10 years in prison
- Climate change is literally making the Earth spin faster
- GOP governors are sending busloads of migrants to D.C. to fend for themselves
- This Alex Jones trial is absolutely bonkers
- Scientists say we haven't given enough thought to human extinction
- Kansas voters just forcefully rejected an anti-abortion ballot measure
- Could publishing graphic photos of mass shooting victims actually lead to gun control?
- Errol Musk, father of Elon, thinks of his billionaire son as a little boy who needs to go on a diet
- San Francisco is the first city in the U.S. to celebrate Transgender History Month
