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Published September 14Tipping Point: World Will Overshoot Climate Temperature Target. What Now?
For over a decade, the world has been trying to limit global warming to 1.5°C. That’s no longer possible, according to a new United Nations report. We will likely pass 1.5°C in 2030. That’s not good news for anyone, least of all those who face rapidly rising seas.
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Published September 13How Newspapers Lost Their Voice
Since the birth of this nation, newspapers large and small have published their own opinion pieces challenging the powerful, calling for reform and demanding accountability. Editorials – in their ideal form – are essentially letters from the newspaper itself to its readers…
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Published September 1251st State of Mind: As Alberta Votes on Independence, Will Trump Back Separation?
The Alberta referendum will be Canada’s third, after those in Québec in 1980 and 1995, when American governments under presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton supported a united Canada. Trump, who has frequently threatened to make Canada a 51st state, has not openly declared his…
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Published September 11Flagler County Memories of 9/11, pt. 2: ‘A Day Remembered for Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice’
In the second of two parts commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9/11, 19 prominent members of the Flagler County community remember that day and reflect on how it changed them, and how it changed the nation. Today's contributors are Bobby Bossardet, Colleen Walsh Conklin, Ty…
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Published September 11Double-Digit Health Insurance Rate Increases Appear Ahead
It looks like another round of health insurance premium increases for millions of Floridians who get their insurance through the federal health care makretplaces. The rates, filed in the spring, haven’t yet been finalized. They are proposed changes. The Florida Office of…
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Published September 11What We Forget When We Remember 9/11
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, collective memory confronts the inevitable passage of time. A rising generation lacks living recollection, forcing society to distill vast trauma into ritual and history. The day began as shared human suffering, yet subsequent…
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Published September 10Flagler County Memories of 9/11, pt. 1: ‘Who Will Soothe This Nation’s Soul?’
In the first of two parts commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9/11, 16 prominent members of the Flagler County community remember that day and reflect on how it has changed the nation since. Today's contributors are Patrick Juliano, Andrea Totten, Penny Overstreet, LaShakia…
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Published September 10A Beating in Congress and the Limits of Free Speech
On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks strode into the United States Senate chamber and beat Sen. Charles Sumner unconscious with a cane. Brooks, a South Carolina congressman, was retaliating for a speech Sumner had given condemning slavery and personally insulting a relative of Brooks.…
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Published September 09Florida Attorney general Uthmeier Sues Netflix, Claiming It Targets Children
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a lawsuit against Netflix today, claiming it violated state law by telling consumers it wouldn’t track and sell their data to advertisers, and that it’s keeping targeting children to keep them “tethered to the screen.”
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Published September 09The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Leigha Mumby is in court for an 8:30 a.m. docket sounding, the Palm Coast City Council meets in the first of two hearings, Conversations in Democracy, fear and its quotables from Nietzsche to Goering.
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Published September 08Germany’s Hard-Right AfD Party Wins One. What Now?
The results of Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt state election on September 6 were far worse than feared for the country’s mainstream political parties. The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) came close to winning a majority of votes, with 43.8%. This was about 4% higher than…
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Published September 07Support for Labor Unions Is at a 25-Year High
Nearly half of Americans want unions to be more powerful, in a showing of labor support that’s at an all-time high in the last 25 years, according to a new poll by Gallup. The poll said 47% wanted unions to have more influence, while 26% wanted unions’ power to stay the same, and…