Author: Errica Jensen

One image from the early 2010s climate marches is still making the rounds on activist forums: thousands of people crowding the streets of London, New York, or Berlin, holding signs aloft and chanting in unison. The entire event was peaceful, massive, and, depending on your point of view, either inspiring or completely predictable. Such protests continue to occur. However, at the same time, something else has been emerging that is much more difficult to capture on camera, quieter, and more deliberate. A group going by the name Pipe Busters attacked a pipeline that ran from Southampton to London in 2022,…

When you drive through specific neighborhoods in inland Florida or coastal Louisiana, you begin to notice things that are left out of policy papers. roofs with tarps that have been there for two too many storms. signs for sale in front of homes that don’t seem to sell. The occasional vacant lot where a house once stood, the edges gradually being reclaimed by grass, the concrete slab still visible. These are not typical indicators of deterioration. They are the first tangible terms of a financial crisis that has been developing for years and is now suddenly materializing. The mechanism was…

On a calm morning, the scene at the edge of the Mekong Delta appears as it always has: water birds making slow arcs across a sky the color of old tin, farmers hunched over paddies, and canals winding through a verdant maze. Observing all that stillness makes it easy to forget that the ground is moving beneath it. Not in a big way. Not all at once. Just quietly, steadily, downward. Over half of Vietnam’s rice production and about 90% of its rice exports come from the Mekong Delta. That figure felt almost geological for decades, steady, dependable, and as…

GM has been narrating a version of the Cadillac Lyriq story for many years. This is how it works: the century-old American luxury brand, which has long been linked to gas-guzzling Escalades and sedans with lots of chrome, is now producing the electric car it deserves. The Lyriq was intended to be the proof point; it was first presented as a concept in 2020 and began shipping to clients in 2022. It starts at more than $58,000 and has a 33-inch diagonal LED display with sleek lines. Cadillac is competing on its own terms with Tesla. In 2024 alone, 28,402…

About fifty people gathered in the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall, a well-known area of brick pavement and benches in the center of a college town that most Iowans are familiar with, on a Friday morning in early April 2026. A few had signs. One read was “USA Home of Immigrants Not Kings.” “We Stand with Sunday,” remarked another. His name was yelled by others. Standing in front of them was the man at the center of it all, a professor from Nigeria who came to Cedar Rapids in August 2000 on a student visa and never quite made it out.…

The fact that Google’s own spam detection is filtering the email informing you that Google owes you money out of your inbox is especially ridiculous. That is not a conspiracy theory; rather, it is what people learned in the days following the announcement of the settlement in Taylor v. Google LLC in early April 2026. People reported the same thing in threads on Reddit’s r/ClassActionSettlement: the official settlement administrator’s notice ended up in Gmail junk mail. “Is it strange that Gmail’s spam filter is protecting Google’s interest?” a user wrote. Many responded that they only discovered their notice after being…

It’s easy to forget how much everything costs on a powder morning at Park City Mountain, with the lifts spinning smoothly against a blue Utah sky and fresh snow on the groomed runs. It has already been paid for by you. Before anyone knew whether the snow would be good, the lift ticket—or, more likely, the season pass—was bought weeks or months in advance. That’s the entire layout. In a 75-page federal complaint, four skiers from Colorado and Massachusetts now claim that this design is an antitrust violation masquerading as a loyalty program. Vail Resorts and Alterra Mountain Company are…

Purchasing auto insurance requires a certain level of trust. You pay the premium, get the paperwork, put the card in your glove compartment, and quietly assume that the coverage you paid for will cover you in the event of an accident, an uninsured driver running a red light, or a hit-and-run in a parking lot. The majority of people never find out if that assumption is true. At the worst times, some people do. Occasionally, the discrepancy between what was sold and what was genuine finds its way into federal court. This is the background of the class action lawsuit…

It’s hard not to feel the weight of what transpired here a millennium ago when you stand at the northern tip of Newfoundland on a clear morning and look out across Epaves Bay toward the Strait of Belle Isle. A peat bog stretches back from the water’s edge, and a small brook runs toward the shore in this open, windswept landscape that is now mostly grass. In other words, it appears to be nearly nothing. The only known Norse settlement in North America was located beneath those grassy mounds, which the locals had always referred to as “the old Indian…

A rabbi invited a few friends to his rented house to pray somewhere in the mid-1990s on a peaceful residential street in Old Westbury, one of Long Island’s wealthiest villages, a place of horse farms, gated driveways, and the kind of civic tranquility that wealth tends to buy. That was all. That was the start. After the landlord expelled him for it, Rabbi Aaron Konikov’s life was consumed by a series of events that culminated in a $19 million federal settlement that had an impact far beyond the boundaries of one Nassau County enclave. Between that prayer meeting in 1994…