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The full extent of the damage caused by Hurricane Ian is still being tallied. The death toll—which now stands at 120—rises by the day. As those living in the storm’s path attempt to rebuild, they may now also have to deal with the downstream effects of a crisis in pristine, far-off boardrooms. According to a new analysis by Stonybrook Capital, Ian may be the single biggest insured loss ever, totaling an estimated $75 billion. The company warns that the effect on the insurance market could be “profound and widespread.”

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International interventions in the nation of Haiti have never benefited actual Haitians. Here there has been a long and disgraceful history: from the 1915 invasion and occupation that set a dark precedent of military misadventures to come to the more recent United Nations mission that brought cholera to the country in a scandalous chapter that’s now returned to the news. So it’s no surprise that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres’s plan to send an international military force to Haiti has been met with resistance. Читать дальше...

As Trump’s Big Lie festers among the Republican Party and political norms continue to erode, we at The New Republic are pretty concerned about the future of small “d” democracy, both in the U.S. and abroad. So we’ve started a series we’ve termed Democracy Watch, wherein we will regularly survey experts, writers, and generally interesting thinkers on a specific question about the state of democracy and what keeps them up at night.

Even after over a decade of campaigning urging universities to “divest” their endowment funds from fossil fuels, surprisingly little is known about just how much fossil fuel money flows to the nation’s top research institutions. Oil and gas giants including Chevron, Shell, Eni, Equinor, and ConocoPhillips fund premier climate and energy research initiatives at Harvard, MIT, and Columbia—where even the Climate School takes fossil fuel money. Right now, at Stanford, community members are rightly... Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court does not consider every contentious legal issue in every term. Sometimes it hears abortion cases. Other times it hears religious freedom ones. Nearly a decade went by without a major ruling on Second Amendment cases by the justices. Some topics arise more often than others, but there are almost no guarantees when it comes to the court’s docket each term.

In April 2017, just over a month before The New York Times brought the 14-year history of its public editor to an ignominious end, writer Leah Finnegan used her column at The Outline to ask: “Who is the public editor for?” Ostensibly a kind of ombudsman, an advocate for and occasional explainer to a publication’s readership, the role, at the Times and elsewhere, frequently seemed to be less of a readers’ representative and watchdog than it was an expression of one of the great unacknowledged weaknesses of American journalism... Читать дальше...