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Do we need to be 'scared straight' on Climate Change?
Maybe you're one of the two million people who read or shared the recent New York Magazine cover story, which dares to imagine an "uninhabitable Earth." Maybe you liked it. Maybe you found it unhelpful or excessive. In this special rebroadcast of To the Point, guest host León Krauze asks, is it an exercise in journalistic alarmism or necessary scientific awareness?
By León Krauze • • 51m ListenPhoto: Illustration from David Wallace-Wells' "The Uninhabitable Earth" (Heartless Machine)
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer is out. He'd been keeping a low-level profile recently — with his deputy Sarah Huckabee Sanders handling many news briefings. But now he's officially handed in his resignation. This ends what's been at times a bumpy relationship between Spicer and the Washington press corps.
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It's been a month since President Trump said he'd withdraw America from the Paris climate accord. Now, a story in New York magazine has taken the debate about the dangers of global warming to an unlikely boiling point. The report paints a picture of un-breathable air and food shortages.
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Late last month, Republican attorneys general from 10 different states issued an ultimatum to the Trump administration: either dismantle DACA - the Obama era program granting legal status to undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children - or they'll sue to take it apart themselves.
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