Obama won a second term! And just as with every other point in the election, the nation's pundits are already telling us what it means. Here are all their takes as they come in.
Reuters on African penguins, The New York Times on fake beaches, NPR on Norfolk, VA and rising sea levels, The Washington Post on geoengineering, and The Daily Climate on women in climate science.
Pennsylvania, home to the guy who said voter ID laws would help Romney win the state, should not be worried about minorities not voting. It should obviously be more worried about white voters being intimidated by black guards at majority black polling stations, according to conservatives.
Ramesh Ponnuru on drones, Michael Gerson on math and politics, Kevin M. Kruse on truth in politics, Randy E. Barnett on the Libertarian Party, and Sasha Issenberg on why we vote.
It's finally Election Day! And last night Jon Stewart checked in on the home stretch on The Daily Show.
Election day is near, and from the looks of Google search trends, people are taking the opportunity to check whether Barack Obama is Muslim, socialist, or a citizen.
The Guardian on dire climate change warnings for business, Associated Press on dwindling green jobs, Reuters on oil spill clean-up tech, San Francisco Chronicle on Shell drilling for oil, and Grist on archiving emails.
Aaron B. O'Connell on military-industrial complex, Robert J. Samuelson on campaign disconnect, David Corn on political truth, Steven Greenhut on California's spending problem, and Gordon G. Chang on China's Enrons.
Automobile Magazine on Tesla Model S, The New York Times on wolf-hunting, Bloomberg BNA on local environmental issues, The Guardian on Malaysia's eco-city plans, and Reuters on Chinese environmental protests.
Romney and Obama have really hopped, skipped, and turned all across the country to campaign, as you can see in this fun animated map video of their campaign travels by statistician Jerzy Wieczorek.
Paul Krugman on partisan politics, Charles Krauthammer on ideological ascendancy, Haley Barbour on disaster relief, Thomas K. McCraw on immigrant innovation, and Carl Pope on politics of green.
Things are improving in New York, and all things said, conditions could be worse, Jon Stewart mused last on The Daily Show. Just look at what life is like in the Swing State Hell that is Ohio.
Wall Street does not donate to Barack Obama like it used to, and this striking month-by-month comparison chart from Center for Responsive Politics shows just how much its fallen out of love with the president since the last election.
Los Angeles Times on San Francisco's green identity, Grist on the dirty details of clean coal, Slate on Denmark's bikers, Time on caring for trees, and Reuters on a huge elephant tusk seizure.
The Daily Show returned last night, and Jon Stewart looked to his news team to compare Hurricane Sandy damage in lower Manhattan versus upper Manhattan.
Matt Miller on Sandy's moral instinct, Susan Antilla on the broken brokerage system, E.J. Dionne Jr. on compromise, Xiao Guozhen on Chinese law and advocacy, and Donald Cohen on the minimum wage.
Weird Uncle Joe Biden showed up to campaign for Barack Obama in Florida today, and man, was he on top of his weird uncle game. "I'm being a good Biden today," he said.
Center for Public Integrity on pollution and oil refineries, The New York Times on the axolotl salamander, BBC on bananas as the new potato, The Guardian on diseased forests, and Nature on agriculture and greenhouse gases.
The internet may seem abstract, but it does actually need hardware—hardware that can be damaged by storms like Sandy. As this chart from internet intelligence group Renesys shows, outages happened across the Northeast but were concentrated in New York City.
David Rohde on Sandy and inequality, Yonah Freemark and Lawrence J. Vale on housing aid, David Weigel on glamorizing the flip-flop, Kathleen Parker on the race card, and Ted Galen Carpenter on the Mexican drug war.
The havoc Sandy is wrecking may cost some $20 billion in economic damage, according to risk firm Eqecat Inc. Lot of money—so much, in fact, that the costs places Sandy in the top 10 most expensive hurricanes ever, as you can see in this chart.
Scientific American on Sandy and climate change, New York Times on oysters and New York, Treehugger on sustainable design for storms, Wired UK on glow-in-the-dark roads, and Houston Chronicle on seafood safety in the Gulf.
Ana Marie Cox on Hurricane Sandy, Jeffrey Rosen on wiretapping, Richard Cohen on Obama's authenticity, Richard Vedder on online learning, and Noah Feldman on the Supreme Court.
Much of lower Manhattan could lose electricity soon. People are tweeting about getting robo-called from Con-Ed informing them that they may need to turn off electricity.
Mother Jones on Romney's energy adviser is a fracking booster, National Geographic on a fast new supercomputer, The Daily Beast on China's green protest, California Watch on textbooks and plastics, and Grist on green shopping.
Bill Keller on "no agenda" myth, Michael Hiltzik on high taxes and millionaires, Thomas B. Edsall on rogue billionaires, Brian Lee Crowley on U.S. and Canada, and Jeffrey Toobin on the right to vote.
Los Angeles Times on Australia's fracking protests, The Guardian on damaged reefs, Reuters on BP's biofuel plant, Associated Press on the Navy's mattresses, and Grist on the complications of farming.
Roger Cohen on self-absorbed foreign policy, Eugene Robinson on America's identity, Jonathan Cohn on the auto bailout, David Brooks on being moderate, and Evan Osnos on China's corruption.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan doesn't like that Obama uses the government to pick which industries win and which industries lose, and Jon Stewart looked at just why it's a problem last night on The Daily Show.
The denser the place, the greater the racial integration—or, in other words, cities tend to be more racially diverse while less dense areas generally have higher percentages of white people, according to this chart from Bill Rankin at racialcartography.net.
Associated Press on radioactive water, USA Today on LEED, MarketWatch on a Chinese environmental advocate, Reuters on Italy's garbage, and Ecologist on rain gardens.
E.J. Dionne Jr. on the right wing, Amy Sullivan on Mourdock, Richard H. Thaler on entrepreneur safety nets, Greg Lukianoff on free speech at college, and Pete Early on the mentally ill.
People in America agree on two things, Jon Stewart said last night on The Daily Show: popcorn is corn and counts as a vegetable and we should help veterans.
Matt Groff's chart arguing the war on drugs isn't working got a lot of flack for methodology. Well, he took it to heart and is back with an updated version with adjusted methodology—and the new chart says even when looking at data based on population, increased spending does not curb usage.
Los Angeles Times on other countries fracking, Frontline on climate skeptics, The Guardian on the oil spill's damage to whales. McClatchy Newspapers on climate scientist suing conservatives, and Grist on a California state senate race.
Ross Douthat on foreign policy, Dana Milbank on conventional wisdom, Efraim Halevy on Republicans and Israel, Michael Tanner on big government, and Irin Carmon on Republican misogyny.
Jon Stewart looked at Monday's foreign policy presidential debate last night on The Daily Show and reached a conclusion: Mitt Romney is leaning toward voting for Barack Obama.
The new James Bond film Skyfall premiered in London today for the franchise's 50th anniversary, but 007 does not give as much bang for buck as he used to, according to this chart from business intelligence company BIME.
PRI on Sweden importing trash, Mother Nature Network on electric cars, The Guardian on debates and climate change, Treehugger on IKEA's renewable efforts, and National Geographic on wood-heated homes.
Peter Beinart on George W. Bush policy, David Brooks on poll addiction, Roger Cohen on Muslim Brotherhood, Charles Lane on the postal service, and Richard Vedder on college education.
In an investigation into the "Barack-tose Intolerance" that afflicts Fox News, Jon Stewart examined four years of ridiculous hyperboles last night on The Daily Show.
Boy Scouts released its hidden files on some 5,000 suspected pedophiles last week on a court order, and it's clear from this terrifying map from a Los Angeles Times interactive that sexual abuse affected troops across the nation.
Scientific American on energy costs and freight rails, New Scientist on turning air into gas, Reuters on tropical disease in Europe, The Guardian on Sting and tree uprooting, and the Associated Press on protests in China.
William D. Cohan on regulating Wall Street, Alex Pareene on confused moderates, Robert J. Samuelson on Obamacare, Wendy Kopp on education and foreign policy, and Bob Dole on George McGovern.
Banana Boat is recalling its UltraMist spray-on sunscreens after five people in the past year have caught on fire from wearing it, the AP reports. But the sunscreen that's the problem—it's the bottle.
Los Angeles Times on security and melting ice caps, New York Times on a dumping businessman, The Guardian on Saudi Arabia and renewable energy, Kansas City Star on polar bears, and Wired on organic-industrial combo farming
David Brooks on environmentalism, Ruth Marcus on Romney the '50s dad, William Pesek on global hunger, Timothy Egan on Romney the manager, and Touré on blacks voting Obama.
Before chatting with Barack Obama last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart took a look at how pundits explored an important topic: What "turns on" women in the election.
In a profile by Ayelet Waldman in Marie Claire, Hillary Clinton responded to a question about her former employee Anne-Marie Slaughter, who wrote The Atlantic's cover story on why women still can't have it all, with some direct words: "Some women are not comfortable working at the pace and intensity you have to work at in these jobs."
Dinesh D'Souza resigned from The King's College Thursday as president even though he wrote in Fox News last night that no, he did not cheat on his wife Dixie with his new, young blonde fiancee, as evangelical magazine World reported earlier this week.
Ezra Klein on Romney and Bush, Nicholas Kristof on healthcare, Anne Applebaum on diplomatic security, Linda Greenhouse on the embarrassment of Fisher v. Texas, and K.C. Cole on male white CEOs.
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