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Commentary: The Olympics promise to be socially responsible. How’s that working out?

Olympic host cities make promises that are all but impossible to keep, and in recent years, the organizers’ wishful thinking about housing and neighborhood redevelopment has been one of the cruelest Olympic disappointments. With the 2024 Paris Games, we are seeing it all over again — displacement, gentrification and the unhoused “voluntarily” lured elsewhere with […]

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Commentary: Global heating is no longer a tomorrow problem. It’s today’s

For decades, global warming was widely seen as a tomorrow problem, something for our hapless grandchildren to worry about. But with heat records tumbling relentlessly, it’s becoming clear that tomorrow has basically arrived. We are the hapless grandchildren. And it’s also becoming clear that we’re not ready for the heat. Monday was the hottest day […]