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Yesterday — 21 December 2024Main stream

How the Climate Crisis Became an Insurance Crisis

20 December 2024 at 03:42
Even in formerly low-risk areas, home insurers are raising premiums and ending coverage. The upheaval could push down home values and reverberate through the economy.

© Paul Ratje for The New York Times

Homes on the outskirts of Silver City, N.M., an area of unusually high insurance denial rates because of wildfire risk.
Before yesterdayMain stream

How the Right and the MAHA Movement Have Co-opted ‘Crunchy’

19 December 2024 at 07:46
Once, eating whole foods and avoiding toxins was associated with a lefty worldview. Now, being a “crunchy mom” is more often about “health freedom.”

© Hadley Chittum for The New York Times

Becca Tanner, a social media influencer, at home in rural Virginia.
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