Energy Companies Have a Great Friend At Trump’s Interior Department: Their Former Lobbyist
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom, Zuma David Bernhardt, the man in charge of the nation’s public lands, has come through the revolving door of Washington, D.C. lobbying and back out again. Before becoming secretary of the Department of the Interior, he collected nearly $5 million for his firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as a lobbyist and lawyer…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Movement Is About a Lot More Than Just Congress
Gabriel Hernández Solano For years, tenants in New York’s public housing residences had complained about the black mold breeding on the walls, the brown liquid dripping from the ceilings, and the cold water flowing from the faucets. But the city hadn’t made repairs. One white-skied Saturday this past November, neither New York City Housing Authority head…
Iranians Would Kindly Like Donald Trump To “Shut Up”
Iranian students gather for a demonstration over the downing of a Ukrainian airliner at Tehran University on January 14, 2020.Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images When Iran’s military admitted on Saturday that it had mistakenly shot down a civilian airliner, Ukraine Airlines Flight 752—killing all 176 of its mainly Iranian passengers and crew—Iranians started taking to…
A List of Things Bloomberg Actually Said About Fat People, Rape, George W. Bush, and J.Lo
Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA Wire To call Michael Bloomberg’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination unorthodox would be an understatement. The former New York mayor is skipping the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. He’s not accepting individual donations—instead spending $200 million of his own money in just the first two months…
ICE Is Force-Feeding Hunger Strikers, in Violation of Medical Ethics
ICE detainees sit in a yard during a media tour of a Louisiana detention center in September. Gerald Herbert/AP Immigration and Customs Enforcement is subjecting asylum seekers to forced feeding and hydration, despite widespread agreement among medical professionals that the practice is unethical and never justified. Three men at ICE’s LaSalle detention center, a facility…
Trump’s Stealth Plan to Preserve White Electoral Power
Two days after Tropical Storm Imelda battered her district in Houston, state Sen. Carol Alvarado drove from its heavily Latino east side, past taquerias and signs for immigration attorneys, to another predominantly Latino neighborhood just north of the downtown skyline. Senate District 6 is shaped like a dragon whose head starts in the city’s industrial…