The Biden Campaign Is Demanding That TV Execs Stop Booking Guiliani
September 25, 2019, Manhattan Beach, California, USA: Presidential candidate Joe Biden leaves a private fundraiser at a home in Manhattan Beach on Wednesday, Sep. 25, 2019. (Credit Image: © Wire)Scott Varley/Orange County Register via ZUMA Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is reportedly asking television news executives to not book Rudy Guiliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer,…
Stephen Miller Calls the Whistleblower a “Deep State” Agent
Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA White House senior adviser Stephen Miller went on Fox News Sunday morning to parrot the official White House line that the whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is nothing more than an attempt to hurt the president. Miller called the whistleblower a “saboteur trying…
A New Poll Shows a Majority of Americans Approve of Trump Impeachment Inquiry
Yuri Gripas/CNP via ZUMA A majority of Americans approve of House Democrats’ pursuit of a formal impeachment inquiry, according to a new CBS poll conducted by YouGov. The poll, which was published on Sunday morning, found that 55 percent of the survey participants supported an impeachment inquiry. Of those, 35 percent said they strongly support it and 20 percent said…
Solutions to Climate Change Cannot Overlook This One Key Factor
Workers fixing a rooftop destroyed by Hurricane Maria.Elizabeth Flores/ZUMA This story was originally published by The Bulletin of Atomic Sciences and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In advance of the UN Climate Summit this month, the Global Commission on Adaptation, chaired by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates,…
Universal Free School Lunch Can End Cafeteria Shaming. But Now It’s Under Threat.
Kim Morris, head cook at Bella Vista School in Bella Vista, Ca, watches as students utilize the salad bar. Andreas Fuhrmann/The Record Searchlight/Associate Press A few weeks ago, I went back to school—literally, to the elementary school of my 1970s childhood in Austin, Texas. But I wasn’t (just) on a Proustian journey to recover the…
Some Indigenous Communities Have a New Way to Fight Climate Change: Give Personhood Rights to Nature
Four Yurok girls garbed in traditional tribal ceremonial clothing stand before the mouth of the Klamath River.Will Houston/AP This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This summer, the Yurok Tribe declared rights of personhood for the Klamath River—likely the first to do so for a river…