Trump Attacks Al Sharpton in Latest Racist Twitter Barrage
Tom Williams/ZUMA Al Sharpton became the latest target of President Donald Trump’s racist attacks on Monday, the newest signal that the president has fully invested in a deeply divisive, race-baiting strategy ahead of the 2020 election. “Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score,” Trump tweeted as Sharpton was en route…
Getting Out of Jail After Dark Can Be Dangerous—and Sometimes Deadly
The last bus of the day pulls away from the parking lot outside the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, at 8:43 p.m. Twenty minutes later, a young woman pulls up the hood of her dark jacket, pushes open the jail lobby’s heavy door, and steps out into the night, looking for a cigarette. Leah,…
The Man Reportedly Taking Over as Head of National Intelligence Is a Trump Cheerleader
Martin H. Simon/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images In the coming days, Dan Coats is expected to announce his resignation from his post as the director of national intelligence—a job that involves pulling together information from all of the nation’s spy agencies and presenting it to the president. And his reported replacement is a Texas congressman best known for…
The Pentagon’s Top Ranks Have Been Empty for a Long Time. Now 1,581 Problems Are Waiting to Be Solved.
Mark Wilson/Getty One day after taking over as the Pentagon’s first Senate-confirmed leader in seven months, new Secretary of Defense Mark Esper was asked by a reporter to assess what the impact has been of the months-long lack of stable leadership at the largest federal agency. His careful answer attempted to endorse the department’s vast civilian workforce, whose…
Trump’s Recent Attack on French Wine Represents Yet Another Conflict of Interest
AP Photo/Lynne Sladky On Friday, Donald Trump threatened to retaliate against a new French law that taxes American technology companies, and though he didn’t explicitly say how he’d strike back, a tweet suggests he might target the country’s wine industry. France just put a digital tax on our great American technology companies. If anybody taxes them,…
Killer Heat Waves Are Becoming Much More Common. Fortunately Scientists Are Getting Better at Predicting Them.
In Paris, July 25, 2019 beat the heat record set in the capital in 1947.Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto/Getty This story was originally published by Wired and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The City of Lights could be the City of Lights Out tomorrow as temperatures approach a record of 107 degrees. And Paris isn’t the only…