Remember the BP Oil Spill? These Cleanup Workers Are Still Suffering After 9 Years.
Oil from the BP oil spill is seen on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.Julie Dermansky/Corbis/Getty This story was originally published by the Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nine years ago, I traveled down to the bustling Louisiana bayou fishing town of Venice, where the road south along the Mississippi River…
Here’s Why the Black-White IQ Gap Is Almost Certainly Environmental
A reader emails me: Twice now you have asserted that your “… read of the evidence is that the black-white IQ gap is almost certainly accounted for by environmental factors.” Would you please do me the favor of listing (in either a reply email or in Mother Jones) one or two of the sources for…
“Notorious” RBG Credits Brett Kavanaugh for Making Female Law Clerks the Majority
Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh squeaked through his confirmation hearing last year after being accused by Christine Blasey Ford of sexual assault during a high school party. Women’s groups vigorously fought his confirmation and warned that his presence on the court would pose a significant threat to hard-fought legal…
Digging Into the Messy History of “Latinx” Helped Me Embrace My Complex Identity
Getty Images (13); Flowers: RawpixelIn June 2016, a Muslim American man entered Orlando’s Pulse nightclub during its weekly Latin Night and gunned down 49 people, most of them gay or bisexual. In the dizzying aftermath of the tragedy, I was assigned to write an opinion piece for HuffPost about how then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was…
James Stimson Answers My Questions About the Stimson Mood Index
Yesterday I wrote a post about the latest results of James Stimson’s national mood index, and I had a couple of questions about it. First, I wondered what it meant to say that a lot of people had a “liberal” view on something like inflation or the deficit. Second, I wondered if the increasing liberalness…
The Images Coming out of Hong Kong Are Simply Jawdropping
Hong Kong, Sunday, June 9, 2019. Vincent Yu/AP Photo More than a million people took to the streets in Hong Kong Sunday to protest a proposed law that would allow extraditions from the city to mainland China, a move critics say would give China power to remove political dissidents without input from local authorities and judges.…