Climate Change Has Made New York’s Rat Crisis Much Worse
Katie Dobies/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The discarded slices of pizza that litter New York’s streets have long fuelled its sizeable population of rats, but now the city’s growing swarm has a new reason to…
Donald Trump Did Two Things Right This Week
Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Do you think Donald Trump has done anything right?” a friend asked me a few months ago. That was a tough one. Aside from trivial stuff, I think I eventually conceded that China really did deserve some tougher trade treatment and…
A Message to Our Readers as 2018 Winds Down
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While others in the media “pivot to video” in a quest for advertising revenue, we decided to pivot to video to say thanks—to our readers, for having our backs during another year full of challenges for those of us who care about journalism and democracy.…
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Tries to Reassure Investors of “Strong Economic Growth”
Steven Mnuchin.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just days after the stock market had one of its worst weeks since the 2008 financial crisis, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin released a letter stating that he had spoken to CEOs at the nation’s six largest banks and confirmed they had “ample liquidity” to…
Beto O’Rourke Slams Trump Over Government Shutdown
Rep Beto O’Rourke at a rally in November.Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an email to his supporters on Saturday, outgoing Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke condemned President Trump for his handling of the government shutdown and attacking the country’s democratic institutions. “This shutdown—hundreds of thousands of our fellow Americans working without pay…
Sen. Bob Corker Calls Trump’s Government Shutdown “Purposefully Contrived” and “Juvenile”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a CNN interview Sunday morning, retiring Tennessee Senator Bob Corker (R) accused President Trump of shutting down the government for his own political gains, calling the shutdown a “purposefully contrived fight.” “This is a made-up fight, so the President can look like he’s fighting,” the…