Does Kris Kobach Have White Nationalists On His Campaign Payroll?
Kansas Secretary of State and candidate for the Republican nomination for Kansas Governor Kris Kobach addresses supporters during a campaign stop Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, in Pittsburg, Kan. Charlie Riedel/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Friday that two GOP political consultants had accused controversial Kansas…
Steve Cohen Is Spending Millions to Help Veterans. Why Are People Angry?
Steve Cohen’s network of clinics have thrust him into the spotlight over privatizing the VA. William Deshazer/Chicago Tribune/TNS/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and Fortune. At a House hearing last year on post-traumatic stress disorder, a private organization showed up with an ambitious…
California’s Huge Wildfires Will Likely Have “Serious Health Effects” All Over the West
Mark McKenna/ZUMA Wire 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. As climate change helps push up the number of wildfires in the western US, communities face losing lives and properties to the flames. But another threat also looms…
Hot Weather Strains the Grid. Here’s How We Could Fix That.
Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Electricity crackled and arced between wires as Los Angeles residents watched, filming with their phones. And then the power died. As temperatures have soared this summer,…
Trump’s Tweets Don’t Really Mean Anything
This is even better than the orginal G7 picture that made the rounds in August. Check out Shinzo Abe. This is an all-time classic eye roll.Pignatelli/Euc/Ropi via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember when Donald Trump got pissed off and decided to pull out of the G7 communique? Well,…
Are We No Longer Allowed to Mock White Men?
Welcome to the New York Times, Sarah! Now, instead of random fuckwits on Twitter, you have to put up with smarmy, extremely well-paid fuckwits on Fox News. Life is such a bowl of cherries, isn’t it?Fox News Channel Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The latest identity politics micro outrage is…