Oh Please, It Won’t Take Decades for Electric Cars to Go Mass Market
Visionary or charlatan?Andrej Sokolow/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bret Stephens doesn’t think much of Elon Musk or Tesla. Fair enough. I’m on the fence about both myself. But in Friday’s column he suddenly decides that not only is Musk a charlatan, but so is the whole idea…
Trump Blames the Democrats for Family Separation at the Mexican Border
Guillermo Arias/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump blamed Democrats this morning for what he called the “horrible law that separates children from there (sic) parents,” a reference to the outcry over his administration’s policy of taking children away from their parents at the border as a…
Ireland Just Voted to Legalize Abortion
Niall Carson/PA Wire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, Ireland made history when the country voted to repeal its constitution’s Eighth Amendment, one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. The referendum’s passage is a huge win for reproductive-rights advocates in a Catholic country that for decades pledged to…
How Your Health Insurer and Your Doctors Scheme to Screw You Over
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and NPR. Michael Frank ran his finger down his medical bill, studying the charges and pausing in disbelief. The numbers didn’t make sense. His recovery from a partial hip replacement had been difficult. He’d iced and elevated his…
No One Had Seen These Tiny Deer for 20 Years. Then One Day, They Came Back.
A large antlered muntjac.Leibniz IZW, WWF Vietnam, USAID Song Thanh Nature Rerserve Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1994, scientists researching in Vietnam first documented the elusive large-antlered muntjac in the semi-evergreen Vu Quang Nature Reserve, in…
The Apprenticeship of Jordan Peterson
Carlos Osorio/The Toronto Star via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you want to understand a little more about the rise of masculinity superstar Jordan Peterson, I recommend this piece by Bernard Schiff in the Toronto Star today. Schiff was a colleague and admirer of Peterson’s at the University…