How Unaffordable Is Housing Today?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an op-ed over at BuzzFeed, the national director of the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign says that most people think housing affordability is a big problem: Those people aren’t imagining things: The affordability crisis has indeed reached historic heights, and the data is shocking.…
Interior Nominee’s Swampy Industry Ties Take Center Stage at Confirmation Hearing
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. David Bernhardt, the nominee to serve as the next secretary of the Interior Department, was questioned about his ties to industry and accused of meddling with agency science during a confirmation hearing on Thursday, but managed to walk away from the…
A Guest on Laura Ingraham’s Show Just Said Trans People Will Create a New Species That Is Part Machine
Talk show host Laura Ingraham speaks during CPAC 2019. The American Conservative Union hosts the annual Conservative Political Action Conference to discuss conservative agenda. Alex Wong/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you listened to The Laura Ingraham Podcast on Wednesday, you might be tempted to believe that the greatest…
The Brother of Alleged Serial Killer Robert Durst Throws Shade at Donald Trump
Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Before being elected president, thanks to so many variables outside his basic fitness for the office—the Comey letter, racism, the flawed Clinton candidacy, Russian interference, and the infuriatingly unshakable image of success from his role on a TV reality show—Donald Trump was a simple New…
The Unprecedented Surge in Families Crossing the Border, in Charts
Central American migrants wait in El Paso on Wednesday in a pen built by US Customs and Border Protection.Cedar Attanasio/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan warned earlier this month that US border infrastructure was approaching a breaking point as record numbers of…
We Still Don’t Know Anything About Mueller’s Counterintelligence Findings
U.S. House Select Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calf.) speaks as ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) looks on. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The results of a key part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation were excluded from the four-page letter that Attorney General William Barr sent to…