The Trump Bump: Republicans Are Increasingly Smitten with Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin relaxing in the Siberian wilderness in August 2017.Alexei Nikolsky/ZUMA Vladimir Putin—invader of Ukraine, enemy of gay rights, election-disturber, and generally shirtless autocrat—good or bad? For Republicans and Democrats, this used to be a simple question. No longer. New data from the Pew Research Center shows a sharp partisan divide emerging when…
Antarctica Registered Its Highest Temperature on Record This Week
Ray Hems/Getty While you were drowning in this week’s impeachment, State of the Union, and election news, scientists were sounding yet another climate alarm: Antarctica just set a new record temperature. On Thursday, a historical high for the continent of 65 degrees Fahrenheit (18.3 Celsius) was measured by Argentinian meteorologists at the Esperanza base, on…
Trump Admits He Fired Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman for Being “Insubordinate”
J. Scott Applewhite/AP One day after removing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the White House, President Donald Trump effectively admitted that he fired Vindman for his “insubordinate” testimony during the House’s impeachment inquiry. Trump went on to attack Vindman, who testified under a subpoena, for reporting the contents of the president’s “perfect” calls related to…
Firing a Bunch of People Won’t Hurt Trump
The audience at Friday’s Democratic debate stands to cheer after Joe Biden asked them for a round of applause for Alexander Vindman.ABC News Here is the top story in the Washington Post right now: For most of my readers, this sounds outrageous. Vindman himself won’t actually be hurt too much: he’ll return to the Pentagon…
Ranchers Feel Blindsided by Trump’s Wall
Part of the border fence in Arizona.Astrid Galvan/AP This piece was originally published in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Since 1994, the Malpai Borderlands Group, a coalition of ranchers, has worked to steward approximately 800,000 acres of rangeland in southern Arizona and New Mexico. The group started…
The Democrats Hug It Out
Elise Amendola/AP A day after the four-year anniversary of Marco Rubio’s decapitation at the hands of Chris Christie, the Democrats have shown that they are not afraid to hug it out. The stakes are high for a few candidates on the debate stage. Elizabeth Warren needs to take out Bernie Sanders. Joe Biden needs to…