California Could Have Helped Low-Income Residents Weather PG&E Blackouts. But It Didn’t Happen.
Workers install solar panels on the roofs of homes under construction south of Corona, CA.Will Lester/Getty This piece originally appeared in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Exactly a year ago, as the devastating Camp Fire swept through the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Frank A. Jr. Funes, a…
Are Hollywood Franchises Hogging Up All the Movie Screens?
A couple of weeks ago Martin Scorsese declared that Marvel superhero movies weren’t cinema. This prompted the usual tiresome round of social media outrage, even though it was obvious from the start that Scorsese’s point depended entirely on the meaning of “cinema.” Sure enough, the whole affair went pffft when he eventually explained what he…
Donald Trump Doesn’t Get Completely Booed at a Big Game. But Did He Jinx the Home Team?
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Donald Trump rarely makes public appearances outside of his rallies, but recently he decided to attend a baseball game in Washington, DC. He did not receive a warm welcome. Full on “LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!” chants heard throughout the crowd at Nats Park after President Trump was announced and shown…
John Bolton Just Signed a Multi-Million Dollar Book Deal
The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images It remains unclear if House Democrats will be able to get Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton to testify in their impeachment inquiry. Bolton has said that if a judge rules he can ignore a White House order to keep quiet, he would appear before Congress. But…
The Federal Reserve Acknowledged the Reality of Climate Change. That’s Actually a Big Deal.
US Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard Eric Baradat/Getty During a conference on climate change and the economy in San Francisco, one year after the deadly Campfire’s wildfire smoke made the city’s air quality among the worst on the planet, the Federal Reserve announced that it would incorporate climate change into its considerations when making policy…
The GOP Released Its Own Witness List for Impeachment Inquiries—and It’s All About Biden and Clinton
AP Photo/Alex Brandon House Republicans released a wish list Saturday morning of witnesses they’d like to see testify when Congress holds its first public hearings on President Donald Trump’s “perfect” call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky next week. Not surprisingly, most of them have nothing to do with the impropriety of the call itself. House…