Climate Change Is Making It Much Harder to Be a Young Farmer
A young woman picks fruit.Dmitry Feoktistov/Zuma This story was originally published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network. With this season’s severe flooding, raging wildfires, and delayed planting, many of the country’s farmers are struggling to adjust as climate change sets in. Yet young and beginning farmers face unique challenges, farmers and advocates say, with…
Trump’s Lawyers Threatened to Blow Up the Impeachment Trial. Watch Adam Schiff’s Response.
Senate Television/AP In the second week of the Senate’s impeachment trial, John Bolton, the president’s former national security adviser, has dominated much of the discourse—both in and out of the Senate chambers. The House impeachment managers, led by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), want to hear his testimony, especially in the wake of a bombshell New York…
Alan Dershowitz’s “Maladministration” Argument Makes No Sense
J. Scott Applewhite/AP During a heated question-and-answer session on Wednesday, Alan Dershowitz, a member of the president’s legal team in the impeachment trial, continued to argue that even if Trump’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine last summer qualified as an “abuse of power,” as such, it does not qualify as an impeachable offense. Instead, he…
South Dakota Lawmakers Just Voted to Send Doctors to Jail for Helping Trans Kids
South Dakota is poised to be the first state to criminalize gender affirming health care for transgender youth.Kathy Willens/AP After hours of heated (and often comically inaccurate) debate, South Dakota’s House of Representatives on Wednesday became the first in the country to green light a bill that prohibits gender–affirming medical care for transgender kids. The…
Mitt Romney Has Some Interesting Impeachment Questions
Alex Wong/Getty As the Senate began the question-and-answer portion of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Wednesday, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) revealed what he wanted to ask: The questions I have submitted for the Q&A period of the Impeachment Trial: pic.twitter.com/JTHlKJfcNN — Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) January 29, 2020 Unlike most of his Republican colleagues, Romney…
Is Bolton Going to Testify?
John Bolton is constantly adjusting his glasses. What’s up with that?Serg Glovny/ZUMA I got home a little late last night, so I missed the outcome of the Bolton revelations: In a closed-door meeting after closing remarks, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told colleagues he doesn’t have the votes to block witnesses, according to people…