Australia’s Wallabies, Recovering From Fires, Fed by Carrots Falling From the Sky
A wallaby eating a carrotNew South Wales Environment Minister Environment Minister Matt Kean Thousands of pounds of carrots and sweet potatoes are falling from the sky in Australia, air-dropped to help feed the Brush-tailed Rock wallabies whose habitats have been devastated by massive brushfires. The wallabies, agile marsupials that use their furred tails for balance…
Thousands of Iranians Have Bravely Protested the Government’s Role in Ukrainian Plane Crash
A woman attending a candlelight vigil for victims of Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 talks with a police officer at Amirkabir University in Tehran on Saturday.Mona Hoobehfekr/ISNA /AFP/Getty Thousands of people took to the streets across Iran this weekend to condemn their government for shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane—killing all 176 people on board—and…
Defense Secretary Says He “Didn’t See” Intel to Back Up Trump’s Latest Iran Claim
Defense Secretary Mark Esper on “Face the Nation.”Screenshot of CBS’s “Face the Nation” President Donald Trump’s evolving rationale for the killing of a senior Iranian general continues to raise eyebrows, and now the Pentagon’s chief says he did not see evidence Trump cited on Friday about threat from Iran. On Friday during an interview on…
White Flight Never Happened in Texas
Today in the New York Times, Dana Goldstein compares the California and Texas versions of the same high school history text and mostly concludes that the California versions like to emphasize LGBTQ issues while the Texas versions like to downplay the effects of racism. Here’s my favorite excerpt: Even the California textbook can’t quite bring…
Memo by Secret Memo, the University of Texas Kept Segregation Alive into the 1960s
Mother Jones illustration; Getty; Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas Sixty-six years ago, Marion Ford, an ambitious Houston teenager who had been set to become one of the first African American undergraduates at the University of Texas, received a terse letter returning his $20 deposit to room in an all-Black…
Trump’s Latest Environmental Rollback Is a Middle Finger to Common Sense
The proposal would be the first major update to the law in more than four decades. The rules are certain to face legal challenges. NEPA has long been a target of industry groups, developers and Republican lawmakers who say it places unnecessary burdens on business and is used as a tool to block and delay…