The Trump Administration Keeps Promoting Stephen Miller’s Immigration Hardliner Allies
Ron Sachs/CNP via Zuma Wire A Trump official who pushed for one of the administration’s cruelest immigration policies has been promoted to acting deputy director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, just a week after the White House’s most notorious restrictionist, senior adviser Stephen Miller, was at the center of a scandal surrounding a trove…
When Students Can’t Get Emergency Contraception From Vending Machines, Sometimes There’s No Plan B
Plan B sits on a shelf in a pharmacy in Montgomery, Alabama.Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images In the spring of 2017, Emma Donnelly, a junior at the University of Southern Maine, read an article that inspired her to take action. Students at the University of California, Davis, had organized to get a vending machine on…
Trump Says Israeli Settlements Are Legal. Yawn.
Shadi Hatem/APA Images via ZUMA The Trump administration announced on Monday that it no longer considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be illegal. Symbolically this is a big deal, I suppose, but in real-world terms it’s meaningless. The peace process has been dead for the past 20 years, and over that time Israel…
BREAKING: Local Cat Rescued From Attic
For those of you worried about the fate of poor Lily, who trapped herself in my mother’s attic while the house was getting a new roof, I have good news. The addition of a stepladder to her escape route, combined with the continuing lure of cat food, finally motivated her to jump down. I went…
This Report Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Every Child. Its Authors Hope Congress Will Listen.
Dr. Stephen Teach guides Jeffery Ulmer through listening to his daughter’s asthmatic breathing while mother Farisa Walsh sits by on Thursday, October 3, 2013, in Washington, DC.Jahi Chikwendiu/Getty On Monday, some of the authors of the annual Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, a massive report compiled by 120 health and climate experts from…
Trump Turns on Pompeo After a Week of Damning Testimony
Alex Edelman/ZUMA President Donald Trump—a man with an unparalleled penchant for turning members of his inner circle—is now taking aim at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, according to NBC News. Trump reportedly blames Pompeo, long seen as one of his most loyal cabinet members, for the damning testimony delivered by a parade of State Department officials…