Its Flood Barrier Is Unfinished, and Venice Is Submerged
People walk in the high water days after the second highest tide from 1966 on November 15, 2019 in Venice, Italy.Vittorio Zunino/Getty This piece originally appeared in CityLab and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. On Wednesday, Venice was reeling after experiencing its highest level of floodwater since 1966. High tides from the lagoon…
Democrats Say Trump’s Ukraine Conspiracy Theories Parallel Putin’s
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Osaka, Japan on June,28,2019.Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images During Friday’s testimony by Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Democrats argued that Trump’s views on that country run parallel to talking points pushed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. While questioning Yovanovitch, Daniel Goldman, a top Democratic…
Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony Showcases Donald Trump’s Obsession With Revenge
Mother Jones illustration; Oliver Contreras/Sipa/AP; Getty The blood drained from her face as Marie Yovanovitch, the career diplomat removed as the US ambassador to Ukraine, read the reconstructed transcript of President Donald Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the day it was released. There was the president referring directly to her: “The…
“But Laws on the Books Wouldn’t Have Stopped It!”
David Crane/Orange County Register via ZUMA After any mass shooting, the inevitable conservative reply is “Nothing Dems are proposing would have stopped this particular mass shooting anyway.” David Harsanyi goes all in on this tactic: California has already passed a “universal background check” law. California, in fact, already instituted a 10-day waiting period, a limit…
Republicans’ New Trump Defense: It’s All Rudy’s Fault
Charles Krupa/AP As the Ukraine scandal grows, Republican lawmakers continue searching for an effective way to defend the indefensible. They’ve said there was no quid pro quo. They’ve said quid pro quos are fine. They’ve latched onto conspiracy theories. They’ve smeared career public servants. And now they’re blaming Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. During…
It Was Redistricting, Not Prop 187, That Turned California Blue
It’s the 25th anniversay of Prop 187, California’s infamous attempt to cut off public benefits for undocumented immigrants, so it’s getting a suddenly renewed wave of attention. For the record, Prop 187 passed but was then struck down by the courts, so it never took effect. Nonetheless, it inspired a wave of protest from Hispanics…