Rep. Adam Schiff: We “May Have Crossed the Rubicon” on Impeachment
President Donald Trump talks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Sunday. Susan Walsh/AP Rep. Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, warned on Sunday that President Donald Trump is “pushing us down this road” toward impeachment amid allegations that the president pressed Ukraine’s president to investigate former…
What Do Evangelical Christians Really Think About Climate Change?
Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty This story was originally published by Newsweek and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The vast majority of scientists agree climate change is an existing, growing, and man-made threat to our planet. And yet the topic is a divisive issue in the US—not least among people of faith. White evangelical Christians…
Dan Balz Gets Shrill — But Still Misses the Point
The normally calm Dan Balz is becoming shrill: America’s democratic system, the world’s oldest, is said to be resilient, with institutions strong enough to defend against runaway actors and with checks and balances designed to prevent too much power from building up in any one place or with any one person. Earlier in Trump’s presidency,…
Biden Scolds Fox News Reporter: “Ask the Right Question”
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the AFL-CIO Workers Presidential Summit 2020 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Tommy Galante/ZUMA Joe Biden scolded the media on Saturday for focusing on President Donald Trump’s unfounded allegations about connections to his son’s work in Ukraine rather than the major scandal of the day:…
Bernie Sanders Introduces Plan to Cancel $81 Billion in Medical Debt
Senator Bernie Sanders campaigning at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Thursday. Preston Ehrler/SOPA Images via ZUMA Bernie Sanders not only wants to eliminate future medical debt with his plan for Medicare-for-All, he also wants to wipe the slate clean for Americans who already have debt from unpaid medical bills. On Saturday,…
Gentrification Is a Hard Problem
A 577-unit market-rate development planned for the Crenshaw district in Los Angeles.Los Angeles Department of City Planning Gentrification has been a flash point in race relations for some time now. In Los Angeles it’s an endless battle, with activists fighting to keep everything from skid row to historically black neighborhoods out of the hands of…