Democrats Are Afraid to Say It: Climate Change Also Means Retreat
Scott Olson/Getty This story was originally published by Wired and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “Retreat, hell!” Major General Oliver Prince Smith once said during the Korean War. “We’re not retreating, we’re just advancing in a different direction.” Retreat is not a concept Americans take lightly, whether in wartime or during CNN’s climate town hall Wednesday night. There the…
Mark Sanford Announces Long-Shot Primary Challenge to Trump
Jeff Malet/ZUMA Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Sunday announced his bid to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary, adding his name to a small group of long-shot campaigns aimed at unseating the president. In a string of tweets detailing his candidacy, Sanford focused heavily on fiscal responsibility, or the lack…
Hurricane Dorian Survivors Feel Abandoned
Ramon Espinosa/AP This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The silence along the Grand Bahama highway, the only major road on the island, is foreboding, punctuated only by the occasional truck driving east. The once dense forest on either side of the road has turned to bare…
Trump’s Campaign Manager Salivates Over Potential Trump Family “Dynasty”
Mark Reinstein/ZUMA While President Donald Trump occasionally drops dictatorial hints that he’ll serve more than a mere two terms, his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, appears determined to extend that fantasy to the whole family. Consider Parscale’s performance on Saturday during a speech before a group of California Republican delegates attending a convention in Indian Wells. After…
Trump Cancels a Secret Meeting With the Taliban Days Before 9/11 Anniversary
Tom Brenner/ZUMA President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that he had canceled a secret meeting with Taliban and Afghan leaders that had been scheduled for the next day at Camp David, blaming last week’s Taliban car bombing that killed 12 people, including a US service member, for the abrupt move. Citing the attack, Trump also…
We Have Some Bad News About Trees
Frans Lemmens/ Corbis Unreleased/Getty This story was originally published by Undark. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bob Marra navigated his way to the back of a dusty barn in Hamden, Connecticut, belonging to the state’s Agricultural Experiment Station. There, past piles of empty beehives, on a wall of metal shelves, were stacks of wooden…