Climate Change Is Taking a Bigger Toll on Our Food, Water, and Land Than We Realized
AP Photo/Noah Berger As the planet warms, parts of the world face new risks of food and water shortages, expanding deserts, and land degradation, warns a major new report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Those effects are already underway, and some of them could soon become irreversible. The changing climate has already…
A Former FBI Whistleblower Explains Why the Federal Government Is Failing on Domestic Terrorism—And How to Fix it
Gloria Garces kneels in front of crosses at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. John Locher/AP A little more than a week before a shooter intent on attacking “as many Mexicans as possible” killed 22 people and wounded dozens…
Trump’s Anti-Obamacare Insurance Plans Are Ripping People Off
President Donald Trump in October, 2017 signing an executive order “to promote healthcare choice and competition,” including expanding the duration of short-term health insurance plansRon Sachs/Zuma The so-called “junk insurance” plans the Trump administration promotes may be helping insurance companies more than patients. Short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans—Obamacare workarounds that do not have to comply…
White Supremacy is Taking Lives, But Tucker Carlson Calls It “a Hoax.”
On Tuesday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed that white supremacy “is a hoax…a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.” Oh. My. God. Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Tuesday that white supremacy in the United States is a “hoax” and a “conspiracy theory.” “If you…
Trump Tariffs Will Cost US Households $500 Each
The Wall Street Journal reports on our latest tariff haul: The U.S. is now on a pace to generate $72 billion in tariffs annually, and could well hit the $100 billion mark Mr. Trump has touted if new 10% tariffs on $300 billion in untaxed imports take effect on Sept. 1, as threatened….Although the U.S.…
“Be Quiet!” Trump Drops Healer-in-Chief Role Ahead of El Paso and Dayton Visits
Tasos Katopodis/ZUMA In a teleprompter speech from the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump urged the country to set aside “destructive partisanship” and unite in the wake of two mass shootings that killed 31 people in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. But just hours ahead of visiting the sites of the massacres—a visit…