Killer Heat Waves Are Becoming Much More Common. Fortunately Scientists Are Getting Better at Predicting Them.
In Paris, July 25, 2019 beat the heat record set in the capital in 1947.Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto/Getty This story was originally published by Wired and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The City of Lights could be the City of Lights Out tomorrow as temperatures approach a record of 107 degrees. And Paris isn’t the only…
The Myths of Our Time: Homeownership Edition
The Wall Street Journal, once again, is hellbent on claiming that young people can no longer afford to buy homes: Homeownership rates for younger Americans have fallen sharply over the last decade….People who came of age in the crisis and its immediate aftermath had no bargaining power when they entered the job market, crimping their…
Judge Dismisses $250 Million Lawsuit From MAGA Teen
KC NOLAND/YouTube A federal judge on Friday dismissed a $250 defamation million lawsuit filed by Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student whose video confrontation with a Native American man at the January Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, DC sparked a firestorm of controversy. Sandmann had accused the Washington Post of negligently committing libel…
Trump Creates Yet Another Firestorm After Attack on Cummings
J. Scott Applewhite/AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday denounced President Donald Trump’s attacks against Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) as “racist,” after the president derided Cummings’ predominantly black district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess.” “We all reject racist attacks against [Cummings] and support his steadfast leadership,” Pelosi said, marking the second time in…
Dozens of Scientists Are Pushing the UN to Make Environmental Destruction a War Crime
US Air Force jet in 1966 spraying defoliants in Vietnam.AP Photo/Department of Defense, File This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. War (huh!) what is it good for? Certainly not the environment. From the U.S. dropping the herbicide agent orange on jungles in Vietnam to Saddam Hussein’s…
Democrats Condemn Supreme Court Decision Allowing Trump to Build Wall With Pentagon Funds
Stefani Reynolds/ZUMA Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and a number of 2020 candidates, are roundly condemning the Supreme Court’s decision late Friday to allow the Trump administration to tap into $2.5 billion of the Pentagon’s budget to build parts of a border wall at the US-Mexico border, describing it…