Kamala Harris Can Be Ruthless When She Wants to Be
Wilfredo Lee/AP When Kamala Harris took on Joe Biden over his past opposition to forced busing, my initial reaction was that it sounded scripted and kind of fake. Apparently I was right: Her campaign had spent months fixated on Biden, whose support from black voters has kept him atop all of the early polls. They…
Trump’s EPA May Be About to Screw Over America’s Biggest Wild Salmon Run
Klas Stolpe/AP The war over America’s most productive wild salmon fishery, in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, has been brewing for nearly 40 years. Now, the Trump administration appears to be intervening on behalf of the mining industry—which is bad news for the salmon and the people who depend on them. Forty million salmon migrate into the…
Renters’ Incomes Have Increased About 63% Since 1960
A few months ago I linked to a widely-cited report saying that renters’ incomes have increased by only 5% since 1960. This seemed unlikely since every single income group has recorded far higher growth rates during this period. It also wasn’t clear to me how the report calculated “renters’ incomes” in the first place. But…
Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe Is Making Trump Very Uncomfortable
Alessandra Tarantino/AP On Tuesday, US women’s soccer star and team co-captain Megan Rapinoe was asked by a reporter whether she would celebrate a victory at the Oval Office should her team win the World Cup this year. Rapinoe responded: “I’m not going to the fucking White House.” President Donald Trump unleashed a series of tweets…
A Judge Just Permanently Blocked Trump From Using $2.5 Billion in Military Money For His Border Wall
Kazuhiro Nogi/AP The budget for President Donald Trump’s border wall has shrunk by $2.5 billion, after a federal judge in Northern California issued a pair of rulings blocking the president from using military funding to build parts of the wall on Friday. Hours after the ruling, Trump said that a father and daughter from El…
Farmers Have a Secret Weapon to Save Your Food From Climate Chaos
Rye farmer Tom Franzen Tom Philpott This spring’s relentless storms severely delayed planting in the Midwest and will likely pinch this year’s corn and soybeans. Fifth-generation farmer Brian Corkill called 2019’s the wettest spring he’d ever seen in his 29 years of tending the land. Volatile, rainy springs are already on the rise in the…