Killing Migratory Birds Has Been a Crime for Decades. Not Anymore.
Zach Gibson/Getty Images This story was originally published by Reveal and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Under Republican and Democratic presidents from Nixon through Obama, killing migratory birds, even inadvertently, was a crime, with fines for violations ranging from $250 to $100 million. The power to prosecute created a deterrent that protected birds and enabled…
Do Democrats Have an Immigration Policy to Offer?
Dan Balz says no one has a great immigration policy on offer: President Trump’s immigration policies have been a failure. His goal of sealing the border has come to naught, and a mass of asylum seekers has overwhelmed the system. Trump has sought to blame others, including the Democrats, for the problem. Democrats cry foul,…
Seattle’s Mayor Had the Perfect Response to Trump’s Threat to Send Immigrants to Sanctuary Cities
Jenny Durkan announces her candidacy for Seattle mayor in May 2017.Ted S. Warren/AP On Friday, President Donald Trump said his administration was seriously considering sending undocumented immigrants caught along the border to sanctuary cities around the country as a way to punish Democrats who opposed his border wall. The proposal was first floated last year,…
A New York Newspaper Ran an Attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar. Now Yemeni American Bodega Owners Are Boycotting It.
Rep Ilhan Omar speaks to support LGBTQ and allied high school students from across Minnesota who marched to the State Capitol steps March 21Jim Mone/AP Two years ago, about a thousand Yemeni American corner-store owners in New York City closed their businesses and gathered to protest President Donald Trump’s ban on Muslim travelers to the…
A Top Democrat Just Set a Hard Deadline for Trump to Hand Over His Tax Returns
Evan Vucci/AP A top House Democrat stepped up the heat on Saturday in the fight for access to President Donald Trump’s tax returns, demanding that the IRS hand over the documents to members of Congress by a late April deadline. Rep. Richard Neal, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, first made the request…
Rep. Ilhan Omar Was Right: Threats Against Muslim Americans Are Rising
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.Susan Walsh/AP In March, about a week after a gunman stormed two mosques in New Zealand, killing dozens of Muslim worshipers, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D–Minn.) gave a speech at the banquet of a Muslim civil rights group in California. A short snippet of that speech—in which Omar referred to the 9/11 attacks…