Quote of the Day: It’s Great Working For Trump! Really!
Kevin Drum Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From Joe Balash, assistant secretary for land and minerals management, speaking to oil exploration companies last month: One of the things that I have found absolutely thrilling in working for this administration is the president has a knack for keeping the attention of…
Wages Are Up for Low-Income Workers, No Thanks to Donald Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Are wages going up more for low-income workers than for the middle class? It’s a little hard to see in the data unless you zoom way in. For example, here are hourly wages for all workers vs. blue-collar workers, who make up roughly the bottom…
David Crosby Discovers Kacey Musgraves
/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. David Crosby, the founding member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash evidently stumbled across Kacey Musgraves earlier this week. have any of you heard a girl named Casey Musgraves ….song called Slow Burn ? — David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) March 11, 2019 Many,…
David Wallace Wells: It’s Time to Panic About Climate Change
Craig Barritt /Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today’s guest on the Mother Jones Podcast is David Wallace Wells, a deputy editor at New York magazine, and author of a vividly distressing new book about the all-encompassing perils of climate change titled The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. With every full-throated warning,…
New Directive Says Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Will Officially Start Next Month
Martin H. Simon – Pool/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s long-expected ban on transgender service members will finally begin next month, the Pentagon announced late Tuesday night in a department memorandum. While the president’s initial tweet in July 2017 demanded transgender individuals not “serve in any…
After Sentencing in DC, Paul Manafort Is Indicted in New York Court
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The indictments just keep coming for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Moments after Manafort was sentenced Wednesday to more than seven years in prison on conspiracy and obstruction charges in federal court in Washington, DC, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced criminal charges against…