US Is Evacuating Its Embassy in Venezuela
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. We are pulling all of our diplomats out of Venezuela: Hmmm. The presence of diplomats “has become a constraint on U.S. policy.” This seems like a clear indication that Trump plans to escalate things and doesn’t want to be held back by the possibility of…
Americans’ Support for Immigration Is at a Record High. There’s No Need to Appease Fascists.
Mabelle Ajah of Cameroon takes the oath of citizenship at a naturalization ceremony last month in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Matt Barnard/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 1995, the British immigrant turned American white nationalist Peter Brimelow began his book Alien Nation with an usual argument: Immigration to the United States…
I Apologize To My Sister
This is my grandmother holding my sister, long before I came along and ruined everything. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is from a recent paper by Angela Coolsa and Eleonora Patacchini: We examine the impact of having a younger brother on females’ adolescent environment and adult earnings….Girls with a…
Election Watchdog Hits Jeb Bush’s Super-PAC With Massive Fine for Taking Money From Foreign Nationals
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Federal Election Commission has hit Right to Rise USA, the super-PAC that backed Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid, with a record fine for accepting a seven-figure donation from a company owned by Chinese nationals who were in business with Bush’s brother, Neil,…
In Schools All Over the Country, America’s Kids Are Exposed to Water Tainted by Toxic Lead
Edwin Remsberg/VW Pics via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Shakima Thomas came home one day last October, she found a piece of paper wedged in her door telling her the water in her…
This 2005 Vote Could Come Back to Haunt Sanders in the Democratic Primary
Rick Majewski/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, Bernie Sanders had one vulnerability as a progressive reformer: guns. As the Democratic Party had moved to the left on the issue, embracing gun control in the years after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary…