Next in the Congressional Hot Seat: Donald Trump Jr.?
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump Jr. has a new investigation to worry about. House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) says that Michael Cohen’s blockbuster testimony this week will fuel new investigative efforts by the panel—and those likely will target the president’s son. “All…
The 2020 Race Has Its First Climate Candidate
AP Photo/Mary Schwalm Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Washington Governor Jay Inslee joined the Democratic primary frenzy on Friday, launching a campaign with climate change as its central focus, an issue that conventional political wisdom, pointing to the polling, dismisses as a lower priority for voters than healthcare and stagnating…
What Do You Want to Know About the Green New Deal?
Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since then representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) joined a demonstration pushing for a Green New Deal last year, politicians, pundits, and activists have debated the proposal’s ambitious goals for addressing climate change. In early February, Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a resolution…
Arkansas Tried to Restrict the Use of This Controversial Pesticide. Monsanto Fought Back and Won.
Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Arkansas regulators voted last Wednesday to relax restrictions on the controversial weedkiller dicamba, despite testimony from top scientists and scores of concerned citizens who urged them to reject the move in a public hearing. As reported last year by FERN and Reveal, dicamba…
Why Is Teen Suicide Up?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over on Twitter, I was in a conversation that mentioned the notion that Facebook (or social media in general) has contributed to a rise in teen suicide. This got me curious about what the teen suicide rate really is. Here are the numbers from the…
After the Michael Cohen Hearing, Congress Has Some Big Questions for Trump’s Tax Lawyer
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2016, under fire for his refusal to release his tax returns, President Donald Trump contended that an ongoing audit by the Internal Revenue Service prevented him from disclosing these financial records, as every presidential contender had done since 1980. To back…