A Top Democrat Just Threatened to Subpoena the Mueller Report “If Necessary”
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On ABC’s This Week, House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday that if the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election aren’t released to the public, he and his colleagues will use subpoena…
Donald Trump Spent His Sunday Morning Praising a Brutal Dictator
Martin H. Simon/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ah, Sundays in the Trump White House: a time to catch up on sleep, make a pot of coffee, and linger over the morning newspaper (Melania goes for the Travel section; Don reaches for the Sunday Styles). If only! President…
This Is How One Family Tries to Makes Sense of Losing Its Colorado River Water
What was once a marina sits high and dry due to Lake Mead receding in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona.John Locher/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The furrows in a…
How Is This 10-Year-Old Fighting Climate Change? First, by Ditching School.
She started a litter-picking campaign, sharing photos and videos on social media through Lilly’s Plastic Pickup. She’s since been invited to international environment conferences, and is now a youth ambassador for the Plastic Pollution Coalition, an anti-plastic alliance based in California, and HOW Global, a global development NGO. “I’ve never stopped picking up plastic,” she…
Here’s My Super-Abridged Green New Deal
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Let’s noodle some more about climate change today. On Thursday I regaled you with my abridged Green New Deal. It’s still fine, but I think it can be abridged even more. Bear with me here. First off, I want to acknowledge that for all the…
A Shadowy Conservative Group Has Started a Billboard War with AOC. She Refuses to Stand Down.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at a news conference with members of the Progressive Caucus in Washington on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018.Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Visitors to New York’s Times Square saw a new billboard earlier this week that spelled out the jobs, wages, and economic activity New…