Trump Takes Refuge from His National Emergency at Florida Golf Course
President Donald Trump departs Mar-a-lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019, to travel to Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The morning after declaring a national emergency, President Donald Trump was spotted at the omelette bar of his…
Poll: Likely 2020 Voters Support Parts of Green New Deal, Despite Concerns Over the Cost
The question described the job as a position that would pay “at least $15 an hour, included healthcare benefits, and collective bargaining rights.” The surveyors added that Republicans warned the policy “would increase the national debt, endanger the long term health of our economy, and this policy will end up paying people who can’t contribute in…
Portraits of America’s Genderqueer Community
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Her whole life, Chloe Aftel has been told she doesn’t behave like a lady. Plainspoken and assertive, she realized in adolescence that adults expected her to be demure. As Aftel grew into herself in a binary-focused, heteronormative world, she found herself asking: “Who made up…
Trump’s Emergency Declaration Will Be Challenged in Court. Will He Lose?
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border to unlock the border wall funding that Congress has refused to provide is already facing a court challenge. But even though Trump has already undermined his justification for declaring an emergency, it’s far…
Sir Babygirl’s New Album Is a Mouthful of Bubblegum and an Exercise in Conviction
Lea Ciarcia Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: Crush on Me by Sir Babygirl (Father/Daughter Records, 2019) Why we’re into it: This album is an absolutely delightful romp through our most self-indulgent fantasies. “You don’t know me anymore,” sings Sir Babygirl—born Kelsey Hogue—in their opening track before breaking into a shout. “I changed…
One Obstacle to Trump’s Border Wall Might Be His First Supreme Court Appointee
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, President Donald Trump made good on his threat to declare a state of emergency so he could use a “military version of eminent domain” to start seizing private land along the southern border to build a wall. But Trump’s…