The One Thing All the 2020 Democratic Candidates Agree They Hate
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The field of Democratic candidates running for president in 2020 is still taking shape, but so far the contenders have agreed on one policy: Cash from corporate political action committees (PACs) is bad. That’s not an entirely new idea—in 2008 and 2012…
She Started Selling Abortion Pills Online. Then the Feds Showed Up.
Alvaro Dominguez Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For two years, before she headed off to her full-time job as a web developer, or after she put her daughter to bed at night, Ursula Wing ran a business selling abortion pills from the bedroom of her New York City apartment. The…
This Is the Green New Deal’s Biggest Problem
Sprawl is made possible by highways. This is expensive—in 2015, the Victoria Transport Policy Institute estimated that sprawl costs America more than $1 trillion a year in reduced business activity, environmental damage, consumer expenses, and other costs. Leaving aside the emissions from the 1.1 billion trips Americans take per day (87 percent of which are taken in…
Donald Trump Still Doesn’t Understand Climate Change Science
Olivier Douliery/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I regret to you inform you that the president of the United States still does not understand climate change or the science behind our warming planet. On Sunday at a rally in Minneapolis, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced she’s running for president. In her…
Shutdown Talks Stall Over Detention Beds
Brendan Fitterer/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. So how are the shutdown talks going? Apparently we’ve moved past the funding for a wall, so you’d think it would be pretty smooth sailing now. But apparently not: The talks this weekend snagged over the issue of how many detention…
Trump’s Chief of Staff Says Another Government Shutdown Might Be Unavoidable
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In late January, Congress put an end to the longest government shutdown in history with a three-week spending bill and a promise to return to bipartisan talks for a long-term deal. But on Sunday, Trump officials and Republican leaders were uncertain that another shutdown could…