The Green New Deal Is Out—But It’s Still Kind of Hazy
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Green New Deal is out. It’s a “sense of Congress” resolution, not actual legislation, so it doesn’t contain the kind of detail you’d find in a real bill. Section 2 contains the meat of the resolution: (A) building resiliency against climate change-related disasters, such…
What’s Wrong With a Women-Only Workspace?
The Wing Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at Vox, Anna North and Chavie Lieber write about The Wing, a coworking space designed exclusively for women: When The Wing opened in 2016, coworking spaces like WeWork were already popular. But the pool tables, free booze, and what some have described…
Businessman Scrutinized in Inaugural Probe Helped Qataris Court Trumpworld
Aaron Bernstein/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On December 11, 2016, Ahmed al-Rumaihi, then the head of a branch of Qatar’s $320 billion sovereign wealth fund, dined with President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, at Manhattan’s Peninsula Hotel on Fifth Avenue. The men discussed possible investments by…
A Morning Listicle: The Top Ten Democratic Candidates
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Critics of the Green New Deal Dismissed It as a Marketing Ploy. AOC Just Showed Them It’s For Real.
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Green New Deal has officially graduated from a vision for mobilizing young activists to occupy Democratic lawmakers’ offices to a document attracting a number of powerful co-sponsors from both houses of Congress. Freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has teamed up with a veteran of the…
The NRA Welcomed Maria Butina—Even As She Worked to Arm Anti-American Thugs Abroad
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The American public has continued to know little about Maria Butina, who pleaded guilty in December to participating in a foreign conspiracy against the United States. Not much has emerged about the confessed Russian agent’s political activities beyond her efforts to build ties with Republican leaders…