We Are Really Lowering the Bar for Rebellions These Days
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the Washington Post: Liberal revolt threatens to derail House Democrats on their first day in charge House Democratic leaders faced the prospect of a liberal rebellion on their first day in charge after prominent Democrats said they would oppose…
California Governor-Elect Kicks Off 2019 With Early Childhood Spending Proposal
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California’s new governor wants to spend nearly $2 billion more on kindergarten and pre-K programs: The governor-elect will propose a $750-million boost to kindergarten funding, aimed at expanding facilities to allow full-day programs. A number of school districts offer only part-day programs, leaving many low-income…
Overflowing Port-a-Potties and Trash—This Is What National Parks Are Like During a Government Shutdown
Large groups continue to pour into Joshua Tree National Park despite the government shutdown.Nick Kirkpatrick/Washington Post/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since the government shutdown began on December 22, the nation’s 417 parks, battlefields, and monuments have become unsupervised playgrounds—open to the public with few, if any, staffers to rein…
For the Last Goddam Time: Wages Aren’t Growing 3 Percent
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michael Strain: Wages are growing. The most recent data on wages (more specifically, average hourly earnings) finds that they are up over 3 percent relative to one year prior. And the pace of wage growth accelerated throughout 2018. The early months of 2018 saw wages…
Ryan Zinke’s Real Legacy Is Rolling Back Environmental Protections and Cozying Up to Big Oil
In other words, the grand pivot never arrived. Theodore Roosevelt IV, a great-grandson of the late president who has blasted the interior secretary for invoking his ancestor, said Zinke’s “bad angels won out.” “He was marching lockstep with what the president wanted him to do,” Roosevelt said. “It’s unfortunate.” Zinke “disrespected Interior’s stewardship mission &…
Six-Year-Old Moira is One of the Sickest People in America. So Why is North Carolina Trying to Gut Her Health Care?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A monster snowstorm had just walloped North Carolina, and the city of Greensboro careened to a halt. Families were home building fires, sticking carrot noses in snowmen, sipping mugs of hot cocoa. Dan Smith, though, was worried. When he awoke that morning in January 2018…