Trump Complains Democrats Are Causing the Shutdown. Americans Don’t See It That Way.
Martin H. Simon/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More Americans fault President Donald Trump for the federal government shutdown than Democrats in Congress, according to a poll by Reuters/Ipsos released this week. But that isn’t stopping the president from going on a Twitter rant, with Trump grumbling on Saturday morning that Democrats “are…
Six Times the Environment Won in 2018
George Rose/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. By all accounts, 2018 had its share of big environmental bummers. Scientists calmly explained that our current rate of warming will cause geological changes akin to a meteor striking the Earth.…
Trump and Social Media Could Be An Even More Dangerous Combination in 2019
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A country riven by ethnic tension. Spontaneous organizing fueled by viral memes. Hateful fake-news posts about “terrorism” from marginalized groups inciting violence and riots. It’s a story we’ve seen play out around the world recently, from France and Germany to Burma, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria.…
The Crisis on the Border You Didn’t Learn About in School
US soldiers on the Mexican border in 1915.Library of Congress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Antonio Rodriguez was burned at the stake. Jesus Bazan was shot in the back. Macedonia Herrera was executed on a hill overlooking his home. Between 1910 and 1920, historian Monica Muñoz Martinez writes in her…
The Senator Who Wants to Keep Silicon Valley From Reading Your Messages
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/NC via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Senator Brian Schatz wants to make powerful technology companies more like banks, law firms, and hospitals—at least in terms of how they handle data. In late December, the Hawaii Democrat, one of big tech’s most vocal critics on Capitol…
The EPA’s Latest Move Risks Exposing the Public to More Mercury
Aaron Lavinsky, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Children and pregnant women hear the warnings against eating too much fish because of potential exposure to mercury. But where does that mercury come from? Coal and oil-burning plants are the number one source of mercury in the US, and they leech not just that neurotoxin but arsenic, acid gasses, and…