Trump’s “Enemy of the People” Rhetoric Is Endangering Journalists’ Lives
Mother Jones illustration; Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since he campaigned for the White House, Donald Trump has attacked news outlets for negative reporting, singled out individual journalists for scorn, and turned his battle cry against “fake news”—a.k.a. reporting he dislikes—virtually into a personal brand.…
Hurricane Florence’s Forecasted Path Includes About 9 Toxic Waste Sites
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency is monitoring nine hazardous waste sites in the Carolinas in the event that Hurricane Florence unleashes toxic chemicals. “EPA Regions 3 and 4 are closely monitoring the projected path of Hurricane Florence,” an EPA spokesperson told HuffPost in a…
The House Is Trying to Sneak These Dangerous Changes Into the Farm Bill
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the world churns in Washington, Congress is quietly trying to finalize the farm bill. Surprise, surprise: Negotiations over the legislation are beset by clashing, and likely irreconcilable, House and Senate visions for this omnibus legislation that shapes US agriculture and hunger policy for five-year intervals. The…
New Data Shows How the NRA Used Parkland to End Its Trump Slump
President Donald Trump at the National Rifle Association convention in MaySue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly after he was suddenly named the president of the National Rifle Association in May, Oliver North said he hoped the pro-gun group would soon swell to 14 million members. Though that seems to…
Iowa Congressman Steve King Just Can’t Stop Promoting White Nationalists on Twitter
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Longtime Iowa congressman Steve King retweeted a white nationalist on Wednesday, and not for the first time. King, who has 98,000-plus Twitter followers, shared a tweet from Lana Lokteff, a radio and YouTube personality who identifies herself as “identitarian” and pro-European. On her…
Republicans Waited a Year to Hold FEMA Hearings. Just In Time for Hurricane Season.
Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) speaks with Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) during a House Oversight Committee hearing.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Congressional Democrats’ months-long effort to wrangle the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency before the House Oversight Committee experienced another setback this week as a hearing…