Trump’s New Attorney General Is a Global Warming Skeptic
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general shares the president’s views on more than just the Russia investigation. As it turns out, Matthew Whitaker—who will oversee the department tasked with defending federal environmental regulations—is also a global warming skeptic. The climate change views expressed…
Deep Inside a Pro-Putin Network That’s Helping Trump Divide America
Putin and Trump at a summit in Helsinki, July 2018Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every day, the roughly 600 Kremlin-linked accounts tracked in real time on the Hamilton 68 dashboard dive into the hot Twitter topics of the moment. They have fanned rancor over the NFL’s #TakeAKnee…
Just How Progressive Is Nancy Pelosi?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Creating a histogram in Excel is a huge pain in the ass. And when you’re done, you can’t adjust anything. You take what they give you and that’s that. Either that or else I missed some big button labeled “Modify Chart Here.” But today I…
Donald Trump Doesn’t Want All the Votes in Florida to Be Counted
President Donald Trump is now supporting former Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s claims of fraud in the 2018 election.Don Montague/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Three days after votes were cast, the results of elections in Georgia and Florida are still uncertain. But that hasn’t prevented the president from spreading…
Beto O’Rourke Mobilized So Many Democratic Voters That They Swept Even Local Judges Out of Office
The 19 black women who were elected as judges in Harris CountyHarris County Democratic Party Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Beto O’Rourke didn’t manage to boot Ted Cruz from the Senate this week, but he got a consolation prize: His long-shot race for Congress drew an unprecedented number of Democratic…
A Good Climate Policy Rises Above Politics
Britta Pedersen/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the results of the midterms continue to trickle in, one thing is clear: Bipartisan climate action in the US is over. For decades, there’s been the dream that one…