Lawmakers Just Stripped Anti-Environment Riders from the Defense Bill
the greater sage grouseJeannie Stafford/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a rare victory for environmentalists in the Trump era, the latest draft of a major defense spending bill has been stripped of provisions that targeted environmental protections, according to documents from the House-Senate Conference Committee released early this week. The policy riders…
Trump Comes to Bury Tariffs, Not Praise Them
Andrew Cullen Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. L-a-a-a-a-dies and gentlemen, your attention please. I am about to attempt a death-defying stunt THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER ATTEMPTED BEFORE. I am going to defend Donald Trump’s tariff policy. Are you ready? (Cracks knuckles.) As you know, tariffs…
Georgia’s GOP Primary Is Taking Crazy to a New Level
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you want to see just how politically polarized America is right now, take a look at Georgia. Stacey Abrams, a black woman who has earned endorsements from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, won the Democratic primary for governor—and in November she’ll face whichever Republican wins a runoff…
Pruitt Is Gone. His Replacement Continues His Destructive Work.
A hand covered in wet coal ash from the Dan River, which was contaminated after a spill in North CarolinaGerry Broome/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency rolled back Obama-era regulations that had protected drinking water from being contaminated with coal ash, the toxic byproduct of…
Why Russian Spies Really Like American Universities
Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia in 2013.AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Under the alias Cynthia Murphy, Russian spy Lydia Guryeva…
How Brett Kavanaugh Could Cripple the Next Democratic President
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh walks up the Capitol steps with Vice President Mike Pence. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In February 2017, Brett Kavanaugh traveled to the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. It was four days after President Donald Trump had…