Chart of the Day: YTD Border Apprehensions
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He Was the “Hot Guy Running for Congress.” Now, Ammar Campa-Najjar is a Contender.
John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune/ZUMA (2) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In any other election year, Ammar Campa-Najjar, a young Palestinian Mexican American running to unseat a five-term Republican congressman in one of California’s most fiercely red districts, wouldn’t stand a chance. But these are strange times in the 50th…
In 6 Western States, Voters Have a Chance to Fight Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Voters in six Western states—Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada and Washington—will head to the polls Nov. 6 with the chance to decide on hotly contested,…
The Role Harassment Plays in Climate Change Denial
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Before Tom Steyer was a high-profile figure calling for the president’s impeachment, before the attacks directed at him escalated from name-calling to threats and violence, and before the president demeaned him as a “crazed & stumbling lunatic,” the Democratic donor was familiar with being a target for the…
A Black Woman Running for Boston DA Is Out to Change the City’s Racist Sentencing Disparities
Rachael RollinsDiana Levine Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was an unusual scene: In a county jail in Boston, inmates sat face to face in June with a row of attorneys who wanted their votes. The attorneys were competing to become the Democratic nominee for Suffolk County’s top prosecutor, to…
Trump Would Love to Trigger a Brawl. Don’t Let Him.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just a quick note: I assume, among other things, that Donald Trump is hoping his immigration demagoguery will trigger some kind of incident. That’s why he keeps amping things up. He wants something, anything, to happen before November 6 that might scare suburban housewives. Even…