Democratic Senator Demands Investigation Into Whether Trump Jr. Lied to Congress
Chip Somodevilla/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Democratic senator is calling for an investigation into whether Donald Trump Jr. lied when he told the Senate Judiciary Committee that aside from Russia, he knew of no other foreign government or foreign nationals who offered to assist the Trump…
Here’s How the Government Managed to Lose Track of 1,500 Migrant Children
Boys wait in line to make a phone call as they are joined by hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children being held at a Customs and Border Protection placement center in Arizona in 2014.Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a Senate hearing last month, Steven Wagner…
CBO’s Net Result for Obamacare in 2018: Premiums Up 15%, Subsidized Users Down 2 Million
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The last time CBO published its “baseline” projection for the health insurance market was September 2017. Today they have a new one. Can you feel the excitement in the air? Let’s go straight to Obamacare since I know that’s really all that anyone cares about.…
As a Teen, Emily Joy Was Abused by a Church Youth Leader. Now She’s Leading a Movement to Change Evangelical America.
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The #MeToo stories that were flooding Emily Joy’s social feeds for weeks had been nagging at her. Last November, as her own story played on a loop in her mind, she finally texted a group of close friends: “Do I out my high school abuser? Probably, huh?” Joy’s story is familiar…
Remember the Hole in the Ozone Layer? This Scientist Discovered It
Susan Solomon on an Antarctic expedition in 1987.Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. On May 24, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award one of the world’s largest scientific prizes to two of the…
Ignorance is Strength: The Trump Administration’s Creepy War on Language
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared at TomDispatch.com. Consider us officially in an Orwellian world, though we only half realize it. While we were barely looking, significant parts of an American language long familiar to us quite literally, and in a remarkably coherent way, went…