Another Trump Rule Goes Up In Smoke
Gage Skidmore/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration suffered yet another setback this week. Here’s the timeline: March 2017: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday reversed an Obama administration recommendation to ban a pesticide linked to nervous system damage in children….‘By reversing the previous administration’s steps to…
A Republican Nominee in Missouri Defended Hitler and Equated Muslims With the KKK
The background for West’s YouTube videos includes bizarre references to Barack Obama and Tweety Bird.YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Steve West, a Kansas City-based engineer, won the Republican primary for a seat in the Missouri House of Representatives this week by trumpeting “old American” values. On his campaign website,…
Chart of the Day: Inflation Keeps Going Up, But Wages Are Going Down
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Inflation in July rose 2.9 percent, its highest level in seven years. Core inflation, which doesn’t include food and energy, rose 2.33 percent, its highest level in ten years. This is not cause for panic, but there’s unquestionably some acceleration in the inflation numbers now.…
The #ChurchToo Movement Just Scored a Major Victory for Victims of Sexual Abuse
Willow Creek Community Church Senior Pastor Bill Hybels stands before his congregation, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, where he announced his early retirement effective immediately, amid a cloud of misconduct allegations.Mark Black/Daily Herald via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this week, in what is the most significant response to…
How “Greens, Beets, and Tomatoes” Turned Around This Historically Black Church
Members of the Pleasant Hope Baptist Church at one of the church’s farmers markets. Black Church Food Security Network Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few years ago, the Rev. Dr. Heber Brown III, the pastor of Baltimore’s historically African American Pleasant Hope Baptist Church, noticed a problem in his…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Not Here for Insulting, Bad-Faith Invites to “Debate”
G. Ronald Lopez/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has had quite a busy summer in the two months since her stunning victory against 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in New York’s Democratic primary, stumping for Democratic candidates across the country. Along with her new national profile has come…