Inside the Surprisingly Difficult Fight for Reproductive Rights in One of the Bluest States
Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Edith Ajello, now a 13-term lawmaker in Rhode Island’s General Assembly, became pregnant in 1965, she was a college student in central Pennsylvania and abortion was illegal. It was eight years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in Roe v. Wade,…
Hey Lefties, We Need to Step Up on Race — But Not the Way You Think
I turned on the TV for a few minutes to snap some pictures of commercials, and boy howdy did I see plenty of white men. Of course, some of them were like this guy, forced to take care of the baby because the femlibs have totally emasculated us. Plus, there were plenty of black men…
Elizabeth Warren Tore Into Trump’s Consumer Watchdog Nominee Over Family Separations
Bill Clark/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) had harsh words on Thursday for Kathy Kraninger, Trump’s nominee to lead the primary federal agency tasked to be a watchdog for consumers against Wall Street excess. Ever since Warren proposed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and helped create that agency following…
Young People Are Registering to Vote in Huge Numbers, New Study Finds
Student protesters at the March for Our Lives in Detroit, Michigan on March 24, 2018.Chirag Wakaskar/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The March for Our Lives teens said they’d #VoteThemOut, and a new study suggests they could be poised to do just that. According to the…
Internal Watchdog Blasts EPA’s Response to Flint Water Crisis in Blistering Report
Michael Nigro/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A long-awaited report from the Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog criticized the agency’s initial approach to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and urged a series of reforms to ensure that such a dramatic breakdown in state and federal…
Republicans Are Finally Talking About a Carbon Tax. Not in a Good Way.
Jan-Otto, Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a symbolic resolution that calls a tax on carbon “detrimental to the United States economy” in a 229 to 180 vote. Sponsored by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La), the resolution rejects a carbon tax by listing a dozen different…