In “Blindspotting,” Two Artists Go Home to Examine the True Costs of Gentrification
Ariel Nava/Lionsgate Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For nearly the last decade, Tony-award winning actor and rapper Daveed Diggs and his creative partner Rafael Casal have been working to capture their rapidly-changing home of Oakland, Calif. as it wrestles with a longstanding identity crisis. In their new film, Blindspotting, the two friends try to figure out their place in it, even as gentrification engulfs…
He’s Running as a Hero of the Opioid Epidemic. Here’s the Catch.
Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ/ZUMA; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid calls to “drain the swamp” and “reinvent” Washington, Patrick Morrisey—the West Virginia Republican running for US Senate—often brags that no one has done more than he has to address the state’s devastating opioid epidemic. Since first working on opioid issues in 2013,…
Republicans Finally Kill Off Valuable Medical Database Their Donors Hate
Cultura via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What in the everlasting fuck? The Trump Administration is planning to eliminate a vast trove of medical guidelines that for nearly 20 years has been a critical resource for doctors, researchers and others in the medical community. Maintained by the Agency for…
NATO Countries Have Increased Defense Spending Every Year Since 2014
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just in case you’re interested, NATO releases updated figures for defense spending before each of its annual summit meetings. Here’s the 2018 edition: As you can see, NATO countries have been increasing their defense expenditures every year since 2014, and this has nothing to do…
A New Lawsuit Alleges Trump’s Education Department Is Failing Students of Color With Disabilities
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations hearing in June 2018. Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) filed a federal lawsuit against Trump’s Education Department, challenging the…
The Next Front in The Koch’s Deregulatory War Is Saturday Morning Cartoons
The FCC wants to end broadcaster requirements for children’s educational programming.joske038/ Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. According to its website, the 60 Plus Association is a 26-year-old “nonpartisan organization working for death tax repeal and advocating for seniors” on issues like affordable prescription drugs and saving Social Security…