New Study Shows the Devastating Effect Climate Change Is Having on Antarctica
Sea ice melting off the shores of islands in Antarctica. David Schultz/Mint Images/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Antarctica’s sheets of ice are melting at a rate faster than ever before and raising global sea levels by “almost a centimeter,” an international group of scientists concluded Thursday in a study…
Trump Uses the Comey Report to Cover Up His Guilt in the Russia Scandal
Donald Trump and James Comey in January 2017Andrew Harrer/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Even before the Justice Department inspector general’s report on former FBI director James Comey was released on Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump initiated the inevitable tweet storm, hoping to use this development as yet another…
San Francisco’s First Black Female Mayor Defies the Liberal Litmus Test
Lorin Eleni Gill/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. London Breed officially became San Francisco’s first black female mayor Wednesday, surviving a bruising election and over a week of uncertainty after the polls closed, when Mark Leno conceded the race. The victory makes Breed the latest in what can seem like a…
The Era of Mass Incarceration Isn’t Over. This New Report Shows Why.
IPGGutenbergUKLtd/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since the US incarceration rate started to level off at the turn of the century, activists and criminal justice reform advocates have been hopeful that the era of mass incarceration may finally be over. Indeed, the number of people locked up in prisons across the…
Suicide Rates Are Up in Almost Every State, and Donald Trump’s Policies Are Not Going to Help
Mother Jones; Cheriss May/NurPhoto/ZUMA; CDC Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A week after the back-to-back suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain renewed the national conversation over mental health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released numbers showing that America’s overall suicide rate has climbed by a whopping 30…
Chart of the Day: Blue-Collar Wages Are Down Under Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The monthly Real Earnings Report from the BLS came out today, which gave everyone an excuse to note that hourly wages for production and nonsupervisory workers are down compared to a year ago. They’re also down compared to January 2017. Sad. POSTSCRIPT: It’s legit to…