Putin Responds to Charges of Russian Election Meddling: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Alexei Druzhinin/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a new set of interviews with NBC’s Megyn Kelly, put on a master class in misdirection and what-about-ism in response to questions about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s recent indictment of 13 Russian nationals and…
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Wanted A Live TV Debate Questioning Climate Change
Gage Skidmore/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Pruitt, the polluter-friendly chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, has already amassed a lengthy list of extreme, fringey accomplishments. As Rebecca Leber wrote in her recent Mother Jones cover story, Pruitt has set out to demolish one EPA policy after another during…
“What Really Stresses Me Out Is the Fact That I Might Die in This Building”
Mother Jones illustration; kieferpix/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. “It was no surprise to anyone who knew him to hear that he was the shooter.”—Emma Gonzalez, Senior, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Over the past three weeks, the impassioned voices and steadfast demands of…
Is Russia Using the GMO Debate to Troll Americans?
Andy Katz/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Genetically modified foods remain controversial for many reasons, but at this point, the majority of scientists view them as safe to eat. The rest of Americans aren’t so sure: According to a major poll conducted in 2015, 57 percent of the general public thought…
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The story of Wawarsing, New York, sounds a lot like the stories of small towns across the United States. Once a proud manufacturing hub known for producing high-quality knives in the Hudson Valley, its 150-year-old industry withered as companies were bought and sold, then squeezed for maximum profit until they packed up and moved…
The Trump Administration’s New Environmental Justice Adviser Has a Plutonium Problem
iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One year ago, the man who founded the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice resigned. In a lengthy letter, Mustafa Ali asked newly sworn-in EPA Administrator…