The New Southern Baptist President Wants to End Abuse in the Church While Sticking to Tradition
Mother Jones illustration; dwleindecker/Getty Images; Sean_Warren/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Southern Baptist Convention elected a new leader Tuesday in Dallas amid an unprecedented conversation about gender. J.D. Greear, the pastor at The Summit, a North Carolina-based Baptist megachurch, won 69 percent of the vote at the Baptists’ annual conference.…
Americans Are Starting to Like the Death Penalty Again
Chuck Berman/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the last two decades, public support for the death penalty has been on the decline. In 2016, the number of people in favor of capital punishment was 49 percent—the lowest it had been in more than 40 years. But a new Pew…
Mike Pompeo Is Insulting Our Intelligence
Michael Candelori/Pacific Press via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thinks it’s “insulting and ridiculous and frankly ludicrous” that people are questioning the Singapore agreement just because it doesn’t really say anything at all: He said he was confident that the North Koreans “understand what…
School Officials Tried to Stop Her From Talking About Sexual Assault. She Wouldn’t be Silenced.
Lulabel Seitz after her microphone was shut off.Erik Castro/The Press Democrat/AP No, Lulabel Seitz would not shut up. The first in her family to graduate high school, the Petaluma, Calif., senior wouldn’t let school administrators stop her from publicly talking about sexual assault at school. “Let her speak!” her classmates shouted when her mic was cut,…
Californians Will Vote on a Silicon Valley Investor’s Plan to Split Up Their State
Californias, here we comeCal 3 Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Californians head to the polls this fall, they’ll get to vote on whether or not America’s largest and arguably most important state should be broken into three. On Tuesday, a voter initiative known as Cal 3 qualified to be…
Chart of the Day: The South Pole is Shrinking Fast
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here are the latest results of the ongoing IMBIE team’s measurement of Antarctic ice sheet loss due to global warming: In the 12 years between 1992 and 2004, the Antarctic lost about 50 gigatonnes of ice per year. In the 13 years between 2004 and…