Progressive Insurgent Tiffany Cabán Declares Victory in the Primary for Queens DA
Queens District Attorney candidate Tiffany Cabán embraces a supporter on June 11 after a press conference of civil rights activists calling for an investigation into the false conviction of the Central Park Five. Bebeto Matthews/AP Update, 11:30 p.m. ET: Tiffany Cabán has declared victory in the primary election for district attorney in Queens. With 99.5…
Millennial Trump Supporters Are Breaking With Their Party Over Climate Change
Scott Olson/Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s indifference, punctuated by bursts of mocking disdain, towards climate change has been indulged and even cheered by his supporters. The president has called climate science “bullshit,” donned a coal miner’s helmet at rallies and defenestrated…
A 23-Year-Old Went on Fox News and Schooled Their Hosts on the Green New Deal
This story was originally published by HuffPost and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Jack Vandeleuv’s Thursday night went like this: He went to a diner in Riverside, Missouri, ordered himself a vegetarian omelet and served up arguably the most clear-eyed defense of the Green New Deal yet broadcast on Fox News. In a…
Critics of the Green New Deal Rail Against Socialism. We’ve Seen This Before.
NurPhoto/Getty Images This story was originally published by High Country News and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Green New Deal and its proponents aim to tackle the intertwined issues of social and environmental justice in our age of anthropogenic climate change. To accomplish this, they believe they must deploy the federal government, since it…
Vote: What Do You Want to Know About the Green Deal?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) during a press conference announcing the Green New Deal.Alex Edelman/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, we asked Mother Jones readers what they wanted to know about the Green New Deal. We received more than a hundred questions on the climate resolution, ranging from its cost…
Watch Trump’s Financial Industry Watchdog Get Grilled by Congress’ Newest Members
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When news broke in January that a slew of Democratic House freshmen who have largely forsworn corporate PAC donations had snagged seats on the powerful House Financial Services Committee, Wall Street was not pleased. A Thursday hearing hosted by the committee…