The Senate Just Confirmed the Coal Lobbyist Who Could Replace Scott Pruitt
Andrew WheelerAlex Edelman/CNP, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The fossil fuel industry now has yet another ally at the Environmental Protection Agency—one who would almost certainly take over as head of the agency if Scott Pruitt is forced to resign. In a 53-45 vote on Thursday, the Senate confirmed…
Stressed, Struggling, and Suicidal: America’s Farmers Are Begging for Mental Health Services
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Farmers’ advocacy groups called on Congress Monday to reauthorize, “with adequate funding,” a program that provides mental health services to distressed American farmers and their families. “Despite the growing need,” notes a letter to House and Senate agricultural committees signed by 36 rural and farming…
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Links YouTube Shooting to “Criminal Illegal Aliens”
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.)Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) was about to discuss sanctuary cities on the Fox Business Network on Tuesday afternoon when news broke about a shooter at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. “You were going to talk to me about sanctuary cities…
Why Devin Nunes and His Local Paper Suddenly Can’t Stand Each Other
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Capitol Hill in April 2017.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For nearly two decades, Rep. Devin Nunes had enjoyed an amiable relationship with the Fresno Bee, the largest local paper near his district in California’s Central Valley. That ended…
Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the late summer of 2015, Chris Wilson, the director of research, analytics, and digital strategy for Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, had a conversation with a contractor that left him furious. A widely respected pollster who had taken leave from his firm to work…
Minor League Baseball Players Make Poverty-Level Wages. Congress Wants to Keep It That Way.
Angel Zayas/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tucked away on page 1,967 of the $1.3 trillion omnibus bill making its way through Congress in an effort to avoid a government shutdown, between child welfare protections legislation and a bill to combat abuse of youth athletes, is a provision that would…