Poll: Likely 2020 Voters Support Parts of Green New Deal, Despite Concerns Over the Cost
The question described the job as a position that would pay “at least $15 an hour, included healthcare benefits, and collective bargaining rights.” The surveyors added that Republicans warned the policy “would increase the national debt, endanger the long term health of our economy, and this policy will end up paying people who can’t contribute in…
Trump Judicial Nominees Are Refusing to Endorse Brown v. Board of Education
Neomi Rao, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 5.Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s no Supreme Court decision more widely celebrated than Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous 1954 ruling that…
House Climate Panel Democrats Got Nearly $200,000 in Fossil Fuel Industry Donations
“That’s $200,000 of potential conflict of interest on an issue of grave concern,” said David Turnbull, a spokesman for the coalition of groups that oversee the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge. “If you’re going to be talking about the critical issue of climate change, you need to rid yourself of the influence of the fossil…
John Dingell Told Us That Yes, He Was Responsible for His Savage Twitter Feed
Rep. John Dingell on March 10, 2011.Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. John Dingell, the Democrat who represented Michigan for 59 years and was the longest-serving member of Congress, died Thursday at his home in Dearborn, Michigan. He was 92. Over his long tenure, he shaped environmental policy, supported civil rights legislation, and criticized…
Trump Might Have Actually Announced One Realistic, Good Idea in His State of the Union Speech
Doug Mills/CNP/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump made at least one bold pledge that should garner bipartisan support: to end the transmission of HIV by 2030. While ambitious, both advocates and experts believe the goal is largely achievable, in theory, due to great…
House Democrats Just Told the Pentagon to Redo Its Climate Change Report
A hospital shit evacuates Naval Station Norfolk in preparation for Hurricane Florence.Jennifer Hunt/US Navy via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, the Pentagon released a landmark report that identified the 79 American military installations most vulnerable to the “effects of a changing climate.” The 22-page filing frankly acknowledged the…