This Critique of America’s Military Was Perfectly Timed to Increase the Pentagon Budget
Commission On The National Defense Strategy co-chairs Eric Edelman (L) and retired Navy Admiral Gary Roughead testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the commission’s findings. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The release of a landmark, independent assessment of the Pentagon’s national defense strategy earlier this…
Republicans Tighten Their Grip on Farm Country
Supporters celebrate as they await the victory speech of Mike Braun, who defeated a Democratic incumbent in a race to represent Indiana in the US Senate, Nov. 6, 2018. Darron Cummings/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Tuesday’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump and his Republican Party largely tightened…
The Rent’s Too Damn High Everywhere. Can This California Ballot Measure Do Something About It?
Southern California mobilizers supporting Bakersfield renters ride on the Yes on 10 bus. Silvia Flores/AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In California, where residents have been wrestling with one of the worst housing crises in the country, a ballot measure to repeal the state’s limits on rent…
This Researcher Rode 5,000 Miles With Uber to Understand the Gig Economy
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re a frequent passenger of Lyft or Uber, there’s a good chance you’ve met your fair share of drivers. But probably not as many as Alex Rosenblat, an ethnographer and researcher at Data & Society, a nonprofit in New…
What’s Really Needed to Fight Climate Change Is Money, and Trump Will Not Contribute a Cent
Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Under the 2015 Paris climate accord, 195 national governments committed to curbing carbon emissions to mitigate climate change. After the Trump administration…
The Midterms Have the Power to Usher in an Era of Climate Action
James Victore; Source: T-Rex: Turbosquid; Trump: Dominic Reuter/Reuters Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the most important thing to know about climate politics in this critical election year: How fast we act decides the future we get. Of course, climate politics seems to be about many things, things that this…