50 Years After Their Historic Strike, Memphis Sanitation Workers Are Still Fighting
Bishop Julian Smith (left) and Rev. Ralph Abernathy (right) flank Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis on March 28, 1968.Jack Thornell/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. February 1, 1968, was a dreary day in Memphis, Tennessee. As a storm rolled over the city, blanketing…
Steve Mnuchin Spent Nearly $1 Million in Taxpayer Dollars on Eight Flights
Michael Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new set of documents obtained by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington shows that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spent nearly $1 million in taxpayer dollars on eight trips, opting for military aircraft over commercial flights. Through a Freedom of Information Act…
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The story of Wawarsing, New York, sounds a lot like the stories of small towns across the United States. Once a proud manufacturing hub known for producing high-quality knives in the Hudson Valley, its 150-year-old industry withered as companies were bought and sold, then squeezed for maximum profit until they packed up and moved…
Here’s the Video Steve Mnuchin Didn’t Want You to See
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at UCLA on February 26.UCLA/Burkle Center Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin probably didn’t expect to get a hard time when he visited the the University of California Los Angeles for a public conversation with Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal in late February. But…
The Real Reason Pizza Hut Just Rolled Out the Extra-Cheesy
Cheesy enough for you?Courtesy of Pizza Hut Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember “stuffed-crust” pizza? Donald Trump likely does. In this Pizza Hut ad from the 1990s, the future president demonstrates the “crust-first” method: Cramming more cheese into products is a hoary and enduring fast-food tactic. Just last month, Pizza…
New Study: Eat Your Strawberries Before Climate Change Wipes Them Out
danny4stockphoto/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With its year-round sunshine and vast tracts of fertile land, California is one of the jewels of US food production, providing a third of the nation’s vegetables and two-thirds of our fruits and nuts. As the climate warms, can we continue to take this…