Elizabeth Warren Blasts Fellow Democrats for Supporting a Massive Bank Deregulation Bill
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The US Senate on Tuesday cleared a key procedural hurdle needed to move forward with a major bank deregulation bill that could pass the chamber in the coming days. If it becomes law, the bill would significantly loosen Wall Street…
These Companies Are Done With the NRA
Shots/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Being a member of the National Rifle Association has its perks, many of which are altogether unrelated to guns: Members enjoy discounts on rental cars, hotel rooms, wine, and even health and life insurance. Or that was the case until Thursday. Just more than one week…
This New Company Wants You To Trade Your DNA Sequence for Cryptocurrency
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After about a year of development, a new biotech company, the brainchild of Harvard genomics pioneer George Church, emerged from the darkness this week, STAT News reported. It’s called Nebula Genomics, and it lets you buy and sell your genomic data using cryptocurrency. The core…
Trump’s Speech Bragging About Tax Cuts Smacks Into a Nosediving Stock Market
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s frequent boasting of a booming stock market collided with reality on Monday, when the Dow plunged more than 1,500 points in afternoon trading. The massive drop continues steep losses seen last week. News networks, many of which had been airing a Trump speech live…
11 Historical Moments That Gave Us President Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by TomDispatch. The present arrives out of a past that we are too quick to forget, misremember, or enshroud in myth. Yet like it or not, the present is the product of past choices. Different decisions back then might have yielded…
Here’s What Happens When Trump Policy Comes to Trump Country
Organizers Marilyn Torres and Marbella Chavez celebrate after a private prison company withdrew its proposal for an immigration detention center in Elkhart County.Mother Jones Illustration/Michael Caterina/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Elkhart County, Indiana, is proud of its recreational vehicles. The county—90 percent white, 41 percent factory workers, and located…