How One Company Is Making Millions Off Trump’s War on the Poor
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Renaud VigourtOne night last March, Sue Fredericks ran into trouble. She had been watching snow accumulate for hours from her post at a 24-hour gas station. Busy stretches on her overnight shift were rare, on account of the size of the town in which she…
ICE Could Deport Him to a Country He’s Never Been To—Unless California’s Governor Steps In
Somdeng Danny Thongsy Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Somdeng Danny Thongsy was born 39 years ago in a Thai refugee camp, after his mother and older brother had fled their native Laos following the Vietnam War. His father had stayed back in Laos, and when Thongsy was two, his family…
John Bolton Has a Baffling Excuse for Refusing to Review the Khashoggi Tape
Sergei Fadeichev/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. National Security Adviser John Bolton has not listened to the tape recording of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, a recording the CIA and Turkish officials have determined shows the Saudi crown prince personally directed the brutal killing—nor does he appear to have any intention of…
Here’s What a New Generation of Trans Leaders Say it Takes to Fight Back and Find a Voice
Maciej Luczniewski/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last summer, almost 300 people gathered on one of Chicago’s northern lakeside beaches and the conditions were perfect: sunny, clear, and 90 degrees. Beach parties by Lake Michigan are a time-honored tradition during Chicago summers, but this one was different. Hosted…
The Role Harassment Plays in Climate Change Denial
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Before Tom Steyer was a high-profile figure calling for the president’s impeachment, before the attacks directed at him escalated from name-calling to threats and violence, and before the president demeaned him as a “crazed & stumbling lunatic,” the Democratic donor was familiar with being a target for the…
Your Halloween Candy’s Hidden Ingredient: Child Slave Labor
FatCamera/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re buying last-minute Halloween candy, you might want to know about a recent ruling by the US Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit in a long-running lawsuit against Nestlé and agribusiness giant Cargill that alleges the companies aided and abetted child slavery on cocoa…