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…
Trump Accepts Saudi Arabia’s Latest Story About Journalist Dying in a “Fistfight”
Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Saudi Arabia has again changed its official line on the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, marking its first admission since his October 2 disappearance that Khashoggi died in its consulate in Istanbul. The country’s new story, according to the Washington Post, is…
Saudis Threaten to Retaliate if Punished for Journalist’s Disappearance
Donald Trump meeting with Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman in March 2018.Kevin Dietsch / Pool via CNP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Saudi Arabia’s government angrily reacted to warnings from President Donald Trump that it may face punishment for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, threatening the kingdom “will respond with greater…
After 25 Years in Jail For a Single Punch He Threw as a 16 Year Old, Taurus Buchanan Is Finally Free
Taurus Buchanan, age 19. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was published in partnership with The Marshall Project a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletter, or follow The Marshall Project on Facebook or Twitter. Taurus Buchanan, who received a life-without-parole sentence for…
A Surprise Inspection of an ICE Detention Center Reveals Horrific Conditions
Immigrants wait in a processing cell at Adalanto Detention Facility.John Moore/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Inside an immigration detention center in the desert outside Los Angeles, guards threw detainees into solitary confinement without hearings, routinely forced them into shackles, and cut off visits with family. Doctors signed off…
The New M.I.A. Documentary Isn’t the Film She Would Have Made, But This One’s Probably Better
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Getting people to care about conflicts in faraway lands is a losing battle. But try telling that to 43-year-old Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam (stage name M.I.A.), whose family fled war-torn Sri Lanka for London when she was nine, leaving her “terrorist” father behind with the Tamil…