Trump’s Plan to Plant a Trillion Saplings Misses the Forest for the Trees
Misty Fjords National Monument in the Tongass National Forest, AlaskaYegoroV/Shutterstock Donald Trump, it turns out, is a fan of trees. A big fan. Such a fan, in fact, that at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, late last month, the president announced that the United States will join the One Trillion Tree Initiative, an…
America Got a Little Less Liberal Last Year
Here’s a timely reminder from Gallup: Since 2018, the country has moved slightly to the right. As you can see, 37 percent of Americans call themselves conservative, and if you add in the one-third of moderates who are also pretty reliable conservatives (even if they don’t admit it), about 47 percent of the country is…
Hey, How About a Few Pardons For People We’ve Never Heard Of?
Here’s the latest from Trumpland: POTUS announces that in addition to commuting Blagojevich’s sentence, he has pardoned Bernie Kerik, who pleaded guilty to 8 charges that included tax fraud and lying to WH officials.https://t.co/nQGmwsm7uU — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 18, 2020 Trump also pardoned Edward DeBartolo, a former owner of the San Francisco 49ers, and…
“You Can’t Afford to Get Sick”: Why Workers at the Country’s Largest Health Contractor Want a Union
HRAUN/Getty On a snowy day this past December, Logan Stinemetz was driving to his job at a call center in Lawrence, Kansas, where he helps people enroll in health insurance, when he hit black ice and spun into a concrete barrier. The accident left Stinemetz in debilitating pain, made worse by the arthritis and degenerative…
Mike Bloomberg Is Coming to a Debate Near You
Sure, this guy likes Mike now. But will he still like Mike a week from now?Mehmet Demirci/ZUMA It’s crunch time for Mike Bloomberg: Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York has qualified for Wednesday’s debate in Las Vegas, the first time the billionaire will appear onstage alongside his Democratic presidential rivals. A national poll…
Inside the Fight to Topple Lindsey Graham—and Trump’s Senate Majority
With a cheery drawl and an expression somewhere between exhausted and dead-eyed, Lindsey Graham spent a Sunday morning in November rattling off the greatest hits of GOP impeachment conspiracy theories before most Americans had finished their second cups of coffee. “When you find out who the whistleblower is, I’m confident you’re going to find out…