Weekend News Roundup — So Far
Mother Jones illustration; Yara Nardi/AP; Andrew Harnik/AP; Susan Walsh/AP; Getty It’s a weekend, but the newspaper are full of news. Let’s round it up. The Washington Post reports that a top aide to Devin Nunes was in frequent contact with Trump thug Lev Parnas The text messages between Lev Parnas, who functioned as Rudolph W.…
Trump Shares New Details of Soleimani’s Killing With GOP Donors at Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser
President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the White House on the ballistic missile strike that Iran launched against Iraqi air bases housing U.S. troops on Jan. 8.Evan Vucci/AP In the weeks after President Donald Trump authorized the killing of Iran’s top military official, Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, administration officials tried to justify its actions…
It Is Rare to Give a Middle Finger As Good as Selena Gomez’s “Rare”
Don Arnold / Getty Selena Gomez is back, and she’s vying, again, for a number one hit this week with Rare. It’s been rightfully hailed as her best work yet, and it’s basically like listening to someone give the middle finger to their past. A public fight with the lupus disease, an even more public breakup, and…
Is BlackRock Going Green or Just Greenwashing?
This piece was originally published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. On Tuesday, January 14, the New York Times ran a story in its “Dealbook” business section that contained some startling news. Larry Fink, the founder and chief executive officer of the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, announced that his…
The Latest Green New Deal for Farmers Would Restructure Everything About How They Make Money
eclipse_images/Getty The Green New Deal, the climate-change-fighting policy framework proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) nearly a year ago, laid down bold goals for transforming agriculture: It called for a “10-year national mobilization” to “eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector” while “supporting family farming.” The plan…
The Three Biggest Lies Trump and His Deputies Have Been Telling Us About Iran
Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Ever since the US drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian general, the Trump administration hasn’t been able to provide consistent, or even coherent, answers about the assassination. Why did President Donald Trump decide to kill Soleimani? Was there really an “imminent” threat from Iran? Will this lead to…