“Don’t Mess With Me”: Nancy Pelosi Fires Back at Reporter’s Question After Impeachment Announcement
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Zuma Don’t say Nancy Pelosi hates the president. After the Speaker of the House announced the go-ahead for the House to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump Thursday morning, a reporter shouted a question that caught her attention, just as she was about to leave the weekly news conference: “Do you…
House Democrats to Draft Articles of Impeachment Against Trump
J. Scott Applewhite/AP House Democrats are moving forward with articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in a press conference on Thursday. “The facts are uncontested: the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security,” Pelosi said from the Speaker’s Balcony Hallway. …
A Judge Says Thousands of Detainees May Sue a Prison Company for Using Them as a “Captive Labor Force”
John Moore/Getty Early one morning, Abdiaziz Karim was sleeping in his new dorm in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center when an officer woke him up. The guard pointed out graffiti on the wall and a light fixture smeared with toothpaste, and demanded that Karim, a Somali waiting for an asylum hearing, clean…
The Blob Is Going After Iran
A few months ago Donald Trump decided to suddenly yank our troops from Syria. We’d already beaten ISIS, so why not? It was time to get out. But the Wall Street Journal reports today that apparently things have changed: The Trump administration is considering a significant expansion of the U.S. military footprint in the Middle…
Global Carbon Emissions Will Hit a Record High in 2019… Again.
Carbon dioxide emissions in the United States rose 3.4 percent in 2018, the largest increase in eight years. A rise in emissions from factories, trucks and planes contributed heavily to this increase.Scott Olson/Getty This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Global carbon emissions will hit…
Climate Scientists Get an A For Their Warming Predictions
The key metric in all models of the earth’s climate is sensitivity. That is, how much will the globe warm for every ton of greenhouse gases that we dump into the atmosphere? If sensitivity is low, we have little to worry about. If sensitivity is high, we’re well on our way to broiling ourselves to…