BREAKING: Local Cat Rescued From Attic
For those of you worried about the fate of poor Lily, who trapped herself in my mother’s attic while the house was getting a new roof, I have good news. The addition of a stepladder to her escape route, combined with the continuing lure of cat food, finally motivated her to jump down. I went…
Trump Says Israeli Settlements Are Legal. Yawn.
Shadi Hatem/APA Images via ZUMA The Trump administration announced on Monday that it no longer considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be illegal. Symbolically this is a big deal, I suppose, but in real-world terms it’s meaningless. The peace process has been dead for the past 20 years, and over that time Israel…
This Report Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Every Child. Its Authors Hope Congress Will Listen.
Dr. Stephen Teach guides Jeffery Ulmer through listening to his daughter’s asthmatic breathing while mother Farisa Walsh sits by on Thursday, October 3, 2013, in Washington, DC.Jahi Chikwendiu/Getty On Monday, some of the authors of the annual Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, a massive report compiled by 120 health and climate experts from…
Asylum at the Border Is Over—and Mexico Is Turning Factories Into Shelters to Clean Up Trump’s Mess
Fernanda Echavarri/Mother Jones Four miles south of the narrow footbridge that connects Ciudad Juárez to El Paso sits a sprawling, peach-colored former factory with a new “Bienvenidos” banner above its doors. The Leona Vicario Migrant Integration Center opened four months ago as the first of several shelters run by the Mexican government to house asylum-seekers…
Trump Turns on Pompeo After a Week of Damning Testimony
Alex Edelman/ZUMA President Donald Trump—a man with an unparalleled penchant for turning members of his inner circle—is now taking aim at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, according to NBC News. Trump reportedly blames Pompeo, long seen as one of his most loyal cabinet members, for the damning testimony delivered by a parade of State Department officials…
This Pipeline Cuts Across a Reservation. Wisconsin Might Make Tribal Members Felons for Protesting It.
Opponents of an aging oil pipeline that bisects the Straits of Mackinac plan to protest through the winter.Trevor Bach/The Washington Post This piece originally appeared in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. For more than 60 years, one section of Enbridge’s elaborate network of pipelines carrying petroleum across Canada has taken…