The Delicate Art and Evolving Science of Wildfire Evacuations
Residents evacuate along Sierra Highway in Canyon Country in the Tick fire in Canyon Country, CA October 24, 2019.David Crane/Getty This story was originally published by Wired and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the evening of October 23, in the middle of the kind of dry, windy night that has become more frequent and…
Is Chesa Boudin Radical Enough?
Chesa Boudin and his mother, Kathy Boudin, in the maximum security prison where she served her sentence for her involvement in the 1981 Brinks heist, which left three people dead.Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis via Getty Images “Look, I didn’t live through that time period,” Chesa Boudin says with a sigh. “I can’t imagine wanting to use violence…
Sherrod Brown Decided Not to Run for President. But He Has Big Ideas for How Democrats Could Take Back the Country.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) speaks at a culinary union hall in Las Vegas on February 23, 2019.John Locher/AP Sherrod Brown was going to run for president. But he wrote a book instead. Well, not exactly, the Ohio senator protests when I say as much. “I didn’t think, ‘Well, it’s a presidential primary and we gotta…
Republicans Keep Saying They Want to Question the Whistleblower. Now May Be Their Chance.
adrian825/Getty On Sunday morning, the lawyer for the whistleblower whose complaint is at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump said he has offered Republicans the chance to submit written questions directly to his client: WBer NEWS ALERT: 1/Our legal team offered GOP direct opportunity to ask written questions of #whistleblower. Recent GOP…
Trump Is in Denial About Getting Booed Again, This Time at a UFC Fight
Evan Vucci/AP Depending on where you were standing in Madison Square Garden last night when President Donald Trump walked in for a UFC fight, you might have heard overwhelming boos from the crowd around you. Or a smattering of cheers and applause. Or just blasting music from overhead. However, following the deeply satisfying videos of…
Trump Just Threatened to Pull Federal Funding From California Over its Handling of Fires. Again.
Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump, and Jerry Brown during the president’s visit of the Camp Fire in Paradise last year.Paul Kitagaki Jr/ZUMA Wire President Donald Trump just threatened to cut off federal funding to California over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “forest management,” which the president blamed for the wildfires that have ripped through wide swaths of the…