Joe Biden Touted His Abortion Rights Record at a Planned Parenthood Event. His History Tells a Different Story.
Democratic candidate Joe Biden speaks during the Poor People’s Moral Action Congress forum for presidential candidates at Trinity Washington University on Monday, June 17, 2019.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call At a Planned Parenthood candidate forum featuring most of the 2020 Democratic candidates on Saturday, former Vice President Joe Biden was adamant that he’s never waffled as…
Trump Smacks Iran With New Sanctions
President Donald Trump makes remarks to the press as he departs the White House for a weekend at the presidential retreat at Camp David.Mike Theiler/AP President Trump announced that the United States will impose new sanctions on Iran next week as a potential military confrontation between the two countries looms. The president made his announcement…
Kellyanne Conway’s Husband Says Rape Allegations Against Donald Trump Need to Be Treated Seriously
Mike Theiler/CNP/ZUMA A day after New York magazine published a bombshell story by journalist E. Jean Carroll that detailed when President Donald Trump raped her in the mid-1990s, the husband of one of Trump’s most prominent aides published an op-ed saying that his fellow Republicans should take the rape accusation seriously. In a Washington Post op-ed, George…
Trump Wants Your Employer to Ditch Its Health Care Plan
Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA For years, opponents of Obamacare have been exercised by President Obama’s supposed “Lie of the Year” for 2013: If you like your health care plan, you can keep it. This turned out to be untrue in a specific sense: you could keep your plan if your insurance company continued to offer…
Protesters Want Mayor Pete to Address Racial Violence in His Hometown. On the Campaign Trail, He’s Dodging the Issue.
Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during a forum on Friday, June 21, 2019, in Miami.Brynn Anderson In one of his first appearances back on the campaign trail since a white police officer shot and killed a black man in his city, South Bend mayor and 2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg…
Climate Change Isn’t Only Changing the Course of History, It’s Making History Itself Harder to Study
The Farasan Islands in the Red Sea some 30 miles offshore from Saudi Arabia. Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you like clams, you’re not alone. For the past 164,000 years, people have used shellfish as a food source. We know this thanks to shell…