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…
The Subtle But Important Significance of Today’s Supreme Court Decision on Racial Bias
Curtis Flowers’ attorney Sheri Johnson leaves the Supreme Court after oral arguments in March. J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the conviction of Curtis Flowers, a black man on death row in Mississippi, and found that the prosecutor who tried the case violated the Constitution by striking so many black jurors during…
Seething Senators Call Trump’s Environmental Plans Literally Toxic and “Dangerously off the Rails”
President Trump with EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in 2018.Win McNamee/Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Senate Democrats are charging that the Trump administration has gone “dangerously off the rails,” in failing to implement landmark legislation meant to protect people from toxic chemicals. In…
NYMag’s Trump Allegation Is a Clear Description of First-Degree Rape. Prosecution May Be Impossible.
Jim LoScalzo/AP On Friday morning, New York magazine published an explosive story from writer and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll alleging that President Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. The White House denied the story in a statement, calling Carroll’s allegations “a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years…
Armed Extremists Just Escalated Oregon’s Fight Over Climate Legislation
A member of the Three Percent militia in Indiana.Jeremy Hogan/SOPA/ZUMA The Three Percenters’ Oregon chapter has gotten involved in the Oregon standoff between Republican state senators, who fled the state to avoid the passage of cap-and-trade legislation, and the Democratic majority who wanted to put the measure to a vote. The paramilitary group, known for…
Felix Sater Wanted to Testify Publicly but Democrats Balked, Lawyer Says
Felix Sater on October 6, 2018 in New York City.Thos Robinson/Getty Images House Intelligence Committee Democrats rejected real estate developer Felix Sater’s request to testify publicly about his role in helping Donald Trump pursue a deal to put his name on a tower in Moscow, Sater’s lawyer said Friday. Instead, Democrats arranged for Sater to…