4 Black Women Leaders on Climate, Justice, and the Green “Promised Land”
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Black leaders have long been pioneers in protecting communities and the environment—from Harriet Tubman, who in the mid-1800s used her knowledge of the natural world to guide escaped slaves…
Raw Data: The US Inflation Rate Is Currently 1.5%
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In case you’re curious, here are the latest measures of inflation in the United States: CPI is the usual Consumer Price Index, the one you see reported in your newspaper every month. PCE is the Personal Consumption Expenditure price index, the one used by the…
This Is How the Age of Plastics Began
Milos Bicanski/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the closing months of World War II, Americans talked nonstop about how and when the war would end, and about how life was about to change. Germany…
The Surprising Benefits of Serving Prisoners Better Food
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Melinda BeckJose Villarreal remembers going to bed hungry most nights during his 10 years in solitary confinement at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison. Dinner might consist of mashed potatoes, bread, and a slice of processed meat—never with salt, and always cold. Shouting through air vents…
Sacramento Police Officers Will Not Be Charged for Killing Stephon Clark
Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie SchubertRich Pedroncelli/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Police officers in Sacramento, California, will not face charges for shooting and killing Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old unarmed black man last year, the county district attorney announced today. “Was a crime committed?” District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert…
Bernie Sanders Officially Kicks Off His 2020 Campaign With a Return to Brooklyn
Sen. Bernie Sanders arrives on stage before launching his 2020 presidential campaign in Brooklyn.Craig Ruttle/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont kicked off his second presidential campaign at a rally on Saturday just a few miles from the Brooklyn apartment where he grew up. He told…