Bees Are Facing Yet Another Existential Threat
Honeybees pollinate more than $15 billion worth of fruits, nuts and vegetables a year, largely in California, according to the US Department of Agriculture.Frank May/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal and produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent nonprofit news…
Over the Past Five Weeks, Fair-Housing Advocacy Nearly Collapsed
Jitalia17/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During the government shutdown, in which 800,000 federal workers worked without pay or were furloughed for five weeks alongside 1.2 million federal contractors, the Department of Housing and Urban Development was shuttered, with 95 percent of its staff furloughed. The effects reverberated throughout the country. Programs like…
What the Roger Stone Indictment Left Out: How He Helped Russia Attack the 2016 Election
Lynne Sladky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Roger Stone, the conniving conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed dirty trickster whose motto is “admit nothing, deny everything,” was indicted Friday morning by special counsel Robert Mueller for allegedly lying to the House intelligence committee about his efforts to interact with WikiLeaks during the 2016…
Trump Shut Down the Government to Protect National Security. He Hurt It Instead.
RomanBabakin/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two days before President Donald Trump finally agreed to end the longest government shutdown in American history, federal employees were already sounding the alarm about the threat posed to national security. From airport employees to FBI agents, Trump’s insistence on security at the southern…
“We’re About to Make Pimps’ Jobs Real Easy”: The Shutdown Has Put Trafficking Victims in Harm’s Way
Favor_of_God/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At Courtney’s House, a Washington, DC, center for young sex trafficking survivors, founder Tina Frundt has been seeing kids every day who are afraid of the government shutdown. They’re worried, she says, that it is affecting the many services they sorely need. She spoke of one 19-year-old she works…
For Algorithmic Perfection, All You Need Is Tove Styrke and Ritual’s New Single
@blakexcharles/Tove Styrke/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: “Love Me Back” by Ritual and Tove Styrke (Island Records, 2019) Why we’re into it: This classic electronic-pop track is a master class in contrasting melancholy lyrics with upbeat production. Look, this song may sound exactly like “Closer” 2.0 in the way that it…