What’s Trump Doing While Washington Honors John McCain?
President Donald Trump holds up a list of his administration’s accomplishments while speaking at a GOP fundraiser at the Carmel Country Club in in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. All of political Washington seems to be gathered at the National Cathedral for a memorial…
Stop Calling All South Asian Food “Curry”
JoeGough/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For many, the word “curry” conjures up the image of an Indian takeout restaurant. But in his book, Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race, Canadian author Naben Ruthnum asks that we challenge our perceptions of the dish. According to Ruthnum, a guest on the latest episode…
American Cities Lose 36 Million Trees a Year. But There’s a Radical New Plan to Save Them.
Elaine Thompson/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The evidence is in: Urban trees improve air and water quality, reduce energy costs, and improve human health, even as they offer the benefit of storing carbon. And in…
A Year After an Environmental Disaster in Texas, Chemical Company Faces a Reckoning
Godofredo A. Vasquez/Houston Chronicle via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hurricane Harvey struck southeast Texas last August with 130 mph winds and dumped more than 50 inches of rain across the region. In the aftermath of the second-costliest storm in recent American history, a Category 4 nightmare that left…
How the Trump Administration Went Easy on Small-Town Police Abuses
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, left, attends the 37th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service.Kevin Dietsch/Pool via CNP/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article was originally published by ProPublica. On a chilly morning in December 2016, 12-year-old Bobby Lewis found himself sitting in a little room at the police station…
Got Student Loans? Find Out How Much You’ll Really Pay.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More and more Americans are drowning in debt. About 44.7 million Americans currently have student debt, and in 2017 they owed more than $1.3 trillion in student loans—more than two and a half times what they owed 10 years earlier. Meanwhile, it takes them an…