Most Republicans Couldn’t Care Less About the Manafort Conviction and Cohen Plea
In these 2018 file photos, Paul Manafort leaves federal court in Washington, left and attorney Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York. The one-two punch ahead of the midterm elections _ the plea from former Trump lawyer Cohen and the fraud conviction of one-time campaign chairman Manafort _ is presenting the biggest loyalty test…
Should We Relocate Species That Can’t Keep Up With Climate Change?
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Like many Westerners, giant sequoias came recently from farther east. Of course, “recent” is a relative term. “You’re talking millions of years (ago),” William Libby said. The…
Bad Historical Analogies, Superdelegate Edition
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What the Hell Is Going On In West Virginia?
wesvandinter/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, Republicans in West Virginia impeached the state’s entire Supreme Court, a first in US history, over a scandal involving allegations of wasteful spending, poor administrative decisions, and criminal misconduct. Now the state’s governor, a Republican, has appointed two Republican lawmakers to temporarily serve…
Raw Data: Rental Prices in Orange County
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s another chart that makes a point I didn’t have room for in this morning’s post on urbanization. It’s an example of why I consider urbanization per se a modest problem compared to everything else on the progressive agenda. It’s a little busy (sorry) but…
Unions Just Scored a Win Against the Trump Administration
Union activists and supporters rally in Lower Manhattan in June.Karla Ann Cote/NurPhoto/Sipa USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Unions just scored a victory against the Trump administration, which has steadily been working to weaken the power of organized labor. A federal judge in Washington on Friday struck down most provisions of…