Mexico Is Sending Hundreds of Firefighters to Help Battle Blazes in Canada
Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by National Observer. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Mexico has deployed over 300 of its firefighters and technicians to Ontario during the past two weeks, to help battle forest fires menacing the province.…
We Asked a California Water Expert to Make Sense of Donald Trump’s Moronic Wildfire Tweets
President Donald Trump at a White House “Made in America” showcase in July 2017 Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With California’s latest wildfires claiming a seventh victim Sunday, President Donald Trump has yet to tweet condolences to those affected by these catastrophic and all-too-familiar disasters. Several thousand…
In New York, Capitalism Has Become Too Much of a Good Thing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Support for free market capitalism has its limits, and those limits always tend to be the same: When capitalism gets so free that it starts to affect me, I don’t like it so much anymore. For example, when Uber drivers were only destroying the livelihoods…
Betsy DeVos Is Making Life Harder for Students Screwed Over by Predatory For-Profit Schools
United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in July.Olivier Douliery/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Under the Obama administration, the Education Department made it a top priority to curtail predatory practices by for-profit colleges. It investigated and sanctioned schools…
With the Election Over, Trump Doesn’t Care About Vets Anymore
Donald Trump and new VA Secretary Robert Wilkie. So far, the Trump administration has been too busy trying to obsessively outsource care to its private sector pals to bother giving any thought to how service might be improved.Mark Wilson/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back in 2016 Donald…
Beyoncé Discusses Difficult Childbirth and Embrace of Her New Body
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, Vogue unveiled its September issue featuring Beyoncé who, as reported, had “unprecedented control” over her images and accompanying interview. The history-making issue, which features the first black photographer to shoot the magazine’s cover, offers a handful of candid personal details from the notoriously private singer, including her…