It’s Not Just Kobach: Three Vote-Suppressing Secretaries of State Are Overseeing Their Own Elections
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach talks to reporters the day before the Republican primary in Kansas.Shelly Yang/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tuesday’s too-close-to-call Republican primary election for Kansas governor has plunged the state into an ethics crisis. Secretary of State Kris Kobach emerged with a 121-vote lead over…
This Exceptional Novel Was Pecked Out on a Prison Typewriter by an Iraq Veteran Turned Bank Robber
A Medevac crew near Tikrit, Iraq, November 2005.Jacob Silberberg/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The author page reads simply, “Nico Walker lives in Kentucky. Cherry is his first novel.” Walker, 33, wanted it that way. What the bio doesn’t say is that his Kentucky abode is a federal prison. Or…
Air Pollution Denial Could Become EPA Policy
Xinhua News Agency/GettyImages Contributor Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Much of the Republican Party has long denied the science of climate change—that humans are causing the planet to warm. They’ve been less willing, historically, to deny…
The Trump Administration Finally Has a Plan to Reunite Separated Migrant Children with Deported Parents
Protesters gathered in Bowling Green on July 31 to demand that DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Vice President Mike Pence reunite separated families. Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration finally has a plan to reunite the hundreds of migrant children whose parents were…
A Court Finally Forced the Government to Ban this Gnarly Neurotoxic Pesticide
Crop sprayer spraying pesticides on crops in field.simonkr/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last March, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt abruptly reversed the agency’s own proposal to ban chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxic pesticide widely used by US farmers. Yesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals finally ordered the EPA to…
Whose Economy Will Trump Take Aim at Next?
Depo Photos via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump appears to be on a mission to either destroy or damage the economies of China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey. I assume he’s thinking that this is all a zero-sum game, and if they do badly the United States will…