A Democrat in Farm Country Hopes to Beat One of Congress’ Biggest Racists
Democratic candidate J.D. Scholten meets with the public in the Milwaukee Train Depot in Jefferson, Iowa in the week before the June 5th primary. Scholten is running in Iowa’s 4th congressional district for the Democratic nomination to run against the Republican incumbent, Steve King in November.Dennis Chamberlin/FERN Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our…
Trump Gloats About Kim Jong Un’s “Very Nice” Letter, Then Says He Hasn’t Read It
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update: The White House says Trump has *now* read the letter. Right on. After abruptly canceling the planned summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un last month, President Donald Trump announced Friday that the high-stakes summit on June 12 in Singapore is back on. The reversal…
Trump Is Still Bragging About the Government’s Handling of a Hurricane That Killed More Than 4,600 Americans
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump has yet to comment on a devastating new study published by Harvard researchers this week estimating that 4,645 people died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria—more than 72 times what the Trump administration has officially acknowledged. The new death toll…
Trump’s Got a Crazy New Plan to Save the Dying Coal Industry
Michael Brochstein via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, 4:15 p.m.: President Trump has directed Energy Secretary Rick Perry “to prepare immediate steps to stop the loss” of coal and nuclear plants and prepare recommendations, according to a statement released Friday by the White House. While the Trump administration…
A Pro-Scientist Campaign Group is Attacking a Fellow Democrat
Hans Keirstead, left, and Harley Rouda at a candidate forum in Irvine, California, on May 22, 2018Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As California’s primary nears, a new ad is attacking one of the Democratic frontrunners seeking to unseat Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. The spot targeting businessman…
We’re Not Making Much Progress in Educating Our Black Kids
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bob Somerby has been highlighting education this week, and his main beef is with an article in the New York Times that says Chicago students have “learned the most” of any big-city school district. This is based on a study by Sean Reardon that shows…