Irish Citizens Are Going #HomeToVote on Abortion And It’s Warming Our Cold, American Hearts
Abortion rights campaigners protesting in London, UKClaire Doherty/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Ireland prepares to vote on a historic referendum that could legalize abortion in the deeply Catholic country, Irish citizens are flying home to cast their votes—and they’re using the now-trending hashtag #HomeToVote on social media to talk about it. The Irish…
Try to Guess Who’s the Least Charitable Toward Refugees
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump calls this a “fascinating detail,” but I call it totally unsurprising: If you meet up with an Evangelical white Republican man with a high school diploma—the main Fox News demographic—he’ll be almost certain to think we should tell these folks…
New Study Debunks a Popular Anti-Abortion Argument
fstop123/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Popular anti-abortion arguments hinge on the supposed negative impact the procedure will have on the woman: increasing the likelihood of breast cancer, which has been debunked, giving her PTSD, which has been debunked, or increasing her risk of suicidal ideation, which has now been thoroughly debunked. New research reveals that women who…
An Amazon Echo Recorded a Family’s Private Conversation and Sent It to Some Random Person
Don’t mind that giant internet-connected recording device on your kitchen table.Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In case you needed another reminder that Amazon’s Echo, an internet-connected recording device designed to listen and respond to verbal commands, can pose security and privacy risks for you…
The Kentucky House Majority Leader Wrote a Bill to Cut Teachers’ Pensions. A Teacher Just Beat Him at the Polls.
Travis Brenda, a teacher at Rockcastle County High School, defeated Jonathan Shell in a state House Republican primary on Tuesday. Wade Payne/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Kentucky passed a plan this spring that threatened the pensions of its future educators, thousands of teachers rallied outside the statehouse in…
This 70-Year-Old Republican Mayor Wants to Prove That His Small Southern Town Can Go Green
Abita Springs residents celebrate the commitment to 100% clean energy at Abita Springs Earth Fest 2017.George Long Photography Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last year, Mayor Greg Lemons counted every single street light in Abita Springs, Louisiana, and found there were 256. If his town of about 2,900 residents switched over to solar-powered lamps and LED…