Who Hates It When Disinformation Is Exposed?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. That Atlantic Council is a think tank of the great and good. It’s basically a centrist, mainstream organization dedicated to free trade, economic development, and generally strong relationships between America and Europe. It’s an apex organization, so to speak, with its senior members frequently being…
The New York Times Just Revealed a Second Trump Tower Meeting
Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last July, the New York Times was the first to reveal Donald Trump Jr.’s much-scrutinized Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin emissary who had promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Today, the Times followed up with another blockbuster report revealing that Trump Jr.…
One of The Country’s Most Powerful Police Chiefs Is Calling for Gun Control After the Texas School Shooting
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo at the March for Our Lives on March 24.David J. Phillip/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The evening after a gunman killed 10 people at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, Houston police chief Art Acevedo took to Facebook to write an impassioned plea…
New Study of Bitcoin’s Energy Use Makes You Libertarian Nerds Look Even Worse Than Usual
Artur Widak/NurPhoto/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bitcoin’s energy footprint has more than doubled since Grist first wrote about it six months ago. It’s expected to double again by the end of the year, according to a…
Missouri Is Making It Illegal To Call This “Meat”
nito100/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The United States’ beef and pork producers churned out 48.4 billion pounds of red meat in 2015, and made $9 billion exporting it around the world. Despite that success, they appear threatened by the growing number of meat alternatives cropping up in grocery stores.…
A $50,000-a-Night Underwater Hotel Room in the Maldives Shows How Oblivious We Are to Climate Change
Andrey Nekrasov/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a tiny nation that will likely be underwater due to sea level rise within the next century, an American luxury hotel chain is constructing an underwater hotel room that…