Cate Blanchett Just Led a Powerful Silent Protest for Gender Equity on the Cannes Red Carpet
Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, actress Cate Blanchett and 81 other women in film marched in silence on the red carpet to call out the lack of female directors selected for the world’s top festival. The women stopped halfway up…
Raw Data: Kids and Their Cars
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Twitter conversation last night reminded me that I meant to do a little more digging into car ownership to find out if millennials are really less likely to own cars than previous generations. For starters, here’s overall car ownership: Starting around 2003, car ownership…
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Just Dealt an Unexpected Blow to the NRA
President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas, on May 4.Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Late Friday night, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed a bill that would have let adults carry guns without training or a permit, striking a blow to the National Rifle…
Quote of the Day: Republicans Have a “Nonwhite” Problem
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. How can Republicans attract more young people to their party? Ramesh Ponnuru takes a crack at explaining: We can dwell on differing views of marijuana, same-sex marriage, and President Trump, or question whether conservative attitudes toward Millennials have been self-defeating. Those are all things worth…
Farmers Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet. This Controversial Policy Could Help.
The Dykstra Dairy Farm has been a fixture in Burlington, WA, for three generations of the Dykstra family. Conventional dairy farms have been struggling for years. Until recently, Dykstra said it seemed organic dairy farms were somewhat shielded from the volatility of the conventional market. Now, organic dairies are struggling alongside conventional dairies, further adding…
We’re Running Out of Clean Water. Bats Know Where to Find It.
Preliminary analyses suggest the long-tailed serotine (Eptesicus hottentotus) could indicate the presence of high-quality water in the northern Namib Desert. Theresa Laverty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Desert life depends on reliable access to water. In Namibia’s…