“Holy Shit. This is Dangerous:” Nixon, a Soviet Bomb Test, and a Top-Secret Climate Study
dzika_mrowka/iStock/Getty 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. On March 23, 1971, the Soviet Union set off three Hiroshima-scale nuclear blasts deep underground in a remote region some 1,000 miles east of Moscow, ripping a massive crater in the…
I Can’t Stop Looking at These Street Photos of Tiny Toys
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I started following my old friend Jeremy LaCroix on Instagram a while back, and that’s when I realized he has a major toy fetish. Jeremy, whose nom de guerre is Jerry Business, has been posting a long series of stylized photos of tiny toy people…
This National Enquirer Cover About Michael Cohen Is Amazing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The National Enquirer, which endorsed Trump during his campaign, is coming out hard against Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen in an upcoming issue. Here’s the cover: Michael Cohen makes the National Enquirer pic.twitter.com/Bsg3Z1iUZS — Jack Shafer (@jackshafer) April 28, 2018 The tabloid is among the national media…
More Than 60 Female Media Professionals Pen Letter In Support of Tom Brokaw Amid Sexual Harassment Claims
Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly 65 female media professionals have signed a letter in support of famed NBC Nightly News host Tom Brokaw amid recent allegations that he acted inappropriately towards two female co-workers in the 1990s. “As professional women, we fully endorse the conversation around abuse of power in the…
In Non-Shocking News, American Automakers Screw Up Yet Again
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Having now griped about the LA Times, here’s the story that kicked off today’s griping. It took a while, but I finally found it online: The Trump administration is speeding toward all-out war with California over fuel economy rules for cars and SUVs, proposing to…
I Have a Beef With the LA Times
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today is pet peeve day. Keep in mind that a pet peeve is something that (a) bugs me but (b) the rest of you don’t care about, and (c) I have to gripe about anyway. So here it is: On the left is today’s print…