Pesticide Executives Are Running Ag Policy for Donald Trump
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For nearly 30 years, Ken Isley served in the legal department of Dow Agrosciences, the pesticide division of chemical giant Dow. Most recently, he held the positions of vice president, general counsel, and secretary at the company, and on Thursday, the Trump administration tapped Isley…
Philippe Reines Is Writing a Book
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Atrios doesn’t like Philippe Reines: One of the great mysteries of Clintonland is they both surrounded themselves with people who are truly horrible at their jobs. Perhaps no one could have gotten good coverage for Clinton given the weird psychosis she inspires in the political…
Donald Trump Is Pondering How to Help the Coal Industry
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump is desperate to help out coal miners, but the problem is that nobody wants coal these days. Old coal-fired generating plants are being shut down, and earlier this year the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission turned down a request to subsidize them. So now…
A Campaign Reporter Looks In the Mirror—And Isn’t Happy With What She Sees
Remember this?New York Times Magazine Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amy Chozick, who has covered Hillary Clinton on a daily basis for the New York Times since 2013, recounts what happened on Election Day when Clinton realized she wasn’t going to win: “I knew it. I knew this would happen…
There Is an Area of Plastic in the Ocean That’s Three Times the Size of France. This 23-Year-Old Thinks He Can Clean It Up.
Ocean Cleanup CEO Boyan SlatThe Ocean Cleanup/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, among the industrial warehouses and abandoned buildings on Alameda Island, just south of Oakland, California, a small team of engineers began the early stages of constructing “System 001.” Its bland name obscures the fact that System 001 is actually a…
Raw Data: Total Housing Units as Percent of Households
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