Quote of the Day: EPA Says All Its Workers Must Pretend to Be Idiots
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the EPA’s official Scott Pruitt-approved talking points, emailed to all employees last night: While there has been extensive research and a host of published reports on climate change, clear gaps remain including our understanding of the role of human activity and what we can…
How the Officers Who Shot Stephon Clark May Have Violated the Department’s New Lethal Force Policy
Stevante Clark, the brother of Stephon Clark, holds a sign depicting his brother at protest on March 23.Paul Kitagaki/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Sacramento Police Department officers who fatally shot unarmed 23-year-old Stephon Clark in his grandparents’ backyard earlier this month may have violated several department policies governing conduct…
Meet Your New VA Secretary
Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. VA Secretary David Shulkin has been fired. That’s no surprise. He was an Obama holdover, so it’s a surprise Trump kept him in the first place. So who’s replacing him? A Heritage Foundation-approved ideologue who wants to privatize everything? Nope. The…
Here’s a Cheap Way of Getting More Low-Income Kids Into College
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Reihan Salam points today to an interesting paper written a couple of years ago. The question at hand is: how do we get more low-income students to go to college? Part of the answer is to get more low-income students to apply to college. And…
Real-Life Conversation Is Not Dead
Come on, talk to each other! Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at Vox, indefatigable interviewer Sean Illing speaks with Sherry Turkle, a technology skeptic (for lack of a better word) who worries that all our tech toys are doing more damage than we think: Illing: Her most recent book,…
How the EPA Abandoned This Polluted Town
A man holds a lump of coal ashJay Reeves/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The residents of Uniontown, a poor, majority-black town in rural Alabama, are used to being ignored by the federal government. For years they have fought against the Arrowhead landfill, a site that they say is negatively impacting the…