Philadelphia’s District Attorney Just Showed America’s Prosecutors How to End Mass Incarceration
Larry Krasner heads to his polling place to cast a ballot on Nov. 7, 2017. Matt Rourke Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Newly minted Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner was elected on a platform of bringing criminal justice reform to the office and attacking mass incarceration. Now Krasner, a former…
FEMA’s Plan for Dealing With Natural Disasters Is Missing the Two Most Important Words
People rescue a cat left behind in Vidor, Texas following Hurricane Harvey.Julie Dermansky/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In its first strategic plan following a tragic string of natural disasters—Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, the fires that ravaged California, and record-setting East Coast winter storms—the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) boldly dodged the…
Here’s the Real Reason the Japanese Don’t Buy American Cars
This is the only bowling ball test anyone has been able to uncover: a guest on the Dave Letterman show dropping bowling balls five stories onto an old car. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday we heard about the “bowling ball test.” According to Donald Trump, this is how the…
This is What a West Without Water Will Look Like
Kevin E. Schmidt/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Southwest United States is wrapping up an abnormally dry winter. Nearly all of Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and California are facing drought conditions in 2018. About a quarter of the West’s drinking water relies on melting snow, which has been in short…
This California City Is About to Put Big Oil’s Bad Science on Trial
Ariel Waldman/Flickr 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. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had a vision: Scientists would clash onstage in a televised debate over the already-established science of climate change as one side poked for weaknesses in the…
Donald Trump Boasts About Being an Idiot in Talks With Canada
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Even for Donald Trump, this is a weird story. Here’s the setup: President Trump boasted in a fundraising speech Wednesday that he made up information in a meeting with the leader of a top U.S. ally, saying he insisted to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…