Is Russia Using the GMO Debate to Troll Americans?
Andy Katz/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Genetically modified foods remain controversial for many reasons, but at this point, the majority of scientists view them as safe to eat. The rest of Americans aren’t so sure: According to a major poll conducted in 2015, 57 percent of the general public thought…
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The story of Wawarsing, New York, sounds a lot like the stories of small towns across the United States. Once a proud manufacturing hub known for producing high-quality knives in the Hudson Valley, its 150-year-old industry withered as companies were bought and sold, then squeezed for maximum profit until they packed up and moved…
Here’s the Video Steve Mnuchin Didn’t Want You to See
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at UCLA on February 26.UCLA/Burkle Center Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin probably didn’t expect to get a hard time when he visited the the University of California Los Angeles for a public conversation with Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal in late February. But…
The Trump Administration’s New Environmental Justice Adviser Has a Plutonium Problem
iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The New Republic and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One year ago, the man who founded the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice resigned. In a lengthy letter, Mustafa Ali asked newly sworn-in EPA Administrator…
California Bullet Train Now Up to $98 Billion, Completion Pushed to 2033
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The other shoe dropped today on the latest cost increase for California’s bullet train: The price of the California bullet train project jumped sharply Friday when the state rail authority announced that the cost of connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco would be $77.3 billion…
The NRA Just Sued Florida for Raising the Minimum Age to Purchase a Gun
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference.Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It only took a few hours for the NRA to sue Florida officials after Gov. Rick Scott signed a law that raised the minimum age…