Scott Pruitt Has Laid Bare the Growing Environmental Schism Within Christianity
Gage Skidmore/Flickr 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. Pope Francis sparked a media frenzy in 2015 with the release of his second encyclical, Laudato Si. One of the highest forms of official Catholic Church teaching, the…
Report: Trump Administration Making Controversial “Expedited Plans” for Utah’s Grand Staircase
Mint Images/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Federal authorities at Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument are moving forward to create new plans for managing the area, despite several legal challenges to the monument’s boundaries. Conservationists say they are…
Politics Doesn’t Have to Be Dire. Meet the Young, Smart, and Openly Trans Leader Making the Future Brighter.
B. Proud Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At 27, Sarah McBride has already made LGBT history. In 2016, she became the first openly transgender person to address a major party’s nominating convention, taking the stage just hours before Hillary Clinton. Before that, as an intern, she was the first openly trans…
President Trump is Sullen, Isolated, Abandoned, and Alone
Bruce R. Bennett/The Palm Beach Post via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. How is our president doing these days? Here’s a quick summary from media reports: Washington Post: Angry and increasingly isolated … fumes … voices frustration … revives old grudges … seethed with anger … raging … venting…
A Philando Castile Charity Just Wiped Out School Lunch Debt in His Old District
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thousands of school kids in Minnesota can now eat school lunches without incurring more debt, thanks to Philando Castile. Castile was a popular school nutrition supervisor in St. Paul before he was shot and killed by police in July 2016. Since his death, which was…
Donald Trump Has Spent Nearly a Quarter of His Days as President at His Golf Courses
Patrick Semansky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The National Rifle Association is pissed, the White House’s battle-tested communications staff is reeling, and hundreds of thousands of young immigrants are worried about how their lives will change on Monday. But Donald Trump keeps on golfing! With his appearance Saturday at his Palm…