Trump’s Budget Cuts Are Forcing Teachers and Nurses to Work as Federal Prison Guards
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Twice in one week, Ray Coleman, a teacher at the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution, reluctantly had to drop his lesson plans and go to work as a guard. “You show up in the morning and they say, ‘Hey, by the way,…
We Should Ban Semi-Automatic Firearms
Beretta Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m not generally on the gun control beat, but I’ll repeat my view for the record: semi-automatic weapons should be banned for civilian use. Basically, shotguns, revolvers, and bolt-action rifles would remain legal, and that’s it. The last time I mentioned this, a bunch…
The US Is Set to Execute Three People in a Single Day
The execution chamber in TexasPat Sullivan/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After its 1996 high, when 315 people were executed in the United States, the death penalty has been steadily on the decline. Just 23 people were executed last year in 8 states—the second fewest executions in the last 25 years. And while…
Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins Just Released Something Beautiful
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Album ReviewI’m With HerSee You AroundRounder There are plenty of reasons to love See You Around, the sparkling collaboration of veteran solo artists Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins. The acoustic musicianship is wonderfully virtuosic, yet nicely understated, with plenty of bracing fiddle and…
A Cave in China Is Filled with Exotic Plants that Shouldn’t Be There—But Researchers May Have Figured Out Why
Yangzi Cave, Guangxi, China. Monro et al. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From Plato to Polyphemus, caves have long been literary symbols of the mysterious and the unknown. And in the real world, they often live up…
Can These Stoneman Douglas High School Students Finally Break the Gun Control Deadlock?
ABC News Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Five students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, made their way through all the major morning talks shows Sunday, appearing on NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, and CNN. They announced nationwide marches for gun control next month and ripped politicians, including President…