The Robots Really Are Coming. But in the Meantime, Let’s Not Go Crazy
This is just a harmless little “cleaning robot.” Sure it is.Kenjiro Matsuo/AFLO via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the weekend, I heard the name Andrew Yang for the first time. Who’s that? Well, he’s running for president, and as the New York Times points out, he’ll have plenty…
Trump Budget Proposal Is a Cry From the Conservative Id
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The new Trump budget is out. Let’s see. SNAP (food stamps) loses $17 billion. The Post Office loses $4 billion, primarily by giving them “the ability to address their expenses—including the cost of personnel.” In other words, by slashing pay and pensions. Low-income energy assistance…
Why Is Scott Pruitt So Obsessed With His Security?
Cheriss May/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post puts some numbers to a story that we’ve known for a while: EPA director Scott Pruitt flies first class a lot. He also has a much bigger security detail than most heads of cabinet-level agencies: On Monday, June…
Forget Infrastructure Week. Start Your Monday With the Obamas’ Official Portraits.
AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery unveiled the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama on Monday. The paintings were created by renowned artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively. They are the first African American artists to be commissioned by the gallery to paint…
Good News: There’s More Coverage of Climate Change. Bad News: It’s Because of Trump.
iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the good news: Coverage of climate change on the major broadcast networks increased substantially last year. The bad news? The vast majority of that coverage was driven by the policies and global warming denial of President Donald Trump. According to a new study…
Orange County Contrails: A Followup
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A week ago I posted a picture of some contrails that seemed like they were rising at a surprisingly steep angle. I got convinced pretty quickly that, in fact, this is just an optical illusion created by a plane coming around the curve of the…