Trump Slashes Jobs in Solar Industry
Dong Naide/Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. America first, bitches: The Trump administration announced Monday that it would impose hefty tariffs on the cheap, imported panels that have driven the rapid expansion of solar power in the United States, a move that industry groups warned would slow the…
Devin Nunes Won’t Even Show His Infamous Memo to the Justice Department
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) won’t #releasethememo. The now infamous document was prepared by Republican staffers for the House Intelligence Committee, which is chaired by Nunes, and it supposedly details how the FBI…
Trump Just Announced a Plan that Could Cripple the Solar Industry
Olivier Douliery/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Despite President Trump’s best efforts in 2017 to make fossil fuels great again, solar has kept booming. But now comes bad news: Trump is slapping a 30 percent tariff on imported panels, a move that experts say is poised to hurt an industry that…
We Are All Just Overclocked Chimpanzees
Imago via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Having spent the weekend arguing about whose “fault” the government shutdown was, we have moved on. The government is back up and running and we’re now obsessed with who “won.” So who did win? Beats me. On the one hand, Democrats caved…
A Three-Day Shutdown Is About All West Point Can Handle
Lt. Col. Frederick Black instructs a class at the U.S. Military Academy, at West Point, N.Y., on April 21, 2017.Richard Drew/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, as federal agencies kicked off the first workday of the government shutdown, the United States Military Academy at West Point faced a…
Abortion Rights Didn’t Just Happen. Women Fought and Won.
Tom Reed/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story originally appeared on BillMoyers.com. I lived the first three and a half decades of my life in a world that for the vast majority of women today would be unimaginably brutal, like seeing a film in which a young girl is…