Exclusive Interview With Guy Who Just Emerged From Wreckage of Trump Park Service
Matthew Brown/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Jan. 15, nine of 12 members of the National Park System Advisory Board sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announcing their resignation, effectively…
The Government Will Almost Certainly Shut Down After Failed Vote
Ting Shen/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The federal government will almost certainly shut down starting midnight tonight, following the failure of last-minute budget negotiations to create a stopgap solution to protect the nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers. The nail-biting showdown coincides with the first anniversary of President…
A New Report Shows How the Trump Administration Is Targeting Asylum Seekers
Customs and Border Patrol agents pick up immigrants suspected of crossing into the United States illegally along the Rio Grande near Granjeno, Texas, in August 2017. Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Trump issued an executive order last January to make the criminal prosecution of immigration offenses a “high…
This Serial Campus Rape Case Is a Textbook Example of the Struggle Accusers Face in Court
John Hart/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few weeks into the fall 2016 semester at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a student was pedaling down a road near campus when she nearly hit Alec Cook with her bike. Cook was 20 years old and a real estate major, and he…
Men and Women View the Seriousness of Sexual Assault About the Same
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a massive set of complex calculations, I now have the results of the sexual assault survey broken down by gender. And it’s genuinely interesting! Here’s the chart: Of the 2,019 responses, about 80 percent were men and 20 percent were women. In general women…
The Women’s March Never Ended. These Stats Prove It.
John Middlebrook/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A year ago, on the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, millions of people flooded the streets in protest. The Women’s March, which took place in dozens of cities and towns across the country, is believed to have been the largest single-day demonstration in US…