Here’s Why Republicans Are Hellbent on Passing an Unpopular Tax Bill
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican tax bill is massively unpopular. It polls at about 30 percent approval—the worst showing of any major bill in recent history—and doesn’t crack 50 percent even among Republicans. And yet, the GOP leadership is hellbent on passing it. What’s going on? Bear with…
Arctic Temperatures Are Rising So Fast Computers Don’t Believe They’re Real
Early this month, while preparing a report on US climate, experts at the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) noticed something odd: They were missing data from Utqiaġvik for all of 2017, and some of 2016. It turns out the temperatures recorded at Utqiaġvik over that time were warmer than had ever seen before. So…
10 Albums to Help You Heal From the Trauma of 2017
Justina Mintz/AMC Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Reality has been pretty hard to handle—and impossible to escape—this past year. But sometimes we just need a break, a pause to refresh the spirit for the challenges ahead or to remind us that this too shall pass, however dire things may seem.…
I Have a List of Replacements for the CDC’s 7 Banned Words
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration has banned the Centers for Disease Control from using seven specific words. Unfortunately they haven’t yet offered the CDC’s scientists replacement words. I’m here to help: Everyone happy now?
This Republican Keeps Humiliating Trump’s Judicial Nominees
June 6, 2017 – Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.© Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a hearing this week for six of President Trump’s judicial nominees, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) simply humiliated one of the potential judges. He asked Matthew Spencer Petersen a few questions that should be basic for anyone…
The Final Republican Tax Bill Screws Over Puerto Rico
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Friday that Republicans’ decision to leave a pair of provisions in the tax reform legislation that experts say will hammer Puerto Rico’s already struggling economy was “unconscionable.” “It is devastating and unconscionable that Congress would…