Escaping a Wildfire and Fighting to Stay Here
Luis, a DACA-recipient, lost his home when the Tubbs Fire swept through Santa Rosa on October 8th. Brian L. Frank When he first smelled smoke, Luis just thought a neighbor was having a barbecue. But the scent lingered, and the 25-year-old aspiring neuroscientist soon learned that a forest fire was barreling straight toward his home in…
Here’s How NYC Is Storm-Proofing Its Parks
Vistiors at the Brooklyn Bridge ParkMary Altaffer/AP This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. New York City’s parks are green oases amid glass, concrete, and steel. But though they feel transportive, they’re often not far away from the city’s edge—and particularly those parts of the city’s silhouette that are…
While You Were Shopping, Trump Set Off a Civil War at a Consumer Protection Agency
Alex Edelman/Zumapress Washington remains fairly quiet over the Thanksgiving weekend, but the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)—the financial watchdog agency championed by Wall Street critic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and loathed by some Republicans—is in the middle of a major power struggle triggered by President Trump. The back-and-forth began last week, when Richard Cordray, the Obama-appointed director of the CFPB, announced…
Trump’s War on the Environment Is a Civil Rights Emergency
Children play basketball in Port Arthur, Tex. neighborhoodDavid Goldman/AP This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration’s dismantling of environmental regulations has intensified a growing civil rights battle over the deadly burden of pollution on minorities and low-income people. Black, Latino, and disadvantaged people have…
What Does a Yellow Light Mean? Now Updated With Responses!
I blew it. Sorry. It turns out that SurveyMonkey allows only 100 reponses to their free surveys. The cheapest option that would allow me to retrieve all the responses costs $408, and as much as I cherish my readers, that’s a little steep for a crummy little web survey joke. However, here are the results…
So Where Are We? One of the Most Brilliant and Intense People I’ve Ever Known Has Some Answers.
Mother Jones illustration I first met Lawrence Joseph in Detroit in 1980 when he was a law professor at the University of Detroit and I was a student at his alma mater, the University of Michigan. He was intense and brilliant, and although his profession may have been law, his true identity was that of…