Trump Failed to Repeal Obamacare. Now Maine Voters Are Deciding Whether to Expand It.
Michael Parent, left, gets instructions on submitting his ballots while voting November 7, 2017, in Portland, Maine.Robert F. Bukaty/AP When all the votes are counted from Tuesday’s elections, a little-known ballot initiative in Maine could prove to be one of the most consequential contests—impacting the health care received by tens of thousands of people and showing how voters…
Bundy Legal Team Includes a Birther, an Alleged Ponzi Schemer, and an Ex-White Supremacist
Cliven Bundy near his ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, in 2015.David Becker/ZUMA Opening statements start on Tuesday in the trial of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and three others involved in the 2014 armed standoff with federal law enforcement. As with the standoff itself, the Bundys’ criminal case has drawn an unusual and eclectic bunch of people to…
Who Gets a Tax Hike? Here Are the Top Ten and Bottom Ten States.
Last night I showed you some estimates from ITEP about how many households were likely to face a tax hike thanks to the Republican tax bill. As it happens, ITEP also has estimates for each state, so I took a look at the numbers for middle-class households with incomes between $40-65,000. That’s smack in the…
Inside the Bold New Animal Liberation Movement: No Masks, No Regrets, All the Risk
Mother Jones; Direct Action Everywhere When Julianne Perry first met the calf this summer, the animal was lying listlessly in a wooden crate on top of narrow slats, caked in her own dried diarrhea. Maggots crawled on her body. Just a few days old, she was emaciated. As she tried to get up, her knees…
28 Doctors Say This Man Is Mentally Ill. Arkansas Is Going to Execute Him Anyway.
Jack Greene appears before the state parole board in October.Kelly P. Kissel/KTHV-TV/AP Jack Greene is set to be the first man executed in Arkansas since April, when Arkansas executed four inmates in an eight-day span. Even though Greene suffers from a severe mental illness, his execution for the 1991 murder of Sidney Burnett is scheduled for November 9. Scott Braden, one of…
Is the US Fanning the Flames of the World’s Largest Humanitarian Catastrophe?
Smoke rises after Saudi-led airstrikes hit a food factory in Sanaa, Yemen, in August 2016.Hani Mohammed/AP “We saw people shredded to pieces, some with no head, no hands,” a man told a Human Rights Watch researcher two weeks after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a crowded marketplace in Mastaba, Yemen, in March 2016. The strike,…