America’s Largest Doctor’s Group Calls for a Ban on Assault Weapons
CherriesJD/Getty/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The biggest group of physicians in the US called for a ban on assault weapons this week, reiterating that gun violence is a serious public health crisis and decrying proposals by the Trump administration to arm school teachers. Though many members of the American Medical…
Protesters Blast Mike Pence for “Ripping Children From Their Families”
Natacha Pisarenko/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Outrage continues to rise around the country about the Trump administration’s forced separation of immigrant children from their parents. On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence was interrupted during a tax reform speech in Columbus, Ohio, by protesters who heckled him about the detention…
What If We Held a Constitutional Convention and the Right-Wingers Prevailed?
Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nature’s rights, universal basic income, keeping money out of politics: These are some of the principles guiding a coalition of left-wing Californians who want to serve as the “progressive voice” at a convention—which they believe is inevitable—to amend the United States Constitution.…
I Didn’t Want to Watch “Dear White People” Because I Lived It
Cast of Netflix’s Dear White People pose with creator Justin Simien at Hollywood premiere.Matt Sayles/AP Images/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It took me a while to watch Dear White People, mostly because I lived it. I was a freshman in college in the spring of 2004 when a…
The Parents of Seth Rich Are Suing Fox News Over Murder Conspiracy
Richard Drew/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The parents of Seth Rich, the 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer who was shot to death in 2016 and whose killing was twisted into a vast and winding conspiracy by the far right, have filed a federal lawsuit against Fox News, a Fox News reporter,…
Inside the Right-Wing YouTube Empire Trying to Turn Millennials Conservative
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mark UlriksenIn the weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Americans flocked to the internet with pressing questions. Some inquired about immigration to Canada. Others Googled “sanctuary city.” A few wanted to know what a “manafort” was. And millions were newly curious about the Electoral…