Stressed, Struggling, and Suicidal: America’s Farmers Are Begging for Mental Health Services
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Farmers’ advocacy groups called on Congress Monday to reauthorize, “with adequate funding,” a program that provides mental health services to distressed American farmers and their families. “Despite the growing need,” notes a letter to House and Senate agricultural committees signed by 36 rural and farming…
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s Portrait of America Is a Devastating Must-Read
Victoria Smith/eyevine/Redux Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back in 2012, Princeton professor Tracy K. Smith won a Pulitzer Prize for the poetry collection Life on Mars. But her highest distinction came last year, when Smith, 46, was named US poet laureate. Wade in the Water, her latest book, deftly covers…
Big Business is Gearing Up to Battle Trump’s New China Tariffs
Ivanov Artyom/TASS/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A coalition of major US business groups is ramping up its opposition to President Trump’s reported plan to impose new tariffs on Chinese imports, potentially focusing on telecommunications and technology. In recent days, officials at the US Chamber of Commerce, the Information…
Retired Four-Star General Calls Donald Trump a “Serious Threat” to National Security
Metzel Mikhail/TASS/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, a retired four-star Army general tweeted that President Donald Trump is a “serious threat” to national security. Barry McCaffrey, who worked as the White House’s drug czar during the Bill Clinton administration, said Trump is refusing to protect the United States from…
Donald Trump Just Lashed Out at Andrew McCabe Again on Twitter. This Time, James Comey Responded.
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump is still gloating about Andrew McCabe’s firing. On Saturday afternoon, the president tweeted that while he did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential election, high-ranking officials at the FBI, the Department of Justice, and State Department were involved in…
Donald Trump’s Rivals Lash Out Over “Cowardly” Firing of Deputy FBI Chief
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrats are laying into Donald Trump after he had Attorney General Jeff Sessions fire deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe late Friday night, only days before McCabe was set to retire with full benefits. While Trump considered it a victory, leaders on the other…