This Is the Green New Deal’s Biggest Problem
Sprawl is made possible by highways. This is expensive—in 2015, the Victoria Transport Policy Institute estimated that sprawl costs America more than $1 trillion a year in reduced business activity, environmental damage, consumer expenses, and other costs. Leaving aside the emissions from the 1.1 billion trips Americans take per day (87 percent of which are taken in…
She Started Selling Abortion Pills Online. Then the Feds Showed Up.
Alvaro Dominguez Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For two years, before she headed off to her full-time job as a web developer, or after she put her daughter to bed at night, Ursula Wing ran a business selling abortion pills from the bedroom of her New York City apartment. The…
Donald Trump Still Doesn’t Understand Climate Change Science
Olivier Douliery/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I regret to you inform you that the president of the United States still does not understand climate change or the science behind our warming planet. On Sunday at a rally in Minneapolis, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced she’s running for president. In her…
Trump’s Chief of Staff Says Another Government Shutdown Might Be Unavoidable
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In late January, Congress put an end to the longest government shutdown in history with a three-week spending bill and a promise to return to bipartisan talks for a long-term deal. But on Sunday, Trump officials and Republican leaders were uncertain that another shutdown could…
Shutdown Talks Stall Over Detention Beds
Brendan Fitterer/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. So how are the shutdown talks going? Apparently we’ve moved past the funding for a wall, so you’d think it would be pretty smooth sailing now. But apparently not: The talks this weekend snagged over the issue of how many detention…
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Just Said That He Won’t Resign
Steve Helber/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam has been facing calls to resign since a photo of a man in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan hood in his medical school yearbook surfaced earlier this month. After apologizing for the photo, then backtracking and…