These Artists Are Demanding More From Their Audiences
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Julia HolterAviaryDomino My Brightest DiamondA Million and OneRhyme & Reason Is it better to challenge your listeners or make nice with them? In recent years, Annie Clark (St. Vincent) and Merrill Garbus (Tune-Yards) have created more accessible music by tempering their eccentricities without abandoning the…
The Trump Administration Released a Damning Climate Report. Now Its Agencies Won’t Comment.
The Camp Fire tore through the town of Paradise in California in November. Credit Image: � Neal Waters/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities,” warns the very first…
Mississippi’s Absentee Ballot Deadline Is Nearly Impossible for Many Voters to Meet
Democrat Mike Espy and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith debate last week ahead of Tuesday’s runoff.Rogelio V. Solis/ AP Pool, File Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A day before Mississippi’s runoff election for US Senate on Tuesday, a national civil rights group sued the state’s governor and top election officials over stringent…
Is a Million-Dollar Drug Really That Expensive?
UniQure Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The usual story of high-priced drugs goes something like this: Company develops drug for semi-rare disease. Company sets really high price for drug because it can. Public outrage ensues. Company defends itself, citing high R&D costs etc. More outrage. Company shrugs, nothing happens. But…
Trump Dismisses His Own Administration’s Devastating Climate Change Report
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump on Monday appeared largely unimpressed by the dire warnings outlined in a recent scientific report issued by more than a dozen federal agencies, which, among its various conclusions, found that the United States is bound for economic disaster unless its reliance on…
Chart of the Day: Right-Wing Violence Soars During Trump Presidency
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