An Immodest Proposal for a Border Wall
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I had a dream last night about how to solve our government shutdown. Donald Trump wants a wall. Democrats want more housing. Robert Moses, the master builder of New York City, once had an idea that could combine these two things, but he never got…
Restoring Rights for 10 Percent of Potential Florida Voters
Phelan M. Ebenhack/The Washington Post Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. He did his time. Now, 14 years after being released from prison, Desmond Meade is registered to vote. Submitting his voter registration form last week, Meade described the moment as “very, very emotional.” And he has himself to thank: Meade led…
Trump’s Climate Plan Is a “Free Pass for Carbon Pollution”
Getty/VanderWolf-Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration’s replacement for the linchpin Obama-era plan to combat climate change would increase greenhouse gas emissions in much of the US more than doing nothing at all, according…
Who’s Afraid of Gillette?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today Gillette pre-released their Super Bowl ad in hopes that it would go viral and get everyone talking. Fine. They win. Here it is. It’s better to just watch it than it is for me to try to describe it: It’s a minute and a…
The House Votes to Reprimand Steve King for Racist Comments
Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday condemning comments that Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) had made about white supremacy—with even King himself voting for the measure, in an odd turn of events. It was a rare instance of unanimous agreement within…
Steve King Was Saying Insanely Racist Things Long Before Republicans Decided Enough Was Enough
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Iowa Rep. Steve King’s openly racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric has finally caught up with him. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to condemn the congressman, with a final vote of 424 to 1. The vote came just a…