“It’s a Nightmare”: Americans’ Health Is at Risk as the Shutdown Slashes the EPA
Employees of the Environmental Protection Agency examine runoff and test for PCB levels in Minden, West Virginia.Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post/Getty 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 US government shutdown has stymied environmental testing and inspections,…
Steve Mnuchin Briefed Congress on Why He Dropped Sanctions on Russian Companies. It Didn’t Go Well.
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin gave lawmakers a classified briefing late Thursday to explain why the Trump administration has decided to drop sanctions against companies owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. But far from placating Democratic lawmakers, he seems to have angered them. Deripaska, a…
Stream “Juice” by Lizzo Right Now, You Cowards
Lizzo/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: “Juice” by Lizzo (Nice Life Recording Company, 2019) Why we’re into it: Unapologetic and in-your-face, “Juice” is proof that making bad music isn’t in Lizzo’s vocabulary. The Minneapolis-based flutist is starting 2019 with a retro-glam-pop (isn’t that a thing?) song that is funky, fun, and extremely danceable. From the first…
Trump’s Border Wall Land Grab Makes No Sense for Conservatives Who Hate Eminent Domain
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On January 4, speaking from the Rose Garden, President Donald Trump threatened to declare a state of emergency so he could use a “military version of eminent domain” to start seizing private land along the southern border to build a wall he…
The Evil Dex Is Better Than a Swiss Watch
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Evil Dex is amazing stuff.¹ I swear, it has an atomic clock built in. I take it on Monday at about 8 am, and a whole series of side effects then starts to kick off on a very precise schedule. How precise? Well, the…
North Carolina Pre-K Shows Benefits All the Way Through Age 14
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two years ago a team of researchers at Duke University published a study of North Carolina’s “More at Four” pre-K program, a state-funded program for “high-risk 4-year-old children, with risk defined as annual family income at or below 75 percent of the state median, limited…