The UN Is Investigating the US for Potential Human Rights Violations. Trump Is Stonewalling.
President Trump makes a video call to service members at the White House on December 25, 2018.Zach Gibson/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration is no longer cooperating with United Nations investigators tasked with keeping an eye on human rights violations in the United States, according to a Friday…
Donald Trump Just Said Only “Criminals” Don’t Like the Wall. Actually, a Majority of Americans Don’t.
President Trump speaks in the Rose Garden after a meeting with Congressional leaders on border security on Jan. 4, 2019.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday morning, President Trump, as he is wont to do, took to Twitter to decry his typical targets: “fake” news, the Democrats, and…
Beto O’Rourke Says He’s “Supportive of the Concept” of a Green New Deal
The term surged into mainstream political discourse just two months ago when activists staged a protest in now–House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, demanding that the incoming Democratic majority in the House champion a sweeping climate policy to zero out greenhouse gas emissions and combat worsening income inequality. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) proposed a resolution to…
10 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Plastics Use in 2019
vovashevchuk/Getty 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. Plastic has become perhaps the most demonized material of the last 12 months, as the scale of pollution in the oceans becomes increasingly apparent. With dire predictions that if nothing is done there…
We Annotated the White House’s Wildly Misleading Border Security Briefing to Congress
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This Journalist Is About To Be Very Unpopular With Some Mother Jones Readers
Marijuana policy is a charged subject: “I know I’m going to fail,” Berenson says.Craig Geller Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a few years since Alex Berenson has “committed journalism,” as he like to say. As a New York Times reporter, Berenson did two tours covering the Iraq War,…