Airlines Will Begin Reporting How Often They Break Wheelchairs, Thanks to Tammy Duckworth
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the closing weeks of the Obama administration, the Department of Transportation completed a years-long effort to begin holding airlines accountable for damaging passengers’ motorized wheelchairs and scooters. Then Donald Trump took office. Advocacy groups for people with disabilities say this happens…
We Need to Talk About Palm Oil
Last month, palm oil and its impacts became the story of the hour when the U.K. banned a stirring ad about the commodity from TV broadcast. The ad, which featured an animated orphaned orangutan and was released by British grocery store Iceland, was deemed too political for television. The ban triggered a flurry of interest…
Trump and the Fed: Who Cares?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I would just like to say that if a quarter of a point in interest rates either way has even the slightest effect on the economy, then we’re in big trouble. L’affaire Fed is much ado about nothing. It will have nothing more than the…
“There’s Nothing Left of This Town.” Paradise, California, May Never Come Back From the Ashes
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On an overcast afternoon, Phil Hughes pulls his truck into the driveway of what was once his home in Paradise, California, and starts sifting through the rubble. He notes where his couch used to be, the bedroom where his 10-month-old son would sleep, the kitchen,…
Know Your Memes, China Edition
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here is the latest meme sweeping the Chinese-speaking world: This is a mashup of the Chinese characters for dirt, poor, and ugly, and it’s the new rage among China’s millennials: Pronounced “qiou,” the new character can’t be produced on a keyboard. But its image, which…
Workers Describe How They’re Trying to Survive the Trump Shutdown
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a Christmas Day press conference, President Donald Trump told reporters that federal workers had signaled to him that they were happy to be furloughed or working without pay. But as the partial government shutdown enters its fifth day, federal workers, contractors, and…