Looking Back on Ryan Zinke’s Reign Over 500 Million Acres of Public Land
William Campbell-Corbis via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who is departing Jan. 2 amid multiple ethics investigations, leaves a legacy of widespread attacks on science. Zinke was in charge of balancing protection of national parks, endangered species, waterways and other resources with public uses on 500 million…
How to Hand Out Free Money
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On a gray afternoon in Juneau, 36-year-old Kristen Hemlock sat on her bed picking at a cold McDonald’s chicken sandwich, waiting for the checks to arrive. Her four-year-old son, Eli, chubby and dimpled, lay on his stomach on a bottom bunk two feet away, distracting…
Report: The GOP Economic Outlook for Arctic Wilderness Drilling Is a “Pipe Dream”
The report, published Wednesday by conservation nonprofit The Wilderness Society, comes as the Trump administration weighs a proposal to allow seismic surveys in the refuge. The surveys would be a key first step in the administration’s push to approve drilling leases as early as 2019. Late last year, GOP lawmakers passed a wildly unpopular tax…
These 13 Words Defined Our Overheating Planet in 2018
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every December, dictionary editors hunt through all the words in our growing lexicon to pluck out the ones that best capture the spirit of the fading year. The top choices from 2017…
Here’s a Little More About That Referee Who Forced a Black Wrestler to Cut His Dreads
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few days ago, this video went viral: No, not the epitome of a team player. It’s a kid dealing with a racist ref (dreds gave him no advantage) who was humilated and seemed devastated even after his win. His team shoot have sttod up…
Here Are the People Trump Said the Death Penalty Should Be Used Against This Year
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the last year, President Donald Trump has repeatedly emphasized the death penalty in televised speeches, statements, and tweets. Sometimes, it was invoked in reference to certain groups, like drug dealers; other times, the president applied it to a specific…