Too Young to Vote—But Too Riled Up to Stay Quiet
Students from the Arizona March for our Lives group at a rally in March. Courtesy of Jordan Harb High schoolers across the country are leading voter registration efforts—even though some are too young to head to the polls themselves. Some of these new organizers, like 17-year-old Jordan Harb of Arizona, were energized to call for tighter gun…
Study: Brett Kavanaugh Inevitably Rules for Whoever Is More Powerful
President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, departs after meeting with Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee which will oversee his confirmation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brett Kavanaugh, President…
No One Knows How Big the Prison Strike Is, But Organizers Are Already Calling It a Success
LightFieldStudios/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For weeks, the outside organizers of the nationwide prison strike that kicked off last Tuesday had been spreading the word that inmates in at least 17 states had pledged to protest prison conditions over 19 days. The plan was for thousands of prisoners to…
Kids With Cognitive Problems Can Be Locked Up for Years Without a Trial
holwichaikawee/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By the time he turned 15, Jesus G. was hearing voices and having suicidal thoughts. It was early 2013, and he’d been living at the Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles for more than a year, though he’d never been tried or found guilty…
Was Your UTI Triggered By Raw Chicken?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When you think about food poisoning, your mind probably turns to stomach aches and other digestive troubles. But there’s mounting evidence that bacterial pathogens, particularly some strains of E. coli commonly carried on poultry, can also cause a common ailment we don’t normally associate with…
Republicans and the Russell Building
Would you buy a used Senate office building from this man? Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m curious about something. A few hours after John McCain’s death, Sen. Chuck Schumer proposed renaming the Russell Building after McCain. Am I the only person in the world who assumed this was a…