Raising the Aspirations of the Young: Is It Always a Good Thing?
Sandy Huffaker/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tyler Cowen tells a story from back when he was Graduate Director of Admisstions at George Mason University: One of my favorite strategies was to take strong candidates who applied for Masters and also offer them Ph.D admissions, suggesting they might to do…
This Week the Supreme Court Will Decide If 21 Teens Can Sue the Government Over Climate Change
The plaintiffs in a landmark climate change lawsuit line up with their lawyers in July after a hearing in federal court in Oregon.Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Less than three months ago, the Supreme Court allowed a landmark climate change lawsuit against the federal government to…
Trump Threatens to Cut Off Aid to Central America Over Migrant Caravan
The migrant caravan approaches the Guatemala-Mexico border on October 19.John Moore/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump claimed Monday without evidence that “unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” with the caravan of Central American migrants heading toward the United States from southern Mexico. Trump followed up by tweeting…
The Midterms Have the Power to Usher in an Era of Climate Action
James Victore; Source: T-Rex: Turbosquid; Trump: Dominic Reuter/Reuters Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the most important thing to know about climate politics in this critical election year: How fast we act decides the future we get. Of course, climate politics seems to be about many things, things that this…
More Than a Dozen Candidates Linked to #MeToo Allegations Will Appear on the November Ballot
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Incumbents The Challengers Sherrod BrownDemocrat, Senate, Ohio Brown’s ex-wife, Larke Recchie, filed a restraining order against Brown in the 1980s while the two were in the middle of a contentious divorce. In related court records, Recchie alleged that Brown had…
Republicans’ War Against Obamacare Could Cost Them This Arkansas House Seat
Clarke Tucker faces an uphill battle to unseat incumbent Rep. French Hill (AR-02).Thomas Metthe/ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While Republican politicians have lately been backtracking their positions on pre-existing conditions, deep in the heart of Trump Country a Democratic politician is anchoring his congressional campaign on his personal story…