Voting in Midterm Elections for the First Time? We Want to Hear From You.
hermosawave/iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The 2018 midterm elections are shaping up to be some of the most closely-watched races in years. While Republicans currently control the House, Senate, and the White House, the midterms could shift the balance of power in Congress, which would significantly influence whether…
An Old Anti-Irish Law Is at the Heart of Trump’s Plan to Reshape Legal Immigration
An 1893 cartoon titled “Looking Backward” depicts the irony of American immigrants turning away additional newcomers. The caption reads, “They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over.” Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Boston’s 1845 census grouped the home countries of the city’s indigent…
New Documents Show the Trump Administration Cut Climate Change Impacts from its Energy Plan
Aaron Lavinsky/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thus far, the Trump administration has seemed to make it a point to ignore the very real threat of global warming in its policy and unabashedly censor climate science on government websites, reports, and speeches. It should come as a shock to no one, then, that the administration’s recent rollback…
As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape and Even Suicide
Lydia Fu for ProPublica Illinois Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was published in partnership with ProPublica Illinois. One 16-year-old from Guatemala said he wanted to “quitarme la vida,” or “take my life away,” as he waited to be released from a Chicago shelter for immigrant children. He was kept…
President Trump Just Blew Up Over the New York Times’ Anonymous Op-Ed
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, the New York Times opinion page published a blockbuster op-ed from an anonymous Trump administration official that excoriated the president, calling his leadership style “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective,” and arguing that Trump’s behavior is “detrimental to the health of our republic.”…
Donald Trump Has No Idea His Staff Is Sabotaging Him
SMG via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the past couple of hours the chattering classes have been obsessed with an anonymous op-ed published in the New York Times this afternoon. And why not? It is a wee bit strange for an op-ed to be anonymous. In this case,…