We Have Extremely Sad News About Sweden’s Reindeer
Tessa Bunney/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sweden’s indigenous Sami reindeer herders are demanding state aid to help them cope with the impact of this summer’s unprecedented drought and wildfires, saying their future is at risk as…
Democrats Are Using Brett Kavanaugh’s Nomination as an Election Season Rallying Cry for Reproductive Rights
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., joins protesters objecting to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, at a rally in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Democrats are throwing their support and their advertising dollars into a vocal defense of abortion rights,…
Can Donald Trump Bring Liberals and Conservatives Together on Race?
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at National Review, David French takes on the Republican Party’s most important issue: I have a question. If you’re a young person of good will who is concerned about racial division in this nation, longs to understand how race has played a…
Trump Loyalists Will Cling to him Like Barnacles on a Sinking Ship
Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Within a matter of minutes Tuesday afternoon, twin legal developments rocked the presidency: Donald Trump’s former campaign boss Paul Manafort was found guilty of tax and bank fraud, and his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations,…
Yeah, Let’s Grind Those Confederate Statues to Dust
Silent Sam is finally silent forever.Left: SGM/ZUMAPRESS; Right: Julia Wall/Raleigh News & Observer/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Students are coming back to school, and at some schools this means grappling once again with all those statues of Confederate generals: Tim Huebner, a history professor at Rhodes College…
Trump’s Tweet About Michael Cohen Is Completely Wrong
Bryan Smith/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump broke his silence on Michael Cohen’s plea agreement—which involved extraordinary statements implicating the president in federal crimes—to assert that the two campaign violation charges against Cohen are not actually crimes. Trump also appeared to downplay the charges against…