Trump’s Attacks on Public Lands Could Help the Democrats in These States
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story is a Climate Desk collaboration between Mother Jones and High Country News. Walk through the Las Cruces farmers market on a sunny Saturday morning, and it soon becomes obvious that residents are really proud of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks…
Trump Coal Plan Will Kill 5-10,000 People Over Next Decade
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration unveiled its shiny new coal plan today, and the New York Times dug into the technical appendices to see just how much damage it would do. Naturally I decided to make it into a chart: Depending on whose estimate you trust and…
President Trump Backs Megadonor Foster Friess for Wyoming Governor
Republican mega-donor Foster Friess at the 40th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference.Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Foster Friess, the Republican megadonor running for governor in Wyoming, has President Trump’s “complete and total Endorsement,” according to a tweet sent early Tuesday as polls opened in the state.…
Even Trump’s EPA Admits His Power Plan Will Kill Thousands of Americans
Zhou Changguo/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Barack Obama unveiled the Clean Power Plan in the East Room of the White House three years ago, he called it “the single most important step America has ever taken in the fight against global climate change.” Today, that plan, which would…
Michael Cohen to Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges
Go Nakamura/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and longtime fixer, has agreed to plead guilty to charges, multiple news outlets reported Tuesday. He is scheduled to appear before a federal courtroom in Manhattan later this afternoon. Breaking News: Michael Cohen, President Trump’s…
Bernie’s “Medicare For All” Plan Would Cut Physician Payments About 10 Percent
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Charles Blahous of the Mercatus Center recently produced an analysis of Bernie Sanders’ Medicare For All Plan that’s generated an awful lot of confusion. In this post, I’m going to do my best to get the numbers right in order to get everyone on the…