Female Candidates May Have an Edge in Battleground Elections
UNITED STATES – JULY 4: Jennifer Wexton walks with supporters in Leesburg, Va., as she participates in the Leesburg Independence Day Parade on July 4, 2018. Wexton is challenging incumbent Republican Barbara Comstock for Virginia’s 10th Congressional district seat. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free…
Most Republicans Have Electoral Amnesia About Their Tax Bill—But Not the Rich Ones
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican tax cut may not be very popular with all the working schmoes who were conned into supporting it, but it sure is popular with zillionaires. And they’re planning to say “Thanks!” this election season: Billionaires and corporations that reaped millions of dollars in…
“Truth Isn’t Truth” and Other Bits of Wisdom from Rudy Giuliani
July 18, 2016 – Cleveland, Ohio, U.S – Former Mayor of New York CIty, Rudolph (Rudy) Giuliani addresses the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Arena in Cleveland, Ohio Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of President Trump’s lawyers, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, appeared on…
Trump Attacks 2 Favorite Targets in Sunday Morning Tweetstorm
August 17, 2018 – Washington, District of Columbia, U.S. – President Donald J. Trump meets reporters during an impromptu press availability on the South Lawn of the White House. Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump took some time off from golfing at his…
Why a New Fisheries Bill Is Being Dubbed the “Empty Oceans Act”
People fish for steelhead in the Grand Ronde River.ed Conklin/ZUMApress.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network. What the farm bill is to terrestrial food production, the fish bill, a.k.a. the Magnuson-Stevens Act, is to the ocean—the law that governs America’s…
The Hairy, Sweaty, Stinky Truth About Why We Hate Our Bodies
Mara Altman Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “I am a bearded lady,” writer Mara Altman confesses in her new illustrated essay collection Gross Anatomy: Dispatches From the Front (and Back). That may elicit snickers, but Altman’s aim is to upend stigmas around our bodily realities: “It is my hope that by…