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…
GOP Lawmaker Doesn’t Care If President Used the N-Word Before Becoming President
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michael Williams, a Republican state senator from Georgia, went on TV Saturday morning and declared that he would be upset if Donald Trump spewed racial slurs. That may seem simple enough, but apparently, it’s actually quite complicated. Williams, you see, went on to…
A Top Trump Fundraiser Is Reportedly Under Investigation
Alex J. Berliner/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Prominent Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy is under investigation by the Justice Department, which is seeking to determine if he sought money from foreign officials in exchange for influencing Trump administration policy, the Washington Post reported Friday evening. One key question investigators are asking…
ICE Detains Man Driving His Pregnant Wife to the Hospital
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A California man just wanted to stop for gas as he drove his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth. Instead, Joel Arrona is now in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody, and a newborn baby is separated from his father. According to CBS2 News…
Codetermination? Why Not Just Powerful Unions Instead?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren thinks big corporations have too much power, so next week she’ll be introducing new legislation to address that: That’s where my bill comes in. The Accountable Capitalism Act restores the idea that giant American corporations should look out for American interests. Corporations…