White House Can’t Even Get John Brennan’s Security Clearance Announcement Right
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been nearly three weeks since the White House first announced that President Donald Trump was considering revoking the security clearances for top former officials who have criticized him, including John Brennan, the former CIA director under Obama, who has regularly condemned Trump’s fitness for…
Florida’s Getting Swamped by Deadly Red Algae
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) declared a state of emergency on Monday as a months-long red tide continues to spread throughout the region’s waters, killing hundreds of turtles and sickening people in coastal communities. The red tide―a harmful bloom of algae that…
Washington Judge Just Dealt a Blow to the Youth-Led Fight Over Climate Change
Youth plaintiffs in a climate change lawsuit marched in Olympia in February. Robin Loznak/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a blow to young climate activists, a Seattle judge dismissed a lawsuit on Tuesday that alleged Washington state had violated children’s rights by failing to protect them from climate…
Can We Please Stop With the Dimwitted Robot Car Owns?
Sure, this Waymo car is fine when it’s driving on a “street” in “California” where robots have more rights than humans. But what if this was Texas and someone suddenly pulled out an AR-15 and just started shooting it up for no reason? THEN WHAT???Andrej Sokolow/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to…
Employment Is Pretty Close to Reaching Its Peak
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is apropos of nothing in particular. I’m just futzing around with economic figures to see if anything looks interesting. Here’s the employment rate for prime-age (25-54) men and women in the United States: The employment-population reached its peak in early 2000. It dipped during…
Keith Ellison Easily Wins Attorney General Nomination, in Spite of Abuse Allegations
Craig Lassig/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) easily won his party’s nomination to be the state’s next attorney general on Tuesday, dispatching the rest of the five-candidate field with nearly 50 percent of the vote. Ellison, the first Muslim ever to serve in Congress, is…