The Trump Administration Finally Has a Plan to Reunite Separated Migrant Children with Deported Parents
Protesters gathered in Bowling Green on July 31 to demand that DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Vice President Mike Pence reunite separated families. Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration finally has a plan to reunite the hundreds of migrant children whose parents were…
A Court Finally Forced the Government to Ban this Gnarly Neurotoxic Pesticide
Crop sprayer spraying pesticides on crops in field.simonkr/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last March, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt abruptly reversed the agency’s own proposal to ban chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxic pesticide widely used by US farmers. Yesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals finally ordered the EPA to…
Whose Economy Will Trump Take Aim at Next?
Depo Photos via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump appears to be on a mission to either destroy or damage the economies of China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey. I assume he’s thinking that this is all a zero-sum game, and if they do badly the United States will…
Another Trump Rule Goes Up In Smoke
Gage Skidmore/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration suffered yet another setback this week. Here’s the timeline: March 2017: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday reversed an Obama administration recommendation to ban a pesticide linked to nervous system damage in children….‘By reversing the previous administration’s steps to…
A Republican Nominee in Missouri Defended Hitler and Equated Muslims With the KKK
The background for West’s YouTube videos includes bizarre references to Barack Obama and Tweety Bird.YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Steve West, a Kansas City-based engineer, won the Republican primary for a seat in the Missouri House of Representatives this week by trumpeting “old American” values. On his campaign website,…
Chart of the Day: Inflation Keeps Going Up, But Wages Are Going Down
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Inflation in July rose 2.9 percent, its highest level in seven years. Core inflation, which doesn’t include food and energy, rose 2.33 percent, its highest level in ten years. This is not cause for panic, but there’s unquestionably some acceleration in the inflation numbers now.…