An Army of Deer Ticks Carrying Lyme Disease Is Advancing and Here’s Why It Will Only Get Worse
Mother Jones illustration; nechaev-kon/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Maine’s invasion came early this year. In recent hotbeds of tick activity—from Scarborough to Belfast and Brewer—people say they spotted the eight-legged arachnid before…
Just Stop It. The Elderly Are Doing Fine.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m so tired of this stuff. Here is yet another new study of bankruptcy, which the New York Times describes like this: For a rapidly growing share of older Americans, traditional ideas about life in retirement are being upended by a dismal reality: bankruptcy. The…
Trickle-Down Economics Is Working About As Well As Usual
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the Wall Street Journal: Profits at S&P 500 companies jumped an estimated 23.5% in the three months through June, according to data from Thomson Reuters, more than two and half times revenue growth in the same period….“Companies are coming out unapologetically with pricing increases,”…
DC Metro Drops Potential Plan to Provide White Nationalists with Separate Train Cars to Attend Rally
Richard Gray/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will not provide white supremacists with access to their own train cars, the agency’s chair said on Saturday. Metro had been considering offering separate trains or individual train cars to demonstrators attending the Unite…
Trump Claims His Tariffs Will Pay Down Debt—After He Drove Up Deficits With a Billionaire Tax Cut
Brian Cahn/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just before Christmas, President Donald Trump signed a tax bill that will raise the national debt by nearly $2 trillion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, while likely saving him and his heirs millions of dollars per year. Eight months later, the…
California’s Mendocino Complex Fire Is Now the Fifth Largest in State History
A 747 Global Airtanker makes a fire retardant drop in front of advancing flames from a wildfire in Lakeport, Calif., last Thursday. Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By Sunday morning, the fierce Northern California blazes known as the Mendocino Complex fire had devoured 254,000 acres,…