How Do You Pay For All This Stuff? How Do You Pay For All This Stuff? How Do You Pay For All This Stuff?
Q: How do you pay for all these programs? A: Well, that’s going to be a big negotiation with a lot of people in Congress. We have more than a trillion dollars worth of what are called “tax expenditures” that both liberals and conservatives think have gotten out of hand.1 More than two-thirds of these…
Treasury May Drop Sanctions on a Company Owned by One of Putin’s Allies
Oleg Deripaska on June 1, 2017.Igor Russak/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump Administration may lift sanctions on a major Russian company founded by one of Vladimir Putin’s top allies. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnunchin told reporters during G-20 meeting of Finance Ministers last week, that the…
This Summer’s Heat Wave Is a Great Example of the Difference Between Weather and Climate
Zhao Hanrong/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Slate. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. We are currently in the middle of a scorching hot summer with heat records being set around the world. On July 5, it reached 124 degrees Fahrenheit in…
Susan Meiselas’ Work Has Changed How We Think About Photojournalism. Her Retrospective Actually Does It Justice.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was fitting that not long before the opening of her major retrospective at the San Francisco MoMA this summer, Susan Meiselas was back in Nicaragua, making photos. Her coverage of the Nicaraguan revolution 40 years ago helped launch her career; now, at the opening…
Here’s the Latest High-Impact Expose on Sexual Harassment in the Media
Leslie Moonves in June 2017 at Radio City Music Hall./Imago via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sexual misconduct allegations against CBS chief executive Les Moonves have rocked the network, which saw its stock fall by more than six percent Friday after it announced an investigation into the charges.…
A New Inspector General Report Shows How HUD Dropped the Ball in Cairo
One takeaway from the report is that the problems laid bare by the response to Cairo were not unique; they are endemic to the department as currently constituted. For instance, as I’d been told by several ex-HUD officials during the reporting of my piece, the investigation found that receivership is considered an action of last…