President Trump Just Threatened a Government Shutdown—Again. And Blamed Democrats—Again.
Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to force a government shutdown if Democrats don’t cave to his demands for stricter immigration policies, including building his long-promised border wall. “I would be willing to ‘shut down’ government if the Democrats do not give us the votes…
Trump Invokes 9/11 to Justify ICE While Judge Mulls Family Reunification
Activists protest ICE and the Trump administration’s immigration and detention policies in Los Angeles on July 21.Ronen Tivon/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge in San Diego is set to rule this weekend on a request by the American Civil Liberties Union for a restraining…
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…