Trump Continues Searching For New Ways of Taking Revenge on People He Doesn’t Like
Pete Souza/The White House/ZUMAPRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump’s red-faced rage against anyone who criticizes him is now being directed against people with security clearances: President Trump threatened on Monday to strip the security clearances of former national security officials who have criticized his refusal to confront Russia…
Let’s Face It: We’ve Overexploited Photos of Cute Polar Bears
Paul Zinken/DPA via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate change has a new symbol, and it’s not melting ice floes or charismatic megafauna. Last week, researchers at Yale University and the University of Westminster published an…
Trump Looking to Remove Security Clearances of Former Obama Officials
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is exploring ways to revoke the security clearances of six former Obama officials who have been critical of his relationship with Russia, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Monday. Sanders claimed that the former officials had made “baseless” remarks regarding…
Safer, Cleaner Nuclear Energy—If We Want It
Imago via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Back in 2009, Simon Irish, an investment manager in New York, found the kind of opportunity that he thought could transform the world while—in the process— transforming…
Republicans Have Been Putting a Ton of Work Into Screwing Over Endangered Species
A grey wolf in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming Jacob W. Frank/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a brutal legislative session for endangered plants and animals. Just in the past week and a half, Congressional Republicans moved forward at least a dozen measures intended to gut the Endangered Species Act.…
Here’s Some Folk-Pop for Confronting the Late-Night Demons
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Cowboy JunkiesAll That ReckoningLatent Led by singer Margo Timmins and her brother, guitarist and songwriter Michael Timmins, Canada’s Cowboy Junkies have been making distinctive, brooding folk-pop for more than three decades. Though best known for their breakthrough second album, The Trinity Session, the group has…