“I’m Rested and Ready to Fight”—The Reverend Barber’s Battle Cry Is One for the Ages
Anne Wernikoff Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Reverend William Barber II was born just two days after the historic March on Washington, and he went on to become one of the most prominent civil rights leaders in the South. Now, fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr’s first Poor People’s…
Trump Has Dreams of a New Energy Boom That Even the Fossil Fuel Industry Thinks Is Too Extreme
Once a coal town, Paonia, Colo., is now known for wineries, boutiques, galleries and organic farms that draw tourists from nearby ski resorts.Morgan Levy for Reveal Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ten thousand feet up, it’s possible…
Health Insurers Are Using Your Online Shopping Cart and Zip Code to Determine Your Rates
Insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about things like race, marital status, how much TV you watch, whether you pay your bills on time or even buy plus-size clothing.Scanrail/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and NPR.…
Donald Trump Is a Pathological Liar
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that everything Donald Trump says should be treated as a lie until proven otherwise. This is not a joke. At this point, anyone who makes even occasional exceptions to this rule is wilfully being a…
Alabama Republican Who Refused to Back Trump Survives Brutal Primary
Rep. Martha Roby, R-Ala., attends a House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Justice.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After an unusually fractious debate among Republicans about Rep. Martha Roby’s fealty to President Donald Trump—which resulted in a bitter runoff for the GOP nomination…
OK, How About Novichok? Maybe It’s Novichok.
Yui Mok/PA Wire via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. So here’s my theory. Maybe Putin has told Trump that if he doesn’t play ball his kids will end up in the morgue. See, they all have microscopic Novichok capsules buried in their bodies that are hooked up to dead-man…