NATO Countries Have Increased Defense Spending Every Year Since 2014
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just in case you’re interested, NATO releases updated figures for defense spending before each of its annual summit meetings. Here’s the 2018 edition: As you can see, NATO countries have been increasing their defense expenditures every year since 2014, and this has nothing to do…
A New Lawsuit Alleges Trump’s Education Department Is Failing Students of Color With Disabilities
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations hearing in June 2018. Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) filed a federal lawsuit against Trump’s Education Department, challenging the…
The Next Front in The Koch’s Deregulatory War Is Saturday Morning Cartoons
The FCC wants to end broadcaster requirements for children’s educational programming.joske038/ Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. According to its website, the 60 Plus Association is a 26-year-old “nonpartisan organization working for death tax repeal and advocating for seniors” on issues like affordable prescription drugs and saving Social Security…
No One Loves Donald Trump More Than Vladimir Putin
Hamburg, Germany, July 2017Mikhail Klimentyev/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With his efforts to help Donald Trump become president by meddling in the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin has already done more to advance Russia’s foreign policy goals and worldview than anything he could have imagined in his wildest dreams as…
You Told Us What It Means to Be an American—and It’s About More Than Trump
RomoloTavani/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s a fraught time to live in America. Its borders have become militarized war zones, while larger existential questions loom just under every news story: Who has a right to be an American? And why? This Fourth of July, we were reminded by abolitionist Frederick…
When the TV Cameras Are Off, Does Donald Trump Still Exist?
This is Donald Trump’s nightmare: the cameras are rolling but nobody is paying attention to him. Like Schrodinger’s cat, his entire nervous system both exists and doesn’t exist simultaneously at times like this. Only when the opportunity to insult someone arises does the Trump wave function collapse, allowing the vacant expression on his face to…