If You Could Say Anything to Scott Pruitt’s Face What Would It Be? This Woman Got Her Chance.
Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kristin Mink, a sixth-grade teacher at Sidwell Friends School, was eating lunch with her 2-year-old son at a restaurant in Washington, DC, when she noticed Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt sitting three tables away. “He’s corrupt, he’s a liar, he’s a climate change…
We Are All Social Democrats Now
G. Ronald Lopez via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a week since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th congressional district, and she’s still getting monster attention in the press. I have to admit I’m a little unclear on why this is. Her win was…
We’re About as Different From Each Other As We’ve Always Been
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tyler Cowen linked yesterday to a new paper called “Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time.” The object of the paper is to see if people of different races, genders, and incomes have become more culturally distant from each other over the…
Trump: US Would Be at War With North Korea If Not for Me
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that were it not for his leadership, the United States would currently be at war with North Korea. The president did not offer any evidence to support the bold assertion, which comes amid US intelligence warnings that…
Seattle Just Became the First Major American City to Ban Plastic Straws And Utensils
The ordinance, which went into effect Sunday, prohibits restaurants, delis, coffee shops, food trucks, cafeterias and grocery stores from providing the plastic items to customers. Upon request only, those vendors may provide people with a compostable straw or utensil. Since 2008, Seattle has been rolling out a citywide ban on single-use plastics and removed exemptions from…
Medical Board Sanctions Celebrity Doctor for Letting Parents Opt Their Kids Out of Vaccines
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, California made it illegal for parents to opt out of vaccinating their kids because of their beliefs. But that didn’t stop some anti-vaccine zealots from dodging the shots: Last year, Mother Jones reported on a cottage industry of Golden State doctors who help…