Ireland Just Voted to Legalize Abortion
Niall Carson/PA Wire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, Ireland made history when the country voted to repeal its constitution’s Eighth Amendment, one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. The referendum’s passage is a huge win for reproductive-rights advocates in a Catholic country that for decades pledged to…
How Your Health Insurer and Your Doctors Scheme to Screw You Over
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and NPR. Michael Frank ran his finger down his medical bill, studying the charges and pausing in disbelief. The numbers didn’t make sense. His recovery from a partial hip replacement had been difficult. He’d iced and elevated his…
No One Had Seen These Tiny Deer for 20 Years. Then One Day, They Came Back.
A large antlered muntjac.Leibniz IZW, WWF Vietnam, USAID Song Thanh Nature Rerserve Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1994, scientists researching in Vietnam first documented the elusive large-antlered muntjac in the semi-evergreen Vu Quang Nature Reserve, in…
The Apprenticeship of Jordan Peterson
Carlos Osorio/The Toronto Star via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you want to understand a little more about the rise of masculinity superstar Jordan Peterson, I recommend this piece by Bernard Schiff in the Toronto Star today. Schiff was a colleague and admirer of Peterson’s at the University…
Duchess of California Gets New Coat of Arms
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I disappointed my sister by being unable to find an excuse last weekend to blog about the royal wedding, so I’m going to make up for it today by blogging about the new coat of arms for the Duchess of California Sussex, aka Meghan Markle.…
Roger Stone to Associate: “Prepare to Die”
Roger Stone and Randy CredicoRonen Tivony/NurPhoto/ZUMA; John Minchillo/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be increasingly interested in the actions of Roger Stone. Investigators have questioned former associates of Stone, the self-proclaimed political dirty trickster who has been a longtime official and unofficial adviser to…