Ignorance is Strength: The Trump Administration’s Creepy War on Language
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared at TomDispatch.com. Consider us officially in an Orwellian world, though we only half realize it. While we were barely looking, significant parts of an American language long familiar to us quite literally, and in a remarkably coherent way, went…
Desert Bees Have Figured Out Something We’re All Going Need To Learn
Olivia Carril (above) has added dozens of species to the list of bees documented in Bandelier National Monument.Sara Van Note Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A cluster of leafcutter bees are foraging for nectar and pollen on…
On the Border, Trump is Both Cruel and Incompetent
Jorge Garcia hugs his wife and children at Detroit Metro Airport, moments before he boarded a flight to Mexico. Garcia was being deported to Mexico after living in the U.S. for 30 years.Niraj Warikoo/Detroit Free Press via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Border Patrol union says that Donald…
Irish Citizens Are Going #HomeToVote on Abortion And It’s Warming Our Cold, American Hearts
Abortion rights campaigners protesting in London, UKClaire Doherty/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Ireland prepares to vote on a historic referendum that could legalize abortion in the deeply Catholic country, Irish citizens are flying home to cast their votes—and they’re using the now-trending hashtag #HomeToVote on social media to talk about it. The Irish…
Try to Guess Who’s the Least Charitable Toward Refugees
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump calls this a “fascinating detail,” but I call it totally unsurprising: If you meet up with an Evangelical white Republican man with a high school diploma—the main Fox News demographic—he’ll be almost certain to think we should tell these folks…
New Study Debunks a Popular Anti-Abortion Argument
fstop123/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Popular anti-abortion arguments hinge on the supposed negative impact the procedure will have on the woman: increasing the likelihood of breast cancer, which has been debunked, giving her PTSD, which has been debunked, or increasing her risk of suicidal ideation, which has now been thoroughly debunked. New research reveals that women who…