This Map Depicts Abortion Access Across America and It’s Really Bleak
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s not just rural women who must travel long distances to get an abortion. Researchers mapped out 780 abortion facilities across America in a new study out Monday and found that 27 major cities are 100 miles or more from their nearest abortion provider. The…
Medicaid Work Requirements and the Politics of Whiteness
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kentucky has received permission from the Trump administration to roll out work requirements for Medicaid later this year. Eight counties have been exempted from the new requirements for a while: That’s coal country down there, and unemployment is pretty high. As you might guess, the…
Russian Firm Indicted for Election Interference Accuses US of ‘Hypocrisy’
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Lawyers representing a Russian company indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for supporting meddling in the 2016 US elections accused the US of hypocrisy in a Monday court filing. Concord’s lawyers argue Mueller is bucking years of precedent “to indict…
Donald Trump Calls White House Leakers “Traitors” and Vows to “Find Out Who They Are”
President Donald Trump addresses the crowd during a Republican campaign rally last Thursday. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump called the recent leaks at the White House an “over exaggeration” put out by the “fake news” media to make the administration look…
Middle America Hates Us. They Always Will.
Scott Keeler/Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at the Washington Post, James Hohmann has a piece about several recent “deep dives” into areas of the country that voted for Obama but then switched to Trump in 2016. The overall message is that working-class folks in…
I Would Like to Understand What Kim Jong-un Is Up To
Yonhap News/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Forget Donald Trump for a minute. The upcoming summit meeting with North Korea has been orchestrated entirely by Kim Jong-un. It started with his outreach at the Olympics. Then he proposed the meeting with Trump. He halted missile testing. He met…