These Are the Countries That Will Have the Worst Temperature Swings in the Future
Suvra Kanti Das/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The effects of climate change are already hitting hardest in the parts of the world that have contributed the least to our current state of affairs. That, we already…
Chance the Rapper’s Commencement Speech Is Exactly What We Needed This Weekend
Fair Dillard/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Chance the Rapper had a lasting message to the graduates of Dillard University: Surpass your heroes and achieve greatness, just like Beyoncé did at Coachella. On Saturday, Chance took time during his 22-minute speech to praise the lessons learned from Beyoncé’s legendary performance…
Mueller Wants to Know Why Ford Turned Down Michael Cohen’s Consulting Services
Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly after Donald Trump became president, his personal attorney Michael Cohen gave Ford Motor Co. a call to offer his consulting services, “touting his proximity to the president,” the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Unlike AT&T, Novartis, and Columbus Nova, an investment firm…
Why Are Air Force Officers’ Spouses So White?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A couple of days ago Ron Klain sent out this tweet: The WH hosted military spouses today. Our armed forces are 40% non-white. The odds that — BY CHANCE — a group of 52 military spouses would contain no people of color are lower than…
Cate Blanchett Just Led a Powerful Silent Protest for Gender Equity on the Cannes Red Carpet
Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, actress Cate Blanchett and 81 other women in film marched in silence on the red carpet to call out the lack of female directors selected for the world’s top festival. The women stopped halfway up…
Raw Data: Kids and Their Cars
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Twitter conversation last night reminded me that I meant to do a little more digging into car ownership to find out if millennials are really less likely to own cars than previous generations. For starters, here’s overall car ownership: Starting around 2003, car ownership…