Democrats Are Asking Two Sandy Hook Parents to Run for Congress. It’s Not an Easy Decision.
Nicole Hockley, speaking, and Mark Barden, right, with Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Rep. Elizabeth Esty at a news conference in December 2014Pat Eaton-Robb/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden are best friends. Both lost young sons on one of the most violent…
More Guns Won’t Make Us Safer. Here’s What Might.
siiixth/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Guns. In a country with more than 300 million of them, a country that’s recently been swept up in a round of protests over the endless killing sprees they permit, you’d think I might have had more…
Internal Emails Show How EPA Officials Lobby For Their Former Employers
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.Chris Kleponis/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Environmental Protection Agency wants to implement a controversial policy that would drastically limit the scientific research that the agency uses to write environmental rules. While environmental activists are concerned the change could undermine EPA rules on air pollution and…
Married Immigrants Seeking Green Cards Are Now Targets for Deportation
Immigrants become US citizens at a USCIS ceremony in Phoenix.Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fabiano de Oliveira had a clear path to staying in the United States: His wife was a US citizen, and he had a five-year-old son and no criminal history. He had been ordered deported…
Pesticide Executives Are Running Ag Policy for Donald Trump
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For nearly 30 years, Ken Isley served in the legal department of Dow Agrosciences, the pesticide division of chemical giant Dow. Most recently, he held the positions of vice president, general counsel, and secretary at the company, and on Thursday, the Trump administration tapped Isley…
Philippe Reines Is Writing a Book
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Atrios doesn’t like Philippe Reines: One of the great mysteries of Clintonland is they both surrounded themselves with people who are truly horrible at their jobs. Perhaps no one could have gotten good coverage for Clinton given the weird psychosis she inspires in the political…