Republicans Are a No Show Across the Country for Town Halls on Gun Action
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The organizers of last month’s March for Our Lives have taken their movement to town halls across the country and invited congressional lawmakers—who have returned to their districts for a two-week recess—to discuss action on gun control. According to the Town Hall Project, more than 130 of these meetings are taking…
Scott Pruitt’s Overworked Security Team Has Cost Taxpayers $3 Million
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Pruitt may have been spared in Friday evening’s news dump, but the ethical questions threatening his role as Environmental Protection Agency administrator continue apace. Financial documents obtained by the Associated Press reveal that over the year that Pruitt has been on the job, the embattled EPA…
There’s a New Problem With Trump’s Attacks on Amazon
Kyle Mazza/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump has recently ramped up his attacks against Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos for not paying enough in local and state taxes. While there are plenty of problems with the president’s criticism, it looks as if hypocrisy might be a new one. Amazon…
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s Portrait of America Is a Devastating Must-Read
Victoria Smith/eyevine/Redux Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back in 2012, Princeton professor Tracy K. Smith won a Pulitzer Prize for the poetry collection Life on Mars. But her highest distinction came last year, when Smith, 46, was named US poet laureate. Wade in the Water, her latest book, deftly covers…
The Trump Administration Scrubbed Climate Science From an Important New Report
During 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm surge dislodged bricks on Liberty Island in New York, home of the Statue of Liberty.National Park Service Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Reveal and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. National Park Service officials have deleted every mention…
A Republican Congressman Met with Constituents, Pulled Out a Loaded Gun, and Then Said He Wouldn’t Be “a Gabby Giffords”
Chuck Burton/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. South Carolina Republican congressman Ralph Norman reportedly pulled out a loaded pistol on Friday at an event in his home district in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The episode happened at a scheduled “coffee with constituents” meeting about gun violence prevention. Norman laid the…