Teachers Have Been Getting Screwed in Oklahoma for Generations
Edwin Rios/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 1990, when he was nine years old, Heath Miller protested alongside his parents at the Oklahoma Capitol building. His mother was a special education teacher in the state, and his father worked for the Oklahoma Education Association, the statewide teachers union. Thousands…
Trump Wants Tough New Car Rules — But Only On Foreign Cars
Ingo Wagner/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At the same time that Donald Trump is trying to undermine environmental standards for US cars, he wants to tighten them for imported cars: Mr. Trump has asked the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies, including the Commerce and Transportation…
Scott Pruitt Can Relax, He’s Probably Not Friday’s News Dump
Shealah Craighead/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has allies in high places who are not willing to give up on him after weeks of damaging stories. On Friday, President Trump took to Twitter to deny reports that he would replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Pruitt, and…
The Long, Twisted, and Bizarre History of the Trump-Russia Scandal
Carlo Allegri; Klimentyev Mikhail; Carlos Barria; Kevin Lamarque; Monterey Herald; Sergei Karpukhin; Jim Loscalzo (via ZUMA) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump-Russia scandal—with all its bizarre and troubling twists and turns—has become a controversy that is defining the Trump presidency. The FBI recently disclosed that since July it has…
Trump Is Scaring the Hell Out of His Advisers Right Now
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Several reports this week paint an increasingly chaotic portrait for President Donald Trump’s Syria strategy, with those close to the commander-in-chief voicing concerns over his sudden demands to immediately withdraw US troops from the country. Trump’s national security team and military leaders have reportedly…
Puerto Rico Plans to Shutter 283 Schools
Eduardo Meléndez Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Puerto Rico Department of Education announced late Thursday that it would close 283 public schools next school year, citing a decline in enrollment of nearly 39,000 students and the island’s ongoing budget crisis. “Our children deserve the best education we are capable…