The Koch Brothers Tried to Spread Fake News in Black Churches. It Did Not Go Well.
Amelia Bates/Grist 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. Rev. Paul Wilson fastens enough buttons on his jacket to stay warm on a chilly fall afternoon but still keep his clergy collar visible. He’s whipping up a crowd of…
Undocumented Immigrants Can Vote in Some Elections. But ICE Could Keep Them Away.
hermosawave/iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California has a track record of giving undocumented immigrants certain rights they wouldn’t have in most parts of the country: driver’s licenses, in-state college tuition, and, at least in San Francisco, a chance to vote. But now, that same right to vote, celebrated when…
Forget Stormy Daniels. Let’s Talk About the Mighty Y-Axis Instead.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Whenever I put up a chart in which the vertical axis doesn’t start at zero, I always get complaints that I’m distorting the data. For shame! It happened again this morning, touching off a Twitter conversation that finally demands a response. So here it is.…
2018 Is the Year of Trump Unchained
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post, once again, regales us with an inside story about the Trump White House “based on interviews with 19 presidential advisers and administration officials.” This time the piece focuses on all the people who have been fired—or are about to be fired—and how…
Philadelphia’s District Attorney Just Showed America’s Prosecutors How to End Mass Incarceration
Larry Krasner heads to his polling place to cast a ballot on Nov. 7, 2017. Matt Rourke Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Newly minted Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner was elected on a platform of bringing criminal justice reform to the office and attacking mass incarceration. Now Krasner, a former…
FEMA’s Plan for Dealing With Natural Disasters Is Missing the Two Most Important Words
People rescue a cat left behind in Vidor, Texas following Hurricane Harvey.Julie Dermansky/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In its first strategic plan following a tragic string of natural disasters—Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, the fires that ravaged California, and record-setting East Coast winter storms—the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) boldly dodged the…