These Animals Are Tougher Than We Thought
Olin Feuerbacher/NPS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The West is a challenging place to live these days, with fires and mudslides, droughts and heat waves—to say nothing of the political climate. But the West’s residents…
11 Historical Moments That Gave Us President Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by TomDispatch. The present arrives out of a past that we are too quick to forget, misremember, or enshroud in myth. Yet like it or not, the present is the product of past choices. Different decisions back then might have yielded…
In Shocker, Deficit Explodes Yet Again Under Republican Rule
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Treasury Department is going to be borrowing a lot of money this quarter: No worries. At least the rich are getting richer and schoolteachers are getting an extra $1.50 per week: Paul Ryan doesn’t want you to see this deleted tweet where he said…
Paul Ryan Brags About Giving Public School Employee $1.50
Pete Marovich Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. How in the world did Paul Ryan think this was something he should tweet? $1.50 a week will indeed cover the basic $60 membership to Costco, but it wouldn’t cover the gold membership! The GOP is bragging about giving public school employees $78…
NYT: Maybe the Nunes Memo Was a Right-Wing Scam All Along
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Baby steps: The release of the memo mattered less than #releasethememo. After weeks of buildup, the three-and-a-half-page document about alleged F.B.I. abuses during the 2016 presidential campaign made public on Friday was broadly greeted with criticism, including by some Republicans.…
The Best Book on Immigration You Will Read This Year Comes From a Former Border Patrol Agent
Beowulf Sheehan Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At the beginning of his debut book, The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú sits down with his mother over a Christmastime eggnog and brandy to explain why, after graduating from college with a bachelor’s in international relations, he decided to join the…