Study: Mammals May Be Better Equipped to Adapt to Climate Change
Are W/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Project Earth/Fusion and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The story of the tortoise and the hare teaches us that slow and steady wins the race. But when it comes to adapting to changing environmental conditions, Aesop (the…
Why Donald Trump Should Fear Norwegian Immigrants the Most of All
Jane Barlow/PA Wire/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story first appeared at TomDispatch.com. Over the past couple of weeks, thanks to the president’s racist comments about Haiti and African countries he can’t even name—remember “Nambia”?—as well as the stamp of approval he awarded future immigrants from Norway, we’ve seen a surprising amount of…
Nunes Played The Press Like A Fiddle. Why Do Journalists Keep Falling For This Trick?
Mother Jones; Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s a weird feeling when your organization’s reporting ends up at the center of a scandal bordering on constitutional crisis. But things have been weird, and here we are: MoJo‘s October 2016 story about the Steele dossier is a key data point…
Donald Trump Craters the Stock Market
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The stock market had a bit of a bad day today: Donald Trump didn’t mention this in his tweetbragging about the economy today, and liberals are so damn honest that every mention I’ve seen is about how this isn’t really his fault anyway. Which is…
There’s a Brutal New Campaign Ad Targeting Devin Nunes and His Memo
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) with Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Capitol Hill in Washington in October 2017.Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update (1/2/2018): Citing a senior campaign aid, the Atlantic‘s Natasha Bertrand reported that Nunes’ Democratic opponent, Andrew Janz,…
The Nunes Memo Proves One Thing, And It’s The Opposite Of What It Tries To Prove
Mother Jones; J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After days of much frothing, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and his fellow Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee—with an assist from President Donald Trump—finally on Friday released the memo: a document cooked up by the panel’s Republican staff that claims the infamous…