Donald Trump’s Victory Probably Wasn’t Uniquely Driven by Racial Resentment
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. German Lopez channels the conventional wisdom: The past year of research has made it very clear: Trump won because of racial resentment https://t.co/ozBxkOmT7S — Vox (@voxdotcom) December 15, 2017 Technically, this is true. A number of different studies have shown that the strongest predictor of…
Stolen Emails. Wikileaks. White Supremacists. Donald Trump. It All Happened in 2009.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Heads of StateWhat does a 2009 controversy involving climate scientists have in common with Russia’s cyberattacks during the 2016 election? Quite a lot, actually. Both incidents featured stolen emails, WikiLeaks, Donald Trump, and day after day of breathless, often inaccurate, media coverage. Eight years…
Bitcoin Is a Lousy Form of Money
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Is bitcoin a good replacement for money? This is a popular question these days, but it’s poorly framed. “Money” should be thought of more as an adjective than a noun. That is, certain things are more moneylike than others. A dollar…
Trump’s Message to Tribes: Let Them Eat Yellowcake
Rick Bowmer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Uranium, it’s now part of Navajo DNA. With over 500 abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation, people living near these mines are exposed daily…
Festival of Slights, the 6th Night: The Jew Counter
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Happy Hanukkah! Mother Jones is celebrating this year’s festival of lights with a festival of slights. Specifically, President Donald Trump’s slights toward the Jewish people. Since his inauguration, many of President Donald Trump’s appointees have made headlines for being excruciatingly unfit for…
Amazon Pretends to Care About Climate. Until It’s Time to Build a New Headquarters.
This story was originally published by The Huffington Post and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Amazon kicked off a bidding war for its second North American headquarters in September, the company laid out a vision of its perfect suitor. The ideal city would have more than a million people, mass transit, an…