Arctic Temperatures Are Rising So Fast Computers Don’t Believe They’re Real
Early this month, while preparing a report on US climate, experts at the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) noticed something odd: They were missing data from Utqiaġvik for all of 2017, and some of 2016. It turns out the temperatures recorded at Utqiaġvik over that time were warmer than had ever seen before. So…
10 Albums to Help You Heal From the Trauma of 2017
Justina Mintz/AMC Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Reality has been pretty hard to handle—and impossible to escape—this past year. But sometimes we just need a break, a pause to refresh the spirit for the challenges ahead or to remind us that this too shall pass, however dire things may seem.…
I Have a List of Replacements for the CDC’s 7 Banned Words
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration has banned the Centers for Disease Control from using seven specific words. Unfortunately they haven’t yet offered the CDC’s scientists replacement words. I’m here to help: Everyone happy now?
This Republican Keeps Humiliating Trump’s Judicial Nominees
June 6, 2017 – Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.© Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a hearing this week for six of President Trump’s judicial nominees, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) simply humiliated one of the potential judges. He asked Matthew Spencer Petersen a few questions that should be basic for anyone…
Republicans Just Released Their Final Tax Bill
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House and Senate released their final version of the tax bill late Friday afternoon, following weeks of high-profile deliberations over the biggest tax overhaul in the last 30 years. It includes a last-minute expansion of the child income tax credit, after…
The Final Republican Tax Bill Screws Over Puerto Rico
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Friday that Republicans’ decision to leave a pair of provisions in the tax reform legislation that experts say will hammer Puerto Rico’s already struggling economy was “unconscionable.” “It is devastating and unconscionable that Congress would…