Climate 8-year-old activist stumps for a climate debategrist.org - Havana Chapman-Edwards Havana Chapman-Edwards is an 8-year-old U.S. diplomat and a passionate community organizer, philanthropist, public speaker, and humanitarian as well …
Northern California California's disappearing sea snails carry a grim climate warningNational Geographic - Richie HertzbergThe red abalone is dying off as its food source—the California kelp forests—are decimated. Experts fear the die-off may be a sign of what’s to come. Many people have never eaten—or even heard of—red abalone,
Whales Hidden Trump Report Reveals Water Plan Will Harm Endangered Whales and Salmonecowatch.com - Jordan Davidson It went on to also highlight the hazards to threatened spring-run Chinook and threatened Central Valley steelhead, as well as endangered Southern …
Latino News A U.S. citizen was put in jail because of his Latino name and skin color, lawsuit saysNBC News - The Associated Press"He has a family, owns a home, and has worked in local Baton Rouge industry for years," the lawsuit says. A Honduran-born U.S. citizen says in a federal lawsuit that he was illegally held in a Louisiana
Play buttonPlanned Parenthood Planned Parenthood sees swift fallout from quitting government programpbs.org - Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Planned Parenthood clinics in several states are charging new fees, tapping into financial reserves, intensifying fundraising …
Play buttonAbortion A new survey shows what really interests 'pro-lifers': controlling womenThe Guardian - Jill FilipovicThey don’t believe sexism is a problem, and they’re hostile to women’s rights. Pro-lifers are sexists in denial – yes, the women too The goal of abortion opponents is clear: they do not want women to equal
Trump Administration Trump’s ‘chopper talk’ puts media on the defensivePOLITICO - By MICHAEL CALDERONE and DANIEL LIPPMANUsing Marine One as a backdrop, the White House has replaced formal briefings with impromptu chats where the president sets all the rules. The latest iteration of President Donald Trump’s signature news
Denmark Danish ex-PM attacks Trump for comments on defense spendingAssociated Press - By JAN M. OLSEN, Associated PressCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A former Danish prime minister on Thursday lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump for his tweet about military spending, saying defense willingness is not just about the of
News A Marriott Cook Was Arrested For Allegedly Threatening To Carry Out A Mass Shooting At The Hotelbuzzfeednews.com - Stephanie K. Baer “He had a plan of shooting everybody that he saw in the hotel,” said Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna. A disgruntled cook at a Marriott in Southern …
Behavior How My Personality Almost Wrecked My Career (And How I Fixed It)Forbes - John RexI'll never forget the day my CEO told me, "John, you often come across as the avenging angel. Your own peers are annoyed by you!" Here I was, mid-30s and CFO of a global company – and doing my best to
Kamala Harris Is it panic time for Kamala Harris?CNN - Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-largeWashington (CNN) — The whispers began within minutes of the release of CNN's new national poll on the 2020 field: Is something wrong with Sen. Kamala Harris' campaign? The poll showed the California Democrat
Friendship The Mistrust of Opposite-Sex FriendshipsThe Atlantic - Ashley FettersCan straight men and women really be best friends? Their partners are wondering, too. In 1989, When Harry Met Sally posed a question that other pop-cultural entities have been trying to answer ever since:
Lisbeth Salander Girl, You’re a Middle-Aged Woman NowThe New Yorker - Wendi AaronsAs a new wave of women step into their mid-centuries, it’s a striking moment of exposure for women over 50, who are taking commanding roles across American culture.—Wall Street Journal. Mass-media companies,
Alton Brown Alton Brown’s Secret to Chewy, Crispy Pizza DoughThe Kitchn - Meghan Splawn Alton Brown loves this pizza dough recipe so much, he made it every stop of his Alton Brown Live tour (86 cities over the course of 2 years)! In …
Guns Parkland massacre survivors post sweeping U.S. gun-control plan ahead of 2020 electionReuters - By Gabriella Borter(Reuters) - Survivors of the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre on Wednesday released a sweeping gun-control plan that would ban assault-style rifles and take other steps in hopes of halving U.S.
Liberal View IMF tells Trump that his economic plans are not working in unusually-blunt statementrawstory.com - Agence France-Presse US tariffs on China won’t fix the trade deficit, and neither will weakening the US dollar through interest rate cuts, International Monetary Fund …
Opinion Why Trump is so obsessed with ScandinaviaCNN - Opinion by Frida Ghitis(CNN) — President Donald Trump seems to have a peculiar obsession with Scandinavian countries. He just insulted Denmark, a NATO ally, petulantly canceling a trip in which Queen Margrethe II planned to
Mike Pence Iceland's Prime Minister To Skip Meeting With VP Mike PenceNPR - Richard GonzalesThe top leader of Iceland said she will miss a visit to her tiny North Atlantic nation by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence next month in favor of speaking at a trade union conference in Sweden. Prime Minister
Opinion Jew-baiting is part of the Trump playbook. It's a feature, not a bugThe Guardian - Lloyd GreenOn Tuesday, Donald Trump announced that American Jews who voted Democratic were either stupid, disloyal or both. As Trump framed things: “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it
Elizabeth Warren The Summer of Elizabeth WarrenGQ - Julia IoffeJulia Ioffe joins Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail, where the surging senator has spent the season overcoming her campaign's wobbly start and getting down to business—trouncing debate foes, climbing
Time Capsules A New Hampshire town opened a 50-year-old time capsule to reveal absolutely nothingCNN - By Scottie Andrew, CNN(CNN) — For 50 years, residents of a New Hampshire town speculated what might be inside a time capsule from 1969. Moon-landing memorabilia? Local artifacts from the era? Perhaps a letter to the future?
Deforestation Record 84 per cent yearly increase in Amazon fires blamed on deforestation in BrazilThe Telegraph - By Andrew QuinnThe Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of fires this year, according to Brazil's space research agency. The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) released data on Tuesday claiming that has
Greenland Why Would Trump Want to Buy Greenland?Fortune - Nick Rigillio, Morten Buttler, Bloomberg U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed an interest in buying Greenland, the world’s biggest island and a self-ruling territory of Denmark. While …
Guns I Was an NRA Lobbyist. Here’s My Road Map for Gun Reform.POLITICO - By RICHARD FELDMANThere is a way to debate this issue that will actually get meaningful laws enacted that both sides can agree on. Richard Feldman is an attorney and government affairs expert. He lives in Rindge, N.H. a
Racism Racism Has Always Thwarted America’s Ideals, and Still DoesNew York Magazine - Ed Kilgore The angry debate that has broken out in response to the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” a set of essays in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of …
News Trump's fake accent angers Asian Americans as they veer leftAssociated Press - By TERRY TANG, Associated PressWhen Amanda Berg heard reports that President Donald Trump mocked the accents of the leaders of South Korea and Japan at a recent fundraiser, it brought back painful memories from her childhood. Berg,
Politics Trump is either trolling everyone or thinks he's like a godCNN - Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN(CNN) — There's been a change in President Donald Trump. He used to say he had accomplished more than any other President, a debatable claim. But now he's using messianic language about himself. "I'm chosen
Consult Companies Are Realising That Being Publicly Conservative Is Really UnpopularVICE - Harry CheadleFor a while now, conservatives have been complaining that big corporations, from social media giants to Nike, are biased against right-leaning values. A new poll from Morning Consult highlighted by Axios
