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Trump Claimed His EPA Climate Rollback Will Save Americans Money. That’s Very Unlikely.

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration claims its latest move to gut climate regulations and end all greenhouse gas standards for vehicles will save Americans money. But its own analysis indicates that the new rule will push up gas prices, and that the benefits of the rollback are unlikely […]

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The Haitians of Springfield Are Under Attack Yet Again

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The people of Springfield, Ohio, are exhausted. It’s been one hit after another lately. Some of the trouble started back in 2024, when Donald Trump claimed during a presidential debate that Haitian immigrants in this small blue-collar city were eating their neighbors’ cats and dogs. It was a false, racist rumor, but it thrust the […]

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The US Government Keeps Using Dangerous Chemicals on Protestors

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On January 31, federal agents fired tear gas into a crowd of civilians, clergy, and children gathered outside the ICE building in Portland, Oregon. Witnesses say, and video shows, that the demonstration was largely peaceful before the gas was deployed. In the weeks since, a federal judge moved to restrict the use of these chemical […]

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Trump Made Us a Soundtrack to World Peace

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In the run-up to the inaugural Board of Peace meeting, which began about 40 minutes late on Thursday at the recently renamed Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington, representatives from over 40 countries jammed out to a mix of disco, ’80s hits, and Sinéad O’Connor classics. “Does everybody like the music?” the president […]

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Tennessee Said Yes to ICE—and Turned Into a Deportation State

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On a rainy evening in early May, several armed ICE agents in tactical vests closed in on a small red sedan at a gas station in South Nashville. The driver, a frightened 55-year-old Salvadoran man named Edgardo David Campos, gripped the steering wheel while bystanders took out their phones and began recording video. As agents […]

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5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Congressman Cory Mills

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Over the past few months, I’ve spoken to more than a dozen people who know Rep. Cory Mills, watched hours of court testimony, and reviewed hundreds of pages of public records to piece together the rise of a Florida Republican now plagued by numerous scandals. What I heard and saw was often shocking. To a […]

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Five Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Congressman Cory Mills

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Over the past few months, I’ve spoken to more than a dozen people who know Rep. Cory Mills, watched hours of court testimony, and reviewed hundreds of pages of public records to piece together the rise of a Florida Republican now plagued by numerous scandals. What I heard and saw was often shocking. To a […]

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Everybody Hates Cory

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Over the past few months, I have spoken to over a dozen people who know Rep. Cory Mills. Nearly everyone, I found, dislikes him. Some outright despise him: “repulsive and vile,” “schmuck,” “little bitch.” Others were more formal. “I have no use for people with no honor,” an Idaho firearms instructor who worked with Mills […]

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Video: Trump Nuked a Major EPA Climate Rule. Here’s What You Need to Know.

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On February 12, Donald Trump dropped the climatic equivalent of an atomic bomb. He announced the repeal of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding, the basis of the EPA’s ability to regulate climate-warming emissions. “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history,” proclaimed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “This is corruption, plain […]

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Colbert Takes CBS to Task, Again

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Late Show host Stephen Colbert once again gave his audience the inside scoop on Tuesday amid the ongoing clash involving him, network executives, and a candidate for US Senate in Texas.  The latest comes as CBS refuted Colbert’s assertion that he had been instructed not to interview Texas State Representative James Talarico and that he […]

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“Who the Fuck Are These Men?”

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By nightfall, people all over America had seen the footage. It was barely a month into President Donald Trump’s second term, and a team of black-clad private security officers was violently dragging a woman out of a Republican town hall meeting in Idaho. One agent mumbled that things would get “a hundred times better” if […]

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DHS Axed Its Civil Rights Staff—And Opened the Door to a Major Lawsuit

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Rodney Taylor, a double amputee, was denied the care he needed for his prosthetics—causing the silicone lining of one of his legs to deteriorate, along with bone spurs in his back. Down in Texas, DACA recipient Javier Diaz Santana, who is Deaf, was denied access to an American Sign Language interpreter for weeks. On February […]

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