The government shutdown ends (for the next three weeks, anyway) and the big question is: Who won? Democrats or Republicans? This question represents everything wrong with our current politics, in which we've become preoccupied with rooting for one side and lambasting the other, to the point that actual
The Republicans have become the first party in American history to control the White House and both houses of Congress and manage to shutter the government. Here’s what’s open, what’s not. And here’s a handy list of Hill reporters to follow on Twitter for the latest
To avoid a government shutdown, the House has passed a stopgap spending bill. Now the Senate must approve the measure by midnight tonight—which looks unlikely. Even as the GOP tries to pin the shutdown on Democrats, three Republican senators say they won't approve the measure. Here'
In the world's coldest town—Oymyakon, Russia—a bonfire must be lit to warm the ground before burying any dead bodies. About 2,000 people live in a Paris replica in China, many of them working in a nearby France-themed amusement park. The US plans an open-
After a federal judge revived most of the DACA protections on Jan. 9, Sessions announced yesterday that the DoJ would sidestep the US Court of Appeals and take the case directly to the Supreme Court. Hoping to avoid a government shutdown, and with immigration at an impasse, Congressional Republicans bait
Bannon meets behind closed doors with the House panel on Russia. Trump sends a preemptive tweet, “The Russian Collusion Hoax is dead.” African immigrants who come to the US are generally the continent's best and brightest, with superior educations. Photographs of streets across America named after Dr. Martin
Whether New Yorkers recover from opioids at home or must travel to a clinic correlates with race and income. “It’s the prescription thing that’s really severely scary to me. It’s the scariest. I had to go to the street to get it. We were just partying, and
Trump denies calling Haiti, El Salvador, and all of Africa “shithole countries”—a comment even the White House didn’t try to claw back. “This is CNN Tonight, I’m Don Lemon. The president of the United States is racist. A lot of us already knew that.” The Guardian offers
Last fall, a crowdsourced spreadsheet titled “Shitty Media Men” began privately circulating among women in media. A new variation on a whisper network, it named powerful men in media who were known by female colleagues to have engaged in inappropriate—sometimes criminal—sexual behavior. As the spreadsheet grew longer and
At least 13 are dead from mudslides in Southern California, the region’s “worst-case scenario” after the recent fires. Canyon dwellers in California defend their way of life—offline and tightly knit—no matter what the weather brings. Among recent extreme weather events, here is the Sahara Desert in
