Bracing for an increasingly dangerous Hurricane Florence, more than a million people may face mandatory evacuation in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. 1/22 If public housing is the physical manifestation of a hope for social progress, that hope has its own historical twist in the United States. Nine
Please note: We’re taking next week off, and we’ll back on Monday, Sept. 10. See you then! Half a million people have been killed in Syria's seven-year war. Signs suggest a massive final battle is coming. 1/14 Immigration officials say that birth certificates aren&
Canada and the US inch closer to a NAFTA 2.0 deal for Trump’s Friday deadline. 1/19 For what it’s worth, the Friday deadline isn’t actually real. 2/19 Thanks to Trump, teenagers appear to be more interested in current events, but also more skeptical of
Bipartisan members of Congress encourage the president to impose sanctions on Beijing for incarcerating millions of Uyghur Muslims in “training centers.†1/24 The White House has reportedly created a secret task force to sabotage public support for marijuana. 2/24 More evidence that Trump possibly obstructed justice:
California’s Assembly passes a bill requiring 100% of the state’s electricity to come from carbon-free sources by 2045. 1/24 A federal court rules that North Carolina Republicans illegally gerrymandered their congressional districts. 2/24 Southern senators resist renaming a federal building for McCain that currently honors
Trump and Mexico reach a deal on NAFTA, re-dubbed the US Mexico Trade Agreement, putting pressure on Canada. 1/22 Voters head to the polls in Florida, Arizona, and Oklahoma to pick general election candidates. 2/22 Taiwan, oddly enough, has become a pioneer in digital democracy with a
Across North America, prisoners are striking over treatment and forced labor that amounts to modern slavery. 1/22 Since 2010, at least 404 people with mental illness have died in US jails—which are now "default treatment centers." 2/22 The US Dept. of Education is considering exploiting
Hurricane Lane has weakened, but it’s still expected to be hazardous in Hawaii over the next couple of days. 1/18 A week of chaos continues in Australia’s government. It’s nothing new: The past decade has been marked “by a series of leadership coups.†2/
Trump's tweet about the murder of South African farmers—which are at a 20-year low—and land expropriation is a popular conspiracy theory among white nationalists who want to push the threat of "white genocide." 1/18 The close of trading in New York yesterday
In a dizzying day of news, Manafort is found guilty, Michael Cohen implicates the President, and the White House says there’s nothing to see here. 1/22 The President, Donald Trump: “If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain
