Politics

The Karnes County Family Residential Center outside of San Antonio was built to house families detained at the border, but in April, it switched to become a facility that housed single adult women instead. The switch was a disaster: families are typically released after soon processing, but adults are not, …

On Friday, President Donald Trump went after former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Trump called into question Biden’s mental acuity after the gaffe-prone Biden misspoke on Thursday while stumping in Iowa. “We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are …

It’s well known by now that Republicans and their propaganda network, Fox News, go out of their way to blame anything and everything other than guns for gun violence. But since President Donald Trump has taken office, they’ve added another layer to their denial and deflection agenda — they blame …

Two summers ago, the head of Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority, Andrew Bailey, made news when he announced that LIBOR – the leading benchmark for setting global interest rates – had a “sustainability” issue. The rate is supposed to measure the rate at which banks borrow from each other, but Bailey …

The day before Dr. Leana Wen took the reins as president of Planned Parenthood — the first doctor to lead the organization in 50 years — staffers received a detailed memo indicating how things were going to operate under the new leadership. Addressed to the organization’s communications team, it included …

The climate crisis is not just the biggest issue of the 2020 election, or the biggest issue of our time — it is the biggest issue that human civilization has ever faced. We are talking about the basic operating system of the entire planet. If we fuck it up too …

Oil executives want to play nice with Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager whose one-person school strike launched a worldwide movement to treat the climate crisis like the emergency it is. Deirdre Michie, head of the industry trade association Oil and Gas UK, declared in a speech recently that the sector …

If the president doesn’t like reality, he just finds a new one. And that certainly seems to be the case when it comes to his pollsters. The president’s campaign has said it will fire the polling firms who conducted polls that found President Donald Trump trailing behind former vice president …

President Trump’s standing with America’s allies has been strained since he took office. Particularly tumultuous has been his relationship with French President Emmanuel Macron, which has been tested over issues like Trump’s decision to remove the United States from the Paris climate accord, Trump’s tariff obsession, Trump’s rampant nationalism and …

President Donald Trump has his eyes on 2020. Like many of the Democrats who have declared their intention to oppose him, he’s even weighed in on reparations. Kind of. On Sunday, Trump retweeted a frightening idea from prominent evangelical Jerry Falwell Jr. “After the best week ever for @realDonaldTrump — …