Have the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School changed the game? In the wake of the Parkland massacre that killed 17 children and educators, there’s no question the students have changed the national conversation. Survivors of this mass shooting have called “B.S.” on empty Republican pieties – rejecting “thoughts …
Read More »Taibbi: Erica Garner Secretly Taped Justice Department Meeting
Erica Garner, activist and daughter of slain police victim Eric Garner, died unexpectedly of heart failure at the end of 2017. She was only 27, and left behind two small children. She also had unfinished business. In the last months of her life, she had been planning to release a …
Read More »Pizzagate: Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal
This story was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Additional reporting: Aaron Sankin, Laura Starecheski, Michael Corey, Jaime Longoria and Jasper Craven. The revelations overcame Edgar Maddison Welch like a hallucinatory fever. On December 1st, 2016, the father of two from …
Read More »The Climate Apartheid: How Global Warming Affects the Rich and Poor
Below is an excerpt from The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and theRemaking of the Civilized World, to be published by Little, Brown on Oct 24, 2017. As cities around the world adapt to the harsh realities of climate change, the divide between the doomed and the saved …
Read More »Myeshia Johnson: I Have 'Nothing to Say' to Trump After Phone Call
Myeshia Johnson, the pregnant widow of the late Sgt. La David Johnson, spoke out during an interview on Good Morning America Monday, affirming Rep. Frederica Wilson’s statements last week about a botched condolence call with President Trump – an account he has repeatedly refuted. “I heard his stumbling on trying …
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