Politics

For decades, scientists and journalists have been ringing the alarm on climate change, but few forced people to sit up and take notice like New York Magazine’s David Wallace-Wells, whose alarming article “The Uninhabitable Earth” caused a bit of an uproar in climate and environmentalist circles when it was published …

WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort, the disgraced Republican operative and former Trump campaign chairman, arrived in a courtroom in northern Virginia on Thursday in a wheelchair and wearing a green jumpsuit and staring down the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars. In the end, he got off …

This is the 10th dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who will be investigating the effect of climate change on Thwaites glacier. Ali Graham, a 37-year-old geophysicist from the U.K.’s University of Exeter, is a tall, thin man with a pointy beard and a soft-spoken manner. When he’s not …

During a Republican celebratory event at the West Virginia capitol on Friday hostilities rose after a poster was displayed that pictured Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) along with an image of the fiery World Trade Center on 9/11. The poster was displayed in the capitol’s rotunda during a Republican event called …

The family of Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student who was filmed staring down a Native American protester in Washington, D.C., last month, is suing the Washington Post for its coverage of the incident. The suit, which seeks $250 million in damages, accuses the Postof “targeting and bullying” …

President Trump on Friday morning signed a national emergency declaration in order to build a wall along America’s southern border. He announced the news during a press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House. “I’m going to be signing a national emergency and it’s been signed many times …

In the midst of the longest government shutdown in United States history, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) took to the floor Friday to talk about an important issue facing the American people: football officiating. Cassidy’s beloved Saints were the victims of a bad call by a referee in the NFC Championship …

Kamala Harris, the first-term Democratic Senator from California who has rocketed to Democratic stardom since her election just over two years ago, used an early-morning television appearance on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to officially launch her long-awaited run for president. “My entire career has been focused on keeping people …

President Trump took a break from his border wall obsession Wednesday morning to dust off a favorite fixation from yesteryear: federal money being used to help California combat wildfires. “Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen,” …

Chris Cantwell, a.k.a. the “Crying Nazi,” responded to the conviction of James Fields, who was found guilty of first-degree murder for plowing a car into protesters in Charlottesville, by threatening “complete and total destruction” of “Charlottesville and the broad left” in a post on social network Gab. On Friday, Fields, …