Charles Pierce | Trade Wars Are Easy. Comedy Is Hard.
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Charles Pierce | Trade Wars Are Easy. Comedy Is Hard.
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Apparently, sometime before dawn on Friday, Executive Time already was rolling in earnest with an assessment of one of the critical issues of the day: the performance of someone named 'Alex Baldwin,' whose career was said to be 'dieing.'"
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Apparently, sometime before dawn on Friday, Executive Time already was rolling in earnest with an assessment of one of the critical issues of the day: the performance of someone named 'Alex Baldwin,' whose career was said to be 'dieing.'"
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Sig Sauer rifles on display. (photo: John Sommers II/Reuters)
How the NRA Won the Obedience of the US Government
Heather Timmons, Quartz
Timmons writes: "The National Rifle Association's black-carpeted booth was packed last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. Just days earlier, a school shooter in Parkland, Florida had killed seventeen people."
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Heather Timmons, Quartz
Timmons writes: "The National Rifle Association's black-carpeted booth was packed last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. Just days earlier, a school shooter in Parkland, Florida had killed seventeen people."
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Activists rally to defend DACA in Washington, D.C. (photo: Andrew Stefan/RSN)
The DACA Deadline That Wasn't
Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
Shoichet writes: "It was supposed to be a make-or-break moment. When the Trump administration said last September it was pulling the plug on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, March 5 was the program's official end date."
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Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
Shoichet writes: "It was supposed to be a make-or-break moment. When the Trump administration said last September it was pulling the plug on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, March 5 was the program's official end date."
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Jennyerin Steele Staats, a special education teacher from Jackson County, holds her sign aloft outside of the capitol building after WVEA President Dale Lee outlined the terms for ending the walkout. (photo: Craig Hudson/AP)
'All-In or Nothing': How West Virginia's Teacher Strike Was Months in the Making
Campbell Robertson and Jess Bidgood, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Home from a long day teaching English last month at Mingo Central High School, Robin Ellis told her husband the latest talk among the teachers. They were tired of low pay and costly health benefits - and they were mulling a 'rolling strike,' in which teachers in a few counties would walk out each day."
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Campbell Robertson and Jess Bidgood, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Home from a long day teaching English last month at Mingo Central High School, Robin Ellis told her husband the latest talk among the teachers. They were tired of low pay and costly health benefits - and they were mulling a 'rolling strike,' in which teachers in a few counties would walk out each day."
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'Black Panther' had the fifth-highest-earning opening weekend of any film in U.S. history and has already become the single highest-grossing film ever by a black director, 31-year-old Ryan Coogler. (photo: Marvel Studios)
How the "Black Panther" Film Is "a Defining Moment for Black America"
Carvell Wallace, Robyn C. Spencer and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "As Black History Month wraps up, we look at the record-breaking movie 'Black Panther.' Since the release of 'Black Panther' earlier this month, fans have crowdfunded campaigns to ensure children can see the film in theaters, teachers have incorporated the movie's core themes of anti-colonialism and cultural representation into their curriculum, and activists have used film screenings to hold mass voter registration drives."
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Carvell Wallace, Robyn C. Spencer and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "As Black History Month wraps up, we look at the record-breaking movie 'Black Panther.' Since the release of 'Black Panther' earlier this month, fans have crowdfunded campaigns to ensure children can see the film in theaters, teachers have incorporated the movie's core themes of anti-colonialism and cultural representation into their curriculum, and activists have used film screenings to hold mass voter registration drives."
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Berta Cáceres speaking to activists in Rio Blanco, Honduras. (photo: Andrew Stefan/RSN)
Honduras Arrests 'Mastermind' Behind Berta Caceres' Murder
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Police in Honduras have arrested a construction executive for his alleged role in the murder of environmental and indigenous activist Berta Caceres."
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Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Police in Honduras have arrested a construction executive for his alleged role in the murder of environmental and indigenous activist Berta Caceres."
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A blacktip shark. (photo: antos777/Shutterstock)
Blacktip Sharks in Sharp Decline off Florida Coast - and Trump's Not Helping
Oliver Milman, Guardian UK
Milman writes: "Blacktip sharks that journey down the Florida coast have declined in number so sharply that researchers warn one of the largest migrations in US waters could grind to a halt because of the rapidly warming ocean."
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Oliver Milman, Guardian UK
Milman writes: "Blacktip sharks that journey down the Florida coast have declined in number so sharply that researchers warn one of the largest migrations in US waters could grind to a halt because of the rapidly warming ocean."
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