Month: November 2019

As world leaders convene at the One Planet Summit on the second anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, environmental advocates are cautiously celebrating the “historic announcement” by the World Bank on Tuesday that it will stop funding oil and gas exploration and production projects after 2019. Though 350.org responded to the news by saying “more…

Mitchell Santos Toledo is one of 700,000 DACA recipients whose fate could be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, which hears arguments on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program this week. Mitchell Santos Toledo came to the United States when he was 2. His parents had temporary visas when they brought him and his…

With U.S. President Donald Trump set to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital on Wednesday—a move denounced by the Palestinian envoy to Britain as “declaration of war” against Muslims—thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Gaza and the West Bank overnight to burn American flags and images of Trump as part of “three days…

The Pentagon’s official outline for its use of nuclear force was denounced as “radical” and “extreme” by prominent anti-nuclear weapons groups when it was released Friday afternoon—confirming peace advocates’ worst fears that the Trump administration would seek to expand the use of nuclear force. “Who in their right mind thinks we should expand the list…

While speaking in South Africa on Tuesday in one of his first major speeches since he left the White House, former President Barack Obama endorsed the idea of introducing a universal basic income. “Artificial intelligence is here, and it is accelerating. … And that is going to make the job of giving everybody work that…

From Brooklyn to Brattleboro, I just drove four and a half hours to go from co-op to co-op. In Brooklyn, it’s the Park Slope Food Co-op—one of the nation’s, and the world’s, largest. A history-making experiment in pooling resources and worker hours to access high quality food at affordable prices. Now the place has more…

Former First Lady Michelle Obama is a champion of education, civil rights, and, apparently, birthdays. The Harvard graduate and mother of two celebrated husband and former President Barack Obama’s 56th birthday in the most 2017 way: through social media. On Friday, she took to both Instagram and Twitter to publicly send him her well wishes….

“I send you affectionate hugs,” writes Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador in a letter to U.S. President Trump, “We will put our voters and citizens at the center and displace the establishment.” “Thank you for your kind letter.  A strong relationship will lead to a much stronger and more prosperous Mexico which, frankly would…

Katie Holmes and Channing Tatum just can’t seem to get along … in movies, that is. Holmes stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday in New York City to talk about her new heist movie Logan Lucky, which comes out Friday, and her co-star Tatum. They seem to get along great in…

In a letter Tuesday, a coalition of 33 consumer, privacy, economic policy, and other groups called on congressional leaders and top federal regulators to impose a moratorium on Facebook’s proposed global cryptocurrency “until the profound questions raised by the proposal are addressed.” “The Facebook proposal to create a new cryptocurrency as part of its broader…