#CheckForGood makes it easy to direct your Trump-signed check to a list of organizations helping people who are out of work. If you’re lucky enough to still have a job—unlike the 30 million Americans who have filed for unemployment over the last six weeks—and you’ve decided you don’t need the stimulus check that you may be eligible for from the government, a simple new tool called #CheckForGood will help you choose where to donate the money. Read Full Story

“In Your Guts, You Know He’s Nuts.” “Keep America Great”: It’s the slogan for Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. It’s also the domain name for a website the Biden campaign nabbed and rebranded with Trump’s policy failings. Read Full Story

Wind power is dangerous for birds, but there’s a new, simple, cheap solution: paint. If you’ve heard President Trump talk about wind power, you’ve heard stories about dead birds : “You want to see a bird graveyard? You just go. Take a look . . . Go under a windmill someday. You’ll see more birds than you’ve ever seen, ever, in your life.” Wind turbines, in fact, aren’t the biggest killer of birds—that would be house cats, which kill an estimated 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion birds in North America alone each year, roughly 100 times more than wind farms. Building windows and cell phone towers are also bigger culprits. But as birds struggle with the impacts of climate change, anything to help reduce unnecessary deaths is critical. On wind farms, the fix could be as simple as paint. Read Full Story

We have been over this again and again, but somehow America still has not absorbed the lesson. How is there a dictionary word for being so hungry you get angry but not one for laughing while absolutely furious? Read Full Story

In the rubble of a canceled presidential debate between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, two town halls will compete head-to-head. As if we needed yet another reminder of being forever trapped in the proverbial “ two Americas ,” presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump will appear in two competing town hall-style events tonight on two different broadcast networks. The only thing they’ll have in common is a time slot. Read Full Story

It’s the Trump campaign’s latest wink to white supremacists. A new T-shirt in the Trump campaign’s online store is stirring up controversy—and not because of what it says, but because of what it depicts. Read Full Story

You’ve got your own passions and goals and your own schedule. Now, you just have to pick a direction. There’s an underlying belief in America that no matter who you are, if you just work hard enough, everything will work out for you. That’s not true. It’s more like, if you work strategically, you can improve the odds you’ll succeed. Read Full Story

America has let Trump get away with a lot of unforgivable words and deeds. The Capitol insurrection is our last chance to get it right, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Whiplash is an inadequate metaphor. Read Full Story

The Trump campaign has hundreds of ads running in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina ascribing his own worst quality to Biden. It’s foolish to count Trump out of the race for president, but his campaign is showing signs of desperation. Read Full Story

You’ve probably heard that the United States Postal Service is in trouble. Here are a few things you can do that will make a difference. As you’ve probably heard by now, the United States Postal Service is in trouble. President Trump has all but admitted he wants to undermine the vital mail service to make mail-in voting more difficult. And he has help: Last week, the Trump-appointed postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, announced sweeping changes to the USPS leadership that includes the resignation or displacement of almost two dozen executives, and this week Vice News reported that mail sorting machines are already being deactivated. Read Full Story