Footnotes News in Brief Synthesizing the News A House Bill Would Expand Bears Ears to 1.9 Million Acres The bill would restore the areas excised from the monument by Trump, and add additional acreage. Rebecca Worby
Environment Why Does Trump Keep Mixing Up Weather and Climate? Trump is citing the polar vortex descending on the Midwest as evidence against climate change. Why is this faulty logic so common? Kate Wheeling
Social Justice How the Shutdown Actually Kept Thousands of Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S. As a result of the shutdown, an estimated 80,000 court hearings will have to be rescheduled. Massoud Hayoun
Footnotes From the Archives News in Brief A New White House Tell-All Illustrates Trump’s Views on How to Keep Teens From Abusing Opioids In a new book, White House staffer Cliff Sims recounts what the president wanted for White House-sponsored ads intended to discourage young Americans from abusing opioid painkillers. Francie Diep
News in Brief The Government Shutdown Could Mean an Exodus of Public-Sector Employees There's reason to believe Trump's willingness to freeze worker pay might have created a rift that can't be fixed. Jared Keller
Education The Left and Right Both Distrust Partisan News, According to a New Study New research finds that Americans tend to trust mainstream news sources over highly partisan ones, including those that reflect our prejudices. Tom Jacobs
Footnotes News in Brief Synthesizing the News The Government Shutdown Has (Temporarily) Ended. What Does That Mean for Both Sides? Trump's agreement to re-open the government comes without any guaranteed funding for a border wall, representing a capitulation to Democrats' demands. Jack Herrera
Environment New Landscapes Demonizing Regulations Actually Hurts Coal Miners A new study finds that being honest about the decline of coal can increase support for the training and relocation of coal miners. Sophie Yeo
News in Brief Is There Precedent for Trump’s Approach to Presidential Diplomacy? Despite the headlines, Trump's personal meetings with foreign leaders is quite common; it's the way he goes about them that breaks with tradition. Tizoc Chavez
Environment How Trump Plans to Gut NEPA, a 50-Year-Old Environmental Law The goal of the National Environmental Policy Act is to make every infrastructure project in the country a little greener. Sharon Zhang