On Tuesday the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced new qualifications for films to be eligible for the coveted Best Picture Academy Award. The detailed qualifications incentivize film studios to employ members of traditionally underrepresented groups, as well as highlight stories focusing on those groups. PRRI data from 2017 shows that young people ages 15-24 believed that many underrepresented groups were portrayed negatively in film and on television. Almost two-thirds (66%) said Black people were portrayed negatively and 59% believed Hispanic people were portrayed negatively. More than half (55%) believed that LGBT people were portrayed negatively and 45% believed women were portrayed negatively.

In 2019, 49% of the country rated climate change as a critical issue, including 72% of Democrats, 50% of independents, and only 17% of Republicans. President Trump, who has often spoken of exiting the Paris Agreement on climate change, touted his environmental resume at a recent event in Florida. According to Trump, he is the “No. 1 environmental president since Teddy Roosevelt.” Annie Karni and Lisa Friedman disagree with that notion, in a recent piece for The New York Times. “Mr. Trump’s up-is-down claims about his environmental record… were the latest example of the gaslighting campaign he is running to win over voters in battleground states by trying to ignore or misrepresent his own record,” they write.

Reports circulated this week indicating that the Denver Broncos would try to welcome some fans back to the stadium for their week three matchup against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “Gov. Jared Polis has been well-versed for weeks in the Broncos safety plan at the stadium. Brittany Bowlen, who is chairing the Broncos’ COVID task force, submitted an extensive stadium safety plan to the governor’s office a few weeks ago,”