The Worst Responses to Trump’s Racist Tweets
Ron Sachs/CNP via Zuma While President Donald Trump continues to double down on his racist weekend tweetstorm, his fiercest defenders are contorting themselves to try to explain that, actually, those comments weren’t racist. On Sunday, Trump unleashed a string of attacks on four freshman Democratic congresswomen of color—Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar…
Where Are the Decent Republicans?
Over at National Review, David French comments on President Trump’s racist comments this weekend telling progressive congresswomen of color that they should “go back where they came from”: The near-total silence (at least so far) from GOP leaders is deeply dispiriting. Do they not understand the message the leader of their party is sending —…
Raw Data: Kids Below Grade Level, Kids Taking Calculus
I was puttering around last night on some stuff related to education and happened to run across a couple of interesting statistics from an NAEP report a few years ago. First there’s this: The share of students in a grade level below the one typical for their age has increased over the past 50 years.…
This Is Why Republicans Won’t Condemn Trump’s “Go Back” Home Tweets
Tom Williams/ZUMA President Donald Trump’s assertion that “both sides” were to blame for the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia is widely viewed as a hallmark moment in the president’s longstanding record of racist behavior—a turning point so defining that it attracted what has become an exceedingly rare response in American politics: bipartisan condemnation. “Why…
New Rule: Polluters Can Appeal Judgments, But No One Else Can
TNS via ZUMA President Trump plans to propose eliminating the ability of local communities to appeal the EPA’s decisions on pollution permits: The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to weaken rules that for the past quarter-century have given communities a voice in deciding how much pollution may legally be released by nearby power plants and…
Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Helping American Workers
The Wall Street Journal reports that Donald Trump’s tariffs are, um: U.S. manufacturers are shifting production to countries outside of China as trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies stretch into a second year….The biggest beneficiaries of that decline have been other countries in Asia where production costs are low, such as Vietnam, India,…