Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark Makes $1 Million Gift to Mother Jones
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mother Jones today announced that Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies, has made a $1 million gift to support its investigative journalism efforts. An entrepreneur and philanthropist, Newmark is a long-time, vocal advocate for a vigorous, trustworthy press. “We’re in the middle of…
The Incredible, Rage-Inducing Inside Story of America’s Student Debt Machine
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Leigh McIlvaine first learned that her student loan debt could be forgiven, she was thrilled. In 2008, at age 27, she’d earned a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Minnesota. She’d accrued just under $70,000 in debt, though she…
California Is About to Abolish Cash Bail. Criminal Justice Advocates Aren’t Happy.
Wavebreakmedia/iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Criminal justice activists have long said California’s bail system needs reforming. Earlier this year, a California appellate court agreed, declaring the state’s system unconstitutional and making change inevitable. Then last week, Democrats in the state Legislature passed a bill that would effectively abolish cash bail once and for all. …
Brett Kavanaugh Has a Nearly Perfect Record of Speeding Up Extinction
Kavanaugh’s record so far suggests he’s among the most conservative to come from the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. CBD’s analysis compared him to Judge David Sentelle, whom President Ronald Reagan appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in 1987. Sentelle decided against protections in around 57 percent…
Sarah Palin Says John McCain “Had Some Strange People Around Him”
Sarah Palin delivers a speech in 2008.Kiichiro Sato,/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Poor John McCain can’t die in peace without a last few digs from his former vice-presidential running mate, Sarah Palin. While most of the political world was fondly remembering McCain and issuing sympathetic statements to his…
Multiple Fatalities in Mass Shooting at Jacksonville Madden Video Game Event
Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams, right, holds a news conference Sunday after a gunman opened fire during an online video game tournament that was being livestreamed from a Florida mall, killing multiple people and sending many others to hospitals.Laura Heald/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update 5 pm ET: Jacksonville sheriff…