It’s Just Another Day on “As the White House Turns”
Kevin Dietsch/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Another cunning plan bites the dust: The planned announcement had been kept secret from many senior White House officials in an effort to prevent a huge backlash that could sway Trump at the last second. Apparently a small cabal within the…
California Supreme Court Rules State Must Stop Sending So Many Children to Prison for 50 Years
AlexRaths/iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that it’s unconstitutional to send juvenile offenders to prison for 50 or more years after certain nonhomicide offenses, arguing that such a sentence would be functionally the same as life-without-parole. The 4-3 decision is the latest in…
We Asked for Your Favorite Hidden Figures From Black History. Your Responses Were Powerful.
A. Phillip Randolph, center, pressured Roosevelt to bar employers from racial and ethnic discrimination when hiring for federal and war-time jobs in the months leading up to the U.S. entering World War II. Clockwise starting from the upper left corner: Fannie Lou Hamer, Pauli Murray, Bayard Rustin, and Percy L. Julian.Mother Jones Illustration Looking for…
Trump: Investigate the FBI, not the Russians
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. AJ Vicens passes along the testimony of Admiral Mike Rogers, head of the NSA, on whether anyone has asked him to fight back against Russian election meddling: In a response to questioning by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Rogers said “I believe that President Putin has…
Trump Blasts Jeff Sessions for Not Doing More to Investigate Dubious Allegations of FBI Misconduct
Attorney General Jeff Sessions leaves a press conference on opioid drug policy at the Justice Department on Tuesday.Shen Ting/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump upped his criticism of Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, blasting his attorney general on Twitter for not doing enough to investigate…
The Black-White Job Gap Has Plummeted Since 2014
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A couple of days ago I posted a chart showing that the black unemployment rate was dropping faster than the white unemployment rate. I got into an email conversation with a reader about this, who suggested looking at the labor force participation rate as a…