Hate Crimes Are More Important Than a Few Rich Kids Getting Into Harvard
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. David Leonhardt: The president of the United States suggested last week that his political supporters might resort to violence if they didn’t get their way. The statement didn’t even get that much attention. I’m guessing you heard a lot more about the college-admissions scandal than…
Chart of the Day: CEO Pay Is Still Growing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal reports that CEO pay was up yet again last year. Here’s the chart: Big-company CEOs have seen a median pay raise of about 40 percent since 2010. Ordinary workers have seen a pay raise of 20 percent. Adjusted for inflation, that’s…
Dems Ask FBI to Investigate Massage Parlor Owner Who Was Selling Access to Trump
Yang, right, attends the 2016 Republican National Convention. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Top Democrats on four congressional committees have asked the FBI investigate the activities of Cindy Yang, the massage parlor owner who offered to sell Chinese business executives access to President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. In a letter…
Elizabeth Warren Is Your Favorite Candidate Right Now
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here are the results of my spur-of-the-moment survey from Sunday. It got about 1,700 responses. I’m a little surprised that so many of you are swooning over Pete Buttigieg, but I expect that will change before long. I also suspect that Elizabeth Warren will lose…
Here’s What Our President Is Thinking About
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Beginning at 8 am, Donald Trump put up no fewer than 30 tweets on Sunday. Busy guy! Here are the subjects that are obsessing him at the moment: Saturday Night Live making fun of him too much. The Steele dossier and the whole Russia witch…
Trump’s Stricter Work Requirements for Food Stamps Might Actually Lead to Fewer Jobs
Rahab Kinity, a food stamp recipient, cooks dinner for herself and her son in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2013.Gerry Broome/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Donald Trump released his latest budget blueprint on March 11, one of the items on the chopping block was the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…