Turns Out the “Local Kansas Mom” in This Conservative Attack Ad Is a Top State Republican Official
Congressionald Leadership Fund/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Alana Roethle claims she’s worried about keeping her community safe. In “Risky,” a 30-second video ad released on Friday, the concerned mother of four warns that Sharice Davids, an openly gay Native American woman vying to unseat Kansas Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder, supports “an extreme…
Are Prime-Age Workers Still Coming Off the Sidelines to Join the Labor Market?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of the key jobs statistics to keep an eye on is the employment ratio for prime-age workers. By looking only at workers between the age of 25-54, it eliminates issues of students still in school or changes in retirement rates due to an aging…
Trump’s Inauguration Photos Were Cropped to Make Crowds Look Bigger, Report Says
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a statement during his first press conference as Press Secretary where he spoke about the media’s reporting on the inauguration’s crowd size. Alex Wong/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump boasted about the size of the…
Haunting Poems and Photos From a State Torn by Fracking
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Julia Spicher Kasdorf pulled off Pennsylvania’s Route 15 on her way upstate in 2012, she noticed something she’d never seen before. Across the highway, by the restaurant where she and her husband stopped for lunch, helicopters dangling strange pendants were hovering over the mountainside.…
Shockingly Candid Photos Of Life on a 1970s Arkansas Prison Farm
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bruce Jackson got into photography as a means to an end. Working as an ethnographer studying African American work songs in Texas prisons, Jackson started taking photos for reference. While doing this work in the late ’60s, he met Terrell Don Hutto, a prison teacher…
The Seven Softest Softball Questions Republicans Asked Brett Kavanaugh
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By any standard, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s past few days with the Senate Judiciary Committee have been grueling. Democrats pressed hard on his views of abortion, presidential power, and the Russia investigation, and at times, tensions were high. But when Republicans had their chance…