As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape and Even Suicide
Lydia Fu for ProPublica Illinois Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was published in partnership with ProPublica Illinois. One 16-year-old from Guatemala said he wanted to “quitarme la vida,” or “take my life away,” as he waited to be released from a Chicago shelter for immigrant children. He was kept…
President Trump Just Blew Up Over the New York Times’ Anonymous Op-Ed
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, the New York Times opinion page published a blockbuster op-ed from an anonymous Trump administration official that excoriated the president, calling his leadership style “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective,” and arguing that Trump’s behavior is “detrimental to the health of our republic.”…
Donald Trump Has No Idea His Staff Is Sabotaging Him
SMG via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the past couple of hours the chattering classes have been obsessed with an anonymous op-ed published in the New York Times this afternoon. And why not? It is a wee bit strange for an op-ed to be anonymous. In this case,…
Twitter’s CEO Says the Site Does Not Discriminate Against Conservatives
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifying before Congress. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey rolled through Congress for a pair of hearings on Wednesday, his first time testifying before Congress, and stressed in no uncertain terms that Twitter does not selectively ban…
The Traumatized Horror of Adolescence
The traumatized horror of adolescence is coming soon to a Broadway theater near you! Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at Vox, Constance Grady reposts her review of the musical Be More Chill, a teen sensation that came (literally) out of nowhere; has now migrated to off-Broadway; and will finally…
Bernie Sanders Just Ramped Up His Feud With Amazon
New legislation would require Amazon to help pay for the welfare benefits its employees receive.Ted S. Warren/ AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has spent much of 2018 feuding with Amazon and the company’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, with Sanders objecting to the low wages offered by…