Trump’s Ukraine Scandal May Have Finally Forced Pelosi’s Hand on Impeachment
Caroline Brehman/ZUMA She may not be completely sold yet, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to finally be reassessing her longheld resistance to opening an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump amid the fast-unfolding Ukraine scandal. “We will have no choice,” she told CNN late Monday on the inevitability of an impeachment investigation, as contemporaneous…
Why Your Mom Uses Emojis All Wrong 🙃
Mark Helenowski/Mother Jones In the early 2010s, strange uses of language started cropping up all over the micro-blogging platform Tumblr. A Tumblr user might do ALL THE THINGS, or get major feels, or lose the ability to even. Somehow, everyone understood each other. One blog, All Things Linguistic, took the language of Tumblr users seriously.…
Trump Openly Admits to Pressuring Ukraine Over Biden
Evan Vucci/AP President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to confirm that he pressured Ukraine to investigate debunked corruption allegations against Joe Biden in exchange for releasing US military aid to the country. The comments came a day after the president vehemently denied the accusation of a “ quid pro quo” arrangement between him and Ukrainian…
A Raw Look at Harvard’s Affirmative Action For White Kids
A few days ago a team of researchers published a paper about Harvard’s admission policies. In particular, they looked at affirmative action for four different categories of freshman admits: athletes, legacies, “dean’s interest,” and children of faculty. These are referred to as ALDC admits. The question at hand is how many applicants who were otherwise…
The Purdue Settlement Is a Great Deal—for the Sacklers
Protesters dropped hundreds of prescription bottles in front of Purdue Pharma’s Stamford, CT headquarters after news broke of the settlement proposal.Erik McGregor/Getty Last week marked a new chapter in the opioid epidemic: Purdue Pharma, creator of the blockbuster painkiller OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy as part of a tentative settlement with the thousands of municipalities suing…
Listen to Greta Thunberg’s Searing Testimony to the United Nations
(Drew Angerer/Getty) Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a searing statement to world leaders at Monday’s United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York. “You are still not mature enough to tell it like it is,” Thunberg said, her voice shaking. “You are failing us, but the young people are starting to understand your…