Trump’s National Security Team Is Now a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Defense Industry
President Donald Trump walks to Air Force One prior to departing from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia on March 2, 2017.Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty With John Bolton out as national security adviser, the defense industry is poised to receive even more representation in the highest levels of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy team. Bolton deputy Charlie…
Guess Who Benefited From the Trump Tax Cut?
I’ve deleted this post. I didn’t notice that there was a technical change to the CPS data starting in 2017, and that accounts for the changes in income shares between 2017 and 2018. I thought it was probably due to the Republican tax act, but apparently it had nothing to do with that.
The Tea Party Got What It Wanted
A May 29, 2010, rally organized by members of the Arizona Tea Party movement to show support for Arizona law SB1070, which made it a state crime to be in the US illegally and required immigrants to carry papers with them at all times. ZUMA Press/Jack Kurtz A couple weeks ago, the New York Times…
Report: More than 1600 Polling Places Have Closed Since the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act
Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted a core provision of the Voting Rights Act: The requirement for certain states with a history of voter discrimination to “preclear” changes in their election rules with the federal government. For decades, the 1965 law helped secure the right to vote for hundreds of thousands…
NYT: Sharpiegate Nearly Got Some Folks Fired
Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post/Getty Sharpiegate continue to get ever more contemptible: The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, according to three people familiar with the discussion. That threat led to an unusual, unsigned statement…
Jonathan Franzen Isn’t Quite Right, But He Has a Point
Jonathan Franzen has pissed off a lot of people by writing in the New Yorker that we should just admit the obvious: we’ve lost the war on climate change. He says that the conditions for success are simply unacceptable for most people: The first condition is that every one of the world’s major polluting countries…