Walmart Will No Longer Sell Handgun Ammunition
QualityHD/Shutterstock Walmart will stop selling ammunition for handguns and certain types of short-barrel rifle, the company announced Tuesday. The retail giant made its decision in response to a shooting that killed 22 people in its El Paso store last month. In a memo sent to employees, CEO Doug McMillon cited additional shootings in Dayton, Ohio…
Tech Is No Panacea for the Classroom
What, yeah, I’m totally doing my homework. I’m not sure. Maybe history?Ashley Corbin-Teich/Image Source via ZUMA The Wall Street Journal reports that parents are starting to have a few wee concerns about digital classrooms: When Baltimore County, Md., public schools began going digital five years ago, textbooks disappeared from classrooms and paper and pencils were…
How to Stop Russia From Attacking and Influencing the 2020 Election
The Russians are coming. That’s the message about the 2020 election from FBI Director Chris Wray (who this summer said Moscow is determined to interfere in the next presidential contest) and from former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats (who warned that Vladimir Putin’s regime and other foreign actors will concoct new methods for messing…
Manufacturing Index Suggests Economy Is Starting to Contract
We’re at a point now where there seem to be about equal numbers of good and bad signs related to the economy. Today we got one of the bad ones: Anything under 50 indicates a weak economy. Bloomberg explains: U.S. factory activity unexpectedly contracted in August for the first time in three years as shrinking…
The Crazy Story of How Alabama Accidentally Passed a Bill Upending Parental Rights
Mother Jones illustration; Getty After Alabama lawmakers banned almost all abortions in May, with no exception for rape or incest, Jessica Stallings, a rape survivor from Fort Payne, was frustrated. But not for the reasons you might expect. Stallings, a mother of two, actually supported the strict ban. She had been raped as a teen…
Happy Labor Day From Donald Trump!
Happy Labor Day from Donald Trump! A new wave of tariffs by the Trump administration…is likely to hit American households in the most direct way yet. By how much? About $460 over a year for the average family. Happy Labor Day from Donald Trump! In an interview ahead of Labor Day, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka…