RBG Says She’ll Be Back in Full Force by the Start of the Supreme Court Term
Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Library of Congress National Book Festival on Saturday.Cliff Owen, AP Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health has been on a lot of people’s minds lately. Having just completed a three-week radiation treatment for a cancerous tumor, the 86-year-old justice made her first public appearance promoting…
Betsy DeVos Just Made It Harder for Defrauded Students to Get Their Debt Canceled
Oliver Contreras, AP Just in time for the start of a new school year, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday finalized a new suite of changes to an Obama-era policy that targeted fraud at for-profit colleges. The new DeVos rule significantly raises the bar students have to clear in order to qualify for debt forgiveness…
Quote of the Day: Don’t Blame Me For Your Crappy Management
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster From our crybaby-in-chief: A lot of badly run companies are trying to blame tariffs. In other words, if they’re running badly and they’re having a bad quarter or if they’re just unlucky in some way, they’re trying to blame the tariffs. It’s not the tariffs. It’s called bad management. Can you imagine…
Here’s Why the Carolinas Are So Much More Vulnerable to a Hurricane Like Dorian Right Now
NASA Puerto Rico has escaped the worst of Hurricane Dorian. And it looks like Florida might, too: On Saturday morning, the storm again shifted paths, and it appears likely to skirt Florida’s eastern coast instead of making a direct hit. That doesn’t mean the danger is over for Florida, and it does put the rest…
Opportunity Zones Provide Big Opportunities For the Rich
The 2017 Republican tax bill was designed as a gift to corporations and the rich. However, it also contained a nod to the poor: a tax incentive to spur development in low-income “opportunity zones.” If this seems out of character for the modern GOP, don’t worry. The New York Times explains that there was, naturally,…
Three Weird Health Care Mysteries
Would you like to hear about three weird ways that cancer has changed my health? Of course you would. These are all very peculiar changes that are seemingly unrelated to the multiple myeloma itself, though who knows? Maybe they resulted from it in some strange way; maybe they’re due to the chemo drugs; or maybe…