Trump Might Use the G-7 Summit to Bail Out His Struggling Golf Club
Donald Trump sparred with fellow world leaders at the 2018 G-7 summit in Canada.Jesco Denzel/German Federal Government via AP When the leaders of the world’s top advanced economies met last summer in Canada, pictures of the G-7 summit famously showed President Donald Trump at odds with his peers: arms crossed and glaring, while the other world leaders…
Liberal Ideas Are Not As Popular As You Think
A new PBS/Marist poll is out, and it shows that Americans are generally in love with liberal ideas. Hooray! But don’t get too excited yet. Americans say they like lots of things when they’re asked out of the blue, but in the real world the other side gets to weigh in before opinions become solidified.…
Was Al Franken Guilty As Charged?
Al Franken hugs Sen. Amy Klobuchar at the end of a speech shortly before he stepped down from the Senate.Glen Stubbe/TNS via ZUMA Today’s big story is a Jane Mayer piece in the New Yorker taking a retrospective look at the Al Franken affair. Not to put too fine a point on it, Mayer basically…
Trump Lashes Out at Congresswomen of Color, Labels Them “Very Racist” and “Not Smart”
Brian Lawless/ZUMA President Donald Trump, after spending more than a week escalating his racist attacks against four congresswomen of color, continued his smears Monday morning, labeling the freshman Democrats known as the “squad” a “very racist group of troublemakers.” In doing so, the president disparaged their intelligence—one of the predictable insults that he deploys when…
Trump’s Racist Comments Have Spawned Violent Threats Against Lawmakers of Color
Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Ayanna Presley (D-Mass.).Carol Guzy/Zuma President Donald Trump’s racist comments directed at four congresswomen of color have spawned escalating social media attacks on the group known as the Squad, sometimes advocating violence against the lawmakers. In one episode, a police officer in Louisiana wrote on…
Mindset Training Is a Bust
“Mindset training” is a trendy practice designed to help students—especially marginalized students—do better in school by teaching them that their brainpower is not fixed forever, but can grow and change with effort. This is called a “growth mindset.” But does it work? Several smallish studies have suggested it might, so recently a British team conducted…