Hillary Clinton Wins Fight for $12 Minimum Wage
See, I told you.Victoria Jones/PA Wire via ZUMA I don’t want to be a killjoy— Oh hell, I love being a killjoy. In this case, I’d like to point out that the House bill to raise the minimum wage to $15 is a victory for . . . Hillary Clinton. You see, the bill raises…
Trump’s Assault on Somali Refugees Goes Way Beyond Just Ilhan Omar
Somali refugee, who prefers to hide her name, in 2018.Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty During President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina, on Wednesday, the crowd chanted, “Send her back! Send her back!” in response to his criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Trump stood back and listened for more than 10 seconds before continuing, although…
The History Behind the Supreme Court Showdown Over Tribal Land Is Bloody and Violent. For Rebecca Nagle, It’s Also Personal.
Rebecca Nagle, host of “This Land” podcast. Crooked Media “The Supreme Court case no one is talking about” began with a murder. It could end with 43 percent of Oklahoma’s land being returned to tribal governments. In a way Carpenter v. Murphy encapsulates the larger history of Native dispossession—a story of bloody violence dissolving into…
LA Sheriff Really Hates It When Bad Folks Get Fired
Ronen Tivony/SOPA Images via ZUMA Last year Alex Villanueva was a surprise winner against the incumbent in the race to become the new sheriff of Los Angeles County. I don’t live in LA so I’ve followed this only from afar, but as near as I can tell Villanueva’s main goal in office is to rehire…
Don’t Overreact to FaceApp. There Are Bigger Tech Risks Out There.
Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images FaceApp went viral earlier this week as people rushed to use one of the program’s photo filters to glimpse what they might look like in old age. Then FaceApp when viral again as people shared posts and warnings that the popular app could be a Russian…
Donald Trump’s Politics of Hate Began With a “Cynical and Evil” GOP Memo
President Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina.Gerry Broome/AP Donald Trump’s outburst of nativistic racism—viscerally and putridly displayed by his “go back” tweet-attack on four congresswoman who are people of color and the subsequent and shocking (even for Trump) “send her back” rally in North Carolina on Wednesday night—has been a clarifying…