Quote of the Day: “Well, You Can Go to Prison Instead”
During an interview with several reporters and a photographer from Time magazine, President Trump showed them a letter from Kim Jong Un and then asked to go off the record. The photographer took a picture of the letter, was told he couldn’t do that, and said “OK.” Later, one of the reporters asked about the…
Civil Rights Heroes Lewis and Clyburn Defend Biden
Yesterday I wondered if Joe Biden’s remarks about working with segregationists would hurt him with African Americans. Not so far, it appears: VIDEO: Rep. John Lewis with a powerful defense of @JoeBiden: “I don’t think the remarks are offensive. During the height of the civil rights movement we worked with people and got to know…
Bree Runway is Giving Us the Righteous Pop Music We Need Right Now
Bree Runway This week: “2ON” by Bree Runway (Virgin EMI Records, 2019) Why we’re into it: It’s intense. It’s loud. It’s messy. It’s also what the pop music needs right now. Runway originally hails from the London borough of Hackney and has only two other songs out, 2016’s “Butterfly” and 2017’s “What Do I Tell My Friends.”…
The 2020 Democrats are Running on an Outmoded Obama Climate Policy
Robert Nickelsberg, Getty Images All the candidates seeking the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nomination have offered climate change platforms that share a few basic tenets, yet news outlets seem to ask them the same two questions again and again: Would you rejoin the Paris climate agreement? Would you reinstate Obama-era climate rules, including the Clean Power…
More People Than Ever Say They Support Trans Rights. But Do They Support the Policies?
LGBTQ activists and supporters rally in support of transgender people at New York City Hall in late 2018.Drew Angerer / Getty Images A survey by the Public Religion Research Institute made headlines last week with its finding that 62 percent of Americans say they have become more supportive of transgender rights in the last five years. Media…
How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement
erhui1979/Getty This story was originally published by ProPublica. When the Walton Family Foundation announced in 2013 that it was donating $20 million to Teach For America to recruit and train nearly 4,000 teachers for low-income schools, its press release did not reveal the unusual terms for the grant. Documents obtained by ProPublica show that the foundation,…