Russian Lawyer at Trump Tower Meeting Lied About Kremlin Ties, Prosecutors Charge
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya on November 8, 2016Yury Martyanov/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Federal prosecutors have charged Natalia Veselnitskaya with lying in sworn statements about her ties to Russia’s top prosecutor, a new indication that Veselnitskaya acted as a Kremlin agent when she attended the infamous June 2016…
What’s Going On With AOC?
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sure does know how to attract attention. I guess that’s no surprise: she’s photogenic, she’s young, she’s the leader of the #Resistance, and she defends herself pretty well on camera without constantly resorting to tedious talking points. She’s…
Those Stories About Federal Inmates Eating Steak Were Just Red Meat for Conservatives
C. Aluka Berry/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Christmas Day, federal inmates were served holiday meals by prison employees, as happens each year. But this year, because correctional officers are working without pay due to the ongoing government shutdown, it made headlines. Late last week, USA Today published the complaints of disgruntled prison guards who wrote to the…
Chart of the Day: Never Believe Corporations. Never.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Matt Yglesias points me today to an elegant recent study of the job market. As you know, the business community has been grousing for years that they simply can’t find people who are qualified for all the complex new jobs they have on offer. This…
The Gig Economy Is a Big Nothingburger
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As you know if you’re a faithful reader of this blog, the “gig economy” is largely a myth. So how did two prominent researchers, Alan Krueger of Princeton University and Lawrence Katz of Harvard, manage to screw up so badly, predicting in 2015 that gig…
The Governor of Tennessee Just Granted Clemency to Cyntoia Brown
Cyntoia Brown appears in court during her clemency hearing in May.Lacy Atkins/The Tennessean/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Cyntoia Brown, a sex trafficking victim serving a life sentence in Tennessee for killing a man when she was 16, will walk free this summer after spending over a decade incarcerated. The yearslong…