Elizabeth Warren’s New Economic Plan Tears into Trump on Trade
Sen. Elizabeth Warren campaigns at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, on May 3, 2019.Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Wire In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Elizabeth Warren, then a wonky law professor teaching at Harvard, led the effort to set up a new federal agency, a financial watchdog that would fight for American consumers against…
Tens of Thousands of Protesters and a Giant, Diaper-Clad Baby: Trump’s London Nightmare Has Begun
On Tuesday, a giant balloon depicting a petulant, smartphone-wielding Donald Trump in diapers, otherwise known as Trump Baby Blimp, appeared in Parliament Square, as volunteers clad in “Trump Babysitter” uniforms prepared for the US president to drive by en route to 10 Downing Street. Two demonstrators—one portraying a gorilla-masked Trump behind bars and the other…
Ocean Vuong Wrote One of the Summer’s Most Anticipated Books. He Doesn’t Care If It “Matters to Whiteness.”
Tom Hines Ocean Vuong’s first act of writing, as he describes it, was an act of preservation. When his grandmother died in 2008, he felt a “sudden panic.” “I’m the only one that can write in the family,” he tells me, “so if I don’t write down her stories, they’ll be gone.” Vuong began penning…
That Bombshell Evidence in the Census Case? The Supreme Court Might Ignore It.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testifies about the census during a House Oversight Committee hearing on March 14, 2019. Jose Luis Magana/AP Documents unearthed last week showed that the Republican Party’s top gerrymandering expert, Tom Hofeller, was behind the decision to add a controversial question about US citizenship to the 2020 census, a move he wrote would…
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Donald Trump Is Just a Bad Dream
Yui Mok/PA Wire via ZUMA London mayor Sadiq Khan doesn’t like Donald Trump much: This is a man who tried to exploit Londoners’ fears following a horrific terrorist attack on our city, amplified the tweets of a British far-right racist group, denounced as fake news robust scientific evidence warning of the dangers of climate change,…