Every Brexit Deal Voted Down — Again
Kirsty O’Connor/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. We had four more “indicative” votes on Brexit today, and they all failed: Customs union: 273-276 Common Market 2.0: 261-282 Public vote on any deal passed by Parliament: 280-292 Vote between Remain and No Deal: 191-282 The customs union is getting closer! It…
Trump Is Throwing a Party to Celebrate His Paltry Criminal Justice Reform Efforts
President Trump participates in a signing ceremony for the First Step Act in December.Martin Simon/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is hosting a party at the White House on Monday to celebrate the First Step Act, the first major criminal justice reform bill to pass Congress…
Presidential Candidates Are Trying to Prevent Sexual Misconduct—in Their Own Campaigns
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speaks during the Women’s March on Washington on January 21, 2017. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) stands to her left.Jose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Veteran campaign staffers are likely to notice some big changes around the office when they report for work in the…
The Supreme Court Says Stopping Executions at the Last Minute Should Be an “Extreme Exception”
Jabin Botsford/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled against delaying the execution of Missouri death row inmate Russell Bucklew, who argued that his rare medical condition could make the process excruciatingly painful. In the 5-4 decision, the majority ruled that Bucklew’s constitutional rights wouldn’t…
Please Don’t Weaponize #MeToo in the Dem Primaries
Jay Godwin/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I wish that neither Joe Biden nor Bernie Sanders were running for president. I don’t have much time for dumb takes on Baby Boomers as the generation that “ruined everything,” but still, by 2020 we boomers—a generation that spans 18…
Should a Great Art Museum Be Single-Level?
The proposed single-story design for the new LACMA building, which straddles Wilshire Boulevard.Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner/LACMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is a little offbeat, but I’m curious about something. The LA County Museum of Art wants to demolish its old buildings and replace them with a single…