Are Wages Going Up In Your County?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s something off the beaten path: This chart shows the top and bottom ten counties ranked by their yearly change in average weekly wages (Q3 of 2017 to Q3 of 2018). The full dataset is here, so you can see how your county is doing.…
Supreme Court Says 8th Amendment Applies to States
Should police be able to seize this $42,000 car for a crime with a maximum fine of $10,000?Jaguar Land Rover Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is excellent news: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Constitution’s prohibition on excessive fines applies to state and local governments, limiting their…
I Told Her We Were Brought Over the Rio Grande on a Raft. I Never Called It a Smuggling.
A man carries a child on his shoulders as part of a migrant caravan to the United States. Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was co-published by ProPublica and Guernica. The first stories we can correct are the ones we tell ourselves. My story, the one I…
Elections Commission Chief Uses the “Nuclear Option” to Rescue the Agency From Gridlock
Joe Raedle/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fed up with the Federal Election Commission’s gridlock that has given violators of election law a free pass, the agency’s new chair says she won’t allow FEC lawyers to defend the government when the FEC has been sued for not enforcing the law. This drastic…
Yet Another Trumpie Is In Trouble For Being Honest
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Oh dear: President Trump has grown increasingly disenchanted with Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, who has served as the nation’s top intelligence official for nearly two years, leading some administration officials to worry he will soon be dismissed, according to people familiar with the…
NYT: Trump Tried Yet Again to Dump Robert Mueller Last Year
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump can’t seem to get it through his head that the Justice Department is not his personal legal firm. The New York Times reports that last year, after Trump forced the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, he called Matthew Whitaker, his interim attorney…