An Urban Plan Nearly Everyone Can Love: “Yes In Your Backyard”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I really and truly have nothing against former LA Times editor Bill Boyarsky, but I wonder if he really understands how his recent op-ed in the Times comes off. He starts by describing the leafy, bucolic neighborhood near UCLA that he moved into 40 years…
What Did Ivanka Know About Trump Tower Moscow? It Wasn’t “Almost Nothing.”
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an interview aired Friday, Ivanka Trump told ABC News that she knew “literally almost nothing” about her family’s secret pursuit of a deal to build a Trump-branded tower in Moscow during the 2016 campaign. Her claim, however, is contradicted by various sources, including…
Here Is the Green New Deal in Handy List Form
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I gather that Matt Whitaker is being quite the asshole in his testimony before Congress today: I’m seeing a lot of smart people here say that Whitaker will regret sassing Nadler this AM. Without IN ANY WAY condoning Whitaker’s dickish and unprofessional behavior, I sadly…
How YouTube Helped Spread Dark Hoaxes About Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mother Jones video Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The State of the Union is usually guaranteed to be among the year’s highest-profile political broadcasts. This Tuesday, internet conspiracy theorists hijacked the audience watching livestreams of the broadcast to push hoax theories about the purported death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth…
Have You Chosen the Right Preschool For Your Kids Yet?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Pamela Druckerman reports that helicopter parenting works a treat. It turns out that in a world dominated by huge income inequality, obsessing over your kid’s preschool is totally the right thing to do: For the most part, the new parenting efforts seemed effective. Dr. Doepke…
You Know the Name Cyntoia Brown. But Have You Heard of Maryanne Atkins?
Washington State Patrol/Handout Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When, in January, then-Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted clemency for Cyntoia Brown, advocates cheered. Brown had been sentenced to life in prison for killing a man who solicited her for sex when she was 16. Her case had become a symbol for…