Teachers in Los Angeles Are About to Go on Strike. It Could Get Messy.
United Teachers Los Angeles president Alex Caputo-Pearl (left) joins teachers at a downtown rally in December. Damian Dovarganes/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, 30,000 teachers across 900 public schools are planning to go on strike in Los Angeles following a monthslong standoff over large class sizes and inadequate support and pay…
So How Good Was My Crystal Ball?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday I suggested that Donald Trump wouldn’t lie “very much” in his immigration speech, and millions of you scoffed at me: Looking forward to tomorrow’s ‘welp, I was wrong’ tweet. — happy Gritty-nineteen! (@PMMDJ) January 8, 2019 I’ll take the over. — Ulysses Castillo (@Uman2631)…
Earlonne Woods Made an Amazing Podcast—and It Won Him His Freedom
Earlonne WoodsMark Murrmann/Mother Jones While he was an inmate at San Quentin State Prison, Earlonne Woods helped create a podcast that dealt with everyday life behind bars. Woods, 47, had spent 21 years in prison for attempted armed robbery. He saw how fellow inmates were kind to spiders, treating them as pets, and how the prison’s…
Brexit Has Gone From Insane to Insaner
Rob Pinney/London News Pictures via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While we engage in a ridiculous government shutdown that serves no purpose beyond political dick measuring, our friends in Britain are desperately trying to show that they can run a country just as badly as we can. If I…
Here Is the Democrats’ Response to Trump’s Border Wall Address
Bill Clark/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer jointly delivered the Democrats’ official response to President Donald Trump’s primetime immigration speech. The Democratic leaders urged Trump to end the partial government shutdown that has left nearly 800,000 federal workers…
In His First Oval Office Speech, Trump Falsely Depicts Immigrants as Violent Criminals to Justify Shutdown
Alex Wong/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday night, Donald Trump used the first Oval Office address of his presidency to falsely depict undocumented immigrants as savage criminals. Trump is keeping the US government shutdown because Congress, which was controlled by Republicans until last week, has refused to give…