A Haitian Asylum-Seeker Had Been Stuck in Jail for Almost Two Years. This Ohio Couple Stepped Up to Help.
Gary Benjamin and Melody Hart with Ansly Damus, a Haitian asylum-seeker who was freed after two years in detention.Matt McClain/The Washington Post After a gang beat him for criticizing a local politician, Ansly Damus fled Haiti. The former teacher came to the United States seeking asylum—but instead, immigration officials put him in a windowless cell…
Workers Describe How They’re Trying to Survive the Trump Shutdown
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a Christmas Day press conference, President Donald Trump told reporters that federal workers had signaled to him that they were happy to be furloughed or working without pay. But as the partial government shutdown enters its fifth day, federal workers, contractors, and…
In Which I Explain Fiscal Economics to Paul Krugman
Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Paul Krugman has a couple of questions for his fellow economists: But my question is, why aren’t we seeing an open letter from right-leaning economists calling on Trump to lay off the Fed? After all, demanding an easy money policy when…
Bitcoin Finally Getting Old Mojo Back
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Check it out, investors and investorettes! Over the past 30 days, Bitcoin has outperformed the S&P 500 handily: It’s down only 4 percent compared to the S&P’s 10 percent drop. If only you’d listened to the blockchain mavens you’d be sitting pretty on your stash…
Yes, Ben Carson is Still in Trump’s Cabinet. And Congressional Probes Could Be Coming His Way.
Zach Gibson/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After his 2016 presidential bid failed, Ben Carson acknowledged he didn’t have enough experience to run a federal agency. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Nonetheless, after he became president, Donald Trump tweeted that the famous retired neurosurgeon might be his nominee to run HUD, the $41 billion agency with more than 9,000 employees that oversees housing…
The Supreme Court Said No More Life Without Parole for Kids. Why Is Antonio Espree One of the Few to Get Out of Prison?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the morning of his 47th birthday, his first outside prison in three decades, Antonio Espree wakes up around 5 a.m. It’s a cool February day in Phoenix, still dark outside, and his cousin Marlon Bailey is asleep on a bed about an arm’s reach…