Missouri Voters Deal Major Blow to GOP Union-Busting Efforts
An anti-Proposition A rally in Kansas City, Mo., in July. Charlie Riedel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Missouri voters sent a message to the Republican-controlled state legislature: The state must protect unions. It is the first state since 2012 to overturn a right-to-work law that aimed to weaken…
Net Neutrality and Alex Jones
Maciej Luczniewski/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jonah Goldberg weighs in today on the widespread banning of Alex Jones’ InfoWars, but then turns it into a comment on net neutrality that I think is precisely backwards: As a broad generalization, the people who loved net neutrality, precisely…
No, There Is No Sense To Be Made of Trump’s Tweets
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the Washington Post today: Can we just stop this? There is no “sense” to be made of Trump’s tweet. It’s random argle bargle that floats out of his brain. Here’s where the argle bargle comes from: Water from many of California’s biggest rivers flows…
CNN Anchor Don Lemon Calls Trump Racist
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. CNN anchor Don Lemon called President Donald Trump “publicly racist” Monday night in a nine-minute diatribe on “CNN Tonight.” Lemon was responding to comments the president made Friday on Twitter, in which he called Lemon the “dumbest man on television.” Trump said Lemon made LeBron…
Paul Ryan Admits He Didn’t Realize Trump Was Insulting Him to His Face
Alex Edelman/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s safe to assume that referring to a 48-year-old man as “boy scout” within a professional context is a less-than-subtle insult, particularly if it’s said by one’s superior. But that seemingly obvious premise appears to have been lost on House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose boss, President…
The Trump Administration’s Plan to Limit Legal Immigration Could Hurt Millions of Noncitizens
Protesters of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies gather at US Immigration & Customs Enforcement field office in San Francisco on July 2. Yichuan Cao/Sipa via AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Homeland Security is planning to dramatically expand its power to deny legal status to millions…