The Rent’s Too Damn High Everywhere. Can This California Ballot Measure Do Something About It?
Southern California mobilizers supporting Bakersfield renters ride on the Yes on 10 bus. Silvia Flores/AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In California, where residents have been wrestling with one of the worst housing crises in the country, a ballot measure to repeal the state’s limits on rent…
John Adams’ Fears About America’s Future Feel Pretty Darn Prescient Today
National Gallery of Art Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During America’s first Gilded Age, in 1898, Sen. Mark Hanna was sufficiently candid when asked about his political principles. There are two political truths, the Ohio Republican observed: “The first is money. I can’t remember what the second is.” Now, during…
Democrats in Congress Are Going After the GOP for Trying to Cut Entitlements
Protestors oppose Republican cuts to Medicaid.Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With the midterm elections weeks away and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reviving talk that social spending programs need to be cut in order to reduce the deficit, Democrats in Congress are trying to…
Bernie Sanders Just Ramped Up His Feud With Amazon
New legislation would require Amazon to help pay for the welfare benefits its employees receive.Ted S. Warren/ AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has spent much of 2018 feuding with Amazon and the company’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, with Sanders objecting to the low wages offered by…
Gary Shteyngart Wants You to Invest in His Hedge Fund
Brigitte Lacombe Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Boy meets girl. Boy had messed-up boyhood and is weird and sort of delusional. Boy became hedge fund manager, very rich. Boy (white, 40s, Princeton) marries girl (child of Indian immigrants, way younger, Yale Law). Girl gives up career. Boy and girl have…
New York Just Became the First City to Give Uber Drivers a Minimum Wage
Taxi medallion owners and drivers at a March protest in front of New York City Hall . Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, the New York City Council passed a landmark set of bills aimed directly at Uber and other ride-hailing services that will force the companies…