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…
Betsy DeVos Is Making Life Harder for Students Screwed Over by Predatory For-Profit Schools
United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in July.Olivier Douliery/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Under the Obama administration, the Education Department made it a top priority to curtail predatory practices by for-profit colleges. It investigated and sanctioned schools…
In “Blindspotting,” Two Artists Go Home to Examine the True Costs of Gentrification
Ariel Nava/Lionsgate Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For nearly the last decade, Tony-award winning actor and rapper Daveed Diggs and his creative partner Rafael Casal have been working to capture their rapidly-changing home of Oakland, Calif. as it wrestles with a longstanding identity crisis. In their new film, Blindspotting, the two friends try to figure out their place in it, even as gentrification engulfs…
Rents Are Too Damn High and the World Is Too Damn Hot. Both Are About to Make Gentrification Worse.
A young woman walks through the parking lot of a Conroe, Texas, house whose owners have installed tents. A thin sheet of snow blanketed the Houston area on December 8, 2017. Alicia L. Pérez/EFE/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part…
United States Gets an F for Failing to Help Its Neediest
Jerry Kinchen, 61, accepts food from a religious mission pantry in Holiday, Florida, in August 2009.Kainaz Amaria/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A blistering report delivered to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council Friday morning slammed America’s record on poverty, two days after ambassador Nikki Haley announced that the United States…
Cate Blanchett Just Led a Powerful Silent Protest for Gender Equity on the Cannes Red Carpet
Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, actress Cate Blanchett and 81 other women in film marched in silence on the red carpet to call out the lack of female directors selected for the world’s top festival. The women stopped halfway up…