Trump’s Speech Bragging About Tax Cuts Smacks Into a Nosediving Stock Market
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s frequent boasting of a booming stock market collided with reality on Monday, when the Dow plunged more than 1,500 points in afternoon trading. The massive drop continues steep losses seen last week. News networks, many of which had been airing a Trump speech live…
Dodge Freaked Out When Someone Made a Video of What MLK Really Thought About Capitalism
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During last night’s Super Bowl, Dodge aired a commercial that used an excerpt of a powerful Martin Luther King Jr. speech over images of working Americans to, you know, sell trucks. Within hours, Current Affairs, a politics magazine, reedited the video overlaid with a different excerpt from…
Why Donald Trump Should Fear Norwegian Immigrants the Most of All
Jane Barlow/PA Wire/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story first appeared at TomDispatch.com. Over the past couple of weeks, thanks to the president’s racist comments about Haiti and African countries he can’t even name—remember “Nambia”?—as well as the stamp of approval he awarded future immigrants from Norway, we’ve seen a surprising amount of…
Nunes Played The Press Like A Fiddle. Why Do Journalists Keep Falling For This Trick?
Mother Jones; Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s a weird feeling when your organization’s reporting ends up at the center of a scandal bordering on constitutional crisis. But things have been weird, and here we are: MoJo‘s October 2016 story about the Steele dossier is a key data point…
This New Belle and Sebastian Album Promises to Solve All Your Problems
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Album Review Belle and SebastianHow to Solve Our Human ProblemsMatador For more than two decades, Scotland’s Belle and Sebastian has championed the virtues of old-fashioned pop music, crafting gorgeous, compassionate tunes that balance heartbreak and hope without descending to sentimental mush. Echoing a trio of…
Kesha Delivered the Devastating #MeToo Moment the Grammys Needed
Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Janelle Monáe stepped out on this year’s Grammy’s stage and didn’t lose a beat. Voicing a message of solidarity with fellow women in the industry, Monáe put the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements in the spotlight at one of mainstream music’s biggest nights. “Time’s up…