I Wish Clint Eastwood Would Do to Himself What Female Movie Journalists Are Always Doing to Their Sources
Clint Eastwood arrives at the AFI Fest 2019 – Richard Jewell premiere. Sthanlee B. Mirador/AP There are a lot of things that have really, truly sucked about being desperately addicted to journalism, of all things, while also being female, but if one more movie/TV show/porno/whatever comes out in which a female journalist exchanges sex for…
No Surprise: Health Insurance Saves Lives
It’s really hard to evaluate the effect of health coverage on health. Sure, you can compare groups with and without coverage, but they’re almost certain to be so different (in income, race, employment, age, etc) that it’s impossible to tease out the effect of health coverage itself. Ideally, you’d like to perform a randomly controlled…
Why Are So Many Black Men in Prison?
One of our new writing fellows, Camille Squires, published a piece on Monday telling us that the “Kamala was a cop” meme didn’t originate with Bernie-bro-ish white guys. Rather, it originated on Black Twitter among African Americans who were keenly familiar with Kamala Harris’s mixed record as California’s attorney general. Harris billed herself as California’s…
On the Eve of Election, BoJo Hides In a Fridge
Andrew Parsons/i-Images via ZUMA One of Piers Morgan’s producers tried to set up an impromptu interview with Boris Johnson this morning: When Swain presses the prime minister, stating he was live on the show, Johnson replied “I’ll be with you in a second” and walked off, before Piers exclaims “he’s gone into the fridge”. Johnson…
Can You Make a Progressive Defense Bill? Democrats Tried, and Now Think They Failed.
Mark Wilson/Getty Five months ago, progressives stacked the annual defense policy bill with dozens of provisions sure to make any hawkish Republican queasy. Win Without War, a liberal anti-war group, praised the “big progressive victories” in the bill and lawmakers roundly proclaimed it the “most progressive” defense bill in history. But the legislation set to…
How Much Are Your Favorite Companies Spending on Union-Busting Consultants?
Housekeepers, cooks and bartenders rally outside Donald Trump’s hotel to draw attention to their efforts to unionize workers at the property just off the Las Vegas Strip.Steve Marcus/AP Employers will pay a lot to ensure they don’t have to actually pay the people who work for them. This morning, the Economic Policy Institute dropped a…