Cuccinelli’s Family Tree Suggests His New Immigration Rule Might Have Blocked His Ancestors
Acting Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli unveils the new “public charge” rule at a White House briefing on Monday.Evan Vucci/AP On Monday, while rolling out a sweeping rule designed to make it harder for working-class immigrants to get legal residency, US Citizenship and Immigration Services Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli turned to…
WeWork Announces IPO While the Announcing Is Good
Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts via ZUMA Adam Neumann is the founder and CEO of WeWork, a company that buys large blocks of urban office space and then subdivides them into smaller spaces for rent to entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups, and so forth. In the past this has been considered a fairly boring kind of business, but…
Colombia Diary — Driving in Colombia
I don’t know how many people rent a car when they visit Bogotá. If you’re mostly exploring the city you’ll do it via taxis and public transportation. (Pro tip: as near as I could tell the ratio between taxis and passenger cars was about 1:1.) If you’re making only one or two trips outside the…
Kamala Harris’ New Gun Control Proposal Takes on Domestic Terrorists and White Nationalists
Richard Vogel/AP In the wake of the latest deadly mass shootings—in Texas, Ohio, and California—2020 Democratic presidential candidates are ramping up their plans to curb the country’s gun violence problem. And now, Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has gone a step further with a detailed plan that connects gun violence to combatting domestic terrorism and “violent hate.“ “We…
Is Sen. Richard Burr Investigating Trump’s Russia Ties—or Helping to Cover Them Up?
Tim Bower Richard Burr was contrite. It was late February 2017, and the Washington Post had just exposed the North Carolina Republican and chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee for running damage control for the Trump administration over its mounting Russia scandal. Along with Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), his counterpart on the House Intelligence Committee,…
“Very Badly Managed”: Inside Chicago Elections Officials’ Battle with Facebook
Niall Carson/PA Wire via Zuma On October 20, 2018, just 16 days before that year’s midterm elections, Jim Allen, the spokesperson for the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners, tried to boost a Facebook post on the board’s page announcing the opening of early-voting locations in the country’s sixth-largest elections jurisdiction. Boosting a post effectively turns…