Blue-Collar Wages Are Nothing to Crow About Yet
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. How have ordinary blue-collar workers been doing lately? To hear the financial press tell it, their wages are skyrocketing. “It’s still a workers’ labor market” says Vox, while the Wall Street Journal warns of dire days ahead for corporate profits. But let’s not get carried…
Billie Eilish’s Mouthful of an Album Is an Overdramatic Tumblr Post Brought to Life
Dafydd Owen/Avalon via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Dropping “Ocean Eyes” on Soundcloud a few years ago, 15 year-old Billie Eilish never expected it would lead to an impressive cult following and a well received EP, don’t smile at me. And yet, it did. The EP introduced a young new…
“Shazam!” Earns the Exclamation Point in Its Title
Courtesy of Warner Brothers Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. ‘Tis a dark and emotionally stormy night as the family sedan speeds through the snowy roads of upstate New York. A bespectacled father sits behind the wheel; his favored son, the eldest one, in the passenger seat; and in the back,…
Public Views on Abortion Have Been Rock Steady for 40 Years
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at Bloomberg, Ramesh Ponnuru argues that an incrementalist approach has served the anti-abortion movement well: Polling does not suggest that pro-lifers’ incrementalist approach has led to entrenched support for abortion in our culture. The movement’s turn toward incrementalism coincided with a substantial increase in…
Biden Cracks Consent Jokes Amid Inappropriate Touching Allegations
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former vice president Joe Biden made light of the recent string of accusations that he had inappropriately touched women during his career on Friday, sarcastically warning a crowd of union workers that he had received “permission” to hug the group’s union leader,…
“Theory of Change” Is Disarmingly Simple
KC McGinnis/ZUMA; Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. All the talk these days is of “the theory of change.” Every Democratic candidate is supposed to have one: after all, policy talk is all well and good, but how are you going to actually get legislation passed? Ed Kilgore ponders…