When Sarah Sanders and the ACLU Teamed Up for Voting Rights
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders conducts a briefing on August 15.Ron Sachs/CNP/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. As the midterm elections approach, Republican state officials and lawmakers have stepped up efforts to block students from voting in their college towns. Republicans…
It Looks Like the Hush Money to Stormy Daniels Might Be a Big-Time Campaign Finance Violation After All
Stormy Daniels: Clinton Wallace/Globe Photos/ZUMA; Michael Cohen: Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal reported something interesting today about Michael Cohen: back in September 2016, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer contacted him about making a hush money payment to keep Stormy quiet about her affair…
Are Canadians Dying of Despair Too?
Carroll & Carroll/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The CDC reports today that about 72,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year. Of that, 49,000 died of opioid overdoses. That’s an opioid overdose rate of 15 per 100,000. But as Keith Humphreys pointed out last night, 4,000 people…
New Omarosa Tape Appears to Back Claim She Was Offered $15,000 a Month to Stay Quiet
Cheriss May/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new secret recording released by Omarosa Manigault Newman on Thursday appears to show President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law offering the former White House aide a $15,000-a-month job shortly after she was fired last December. Manigault Newman told NBC that the recording demonstrates the Trump…
The Era of CEO Super-Pay Appears to Be on Hiatus
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. EPI has an interesting piece today about the growth of CEO pay. It’s the usual story: depending on how you measure it, CEO pay used to be about 20x worker pay, while today it’s 200-300x higher. But I was more curious about something else. CEO…
Read Barack and Michelle Obama’s Statement on the Passing of Aretha Franklin
Former president Barack Obama celebrates with Aretha Franklin at a 2015 Justice Department event to unveil the official portrait of Eric Holder, the former Attorney General.@BarackObama/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, died on Thursday at her home in Detroit, aged 76. The former president,…