Inside IBM’s Purge of Thousands of Workers Who Have One Thing in Common
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was published in partnership with ProPublica. For nearly a half century, IBM came as close as any company to bearing the torch for the American Dream. As the world’s dominant technology firm, payrolls at International Business Machines Corp. swelled to nearly a quarter-million…
The Real Enemy of the White Working Class Is … the White Middle Class
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tucker Carlson is getting some flak over this: On his top-rated Fox News show Tuesday night, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson opined on demographic change and immigration in America….The segment was focused on a National Geographic article featured in the magazine’s April issue. Though the article,…
The Trump Administration Is Pushing to Sell Offshore Drilling Leases, and It’s Tanking Profits for Taxpayers
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in US history, which included all available areas in the Gulf of Mexico, garnered only tepid interest from oil and gas companies on Wednesday. Industry and government representatives called the results encouraging and consistent. Critics…
Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Pedestrian Collision
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Tempe Police Department has released video from the Uber car that hit a pedestrian on Sunday. Here’s the front-facing video at the 3.2 second mark: By eyesight alone, there’s nothing there. And here it is one second later: There are a few things we…
Taxes, Welfare, and Income Inequality: Here’s the CBO’s Latest Report
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The CBO has released its annual report on the distribution of household income, and they’ve changed things up this year. They’re now measuring income in two ways: Before taxes and transfers. This is basically market income. After taxes and transfers. This is market income plus…
ABC News Just Reported That Andrew McCabe Had Authorized a Criminal Probe of Jeff Sessions
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at a press conference regarding new opioid drug policy last month in Washington. Shen Ting/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe last week, supposedly for displaying a lack of candor in dealing with…