Yet Another Republican Billionaire Is Convinced Republicans Are Too Damn Liberal
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It seems like every two years I read a story like this: Richard Uihlein, a wealthy shipping-supplies magnate from Illinois who shuns the spotlight, has risen to become one of the most powerful — and disruptive — GOP donors in the country. For years, Uihlein…
Stop Thinking Small. We Can Do Better Than a Jobs Guarantee.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Why have American men slowly but steadily stopped working? To refresh your memory, here’s the chart I put up yesterday: This is for men aged 25-54, so retirement doesn’t play a part. It’s possible that increased use of disability payments does, but not a big…
Michelle Wolf’s Scathing Comedy Set at the WHCD Provoked Outrage, Glee, and Everything in Between
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The furor over comedian Michelle Wolf’s divisive comedy set at the White House Correspondent’s Association dinner shows no signs of abating. On Saturday night, journalists, celebrities, lawmakers and more gathered in Washington for the annual event, a black tie affair typically attended by the president.…
Support Is Mounting on the Right for Trump to Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Chirag Wakaskar/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the second year in a row, on Saturday night President Donald Trump opted to skip the annual White House Correspondent’s Association dinner and instead hold a rally. The rally in Washington Township, Michigan came on the heels of Friday’s historic meeting between…
Trump Tried to Make a Russian MMA Reality Show. This Week the FBI Questioned its Star
MMA fighter Fedor Emelianenko with the Russian president in 2013Alexei Nikolsky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. FBI agents questioned a Putin-friendly Russian MMA fighter this week while he was visiting the US for a major fight. Fedor Emelianenko arrived in Chicago on Tuesday and within hours, agents showed up at…
Raw Data: How Many People Have Jobs?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The unemployment rate is currently 4.1 percent, a number so low that it’s been matched only one other time since 1970—and that was during the tail end of the dotcom bubble. But does that mean everyone who wants a job has one? It’s hard to…