Starbucks Will Close 8,000 Stores on May 29 for Racial-Bias Training
Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Wow. Starbucks says it will close its 8,000 company-owned stores in the United States for one afternoon to educate employees about racial bias. The announcement follows an uproar over the arrest of two black men who were waiting for a friend at a Philadelphia Starbucks last…
One of Congress’ Most Unpopular Republicans Might Not Even Have a Democratic Opponent in November
Rep. Dana RohrabacherMother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Early last month, at a debate between the Democratic candidates running to unseat Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the 15-term Orange County, California, Republican, local business owner Laura Oatman addressed a longstanding fear among the district’s Democratic voters. “I want to address the elephant…
New Jersey Becomes 13th State to Adopt Automatic Voter Registration
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy exits the polling booth after voting at the Fairview School on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 in Middletown, N.J. Aristide Economopoulos/NJ Advance Media/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, New Jersey became the 13th state to adopt automatic voter registration—and the third to do so…
American Kids Keep Getting Better and Better at Reading
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. My Twitter feed is glutted with Michael Cohen snark right now, and he is undoubtedly the most entertaining news of both today and the past week. But I don’t have anything nonobvious to say about him, so let’s talk about something else. Last week I…
Basically Every Time Hannity Has Defended Michael Cohen on His Show Since the FBI Raid
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sean Hannity, the Fox News star and staunch defender of the president against the “destroy-Trump media,” was revealed on Monday to be a secret client of Michael Cohen, the president’s personal attorney whose home, hotel room, and office was raided last week by the FBI. Awkward. Especially…
Michael Cohen’s Mystery Client Is Sean Hannity Because of Course It Is
“…this big. No, really, that’s what Trump said. So I went on air with it, and the lamestream media just mocked it. That’s how much they hate the guy.”Jeff Malet/NC via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Michael Cohen’s mystery client has been revealed: An unnamed client of Michael Cohen,…