Voting Rights Advocates Just Won a Big Victory in Court
Voters wait outside the Supervisor of Elections office in Palm Beach County, Florida, to vote early in the 2010 midterm elections.The Palm Beach Post/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A conservative legal group’s crusade to purge voter lists across the country hit a setback Friday when a federal judge in Florida…
We Need More Research Into Race and IQ, Please
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here in my little corner of the blogosphere, IQ and race are having yet another mini-moment. The reasons don’t really matter, and the arguments are exactly the same as they have been every time before. On the “blacks are dumber” side, it always goes something…
This 16-Year-Old Founded a “Movement of Unstoppable Youth” to Save the Planet
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “Sorry, it’s homeroom,” Jamie Margolin, a 16-year-old climate activist and high school sophomore, tells me when I call for an interview. “Let me get to a quieter spot.” Margolin, who lives in Seattle, is used to juggling homework, debate club, media interviews, writing op-eds,…
The White House Personnel Office Is Just a Big Frat Party
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post reports that the White House office responsible for recruiting political appointees is a clown show: Two office leaders have spotty records themselves: a college dropout with arrests for drunken driving and bad checks and a lance corporal in the Marine Corps reserves…
George Mason Economics Department Embarrasses Itself
George Mason University Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Boudreaux earned a PhD in economics from Auburn University three decades ago. He is currently a professor of economics at George Mason University. Two days ago he wrote this in the New York Times: Not long ago an academic paper by…
Donald Trump’s Lies About the Border Wall, Explained
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Steve Benen today: Trump’s lying about border-wall construction is so over the top, I’m starting to think he actually believes his own ridiculously untrue claims https://t.co/Kihuf4rVsQ — Steve Benen (@stevebenen) March 30, 2018 I won’t pretend to know what goes on in the lump of…