Pot Biz Demands More Pot Busts
Deleigh Hermes/zReportage.com via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This cracks me up: Six weeks after the state began licensing marijuana farming and sales, officials have received a flood of complaints about illegal pot operations and demands for a start to tough enforcement….”We really need enforcement in California given that…
Here’s What Really Matters
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I spent the day on the road yesterday, so I’m a little behind on things. I hope I get this right. The special prosecutor indicted 13 Russian nationals for illegally interfering in US elections. Donald Trump’s response was to say that what really matters is…
Dreamers Are Walking 250 Miles to Shame Congress Into Getting Off Its Butt
Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The same day the Senate rejected three measures that could have given young, undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship, Eduardo Samaniego started a trek on foot from New York to Washington, DC. Frustrated by inaction in Congress, Samaniego and 10 other Dreamer activists are walking…
“I Want Four Years Where I’m Not Judged by the Color of My Skin”
Graduates at commencement at Howard University in 2014.Jose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Historically black colleges and universities made headlines during Trump’s first year, as students pushed back against what they perceived as a racist administration. Last May, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was booed during her commencement speech…
Heckler or Security Threat? To Scott Pruitt, They’re All the Same.
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On New Year’s Eve 2017, Scott Pruitt checked, “Visited nearly 30 states” on his tweeted list of year-end accomplishments. But now his very frequent and very expensive travel around and outside the United States has become a source of controversy as he has used his security needs…
The Secret History of the White House’s Kitchen Slaves
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When you look at the White House, you probably don’t think of it as a Southern plantation mansion—the way you might, say, a columned antebellum pile in Georgia. But Washington, D.C. was carved out of territory from Virginia and Maryland, both slave states. Slavery was legal…