How Trial by Skype Became the Norm in Immigration Court
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rob DobiTess Feldman stood in an empty San Francisco courtroom, facing a three-foot-wide television screen. “Good morning!” she shouted toward a camera connected to the TV. “Can you hear me?” A stunned-looking man in an orange prison jumpsuit appeared on screen. An inmate at the Mesa…
Ali Wong Stuck With the Major Your Mom Told You to Drop and Here She Is Today
Ali Wong performing at Toronto’s Winter Garden theater.Ken Woroner/Netflix Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “It was not supposed to go down like this,” comedian Ali Wong says toward the end of her latest Netflix special, Hard Knock Wife, which premiered this past weekend. Her husband works as vice president of…
Black Oaklanders Rally Around Racially Charged BBQ Incident That Became a Viral Video
A screenshot of the viral video of the now infamous April 29 incident in which a white woman called the police on two black men barbecuing on a lake in Oakland, California.Michelle Dione/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Dozens of black Oaklanders showed up at a city council meeting last…
I Didn’t Want to Watch “Dear White People” Because I Lived It
Cast of Netflix’s Dear White People pose with creator Justin Simien at Hollywood premiere.Matt Sayles/AP Images/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It took me a while to watch Dear White People, mostly because I lived it. I was a freshman in college in the spring of 2004 when a…
That Racial Profiling Incident at Nordstrom Rack Apparently Wasn’t a First
A Nordstrom Rack in Columbia, MarylandTripplaar Kristoffer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Danielle Stubblefield, 42, stood outside a Nordstrom Rack store feeling frustrated, desperately hoping to prevent what she believed was an instance of racial profiling from escalating. The police had been called on several black teenagers who had entered the…
The Case for Building Public Housing That Doesn’t Suck—And Lots of It
Units in the Seestadt Aspern urban development zone in Vienna, Austria.Imago/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Housing has been one of the single greatest vehicles for building wealth in the United States. Yet the ranks of Americans who can’t find affordable housing are swelling. Although the problem goes back decades, the collapse…