In Lame-Duck Coup, Wisconsin GOP Strips Democrats of Power and Makes It Harder to Vote
Opponents of a bill submitted by Wisconsin Republican legislators hold “Stop Lame Duck” signs at a rally outside the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison on Monday.John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After an all-night legislative session marked by raucous debate, Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature voted on…
A Library Straddling the Border is Giving Immigrant Families a Safe Place to Reunite
An Iranian family at the Haskell library on the US-Canada border. Courtesy of Yeganeh Torbati/Reuters For many immigrants affected by the Trump administration’s travel ban, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a library straddling the US-Canada border, has become an unlikely haven. Families can meet there without risking being detained or prevented from returning…
Rudy Giuliani Turns Typo Into Baseless, Anti-Twitter Conspiracy Theory
SMG/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was business as usual for Rudy Giuliani, who on Friday took to Twitter to bash special counsel Robert Mueller and the ongoing Russia investigation. As with previous such attacks, the latest diatribe from the president’s lawyer featured multiple typos and odd spacings. But…
“The United States Astonishes and Scares Me”: Members of the Migrant Caravan Share Their Stories
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A group of migrants met in mid-October in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and formed a caravan. The men, women, and children committed to help each other travel toward the United States, with dreams of a better future. Strength in numbers was the idea behind this and other…
David Byrne Rode His Bike to Our Office and Talked About Everything
David Byrne performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in April.Amy Harris/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since the late-1970s, when David Byrne formed the iconic (and alas, now-defunct) Talking Heads, his career has been an endless stream of fascinating side projects, starting with his super-weird, super-cool Brian…
At Bernie Sanders’ Big Climate Change Town Hall, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Steals the Show
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bernie Sanders didn’t have to remind the hundreds of activists, young people, policy wonks, and thousands of viewers online watching his climate change town hall Monday night of “the great crisis facing our planet and facing our humanity.” That was one of the central…