Diversity Is Important to Viewers—With or Without an Emmy
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards aired this week, it almost seemed as if the event could be a win for diversity. More people of color have been nominated for awards this year than ever before, and the show did not shy away…
Why Are There So Few Blacks in Clinical Trials of Cancer Drugs?
Waltraud Grubitzsch/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today brings two related articles that are right up my alley: they’re about possible new cures for multiple myeloma and other cancers. The first, by Ezekiel Emanuel, is about CAR-T treatments, in which cells are removed from your body, genetically altered,…
CNN BREAKING NEWS: Trump Acts Like Adult for Once
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Brian Wansink, the Cornell Professor Known for His Fun Food Research, Retires Amid Scandal
Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brian Wansink, the celebrated Cornell University behavioral scientist whose studies have come under increasing scrutiny because of alleged problems with data and methodology, has told Cornell he intends to retire. He gave notice, in a letter he shared with Mother Jones, one day…
Woman Kills Three People in Maryland Warehouse Shooting
Maryland state police block the road who connect the industrial business park, where several people had been shot, according with police reports in Aberdeen, Md, in Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. Authorities say multiple people have been shot in northeast Maryland in what the FBI is describing as an “active shooter situation.” (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP…
Donald Trump Is the Biggest Middle-Class Tax Raiser of All Time
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ha ha ha: President Trump recently announced plans to impose a 10 percent tax on $200 billion of imports from China effective September 24, escalating to 25 percent effective January 1, 2019. When added to tariffs that have already been implemented, total trade taxes imposed…