Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski Says Donald Trump Pressed Her for the Name of Her Cosmetic Surgeon
Steven Senne/Chris Kleponis/AP/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Almost a year ago, in the early hours of a Thursday, President Trump took to Twitter and launched an angry attack on Morning Joe co-anchor Mika Brzezinski. The provocation might have been Brzezinski’s ardent on-air criticism of the president, but it…
Illinois Just Ratified the Equal Rights Amendment
A woman cheers as feminist Gloria Steinem takes the stage at the Women’s March on Washington on January 21, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Alex Edelman via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday night, the Illinois House of Representatives narrowly voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the…
Is a Lousy Economy Responsible for the Baby Bust?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at Vox, Alex Press says that it’s not just teen birthrates that are down. Birthrates are down among all age cohorts. But why? That brings us to the economics. Following a significant drop in the birthrate after the 2008 recession, women are continuing to…
Canada, Europe Getting Slapped With Steel Tariffs
SIPA Asia via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump mad! President Trump smash bad Canadians! Tariffs start at midnight: Chuck Bradford, a U.S.-based metals analyst, said there would be “no effect” on Canadian steel producers, who will “just charge more for the steel.” Their U.S. customers, he said,…
Kampfhundblick Isn’t Enough to Sell American Cars in Germany
Good boy!Nir Alon via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Apparently Donald Trump told French president Emmanuel Macron that he wants more than just high tariffs on German cars. He wants to ban them entirely. Exciting! This is nonsense, but it provides a chance to test Google Translate in the…
Researchers Just Made a Disturbing Discovery About Your Child’s Schizophrenia Risk
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, researchers have observed that people whose mothers had complicated pregnancies have higher rates of schizophrenia, but no one knew why this was. Could traumatic pregnancies somehow compromise the brain development of the fetus, causing schizophrenia? Or was it the reverse: Did something about the genes…