This Woman Is on the Verge of Breaking Down One of the Biggest Gender Barriers in Sports
Lukas Schulze/DPA/Zuma The National Basketball Association just got one step closer to breaking down a big gender barrier. There has never been a woman head coach in men’s professional basketball. But ESPN reports that the Milwaukee Bucks are interviewing Becky Hammon for their top coaching job, making her the first woman to be interviewed for an NBA…
This Is Your Banking System on Trump
Getty Images This story first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Warning: What you are about to read is not about Russia, the 2016 election, or the latest person to depart from the White House in a storm of tweets. It’s the Beltway story hiding in plain sight with trillions of dollars in play and an economy to…
Giant Hog Farms Are Fighting for the Right to Keep Polluting. The Trump Administration Is on Their Side.
If you enjoy bacon or ham, chances are you’ve eaten pork from North Carolina, where about 16 million hogs—10 percent of the US total—are raised each year. The great bulk of that production takes place in a handful of counties on the state’s coastal plain—places like Baden County, home to more than 750,000 hogs but only 35,000 humans.…
Behold the Great Rudy Giuliani Apology Tour
Remember all that weird stuff Rudy Giuliani spouted on Wednesday? The following morning Donald Trump wholeheartedly agreed with it, but the two of them must have gotten a very stern talking-to later in the day. Today Giuliani took it all back. Trump knowing about the Stormy Daniels hush money? Inoperative. The hush money being related…
After Violent May Day Protests, a Federal Judge Orders an Investigation Into Puerto Rican Police
Police and protesters face off after a May Day march turned violent, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, May 1, 2018.Carlos Giusti/AP A federal judge has ordered an investigation of into how Puerto Rico police responded to a May Day demonstration. The order, issued Friday morning, calls for “an independent evaluation and assessment” of the violent halting…
Let’s Not Celebrate the 3.9% Unemployment Rate
There are lots of headlines today that are focused on the headline unemployment rate falling to 3.9 percent. I guess that’s why they call it the headline unemployment rate. But this month it’s a mirage. Here’s an excerpt from the household survey that the BLS uses to calculate the unemployment rate: Take a look at…