Trump vs. Amazon In Exactly 100 Words
Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I think I’ve now read upwards of a dozen articles about whether Amazon pays a fair rate for shipping its packages via the post office. It’s insane. The journalists of America are apparently required to write detailed explainers about every single…
Where Did All the Riots Go?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fifty years after the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Matthew Desmond wants to know why our cities are so calm these days: Fifty years later, our cities, in both the North and the South, remain sharp-line segregated. Not only that,…
Is Anyone Building “Foursquare But For Racism”?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m reading Nick Harkaway’s Gnomon right now, and one of the characters has just decided to create a new app that lets people tag their experiences on the street: “So, like Foursquare,” my interviewer said, with the doubt of a young person looking at an…
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Links YouTube Shooting to “Criminal Illegal Aliens”
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.)Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) was about to discuss sanctuary cities on the Fox Business Network on Tuesday afternoon when news broke about a shooter at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. “You were going to talk to me about sanctuary cities…
Police Chief Confirms Four Were Injured In YouTube Shooting, Three With Gunshot Wounds
Jeff Chiu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update: 4/3/18, 8:31 pm: Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, which owns YouTube, tweeted, “There are no words to describe the tragedy that occurred today.” There are no words to describe the tragedy that occurred today. @SusanWojcicki & I are focused on supporting our…
California Police Killed Stephon Clark. State Lawmakers Want to Make it Harder for History to Repeat Itself.
Demonstrators protest the police killing of Stephon Clark in Sacramento.Hector Amezcua/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two California lawmakers on Tuesday introduced legislation to restrict when police officers in the state can use lethal force, requiring them to use such force only when there is no opportunity to use a…