The Battle Over Racial Gerrymandering Is Once Again Headed to the Supreme Court
Shirley Connuck, right, of Falls Church, Va., holds up a sign representing a district in Texas, as the Supreme Court hears a case on possible partisan gerrymandering by state legislatures on October 3, 2017. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The US Supreme Court on…
Surprise! Trump Is That Dude Who Asks “But Where Are You Really From?”
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While the White House attempts to mitigate the intense backlash over President Donald Trump’s racist remarks referring to Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “shithole” countries, NBC has a new report detailing a disturbing—yet wholly unsurprising—exchange that occurred between Trump and a Korean American…
Is Google Headed Toward a PR Disaster?
Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. James Damore, you may recall, is the Google engineer who wrote a memo on an internal chat board suggesting (among other things) that women might be underrepresented among the ranks of engineering because of innate differences in their job…
Raw Data: Wages for Ordinary Workers
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For some reason there’s been a lot of chatter lately about wages finally going up after eight years of economic expansion. Really? For ordinary workers, wages went up in 2015 and 2016 but have been pretty flat in 2017. In December their wages increased a…
How Republicans Normalized Donald Trump’s Racism
Donald Trump greets Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, after announcing his endorsement of Romney during a news conference, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, in Las Vegas. Julie Jacobson/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Once again, the political-media world is in a tizzy over a Donald Trump remark. In…
The Foreign Press Is Having a Hard Time Translating “Shithole”
fstop123/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When news broke that President Donald Trump referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries as “shithole countries,” newsrooms across the country had to decide how to handle the expletive. (Trump has since denied calling Haiti a “shithole.”) On CNN, anchor Wolf Blitzer…