Trump Is Going After Immigrants Without Criminal Records In a Big Way
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The full reality of President Trump’s bombastic promises on illegal immigration is finally taking shape, and the picture is, unsurprisingly, bleak. After several reports pointing toward an increasing trend of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) targeting undocumented immigrants with no criminal background or low-level offenses—the…
Fox News: Men Are All at the Mercy of Anonymous Accusers Now
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at the Washington Post, Callum Borchers rounds up the reaction on Fox News to the forced resignation of Al Franken from the Senate. First up is Tucker Carlson: “Imagine being accused by someone whose name you didn’t know of something…
Scott Pruitt Finally Showed Up for a Congressional Hearing
Mitchell Resnick/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One year ago, President Trump nominated Scott Pruitt to lead the very agency he repeatedly sued when he was Oklahoma Attorney General. At his first congressional oversight hearing on Thursday, Pruitt reflected on the “very, very consequential, and, I think, exciting 10 months since I’ve been in…
Roy Moore Is Strangely Nostalgic for Slavery Days
Dan Anderson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When a candidate is credibly accused of molesting a 14-year-old girl, it tends to block out just about everything else. But Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has some preposterous views about politics too. Moore has said that Muslims should not be allowed…
Republican Lawmakers Criticize Graduate Student Tax in Their Own Bill
Graduate students at universities like Harvard would pay substantially more in taxes under a Republican plan.Roman Babakin/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s not just graduate students who are crying foul over a House Republican plan to impose a massive new tax burden on them—some House Republicans are joining their…
Do Universities Increase Innovation In Their Communities?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. File this one under “random stuff that came through my Twitter feed today.” It’s a paper from Michael Andrews, a postdoc at Northwestern, and it examines whether universities promote innovation. The methodology is simple, though the work required to gather the data appears to be…