Protesters hold signs during a rally calling for criminal justice reform outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 10, 2018. Photo: Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty ImagesYou’d struggle to find a single issue that resonates more with the base of the Democratic Party than criminal justice reform. An astounding 87 percent
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Ryan Zinke Uses Climate-Fueled Wildfires to Boost the Timber Industry — and It’s Not the First Time
Wildfire season struck early this year. Before August, California’s Mendocino Complex fire was already the largest in the state’s history, and the Santa Ana winds, notorious for fueling fires, hadn’t even begun to blow. Record heat and drought in recent years that scientists have linked to climate change have contributed
One of the Strongest Progressives in Congress Is Facing a Primary Challenger Invoking Identity and Change. Will She Unseat Him?
In a recent debate aired on Radio Boston, Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley delivered an unusual mantra for her bid to unseat incumbent Rep. Michael Capuano, declaring that she would vote in a nearly identical way as her opponent. “We will vote the same way, but lead differently,” she said. Nationwide, left-wing Democrats
Google Executives Misled Staff in Meeting on China Censorship. Here Are 13 Questions They Must Answer.
Google bosses have broken their silence on the company’s plan to launch a censored search engine in China amid mounting internal protests over the project. On Thursday, CEO Sundar Pichai admitted to employees during an all-hands meeting that the censorship project – code-named Dragonfly – had been “in an exploration stage
Dear James Mattis: Why Haven’t You Quit Yet?
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis arrives for a press conference at the Australia-U.S. Ministerial Consultations at the Hoover Institution, July 24, 2018, in Stanford, Calif. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Dear Secretary James Mattis, What on earth are you still doing in the Trump administration? Why haven’t you quit yet? “Mattis is out of
Ben Carson’s Drive to Further Segregate Housing Gets a Boost in Court
Civil rights advocates suffered a blow in federal court this month, losing a lawsuit, filed in May, against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and its secretary, Ben Carson. Unlike the last time advocates sued HUD, in 2017 — a case they won — this time the same judge, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell,
Big Banks Were Meant to Gain From Bipartisan Deregulation Bill All Along, Senate Letter Reveals
Democrats who collaborated on the bank deregulation law passed earlier this year have categorically insisted that it only benefits small community banks and credit unions. Take Sean Patrick Maloney, a House Democrat who is simultaneously running for both re-election and New York attorney general — the so-called Sheriff of Wall Street
Facebook Suspended a Latin American News Network and Gave Three Different Reasons Why
On August 13, Facebook shut down the English-language page of Telesur, blocking access for roughly half a million followers of the leftist media network until it was abruptly reinstated two days later. Facebook has provided three different explanations for the temporary disappearing, all contradicting one another, and not a single
Trump Administration Says Deportable Immigrants Can’t Go to the Courts — Even If Their First Amendment Rights Are Violated
Fox News Violates Poland’s Holocaust Law With Reference to “Polish Death Camp”
Fox News could face legal action in Poland, and a potential fine of $100 million, for violating that nation’s new law on Holocaust memory on Tuesday by repeatedly referring to a Nazi concentration camp built during the wartime German occupation of Poland as “a Polish death camp.” The broadcaster used the