Last week, Besame introduced us to the Town Hall Project, a volunteer program she’s joined that tracks town halls and other social interactions that are scheduled by legislators. These are often events that said legislators might not want to publicize, lest they be asked hard questions or held to account by the public. This reminded me of something I consider to have been a great liberal failure in 2008: We stopped remembering to show up.
One of the many criminal investigations of Donald Trump may have ramped up to another level this weekend. Specifically, the investigation into Trump’s efforts to compel Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to commit election fraud in his favor.
Last month, Fani Willis, the newly elected district attorney in Fulton County—home to Atlanta—began a criminal investigation into the shakedown, including the infamous Jan. 2 phone call.
When the first QAnon posts jumped in to leverage the ugly Pizzagate conspiracy theory with a whole new level of destructive, divisive hate, the person behind those first cryptic notes was something of a mystery. But when it comes to the Big Lie—the claim that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election—the source of the disinformation, distortions, and big juicy whoppers isn’t difficult to pin down. It was Trump. And Trump’s lawyers.
The former president only likes some Republicans some of the time.
In the fight for a $15 minimum wage, don’t forget about tipped workers. While the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since 2009—and Congress hasn’t passed an increase since 2007—the tipped worker minimum wage has been at $2.13 an hour since 1991. The theory is that workers get at least minimum wage thanks to tips, or else employers make up the difference.
He kept Democrats united on a $1.9 trillion bill he called “one of the most progressive pieces of legislation — if not the most progressive — in decades.
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The Texas Democratic Party released an Election Data Analysis last week looking back at the 2020 election and why Democrats fell short in the state. The report conveys a lot of good information, but it focuses on the field/data side of the campaign and doesn’t look in-depth at anything else. The author was the state party’s data director, so that makes sense, and it is a good summary of that area.
The big story isn’t what Biden and Democratic leaders gave away. It’s what they got and the boost it provides future efforts.
The problem may not be the royal family itself, but all that surrounds them.
My mother had a ban on pork, and I thought she was mad that I broke it. One afternoon four decades ago, when I was about 8, I walked into my family’s house after playing outside and saw my mother sitting in the yellow recliner with a book in her lap. She had found the copy of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham.I knew that I was in trouble, because normally no one sat in the canary-colored La-Z-Boy, a throne reserved for my grandmother.
A tale of hubris and comeuppance is unfolding daily around New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. It’s a tale of a man who bullied colleagues for years and took time out of managing the pandemic to write a book about how well he was managing the pandemic, but is now facing accusations of harassment, incompetence, and fatal mistakes.
“It’s a new thing for people to look at.
In 1966, a young American journalist named Frances FitzGerald began publishing articles from South Vietnam in leading magazines, including this one. She was the unlikeliest of war correspondents—born into immense privilege, a daughter of the high-WASP ascendancy. Her father, Desmond FitzGerald, was a top CIA official; her mother, Marietta Tree, a socialite and liberal activist.
The University of Texas insists that it is willing to confront its past racism and make sweeping changes for the sake of justice. What it won’t do is deal with the racist history of its school song.Last summer, amid nationwide protests over George Floyd’s death in police custody, more than two dozen Texas football players and other athletes issued a list of demands aimed at making their school more welcoming.
Fantasy worlds that mirror real-life cultures have a long history in storytelling. Middle-earth, the Four Lands, Narnia, Westeros, Earthsea: These are fictional places populated by imaginary creatures and characters, but with politics, faiths, and cultural dynamics that resemble our own. They give their creators license to world-build with allegories for contemporary issues, but without worrying too much about fidelity to reality.
No tribe or “ancient” culture has perfected child rearing—so why won’t the expedition end?
The issue used to be a nonstarter for the GOP. Here’s what changed.
Raise a glass for comity and moderation.
A tale of “insider trading,” but sneakers.
Congress is figuring out it can’t always count on itself to help Americans in an economic crisis.
It’s been nearly a year since New Jersey’s 1.4 million K-12 students have been in classrooms full-time.
The Republican governor also criticized President Joe Biden for accusing him of “neanderthal thinking.
Heat, environmental problems and the pandemic concentrate in certain neighborhoods. Here’s a new idea for what to do about it.
The CDC guidelines were expected to be released Thursday but the CDC was told to hold their publishing.
What will the impact be?
The Brigeo “Don’t Despair, Repair!” Deep Conditioning Mask is now $29, or 20 percent off.
I don’t want my kids to have a relationship with them. My husband disagrees.
“I mean, Shaq has a SPAC. What could go wrong?” one economist says of the euphoria rippling through Wall Street and raising a new round of worries.
