"Escalating CEO pay in recent decades has likely pulled up the pay of other top earners," notes a new Economic Policy Institute report. "This concentration of earnings at the top leaves fewer gains for ordinary workers."
A recent study published in the American Sociological Review found that white police officers' political affiliations may be associated with racial biases in policing, particularly with Black motorists. This research, based on Florida Highway Patrol data from 2012 to 2020, revealed that white Republican officers were more likely...
During his Sunday morning appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called out Donald Trump over reports he told military leaders he didn't want wounded vets to be seen by the public while he was president.In a recent Atlantic profile of General Mark Milley, t...
“Here's the audacity: Self-managed abortion is not even a crime in fucking Nebraska,” an advocate told Jezebel. The case is a harbinger of more criminalization.
"We are an extremist organization that prides itself on making sure that freedom of speech and choice only applies to those who believe gays are demonic...
It been a fairly slow few days news wise, with Lauren Boebert and the government shutdown taking over the news cycle, and I was doing some research for a piece about a figure in Donald Trump’s world. I stumbled upon this article from The Atlantic from 2019, and it had an anecdote that is just […]
American politicians are far older, on average, than the voters they represent. As Americans prepare to elect either Joe Biden (80 years old) or Donald Trump (77) to the white house next year, the age gap has never been more stark. How old are your state's elected officials?
"More kids are losing access to books, more libraries are taking authors off the shelves, and opponents of free expression are pushing harder than ever to exert their power."
With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump.
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The House of Representatives blew up again Tuesday afternoon, when leadership had to pull back a procedural vote on their only existing proposal for averting a government shutdown at the end of next week. Compounding that failure, a handful of...
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland lashed out at Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) after the congressman suggested that he was targeting religious Americans. "The actions of the DOJ are on you," Van Drew charged at a House Judiciary hearing on Wednesday. "The decline of Americans' trust in our federa...
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, began at sundown on Friday and Donald Trump posted his own message with a veiled threat to so-called "liberal Jews.""Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed false narratives! Let's hope you learned from you...