Politics

Chet Ellis with parents Trey Ellis and Amanda Freeman (photo via nydailynews.com) article by Christopher Brennan via nydailynews.com The 15-year-old winner of an essay contest about white privilege says older residents of the well-to-do Connecticut town who caused a national debate about the competition could learn a thing or two …

Monday Apr 10, 2017 · 7:30 PM PDT 2017/04/10 · 19:30 Muir Glacier, located in Glacier Bay, Alaska, photographed by W. Field in Aug. 1941 (left) and B. Molnia in Sep. 1976 (middle) and Aug. 2004 (right). Note how the glacier has retreated to expose rock in 1976 that has …

Hilton Als, a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1994, has been awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. (PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIGITTE LACOMBE) article via newyorker.com Hilton Als, the theatre critic for The New Yorker, has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Als became a staff writer for …

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden Trevor Timm at the Columbia Journalism Review writes—Stop treating former CIA chief Michael Hayden as an arbiter of truth: ON THE SUBJECT OF DONALD TRUMP and his relationship with intelligence agencies, there’s one commentator you are bound to see quoted more than anyone else: Michael Hayden, …

Margot Lee Shetterly (photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images) article by Sameer Rao via colorlines.com Following the literary and film success of “Hidden Figures,” author Margot Lee Shetterly will turn her attention to two little-known but prominent Black families in Baltimore. Viking Books announced today (April 10) that it has acquired the rights to Shetterly’s next two books. The first will focus on …

After a series of humiliating policy fails, Bannon may be on thin ice. Critics of Team Trump’s top white nationalist, Steve Bannon, have long suspected that Bannon was using his old right-wing propaganda outlet Breitbart to plant damaging stories about his White House contemporaries—mainly chief of staff Reince Priebus and …

Monday Apr 10, 2017 · 2:36 PM PDT 2017/04/10 · 14:36 Let’s bid a sad farewell to one of the best political pictures of our time. Let’s bid a sad farewell to one of the best political pictures of our time. On Friday, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said he had …

She’ll really by crying when she finds out what he has in store for her retirement. Popular vote loser Donald Trump promised one big thing in his primary race—he wouldn’t touch Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. But one gets the idea that Trump doesn’t really understand what any of those …

Monday Apr 10, 2017 · 12:00 PM PDT 2017/04/10 · 12:00 What you missed on Sunday Kos … No word on who these Florida cops are planning to behead: Golfer Sergio García of Spain slipped on the green jacket after a dramatic finish over Englishman Justin Rose at the 81st …

A new House bill from immigrant rights leader and Democratic Rep. Nydia Velázquez would stop ICE agents from identifying themselves as police when sweeping up undocumented immigrants at their homes, a shady practice that “has long been criticized by immigration attorneys, who say the practice is unethical and sometimes illegal:” Velázquez argues that …