Jack Dorsey, the billionaire CEO of Twitter and mobile-payment company Square, is giving $5 million to Humanity Forward, a group launched by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, to build the case for a universal basic income. Dorsey, who plans to give away $1 billion of his wealth through a …
Read More »'If It's Not True, Don't Put It on TV': A Former TV Exec on How to Save Live News in the Trump Era
Many Americans are disturbed that TV networks air the Trump White House’s misinformation-filled coronavirus briefings live and in primetime. One of those people is Mark Lukasiewicz, a former executive at NBC News who also happens to be an ideal person to consult to try to understand why the networks and …
Read More »In a Push to Re-Open Schools, Florida Governor Falsely Claims No One Under 25 Has Died from COVID-19 Nationwide
While Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis was expressing his desire to re-open schools in May despite the coronavirus pandemic, he falsely claimed the virus hasn’t killed anyone under age 25 nationwide. Speaking on Thursday, DeSantis showed an astounding amount of ignorance on a topic he was championing when he told …
Read More »The Price of Greed
Sing it hard, and sing it well, Send the robber barons straight to hell. The greedy thieves who came around, And ate the flesh of everything they found. Whose crimes have gone unpunished now. Who walk the streets as free men now. They brought death to our hometown, boys. — …
Read More »Four Big Questions for Super Tuesday
As Joe Biden stumbled through months of debates and disappointed in the first three contests of the Democratic primary, his surrogates developed a kind of mantra: Wait until South Carolina— you’ll see. Variations on the theme were repeated so often thatthey felt destined to be proven utterly worthless,like so much …
Read More »Elizabeth Warren Guesses the Billionaires on 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert'
South Carolina native Stephen Colbert flew back to his home state — ahead of its primary this Saturday — to speak with Massachusetts senator and presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren for The Late Show. They sampled the local cuisine (“It’s very rich; you’re going to want to tax it,” he advised), …
Read More »2020 Democrats: Who Should Drop Out Next? Who Should Stay in the Race?
For the Democratic presidential candidates who want to block Bernie Sanders’ path to the 2020 nomination, the field is too damn crowded. The best way to beat Sanders, at least so the theory goes, is to face him in a one-on-one matchup before he racks up an insurmountable delegate lead. …
Read More »Sotomayor Accuses Supreme Court of Granting Favors to Trump in Blistering Dissent
The Supreme Court unveiled a 5-4 decision on Friday to allow the Trump administration to deny entry or green cards to immigrants based on a “wealth test,” claiming that low-income immigrants were likely to become a “public charge” and use social programs such as food stamps or Medicaid. All four …
Read More »Sane Clown Posse: Activists Disrupt Davos
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND —I ran into a global icon outside Davos yesterday. I recognized him by his trademark orange mop of hair and yellow jumpsuit. He stood not too far from blond men with skis slung on their shoulders heading toward a train station decorated with graffiti reading “Eat the Rich.” …
Read More »Trump's Impeachment Defense Team Includes Lawyers Who Represented Jeffrey Epstein, O.J. Simpson
President Trump has named Kenneth Starr and Alan Dershowitz to the legal team that will defend him during the Senate impeachment trial. Both lawyers previously represented billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and Dershowitz served on O.J. Simpson’s defense team during the former football player’s 1995 murder trial. They’ll now defend the …
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