For weeks, a nagging questions lingered in the minds of nervous Hollywood executives: Would Black Panther — the unabashedly Afrocentric superhero movie — find an audience in a place like China? The answer it would appear, is a resounding yes. Marvel’s hit movie starring Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong’o has taken in more than a billion […]
On Saturday, the president attacked Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a veteran African American congresswoman and outspoken Trump critic, saying, she’s a “a very low IQ individual — you ever see her?” On Sunday, his Treasury Secretary dismissed this and other attacks made by Trump at a Pennsylvania event as irrelevant “campaign rally issues.” “You know I’ve been […]
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), a gun-rights advocate who has received nearly $4 million in support from the National Rifle Association (NRA), has reportedly put a hold on a bipartisan gun background check bill, blocking it reaching the Senate floor. But he refused to admit it outright, instead saying that he has “due process” concerns. “There are some […]
After years of dishonestly whining that the Affordable Care Act was written in secret and rushed through Congress with insufficient debate, Congressional Republicans and the Trump administration cobbled together their tax legislation in December and rushed it through Congress. Now, it appears, America is paying the price for their shoddy work. Desperate to pass the bill […]
Donald Trump drew cheers at a rally in western Pennsylvania Saturday when he suggested that drug dealers should be executed and praised east Asian autocrats for their tough-on-crime policies. The US president was talking to the crowd near Pittsburgh about a conversation on illegal drugs he recently had with Singapore’s leader Hamilah Yacob. “We [the […]
A White House spokesman offered a non-denial and a curious explanation for why Trump confidant Carl Icahn dumped millions of dollars worth of steel-related stock just before the president announced new tariffs. As ThinkProgress initially reported, billionaire investor and close Trump confidant Carl Icahn sold $31.3 million of stock in a company heavily dependent on […]
MOON TOWNSHIP, PA — Cindy Ireland came to President Trump’s rally in Moon Township, Pennsylvania Saturday night hoping to hear more about a solution for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients. “The ones that were brought here when they were little or born here, you have to blame their parents for not making the […]
Vladimir Putin, who repeatedly has denied meddling in the 2016 US election, suggested in a new interview that the massive cyber operation targeting the presidential vote might have been carried out by “Ukrainian, Tatars or Jews — but with Russian citizenship.” The Russian leader pointed the finger at Jews and ethnic minorities in his country […]