It’s been a rough week for the Daily Caller. First, The Atlantic identified former Daily Caller editor Scott Greer as the author of numerous posts on Richard Spencer’s white supremacist website. Then, the Columbia Journalism Review revealed that the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website praised Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson, who, according to the neo-Nazis, “is […]
On Wednesday evening, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) questioned Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on his views about race conscious programs, such as when universities consider race in a student’s admission. Kavanaugh dodged the questions at every turn — and mentioned the racial diversity of his judicial clerks, in response to a question about his opinion […]
On Wednesday evening, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) questioned Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on his views about race conscious programs, such as when universities consider race in a student’s admission. Kavanaugh dodged the questions at every turn — and mentioned the racial diversity of his judicial clerks, in response to a question about his opinion […]
Colin Kaepernick won’t be on the field this weekend when the NFL season kicks off. However, his presence will be felt, thanks to the handful of players that continue to protest racial injustice during the national anthem; the ongoing battle between the NFL and NFL Player’s Association over the league’s anthem policy; and the elephant-in-the-room […]
Colin Kaepernick won’t be on the field this weekend when the NFL season kicks off. However, his presence will be felt, thanks to the handful of players that continue to protest racial injustice during the national anthem; the ongoing battle between the NFL and NFL Player’s Association over the league’s anthem policy; and the elephant-in-the-room […]
The fate of roughly 3 million civilians hangs in the balance as leaders from Iran, Turkey, and Syria prepare to meet in Tehran on Friday to decide how to proceed with the impending offensive on the Syrian province of Idlib, thought to be the final opposition stronghold in the country. Russia and Iran have been […]
Sweden is facing a widespread disinformation campaign ahead of its general election this weekend according to a new study, with a third of articles shared online coming from deliberately misleading sources. The study, conducted by researchers at Oxford University and first reported by Reuters, analyzed 275,000 tweets during a ten-day period in August. It found […]
During his confirmation hearing on Thursday, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was asked to explain his reaction to emails he received in 2003 containing documents stolen from Democratic senators and staff. His explanation, even when confronted with an email from a second staffer with the subject line “spying,” was that it was all perfectly normal. […]
More than 4,500 low-income Arkansans lost their health insurance over the weekend because they did not report 80 hours of work online for three consecutive months, according state data. The three-strikes law took affect in June, making Arkansas the first state to implement Medicaid work requirements in the country. Critics warned the law wouldn’t move […]
On Thursday, Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Maizie Hirono (D-HI), two Senate Judiciary Committee members, took the bold step of releasing confidential emails from Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh that revealed his troubling positions on race. Hirono tweeted out screenshots emails from Kavanaugh’s time as a lawyer in the George W. Bush White House […]
Democratic voters in Delaware heading to the polls on Thursday will face a choice that has become increasingly familiar this primary season: casting a vote for a long-secure incumbent, or opting for a surging challenge from the left. On environmental issues, that decision could be especially fraught, with both of the state’s Senate candidates offering […]
The Trump administration Thursday filed proposed rules that would allow the government to detain migrant children for long periods of time while their parents face immigration court. The proposed rules, which will be published in the Federal Register on Friday, would withdraw the government from the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement that limits how long the […]
In December of 2005, the New York Times dropped a bombshell report. “Months after the Sept. 11 attacks,” it read, “President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according […]
Wednesday night, as the Kavanaugh hearing was wrapping up for the day and few people were still paying attention to the Supreme Court nominee’s testimony, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) had a pointed exchange with Judge Brett Kavanaugh about whether he is likely to tear down America’s safeguards against voter suppression. The exchange will not calm […]
Five people, including a 17-year-old boy, have been arrested by police in the U.K. for being part of banned far-right group, National Action, which the British government has classified as a proscribed terrorist organization. Police arrested the boy on Wednesday. Also taken into custody were three men — 22, 23 and 28 years old respectively […]
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh appeared flustered by a series of questions from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) Wednesday night regarding any conversations he may have had with President Trump’s former outside counsel about the ongoing Russia investigation. “Have you ever discussed Special Counsel [Robert] Mueller or his investigation with anyone?” Harris asked. Kavanaugh appeared confused. “Well, […]
President Trump’s Supreme Court pick repeatedly relied on a transparently ridiculous talking point — claiming he grew up on the mean streets of suburban Washington, D.C. — to deflect questions about his opposition to gun regulations during his confirmation hearing. During Wednesday evening’s portion of Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) asked the judge […]
Five years after it upheld the constitutionality of the colonial-era law that criminalized consensual private adult gay sex acts, five judges on India’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down Section 377 on Thursday. With India’s population of more than 1.3 billion people — roughly one sixth of the world’s population — the ruling will affect millions of […]
In a telling moment during Wednesday’s confirmation hearings, Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh appeared dumbfounded when he was asked by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) whether he knows of any laws that give the government the power to control male bodies. “Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions […]
By Jeremy Deaton It began as a beacon of freedom, founded by those aboard the last slave ship to reach the United States. For decades, it stood as a sanctuary of African culture, but today, the small community on the outskirts of Mobile, Alabama is struggling to stay alive. In the 1940s, industry moved to Africatown, […]
When the anonymous creator of Kim Kierkegaardashian started tweeting in character, they did not know that 2018 would be a time of heightened celebrity obsession as well as spirit-crushing, all-consuming dread. But this writer found a sweet spot between the two that proved to be both of and ahead of its time: Inventing a Twitter […]
Federal officials are demanding millions of voting documents from North Carolina in hopes of furthering an existing case that accused 19 non-citizens of voting illegally in 2016, CNN reported Wednesday. The subpoena seeks copies of all voter registrations filed from 2010 to 2018 statewide. A second seeks voting records in Pitt County from 2013 through […]
During Wednesday’s Senate social media hearing with higher-ups from Facebook and Twitter, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) honed in on one topic that has generated significant backlash: Facebook’s data-sharing agreements with some 60 different companies. The program, highlighted by the New York Times earlier this summer, was launched before Facebook had developed its own mobile app, allowing […]