The LGBTQ safe schools organization GLSEN published the results of its biennial National School Climate Study on Monday, showing that support for LGBTQ students isn’t growing like it used to. The study, conducted in 2017, found instead that schools have become less safe for transgender and gender nonconforming youth. After surveying a sample of 23,000 […]
When Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after visiting his country’s consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, the Trump administration barely raised a (public) eyebrow. After being pushed on the story — which got even worse by the day, with reports out of Turkey describing a 15-member Saudi assassination squad that flew into the country, […]
For two straight days, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has pushed the narrative that as long as he’s governor, “people with pre-existing conditions will always be covered.” Covering pre-existing conditions is personal to me. Plus, it’s the right thing to do: pic.twitter.com/WmbnFNoX2Z — Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) October 15, 2018 I will always cover pre-existing conditions, […]
Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, braced on Monday for more political turbulence after the Christian Social Union (CSU), a party which has been long-allied with Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), suffered a humiliating defeat in Bavarian regional elections. Fringe parties, such as the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, by contrast, came away from the elections victorious. […]
With heavy backing from cabinet ministers for the center-right governing coalition, a formal recognition of the supposed growing threat of anti-white racism nearly passed Australia’s senate on Monday. “[T]he Senate acknowledges…the deplorable rise of anti-white racism and attacks on Western Civilization; and…that it is okay to be white,” the resolution read. The latter phrase is […]
With the midterms just three weeks away, Democrats campaigning in red states have been advised to spend “as little time as possible” talking about immigration, according to a memo obtained by The New York Times from centrist think tank Third Way and the more liberal Center For American Progress. (Editor’s note: ThinkProgress is an editorially independent newsroom housed […]
On Monday, a federal lawsuit that says Harvard University discriminates against Asian American students in its admissions process begins its trial in Boston’s federal court. The stakes are high for the future of affirmative action. The man leading the effort, Edward Blum, is a conservative legal strategist who says colleges should not consider race in […]
The Trump administration is refusing to consider any new regulations to protect children from environmental hazards, according to Dr. Ruth Etzel, director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Children’s Health Protection, who was placed on administrative leave three weeks ago. In particular, Etzel sounded the alarm about ongoing risks to children from lead […]
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA — Seniors in rural Georgia were dancing in the street, preparing to board Black Voters Matter‘s bus to go cast a ballot on the first day of Georgia’s early voting period. But between 20 and 30 senior citizens were forced off the bus, in an act that organizers described as witnessing “live voter […]
What happened in the mid-’90s between 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky and then-President Bill Clinton was not an abuse of power, former Democratic presidential nominee and first lady Hillary Clinton said Sunday. Asked in an interview with CBS if, in retrospect, she believed her husband should have resigned in the wake of the Lewinsky scandal, […]
With less than a month to the midterm elections, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) seems to be feeling desperate — and racist. The disgraced incumbent, who was indicted over the summer for allegedly embezzling more than $250,000 in campaign funds over seven years, has resorted to Islamophobic smears and attack ads against his opponent, Democrat Ammar […]
It’s looking increasingly likely that the House may be hit by a “blue wave” this November, but new analyses have noted Senate Democrats are unlikely to experience the same kind of good fortune. Right now, FiveThirtyEight gives Democrats a four in five chance of taking back the House. Democrats also have an advantage in generic ballot […]
Karin Housely, a Republican running for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, once compared Michelle Obama to a chimp on Facebook in 2009, according to the Huffington Post. Housley, who is challenging Democratic incumbent Tina Smith for Al Franken’s vacated Senate seat, made the comparison in the comment thread of an April 2009 Facebook post […]
The New York Police Department announced Sunday night that it was continuing to investigate the pro-Trump street gang which violently attacked several individuals after an event at New York City’s Metropolitan Republican Club — but made no new updates, despite the internet being awash with information on suspects involved. The NYPD said that it “continues […]
President Donald Trump on Sunday slammed climate scientists who have warned about the catastrophic impacts of climate change if forceful action is not taken immediately as “having a political agenda.” In an interview with “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl, Trump said Stahl would have to show him the scientists who believe in human-caused climate change […]
President Trump, who has been reluctant to commit to potential sanctions for Saudi Arabia over the apparent murder of Washington Post columnist and Virginia resident Jamal Khashoggi, has repeatedly used Khashoggi’s immigration status as a subtle way of downplaying the significance of his disappearance. Trump tweeted on Monday morning that Saudi King Salman denies knowing anything […]
Since her first race for Senate in 2012, Republicans have attacked Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) over her Native American heritage. After Warren said publicly that her family told her she was of Cherokee decent and she was identified by previous employers as such — though a Boston Globe investigation last month found it played no role in her […]