It’s been a minute—a president ago—since Atlanta’s first season entranced us. The show quickly became a career launching pad for its core cast: Far-out buddy Lakeith Stanfield traveled to the sunken place; sometimes-girlfriend Zazie Beetz is in surefire blockbuster Deadpool 2; upstart rapper Brian Tyree Henry got some…

Donald Trump, who has shown he doesn’t know what global warming actually is, has made yet another comment about global warming. The National Weather Service estimated that this New Year’s Eve will have temperature highs of about 22 degrees and a low of 10 degrees in New York, making it one of the coldest in recorded…

Aaron Persky is widely known as the Santa Clara judge who sentenced convicted rapist Brock Turner—the former Stanford swimmer who assaulted his victim behind a dumpster—to six months in county jail. Since then, critics have picked up on Persky’s leniency toward domestic abusers and sexual predators: In a 2011…

A big part of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was this desire to return to “law and order” that was based on the unfounded idea that crime was on the rise. Attorney General Jeff Sessions agreed, saying in his swearing-in ceremony that by his “best judgment, having been involved in criminal law enforcement for many years,…

Golden Krust CEO Lowell Hawthorne’s unabashed capitalist optimism feels out of step in a time of emboldened anti-black resentment. Still, when the businessman spoke to the Jamaican Observer as recently as October, he echoed the belief of many West Indian transplants—the blind hope that the American dream can be…

Editor’s note: Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly announced Monday that he has extended Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status for six more months. He hinted that this shortened extension will be the last, saying that TPS recipients should take “time to attain travel documents and make other necessary arrangements for…