When a bunch of white dudes get caught being racist, homophobic, or anti-Semitic (or in this case, all of the above) and the public responds with justified outrage, you can usually count on one of two responses: You are stifling my free speech or It was just a joke! The brothers at Theta Tau, the engineering…
What’s that? Oh, just another group of Paul Ryan’s “everyday working Americans” winning big from the Republican tax bill:
In February 2017, New York City’s First Lady Chirlane McCray and New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill unveiled what was supposed to be a 24-hour hotline where victims of sex trafficking could call for help. McCray affirmed that the number would connect to a “specially trained officer.”
This piece is part of Splinter’s series The New Guard, where we interview progressive candidates who are running in 2018 midterm races across the country to shake up the Democratic Party establishment.
Donald Trump has announced that he is running for re-election in 2020. He has hired staff to run his campaign. He has filed his paperwork and has been raising money all year. That’s not to mention the fact that Trump’s personality and presence is the physical embodiment of “he’s running” meme. But apparently, it’s too…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been scrambling to shore up his progressive bona fides in the face of a robust primary challenge from actress and activist Cynthia Nixon. One result of this: Over the past week, Cuomo has made a number of comments arguing that he understands the plight of immigrants because he, too, is…
This week, American hero James Comey published his much-anticipated memoir, A Higher Loyalty, a book that, as far as I can tell, is about the relative height of loyalties. I have not read the book, because Splinter didn’t request a review copy. Nor have I read much coverage of its contents, because someone else at…
As the Fight for $15 movement has escalated over the past few years, winning higher minimum wage laws across the country, the most common criticism on the right has been that such policies will lead to job loss. After San Francisco raised its minimum wage, people freaked out about lost jobs. After Seattle raised its…
After it was revealed in federal court that Fox News’ Sean Hannity was the previously undisclosed third client of Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, Fox News finally put out their Nothing To See Here statement on Tuesday afternoon.
Cambridge police were arresting Selorm Ohene, a 21-year-old black Harvard student who is studying mathematics, when the Friday night arrest turned violent, with newly released video showing officers piling on and punching him. The department has launched an internal investigation into the incident.
Definitely real human Melania Trump visited the traveling opioid memorial, “Prescribed to Death,” on Monday, which is about as much as the administration has done for the opioid crisis since her husband took office. Melania described the experience as a “very moving visit” on Twitter:
In March, Governor Andrew Cuomo stood in front of a public housing building for the first time in recent memory and told reporters that “the residents’ rights have been abused, period.” On the request of the tenants themselves, he had just toured one of the decaying apartments in the Bronx in a building managed by the…
The Republican Party’s biggest win since Donald Trump took office was the passage of their highly regressive tax bill. When the bill passed, polling showed that only around a dismal one-third of Americans approved. Since then, the GOP donors have been spending millions to sell a plan that they claimed sold itself.
After a nine-day walkout, the Oklahoma Education Association announced Thursday that public school teachers will return to their classrooms after winning an average $6,000 raise, as well as a $1,250 for support staff. The funding will not come from capital gains taxes on the wealthy, as the teachers had demanded, but…
After reports from the Associated Press and The New Yorker were published today alleging that American Media, Inc, the publisher of the National Enquirer, paid $30,000 to obtain and kill a story from a former Trump Tower doorman, Dino Sajudin, he put out a statement which seems to back up their reporting.
Single payer has often been seen as a far-left radical view that does not comport with practical realities, especially in comparison to a much more moderate national healthcare program like the Affordable Care Act.
The New York Times dropped a scoop Wednesday afternoon reporting that EPA chief Scott Pruitt wanted to redesign the department’s “challenge coins” (basically memorabilia pogs) to make it more of a “Pruitt coin” by removing the agency’s symbol in favor of his own name. He reportedly wanted to do the same thing with a…
Cynthia Nixon, who is running to unseat New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, laid out the common sense case for legalizing marijuana in a video released on Wednesday.
It has long been rumored that Speaker Paul Ryan, who has served in Congress for nearly two decades, was looking for an exit. Apparently, he has finally gotten the sign from Ayn Rand that it’s time to go, and is announcing that he won’t be running for re-election.
Electronic dance musician Moby has finally weighed in on whether programs for poor people should be more or less restrictive. What answer, exactly, did the six-time Grammy nominated techno artist Moby land on?
