Ridesharing app Uber settled a civil lawsuit with the district attorneys in Los Angeles and San Francisco over claims that the company overstated the rigor of its background checks. As part of the settlement the company, which is valued at over $64 billion, will pay up to $25 million to the respective cities.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, seen above guffawing at a rendering of himself as a prison inmate, is slowly becoming his party’s last hope. The New York Times reported on a recent fundraiser for the Cruz camp held at the Knickerbocker Club, one of the New York’s most elite establishments.
Earlier today police in San Fransisco shot and killed a homeless Latino man who they say was charging at them with a knife. Two eyewitnesses who say they were within 10 feet of the shooting immediately came forward with a different version of events.
The fact-checkers over at Politifact work tirelessly to keep America’s political reporting, sacred as it is, free from misinformation. Now, they’re taking on perhaps the biggest threat to our—totally not compromised—political news cycle: Bloggers.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton often faces criticism for being out of touch with the youth. She doesn’t do a very good job making a case for the opposite, either, opting instead to ruin popular dances for everyone. Still, the former secretary of state just got the best endorsement a candidate hoping…
A teacher in Newtown Connecticut, the site of one of the deadliest school shootings in American history, was arrested Wednesday after allegedly bringing a gun to the middle school where he worked.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has spoken disparagingly about “New York Values,” been a supporter of strict immigration legislation, anti-LGBTQ legislation, and arcane abortion rules and still, for whatever reason, thought campaigning in New York City would be a good idea.
Jonathan Chait is a columnist for New York Magazine, a respectable publication with many great writers. Chait, a white man, is also one of our nation’s foremost experts on what black people are thinking.
Today, footage surfaced of Florida governor Rick Scott, at a Starbucks in Gainesville, getting yelled at by a customer—local woman Cara Jennings, who is none to happy with the governor.
Last week, George Mason University announced that its law school would be renamed, at the request of an anonymous donor who gave $20 million to the program, after the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia: the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University—ASS Law. (Or ASSoL.)
According to NBC News, Bernie Sanders is the winner of tonight’s Democratic primary in Wisconsin. On the Republican side, Ted Cruz beat out Donald Trump by a healthy margin.
South Central, the historic region of Los Angeles that birthed Gangster Rap and served as the backdrop of the L.A riots, has piqued the interest of none other than ousted American Apparel CEO Dov Charney.
One of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s main (if not only) defined policy goals is to erect an enormous, very tall, very expensive wall on the border between The United States and Mexico. Today, in a memo, Trump made it clear how he would pay for this wall—by bankrupting Mexico’s poor.
In March, thousands of voters in Arizona reported waiting in hours-long lines to cast their vote in the state’s Democratic primary. Over 100,000 people have signed a petition demanding a revote in the state and now, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has officially opened an investigation to…
[This post has been corrected.] This week, California and New York passed landmark bills that would increase the states’ minimum wages to $15 an hour. Hillary Clinton joined New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday to celebrate the win—despite advocating for only a $12 minimum wage at the national level since at least…
Being black in most places in the world is, by and large, a disadvantage. In America, for example, police are more likely to arrest you if you are black, jobs are less likely to call you back if your name sounds black, and just about all of your cultural capital is sure to find its way, more profitably, in the hands…
Generations of first-year psych students know ‘Winston Moseley’ as the man whose savage murder and rape of Kitty Genovese in 1964 was witnessed by dozens of neighbors rendered powerless by a phenomenon called “bystander effect.” That tale, as neat and compact as it is, is incomplete.
Recently, Mississippi governor Phil Bryant, on a website called Sons of Confederate Veterans, proclaimed April to be “Confederate Heritage Month.” The reaction was...mixed. Clay Chandler, the governor’s director of communications, told the Times-Picayune in Mississippi:
In a recent radio interview, Ben Carson doesn’t say he necessarily thinks Donald Trump should be president, just that the business mogul and reality TV star could be an option. Asked why he endorsed Trump, Carson said:
On Monday, as part of an agreement reached with the European Union, Greece will begin returning migrants to Turkey en masse—despite having approximately one tenth of the 2,300 border management officers needed for the job.
