In the decades since a bunch of xenophobic guys on horses institutionalized their mounted patrols with a federal budget and a badge, the Border Patrol has spent a lot of time and money convincing prospective agents that prowling the border and punching children is a cool job only fit for cowboys and/or the baddest of…
Last week, the Trump-Pence administration met with FEMA officials to congratulate the agency on a successful 2017. They did not mention Puerto Rico once, where the death toll following Hurricane Maria is still a point of contention. Even as recent studies cite a number 70 percent higher than had been previously…
La semana pasada, la administración de Trump-Pence se reunió con representantes de la FEMA para felicitar a la agencia por un exitoso 2017. Ni una sola vez mencionaron Puerto Rico, donde el número de muertos tras el paso del huracán María todavía es un punto de debate. A pesar de que estudios recientes citan una…
As if growing up in Boston weren’t a horrific enough experience for this generation of young minds, on Thursday the Boston Globe metro desk published a short missive from a parent, Gregory Cohen, whose five-year-old daughter attends a Somerville school.
On Thursday, the college publication Stanford Daily released emails, written this past winter, in which Niall Ferguson, a historian, Bitcoin enthusiast, and 54-year-old adult man, advised undergraduates to do “opposition research” on a left-wing campus activist.
Diane Foley, a Christian anti-choice activist who believes monogamy is scientifically correct, is now in charge of Title X funding, which administers federal grants for family planning services. Foley, recently named to oversee the Office of Population affairs, has shown to be particularly adept at rewriting mission…
Over the last few months, the Department of Education’s civil rights division has opened a set of unusual investigations into Yale and the University of Southern California over what has been described, in various outlets, as “affirmative action for women” and “a toxic environment against men.”
The investigations…
On Thursday morning, CNN published a story in which eight women accused Morgan Freeman of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior, both on and off set. The critically acclaimed actor and producer is described by women and witnesses as touching women inappropriately and making lewd comments. Employees at…
The Penobscot Indian Reservation, established through a settlement with the state of Maine in 1980, begins about 12 miles north of Bangor at the foot of a bridge that stretches across the Penobscot River. Technically, the boundaries of the tribal territory stretch in a thin line 60-odd miles up the river from there.…
The Senate Judiciary Committee released thousands of pages of transcripts, texts, and emails related to the much-scrutinized June 2016 Trump Tower meeting today. For me, though, there is but one single page.
Seven people were found dead on a rural property in Western Australia on Friday, including a mother and her four children.
Today, the excellent ProPublica and NPR investigative series on maternal mortality published a story about the estimated 80,000 women a year who almost die after giving birth.
Yesterday, the New York Post published a story about a longstanding habit of certain members of our legislature: Sleeping in the office. Paul Ryan does it for the convenience. Some refuse to rent in Washington because they want to rise above the corruption of the “swamp.” (Or, more likely, because DC is a truly awful…
This week, as anti-choice protesters and GOP lawmakers urged President Trump to reinstate a domestic abortion “gag rule” and entirely defund Planned Parenthood, Kellyanne Conway approached the president with a handy infographic.
This week, the Trump administration is inching toward its long-promised reshaping of Title X legislation, a change that would entirely cut out clinics offering abortion referrals from the federal grant program.
Recently, I talked to women about what it was like to be pregnant and uninsured. Shortly after my story was published, Reyhan Harmanci, an editor over at Topic, mentioned that she was billed a little over $6,000 for services rendered during her hospital stay. The bills were in her recently delivered infant’s name:
Michigan gubernatorial candidate Shri Thanedar is having a bad month. The self-styled “fiscally savvy Bernie” (what that is supposed to signal to voters, I really couldn’t tell you) reportedly decided to run as a Democrat rather than as a Republican on the advice of a political consultant. But whoever is giving him…
A few years ago, when I was a naive writer at a very different publication, I decided to do a story about an energy drink that also happened to be a respected patron of the arts.
Yesterday Kansas secretary of state and noted racist lawyer-for-hire Kris Kobach was found in contempt of a U.S. district court for failing to notify thousands of state residents that they were, in fact, quite eligible to vote. He was ordered to pay attorney’s fees for the litigation of yesterday’s motion after being…
