Donald Trump Declines to Clarify Contradictory Immigration Positions
Donald Trump’s campaign is going out of its way to withhold clarity about the candidate’s shifting positions on immigration, as he appears to be softening his hardline stance on deporting people in...
View ArticleIn Dallas, Police Lives Are Mourned but Rage Continues to Boil Over
Many of the speeches were eerily the same. The speakers, the thoughts, the frustration and anger — all the same. But what was different at a meeting of the Next Generation Action Network — the lead...
View ArticleInside Airbnb’s Plan to Build a Grassroots Political Movement
The future of Airbnb’s political strategy rests on the shoulders of men like Peter Kwan. A retired law professor who lives in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Kwan founded what one Airbnb...
View ArticleGetting Gifts at Work? How to Avoid Tim Kaine’s Image Problem
Picture this situation: A client sends you an expensive bottle of liquor at work — one you know you wouldn’t splurge on yourself. While it might seem harmless to accept what seems like a nice gesture...
View ArticleWhat Bernie Sanders Accomplished. And What He’s Left Unfinished
I’ll admit it: over the last year, I’ve felt the Bern. As someone who writes about economics, it was impossible not to. Politics aside, most serious economists now realize that neo-liberal,...
View ArticleThese Tech Companies Are Bankrolling Hillary Clinton
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will be courting the Silicon Valley elite Wednesday at a fundraiser co-hosted by Apple CEO Tim Cook. Tickets to the event range from $2,700 to $50,000,...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Childcare Policy Is Perfect—For Ivanka Trump’s Friends
Almost 50 million full-time workers in the U.S. labor force are women. That, according to U.S. Census figures released on Sept. 13, is the highest number of female workers ever, triple what it was 50...
View ArticleU.K. Regulator Says Some Cannabis Products Count as Medicine
A U.K. government regulator says certain cannabis products can be considered medicine, in a big win for the campaign to legalize cannabis use. The decision from the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare...
View ArticleYouth Prisons Don’t Work. Here’s What Does.
October is Youth Justice Action Month, so let’s take stock of what we’ve learned about our juvenile justice system just this year. About 50,000 youth are caught in a system that disproportionately...
View ArticleBeyond Bathrooms: Inside the Largest Ever Survey of Transgender People in...
On Thursday, the National Center for Transgender Equality released the largest survey of transgender people ever conducted, a deep dive that examines issues far beyond the bathroom debates that have...
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