In the wake of New Zealand’s mass shooting, Trump finds ways to downplay the threat of white nationalism. Students around the world skipped school on Friday to demonstrate for climate action. Here’s the story of a formerly homeless student who learned this week he’d been accepted to
At least 49 people were killed and 20 seriously injured in mass shootings at two mosques in New Zealand. A 17-minute video of a portion of the attack “leapt across the internet faster than social media censors could remove it.” The UK Parliament votes to postpone the Brexit deadline,
Beto O’Rourke becomes the eleventh current or former elected official to enter the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. Andrew Sullivan on what happened when Britain's Labour party went hard left. The President faces his first two vetoes after Senate Republicans break rank over Yemen and Trump’s border
A growing number of countries are grounding or banning Boeing 737 Max 8 plans, but the FAA stands firm on their safety. Trump and Boeing’s CEO chat on the phone. Perhaps Trump said that he doesn’t want really, really, really smart people flying planes. Worth remembering: An American
Singapore and Australia ban Boeing 737 Max aircraft after an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing Max 8 crashed on Sunday, killing 157 people on board. Airlines, passenger advocates, and insurance experts discuss the popular Max 8. Southwest Airlines has the most Max 8s in the world. “This week will mark a turning
The latest action heroes in Gotham: female building inspectors equipped with rappelling equipment. "TelAbortion" enables women to have the procedure at home, but with medical oversight. Neoclassicism meets anime in Cristina BanBan's paintings of the female figure. Many of the biggest stars in US women'
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort gets 47 months in jail for tax and bank fraud. More sentencing awaits. Even without knowing what’s in the Mueller report, “we already have witnessed the biggest political scandal in American history.” Someone in the White House leaks documents related to Jared Kushner
The number of migrants intercepted at the US southern border reaches an 11-year high—“a border security and a humanitarian crisis.” When the New York Times says it’s an emergency except when Trump says it is, a reader asks, so is it a crisis or not? The American
House Democrats postpone voting to condemn anti-Semitism after "an array of progressive groups" call for solidarity with Rep. Ilhan Omar. See also: Making tone-deaf remarks isn’t as bad as supporting de facto apartheid. A self-described neoliberal describes why the Democrats need to accept the
The House Judiciary Committee launches a sweeping investigation into whether Trump and his team have engaged in obstruction of justice, corruption, and abuse of power. FYI: The next several months will be a doozy. McConnell says there are enough disapproving votes in the Senate to block Trump’s national emergency
