Boy! Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our company was first to produce a cancer-free cigarette. What we could do to the competition! The tobacco industry knew conclusively its products were deadly in the 1940s (and had an inkling long before then). Naturally, its response was to cover its
A brief overview of Trump’s personal oddities After eight years of relatively normalcy from the Executive Branch under President Obama—whose oddest trait might be his anal nighttime nut habit, or the vast and unscrupulous expansion of the surveillance state and drone warfare, take your pick—we are now
“The Gentry,” a luxury development being built in a gentrifying neighborhood, is forced to change its name. Often, when developers come to neighborhoods of color with the intent of buying up property so they can flip it to white people, they aren’t particularly subtle about their intentions. Most developers,
Trump probably doesn’t know what public health is, and Mike Pence may try to kill us all. Should you be somewhat comforted by Trump’s vague public statements about his plans for public health—the most we really have is a line from his 100-day plan promising a
His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. In case it really needs saying, Kushner is a little rich kid whose daddy bought him everything (including admission to Harvard)—like Trump. ↩︎ ProPublica,
For people like me, failure is not being able to raise $100,000, and then when I go to angel investors seeking funding, they ask me if I’ve raised any money. It’s like I’ve already failed because of the color of my skin and not having my
House Republicans (unethically?) vote to prohibit ethics investigators from communicating with the public As you may have heard, House Republicans voted in a secret ballot Monday night to severely restrict the investigative powers and independence of the Office of Congressional Ethics, a semi-independent non-partisan government agency tasked with
Another reason to delete Uber: It hoards all of its data from the cities it works in. (So does Lyft.) This news was largely caught up in the midst of the #DeleteUber protests (delete Uber, by the way), but Uber has graciously decided to allow cities and the public to
Steven Mnuchin’s past—kicking retirees out of their homes, funding police-run “boot camps” for children—is unbefitting of a Cabinet nominee. Trump’s Treasury Secretary pick, the impossible-to-pronounce Steven Mnuchin, ran a bank that tried to force people out of their homes without any actual cause,
The last several weeks have seen the worst wave in years of murders of social leaders, indigenous leaders, land-rights activists, and human rights defenders. The renewed violence casts doubt on whether space for non-violent political activity will truly exist in Colombia’s “post-conflict” period. By one count,
