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,
“It has been ‘Let’s give the façade we are negotiating and complying.’ But there has been no enforcement. We haven’t been serious about compliance.” In Panama, it proves particularly hard to reform offshore banking laws when the president has what his critics refer to as an “offshore cabinet”
The past year has been bad—but what made it bad, more or less? To find out, we asked a group of writers and thinkers: What were the most important events of 2016, and what were the least?
Adventures in entrepreneurialism: The professional people walker of Los Angeles.
The campaign supporting California’s secession opened its first embassy in, yes, you guessed it, Moscow. “Certainly it’s controversial,” the campaign’s leader told Vice News on the choice. “But we can’t become a country just by saying it. Countries like Russia need to help.” ↩︎ posted Dec. 24,
Climate deniers are in trouble over heavy-handed tactics again. A federal appeals court okayed climate scientist Michael Mann’s defamation suit, finding that a reasonable jury would believe that the National Review’s accusations of academic fraud, peppered with comparisons to child molesters, were baseless and harmful to his
An eight-year broken promise After failing to deliver on a campaign promise (never mind that day-one executive order) to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, President Obama recently told Congress he intends to transfer some 18 of the 59 inmates left in the facility on his very
“We were painting them a dire picture, and I couldn’t help but think they literally looked like they had no idea what was going on here. I remember their faces, it was like they had never fucking heard this stuff before.” For the “Bernie would’ve won” schadenfreudist, Sanders
Make it through a family holiday gathering in one piece with these tactics from the FBI’s former lead international kidnapping negotiator.
