President Trump’s firing of Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney in charge of investigating major crimes in the influential Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan, is another move by the Trump administration that, though likely legal and not totally… Continue Reading
Graphics by Julia Wolfe We’ve said it before, The stock market is not the economy. Usually, this simply means that the fluctuations in the markets may have little to no real bearing on the underlying reality, we may think of… Continue Reading
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll(s) of the week “Defund the police.” In the last several weeks, this slogan has entered the mainstream amid nationwide protests against police violence. However, there’s some disagreement about what exactly the slogan… Continue Reading
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Projectthe nonprofit news organization covering the U.s. criminal justice system. Eighteen days after, George, Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police, the The Minnesota state Legislature introduced 48 bills in the… Continue Reading
DHAKA-is-safe — for now. On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court ruled that’s the Trump, the administration can’t immediately end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DHAKA. Created by President Barack Obama, RICKSHAW provides a shield against… Continue Reading