Washington DC has a very high incarceration rate and up to 4,500 people could be affected by the measure, included in emergency police reform legislation that passed the city council this week.
July 16, 2020Plus, someone hacked Twitter.
July 15, 2020Trump talks China, trade, coronovarius, Dr. Fauci and the prospect of Joe Biden getting rid of windows to combat climate change.
July 14, 2020Media coverage of Trump’s commutation of his associate Roger Stone’s prison sentence has pushed the Russia bounty story out of the headlines. Knowing Trump’s skill at distraction, it’s hard to believe this is a coincidence.
July 13, 2020Will the pandemic kill public schools?
July 11, 2020Bill Moyers talks with Bill T. Jones, the artistic giant who revolutionized modern dance. The son of migrant farm workers in the South – the 10th of 12 children – Jones grew up to win two Tony Awards, receive the National Medal of Art and a MacArthur Genius Fellowship and to be honored by the Kennedy Center.
July 11, 2020Roger Stone is a convicted felon. Trump just let him off the hook.
July 11, 2020Tonight’s news dump felt different to me, as if Trump has realized that he is in trouble in the upcoming election, and rather than trying to court the independent voters he needs to win reelection honestly, is focusing instead on doing all he can to protect himself from indictments and to charge up his base. First, though, while there is much political news, the biggest story remains the coronavirus. Today the US had more than 68,000 ...
July 10, 2020Trump has argued that the president is untouchable. The Supreme Court, including two of Trump’s own appointees, has repudiated his argument entirely.
July 10, 2020Businesses tied to President Donald Trump’s family and associates stand to receive as much as $21 million in government loans designed to shore up payroll expenses for companies struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic.
