Category: Politics

SIOUX CITY,  IOWA — Faith Spotted Eagle recalls, as if it were yesterday, the time she and three friends were viciously beaten by five white men. It was 1974, just a few months after an armed occupation by members of the Oglala Nation in the town of Wounded Knee in South Dakota. That now famous stand-off […]

I try to answer the buzz of my cell phone even if I don’t immediately recognize the caller’s number. And like a lot of people, I receive an inordinate number — sometimes multiple in a single day — of spammy, cold calls from fraudsters trying to trick me into parting with my money. Usually, I curse […]

Once again, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has shown it cares much more about forcing its athletes to follow arbitrary rules than it does about protecting those same athletes from sexual abuse. This week, the USOPC put two athletes, fencer Race Imboden and hammer thrower Gwen Berry, on probation for 12 months because […]

Migrants may soon have a much harder time finding lawyers and understanding their rights in immigration court, as the Trump administration pursues a major overhaul of the agency that oversees those proceedings. The crucial office that provides basic legal information to migrants and helps connect some of them to pro-bono immigration lawyers will be merged […]

In the few weeks since the twin massacres in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, at least  three people have been separately arrested for plotting mass shootings. Authorities in Connecticut took 22-year-old Brandon Wagshol into custody last Thursday. Wagshol had posted racist and homophobic rhetoric on Facebook, where he’d also reportedly expressed an interest in […]

In November 2017, President Donald Trump — who campaigned on a promise to appoint “only the best and most serious people” — appointed Jerome Powell to be chair of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. On Friday, he accused Powell of being possibly a bigger “enemy” of the American people than even the General Secretary […]

YouTube’s parent company, Google, has announced that it was disabling 210 channels that were part of a “coordinated” campaign to mold public opinion about the pro-democracy protests that have gripped Hong Kong for months. In a blog post on Thursday, Google said it had discovered the channels “in this network behaved in a coordinated manner […]