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Rob Walton, Walmart board member, shows off his socks featuring pink flamingoes during the annual Walmart shareholders meeting event on June 1, 2018, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. | Rick T. Wilking/Getty Images A new state law requires all public companies to have at least one woman on their board. A libertarian group is suing California forContinue reading “A libertarian group is suing California for allegedly discriminating against men”

Ambassador William Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent arrive for an impeachment inquiry on November 13, 2019. | Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images Outlets should know better by now than comparing politics to reality TV. Alas. The first public impeachment hearing on Wednesday featured testimony from two State Department officials, BillContinue reading “Coverage of the first impeachment hearing illustrates how the media is falling short”

The hippie aesthetic owes a lot to Art Nouveau. When you picture hippies, you probably think of bell bottoms, long hair, and LSD. You might also think of a very specific graphic design and illustration style, seen on concert posters and album covers: curly, cloudy, barely legible lettering; trippy color combinations; and decorative meandering borders.Continue reading “Where the 1960s “psychedelic” look came from”

Algerian protesters hold national flags as they chant during an anti-government rally in the centre of the capital Algiers on November 12, 2019. | Ryad Kramdi/AFP/Getty Images Algerians have been protesting since February. Here’s why you haven’t heard much about them. An Algerian court on Wednesday sentenced over 20 protesters to several months of jailContinue reading “Algeria’s forgotten protesters”

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have introduced a bill that would upgrade public housing to be more energy efficient and run on renewable energy. | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images The $172 billion proposal aims to upgrade 1.2 million units of public housing to curb emissions. Vermont Sen. BernieContinue reading “Why Bernie Sanders and AOC are targeting public housing in the first Green New Deal bill”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds her weekly news conference in the House Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol November 14, 2019 in Washington, DC.  | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Democrats are well into the public phase of their impeachment inquiry. House Democrats began presenting their case for impeachment to the American people onContinue reading ““Our job is to shape public opinion”: House Democrats aren’t obsessing over impeachment polls”

Hasan Minhaj in Netflix’s Patriot Act. | Cara Howe/Netflix A week after CEO Reed Hastings said Netflix was in the entertainment business, not the “truth to power business,” another exec takes a stab at it. Tldr: It’s still going to get censored. Last week, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said his company was in the entertainmentContinue reading “Netflix says it speaks truth to power, after all”

We need more copper. Is it worth destroying this place? Northeastern Minnesota is home to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a network of thousands of pristine lakes that have been federally protected since 1968. The protections are so strong that you can’t build a road inside the 1 million acres of wilderness. YouContinue reading “America’s wilderness is for sale”

Drug resistance is a reaction to our overuse of antibiotics. | UIG via Getty Images In the US, one person dies every 15 minutes because of drug resistance. Every 15 minutes, one person in the US dies because of an infection that antibiotics can no longer treat effectively. That’s 35,000 deaths a year. This strikingContinue reading “The post-antibiotic era is here”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a North Carolina campaign rally in November 2019. | Sara D. Davis/Getty Images Psst, rich guys: It might be better for you if you stop talking about Elizabeth Warren. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is not shying away from the parade of ultra-rich guys fretting about her in the press — instead, sheContinue reading ““ok billionaire”: Elizabeth Warren is leaning into her battle with the super-rich”