RSN: Ta-Nehisi Coates | I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye
08 May 18
Ta-Nehisi Coates | I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Coates writes: "I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it."
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Coates writes: "I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it."
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Senator Orrin Hatch was one of the sponsors of C.H.I.P. (photo: Kristin Murphy/Deseret News)
Trump Calls on Congress to Pull Back $15 Billion in Spending, Including on Children's Health Insurance Program
Damian Paletta and Erica Werner, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "President Trump is sending a plan to Congress that calls for stripping more than $15 billion in previously approved spending, with the hope that it will temper conservative angst over ballooning budget deficits."
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Damian Paletta and Erica Werner, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "President Trump is sending a plan to Congress that calls for stripping more than $15 billion in previously approved spending, with the hope that it will temper conservative angst over ballooning budget deficits."
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George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2013. (photo: Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/AP)
George Zimmerman Charged With Stalking Man Who Contacted Him About Trayvon Martin Documentary
CBS News
Excerpt: "George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted in the death of Trayvon Martin, has been charged with misdemeanor stalking after allegedly threatening and harassing a private investigator last year, according to Seminole County officials. He's accused of stalking the private investigator, Dennis Warren, in December 2017."
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CBS News
Excerpt: "George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted in the death of Trayvon Martin, has been charged with misdemeanor stalking after allegedly threatening and harassing a private investigator last year, according to Seminole County officials. He's accused of stalking the private investigator, Dennis Warren, in December 2017."
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Don Gregorio has lived all his life in the same home in Humacao, a city on Puerto Rico's eastern coast that was hard-hit by Hurricane Maria. Many of his old friends have since left for the mainland, the former carpenter says, and he feels very alone. (photo: Sarah Varney/Kaiser Health News)
Listless and Lonely in Puerto Rico, Some Older Storm Survivors Consider Suicide
WLRN
Excerpt: "A social worker, Lisel Vargas, has come to visit Don Gregorio at his storm-damaged home in the steep hillsides of Humacao, a city on Puerto Rico's eastern coast near where Hurricane Maria first made landfall."
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WLRN
Excerpt: "A social worker, Lisel Vargas, has come to visit Don Gregorio at his storm-damaged home in the steep hillsides of Humacao, a city on Puerto Rico's eastern coast near where Hurricane Maria first made landfall."
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Trump International Golf Course in Ireland, which the Trump organization paid for in cash. Paying cash is not as unusual as it used to be, according to former prosecutor Peter D. Hardy. (photo: Paul Faith/Getty Images)
The Key Signs of Money Laundering, According to a Former Prosecutor
Isaac Chotiner, Slate
Chotiner writes: "The news, reported in the Washington Post, that Donald Trump used cash for many of his real estate transactions in the decade before he became president, has raised eyebrows. As David Fahrenthold, one of the reporters on the Post story, told Slate, 'I don't think that lenders have a lot of experience with people who are buying huge things in cash.'"
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Isaac Chotiner, Slate
Chotiner writes: "The news, reported in the Washington Post, that Donald Trump used cash for many of his real estate transactions in the decade before he became president, has raised eyebrows. As David Fahrenthold, one of the reporters on the Post story, told Slate, 'I don't think that lenders have a lot of experience with people who are buying huge things in cash.'"
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Women march at a Ni Una Menos protest in Lima, Peru, in August 2016. (photo: Natalia Iguiñiz)
Ni Una Menos Stares Down Conservative Reaction
Jelke Boesten, NACLA
Boesten writes: "Well before outrage over Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein gave rise to the #MeToo movement in October 2017, feminists throughout Latin America had been using social media to organize large-scale nation-wide protests against gender violence."
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Jelke Boesten, NACLA
Boesten writes: "Well before outrage over Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein gave rise to the #MeToo movement in October 2017, feminists throughout Latin America had been using social media to organize large-scale nation-wide protests against gender violence."
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Grand Isle, Louisiana. (photo: Getty Images)
Louisiana Judge Sides With Black Residents, Rules Against Bayou Bridge Pipeline Backers
E. A. Crunden, ThinkProgress
Crunden writes: "A state district court judge says Louisiana violated state law in issuing a coastal permit for the construction of a controversial pipeline. The decision could once again halt construction on the Bayou Bridge pipeline's remaining 18 miles."
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E. A. Crunden, ThinkProgress
Crunden writes: "A state district court judge says Louisiana violated state law in issuing a coastal permit for the construction of a controversial pipeline. The decision could once again halt construction on the Bayou Bridge pipeline's remaining 18 miles."
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