Cornered by ‘grab them by the pussy’ tapes, Trump camp swears he’s a changed man. Fourteen months on the campaign trail apparently outweighs decades of public life, at least for the dwindling number of Trump loyalists. Voters...
Read MorePeople who have seen the videos suggest they poke holes in the official story. Police video of the moment officer Brentley Vinson shot and killed Keith Scott on Tuesday will eventually be released, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police...
Read MoreThe interstate where protesters in Charlotte made a stand Tuesday played a major role in shaping the city’s inequities. CREDIT: CNN/Screencap The long, winding history that led up to this week’s unrest. Anger smoldered in...
Read MoreEric Trump applauds his father at a campaign stop. CREDIT: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert That’s not how time works. Or economics. Donald Trump’s son attributed wage stagnation to Syrian refugees and border-crossing immigrants Monday...
Read MoreImam Feisel Abdul Rauf’s lower Manhattan Islamic center to counter extremism became the focus of a right-wing smear campaign in 2010. CREDIT: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, Flie Wealthy bigots of a feather flock together. The shakeup...
Read MoreLow-wage workers from dozens of states marched on a statue of Robert E. Lee Saturday in Richmond, VA, at the culmination of the Fight for $15 movement’s national convention. CREDIT: Alan Pyke/ThinkProgress RICHMOND,...
Read MorePresident Barack Obama with former Attorney General Eric Holder in 2014. CREDIT: AP PHOTO/CAROLYN KASTER Bank of America does not have to pay a $1.3 billion penalty assessed years ago, an appeals court ruled Monday. A jury found...
Read MoreCREDIT: FLICKR/THOMAS HAWK Payday lenders will lose access to Google’s biggest online ads network this summer. The search engine giant announced Wednesday it will stop helping the predatory lending firms market their services,...
Read MoreThe thorniest issue with state marijuana legalization just got a lot harder to navigate. Most state laws designed to catch drugged drivers are based on junk science, according to new analysis by the AAA Foundation for Traffic...
Read MoreHours after locking up the Republican presidential nomination this week, Donald Trump suggested that defaulting on the national debt could be a good thing. Economists and financial observers pointed out that his proposal to buy...
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