This @JulieSatow piece on the invented life of Faith Hope Consolo, once Manhattan’s most prominent and flamboyant retail real estate broker, is quite a trip. https://t.co/XKCFVn3BXk
The New York Times is being sued by Peter Brimelow over a Jan. 15 article that offered a chronology of racist and inflammatory comments by Rep. Steve King.
Peter Brimelow, an anti-immigration activist who hosts a website that has published the writings of white supremacists, is suing the New York Times for $5 million for labeling him an “open white nationalist” in an article last year.
The president and executive director of the trade organization, which is reeling from disputes involving racism and diversity, said they were stepping down.
“What we were told over and over again was, ‘look, this action is necessary, this was a bad guy, we had to do it and we can’t have division, otherwise it sends a wrong signal to the Iranians’. And I just, I think that’s completely wrong.” https://t.co/NxJop36KGd
My takeaway: all depends on your definition of "low"; there's still considerable support variable as to country! The median numbers on this chart show confidence/no-confidence numbers not that far from our 40/60 split on job approval!
NEW >>>> Trump once said he'd "rarely leave the White House" and would save taxpayers by cutting back on travel. Now his administration is trying to block the public from learning the bill for his travel until after the election.
me and @Fahrentholdhttps://t.co/NCMpDk0Xtc
The writer Javier Cercas helped launch Spain’s historical-memory movement. In his new book, he asks whether score-settling and sanctimony have come to distort the nation’s past and poison its future.
The price of Spain’s transition from Fascism to liberal democracy was a political amnesia about Franco’s victims.
Iranian official: No survivors on an Ukrainian jetliner that crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran's main airport with at least 170 people on board. https://t.co/app9NMTST0
Officials are prepared to hand over sealed records from Roger Stone’s search and seizure warrants to the media in 60 days, Courthouse News reported Monday.
we should all take note of the reporting in