The minority of states that have not embraced decarceration need not look far to see that overreliance on incarceration is an ineffective and expensive means of keeping the public safe. #cjreformhttps://t.co/OSlHKLcULp
If you want to understand what’s really happening in America in the Trump era, you could do a lot worse than read a statement provided to the press Wednesday evening by Stephen M. Ross — a rich guy who, like a lot of rich guys, enjoys spending some of his riches in order to influence public policy to make himself richer.
After organizers received threats of violence, an exhibition at the 2019 Aichi Triennale was shuttered. The controversy stemmed from a statue of a Korean “comfort woman,” highlighting the history of sexual slavery during World War II.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that his House panel is conducting an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Nadler added that the committee will decide by the year's end whether to refer articles of impeachment to the House floor.
Consumer advocates say there’s a growing effort in the $11 billion debt collection industry to recover debts previously written off by financial firms.
In many states, companies lose the right to collect debts after a few years. But there’s a loophole they’re increasingly using.
[...] The event reportedly became so contentious that Stewart told attendees he would walk out unless it became more civil, which brought it back in line.
Admit not having read full article due to paywall, but coming from the WSJ, I think the tweet and lede and first paragraph are enough to make this story worth pointing out:
Auto debt is up. Student debt is up. Unsecured loans are back. The American middle class is drowning. https://t.co/vAn4mIxSWY
NEW The top US diplomat for Latin America and the Western Hemisphere has resigned after clashing with Stephen Miller. Miller chastized Kim Breier for her reluctance to publicly defend and promote Trump’s Guatemala asylum accord @karendeyoung1 scoop https://t.co/MeAisDrKgG
Based on nothing, the president and aides accused a mayor and senator of misrepresenting how he was treated...on a hospital visit...to shooting victims. In fact, they’d said he was received warmly.
"Baquet, the first African-American executive editor of the Times, doesn’t see this moment in American history as particularly aberrant." https://t.co/kIrxc4uhrL
Global extreme poverty is still falling, especially thanks to India. But some African countries have such high birth rates and low growth rates (e.g. Nigeria) that the world isn't going to be able to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030.https://t.co/3UVOqCBVe5
Thirteen people have been shot after 11 shootings over the August long weekend — an injury tally that prompted Toronto’s police chief to issue a call for witnesses to come forward to help close “solveable” cases.
NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida amateur body builder who admitted sending inoperative pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday by a judge who said he concluded that the bombs purposely were not designed to explode.
