The FBI is looking for a balding white man in his 40s driving a beat up pick up in connection with a bomb detonated outside an NAACP office in Colorado Springs.
Top national police union says Congress should make violence against cops a hate crime.
I’m fascinated by this, a bit surprised and just want to see exactly where this goes. In the rules to organize the new Congress, Republicans put a rule in effect the intent of which is to force a manufactured crisis in Social Security financing and set the stage for the cuts they’ve been hankering for for years. Again, on day one. Let’s definitely keep an eye on this.
Kashana Cauley on how African-American success often remains invisible to people of all races, even for African-Americans who have succeeded in every way our society judges success.
It looks like North Carolina, under unified GOP control, will likely be next to give up the ghost on Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
Why the new GOP majorities have every incentive to keep gridlock going strong.
Two New York City police officers were shot this evening in the Bronx just after 10:30 Monday evening. They were responding to a robbery. Neither officers’ injuries appear to be life-threatening. A major manhunt is currently underway.
NYPD officials do not believe the officers were targeted.
This is another in my on-going series of posts on the politics and economics of wealth inequality – perhaps the key political and economic puzzle and problem of our time. As we’ve noted before, the trend toward greater concentration of wealth at the top is most extreme in the US and to a lesser extent in the UK and Canada which are closer to our economic model than other European countries and Japan. This post from November has a good chart illustrating the relative trends (third chart down). But this new study comes at the same data from a distinct and frankly jarring perspective.
What will define 2015 in politics and more importantly our national and political culture in general? 2014 I’d call a year of general malaise, disenchantment with Obama, a return to Iraq and a polarizing but irrepressible public argument about race and policing. What does 2015 hold? I’ve just opened this thread to discuss it in The Hive (sub req). If you’re not a Prime member, shoot me an email at our main site email address up at the top of the site.