Remember when the GOP issued that big “autopsy” report on the 2012 elections a year ago promising to do better with LGBT people, Hispanics, and women voters? Yeah, they don’t either.
A couple days ago, CNN anchor Don Lemon wondered aloud whether “the supernatural power of God” made the missing Malaysian airplane disappear. Last night, he stepped up his game by raising all of the internet’s crazy theories about the disappearance.
This story has it all: a politician, a Ponzi schemer and loads of cash for the politician’s alleged mistress. And of course, it’s happening in Florida.
Sociologist and author of What Unions No Longer Do Jake Rosenfeld takes a look at the failed attempt to unionize a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee and takes away some lessons from the attempt.
Politico’s Mike Allen swears he wasn’t taking a shot at FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver in this morning’s Playbook newsletter.
Ed Kilgore points out that it’s not just tea partiers that are sick of compromise. Thinkers on the left are too.
A school district in Louisiana gets popped for pushing Christianity and discriminating against a Buddhist student — but it sure doesn’t seem sorry about it. (You can still see the school board’s “beliefs” posted on its old website, where No. 1 is “God exists.”)
Look, I’m a New Yorker reader, and generally enjoy film critic Anthony Lane’s clever turns of phrases, but this new Scarlett Johansson profile. Yeesh.
Katy Waldman at Slate deftly culled some of the most cringeworthy phrases from the profile:
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has been making a pretty big claim about Obamacare lately. Namely, he says that it discriminates against the disabled. The problem, though, as TPM’s Dylan Scott dissects this morning, is that Jindal’s claim is complete BS. Be sure to read this one.
Today at TPM Cafe Book Club, What Unions No Longer Do author Jake Rosenfeld talks about how, if we really want to fight the war on poverty, we need to rebuild the labor movement. Ned Resnikoff responds, calling back to some of labor’s earlier disruptive tactics.