Young, ambitious, and working a lot of extra hours for no pay? President Obama’s overtime proposal is likely to change that. Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock The Obama administration is moving to bring overtime pay to a lot more salaried worked in this country. Right now, you’re only eligible for overtime pay if your annual salary is under $23,660—which […]
Eli Sanders
Eli Sanders is The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this, but he also once crashed his bike into a parked car while on his way to a staff meeting, never mind this, so… His website, which probably hasn't been updated in a while, is www.elisanders.net.
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Why Trump’s Candidacy Could Be a Great Thing for Elizabeth Warren (and, Maybe, the Populist Left Too)
Elizabeth Warren: Currently taking on Donald Trump more forcefully than any other Democrat. Office of Elizabeth Warren The New York Times is noticing that Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is “one of the few high-profile leaders in either party to repeatedly challenge Mr. Trump with clarity and directness”—their recent Twitter fight being a prime example of […]
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Is Donald Trump a Fascist?
Fascist? Or just tapping into America’s latent fascistic impulses? Ilya B. Mirman / Shutterstock.com Local journalist David Neiwert argues in a long blog post that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is not exactly a fascist: Rather, what he is doing is mustering the latent fascist tendencies in American politics—some of it overtly white supremacist, while […]
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Our Sister Paper, The Stranger, is Hiring a News Reporter!
[Guys! Our sister paper to the north, The Stranger, is currently looking for a news reporter. Are you it? Do you know who “it” may be? Read below and spread the word!—eds.] Shutterstock ISO reporter. The Stranger is looking for a widely curious, energetic news junkie who wants to report on the fastest growing large […]
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President Obama on the Recent Shootings
He was asked about them yesterday, and according to the White House Press Pool reports he said this. (It’s worth reading in full.) I have to say that people often ask me, you know, how’s it been being president and, you know, what are my—you know, what am I proudest of and what are my […]
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A Different Kind of Law to Prevent Gun Violence
Out of the rampage near UCSB comes this: Just days after a 22-year-old killed six college students and himself near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, state lawmakers are championing legislation that would permit law enforcement officials and private individuals to seek a restraining order from a judge that would keep people […]
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Another Alarming Climate Change Milestone
Reuters: Carbon dioxide levels throughout the northern hemisphere hit 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human history in April, an ominous threshold for climate change, the World Meteorological Organization said on Monday. The 400 ppm level in the atmosphere, up 40 percent since wide use of fossil fuels began with the […]
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The CIA Will No Longer Use Vaccination Programs as Cover
The New York Times: Three years after the Central Intelligence Agency set up a phony hepatitis vaccination program in Pakistan as part of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration told a group of American health educators last week that the agency no longer uses immunization programs as a cover for spying operations. […]
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Did a Lie Cause the Firing of New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson?
The latest from Ken Auletta at The New Yorker, who, citing “extremely well-informed sources at the paper,” reports: Abramson was, essentially, fired for cause, for lying to Sulzberger. In the New York Times, David Carr recounts a similar-ish series of events, though he focuses on an alleged (and related) misleading of someone other than Sulzberger, […]
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Want Google to Forget About You? Move to Europe
Over there, being able to disappear from a search engine (eventually) is now a right: Europe’s highest court said on Tuesday that people had the right to influence what the world could learn about them through online searches, a ruling that rejected long-established notions about the free flow of information on the Internet. A search […]
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More Disgusting Nonsense from Donald Sterling
As he was trying to apologize on CNN last night, Donald Sterling veered away from contrition and began talking to Anderson Cooper about Magic Johnson: “Big, Magic Johnson, what has he done?” Sterling asked Cooper. “He’s got AIDS.” Cooper clarified that Johnson was diagnosed with HIV, not AIDS. Sterling went on, “What kind of a […]
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E-Cigarettes Will Now Be Regulated
New York Times: The Food and Drug Administration will propose sweeping new rules on Thursday that for the first time would extend its regulatory authority from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, popular nicotine delivery devices that have grown into a multibillion-dollar business with virtually no federal oversight or protections for American consumers. One effect of the […]