What Pete Buttigieg really said about being gay, prejudice and blacks
It’s 2019, and your boss can still fire you for being gay in these states
California solves batteries’ embarrassing climate problem: Batteries were increasing carbon emissions (d’oh!), but new regulations and tech have fixed it.
The staggering millennial wealth deficit, in one chart: The divide widens with each generation, data show, the byproduct of wage stagnation and income inequality
Barr disputes key inspector general finding about FBI’s Russia investigation
Trump Is Waging War on America’s Diplomats: And the impeachment inquiry is only making things worse. With new figures and fresh horror stories, Julia Ioffe reports on how the president is politicizing our embassies, alienating our allies, and decimating the ranks of the foreign service. - "Career foreign service officers work long hours in difficult conditions, making less money than they would in the private sector. Often, they are driven by their sense of mission—say, promoting American values abroad—but when President Trump began attacking the pillars of American national security and smearing diplomats by name on Twitter, 'suddenly,' says one senior foreign service officer who was pushed out on a scheduling technicality, 'the equation didn’t make sense anymore.' What had started as a trickle of people leaving at the highest levels—often, people who were close to retirement—has turned into a flood of mid-career and junior officers heading for the door. The departure of top talent, people who had decades’ worth of wisdom that could have passed on to people below them, as well as the exodus of mid-level officers who had years to go before their retirements, will continue to resonate for quite a while, says Nicholas Burns, a retired career foreign service officer who is now at the Harvard Kennedy School. 'That gap will show up years later,' he told me."
How Bloomberg Could Win. Again.: He’s getting in late. He’s out of step with his party. The news media thinks he’s a joke. All of that was true when he first ran for mayor of New York City, too.
