Philip Hammond’s suggestion that disabled people could be responsible for the UK’s sluggish productivity is “extraordinarily ignorant,” a leading campaign group has said. The chancellor has been accused of “disgusting scapegoating.” Hammond insinuated that “increasing participation” in the workforce of disabled people may have “had an impact on overall productivity measures.” Disability Rights UK’s policy […]

A recent study by the Migrant Worker Justice Initiative (MWJI) confirms that the exploitation of temporary migrants working in Australia by their employers is widespread, endemic and severe. It confirms that recent cases—for example, 7-Eleven’s systematic underpayment of young migrant workers at its network of 620 convenience store franchises across Australia—are not aberrations but are […]

The ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of an immigration deportation officer, who claimed she was racially profiled by New Mexico police. The African-American woman says she was stopped three times in less than a month without probable cause. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico filed a lawsuit against the Bernalillo […]

A local newspaper has apologized after misplacing its front-page headline and accidentally splashing with the dummy text used as a guide for writers. The daily paper ran a front page headlined “100PT SPLASH HEADING HERE” and the strapline: “THIS IS A STRAP OVER TWO DECKS WITH A CROSS REFERENCE TO A PAGE HERE.” The dummy text was accidentally printed […]

As California is burning from wild fires and the lives of tens of thousands of Americans are devastated, there is one person who isn’t too upset over the destruction of at least one home. Neera Tanden, the president of the liberal Center for American Progress and frequent cable news commentator, was more than happy that […]

The Gateway Pundit reports that a former CIA paramilitary officer and member of the Trump transition team, John R. Maguire, reportedly revealed during a fund raising meeting for an intelligence gathering operation in Afghanistan, that National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster “authorized surveillance of Steven Bannon and Trump family members, including Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.” The Intercept reports… “[MAGUIRE] […]

Bill Clinton accomplished a Republican agenda and Obama allowed the Tea Party to steal the economic populist moment, says Thomas Frank.

An independent UK press watchdog is encouraging 2500 newspapers and websites in the country to display a new logo it’s designed.

After previously getting employees at CNN and the New York Times to admit there was little substance behind the claim of “Russia meddling” in the 2016 elections, Project Veritas caught the Washington Post’s national security reporter doing that as well. James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas and self-described “guerrilla journalist,” has made a number of […]

A court in California ordered a cryptocurrency exchange to hand over the identities of thousands of users this week to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Coinbase, one of the internet’s most popular sites for selling and buying digital currencies such as Bitcoin, must give the federal government the names, birthdates, addresses and account activity of […]