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Donald Trump · United StatesIllustration by Daniel MedinaWhen I was told Friday that President Trump fired the BLS commissioner due to a poor July payroll report (a less-than-expected monthly job add of 73,000 and very large negative two-month revision of 258,000), I waited for a laugh track that never came.He did what? Really?I spent most of the weekend shaking my head and laughing that the president would fire BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer for a lousy Non-Farm Payrol…See the Story
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United States · United StatesToday we talked live with novelist, poet, activist, and actress Amber Tamblyn of Listening in the Dark, about the new tenth anniversary edition of her book Dark Sparkler, and how the silencing of women in Hollywood she writes about in those poems reflects the deep, systemic misogyny at the center of American life, how fighting for change will take all of us, and how poetry lets us understand the things that are broken. Tamblyn talked to us about…Read Article