Politics Archive
Archives for August 2015


The Gap says it will no longer ask workers to call in an hour or two before a shift to find out if they are working.


A shooting is a shooting.


Apple has an unusually heavy exposure to problems in the Chinese economy for reasons that weren’t addressed by CEO Tim Cook’s attempt to reassure investors.


The company has a unique level of exposure to Chinese currency risk.


The campaign finance reform activist, who’s exploring his own presidential bid, argues that Sanders is “running a campaign to win, not to govern.”



To make Bush look more extreme, Clinton is making Trump look relatively reasonable.


China’s stock market bubble was driven by a huge increase in people investing with borrowed funds.


After a day of big swings, the Shanghai Composite index closed down 1.2 percent.


The former baseball star suggested Islam is comparable to Nazi Germany before deleting the tweet.


A psychological phenomenon explains why this sort of thing happens.


— and 9 more things to know to start the day.


If Vice President Joe Biden became the next president, he could be tasked with fixing a problem he helped create: mass incarceration.


This is a very simple visual guide to how long the Iran deal lasts.


A telling incident.