Back in the fall, when Donald Trump dubbed Jeb Bush “low-energy,” Carlos Gimenez grew a little concerned. By last month, when Marco Rubio and Trump engaged in childish name-calling, the Republican mayor of Miami-Dade County thought the GOP presidential race had gotten “out of hand.” Now, after a tawdry week ... Read More »
Matt Sherman was in a hurry to get to Baghdad before the war ended, so he crammed the contents of his entire apartment in Rumson, N.J., into a climate-controlled storage shed. It was 2003 and he had just quit his job with a big law firm for a position working ... Read More »
Hillary Clinton’s email problems began in her first days as secretary of state. She insisted on using her personal BlackBerry for all her email communications, but she wasn’t allowed to take the device into her seventh-floor suite of offices, a secure space known as Mahogany Row. For Clinton, this was ... Read More »
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) on Monday vetoed a controversial religious liberties bill that had provoked outrage from Hollywood, sports leagues and corporations for what critics said was its discrimination against gay and transgender people. “I do not think we have to discriminate against anyone to protect the faith-based community ... Read More »
Tony Blair has called for more efforts to break down segregation in Northern Ireland and stressed the continued need to be “vigilant” about the threat from terrorism. The former prime minister, who brokered the Good Friday agreement in 1998, said there was no longer community support for terrorists in Northern ... Read More »
The Harry Potter author JK Rowling has shared some withering rebuffs publishers sent to her alter ego Robert Galbraith, in an effort to comfort aspiring authors. Rowling posted the rejection letters on Twitter after a request from a fan. They related to The Cuckoo’s Calling, her first novel as Galbraith. ... Read More »
The US fast-food workers who protested in New York and 100 other US cities over the “poverty wages” paid by multinational burger chains are preparing their British counterparts to launch a similar direct action campaign in the UK. Two months after the wave of US strikes and demonstrations that saw ... Read More »
Maria is sitting on a black plastic chair in a community centre on a cold Tuesday afternoon waiting for her number to be called. She is number 34. When it’s her turn, Maria is called forward to pick up a brown paper bag filled with essentials including pasta, eggs and ... Read More »
Raye Johnson: ‘It’s the most difficult thing I’ve ever done.’ Photograph: Clayton Cotterell for the Guardian Raye Johnson Friday 25 March 2016 14.00 GMT Last modified on Friday 25 March 201615.30 GMT It was 3am. I went into my daughter’s room, woke her, told her I loved her and that she was going ... Read More »
Erica Baker likes poker. So did many of the engineers she spent 10 years working with at Google, in the California headquarters of one of the world’s most valuable technology companies. When she was eventually invited to a poker night with other engineers, the group of white, male colleagues fell ... Read More »
