Trump’s reality TV take on his Fed chair pick leaves Wall Street wondering who’ll get hired

Donald Trump is America’s first reality-television president, and he very much likes to run his appointment process for top official positions a lot like an episode of “The Apprentice.” That helps explain why, every time Trump appears to have a shoo-in favorite to replace Janet Yellen at the helm of the Federal Reserve, he or […]

A San Francisco Bay Area police department retweeted a white nationalist and people are wondering why

Screenshot via Twitter/Alameda County Sheriff’s Office The official Twitter account for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department retweeted a posting from alt-right founder and white nationalist Richard Spencer on Monday. The retweet is a video of a press conference Spencer held earlier in the day, in which he panned assertions that President Donald Trump was disavowing […]

Wondering Why We Haven’t Seen That ‘Y: The Last Man’ TV Show Yet? Blame the Election

An adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra‘s sixty-issue comic book series Y: The Last Man has been in the works for years –  first as a movie and then, thankfully, as a TV show, which is a much better fit for the sprawling tale. But the show has been in the works at FX […]

Unions Are Wondering: Resist or Assist?

The first month of the Trump administration was mostly a discouraging one for labor unions. Since taking office, the president has frozen federal hiring (though he did pledge to hire 15,000 border patrol agents) and restated his support for a national “right to work” law that would disrupt unions’ funding mechanisms. He also sought the […]

Wondering about Wonder’s plans for its super gaming phone? Answers may come soon

You don’t need to be an industry mogul to understand it’s hard, bordering on the impossible, to become a hit smartphone manufacturer these days. The market is just too crowded, and the endeavor too expensive. However, that doesn’t stop companies from trying, and the latest is a startup called Wonder, which may be working on […]