Thanks, banks: Wells Fargo has been busted for opening customer accounts without their permission. That’s good! Nobody at Wells Fargo who’s in an executive position has been fired because of this. That’s bad! “Rot begins at the top,” Helaine Olen points out.
Thanks, Supreme Court: Why won’t Donald Trump and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi face investigation for the suspicious donation he gave her right before she decided the state wouldn’t join the suit against Trump University? The court left that matter muddled earlier this year, Dahlia Lithwick writes. Because of its decision in McDonnell v. United States, it’s hard to say whether Trump’s gift, while definitely “grody to the naked eye,” violated the law.
Thanks, states: Municipalities across the country have tried to pass statutes regulating paid sick leave, gun control, and tobacco policy. Henry Grabar investigates conservative state-level efforts to keep cities—usually governed by Democrats—from passing their own laws.
#SlatePitch of the day?: Calls for campus “safe spaces” may seem highly mockable, but the idea merits defense, writes Evan Urquhart. At big state schools like the University of Tennessee, where the campus Pride Center has recently been defunded and vandalized, real “safe spaces” are few and far between.
What to watch next: Willa Paskin likes Better Things, a new FX show about a single mom with three daughters, a whole lot.
For fun: Our editor got burned by a dictionary and lived to tell the tale.
I Will Survive,
Rebecca
