Trump Loses Yet Another Federal Case
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Speaking of the Trump administration’s inability to get anything done because they don’t understand the law, today brings yet another example: A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that the Interior Department violated federal law by failing to take into account the climate impact of its…
Centrists Have Great Bullshit Radar (in Sweden, Anyway)
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Via Tyler Cowen, here are the results of “The Complex Relation Between Receptivity to Pseudo-Profound Bullshit and Political Ideology,” a recently published paper: Among Swedish adults (N = 985), bullshit receptivity was (a) robustly positively associated with socially conservative (vs. liberal) self-placement, resistance to change,…
Donald Trump Is Too Dumb to Implement His Own Policies
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump seems to believe that presidents are allowed to change policies with the stroke of a pen. They aren’t. Longstanding law requires that changes can’t be arbitrary or capricious, which means the executive branch has to explain why they’re changing things. As the Washington…
The Midwest Is Powering the Marijuana Legalization Revolution
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The 2018 edition of the General Social Survey is out, so I thought I’d browse through it and look for something interesting. How about this? Overall, support for legalizing marijuana has gone up from 16 percent in the early 90s to 62 percent in 2018.…
“Detached From Reality”: Following Twitter Lawsuit Over Mockery, Devin Nunes Again Gets Mocked
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Feb. 27, 2018.Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, news broke that Donald Trump’s “very courageous man” in Congress, Rep. Devin Nunes from California’s Central Valley, would be suing Twitter and three of its…
Remember 3% Growth? It’s Now Down the Memory Hole.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump’s illustrious Council of Economic Advisers issued its annual report today. But you have to go to page 527 to find the straight dope: As illustrated in figure 10-16…the Administration anticipates economic growth to remain at or above 3.0 percent through 2023, assuming full…