A Guide to California’s 2018 Ballot Initiatives
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is a special post for California readers. The rest of you may safely ignore it. This year we have four bond issues and seven initiatives on the California ballot (Propositions 5-12 minus Proposition 9, which was removed by the California Supreme Court). As longtime…
The Opportunity Costs of Capitalism
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The White House has released a booklet called “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism,” and it purports to show that wait times under socialist health care systems are far higher than they are in the good ol’ capitalist USA. However, as Sarah Kliff hilariously points out,…
Trump’s Response to the Migrant Caravan Is Self-Defeating
Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the United States rest in tents in southern Mexico on Monday. Pedro Pardo/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is threatening to cut off aid to Central American countries as punishment for not stopping the migrant caravan that is heading—slowly—toward the…
Supreme Court Rules That Commerce Secretary Won’t Have to Answer Questions in Key Census Case
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, right, listens as President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, Aug. 27, 2018.Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will not have to testify under oath about why he added a controversial question about US citizenship to the 2020 census, after the…
A Man Allegedly Groped a Woman on a Plane. He Told Investigators That Trump Says It’s OK.
Alexey Bychkov/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Florida man who was arrested Sunday after allegedly groping a woman who had been sleeping on a plane told authorities that President Donald Trump said it was acceptable to—in the words of a federal criminal complaint—”grab women by their private parts.” The…
Trump Appeals Court Nominee Is Working to End Affirmative Action at Harvard
Rowers paddle along the Charles River past the Harvard College campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Charles Krupa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Donald Trump nominated Michael Park to a seat on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month, the announcement was low key. It noted his work as…