Betsy DeVos Says School Safety Commission Won’t Study the Role of Guns in School Safety
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pauses as she testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2019 funding request. Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos continued her streak of groan–inducing trips to Capitol…
Hundreds of Children Are Being Held at the Border for Longer Than the Law Typically Allows
Kevin Torres, 7, right, helps Darwin Ruiz, 5, put his shoes on in Huntington Station, New York in July 2014. Kevin arrived in the United States, unaccompanied, from El Salvador in May 2014. Seth Wenig/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. US law prohibits the government from holding unaccompanied children at…
Trump’s “Celebration of America” Features His Unfamiliarity With “God Bless America”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After abruptly canceling a White House fete originally intended to celebrate the Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl victory—a decision President Donald Trump pinned on a disagreement between him and the players over protests during the national anthem—the White House on Tuesday staged an impromptu event to “celebrate” America instead.…
No Wonder Scott Pruitt Wanted a Chick-fil-A Franchise: They’re Both On Missions From God
Jebb Harris/The Orange County Register, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post on Tuesday dropped another bombshell about Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s attempts to exploit his office for personal gain. He had his staff arrange a call with the chairman of Chick-fil-A, and later its legal…
Lead and Crime in Eastern Europe: A Hopeless Case
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tyler Cowen has an odd Drum-bait headline today: Why is there no lead-homicide connection in Eastern Europe? Children growing up in former communist CEE [Central and Eastern European] countries during the 1980s were subjected to horrific amounts of industrial pollution, including extreme levels of prolonged…
Most of the Philadelphia Eagles Said They Wouldn’t Go to the White House. So Trump Disinvited the Whole Team.
Olivier Douliery / Pool via CNP/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, President Donald Trump called off the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles’ visit to the White House, saying in a statement that players and team officials “disagree with their President because he insists that they proudly stand for…