New Study: Hurricane Maria Killed 75 Times More Puerto Ricans Than the Government Has Admitted
Ramon Espinosa/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new study published Tuesday estimates that Hurricane Maria killed over 5,000 people after striking Puerto Rico last September. That’s more than 75 times higher than the island’s previous official count, and if widely accepted would cement the storm as one of the most deadly…
Elizabeth Warren’s Protégée Is Running for Congress in Orange County—and Might Actually Win
Bill Clark/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Katie Porter was a rookie law professor at the University of Iowa in 2006 when she started asking questions about mortgage fraud. Egged on by a $100 million lobbying campaign from the financial services industry, Congress had recently overhauled federal bankruptcy laws,…
Trump Finally Tweets Some Good Advice for Himself on Russia Probe
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After indulging in his usual habit of blasting the special counsel’s Russia investigation as a “Rigged Witch Hunt” in a series of early-morning tweets, President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to briefly acknowledge that there might be better ways to spend his time. In…
This Case Could Be a Game Changer in Cities’ Lawsuits Against Big Oil
In 2015 an investigation by the Los Angeles Times and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism partially closed that gap, showing that oil companies like Exxon had acknowledged the planetary risks of their products as early as the 1980s. Attorneys general started asking questions. The oil companies said they saw malfeasance in all this, and it’s…
These Evangelicals Are Turning AR-15s Into Garden Hoes
Mother Jones/Nathalie Baptiste Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In America, God and guns have gone hand in hand. Prominent white evangelicals like Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of the Liberty University, the largest evangelical university in the country, has bragged about carrying a gun in his back pocket. Robert Jeffress, the pastor of…
The Internet Might Be Keeping Inflation Low
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Austan Goolsbee and Peter Klenow have taken a crack at estimating e-inflation: the inflation rate of items bought online compared to those bought offline. They make use of the Adobe Analytics dataset to calculate a Digital Price Index (DPI) and then compare it to a…