A New Report Says Trump Plans to Fire Dan Coats. Here’s What Made Their Relationship So Rocky.
Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nine days before President Donald Trump was inaugurated, he compared American intelligence officers to Nazis. Since that inauspicious start, the intelligence community has been viewed as more foe than friend by a president more inclined than most to disagree with its…
Are Wages Going Up In Your County?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s something off the beaten path: This chart shows the top and bottom ten counties ranked by their yearly change in average weekly wages (Q3 of 2017 to Q3 of 2018). The full dataset is here, so you can see how your county is doing.…
Pray for the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living
mihtiander/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. They met on a boat. A huge, liveaboard trimaran in the British Virgin Islands, to be exact. She was there as a magazine writer, reporting a story about a cycling and diving vacation. He was a diving instructor. “The very things that attracted me…
I Told Her We Were Brought Over the Rio Grande on a Raft. I Never Called It a Smuggling.
A man carries a child on his shoulders as part of a migrant caravan to the United States. Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was co-published by ProPublica and Guernica. The first stories we can correct are the ones we tell ourselves. My story, the one I…
Supreme Court Says 8th Amendment Applies to States
Should police be able to seize this $42,000 car for a crime with a maximum fine of $10,000?Jaguar Land Rover Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is excellent news: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Constitution’s prohibition on excessive fines applies to state and local governments, limiting their…
Elections Commission Chief Uses the “Nuclear Option” to Rescue the Agency From Gridlock
Joe Raedle/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fed up with the Federal Election Commission’s gridlock that has given violators of election law a free pass, the agency’s new chair says she won’t allow FEC lawyers to defend the government when the FEC has been sued for not enforcing the law. This drastic…