The Great Infrastructure Scam of 2018
Here’s some infrastructure work near my house. There’s a lot of it going on right now! You may be wondering how we manage to fund this, so here’s how we did it. First, the state of California raised its gas tax by 12 cents per gallon to raise $34 billion for new construction projects. Second,…
Judge Strikes Down Felon Disenfranchisement System in Florida
People stand in line to vote in the presidential election in 2012 in Miami. Lynne Sladky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge in Florida has struck down Florida’s system for determining which ex-felons have the right to vote, handing an unexpected victory to advocates of broader voting rights.…
While You Are Tweeting About the Nunes Memo, Russia Is Plotting Its Midterms Attack
Alexei Druzhinin/Planet Pix/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It is working—the Trump-GOP campaign to distract attention from the Russia scandal. And this is placing the nation—literally and seriously—at risk. For the past week or so, the big kerfuffle dominating the news related to Russia has been over the memo—a classified memorandum…
Republicans Like to Use Human Misery as a Bargaining Chip. Maybe It’s Time For That to Stop.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. How should Democrats respond to President Trump’s immigration proposal? Before I answer, let’s take a look at what the public thinks of immigration. First up, here is Gallup on support for cutting immigration levels: Second, here is Pew on who supports building a border wall:…
How Are Democrats Really Doing in the Fundraising Battle?
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a headline in the Washington Post this morning: Republican National Committee has huge financial edge heading into 2018 midterms I had a point I thought I wanted to make about this, but then I clicked the link and read…
An Updated Lead-Crime Roundup for 2018
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few weeks ago I promised an updated roundup of evidence about the link between lead poisoning and violent crime. Here it is. It’s in three parts. Part 1 is the basic story. Part 2 is various bits of commentary explaining different details and predictions…