Bernie Sanders Wins the Nevada Caucuses
Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Bernie Sanders has won Nevada’s Saturday caucuses, notching another victory on his quest to secure the Democratic nomination. His campaign counted on a massive field organization to turn out early voters, especially among Latinos, but it appears he also won most of the key day-of caucus sites staged at major hotels and…
Sonia Sotomayor Calls Out the Supreme Court Majority for Its Trump Bias
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press) Following a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling issued Friday night, the Trump administration can move ahead with enforcing a rule designed to make it harder for poor and working-class immigrants to get green cards. Last month, the court split along the same lines to remove a nationwide injunction from a…
Experts Are Losing Hope That the Coronavirus Can Be Contained
Lee Moo-ryul/Newsis via AP The novel coronavirus is not an official pandemic yet, but experts warn that it’s becoming more and more difficult to contain. “The window of opportunity is still there, but our window of opportunity is narrowing,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said at a news conference on Friday…
Trump Taunts Nevada Democratic Primary About Russian Meddling
Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images via ZUMA The Nevada Democratic caucus is today, and President Donald Trump spent his morning on Twitter, suggesting that Democrats “be careful of Russia, Russia, Russia.” Democrats in the Great State of Nevada (Which, because of the Economy, Jobs, the Military & Vets, I will win in November), be careful of Russia, Russia,…
Our Lizard Brains Still Reign Supreme
From Alex Tabarrok, responding to a study of what patients value in a hospital:¹ I do wish that patients paid more attention to the outputs of sophisticated statistical models when choosing doctors and hospitals, as I think this would improve quality, but mostly they don’t. Me too, Alex, me too. However, even among my pretty…
Rejoice! It’s Finally Caucus Day in Nevada
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., walks onstage to speak at a campaign event at Springs Preserve in Las Vegas, Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP Andrew Yang may have had more fun running for president than anyone else in the Democratic field, but if that really was what the presidential race was…