Revisiting the Great Inflection Year of 2000
Scott Winship passes along a new analysis of the “deaths of despair” thesis made famous a couple of years ago by Anne Case and Angus Deaton. He has a new chart that shows various trends going back to 1900: Winship’s main point is that, taken on a historical basis, alcohol deaths and suicide aren’t really…
New Emails Show How the Pentagon Delayed a Mattis Aide’s Tell-All Book
Steven Ferdman/Getty On a Tuesday morning in March, Guy Snodgrass emailed his former boss, Defense Secretary James Mattis, to break some news: A tell-all book he had been writing for Random House, containing his “fly-on-the-wall view of Mattis” formed after 17 months working as the former general’s speechwriter, was set to be announced the following…
Should the Left Stop Annoying People Over Climate Change?
Keiko Hiromi/AFLO via ZUMA I didn’t watch yesterday’s CNN climate marathon, but Rebecca Leber reports that Elizabeth Warren won the night after Chris Cuomo asked her about light bulbs: The real subtext of his question wasn’t about Trump rollbacks, it was one of the right’s favorite talking points: the argument that climate change requires a…
ICE Office Must Stop Keeping All Asylum Seekers Locked Up, Federal Judge Orders
Officers stand on the roof of and outside the Adams County Correctional Facility in Mississippi during a 2012 riot. ICE recently started sending asylum seekers to the prison.Lauren Wood/AP In 2016, Immigration and Customs Enforcement released 75 percent of eligible asylum seekers in Deep South detention centers on parole. By 2018, that figure had dropped to 1.5…
Health Care in America: Searching for Ways to Make $2 Million Seem Less Like $2 Million
The Wall Street Journal reports that health insurers are desperately searching for ways to make expensive treatments somehow seem less expensive: Insurers are scrambling to blunt the expense of new drugs that can carry prices of more than $2 million per treatment, offering new setups aimed at making the cost of gene therapies more manageable…
Trump Refuses to Drop False Claim That Alabama Was in Hurricane’s Path
Stefani Reynolds/ZUMA President Donald Trump on Thursday continued to insist that “certain models” had once projected Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama, extending a now four-day obsession despite official contradictions from the state’s National Weather Service. “What I said was accurate!” Trump complained on Twitter. “All Fake News in order to demean!” ….Instead it turned North…