This Video Shows What Happens After the Ice Melts
Yu Ruidong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images This story was originally published by Wired and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Not enough people care enough about climate change. It’s too remote, too removed from everyday life. Even those who acknowledge its enormity often don’t see what it has to do with them personally. So maybe this…
Raw Data: The Rental Vacancy Rate in the US
This is, once again, only national data, but it still provides a useful big picture view of what the rental market looks like. When the rental vacancy rate is low, it means the market is tight and rents are likely to increase. Here’s the national vacancy rate for as long as we have data for:…
Visit Lovely Dubai! Then Again, Maybe Not.
In 2016, Laleh Shahravesh discovered that her ex-husband was living with a new partner. “I hope you go under the ground you idiot. Damn you. You left me for this horse,” she wrote on Facebook. Her ex-husband’s partner reported this insult to the police in Dubai, where the pair lived, and the police apparently issued…
Tim Ryan’s Long, Weird History of Palling Around With Fluoride and Vaccine Skeptics
Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Wire At a 2018 question-and-answer session at a summit for wellness influencers in San Diego, an attendee wanted to talk to Tim Ryan about fluoride. Ryan, a Democratic congressman from Northeast Ohio, had co-sponsored a resolution in 2015 hailing water fluoridation as a public health triumph. But the woman told Ryan that water…
The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well.
Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images This story was originally published by ProPublica. On June 30, 2016, an auto-parts magnate received the kind of news anyone would dread: The Internal Revenue Service had determined he had engaged in abusive tax maneuvers. He stood accused of masking about $5 billion in income. The IRS wanted over $1.2 billion in…
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Scandal Just Got Bigger
An entranceway to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Joe Raedle/Getty Images A Chinese woman arrested after breaching security at President’s Donald Trump’s private club in Florida had a signal detector, other electronics, and thousands of dollars stashed in her hotel room, federal prosecutors said during a court hearing in West Palm Beach, Florida on Monday.…