Study: Emails Show How Coca-Cola Tried to Influence Global Health Policy
Alex Potemkin/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new study, released this week in health policy journal The Millbank Quarterly, analyzed emails between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Coca-Cola sent between 2011 and 2015, revealing how the beverage company attempted to gain influence with public health officials. According…
Republicans Could Block a New Election in Contested North Carolina House Race
Republican candidate Mark Harris speaks to the media during a news conference in Matthews, North Carolina. Chuck Burton/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s still one empty seat in the House of Representatives because of serious accusations of election fraud. And now Republicans might block the process to call for…
Democrats Vote in Favor of Forever War
Anas Alkharboutli/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Congress doesn’t like President Trump’s plans to withdraw troops from the Middle East: The Senate, in a bipartisan rebuke to President Trump’s foreign policy, voted overwhelmingly to advance legislation drafted by the majority leader to express strong opposition to the president’s…
Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in January
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The American economy gained 304,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at a healthy 214,000 jobs. The unemployment rate rose to 4.0 percent. The BLS does a comprehensive…
The Trump Administration Said It Would Impose Tough New Sanctions on Russia. It Still Hasn’t.
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In August, when the Trump administration formally declared Russia responsible for the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, it invoked a decades-old law designed to punish countries that use chemical or biological weapons. As required by the…
My Father Warned Me Against Joining a Fraternity. I Didn’t Listen, But Maybe My Son Will.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A membership ritual at an unnamed Cal fraternity, from Andrew Moisey’s The American Fraternity On a Wednesday in mid-October, the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity near the University of California’s Berkeley campus looks all but deserted. The heavy wooden doors are shut and there’s not a “Fiji”…