Keith Ellison Easily Wins Attorney General Nomination, in Spite of Abuse Allegations
Craig Lassig/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) easily won his party’s nomination to be the state’s next attorney general on Tuesday, dispatching the rest of the five-candidate field with nearly 50 percent of the vote. Ellison, the first Muslim ever to serve in Congress, is…
Sure, Robots Can Feel Sorry For You
PLOS One Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I see that Sherry Turkle is at it again: Years ago I spoke with a 16-year-old girl who was considering the idea of having a computer companion in the future….But there is something she may have been too young to understand — or,…
White House Can’t Guarantee There’s No Tape of Trump Using the N-Word
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders couldn’t guarantee on Tuesday that the American public would never hear a recording of President Donald Trump saying the N-word. “Can you stand at the podium and guarantee the American people they’ll never hear Donald Trump…
Nebraska Just Became the First State to Execute an Inmate With a Powerful Opioid
Nebraska Department of Correctional Services/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Nebraska made history by becoming the first state to execute an inmate using the powerful opioid fentanyl. Carey Dean Moore, who was on death row for 38 years for the murders of two cab drivers in 1979, was…
New Report Says China Shock Badly Hurt Wages of Low-Income High School Grads
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tyler Cowen points us to yet another paper examining the impact of the China shock during the 2000s. First, the authors decompose the effect of the China trade into both direct employment and employment from supply chain channels. It looks something like this when you…
Ryan Zinke Is Clueless About Wildfires
To be fair, Zinke acknowledged that “there’s no doubt the [fire] season is getting longer, the temperatures are getting hotter,” as the Sacramento Bee reported. But he didn’t dwell on those factors and instead argued for more logging and thinning of forests while taking another swing at environmental groups that he says stand in the…