ICE Detainee Dies in For-Profit Georgia Immigrant Detention Center
Suspected illegal border crossers at Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, in 2012. Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Immigration detention isn’t just costly—it’s deadly. Efrain De La Rosa, a 40-year-old Mexican national, was found unresponsive in his cell at Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center on July 10…
A California Politician Called For a Straight Pride Month. It Didn’t Go Well.
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ted Hickman is, at the moment, vice mayor of Dixon, California, a small city about 30 minutes outside Sacramento. He’s straight, he’s proud, and he wants the world to know it, according to a snarky newspaper piece he wrote in the town paper, the…
Trump Has Already Spent 30 Percent of His Days as President at Trump Properties
Andrew Milligan/PA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If nothing else, President Donald Trump seems to know how to relax. After yet another week of pissing off international allies, the New York Times reports that he’s spending the weekend at Trump Turnberry, his luxury resort in Scotland, which means that…
On the Eve of His Meeting with Putin, Trump Blames Obama for Russian Meddling
Trump plays golf at his Trump Turnberry resortJane Barlow/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tweeting from one of his Scottish golf resorts, President Donald Trump offered his first public response to special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers charged with hacking the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton…
Republicans Have Degraded Cost-Benefit Analysis Into a Parody of Itself
Branden Camp/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tyler Cowen says this today: Not since the 1970s has cost-benefit analysis been as underrated as it is right now. I don’t know if this is true. But if it is, I place the blame squarely on conservatives, who have corrupted the entire…
Do Social Democrats Believe In Free Lunches?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I have a question for Brad DeLong. Has has semi-jokingly created membership cards for various versions of lefty economics, including this one for Social Democrats: “Many” free lunches? I’m not saying Brad is wrong—that would be foolish since he’s a PhD historian of economics while…