Alabama Voters Could Ban Sheriffs From Pocketing Tax Money Meant to Feed Inmates
Richard Ernest Yap/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ten years ago, an Alabama sheriff paid $500 for half a truckload of corn dogs. It was a sweet deal for Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett, who liked to find free or donated food for his county jail so he could pocket the…
It’s Time to Stop Freaking Out About Polls Being Wrong
SIphotography/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since Trump’s surprise win in 2016 forced virtually everyone in politics and the media to question everything they thought they knew about predicting elections, there’s been a constant conversation among politicos about how the polls were oh so wrong. (Don’t even get them started on that damn New…
Big Tobacco Is Spending an Insane Amount of Money to Fight Obamacare
A rally in August at the Montana state capitol for a ballot initiative to raise the state’s tobacco taxes in August.Matt Volz/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tobacco companies are continuing to pour money into a state ballot fight in Montana, waging a campaign that could result in near 100,000…
Ted Cruz, Who Joked Yesterday About Locking Up His Opponent, Renews Call for Civility in Politics
Daisuke Tomita /AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After another round of reports of explosives being sent to prominent Democratic figures, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz issued a statement condemning the attempted bombings and—as he has done with increasing frequency during his tight reelection campaign—calling for a de-escalation of political…
The NRA Keeps Writing Checks, But Some Republicans Aren’t Cashing Them
Protesters at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, DC, on March 24, 2018Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After the Parkland school shooting in February, student survivors issued an ultimatum to lawmakers: Stop accepting campaign contributions from the National Rifle Association, or we’ll vote you…
A Wave of Misinformation About the Migrant Caravan Is Spreading on Social Media
Omar Marques/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to claim, without evidence, that a caravan of approximately 7,000 immigrants heading from Guatemala to the Mexican border contained “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners.” It didn’t take long for this claim,…