Offshore Oil Drilling? Don’t Pop the Champagne Just Yet.
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in 2010 after an explosion that killed 11 and eventually released more than 200 million gallons of crude oil off the shore of Louisiana.John Mosier/ZUMApress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When I say that I’m relatively sanguine about the future of America, I’m talking in…
The Republican Party Is in Full-On Panic Mode, and We Get to Watch
The white vote is becoming ever more of an albatross for the Republican Party.Therin-Weise/DPA/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Are we on the slippery slope toward autocracy? David Atkins says things changed this week: In the year since Donald Trump moved into the White House, one of the key questions…
A Gallery of Weatherbeaten Houses
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember the weatherbeaten house from Thursday? It was a fake. Did I fool you? Huh? Did I? The house itself was fine, but the sky behind it was dull. So I gave it a facelift. That was fun, so I created a whole bunch of…
Is Orrin Hatch the Smartest Senator in the World?
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you want a good example of how budget scoring from a baseline can produce bizarre results, look no further than the proposed funding extension for the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Back in October, CBO estimated that the net cost…
Our Legal System Is About to Get a Real Workout
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Paul Manafort is suing Robert Mueller for going beyond his remit by prosecuting him for fraud rather than collusion with Russia. Donald Trump has threatened to sue a publisher over a book he doesn’t like. Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham are trying to get the…
Raw Data: US Life Expectancy Compared to Canada
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Life expectancy in the US has been a little lower than in Canada for a long time—probably due to the racial composition of the US population—but over the last four decades it’s dropped steadily and dramatically. Among whites, who used to live a little longer…