Our Defense Spending is Up Against a Wall—Trump’s Border Wall, That Is
President Donald Trump signs last year’s National Defense Authorization Act surrounded by soldiers in Fort Drum, New York.Thomas Scaggs/ZUMA It’s the last official week of the 116th Congress, and lawmakers are running out of time to finalize a military budget for the fiscal year that began October 1. The House and Senate each passed a version…
Trump’s Sordid History of Accepting, Requesting, and Encouraging Foreign Interference in US Elections
Susan Walsh/AP One of the key lines in the House Democrats’ impeachment report distills the Trump-Ukraine scandal to a simple idea: “[T]he impeachment inquiry has found that President Trump, personally and acting through agents within and outside of the U.S. government, solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, to benefit his reelection.” And in…
Impeachment Doesn’t Feed Americans, Says a White House Official. Thanks to Trump, Neither Do Food Stamps.
Nikita Khrebtov/Shutterstock On Friday, President Donald Trump’s Principal Deputy Press Secretary appeared on Fox News to complain that impeachment proceedings don’t put food on Americans’ tables. The timing of this statement is…interesting, given that two days ago, the Trump administration announced that it would make it harder for low-income individuals to receive food stamps, quite literally taking…
Study of “Abortion Reversal” Pill Halted Because It’s Too Dangerous
Activists protest abortion bans in the Utah State Capitol Rotunda on May 21. Rick Bowmer/AP The so-called abortion reversal pill has been touted by abortion foes throughout the country, from Republican politicians to crisis pregnancy centers, as the “fix” for abortions. In the past year, several states have passed laws requiring doctors to inform patients…
Inflation! Inflation! Inflation! Inflation! Inflation! Inflation! Inflation! Inflation!
Over at the Washington Post, Heather Long is scratching her head: By just about any metric this is the best job market since the late 1990s. The economy has been adding jobs for 110 straight months — a record streak. Jobs are plentiful. Unemployment is at a half-century low. And the unemployment rates for African…
Nearby Police Shootings Are Bad For Unborn Black Babies
Today is turning out to be chart day. Here’s a pretty fascinating study by Harvard’s Joscha Legewie of 3.9 million births in California. The question is: do nearby police shootings have any effect on the birthweight of babies born nine months later? The answer turns out to be yes, but only for black babies and…