Even Corporations Think Donald Trump Is a Little Too Nice to Corporations
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump wants to loosen the Volcker Rule, which regulates whose money banks can gamble with, but it turns out that even Wall Street doesn’t want him to do this: “I can’t imagine this aspect of the proposal being preferable to the original and current…
Here’s Why Alaska Might Seriously Consider a Carbon Tax
Farah Nosh/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Alaska isn’t exactly the first state you’d expect to embrace a price on carbon. Yet the state legislature will likely be weighing one after the November elections. When carbon taxes…
California Cops Shot and Killed 162 People Last Year. This Bill Could Help Reduce the Bloodshed.
Riot police officers stand guard at street after the World Cup match between Mexico and Brazil in Huntington Park, California, on Monday, July 2, 2018. Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A California bill that would radically change the standard for the use of deadly force by police officers…
How to Bullshit With Statistics
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As you probably know, President Obama put in place higher mileage standards for new cars before he left office. President Trump, naturally, wants to get rid of them. This requires a report demonstrating that the Obama standards would be bad, so he ordered OMB Director…
“Revenge,” the Telenovela, Still Drawing Big Audiences
Cheriss May/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of the impressive things about Donald Trump is his creativity in taking revenge on people. I mean, who else would have gotten the idea of using the presidential pardon power this way? And yet, it’s right there in the Constitution.…
Drug Overdoses Hit a Record High in 2017
Kelli Lane and Mary Randol grieve the loss of Randol’s son, Dustin Billings, to an overdose in Indiana.Don Knight/The Herald-Bulletin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The number of deaths from drug overdoses reached a record high of 72,000 in 2017, a 10 percent rise from the previous year, according to…