Urban Density and Productivity: A Slightly Wonky Gripe About the Whole Enterprise
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This post is going to be sort of boring, but I might as well get it off my chest. It’s an illustration of the kind of quicksand that some of the urban densification arguments are built on. James Pethokoukis writes today about housing shortages in…
This Man Was Trump Before Trump. He Just Won Pennsylvania’s Senate Primary.
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), left, appears with Donald Trump at an October 2016 campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.Christopher Dolan/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a decade before Donald Trump launched his campaign by accusing Mexico of sending “rapists” to the United States, Lou Barletta vowed to make the small city…
Manhattan District Attorney Will No Longer Prosecute Minor Marijuana Cases
A man smokes marijuana at the Cannabis Parade and Rally in Manhattan on May 6, 2018.Luiz Rampelotto/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The district attorney’s office in Manhattan, New York City’s largest borough, will no longer file charges against defendants in most marijuana possession and smoking cases, the office announced…
Yanny or Laurel. Tell Me What This Audio Is Saying.
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Iowa Wants to Ban Abortions After 6 Weeks. Planned Parenthood Just Filed a Lawsuit to Stop It.
Planned Parenthood supporters rally outside the Iowa Capitol Building, Friday, May 4, 2018.Barbara Rodriguez/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A lawsuit filed Tuesday by Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Iowa seeks to block Iowa’s recently-passed “heartbeat” abortion law, one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. The…
Sulfur Dioxide Damages Lungs, and Scott Pruitt Is Letting More of It in Our Air
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a quarter of the nation’s coal-fired power plants in 2017 lacked pollution controls limiting emissions of lung-damaging sulfur dioxide, even though some of their counterparts have been using the controls for almost 40 years. Federal data show this disparity. It leaves…