Middle America Hates Us. They Always Will.
Scott Keeler/Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at the Washington Post, James Hohmann has a piece about several recent “deep dives” into areas of the country that voted for Obama but then switched to Trump in 2016. The overall message is that working-class folks in…
I Would Like to Understand What Kim Jong-un Is Up To
Yonhap News/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Forget Donald Trump for a minute. The upcoming summit meeting with North Korea has been orchestrated entirely by Kim Jong-un. It started with his outreach at the Olympics. Then he proposed the meeting with Trump. He halted missile testing. He met…
Facebook Suspends 200 Apps That May Have Misused Users’ Data
Maciej Luczniewski/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook announced Monday that 200 apps have been suspended from its service as part of its review of how third parties use Facebook users’ personal information. The suspensions come as Facebook wades through thousands of programs designed for its platform…
Why Is Europe So Afraid of Fighting Back Against Trump?
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. John Bolton went on TV yesterday to make it clear that the United States will sanction European companies that continue to do business with Iran. In response, Europe expressed their very slight annoyance over this: European officials have said they are…
With Each Pharma-Funded Meal, Doctors’ Opioid Prescriptions Rise
SARINYAPINNGAM/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid a spiraling overdose epidemic, opioid prescribing is still on the rise for a small subset of physicians: those who receive funding from opioid manufacturers. That’s according to a research letter published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study combined two datasets:…
Israel Kills Dozens of Protesters as Trump’s Family Celebrates New Jerusalem Embassy
Sebastian Scheiner/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Israeli forces killed dozens of Palestinians protesting the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, President Donald Trump published a video message commemorating what he hailed as a long overdue and “historic” move to officially recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s “true”…