Immigrant Detainees Claim They Were Forced to Clean Bathrooms to Pay for Their Own Toilet Paper
A protest outside Stewart Detention CenterMike Haskey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Stewart Detention Center in rural Georgia has been called “the black hole of America’s immigration system” for overusing solitary confinement, cutting corners on mental health care, and deporting asylum seekers at extraordinary rates. Now it can add one more alleged human rights…
A New Study Shows the Stunning Amount of Food People Toss in the Garbage Every Day
Brian Jenkins/UVM Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Before you toss that bruised apple or let your leftovers spoil in the fridge, you might want to digest this: New research finds that Americans waste nearly a pound of food per person every day. That’s roughly equal to 30 percent of the average…
This Poll Is Extremely Bad News for Ted Cruz
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke has more cash on hand than Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, an army of small-dollar donors, and a penchant for drawing big crowds for everything from 5 a.m. jogs to small-town meet-and-greets. But in a…
A Health Care Lesson From a Rich Canadian
This is how beloved the Canadian health care is.Image Source/ZUMAPRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I got this email from a friend a few days ago and thought I’d share it: I go to conferences which often have Canadian participants. Once I was speaking with a Canadian, who turned out…
In Which I Defend a Rapacious Pharmaceutical Company
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post reports on a group of doctors who were testing lower dosages of an expensive blood cancer drug called Imbruvica to see if it was effective at lower doses. Then the companies that make Imbruvica hit back: The researchers at the Value in…
Puerto Rico, Still Reeling from Hurricane Maria, Is Hit by an Island-Wide Blackout
Ricardo Arduengo via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Puerto Rico’s power grid collapsed again on Wednesday, according to multiple reports. The grid has been unstable since Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September. In the town where the storm made landfall, just 35 percent of residents had power…