Orange County Contrails: A Followup
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A week ago I posted a picture of some contrails that seemed like they were rising at a surprisingly steep angle. I got convinced pretty quickly that, in fact, this is just an optical illusion created by a plane coming around the curve of the…
Pennsylvania Republicans Are Trying to Replace One Gerrymander with Another
A Pennsylvania congressional map proposed by top Republican lawmakers in the state legislature on February 9, 2018.State Sen. Joseph Scarnati/senatorscarnati.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Top Republicans in the Pennsylvania legislature aren’t giving an inch in the ongoing battle over the state’s congressional map. On Friday, they submitted a new map for…
Lead, Crime, and New York City
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A whole bunch of people have emailed to ask what I think of Adam Gopnik’s latest piece in the New Yorker, “The Great Crime Decline.” It’s a review of Patrick Sharkey’s new book, “Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and…
Devin Nunes Hates the Media So Much He Made His Own News Site
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Capitol Hill on February 6, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House intelligence committee who loves to rail against the fake news of the mainstream media, has set up his own news site to…
White House Aides Try and Fail to Fix Trump’s Rob Porter Problem
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on February 9, 2018.Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press(Sipa via AP) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. White House aides hit the Sunday news circuit to try to fix President Trump’s latest public relations nightmare: His defense of former staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned this week amid allegations that…
We Already Have Planet-Cooling Technology. The Problem Is, It’s Killing Us.
The Agung volcano erupts, spewing magma and ash thousands of feet into the air on the island of Bali in Indonesia in November 2017.Josh Edelson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A trope of sci-fi movies these days,…