Chart of the Day: The Gun Homicide Mystery
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Wonkblog has an intriguing chart up today. It shows the percentage of homicides committed by guns over the past century: Note that this is not the homicide rate. It shows only the relative popularity of using guns to kill people: There’s a big spike in…
Let’s Review the Tape on DACA
Michael Nigro/Pacific Press via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just in case you’ve lost count, here’s a rough timeline of negotiations over DACA, the “mini-DREAM” act that protects immigrant children who have lived in the US for many years: September: Trump kills DACA. Later in September: Trump tells Nancy…
Meet Juul, the Latest Teen Sensation
Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Cigarette smoking may be on the decline, but vaping is on the rise. The Wall Street Journal reports that the popularity of the Juul among high-school kids is skyrocketing: After two decades of declining teen cigarette use, “Juuling” is…
Video Captured an Unarmed Protester in Gaza Gunned Down by Israeli Soldiers
A Palestinian protester hurls stones toward Israeli soldiers during a protest near the Gaza Strip border with Israel, in eastern Gaza City, Saturday, March 31, 2018.Khalil Hamra/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Israeli military says it will target more Palestinians in Gaza if violence along the border between the…
California’s Housing Crisis Is So Bad, Families Are Squatting Abandoned Homes Just to Survive
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When I ask Christine Hernandez, a mother of four, slender in stature and bold in manner, how best to scout for abandoned homes—the bleak dwellings with the boarded-up windows and ripped-out drywall, their innards packed with leftover syringes, rotting debris, and the peculiar loot of…
Raw Data: Southwest Border Apprehensions
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump celebrated the spirit of Easter today by railing againt the “big flows” of immigrants crossing over illegally from Mexico. “Getting more dangerous,” he tweeted ominously. “They laugh at our dumb immigration laws.” Perhaps. But in case you’re interested in some baseline data to…