Taxes, Welfare, and Income Inequality: Here’s the CBO’s Latest Report
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The CBO has released its annual report on the distribution of household income, and they’ve changed things up this year. They’re now measuring income in two ways: Before taxes and transfers. This is basically market income. After taxes and transfers. This is market income plus…
ABC News Just Reported That Andrew McCabe Had Authorized a Criminal Probe of Jeff Sessions
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at a press conference regarding new opioid drug policy last month in Washington. Shen Ting/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe last week, supposedly for displaying a lack of candor in dealing with…
“We Made Mistakes”: Zuckerberg Finally Weighs In On Facebook Data Scandal
Mark ZuckerbergFacebook/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday issued a statement on the growing controversy around Cambridge Analytica’s acquisition and use of tens of millions of people’s personal Facebook data. In the 935-word statement, Zuckerberg reassures users that “the good news is that…
Trump Ignores Republicans and Attacks Mueller Again, This Time With a String of Typos
Kyle Mazza/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This weekend marked the first time President Donald Trump directly took aim at special counsel Robert Mueller, in a series of Sunday morning tweets that prompted stern warnings from congressional Republicans that a continuation of such attacks would signify “the beginning of the…
Scientists May Have Found the Secret Environmental Factor Behind Your Personality
This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1748, the French philosopher Montesquieu published The Spirit of the Laws, a survey of political systems that argued for the separation of powers and citizens’ rights to due process. It was quickly translated into multiple languages, and Montesquieu’s ideas about liberty…
How America’s Brutal 15-Year War in Iraq Changed Its Environment Forever
For decades, Iraq has struggled with water reductions as a result of dams in neighboring Turkey. But the Ilisu dam, a controversial new hydropower station set to begin operations in the coming months on the Tigris in southeast Turkey, could reduce the river’s flow into Iraq by 56 percent, according to an Iranian official who…