A Cannabis Resort in the Mojave Desert? Sure, Why Not.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The tiny town of Nipton, on the eastern edge of California in the Mojave Desert,¹ is about to become Marijuanaville: The nation’s largest publicly traded marijuana company, American Green, recently bought the town for $5 million, with plans to develop a “cannabis-driven” resort on the…
After I Complain, Bitcoin Gets Its Act Together
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kevin Drum gets results! Yesterday I complained that for the past four weeks, the lowest trade for bitcoin has been exactly $10,000. Suspicious! Today, a reader emails to tell me that the low trade is $13,611.86. Interesting! I don’t know what happened, but I intend…
Crime Just Keeps on Dropping In New York City
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. New York City is on its way to crime rates lower than anyone could have imagined a couple of decades ago: It would have seemed unbelievable in 1990, when there were 2,245 killings in New York City, but as of Wednesday there have been just…
The Hack Gap Is Hard at Work Today
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today, the LA Times presents a great example of the hack gap. They invited a conservative and a liberal to make a list of the top 10 under-covered stories of the year. Adam Johnson, a media analyst for FAIR, mostly wrote about things that genuinely…
From “Hotumn” to “Meatmares”: A New Vocabulary for a Year of Environmental Chaos
Grist / Amelia Bates Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every December, dictionary editors declare their picks for “Word of the Year,” expressions that encapsulate the year’s defining spirit, its zeitgeist. The choices so far reflect 2017’s…
Here’s the First Guy Computer Hackers Call When They’re in Trouble With the FBI
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Andrew WhiteOver soggy scrambled eggs at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington, Kentucky, Tor Ekeland is doing his best to cheer up Deric Lostutter, a 30-year-old hacker who is about to be sentenced to federal prison. “It’s terrifying,” Lostutter says. “It is what it is,” replies Ekeland,…