Are “Deaths of Despair” Related to Lead Poisoning?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s something I want to toss out, even though I don’t have an answer to offer—or even a clue, really. It’s about lead. People periodically ask me about whether lead might be responsible for some phenomenon or other. I’m generally very careful about this stuff.…
The Right Is Attacking the Survivors of the Florida School Massacre
Manish Swarup/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former GOP congressman Jack Kingston on Tuesday doubled-down on his inflammatory allegations that a group of school shooting survivors pushing for tougher gun laws are simply being used by left-wing political groups. Appearing on CNN, the Georgia Republican suggested that billionaire George Soros…
Pennsylvania Gets a New Map
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Via the Sunbury Daily Item, here is the new congressional map for Pennsylvania: Republicans flatly refused to create a non-gerrymandered map, so the Pennsylvania Supreme Court created this one for them. It’s the map that will be used for this year’s midterm elections unless Republicans…
Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sarah Kliff points today to a new study from Denmark on the gender wage gap. Danes are famously egalitarian, and labor force participation is nearly equal between men and women these days. However, Denmark still has a large gender wage gap—nearly as large as the…
Donald Trump Is America’s Worst, 2nd Worst, or 5th Worst President
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today is Presidents/President’s/Presidents’ Day, and the New York Times is celebrating with a bit of clickbait that ranks all 44 presidents.¹ It turns out that presidential scholars of the left outrageously rank Donald Trump as our worst president after only a year in office, which…
Trump Is Officially the Worst President Ever
Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today is President’s Day, a day on which we celebrate presidents. The current occupant of the White House started this brisk and leaping morning with a tweet commemorating the occasion. Have a great, but very reflective, President’s Day! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)…