Trump’s Speech Bragging About Tax Cuts Smacks Into a Nosediving Stock Market
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s frequent boasting of a booming stock market collided with reality on Monday, when the Dow plunged more than 1,500 points in afternoon trading. The massive drop continues steep losses seen last week. News networks, many of which had been airing a Trump speech live…
The Eagles Won and Pennsylvania’s Gerrymandering Is Finally Dead
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl yesterday. But that wasn’t the only good news for Pennsylvania. There’s more. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ruled that the Republican gerrymandering of the state’s congressional districts was wildly unconstitutional. That is, it violates the state constitution. Republicans…
John Lott Makes a Mistake. Again. News at 11.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, John Lott released a working paper showing that illegal immigrants in Arizona “are at least 142% more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans.” I didn’t bother reading it or reporting on it because Lott is spectacularly dishonest and unreliable…
Dodge Freaked Out When Someone Made a Video of What MLK Really Thought About Capitalism
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During last night’s Super Bowl, Dodge aired a commercial that used an excerpt of a powerful Martin Luther King Jr. speech over images of working Americans to, you know, sell trucks. Within hours, Current Affairs, a politics magazine, reedited the video overlaid with a different excerpt from…
Raw Data: Inflation Rate for Different Products
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I don’t have any special reason to post this. I just felt like it. The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks overall inflation, of course, but they also track inflation for specific types of products: cars, medical care, computers, etc. Here are the inflation rates since…
Supreme Court Clears Way for Pennsylvania to Draw New Congressional Map
Protesters for fair elections gathered outside the US Supreme Court as the court heard arguments about partisan gerrymandering on October 3.Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to wade into a battle over Pennsylvania’s Republican-friendly congressional map, clearing the way…