We’re Seeing an Epidemic of #BBQBecky-Type Calls. Here’s How Police Could Deal With Them.
A screenshot from the viral #BBQBecky video.Michelle Snider/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, Erica Walker, then manager of an apartment complex in Memphis, Tennessee (she was subsequently fired), became the latest white person to gain notoriety for calling police on a black person—in this case because the man…
The Next Front in The Koch’s Deregulatory War Is Saturday Morning Cartoons
The FCC wants to end broadcaster requirements for children’s educational programming.joske038/ Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. According to its website, the 60 Plus Association is a 26-year-old “nonpartisan organization working for death tax repeal and advocating for seniors” on issues like affordable prescription drugs and saving Social Security…
Medical Board Sanctions Celebrity Doctor for Letting Parents Opt Their Kids Out of Vaccines
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, California made it illegal for parents to opt out of vaccinating their kids because of their beliefs. But that didn’t stop some anti-vaccine zealots from dodging the shots: Last year, Mother Jones reported on a cottage industry of Golden State doctors who help…
Researchers Find a Link Between Trump Voters and Opioid Use
Stuart Ritchie/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A study published on Friday by scientists at the University of Texas and the University of Toronto points to a connection between Trump country and the nation’s opioid crisis. The report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, gathered data at…
America’s Largest Doctor’s Group Calls for a Ban on Assault Weapons
CherriesJD/Getty/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The biggest group of physicians in the US called for a ban on assault weapons this week, reiterating that gun violence is a serious public health crisis and decrying proposals by the Trump administration to arm school teachers. Though many members of the American Medical…
Protesters Blast Mike Pence for “Ripping Children From Their Families”
Natacha Pisarenko/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Outrage continues to rise around the country about the Trump administration’s forced separation of immigrant children from their parents. On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence was interrupted during a tax reform speech in Columbus, Ohio, by protesters who heckled him about the detention…