Can Ilhan Omar Criticize AIPAC?
Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of our new Muslim members of Congress has once again caught flack over her criticism of American policy toward Israel: Freshman Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar ignited a new controversy on Sunday night when she suggested GOP support for Israel is…
New Study Suggests Voter ID Laws Have No Effect
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons have a new paper out on the effect of voter ID laws. Everyone will hate it: We find the laws have no negative effect on registration or turnout, overall or for any group defined by race, gender, age, or party…
The One Thing All the 2020 Democratic Candidates Agree They Hate
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The field of Democratic candidates running for president in 2020 is still taking shape, but so far the contenders have agreed on one policy: Cash from corporate political action committees (PACs) is bad. That’s not an entirely new idea—in 2008 and 2012…
This Is the Green New Deal’s Biggest Problem
Sprawl is made possible by highways. This is expensive—in 2015, the Victoria Transport Policy Institute estimated that sprawl costs America more than $1 trillion a year in reduced business activity, environmental damage, consumer expenses, and other costs. Leaving aside the emissions from the 1.1 billion trips Americans take per day (87 percent of which are taken in…
She Started Selling Abortion Pills Online. Then the Feds Showed Up.
Alvaro Dominguez Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For two years, before she headed off to her full-time job as a web developer, or after she put her daughter to bed at night, Ursula Wing ran a business selling abortion pills from the bedroom of her New York City apartment. The…
Donald Trump Still Doesn’t Understand Climate Change Science
Olivier Douliery/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I regret to you inform you that the president of the United States still does not understand climate change or the science behind our warming planet. On Sunday at a rally in Minneapolis, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced she’s running for president. In her…