Good Luck With Your Emergency Room Bill
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sarah Kliff has been engaged for the past year on a massive project to understand ER charges. This is admirable work, truly, but I suspect the eventual answer is going to be that ER charges are basically a witch’s brew of (a) randomness, (b) mistakes,…
Donald Trump Was Always a Counterintelligence Nightmare
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In normal times, this would be an absurd moment: The president of the United States being asked the question, “Are you now or have you ever worked for Russia?” And more absurd: the president not answering the query. That’s what happened on…
While the Internet Freaked Out Over “Traditional Masculinity,” We Talked to a Trans Boxer About What It Really Means to Be a Man
BraunS/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At the beginning of this year, the American Psychological Association tweeted about a five-month-old report that cautions against “traditional masculinity.” Predictably, men on the internet—and some women—got mad. The report, which draws on 40 years of research and 13 years of analysis, concludes that…
The Law That Just Passed In New York Is A Huge Win For Voting Rights
Voters cast ballots in Brooklyn, New York, on November 6, 2018.Mark Lennihan/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Despite its progressive reputation, New York has long had some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country. That will soon change. The Democratic-controlled state Legislature passed a sweeping election reform package…
24 Hours of Trump in Less Than a Hundred Words
Ting Shen/Xinhua/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. So let’s see. In the past 24 hours Donald Trump has: Suggested Elizabeth Warren should do campaign ads with her husband dressed in full Indian garb.¹ Mocked Jeff Bezos over his divorce. Quoted Patrick Buchanan on border security.² Retweeted Geraldo Rivera saying…
What’s the Deal With Hedge Funds?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. We’ve all heard this before, but here is the Financial Times on the performance of hedge funds last year: Hedge funds run by GAM, Schroders and BlackRock delivered significant losses in 2018 as declines for stock markets globally and rising US interest rates led to…