Donald Trump Is About as Popular as Other Presidents
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m not trying to make you depressed, but here’s the Gallup presidential approval tracker for Donald Trump and three other recent presidents at about the 100-week mark: Trump started out with record lows, but his approval level has been flat ever since since. The others…
A Short Primer In How to Handle the Deaths of Public Figures
Win Mcnamee/PoolPrensa via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It is times like this that make me hate social media more than usual. However, better to light a candle than curse the darkness, right? So here’s how the ordinary world works, folks: When someone dies who is not Idi Amin…
Documents Point to Illegal Campaign Coordination Between Trump and the NRA
NRA annual convention in Dallas, May 2018Sue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The National Rifle Association spent $30 million to help elect Donald Trump—more than any other independent conservative group. Most of that sum went toward television advertising, but a political message loses its power if it fails to…
Murder Rates Are Declining For the Second Year in a Row
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jeff Asher of the New York Times takes a look at 2018 murder rates in big cities and extrapolates a likely decline of about 5 percent nationwide. If that pans out, the US murder rate will look like this: So murder rates rose for two…
What Qualifies You to Become a Top Trump Energy Regulator? Telling Your Son to Deny Climate Change.
Bernard McNamee, President Trump’s nomination to join an energy industry regulatory body, gives a talk in February at a Texas Public Policy Foundation event.Energy and Policy Institute/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last February, Bernard McNamee stood behind the lectern in a crowded hotel ballroom in Austin, Texas, to deliver a speech on…
Florida Voted to Give Ex-Felons the Franchise. Now Republicans Are Throwing a Wrench in That Process.
Voters in Hollywood, Florida, line up to vote on Election Day 2018. Susan Stocker/Sun Sentinel/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A month after Florida voters approved a measure to restore the franchise to about 1.4 million former felons—the largest expansion of voting rights in decades—a battle over implementing that change…