How to Bullshit With Statistics
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As you probably know, President Obama put in place higher mileage standards for new cars before he left office. President Trump, naturally, wants to get rid of them. This requires a report demonstrating that the Obama standards would be bad, so he ordered OMB Director…
“Revenge,” the Telenovela, Still Drawing Big Audiences
Cheriss May/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of the impressive things about Donald Trump is his creativity in taking revenge on people. I mean, who else would have gotten the idea of using the presidential pardon power this way? And yet, it’s right there in the Constitution.…
Drug Overdoses Hit a Record High in 2017
Kelli Lane and Mary Randol grieve the loss of Randol’s son, Dustin Billings, to an overdose in Indiana.Don Knight/The Herald-Bulletin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The number of deaths from drug overdoses reached a record high of 72,000 in 2017, a 10 percent rise from the previous year, according to…
GOP Candidates Are Paying Firms Affiliated With Infowars Contributor
A screen grab from one of GOP congressional candidate Scott Sturgill’s campaign advertisements.Scott Sturgill for Congress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two Republican congressional candidates from Florida have paid thousands of dollars to companies affiliated with a contributor to Infowars—the far-right media empire run by Alex Jones that is best known…
White House Can’t Even Get John Brennan’s Security Clearance Announcement Right
Ron Sachs/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been nearly three weeks since the White House first announced that President Donald Trump was considering revoking the security clearances for top former officials who have criticized him, including John Brennan, the former CIA director under Obama, who has regularly condemned Trump’s fitness for…
Florida’s Getting Swamped by Deadly Red Algae
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) declared a state of emergency on Monday as a months-long red tide continues to spread throughout the region’s waters, killing hundreds of turtles and sickening people in coastal communities. The red tide―a harmful bloom of algae that…