Nebraska Just Became the First State to Execute an Inmate With a Powerful Opioid
Nebraska Department of Correctional Services/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Nebraska made history by becoming the first state to execute an inmate using the powerful opioid fentanyl. Carey Dean Moore, who was on death row for 38 years for the murders of two cab drivers in 1979, was…
Ryan Zinke Is Clueless About Wildfires
To be fair, Zinke acknowledged that “there’s no doubt the [fire] season is getting longer, the temperatures are getting hotter,” as the Sacramento Bee reported. But he didn’t dwell on those factors and instead argued for more logging and thinning of forests while taking another swing at environmental groups that he says stand in the…
New Report Says China Shock Badly Hurt Wages of Low-Income High School Grads
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tyler Cowen points us to yet another paper examining the impact of the China shock during the 2000s. First, the authors decompose the effect of the China trade into both direct employment and employment from supply chain channels. It looks something like this when you…
Nothing Much Happening Except For Possible Global Economic Collapse
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6 Months Later, Parkland Teens Are Still Fighting Like Hell
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One week after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February, student survivors, outraged with Washington’s “thoughts and prayers,” took to CNN to declare politicians complicit in the deaths of their classmates. Just one month later, those same students organized nationwide “March for…
Trump Calls Omarosa “That Dog” in Escalated Attack Against Former White House Aide
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a particularly vicious tweet, President Donald Trump attacked Omarosa Manigault Newman as “that dog” and a “crying lowlife” amid the former White House aide and reality star’s release of secret recordings from inside the White House and the Trump campaign trail. The escalated…