Crime Has Been Cut in Half Since 1991
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I figure you can never show people this chart too often. Since its peak in 1991, property crime has dropped to levels last seen in the mid-60s and violent crime is down to its level in 1970. In some large cities, it’s dropped even more.…
Exasperated Reporter Confronts Sanders Over Trump Administration’s Cruelty to Immigrant Children
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As condemnation grows over the more than 1,300 children separated from their families because of the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy at the border, the White House on Thursday continued to repeat the false assertion that the policy is required by a long-standing, decades-old court order. “The laws are…
Here Are Three Excerpts From the IG’s Comey Report
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Well, it turns out I’ve got a few minutes before my flight leaves, so here are a few excerpts from the inspector general’s report on the FBI’s handling of the 2016 election. First off, we have the reason for James Comey’s unprecedented decision to editorialize…
New Study Shows the Devastating Effect Climate Change Is Having on Antarctica
Sea ice melting off the shores of islands in Antarctica. David Schultz/Mint Images/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Antarctica’s sheets of ice are melting at a rate faster than ever before and raising global sea levels by “almost a centimeter,” an international group of scientists concluded Thursday in a study…
Trump Uses the Comey Report to Cover Up His Guilt in the Russia Scandal
Donald Trump and James Comey in January 2017Andrew Harrer/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Even before the Justice Department inspector general’s report on former FBI director James Comey was released on Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump initiated the inevitable tweet storm, hoping to use this development as yet another…
San Francisco’s First Black Female Mayor Defies the Liberal Litmus Test
Lorin Eleni Gill/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. London Breed officially became San Francisco’s first black female mayor Wednesday, surviving a bruising election and over a week of uncertainty after the polls closed, when Mark Leno conceded the race. The victory makes Breed the latest in what can seem like a…