He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren’t Working. Then Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Steffanie Strathdee hunched over her laptop, fretting. She barely noticed the kittens asleep next to her or the serene Buddha figure across the living room, anchored next to the glass doors that looked toward the gleaming Pacific. Her mind was 20 miles away in the…
If House Republicans Get Their Way, Rural Americans Are Screwed
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back in 2016, the Republican Party won the presidency and both chambers of Congress with strong support in rural areas, particularly among farmers. But since that triumph, the Grand Old Party hasn’t exactly been a champion of rural interests. As I’ve written in recent months,…
Facebook Sure Has a Lot of Fake Accounts
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Wait. What? Facebook revealed Tuesday that it removed more than half a billion fake accounts and millions of pieces of violent or obscene content during the first three months of 2018. Half a billion? Yes. 583 million, to be exact. And they removed about the…
Raw Data: Religion in America
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Urban Density and Productivity: A Slightly Wonky Gripe About the Whole Enterprise
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This post is going to be sort of boring, but I might as well get it off my chest. It’s an illustration of the kind of quicksand that some of the urban densification arguments are built on. James Pethokoukis writes today about housing shortages in…
This Man Was Trump Before Trump. He Just Won Pennsylvania’s Senate Primary.
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), left, appears with Donald Trump at an October 2016 campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.Christopher Dolan/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a decade before Donald Trump launched his campaign by accusing Mexico of sending “rapists” to the United States, Lou Barletta vowed to make the small city…