Raw Data: Russian GDP 1989-2017
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the wake of Russia’s election last month, I’ve seen a number of people asking why Vladimir Putin is so popular. Part of the answer, of course, is that he isn’t: the results of the election were rigged in several different ways. That said, he…
Trump’s War on Data Could Quietly Erase LGBT Crime Victims
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Justice is looking to stop asking 16- and 17-year-olds about their sexual orientation and gender identity in the National Crime Victimization Survey. Critics say the move is a way for legislators to leave LGBT teens out of policy decisions. The twice-a-year national…
Watch This Federal Judicial Nominee Evade Questions About Whether Planned Parenthood Kills 150,000 Females a Year
Bill Clark/ASSOCIATED PRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Wendy Vitter, Trump’s judicial nominee for a district court in eastern Louisiana, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning, moving one step closer to earning a lifetime appointment as a federal judge. As expected (and as I wrote earlier), she faced extensive questions about…
Europe Is Due for a Cold Spell One of These Days
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember that scene from The Day After Tomorrow where Dennis Quaid tells everybody about the breakdown of the Atlantic current that carries warm water north from the tropics? Sure you do. Within minutes, tornadoes are everywhere, tsunamis are destroying the coast, and New York City…
Leaked Proposal Shows Trump Administration Planning to Kill Crucial Protections for Threatened Animals
The wolverine is a species currently proposed for listing as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. CREATISTA/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Trump’s Department of the Interior is seeking to “revise” key, 40-year-old regulations which currently protect more than 300 threatened plant and animal species listed under the 1973 Endangered…
Key Senate Republicans Are Finally Admitting Trump Might Fire Mueller
Mark Murrmann/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he plans to schedule a vote on legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by President Trump. The legislation, titled the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, was…