A New Bill Would Give DC High Schoolers the Right to Vote
Thousands of protesters, many of them students, gather near the Capitol for the DC March For Our Lives rally on March 24, 2018.Erin Scott/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For two months now, teenage activists have been leading a movement to vote out of office politicians who stand in the…
How Has Your State Done on Reducing the Probability of Death?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Following up on my post this morning about the change in probability of death between 1990 and 2016, here’s a simplified version of the death chart ranked by state: In West Virginia, the probability of dying in middle age has increased from about 9 percent…
American Intervention in the Middle East Has Been a 4-Decade Disaster
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Following up on last night’s post about Syria, let’s do an assessment. How has America done in its various military interventions in the Greater Middle East (spanning North Africa through Central Asia)? This has to be judged against (a) the goals of each intervention and…
Internal Sinclair Email: CEO Blames “Extremists” for Anchor Controversy
TRIPPLAAR KRISTOFFER/Sipa USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Chris Ripley, the president and CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, told employees of the local-TV juggernaut that “extremists” who “do not like what they hear or see” were trying to “bully” the company and deserved the blame for the blowback…
“I Was Very Disappointed to See Propaganda Being Pumped into My Living Room”
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Judy Jones was watching the 11 p.m. news on her local NBC affiliate, WPBN, one evening when she saw her first “Terrorism Alert Desk,” a news segment that’s run daily across all TV stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Jones, a retired nonprofit director…
Middle-Age Death Rates Have Skyrocketed in Some States
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Via Eric Topol, here’s an interesting chart from a new report in JAMA. It shows how the probability of death during middle-age has changed from 1990-2016 in all 50 states. In the country as a whole, there’s been a 1.7 percentage point decrease in the…