Meet Your New VA Secretary
Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. VA Secretary David Shulkin has been fired. That’s no surprise. He was an Obama holdover, so it’s a surprise Trump kept him in the first place. So who’s replacing him? A Heritage Foundation-approved ideologue who wants to privatize everything? Nope. The…
Here’s a Cheap Way of Getting More Low-Income Kids Into College
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Reihan Salam points today to an interesting paper written a couple of years ago. The question at hand is: how do we get more low-income students to go to college? Part of the answer is to get more low-income students to apply to college. And…
Real-Life Conversation Is Not Dead
Come on, talk to each other! Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at Vox, indefatigable interviewer Sean Illing speaks with Sherry Turkle, a technology skeptic (for lack of a better word) who worries that all our tech toys are doing more damage than we think: Illing: Her most recent book,…
How the EPA Abandoned This Polluted Town
A man holds a lump of coal ashJay Reeves/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The residents of Uniontown, a poor, majority-black town in rural Alabama, are used to being ignored by the federal government. For years they have fought against the Arrowhead landfill, a site that they say is negatively impacting the…
We Need a Mileage Tax on Self-Driving Cars
Is this the future of self-driving cars? Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. David Roberts writes that he doesn’t share the current disillusionment that autonomous vehicles might never become safe enough to navigate city streets. But there’s a second problem that he is worried about: The other form of disillusionment has…
The White House Is Lying About the Census
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the daily press briefing on March 27, 2018.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Defending the Trump administration’s controversial decision to add a question about US citizenship to the 2020 census form, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters…