He Survived the Las Vegas Massacre. And He’s Protesting for the First Time.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s a long drive from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Salt Lake City, Utah, about six hours of plains, canyons, mountains, and time to think. Royce Christensen, a 22-year old survivor of the Vegas Strip massacre last October, has a lot on his mind. He’s on…
It’s Time to Stop Treating Every Fleeing Teenager Like a Crazed Killer
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You might wonder why I keep harping on lead and crime. After all, as much as I’d like to get rid of the last remaining traces of environmental lead, the truth is that it’s mostly gone these days. What’s more, the crime wave of the…
19 Years Before Parkland, Columbine Students Tried to Fix America’s Gun Problem
Members of SAFE Students with President Bill Clinton three months after the Columbine massacreSusan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One day in April, two decades before the Parkland massacre, high school senior Ben Gelt was in philosophy class when he heard the news: Gunmen had burst into Columbine High School,…
Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the late summer of 2015, Chris Wilson, the director of research, analytics, and digital strategy for Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, had a conversation with a contractor that left him furious. A widely respected pollster who had taken leave from his firm to work…
American Farmers Are Collateral Damage in Trump’s Trade War
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For a jet-setting Manhattanite, Donald Trump polled extremely well in 2016 among large-scale US farmers. But now the president’s heartland support will be tested by his increasingly aggressive trade stance with China, which buys about $25 billion in US-grown agricultural goods every year. Early Friday morning, news broke…
They Came Here Seeking Freedom and Were Imprisoned Instead. Look at Their Faces.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When asylum seekers arrive in the United States they face a harsh reality. The ones who they aren’t illegally turned away at the border are often sequestered, shackled, and transported to a detention facility that resembles prison. Since the mid ’90s, the US has followed a policy of…