Study: A Lot of Teens Are Sexting. Too Many Teens Are Sending Unsolicited Sexts.
PeopleImages/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Until now, sexting has been somewhat of a vague phenomenon, without much concrete data on how common it actually is in teen life. Experts have tried to pin down how many and how often teens participate in explicit text messaging, and have had a hard time…
A New Poll Shows a Dramatic Change in How Americans View Gun Control
Hundreds of students and community activists marched in protest of the inaction of lawmakers on the issue of gun violence, on February 23, 2018 in Tampa, Fla.Monica Herndon/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back in 2011, after a gunman in Tucson killed six people and wounded 13, including US Rep. Gabrielle…
Carnage at Sea: A Photographic Memoir
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday I showed off the results of my new camera vs. the old one on a few tests of lens quality. Today I’ve got the results of some of the focus tests. Any camera can focus pretty well on a stationary object, but it’s a…
When Asked About the Parkland Shooting, the Local Sheriff Went Off on…O.J. Simpson?
Michael Laughlin/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a Sunday morning interview, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel whether he would take any responsibility for the Parkland, Florida school shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Israel said he himself has shown “amazing…
Trump and Congress Are Making It Easier for Banks and Companies to Rip Off Black People
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the mid-2000s, Hudson City Savings Bank, a large savings bank in New Jersey, was doing well, earning accolades for its smart management, its “small town” feel, and its relative strength in the face of the brewing financial crisis. It was even…
The Democratic House Intelligence Memo Has Been Released. Read It Here.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In February, the House Intelligence Committee released the Nunes Memo, a six-page document written by Republican staffers that—according to California Rep. Devin Nunes, the committee chairman—purported to show that the FBI and the Department of Justice had improperly used Democratic opposition research while investigating a…