Pennsylvania Gets a New Map
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Via the Sunbury Daily Item, here is the new congressional map for Pennsylvania: Republicans flatly refused to create a non-gerrymandered map, so the Pennsylvania Supreme Court created this one for them. It’s the map that will be used for this year’s midterm elections unless Republicans…
Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sarah Kliff points today to a new study from Denmark on the gender wage gap. Danes are famously egalitarian, and labor force participation is nearly equal between men and women these days. However, Denmark still has a large gender wage gap—nearly as large as the…
Donald Trump Is America’s Worst, 2nd Worst, or 5th Worst President
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today is Presidents/President’s/Presidents’ Day, and the New York Times is celebrating with a bit of clickbait that ranks all 44 presidents.¹ It turns out that presidential scholars of the left outrageously rank Donald Trump as our worst president after only a year in office, which…
Trump Is Officially the Worst President Ever
Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today is President’s Day, a day on which we celebrate presidents. The current occupant of the White House started this brisk and leaping morning with a tweet commemorating the occasion. Have a great, but very reflective, President’s Day! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)…
Trump’s Budget Cuts Are Forcing Teachers and Nurses to Work as Federal Prison Guards
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Twice in one week, Ray Coleman, a teacher at the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution, reluctantly had to drop his lesson plans and go to work as a guard. “You show up in the morning and they say, ‘Hey, by the way,…
We Should Ban Semi-Automatic Firearms
Beretta Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m not generally on the gun control beat, but I’ll repeat my view for the record: semi-automatic weapons should be banned for civilian use. Basically, shotguns, revolvers, and bolt-action rifles would remain legal, and that’s it. The last time I mentioned this, a bunch…