Trump Budget Proposal Is a Cry From the Conservative Id
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The new Trump budget is out. Let’s see. SNAP (food stamps) loses $17 billion. The Post Office loses $4 billion, primarily by giving them “the ability to address their expenses—including the cost of personnel.” In other words, by slashing pay and pensions. Low-income energy assistance…
Forget Infrastructure Week. Start Your Monday With the Obamas’ Official Portraits.
AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery unveiled the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama on Monday. The paintings were created by renowned artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively. They are the first African American artists to be commissioned by the gallery to paint…
Good News: There’s More Coverage of Climate Change. Bad News: It’s Because of Trump.
iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the good news: Coverage of climate change on the major broadcast networks increased substantially last year. The bad news? The vast majority of that coverage was driven by the policies and global warming denial of President Donald Trump. According to a new study…
Orange County Contrails: A Followup
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A week ago I posted a picture of some contrails that seemed like they were rising at a surprisingly steep angle. I got convinced pretty quickly that, in fact, this is just an optical illusion created by a plane coming around the curve of the…
Pennsylvania Republicans Are Trying to Replace One Gerrymander with Another
A Pennsylvania congressional map proposed by top Republican lawmakers in the state legislature on February 9, 2018.State Sen. Joseph Scarnati/senatorscarnati.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Top Republicans in the Pennsylvania legislature aren’t giving an inch in the ongoing battle over the state’s congressional map. On Friday, they submitted a new map for…
Lead, Crime, and New York City
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A whole bunch of people have emailed to ask what I think of Adam Gopnik’s latest piece in the New Yorker, “The Great Crime Decline.” It’s a review of Patrick Sharkey’s new book, “Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and…