Devin Nunes Hates the Media So Much He Made His Own News Site
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Capitol Hill on February 6, 2018. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House intelligence committee who loves to rail against the fake news of the mainstream media, has set up his own news site to…
White House Aides Try and Fail to Fix Trump’s Rob Porter Problem
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on February 9, 2018.Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press(Sipa via AP) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. White House aides hit the Sunday news circuit to try to fix President Trump’s latest public relations nightmare: His defense of former staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned this week amid allegations that…
We Already Have Planet-Cooling Technology. The Problem Is, It’s Killing Us.
The Agung volcano erupts, spewing magma and ash thousands of feet into the air on the island of Bali in Indonesia in November 2017.Josh Edelson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A trope of sci-fi movies these days,…
Donald Trump’s DACA Tweet Gets it All Wrong
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump seemed to spend most of his day on Saturday glued to Twitter, and following a morning of tweets musing about the “unfairness” of abuse accusations to the men accused and playing up his own victimhood, the president went on the offensive attacking both Democrats and facts,…
A Basic Cohort Test of the Lead-Crime Hypothesis
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In my lead-crime roundup a few days ago, I mentioned that one of the only open critiques of the theory comes from cohort studies. This requires a little bit of explanation, so bear with me. After the end of World War II, we started spewing…
Trump Tweets About “False Allegations” After Domestic Abuse Allegations Against White House Aide
November 20, 2017 – Washington, District of Columbia, U.S. – United States President DONALD J. TRUMP speaks to the media during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C. President Trump officially designated North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. (Credit Image: © Kevin Dietsch/CNP via ZUMA Wire)Kevin Dietsch/ZUMA Looking for news…