Is Trump’s New National Park Fee Increase Really Outrageous?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jesse Lee is unhappy: Trump and Zinke doubling National Park fees to an insane $80 per vehicle is one of the most underreported outrages of the Administration. That price is essentially unaffordable to most families in this country. Then they took those jacked up fees…
Republicans Just Tried to Claim that Medicaid Caused the Opioid Epidemic. Surprise, Surprise—They’re Wrong.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.)J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans seem to have found a new culprit to blame for the opioid epidemic: Medicaid. “Every time a hard working American pays their taxes, they are inadvertently funding drug dealers with a new supply of high powered opioids that are poisoning…
Trump Is Not the First President to Bash the Media—But He Might Be the Worst
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Despite a scheduling delay and potential ethics violations, President Donald Trump has still been promising to announce his much-anticipated “Fake News Awards”…
California’s Bullet Train Gets Yet Another Price Hike
California High-Speed Rail Authority Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Buckle your seat belts for yet another big surprise. This one is for Californians: The estimated cost of building 119 miles of bullet train track in the Central Valley has jumped to $10.6 billion, an increase of $2.8 billion from the…
It Looks Like Everyone Knew About Trump and Stormy Daniels
Lisa O’Connor/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Prepare yourself to be shocked. You might want to be sitting down for the latest news about Donald Trump’s alleged affair with porn star Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels: The allegation of a relationship was no secret to Fox News….One of the network’s…
White Racial Resentment Hasn’t Become More Politically Powerful Recently
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. “White racial resentment has been gaining political power for decades,” says the Washington Post. But I have some problems with this. For starters, the two authors¹ present a chart which, they say, “shows that racial resentment hasn’t fluctuated much over time.” I’ve redrawn it to…